28th December 2010 9:00
By Blue Tutors
We have an automatic check at Blue Tutors that alerts us to when there is a significant gap between a student’s lessons. For most of the year this check doesn’t show up unless someone accidentally enters their next booked lesson in the wrong year, or on the rare occasion that a tutor has to be away for a few weeks. However, over Christmas the check is in overdrive since so many tutors and students are away, or decide to have a break. Obviously we email both parties to check that everything’s ok, and the funny thing is that lots of tutors assume that we should be aware that lots of students want a break during the holidays. We know that this is true, but an equal number of students often want more lessons during Christmas, either because they have January exams, or because they see time off school as a chance to get many more tutoring sessions in. All this makes Christmas a strange time of year with a combination of very relaxed students and tutors, and also those working very hard.
I had quite a busy week because Harriet has been away now since Friday 17th. Part of me enjoys covering for her, because the first few days helps me to realise all the improvements that we can make in the way that we work (I think the owner of every business should occasionally do the jobs that their employees do), but the more I do Harriet’s job, the more I begin to get distracted by things that I’m supposed to be doing, and by the end of the week I just felt like I hadn’t achieved anything.
We’re back to normal from Wednesday of this week though, so I’m looking forward to getting stuck into my own work from then.