Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Doozergirl

Generali wrote: »

He leaves on Friday and will be very sorely missed by a lot of people in the company.

Is the CIO going somewhere he can take you?

Generali wrote: »

I've been very positive all week about tomorrow but I'm starting to crap myself about it now. I just want all this to go away, it's too hard.

The kids have decided that my scar from my parotidectomy looks like a bottom and now refuse to hold my right hand 'in case I poo cancer on them'.

Only a sensible precaution to take. I shall offer you a huge hug for tomorrow, but to your left side, if that's okay.

What time, our time?

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

Had a bit of a lovely experience at work today.

The CIO (I for Investment, pretty important in an asset management company!) was asking how the treatment was going and I said I was off to get the Big Results tomorrow. When he found out I was going by myself he asked if I wanted him to go. The incredible thing is he genuinely meant it.

He leaves on Friday and will be very sorely missed by a lot of people in the company.

Generali wrote: »

The CIO is amazing. When senior execs come in to a failing company the first thing they normally do is sack the little people, the ones nobody gives a damn about. This bloke went to the heads of the departments. He asked them why they were running teams that were failing. No good turnaround plan? You're out mate. Perhaps the guys working for you are being held back by your incompetence and arrogance.

He brought in/promoted really good senior people and lots of the junior guys that were left behind have learned how to run an excellent business.

He took a company who was making bottom 25% of industry returns to one that pretty consistently performs above average whilst managing risk well. His management of the human side of things is second to none of any senior manager I've ever seen. He speaks personally to every investment professional from graduate to the bloke running a $50,000,000,000 book every month. He will delegate everything except the personal touch. If he can't trust you to be delegated to then he'll sack you. Don't forget these are people earning 6 figure salaries minimum (except the grads) so they should earn their money.

He sounds amazing. What a pity he's leaving. I hope some of the other people in the company have learnt from his example and will carry on some of what he's done.

He sounds a little bit like the one minute manager books.

Generali wrote: »

I've been very positive all week about tomorrow but I'm starting to crap myself about it now. I just want all this to go away, it's too hard.

The kids have decided that my scar from my parotidectomy looks like a bottom and now refuse to hold my right hand 'in case I poo cancer on them'.

Generali wrote: »

The bottom thing made me laugh too yesterday although it brings tears to my eyes today. Leon no longer exists, he has been sliced up like his namesake. Tomorrow I find out if there are any Leonettes waiting anywhere. I can cope if I have some as long as they're not in my lungs. I saw my Grandma die of lung cancer and that's a nasty way to go. I won't die that way.

Hugs. Not sure what else to say, but definitely sending hugs (and prayers).

:grouphug:

Generali

Doozergirl wrote: »

Is the CIO going somewhere he can take you?

He's going back to England so not really.

Doozergirl wrote: »

Only a sensible precaution to take. I shall offer you a huge hug for tomorrow, but to your left side, if that's okay.

What time, our time?

It's a complicated time of year. I think it's 5.30am your time, 3.30pm mine.

Doozergirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Oh Doozer. That sounds miserable. I grew to hate the house I lived in before this one because I couldn't keep the kids' mess under control and so it was always a blight on everything. It was in the wrong part of town, and lots of things were wrong with it.

I was there for 5 years. I am much happier here, even though I still don't keep on top of the kids' mess - although it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be. It's the part of town where I want to be, I chose it, I own it, and it's been built properly!

So, to be practical ... Are you stuck there indefinitely? Or is there any realistic prospect of moving any time soon? Would the building dirt problem follow you anywhere you went? Have you hated other houses in the past, or is this one much worse than anywhere else?

Hugs, anyway. Living in a house you hate is pants.

Thanks Lydia. I never really wanted to move here and everything that could go wrong around it, has. I finally convinced doozer to sell up a year ago but getting it to a point where it's saleable feels constantly like taking one step forward, two steps back. This time last year, I thought I'd set myself a realistic target that I'd have a garden to sit in this summer - somewhere else. As that creeps up, I'm becoming more despondent.

