At this point in the world’s financial situation, I bet if I asked you who you would love to have ‘a word with’, the first person on your list would be – ‘My bank manager’. Well like a gift from above, we were handed him, our area bank manager for a whole day, to do what we want with – insert evil laugh!
Unfortunately, Keith Crossley from Barclays was an absolute gent, so as much as we wanted to, we just couldn’t give him the rubbish jobs. He grafted with us, laughed with us and explained to us what the banking situation is all about. Barclays Bank have a programme in which all the big bosses have to volunteer a day once a year in a business they deal with. It’s a fantastic programme and we really benefited from getting to know Keith and hope he learnt enough about us to improve our working relationship with him and Barclays.
My favourite part of the day would have to be Keith and our new starter Arron brushing and turning the cheeses in a store together for a good couple of hours. They chatted away like old friends for the whole time they were in there. After Keith left, Arron politely asked, ‘he’s alright, who is he?’, ‘Our bank manager, did no one introduce you to him?’ I said. ‘No but he talked to me so I talked back to him, so he doesn’t work here then?’ Arron replied.
Clearly we need to work on our introduction skills!
Well, we have a full weekend of production planned to build up stocks for Christmas so I best get some cheese cloths cut!
Louise
Sam, Arron and Keith
