Double Talk
There's a very old joke about a new employee getting a tour of the factory on his first day. "How many people work here?" he asks the foreman. "Oh about half of them." quips his boss.
Now, I'm not sure what the opposite of that joke is, but it kept going through my head as I walked around the new Portakabin structure that's been built at the back of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ car park in Inverness. Most of the staff from the main building have been decanted while the eight month refurbishment project continues. Trouble is, there aren't quite enough desk spaces for all of us, so we're devloping various shift patterns and home-working policies to get us through the months ahead.
It all seems that bit more crowded when vistors arrive. Today, for example, I had the company of two colleagues - Wendy Morgan and Suzanne Vickers -from our Press & Publicity office in Glasgow and they had to keep shuffling around doorways to avoid getting run down by fast-moving producers.
Earlier, Wendy had asked me how many people actually work in our Inverness offices.
"About double what you see here." is what I should have said.
