Brüno? No No

I said yesterday that we would either love or hate "Brüno" when we made our regular Orange Wednesday visit to the movies last night. In honesty we were closer to hate than love but it was it not quite all out hate as there were one or two genuinely funny moments. I particularly liked the confusion between Hummus and Hamas as Brüno attempted to solve the Middle East crisis but as for the rest I felt that Sacha Baron Cohen was lucky to get out of some of his confrontations alive and picked on targets that were too easy this time.




Big changes are afoot here at Instanta as Craig prepares for his sales training. We have arranged for Andy Bounds the motivational trainer who impressed so much at the recent CESA conference to organise some training for Craig and this is scheduled for early September after which we are letting him loose on the customers for three months. Fortunately for Craig, he has the fall back of returning to the office (from which many readers will know him well)if his three months on the road don't work out. In the month between now and Craig's adventure we need to train someone to carry out his duties as his stand-in Lauren, our super credit controller, has decided to seek pastures new after four years of successfully chasing our customers for money and will be leaving us next week (more about Lauren tomorrow).



With just a day and a half left of the month, our sales are good and we should at least match last July. We've then got one month to go to the end of our financial year and we hope that we will have turned in a decent profit. I've been standing in for Max this week and taking service calls. I am pleased that there have only been a few calls so that area of the business is on target too. I really hate warranty calls as I don't want any of our equipment to fail but I am pleased to report that any faults that have arisen over the last twelve months have been fully investigated and steps have been taken to avoid recurrence.



One thing that comes with the end of the financial year is our annual pay round. Last October we gave a 4% rise which was pretty fair in recession and level with the RPI. This year ,if we use the RPI again, we should be looking at a pay reduction of 1.6%. Sorry lads. Fairs fair.

What about potty mouthed David Cameron on his Absolute Radio interview? He said "Policticans do have to think about what we say" and then seconds later went on to say something that must have had the blue rinse Torygraph and Daily Mail readers spluttering into their breakfasts.