I step out of the front door to mud. I step out of the back door onto mud. Having two dogs here and an open plan house is a recipe for complete disaster. It doesn't feel like it belongs to me at all. I stay in my room or my office. We don't invite people here.

I'm completely in awe of lir and how serene she manages to stay when faced with rather large disappointments. If I'd mentally signed up for this, I'd be better at coping, I think.

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm completely in awe of lir and how serene she manages to stay when faced with rather large disappointments. If I'd mentally signed up for this, I'd be better at coping, I think.

Nobody has died yet. I did give a deadline of end of April......then some one ( other than me) offers up blood in sacrifice or some sort of serious penance.

Btw for people reading doozer hasn't let me down, a plumber has doozer just has the misfortune to be the name at the head of the project. I want to make that clear and haven't been discussing it purposely so that no one misconstrues that doozers have let me down. Everytime reference is made to my new bathroom I smile wryly though.

Seriously. Worse things happen and I can now bath in the grotty bathroom, so while not 'zen' I am more cool about it than I was. I know it will be sorted,, because I sort things one way or another. .

I have glazier coming (that's a big disappointment, I so wanted to avoid a shower door ) in a fortnight for a frameless shower door estimate and a joiner coming for the back door. Those will be big things.

Other wise I am having quite a hard time deciding what is next on my list.


Utility? Floors? Boxing in the lobby/heating stuff? Kitchen? (Everyone says kitchen but I like my temp kitchen and am not in a hurry for that). Kitchen and floors interact. Wall in dining room? That's quite a biggy really. I thing that's next year. Or a winter job? Its all internal isn't it?

lostinrates

Been to see favourite house on short list of non res p. its not small. Its a three bed ex council house. Beautiful views, lovely location, but.......seems seriously over priced to me and has some logistical problems for an older person I think.

I asked the lovely seller why moving and they said too big for the two of them which made me both feel embarrassed at our house and look at non re so pointedly.


Most key concern for me is there is an access path for all residents across the back, between house and garden, like in many town houses. In a town house with no other access this seems fair, but this is a rural house with direct front access to all houses. I'm sure all the neighbours are lovely, but they might not always be lovely.

lostinrates

Writing with chalk is hard:(



Notice priorities for freezer inventory ...... Dog food is easier to see though.

lostinrates

Doozergirl, thinking about it, you know, you guys are really good at getting something turned round. You are going to do it and get out of there. I know its horrid just hanging in there, but it WILL pass, it really will.

neverdespairgirl

bugslet wrote: »

I thought my friend's son, now aged 12, was scarily bright as he's been visiting Daresbury labs and listening to the talks for a number of years now, but I think Isaac is even brighter!

The problem Isaac has is his dyslexia - he gets frustrated because stuff he can read is too boring for him, and stuff he wants to read is beyond him. But that's what the remedial literacy lessons are aimed at, and they've done him a great deal of good since he started in September. It tires him, though - an hour after school, 3 times a week, is quite a lot extra for an 8 year old.

lostinrates wrote: »

Maybe, despite your mothers frugality, the house never got cold enough?

Mauve squeaker is in there again now, hoping.

Or cats are just perverse creatures who enjoy being difficult, perhaps?

Yossie prefers the basket of clean washing on top of hte boiler, or underneath the wood burning stove (which should result in his being roasted alive, but he survives it).

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

The problem Isaac has is his dyslexia - he gets frustrated because stuff he can read is too boring for him, and stuff he wants to read is beyond him. But that's what the remedial literacy lessons are aimed at, and they've done him a great deal of good since he started in September. It tires him, though - an hour after school, 3 times a week, is quite a lot extra for an 8 year old.



Or cats are just perverse creatures who enjoy being difficult, perhaps?

Yossie prefers the basket of clean washing on top of hte boiler, or underneath the wood burning stove (which should result in his being roasted alive, but he survives it).

Lol, all cats love clean and warm laundry. Its in the cat Ten Commandments, Thou shalt cover clean fresh washing with your hair and be warm.

When pink whistley was little , her first summer with us, a hot day, we found her in a folded duvet, in some sort of damp mess of heat. She seemed quite happy though. Dog dog is part cat. Her bed is by a rad and she loves it.