Work

Good Morning All,

This is what I am faced with when we drive into the Ministry.... there's a guy with a machine gun on top of this vehicle. A most warm welcome to start out the day, but here it's actually a good thing.

I now have a most spacious office in the Ministry that I share with a couple of other advising agencies, all men of course. The office has 3 desks and a desktop computer that works quite well. When first assigned last week, Asa and I immediately noted the stench and many layers of dust/dirt in the office. We asked the cleaning guy to come in to at least clean off the countertops... he did in his own way. Still nasty, but Asa and I corrected that the next day and it even smells much better now. The guys we share the office with are not impressed with the
"woman's touch". Don't even get me going on the bathroom across the hall, it's absolutely unimaginable even for me who has experienced nasty in various places in the world. Unfortunately, with all the required coffee in the morning, it becomes a necessity. Rumor has it there's a decent bathroom a couple of buildings over.

Most importantly, this office affords me the opportunity to be more efficient in my work. I now have a work plan that addresses the development of a personnel selection process for investigators and then a training program which will train the RIGHT people. The combination of these programs will ensure a career path for national level investigators. The Director is now selecting personnel from his staff, personnel and training, to develop these processes... I will serve as their mentor so they can learn how to develop and then implement policies and processes.

This was probably boring for most of you, but some have asked so I'm trying to comply with requests. Let me know if you have one.

This blog hug goes out to my dearest friends and previous Alexandria, VA neighbors....

MARY RYAN and ERIN ROTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XXXOOO