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MONDAY
Utter disaster!! Tim Smallwood has introduced timesheets to improve efficiency and save costs. Normally, I ignore any kind of initiative from the finance department, as they're paid to stop initiatives. Had an extended lunch with Bill Peters to discuss how timesheets reduce people to worker ants. Bill was outraged that he was being asked by finance to account for his movements in 1999. Of course, the main reason behind all this cost-cutting is that last year Smallwood bankrolled an internet start-up called Blackhole.com and he's trying to recoup some of the millions that went into it.
TUESDAY
Finance department has decided that our global competitiveness will be enhanced if we charge staff 2p for vendingmachine coffee. I call this visionary new policy 'change management' because it means that everybody has to carry around four tons of loose change. I fiercely resisted this at board meeting, but Smallwood said...