Tuesday - No 'I' in Team

Back to work after the long Easter weekend. The main topics of conversation from the team were - in order of the amount of distress they caused -

the fact that Kate's new diet was ruined by the copious amounts of chocolate she'd consumed on Sunday.
Dan - a lifelong Spurs fan bemoaning the loss to Man United.
The new series of 'Doctor Who'. According to Ted it will never be as good as the William Hartnell era.

Still after the chatter, the team got busily to work. The phones began to ring and faxes and letters were deposited into intrays. I was pleased with their professionalism. It was such a shame that I had to lose Kate from the team.

I took her to one side and explained that she was going to be working for Jez. Her eyes started to water. She appeared distant.

'Are you all right with that?' I said, while guiltily hoping that she wasn't.
'Yes. Yes. I'm fine. I just had a bit of an argument with my boyfriend at the weekend,' she answered.

We returned to the pod deciding that I would have to keep an eye on her in case this piece of news was going to affect her as well. She seemed to keep her chin up for the rest of the day apart from one lengthy and very heated phone call to the said boyfriend.

One of Jez's team - Steve, wandered over as I sat down. 'Mr Ash called. He's not very happy. He wanted to speak to a supervisor in your team but you weren't around. He's going to make a complaint.' He said smugly.

'I was in a meeting. Couldn't Jez have dealt with it?'

'We can't keep sorting out all of your crap. We wouldn't get any time to do our own work,' Steve said and he returned to Jez's team.

'He said we were rubbish when you were in your meeting,' added Gareth as I thumbed the curtly written note in my hand. 'He said that they're taking Kate because only the top people work in Jez's team.'

'Don't listen to anything Steve says.' I told Gareth and then I meandered over to Jez and informed him that Kate couldn't transfer until the end of the week.

'You're just not a team player,' was Jez's response.