Let's Move!

Posted on 2005/11/23 10:40:05 (November 2005).

[Tuesday 22nd November]
Today I had to attend the first meeting for the move to the new offices. As I wrote in other posts I have missed on the first lots of meetings since I was abroad. This was the final one, and we had to discuss some important points that were left out.
There is not much to tell about what happened, our boss was making everything easy and quick, the director for the factory was trying to cover his ass, mostly because at the moment we do a lot of work for the people under his responsibility and of course it looks bad when these things are discussed in detail.

The supra-dupa boss that will cover our division after we move to the main building was taking notes, trying to be as rigid as possible, but he doesn't know what type of product we make so his opinions and ideas were most of the times out of place.

Anyways after much bickering all of the points that we passed forward as I expected, i.e. we will not have to do a lot of the work that we do now as in THEORY there are people paid to do it already.

In theory this is all good of course.

In practice this is the end of this company, mostly because the people that are "taking it easy" and have been doing so for many years, will not change their ways and mind in 1 month (they never did for years!!). As a result, all the perfect plans on paper will have a very poor result in practical terms.
This is my point of view of course, but since I am stuck in the thick and thin of internal processes, I believe that my ideas might not be that far from the final result.

The rest of the day was rather uneventful, went to the Doc's to get all the info on what I have to do for the coming surgery. In the evening a piece of bad news arrived as it seems that on Friday there will be a National Strike for the NHS, as a result it's not sure if I can have all the tests done and therefore the surgery might be moved.
This is a bit of a bummer of course, we'll see on Thursday what happens as apparently the people in the hospital that I have contacted don't know much about it..

I don't know about the NHS strike details, but "Metalmeccanici" will be on strike only friday morning, so maybe you'll be able to have your test done in the afternoon. Anyway we're waiting for you to be in Firenze :-)

Posted by Federico at 2005/11/23 22:55:54.

Ciao Fede!! Will call today to see what is going on, I hope I can get everything done tomorrow or if worse come to the worse on Monday....
Surely I am VERY HAPPY to go back, even though I'll probably be a wreck for quite some time....

Posted by Lox at 2005/11/24 07:33:52.

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