Originally Posted by
Melchett01
I found out my last promotion by an instant message from a friend at Air who was under the impression I’d already been told when he congratulated me! I guess that still counts as a ‘best message’ as long as you can guarantee it’s not a wind up.
On promotion to deputy head, pre-texting, I waited anxiously for news (eventually sitting staring at the phone at the foot of the stairs), only to have my current boss and a governor phone and congratulate me. They were horrified to be told that I hadn't been! Act surprised, the boss said. At 7pm, I looked up my soon to be new head in a paper phone book, and rang him. "You got the job, boy, well done. But haven't you listened to your answerphone messages- I rang you at 4pm?"
He really was shaken when I told him I had no answerphone!
Biggest pay rise in my life, £17k up to £23k in 1993
CG