It's not rocket science, so why don't I get it?

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hampsterpoo wrote: »

dont I get a free signed copy ? ( just thinking MS)

...'course you will, you might even be in the book :rolleyes:

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haleygrey wrote: »

oh and just thought you might like to know that I have made a chocolate cake tonight and added a smidgin of chilli powder to it. Yummy, it gives the cake a slight spice and takes off the richness of the cocoa powder and also seems to make the mix lighter

ps hows things with the job?

I just might give that a try, although I am trying to cut down on chocolate at the moment, amonst other things. I can't afford to buy new breeches, just because I've grown out the existing ones...:rolleyes:

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daily update

I've paid the emergency chocolate money across to the card a.k.a free council tax money. That's £100.23 off the wretched thing and not a couple of pounds on the hips either!

I run my budget from 25th to 24th as that's payday. I've been a bit extravagant with the grocery budget and only had £10 left until Wednesday, so that's all I've spent on the weekly shop. Plenty of cheap vegetables and some eggs, mature cheese, yogurt and pasta. Everything else is coming out the cupboard or freezer. Had a tuna salad with homemade wholemeal bread for lunch and dinner tonight will be bean and sweet potato casserole with cheese dumplings. Both meals will do two days. I really enjoy challenging myself on the meals!

Will also manage another no spend day, I've been to the library and got out a book on Mary Tudor, couldn't see anything else I fancied.

I'm so tired, yet I slept all night and dozed on the train. I think I'm down about work. I'm fairly sure the idiot boss is going to put my report on cost savings in the bin once I give it to him. I need to find a way to circumnavigate him. My initial idea is to get the team to present the report, rather than just me. It'll be harder for him to do nothing if a whole team knows what is going on. Can't come up with anything else at the moment. I have to get it before senior management without taking him out the loop. Oh it's so difficult....

Pippilongstocking

Hugs to you me dear.

Does he leave early or have days off - odd lunch hour when you could just accidentally happen to ask one of the senior team if they could make it along to a presentation as well, then he'd have to let them see it too?). F

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fayjmck wrote: »

Hugs to you me dear.

Does he leave early or have days off - odd lunch hour when you could just accidentally happen to ask one of the senior team if they could make it along to a presentation as well, then he'd have to let them see it too?). F

Problem is the old boys club doesn't take kindly to that sort of behaviour.... Am going to ask for the opportunity for the team to present to the Finance Director, hoping it puts him in a position where he can't say no. Especially if I offer to do all the diary arranging.

OliveOyl_2

If not the team presenting it, at least let the team have copies of it?
You could even ask for their opinions before you present it.

It's very hard to bin something when more than one person is awaiting the response.....

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OliveOyl wrote: »

If not the team presenting it, at least let the team have copies of it?
You could even ask for their opinions before you present it.

It's very hard to bin something when more than one person is awaiting the response.....

Very wise Olive, as always, thank you. That's why I want the team to present the saving to the idiot boss, but I'm afraid it'll get stuck with him and not go any further. One of the many problems he has, is that he doesn't understand what we do and how important it actually is. So, from his point of view, it is easier to get rid of us and show the management what a good corporate boy he is.

However, I'm talking about saving the company a possible half million off the bottom line....

hampsterpoo

get the team involved as much as possible then someone from the team could ask someone (or tell them) they deal with in another dept , later on if they have heard read the report etc. just a thought


my own circumstances ,,,,,well due to the [strike]ineptiude,rubbishness,[/strike] uselessness of my manager , nothing happened today like he said it would , so after going to the dentist tommorow I have the joy of going in to work not knowing if its happened in my absence

haleygrey

Piquant wrote: »

Very wise Olive, as always, thank you. That's why I want the team to present the saving to the idiot boss, but I'm afraid it'll get stuck with him and not go any further. One of the many problems he has, is that he doesn't understand what we do and how important it actually is. So, from his point of view, it is easier to get rid of us and show the management what a good corporate boy he is.

However, I'm talking about saving the company a possible half million off the bottom line....

can you 'off the record' as it were, ask someone in the financial side how well that much of a saving would be received and then sort of ambiguously (sp) quote them without actually having to name names??

OliveOyl_2

ooh you lot are good at these office politics aren't you?


sheer cunning being shown here, I'm in AWE :rotfl: