Wednesday 10/06/15

Found out that Neville had ordered 9000 mounts from Dennis Wright. That's about 180 boxes that have to be found space for where no space exists! He ordered 2000 5" x 7" when I already have about 2000 from a few years ago. Part of the problem is that a) he has never been here so doesn't now about the lack of space & b) he didn't bother asking what we had (if he had I would have told hime not to order the 5" x 7" mounts as we had plenty).

Spent an hour moving stuff from 1 place to the other and managed to clear 2/75 shelves but that's no where near enough for what's coming. Jim said we could put the some in the store that has the gas bottles in but that's going to essentially take up the whole area (can't reasonably get any more in the room unless Monica & Lynn's stuff is moved elsewhere).

Managed to clear some space from the shelves in stores by moving it all to packing room but there's going to be a lot of mounts in the 'bottle store'.

Bruce finally got in touch with Fingerprint but found that they guy is pretty busy. Accordingly he decided to cut the forms anyway (and hope for the best!). We took it in turns doing a box or so each to break the boredom up.

Had a surprise message From Sue asking for our "Metrics" - essentially the stats of what we've done over the previous month so Sue can tell management if they ask her. Did a sort of "stream-of--conciousness" list of what I could remeber in the last month or so.

Had a meeting in the 'new' meeting room created out of Girish's old store. Bruce rekoned it should be labelled "The Arbury Room". Sue told us a bit about problems with exams & convo she had with Steve Riley about demotivated staff & how everything is a bit weird (eg mysterious 'adjustments' to the finance/accounts).

Finally bit the bullet and ordered (or at least tried to) new phones from 'Mobilephonesdirect'. 2 x orders (as, annoyingly you have to go through the process twice; once for each phone). Now awaiting approval from Vodaphone. If it doesn't work out/is denied we can still go and either upgrade with 3 (will cost a lot more though) or sign a 12 month extension (will be less & still have unlimited data but will be stuck with older phones for a year).

[Update: Vodaphone said no so it's onto plan B. Only debate is whether to go for month extension or a year ].

Bruce pushed off about 4 with all the forms etc plus other stuff.