OVERWORKED!
AN OFFICE worker yesterday spent over an hour in the office kitchen explaining how extremely busy he is. Jeremy Whitemeat, a project manager at Clarke and Moyet’s Solutions in Swindon, went into the kitchen at 2.05pm and began a conversation about his workload with a co-worker. After spending almost 80 minutes explaining how hectic his schedule was, he eventually emerged shortly after 3.26pm.
“He asked me how it was going and that,” said Eleanor Gay, who works on the same floor as Mr Whitemeat.
busy
“I told him I was quite busy, just for something to say, really,” she continued. “Then he went ‘busy? You think you’re busy?’”
“It was then that I knew I was in for the long-haul.”
Mr Whitemeat, 28, went on to explain that he was ‘working quite literally non-stop’ on projects that ranged from a suggestion for the company-wide adoption of a new font to a brand-new mega-spreadsheet that would unify all the other spreadsheets in one place.
Throughout his marathon monologue, Whitemeat continually referred to the company CEO as Vince, indicating
Project Manager tells of overburdon in 80 minute oration
that the pair of them were quite close.
Ms Gay said she eventually managed to escape at around 30 minutes into Whitemeat’s soliloquy.
lucky
She said: “I was lucky because our line manager, came in and Jeremy started going on to him about how they should ‘have a catch-up about the font thing soon.’ So I just put my head down and got out.”
Whitemeat then went on for another 50 minutes, informing the line manager, 36 year-old Kevin Barnacles, that he ‘just had so much on at the moment.’
Mr Whitemeat’s address in the kitchen came only days after he spent 40 minutes leaning against the wall in the corridor explaining to a woman from HR that he was in at 8am to get everything done.