Tuesday, July 17, 2007

A little about my new and exciting position at work

So, today I started work work. Yes, it's been 2 weeks since I landed, I told you I liked the laid back approach to starting a job here ;-)
So, I am officially the new Studio Manager at Impact BBDO. I have a staff complement of 17 at last count, although at the rate they are hiring I will soon have 30! 'My Boyz' as they are already affectionately known are... you guessed it... all men, mostly older than me and are made up of 8 Indians, 2 Egyptians, 5 Syrians and 2 Filipinos - hell of a mix, but all awesome, friendly guys. I think they are just grateful to have to have someone look after them for a change (this is a newly created position)! The office is a total shambles as we are 3 companies (250+) people over 2 floors of a rather badly designed triangular building, and still have to wait another 2 months before our 3rd floor (21st floor) becomes available for us. I was feeling rather smug about my (uber-tiny!) office, but the Operations Director arrived back from Australia today, and is now comfortably (?) ensconced on the other side of my desk, in my uber-tiny (and also now apparently temporary) office! Luckily it's Vanessa, a very cool Aussie girl that actually interviewed me before she went away ;-)
So, The Emirates Hotel. Damn, I wanna be rich when I walk into that lobby, or into the shopping mall below it - Jimmy Choo, Prada, Michael Kors (for everyone who is a fan of trash reality tv ie Project Runway) etc etc. There is a lady playing piano in the hotel lobby every afternoon, and people sitting drinking and eating and generally looking very relaxed and did I mention rich?, every day I walk through there.
More about the work after a couple more days, suffice to say the space issues here make this place absolutely chaotic, the air-con really unreliable, and the people generally not as exuberant as I think they would like to be!
Today is my last company sponsored day in the beautiful B&B - bugger it, it's getting a punt here www.fusionbandb.com so have paid until the weekend and am now searching for suitable and affordable digs with something approaching zealousy (can't think of a better way to say it grammatically - help anyone?) If anyone from the amazing villa I saw in Um Al Sheif is reading this (miraculously of course) - PICK ME PICK ME!
See you on the flip side.
Oh, pics to be added asap - once I have worked out the tricky situation involving digital camera conversion from MAC to PC - again, help anyone?

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