Delegation

Fearless Leader returned from fact-finding, having found that penurious budgets exist elsewhere, too. Useful information, that. And surprising.

Whereupon Fearless Leader decided her plate was too full, so the task of setting up new vendor contracts including serials (nonlibrarians are excused for tuning out; librarians for shuddering) should be transferred to moi. Sure, why not? Two days still remain until the new fiscal year, and reassignment of the tasks is yet to be accompanied by transference of the necessary information.

To compensate, I was relieved of a task that takes 30 seconds per day, and two of the four functions I had which I still enjoyed.

That decision having been made, F.L. retired to the staff kitchen for nearly an hour of serious schmoozing, followed by a "meeting" that consisted mostly of small talk and laughter (the walls are thin) that lasted almost to the end of the day.

More hard work, but that's why she gets the big bucks.

Note: this was originally posted on ketches, yaks & hawks 27 September 2008