Hot and sticky day in the office managing staff reviews/disputes, press and industry calls with administration work until late
The overnight temperatures was down to 55degF and today’s maximum rose to 87degF and , as the barometer down to 1014mb, we experienced a very close, hot and sticky day with high humidity and despite the warm breeze. Open, as my office windows were, and despite my plants and papers being blown about, I was hot and bothered for most of the day.
First a very helpful meeting between 8.00am and 9.00am with John Lamb and David Fear to compare notes on Cromemco and Tecmar discontinuance and also to agree a company policy for our Middle East sales pathfinder, Tony Tidswell. Afterwards, the mail and at 9.30am, a one hour interview with a journalist on the history and present position of Comart and then the completion of June’s review and first sight of three service reviews with John Lamb which made me despair at the rampant conflict and disagreement. They have to be deferred until Monday.
This afternoon, in a number of meetings with Derek Morgan on premises and supply purchasing plans, Derek Weatherby on financial figures and personnel problems and a number of phone calls on all subjects from hopeful salesmen, applicants for the BMMG and the Chairman of Pifco who wanted to invest in the Byte Shop! Meanwhile the paperwork backlog mounts and I work late to clear my desk with a fist full of action items outstanding.