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Date: 17 January 2007 15:58:06
Today has been spent catching up on work that was not done in my absense. I think I've just destroyed a large woodland with the amount of invoices I've had to reprint, as the originals are "lost". Then I find that quite a few are now queries as there are no reference nos or copy documents attached.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow as my customer are being visited by the new Western European head of GE Energy Parts. He happens to be someone I worked with at GE Aircraft Engines before I came here. His sister is a Welsh language TV celebrity, though they don't seem to get on very well. He's a really nice guy and I'm glad he's progressed with GE.
Like many large US firms there is a glass ceiling. Unless you are American, or very politically adept, then you will only get so far before your pathway becomes blocked. However GE seem to have moved a fair number of Aircraft Engine Services staff into the Energy division. In fact, the division is now run by the former head of Engines Services at Nantgarw, an American, and he seems to have brought the better people with him.
My boss has asked me to prepare a list of things that my company need to provide me with to improve our service to my customer. He was most amazed to find that the laser printer I use is my own as, despite chasing, my company never bothered to supply one. The fact that I provided him, and my last boss, with a list of equipment and PC prgrammes that I needed, seems to have escaped his memory.