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Diary of an HR Manager
Monday 7.42 p.m.
9.27 p.m. A final trawl of emails showed a thank-you note from Pilar for my notes on her White Paper which had gone down a storm in Mexico City, and how it would be fun to co-write one some day. Given the time and the right topic, it certainly would be!
and the non-compete afterwards. I’d got used to being an independent again, and it was going to be tough playing by someone else’s rules! I asked what she and Pete were thinking, and she said it was a question of seeing what numbers agreed that we’d wait for developments and keep an open mind. Privately, whatever the deal, I didn’t want to be part of a new set-up. were on offer, which was reasonable. We
Takeovers must be in the stars, as Tanya rang me and said that a major consultancy had put out feelers. Their own HR consultancy had suffered some attrition over the past 18 months, and they needed to beef up their client offer. She asked for my immediate reaction, and I was pretty neutral. It could mean a cash sum, but what I didn’t fancy was the earn out period
Saturday 10.14 a.m.
So, Easter was looming, and I hadn’t really thought too much about it. It looked as though I would be working right down to the wire.
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