Tuesday 18th March 2014
There was some rain this morning on an otherwise mild morning.
Bentley the Basset and I headed out for our early morning walk at twenty minutes past eight, he having been fed and I having had a wash. I realised that this is the first time that it had been raining and Bentley doesn’t like the rain and we are back in soon, he to sit in his new, but slightly small bed up here in the office, whilst we work about him.
Johanna is on the phone to a potential new relief chef from Carlisle, he had sent in his CV overnight.
Mark, Operations Manager and now well into week ten, is on phone 1 and working away through in the next office replying to emails, chasing up interviews, adding jobs to trade website, taking jobs off our website and so on. 9.15am and as of yet, the phone has not rung, I am sure that it will do shortly.
It has been a slightly strange season so far, getting plenty of permanent placements made and the most ever adverts in a single week last week; 26 following on from 25 the week before. These are seriously good statistics and relief is ticking away well also, twelve new jobs out last week.
Out and About
Ally Bell, a younger lad from the Borders has been on his second relief job up at the Links Hotel in Montrose after doing a good stint up on Arran at Auchrannie last December.
Good to have a healthy Eric Day back on the go who is currently working up at Glencoe Hotel in the Scottish Highlands.
Gordon Smillie did a couple of relief jobs including Springkell down here just down the A74 at Ecclefechan and has now taken on the permanent head chef job at Clova and we wish him all the best and thank him.
Ian Barron, from Kirkcudbright, is a new kid on the block. Over twenty years in the last job and first time out has had his time extended several times over on Arran. Great start and welcome on board Ian. Chefs In Kirkcubright.
Mark Irons is up at Eden Court in Inverness, and hopefully settling in well. Mark took the time to come down and meet us in February.
We meet at 1200 or 4pm ideally Tuesday to Thursday at our offices in Moffat, although we can sometimes do a Monday and Friday also and very occasionally a Saturday lunch time.
Vytis Baltrunas is excelling over at Fortmartines almost a month in.
Andrew Nunn is also excelling up in Perthshire at East Haugh and had his stay extended.
Right, I could go on but new jobs are coming in to hunt for, so will get stuck into that and get this posted.
Many thanks for continued support and patience
Michael in Moffat
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