Intensive working day on tricky personnel matters evening reading of Comart board papers as the newspapers report frivolous items in the silly season
Back to the office for a very intensive working day. Much concern for personnel matters with many reviews completed and increases notified. Several very difficult disciplinary matters to handle including a final warning for one service engineer. A good start made on overhauling the workload but by the end of the day we had not got the final details notified to the payroll department. I confess to being rather frustrated with the summer season. The weather stays sultry and clammy, the frustration of holiday absences are always with us, and the customers of course always expect continuous service. I keep June late and list all outstanding action items to aid tomorrow and we should complete payroll information first thing.
Late arrival home tonight with copies of the Board Reports for reading prior to tomorrow’s Board meeting. I stay up late noting 25odd points for clarification but the results are satisfactory.
News tonight of an assassination in foreign parts, of a serious train crash in the Irish Republic with 6 dead, and of mistaken identity on a young lady invited to Balmoral for the weekend as company for Prince Andrew – I dismay of the media today. More proper concern over the MORI opinion poll in the daily papers and conclusions about UK poverty.