Bloody Policy Meetings

There was a policy meeting today at work. And present was one very annoying Director who is a Business Technology Teacher which means not only is he a complete bore but he thinks he knows it all. For the purpose of this blog I'll call him I.

Things got off to a bad start when our one and only gas heater was taken from the office and put in the meeting room for the directors. It did not help my mood when I came into the main office to re-inforce the point he had been waiting thirty minutes for us to open up the building when he knows fine well we don't open til 9am. This only slightly irked me. What pissed me off was this very thoughtless comment: Its cold in here isn't it? Its well under the EU Directive of the minimum temperature of 18 degrees for a work place.

I felt like screaming Yes its bloody cold coz you've nicked our heat source! The fucking idiot.

Then during the meeting he reckoned we should only conduct business via e-mail and people should mail us to book a bus. So our boss E pointed out a few issues with this proposed code of practice such as

1 Old people who have no access to a computer

2 People that don't know how to use a computer

3 Emails that do astray as we have automatic SPAM filter systems in place

4 Emails that arrive after office hours & we don't pick them up until the following day and the sender needed an answer immediately.

5 Only 2 of the office computers have Internet access to limit abuse of it & if both of them were off how would we access the emails?

Suffice to say he wasn't happy that E found holes in his crackpot vision for the future of our company.

Another thing he went on to try and do was create morework for us Admin staff. He wanted to know what policies / systems we have in place on the finance side of things should we be investigated for any wrong doing. I take great offence at that as I work mostly on the finance side and wouldn't dream of ripping the company off. He particularly wanted to know what happends when we pay out volunteers expenses. Lets take a look shall we Mr I?

We record it on a yellow chitty slip which must be sighed by the volunteer and the person who is paying out the money. We keep the slips on file. We also enter the same information into Sage Accounts and on a regular Excel spreadsheet. Both Sage and Excel are backed up onto USB Pens and there are two pens for each programme just in case one breaks or decides not to work one day. There is also a copy on the computers hard drive and CD's which are kept locked in the safe. So tell me just what other bloody policy he can bring into our company?!

I swear he is a fucking arse.

TJ