Audit

Some less than good stuff has happened at F's work.  F was told about it and given the task of reviewing the progress of something that appears to have gone off track a couple of years ago and got lost because none of the things that should have raised flags were triggered.  She thinks the reviewing task might be a test to see whether she has what it will take to tackle the underlying problems that gave rise to things going off track in the first place.

I am supervising.  She tells me in secret that she has no idea how you are supposed to present an audit - of anything.  It isn't her field of expertise.  She is not sure whose 'tail is in a sling' and doesn't want to make things worse for someone who possibly needed and deserved to be given more training before being left alone to manage a crisis (or needed more supervision).  Their jobs are to manage crises, but the managers' jobs are to see that the crises are allocated appropriately, and then supervised - beginners should only given small blips and eventually build up, only after years of experience, to handling full blown disasters.

Like I said - I am supervising.  Someone has to.

Meanwhile the phone went in the middle of the night and she had to find someone to attend a ship survey in Port Harcourt (Nigeria) when their usual person had already been signed on by the 'other side'.  When ships hit one another everyone lines up on 'sides'. 

Sounds like a football match to me.

F is working from home all this week because the railway line is under re-construction.  It is a bit like being back in Greece when I supervised full time working from home during COVID lockdowns.  It is cooler, and wetter, here this week  than it ever was in Greece, and we are distressed to read that our Greek friends and former colleagues are again suffering so many devastating and fearsome fires.  We hope the weather changes for them really soon.