I've been shopping around tonight, looking at various savings accounts on offer, and at the last minute went back to my current bank (where I used to work) to see the rates applicable to my current accounts. My power saver rate comes up at 2.80% while my direct saver shows 3%pa. Thing is, when I click on the link to bring up the actual rate chart ( Read more... )

Aargh! What is it about this time of year that has me sneezing and wheezing and all hay-fevery - it's autumn for goodness sake! There's no pollen about! But every single year this happens, late March / early April, and persists for weeks. I don't know what it is that's setting me off but I wish it would just Go Away ( Read more... )

This is why I'm bouncing with excitement:


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Today was my last day at St.George; by the time my impending holidays are over I'll no longer be an employee. It feels funny, after all this time, to know that when I go back to work next month it will be in a new place, with new policies and systems to learn. I'm so used to being the go-to person at work, it will be odd being at the other end of ( Read more... )

Yesterday for the most part was a fairly typical working day; only the after-hours stuff was different ( Read more... )

I know it was tough for D while I was on holidays. I know that. And payback is a bitch; for the last two weeks I've been managing his files as well as my own while he's been swanning about the countryside. I will be so glad when he gets back! I've always prided myself on my customer service but today I actually told someone that their query was ( Read more... )

Boss asked last week if I'd mind helping settle a new lender in this week - show her the programs we use, let her sit in on interviews etc. I did point out that the other lender in my branch is on holidays and I'd be rather busy but he insisted that she would sit quietly. Well fat chance of that - of course she has questions, I would too in her ( Read more... )

Filling out paperwork for a couple with different surnames at work ( Read more... )

Got a phone call the other day from a colleague, letting me know that there was a job advertised on Seek which was right up my alley. The vacancy, for an LMI underwriter with QBE Insurance, involves all the favourite aspects of my current role - financial analysis, credit checking and compliance - with none of my least favourite, being ancillary ( Read more... )

I received an Unsatisfactory on a file yesterday. I was that annoyed, for three reasons - firstly, I'd just the day before, during my performance review, commented that I hadn't had an Unsatisfactory rating since last May; secondly, the amount of the loan is deducted from my results and subsequent bonus if achieved, and thirdly because it was due ( Read more... )