Chapter 12
“Hi, it’s Marty from Business Interaction Solutions, come to look at your servers”. Marty and Scott pushed the door that led into the vestibule in front of them, another door of frosted glass opened and they went up the thickly carpeted stairs to be met by a very good looking lad, smartly dressed in black polo shirt with the embroidered crossed cut throat razor emblem and the letters EGG underneath in gold. “Hi Marty, I’m Leon, the manager here, come on in, you’ll need to talk to Luke or Ed the senior operation managers, Luke is with a client at the moment but Ed should be here shortly, coffee?” Leon asked, inviting them to a leather sofa to sit down on while they waited. “This is some set up you have here” said Marty looking around at the plush surroundings and the five barber chairs lined up in front of five art deco mirrors. “I didn’t realise you were a hair dressers” he said innocently. Leon turned to look at Marty, “ We’re not a hair dressers” he laughed, “this is a high end male grooming establishment, if you don’t mind” he said jokingly, “Don’t let Luke or Ed hear you referring to us as, a hair dressers, they’ll rip your bollocks off and stuff them up your ass” he added, laughing passing them a mug of coffee each. Leon went on to describe the set up and the grooming services they offered as well as the normal run of the mill barbering, adding that their manscaping options had become more and more popular and they needed to expand here in Brighton as well as their other salons. “Manscaping?” queried Scott, “ You mean back, crack and bollocks trimming and shaving.” “Yeah all of that and a bit more if you know what I mean” grinned Leon, “ happy endings too, if that’s what wanted as well, we aim to please”. “ We do indeed” interrupted Ed walking through the door from the entrance, “ Hi fellas, you must be Marty from BIS, come to sort out our IT problem, I’m Ed one of the two operations managers, have you met Luke yet?” Leon explained that Luke was still with the client so Ed decided to run through the problems they were having without waiting for Luke.
“Well… best start by taking a look at your equipment first and see where we go from there” suggested Marty standing up. “You are very welcome to look at my equipment any time Marty” replied Ed, with a wink and a grin, “ Give me a second we’ll need to go through the room where Luke is with a client, so I’ll check first” explained Ed, walking toward the frosted glass doors at the back of the salon. “ Ok, everything’s fine Luke’s just finishing off, but I can’t stress enough about our client confidentiality policy. Following Ed, Marty and Scott couldn’t help but look toward Luke standing beside a treatment table wearing just a pair of speedos and a guy laying naked except for a small towel which resembled a bell tent covering his groin, Luke smiled and the guy turned his head toward them giving a slight wave with his hand, as they followed Ed into the next room, both of them trying hard to recall where they’d seen the client before. Ed left them to inspect the hardware powering EGGs management system, which, with just one look Marty had diagnosed the problem. “Did you see who that was laying there Marty, it’s that bloke off the telly, you know the one who does the sports programmes, ex footballer or rugby player I think and fuck did you notice that stonker he had on as well” gushed Scott, obviously impressed that he’d seen this guy naked, and with a hard on too. Marty wasn’t really listening as he checked the equipment more closely making notes as he went along.
Ed came back and Marty began explaining what he knew with certainty, the cause of their problem. “ Shit all of it” gasped Ed looking concerned and you reckon about 50K to replace the lot. “ Sorry Ed that’s about the crux of it, could be 70K if you want to future proof it for expansion, and that’s not including the refit costs and I reckon you really need an in house IT manager which would be more cost effective in the long term as well” suggested Marty, looking slightly embarrassed at having to pass on such a damning conclusion on the equipment. “The system slows right down at lunchtime because that’s when your Boston and New York sites come on line in their morning opening time…. 6 hours behind us, the whole setup wasn’t designed for that many users” Marty said in conclusion.
“You and Scott go for some lunch, the Italian at the end of the street is good and you can put the bill on our account,” suggested Ed, handing Marty their business card, “ Just give Luca this, I’ll get onto Tom and Ben in Boston straight away and explain the situation, 4 Months you reckon to get it up and running” said Ed looking around for Scott. “He was here when you went but I wasn’t taking too much notice after that” groaned Marty, looking concerned at where the fuck Scott had disappeared to. He followed Ed back into the treatment room where Luke stood next to the treatment table with an electric trimmer in his hand, although the client on the table wasn’t the TV celebrity who’d been laying there earlier…………….
To be continued….
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