So the place I'm working at now pays us monthly, rather than the usual fortnightly. I guess it saves them on payroll costs or something. At first I didn't really care, the money all goes through, right? But now it's starting to piss me off. It makes managing your finances surprisingly much harder ( Read more... )

It's been quite a while since I posted a sizeable update and this one is going to be fairly long. As most of you probably know by now, the new job I took didn't really work out. It's been an odd and important learning experience. Basically I started having misgivings fairly early on about the job. Looking back now there were a few warning signs ( Read more... )

So I quit Curtin. After three job applications and six interviews (one which I cancelled) I've got a new job with a major ISP ( Read more... )

One of my work mates got summoned to be a juror. I gave him the same advice I gave sensualhealer a while back. If you're at the District Courts then the trials are almost always less than a day, so often the easiest way to get out of it is to get on a trial as fast as possible. If you're selected Monday morning then you'll almost certainly be out and have it ( Read more... )

Just a note to everyone out there who might not know already. If you send information over the Internet you are writing it on postcards and hoping that no one reads them ( Read more... )

Following extensive negotiations with our union we now get the Foundation Day public holiday off. Well sort of. The academics don't because their union isn't as good as ours. So we need to have a skeleton staff here to cover their needs for that day ( Read more... )

A work colleague stood looking out the window, then, as a girl carrying two coffees walks past he comments:
"Check out the mochas on that one."

I've decided to wean myself off coffee. For quite a while it's been my routine to have a coffee in the morning, but I did the numbers and figured out that at $2.90 for a Guild coffee each weekday I'm spending something like $750 a year on coffee alone! Quite the waste of money. That and it's not generally good to be using caffeine all the time. ( Read more... )

I just called an extension and was directed to the user's voicemail. (Named changed to protect the guilty)

"Hello, this is John Doe, I will be out of the office until June 2006, please leave a message."
BEEEEEEP

And may I say, WTF?

Yesterday would have to rank as one of the worst days at work in quite some time. I forgot to charge my iPod over the weekend, so I turned it on to find that I could get all of 30 seconds of music before the battery hit the wall. This was monumentally depressing to me. Lately I've been kept going at work by listening to really tacky, very upbeat ( Read more... )