Up the Back Passage

It was a long but enjoyable day at the office, involving many cups of tea, a number of ginger biscuits, a visit to my favourite client, and some heads and chickens that were in varying degrees of proximity to each other later on in the afternoon.

I nearly didn’t get into the office today. This was because my special pass, which allows me to go up the back passage (no jokes please) and saves a couple of minutes walking time stopped working. Over the weekend all the passes had to be re-registered for some reason or another and despite a number of beeps on the thing by the door, the computer was most definitely saying “No”.

Luckily the front door was open and Dave sorted me out, and my back passage credentials were restored. Good job it was this weekend as we are working late next Friday and all day Saturday and the back passage is the only our only out of hours point of entry.

In the morning we had a meeting over the other side of Liverpool Street with my favourite client about a new project. They are a decent bunch, and a real “old school” city type firm. Work hard, but play even harder. Their owners know they have a real diamond of a company on their hands, and hopefully they’ll continue to let them do what they do best which is managing money better than their competitors. And of course, spending money with us.

Being out of the office for a couple of hours meant I had some serious catching up to do. It was just before noon and I had only drunk one cup of tea, so it was straight to the kitchen to get back on track.

The afternoon was spent doing some analysis for another client based round the corner and by around 4.00pm I’d worked out most of I was planning to recommend to them. Not the most interesting piece of work I’ve ever done to be honest, but cherry-picking the good projects isn’t an option and as I was sitting next to their account manager and I mistakenly mentioned that I knew (sort of) how to help them I was in the frame to do the work.

Just as we were approaching golden hour the ginger biscuits made a guest appearance (32p a packet at Tescos), and we all perked up and another cuppa saw us through to after 5.00pm.