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Management Today! 01: The Prince

I have been training for my management role, 4 hours per day, 5 days a week, for two weeks now.

I'm somewhat underwhelmed.

The poor guy I'm replacing is basically immobile due to his disintegrating hip and is confined to the office.

I have no overall view of the task ahead of me.

I'm told some of the client's heads of department are dissatisfied with the service they receive and are quite hostile toward the company I represent.

I'm to meet with one of our most vociferous critics and together she and I will conduct a 'monitor' of her department, Hair & Beauty.

This has filled the current manager with lumps of fear and he has insisted on joining the inspection.

I have a feeling this is because he's worried I may get bullied into agreeing to something outside of the agreed specification.

Knowing my habit of saying 'yes' to most things, His concerns are not without foundation.

I did my first 'off the leash' monitor, attended by a senior member of college staff, yesterday.

It was a bit embarrassing.

I kept finding areas our cleaners had missed, and then pointed them out to the senior member of college staff.

This will, no doubt, make me 'very' popular with my staff, whom I haven't met because they all work nights.

It's not the rank and file cleaners I'm bothered about, where they're getting it right the standard is pretty good.

I'm looking forward to meeting them all, even though my Polish is non-existent.

I'm more interested in the supervisor.

Can't wait to meet him.

He's not Polish, he's a Brit and will therefore understand perfectly when I speak to him, at length, in the vulgar tongue.

BTW I now have an office:

It used to be the car park attendant's centre of operations until some sensible member of college accounts staff realised that car park attendants were a wasteful drain on resources more fittingly spent on teaching young people.

An added office bonus is the CCTV system.

I'm itching to turn it on.

The windows of the office are mirrored.

When the students congregate at the smoking cage they use the reflective surfaces to preen and gurn, completely unaware of the spectacle they provide for the audience within

It's frontage has been lovingly swept by me every morning.

A regime I have imposed upon myself.

It was knee deep in Autumn leaves mixed with fag-ends from the bin-less smoking cage next door.

I'm keen to see if the Broken Windows idea will work in this situation.

The fact that I'm seen sweeping the area at 7:45 am by the senior members of college staff can't hurt I suppose.

I'm still having to do a 2.5 hour clean at a school 50 miles away every evening.

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Chichester.

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St. Cats.

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Bognor Regis.

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North Heath.

Last Week I Couldn't Spell 'Service Contract Manager'. Now I Are One!

Life is a curios and bewildering goings on, well mine is.
Towards the end of October, pre-holiday, I received a phone call from Mr. B. Would I like a cleaning job, 30 hour week contract? This call came as a 3 year project crashed into the barriers so, on my return from holiday, with my bank account empty, I said yes.
I rang my prospective employers to enquire about a position with the company. The call went surprisingly well. Almost as the handset hit the cradle a van drew up outside and in a whirlwind interviewing and form filling I found myself being taken to Crawley, given a uniform, a mobile phone, a van, a hearty handshake, and sent off to do 2 hours steam cleaning.

What joy, what rapture.
Since then I've had some never less than interesting cleaning experiences. I'd go into them, but if you're not into cleaning things like I'm into cleaning things it may seem dull.
However,
The company's strap-line is 'Cleaning with a conscience'. Which basically means having to use 'environmentally sound' cleaning products. All well and good, but...
NO BLEACH!!
FML it's hard work. As for the 30 hour week, no.
Including journey time to Crawley, something close to 15 hours per day.
I love it.
Two weeks ago, whilst vacuuming somewhere in Crawley, I received a call from a company director. Now what with the vacuum running, a slightly blocked ear, my tinnitus, and my unfortunate habit of saying 'yes' to anything I found I'd accepted the post of Contract Service Manager for a college in a nearby town.
I am to take over from the current encumbant whilst he has a hip replaced.
The college has sites across a 35 mile area, cleaned on a daily basis by a team of around 40 people, which I'm going to be responsible for.
This is going to be fun...

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St. Cats.

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Chichester.

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Bognor Regis.

Wukulele's Leo Sayer Flash-Mob (updated)

Leo Sayer (international pop singing sensation) visited Worthing's Assembly Rooms to lay down a few grooves.
The Wukulele Hardcore Sextet couldn't let this land-mark event go ignored.

Check out Worthing's Mayor with the moves like Rob Ford.

Update:

For a more coherent & insightful description of what went on follow this link to Ivy Arch's
posting here: The Wukulele Show Must Go On

 

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Worthing.