Week 5 - A fitting turn of events
"This week we spent quite a
lot of time trying to make up for last week’s client meeting, but the main
thing is that no one blames me for the events at that happened there. All
this arguing about wet clothes when all I wanted to let him know is the bank
got him a 7% return compared with the industry average of just 4%. No one
really said anything about it in the office, no doubt because I am the only
one who sits near me there who has even been to any of these
high profile client events.
8% would have been better of course. I heard from HR that there is a
bonus scheme given out at the end of the
year depending on the department’s performance. This makes me motivated to
do better for sure, but it’s really starting to get on my nerves that my
co-workers clearly don’t work as hard as me. I’m thinking of raising this
issue with William, but as I doubt this will make much difference I may have
to go over his head to the department's regional
general director. I know William has a lot of influence though,
it’s just frustrating that he won’t use it to get things done. I would never
be that lax, things will be changing once I get promoted to his job, that I
guarantee!
One thing that did happen this week though was the employment of
Barry Kilroy as a scanning temp. It’s an
amazing coincidence that I used to go to school with him years ago. He was
always in the bottom sets, in fact he was really was thick in the head.
Now he scans my files into the system,
guess that shows exactly what a mistake he made back then. And what a
success my career has already been, even at this early stage!"