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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Sitting in your bunk with your feet in the porthole

Maisie is being chased for the rent for one of our libraries.

The invoice came last week but T.Aldous won't pay it yet because it's not due to be paid until Christmas Eve. It actually doesn't matter a blind fig to us which day it's paid so long as it's out of this year's budget and we're not either slung out on the street or pursued by another lot of bailiffs but no, it can't be paid yet.

The Accounts Section want it paying p.d.q. as the council's performing badly at getting invoices paid quickly and there are financial penalties imposed by the government if targets aren't met. So once a day they ring Maisie and once a day Maisie tries to persuade T.Aldous to authorise the payment and once a day he says no, it's not due until Christmas Eve and once a day Maisie rings Accounts to say that she's hit a brick wall again.

To add insult to injury, T.Aldous has called a meeting later today to ask Jack Harry and Maisie why we're not paying our invoices on time.

7 comments:

Gadjo Dilo said...

It's all Doublespeak, or whatever it was Orwell termed it.

Pat said...

You can always rely on T Aldous - not to do what everybody wants him to do. It would seem.

Macy said...

Has anyone thought of telling T Aldous NOT to pay the bills.... just a suggestion.

The Topiary Cow said...

The meeting is the frosting on the cake...

Quite like Macy's thought.

Moo!

Kevin Musgrove said...

Gadjo: if we're lucky...

Pat: precisely so

Macy: you have worked here!

Ms. Cow: Moo!

Charlie said...

You are a man of infinite patience: if it were me, I would have committed murder most foul eons ago.

Here's something of interest that neither you nor he may have seen yet:

Phone Box as Library

nursemyra said...

T Aldous sounds like a prick