Work
Work is still going fabulously. I am loving just about everything about it. Being in a job you love just cannot be compared to anything else - you spend so much of your life at work, and when everything you do is a joy, it makes your whole life seem a lot happier.
Conversely of course, hating your job can have such a detrimental effect on your life.
I have been in both situations, and I am not taking how I feel now for granted, but I am going to enjoy it to the full.
My two ‘boys’ are great. Two weeks ago, to bribe them to come to a ‘team meeting’ (which, even I have to admit for only 3 of us it can be a bit much to have one every week) I brought in some home made banana cake, and told them they could only have a piece if they came along and didn’t whinge.
What a great meeting that was. And when it was finished, they both said how great it was, and that we should have cake every week for team meetings.
I agreed.
And told them they could decide which of them made the cake next, and the other could make it the following week.
They looked a bit shocked.
But, to be fair, they have (sort of) agreed. Originally they both said they’d get their wives to do it, but one look at my face soon made them change their minds.
G has promised us some homemade samosas (which, he is honest about that his wife or his mother would have ‘made’ them), but he assures us he will get them out of the freezer and cook them himself. I am not entirely sure I believe that, but we shall see. He is a great guy, if I ask him directly, he can’t lie to save his life.
Last week he went out the night before the meeting, so didn’t have chance to cook, but instead went shopping at lunch time to get us some traditional Indian sweets for us to share. Good on him.
Tomorrow is S’s turn. Bless him - he got his wife to help, but he had a ‘practice run’ at the weekend, and has promised us a victoria sandwich tomorrow.
The rest of the department are jealous.
The bad news is that S has applied for another job in the company. Even worse - in my old department. I understand totally his reasons for it - but I am gutted that he will be leaving. Well, may be leaving. Although I can’t see any reason for them not to employ him. He is smart, bright, eager, and will always do a good job.
However, all is not lost. I reckon it wouldn’t take much to persuade ONB to move down. Although, I have to admit I’d rather keep S than have ONB - in fact, in an ideal world I’d keep S and G, *and* employ ONB.