Moonface in Malaysia

I suppose that the heading should really read "Moonface is back from Malaysia".

Last week was her first ever business trip abroad, and for a first time it was a major one. She has only been at the College for six or seven months yet last month she was asked to go on a recruiting trip to Kuala Lumpur at short notice; a hard thing to turn down in spite of the efforts involved.

We're not sure why it was Moonface who was asked to go, as we would have expected either the College's international marketing manager, of their team or the head of the most involved department to make the trip, but instead it was she who was asked to go. We suspect that there was some deep internal politics involved, but whether it was thought that the obvious choices for the trip were not up for the job (good for Moonface) or whether they thought that anyone making the visit would be set up for failure (bad for Moonface) we just do not know. Or there may have been other reasons which no-one told her about.

Anyway, she's back, having had a couple of semi-successful meetings and presentations under her belt, a bit of tourism and lots of good street food.

On the debit side, she's gotten behind on her normal workload, had to travel via Singapore instead of direct to KL which took much longer, gotten rotten jetlag and had her laptop stolen from her baggage en route. So there were some definite downsides. We don't think that there was anything else stolen.

We now hope that the result will be brownie points for her, rather than criticism and assumptions that the whole trip was a pleasure jaunt.


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