Hello! It's been long tiring five days lots of work done (the fruits of which i hope you'll see next week) and I'm absolutely shattered. Don't worry, it won't stop me completing the final task before the weekend! Here's another brief peek into the internal goings on here at Plusnet Towers. After a bit of a low turnout last time out, I've spent part of the afternoon rattling a few cages and gathering First one in line is Carrie from the Sales Team...
Hi everyone sales team here Its been a really strange week as we've not had as many calls as we were getting at the start of the month but hopefully it all picks up now we're hitting Manchester. On the good note we have four new starters that started on the 11th and have been doing very well at selling the products and it looks like training has improved, we also have some more sales guys that started on Monday that are in training and it will be fantastic to increase the team and a better floor when we move upto the 2nd floor at the end of the month. Also COT have been doing really well as usual and have had a new addition chris from sales and is doing really well as he did in sales. We have a few advisers leaving us in January due to University commitments they'll be dearly missed, good luck guys! I wonder how long will it be before the nice weather is back, this rain is less exciting than the snow which I hear maybe coming back - great english weather as usual. That's all folks from sales and cot Have a great weekend all !!!!!!
Thanks Carrie! Matt is up next with another CPE update:
CPE... All is good and well in the land of CPE (routers - see previous EOW posts). Plenty of stock to go around if you fancy signing upI've been investigating a new piece of technology recently enabled on our routers that should allow wireless connections to be initiated based on the press of a button on the router rather than entering a password. I am hopeful that it will work well and that it will make the lives easier for people who currently struggle to set up their wireless networks. Have a good weekend, Matt
Next it's a EOW debut and warm welcome for Kate from our Finance Team...
Greetings, I'm Kate, and I'll be your host for this evening. This week i've mainly been analysing costs and playing with Excel - it's been pivot table heaven for me. I've also been talking a lot about the film "Book of Eli", which I can recommend for any cinema-goers. On the topic of cinema, Sally very much enjoyed Avatar in 3D last night, if you haven't seen it yet, why not? You are missing out. On a work related note, both Sally and Ryan have mainly been chasing any customers that haven't paid us for a long time and sending them to debt recovery (the debt that is, not the customers). Linda and Frances have been busy working on tickets, allocating cheques and issuing cheque refunds to customers. Mark has paid lots of suppliers, but mourns the potential death of his desk plant (namely "The Chief"). He senses the end is near for that little fella. James has been busy busy busy as always, I heard him mutter something about corporation tax before rushing off to a meeting. Here's my joke of the week: Q: How does a farmer count his cows? A: with a cowculator! Thankyou and goodnight.
I'm not sure what's heavenly about Pivot tables! - each to their own eh? Finally we have Catherine from our QA Department:
Sad times in development as we say goodbye to one of our lead developers (one of the many Bens) as he leaves us to start a new job at iBuildings. He'll be staying in Sheffield, though, so we'll probably see him again. It's all part of the glorious circle of life, however, so as Ben leaves we welcome Srini from the CSC to the QA team, at least for a while. We're hoping he'll brings us some fresh insight on how we test. Other than that, it's pretty much business as usual for the rest of the department. We're working on a variety of projects from our phone product to our reseller product and as ever some of us are working hard on fixing, testing and rolling problems. There have been some interesting moments for me, too, as I break stuff and have to ask for help in fixing it. It's all a learning experience... And Karen keeps singing. It's slightly disturbing.
I haven't heard any singing, doesn't sound like a bad thing!... Well that's al......hang on did I say that was the last one? I'd forgotten that my fellow carer of all things digital Chris sent me a post just before I left work. That's a fail from me, interestingly it's almost like he anticipated this event...
#bunkerfail Apparently it's my turn to write the end of week for our team. So I shall begin. (for some reason I keep typing begin as being, hmmm) We've all been checking our objectives this week ready for our 1-2-1 reviews with our boss. Nobody has started crying yet, so they can't be too bad. What've we done this week then? Lots of Live Chat and some time in the forums talking to you all. Andrew has been working away on getting some improvements ready for areas of the website, hopefully you'll see them soon. Matt's continued to groom his tache, it's getting awesomely curly now. Bob dunked his headphones in tea and I got a swanky new pair of headphones too. Have a great weekend.
It really is a cracking 'tache. as a special treat I'll end the post with this image, kindly provided by the man himself. See ya next week! 