The Vole -- Finance Department

The comments of the Finance Director at the Iridium License meeting have fuelled speculation that all may be not what it seems in the Finance Department. There is the name for a start. However, as one of the accountants said "only an idiot would choose Hamish Sidebotham as an alias"....... He has a point

Suspicions were raised when a shareholder at the AGM stood up and shouted "You're that bastard from Marconi that trashed my pension" and had to be ejected from the meeting. Then there was that photo on his office wall with him and a chap called Lord Simpsom. After the AGM it mysteriously disappeared.

Tracy, the canteen manageress hates him. She says he's always having stuff put on his "Tab" despite there being no credit facilities in the canteen! The clincher for Tracy is that he has "shifty eyes". Tracy is normally a good judge of these things as she's been round the block a time or two, as she puts it.

Other than the MD the FD is the most feared (and therefore hated) man at AV. His position seems assured for the time being though, as he (still) regularly plays golf with the MD. In fact he is the only staff member other than the MD with a handicap in single figures. HS puts this down to having a gap year in 2000/1 (at the age of 40+ ? .... Ed) to practice his swing!