Final update (hopefully) on ex-job today
Well hopefully I get to close the book on summer from well maybe not hell, but possibly the kitchen of a vaguely malevolent demonic entity. Finally, finally bastard boss has paid me. Well he has sent me the cheque. Which may or may not go through. But I can pay it in tomorrow and hopefully have money again.
And all it took was a reminder email. Another reminder email, and finally a third reminder before he called me to say he was putting it the post that evening.
He was "busy" apparently. For four fucking weeks. So busy for four weeks that he couldn't sit down and write a cheque. But he could go on holiday.
I have bitched to Shell Step who put us in touch originally, and he may get blackballed from taking on other students. So that's one good thing.
Of course, his douchebaggery would not be complete without one final douchebag move. Instead of paying me for two weeks work, he has paid me for the hours I worked. Which means, mostly due to him letting me go before the end of the week, that I am about £40 down. Ok, so he paid all my train fares, and also paid me £10 too much for the first week (shh!!) but £40 pounds really isn't that much money, but on the other hand is enough to make a difference when you are a student. I can't see how it would have harmed him to pay me the extra as a good will gesture, but there we go, he is a sod and I'm well shot of him.
On a better note, I have spent the last few days in a Merlin fic induced haze and it has been awesome. It really is the gayest show ever to gay, and me and Oz decided that even if Jack appeared in the Hub in a rainbow kaftan singing "I feel pretty", Merlin would still be gayer than Torchwood.
The we realised that Gaius would totally rock the rainbow kaftan more, and thus the phrase "Gaius in a rainbow kaftan" has apparently been burnt into my brain, causing me to use it as an error message when I was debugging code the other day.
Also, in more adventures of my brain being twisted, the great and wonderful Slash Dragon that lives beneath Camelot got named the Great Soup Dragon by my mind, and now will be stuck as that for the rest of time.
Also yay! London! and can has a Bethan this weekend. And possibly seeing La Cage more times than is healthy. Hang on. there is no such thing!!
And all it took was a reminder email. Another reminder email, and finally a third reminder before he called me to say he was putting it the post that evening.
He was "busy" apparently. For four fucking weeks. So busy for four weeks that he couldn't sit down and write a cheque. But he could go on holiday.
I have bitched to Shell Step who put us in touch originally, and he may get blackballed from taking on other students. So that's one good thing.
Of course, his douchebaggery would not be complete without one final douchebag move. Instead of paying me for two weeks work, he has paid me for the hours I worked. Which means, mostly due to him letting me go before the end of the week, that I am about £40 down. Ok, so he paid all my train fares, and also paid me £10 too much for the first week (shh!!) but £40 pounds really isn't that much money, but on the other hand is enough to make a difference when you are a student. I can't see how it would have harmed him to pay me the extra as a good will gesture, but there we go, he is a sod and I'm well shot of him.
On a better note, I have spent the last few days in a Merlin fic induced haze and it has been awesome. It really is the gayest show ever to gay, and me and Oz decided that even if Jack appeared in the Hub in a rainbow kaftan singing "I feel pretty", Merlin would still be gayer than Torchwood.
The we realised that Gaius would totally rock the rainbow kaftan more, and thus the phrase "Gaius in a rainbow kaftan" has apparently been burnt into my brain, causing me to use it as an error message when I was debugging code the other day.
Also, in more adventures of my brain being twisted, the great and wonderful Slash Dragon that lives beneath Camelot got named the Great Soup Dragon by my mind, and now will be stuck as that for the rest of time.
Also yay! London! and can has a Bethan this weekend. And possibly seeing La Cage more times than is healthy. Hang on. there is no such thing!!