Ronald (Mr Goody Two Shoes) drove me mad at work today. He’s our new compliance bloke, but he seems to work for the other side. He’s in the office next to mine, and he insists on putting his phone on speaker-phone, leaning back in his chair with his hands behind his head and yelling into it from a distance. The whole floor can hear him, but no one is game to say anything to him as, if he senses he’s being criticised, he either gets really red and angry, or else he gets really red and upset. In either case, he gets really red, and no one wants to see that.
Today, he was yelling for about an hour at a builder who is building his new home. I don’t know who was at fault, but that didn’t stop me feeling sorry for the builder.
The funny thing is, he came up to me later and started to complain about my part-time assistant Kylie, who he thought wasn’t pulling her weight. At least she was quietly working on company stuff, not loudly on her own stuff. It amazes me how little self-knowledge that man has.