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Sunday, March 28, 2010

How was your holiday?

The Gorse Fox was in a reflective mood. The week had been productive in that all of the decorating was complete, but frustrating in that he had  some 1-2-1 interviews with his corps from Starfleet, he has some online learning to complete (how to Design a Starship in a Team and conform to the Customary Value Method); and he had to provide some continued support support for the project.

As GF packs for the coming week’s sojourn in the London office he notes that Starship always seems to assume the first few months of the year are quiet and therefore loads its dedicated employees with mandatory e-learning, mandatory refreshers, mandatory “row harder” calls, mandatory pledges of allegiance (against which you will be measured), demands to know how to contact you over the Easter period, and expects that all vacation is cleared by 6th April. Then it gets twitchy when people start taking their vacation at “critical” times. It then asks caringly about “work-life balance”. This actually defined as “is there enough life left in you to work?”

Well there is in the Gorse Fox and having finished this morning’s e-Learning, he’s back at it tomorrow.

GF thinks it was a good job that he and the Silver Vixen are not in Tenerife as they normally would be at this time of year.

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