“If I do your work now, what work shall I abandon?”

18/04/2008 by April First.

Diary of a school Administrator

Read the diary from the start Diary of a School Administrator, April 8

April 17

Mrs Waggonn popped into the office at 10.15 waving a sheaf of papers (at least there were a lot of them so I suppose they can be called a sheaf), grinning like a sheep, while stating that she was well aware it was very late to ask, but COULD she JUST ON THIS OCCASION have 20 copies of each page within the next ten minutes. And, she continued, COULD they perhaps THIS TIME be put in the PROPER order because she is a PROFESSIONAL and it is SURELY not too much to ask.

Jennifer let the old dear finish, allowed her to plonk papers down and get back to the door, before saying, “whose work would you like us not to do so that we can do yours?”

There was a moment’s silence before Mrs Waggonn turned, summoned up her full height (I’d guess about 5 feet 8 inches, and probably more in metric) and said, “What?”

Jennifer repeated her question. Mrs Waggonn said that was hardly HER affair and turned back to the door at which moment Jennifer said, “Then I am afraid that since we are a PROFESSIONAL administration, we cannot behave in such an unprofessional manner as to abandon the work of others, all properly booked in and arranged, for YOURS which just turns up with a moment’s notice.

And with that, dead on queue, we all turned back to our computers. I fear I slightly let the side down by having a screen saver endlessly showing a scene from “Les triplettes de Belleville” where…. Well never mind what it shows, but I don’t think Mrs Waggonn noticed, and I was soon typing away at random, making it look as if I would be there until at least the end of the working day, as long as I didn’t get any more silly interruptions.

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