It’s been a frustrating day. The consultants I need to come in next week are trying to put together a packaged proposal where we will buy a set amount of consultancy days to use during the year. While it’s a good idea, I need someone in five days, not the five weeks it will take to negotiate a more substantial contract. No one seems to want to commit to this kind of contract if we don’t know what the days will be used for. They will be invoiced as used, so frankly it’s an accounting thing for their office and of no real significance to us. Chasing up the other people involved here has so far resulted in nothing moving, so I need a new strategy for that.
The licences for our eMeeting application run out at the end of the month (tomorrow) and a call to the software provider to chivvy things along for the new ones just resulted in voicemail. So Wednesday’s eMeeting using the software may well have to be cancelled… It depends on how efficient they are in recalling pilot licences and whether I can get hold of anyone who can extend our licences to the end of the week.
On top of that, I have a lost a glove – no small matter given the freezing winds and sleet we have had in Paris. The doors of the lift shut just as I saw my glove on the other side being waved at me by a manicured hand. I took the lift back up to the reception again in the hope of finding the woman who had my glove but she (and glove) had vanished and she had not left it with the receptionists either. I ended up at my meeting with one hand so frozen I could hardly write. What the woman wants with one Thinsulate glove is beyond me, but I hope she finds time to hand it in (boom, boom).
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