Farewell to Marta

Posted on 2006/06/26 13:34:09 (June 2006).

[23th June 2006]

Today was pretty uneventful, usual work routine, crap weather and so on...

In the evening Marta called her "Farewell Party", even if technically she'd already left the company, it is custom here to throw a sort of party with the closest colleagues and to toast to the future career.
The turnover was not massive, but it seems that this friday a lot of people had to take holidays.
Anyways we moved to this nice restaurant to have a "Giro Pizza" (Pizza Turn) basically they keep bringing pizzas until you tell them to stop.

The atmosphere was really good and the food was allright, Marta received a couple of presents (a bag, a T-Shirt and a cooking book), and all went according to plan.
No tears, no speeches or the like, after all Marta is not leaving the area, just the company.

Points of interests during the dinner featured the presence of what we call here in Italy as "My Mini-Pony" a girlie toy that was massively advertized when we were kids (in my case yesterday).
Carola (Lucia's daughter) had several with her, and you can imagine the reaction of all the girls at the table when she produced them to the audience!
Lovely!

I could not avoid to think about what I'll decide to do, what will happen that night. I am leaving for good, and one of the things that I will dearly miss is the people with whom I shared five years of my life. Though the work might be crap and all, the company is a small one and there is a real family feeling among the several employees.
We'll see.

Marta in the meantime is showing sings of weakness, I still don't know when I am leaving but at earliest it will be on the 14th of July, and with more than three weeks to go she is starting to let go a bit. It's a very hard situation for me to manage, I have so many things on my mind and the fact that I still don't know WHAT I will be doing in two months time doesn't help at all.

Let's hope that things will sort themselves out as easy as possible.

Great pictures, Lox!! The one of you spouting bollocks is particularly fine!! :))

I like the idea of "all you can eat" places, but never find one I like!

Posted by Nigel at 2006/06/26 15:38:22.

Pizza was ok I guess, but what we were looking for was an easy restaurant where you don't have to waste half an hour asking everyone what they want! Generally speaking the all you can eat places are rather shite when it comes to quality...

Posted by Lox at 2006/06/26 20:37:12.

Have I missed something here Lox, I didn't know Marta was leaving the company as well.

Posted by Mad Mumsie at 2006/06/27 08:40:25.

Actually I didn't write about it... I will put up a nice post about Marta resignation, as it is anice example of how Italian companies work nowadays!

Posted by Lox at 2006/06/27 09:02:06.

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