A new peer review system is being introduced to the university and poor H has been tasked with getting the faculty librarians up to speed on what we have to do.

No one is very 'engaged' with the process yet (and seeing that coming H actually volunteered to spearhead the project so it wasn't done by someone who didn't care), so there was a three line whip on us all to attend the 2.5 hour planning session.

H did a marvellous job of explaining it and getting us to work out what it would mean for us in reality and in fact it was much less 'scary' than everyone had anticipated. More a question of just getting going really like many supposedly awful jobs.

But woebetide my senior colleague who deliberately managed to avoid attending by 'scheduling' some teaching for the morning long after we knew what the deal was, if he either complains he doesn't know what he's supposed to do, or doesn't make his contribution to what we have to do as a team.