11 May 2015
    
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Quintas Reception - A day in the life
Keyman Insurance - Insure Some of your Biggest Business Risks
Public holidays and part-time workers - what are the entitlements?
What happens the family home if I become insolvent?
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Quintas Reception - A day in the life
by Pamela Hyland, Receptionist
 

I’ve been asked to pen the Holy Grail of articles, the topic?  Reception, really? You know all about canny accountants, right?  Well I work with a whole team of them (I’m not one by the way, I’m lovely).  Does that really make for interesting reading?  Have I lost you already? 

I’ve been around the block, jobwise that is and was very ready for a change just over a year ago.  So, I took the plunge, and after meeting two of the partners at Quintas (two of the best talent spotters in Cork by the way) joined the sloooow lane as their front office person.  Semi-retirement was almost palatable, nice and easy nine to five with minimum responsibility compared to my last ship, answer the phone, make a few coffees… Tadah!

How wrong was I? It’s busy.  All of the time.  Clients coming and going, phone ringing and a million other jobs cropping up during the day.  Staff pestering passing through, stationery to be ordered, lunches to be organised, post to be distributed, partners to be pandered to, trainees to be tended to, and never, ever, ever, ever run out of Nespresso.  Did I mention cleaning the kitchen?  That’s just a glance at what occupies 7.5 hours of my time 5 days a week to make my life a little bit more interesting.  So, do I like my job?  No.

I love it.  The staff are a fabulous bunch of people. Reception is where they come to clear their heads from the deadlines, the meetings, the mountains of work… actually I think it’s really to see me because of course they deal with stress very well!  Everybody makes time to say hello, regardless of pressure or deadlines.  And I hear all the fun stuff as they pass through.  I’ll give you an example:

An accountant walks into a shop and buys a lotto game card, after trying to figure out how to play the game concluded that he had won €30.00.  He goes to the shop counter to claim his prize to be told that he had won €250.00.   Nope he replied, he had definitely only won €30.00.   Despite the best efforts of the shop assistant to explain how he had won €250.00, he was baffled.  He still took the money though and recanted the tale to everybody he bumped into the following day.  Goes to show good accountants don’t know how to play lotto!

At Quintas, birthday cake can be found in the kitchen every time a member of staff has a birthday.  Nice….  While trying to slice a particularly fresh cream cake, it was suggested that we should invest in a cake slicer.   “Why can’t we just get a pizza slicer, that can cut through anything girl…” was the retort, also from a clever accountant.

Reception has got to be the happiest and most neutral seat in the house.  Candidates need not apply

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