Before I start, I’d like to tell John Dodds to make a nice cup of sweet tea … sit down … grab a box of tissues [ahem] and take a deep, deep breath.
OK … today is another one of those bugger-bugger-bugger days because it’s with a mixture of pride and sadness that I have to say a final goodbye to my absolutely beloved friend and colleague [emphasis on colleague, ha!] Emah.
Yep, the smallest bully since Napoleon and Sorrell has decided I’m not worth bothering about anymore and is heading off to run into the open arms of BBH.
The Bitch.
Except she isn’t.
Nope … even though the little bugger supports Arsenal … is obsessed with pink … wears t-shirts of bands she’s never heard of and has hardcore bitch haircuts … you couldn’t want for a more loyal, clever, concientious, considerate, wonderful bugger working alongside you, except maybe R2D2- who is ironically the same height.
So I’m at that point again where I get to feel great sadness about saying goodbye to someone important in my life whilst also feeling a sense of pride about where they’re going – because not only does it show how incredibly lucky I’ve been in being able to work alongside such great people but hopefully it represents how we’ve been able to develop them so that truly great places want to hire them.
[Emah gave me this pink, small robot for me to remember her by. Incredibly apt 🙂 ]
Emah is going for absolutely the right reasons because there’s quite a few things going on which are going to result in quite a few ‘changes’ [more on that another day] so after she told me where her head was at, I introduced her to the BBH boys because that was the only place where I felt they would truly value her opinion and nurture her talent.
Of course once they met her and she showed how smart she is, they wanted to snap her up straight away which is why as of Monday, I’ll only be hearing her abuse via MSN – which is going to be sad, but alot less confronting 🙂
Despite Mr Dodd’s facination with our lovely one, no one comes close to how much I adore and believe in this person so I can’t wait to see how brightly she shines because she’s better than good, she’s bloody brilliant and with BBH’s help she’ll be able to realise her potential as well as maybe even start believing in it too.
Emah, you deserve nothing but happiness and I’m going to miss very, very much
Thanks for everything, knock em’ dead and never change …