The manager type

[cosmolinguist]

This morning I got to call one of the candidates we interviewed yesterday and offer her the work placement. That felt nice.

But also weird. I've never done anything like this before! I am in a very technical sense her line manager, in that her actual manager, my manager, is now on leave for the next week and a half and he asked me to take care of this. Which meant not just the fun phone call but doing paperwork, and that meant having to write down my own name and contact details where it said "Manager."

Wild.

The less said about the rest of the work day the better, but the rest of the day was good. I went for a nice long walk in the warm(ish) drizzle with Teddy, who drank from so many muddy puddles that he had a big dirty circle on his snout. Like the dog equivalent of a kid with a milk mustache. The air smelled amazing, the plants and the soil are starting to wake up.

Then angelofthenorth invited us over for cheesy toad in the hole, which is a genius idea and I think I might have to make it in future. It was great to see her, and Mr Smith.

And since we'd all planned to go to the gym, she and I walked there while D drove V home and then came back to join me (Miriam having gone swimming). The gym is so much more fun with him there.

Comments

[otter]

Teddy is such a good dog :)

[angelofthenorth]

He really is.

[angelofthenorth]

The recipe is here: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-cheesy-mustard-toad-hole-broccoli

It was lovely to have you all over yesterday. Smith is back to his grumpy self :)

[cmcmck]

I've done cheesy toad in the hole for yonks!

Yummy! :o)

[silveradept]

That feels scary and official to put your name down as the manager.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah absolutely.

[barakta]

Exciting re line managing placement person. I hope that keeps going well (and remember to log it as a workplace experience thing).

[cosmolinguist]

Ah, gosh, thank you for the reminder, that never would have occurred to me.

[barakta]

I treat workplace achievements a bit like potentially gathering evidence of expected discrim... :D