Monday; the first day of the working week, the key word
there is “working”. After a fortnight off work I am back at my desk
clearing e-mails and trying to work out what I will be doing over the next few
weeks.
I had the fortunate situation of finishing my last piece of
work on my last day before my holiday started and therefore there was not
likely to be anything to do on that Project unless something had gone seriously
awry. I appreciate that my Indian colleagues had made some ridiculous requests
as I was about to finish but these would have either been completed by my buddy
or have been thrown back at them as unachievable. Either way I wasn’t going to
have to hit the ground running today.
After a trawl though my mail and a couple of instant
messages it was apparent that I need to be in London tomorrow for a Security Services Sales
Briefing.* After initiating the appropriate travel authorisations I carried on
with the mission of completing all of those certification and review activities
that had accumulated over the past two weeks.
On the Project front I noticed a flurry of communications
about some impending work with a Client I have met with a few times over the
past few months in deepest, darkest Dudley. It
looked as though I was to be providing a supporting role on that deal but a
call with Idiot Manager soon put me right … this was not the gig for me.
This was a little bitter sweet as, although I was not really looking forward to
carrying a supporting role, I have had a quiet year*** so far and a win would
have been nice whatever role I was fulfilling.
The conversation with IM continued with him giving
the briefest mention to my next project before taking an interesting turn…
… perhaps more on this in the next few weeks.
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* I cannot tell you how excited I am about that **
** If anyone from America reads this it might be
worth looking up the definition of the word sarcasm about now
*** A Global Deal lost and a handful of early bid stage
successes but no final signatures
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