An agency that I only signed up with on Wednesday has already come up with a job for me to go for, the only snag is that the pay is much lower than what I've been on at LDV. I'm now agonising myself sick over whether the right thing to do would be to take it (assuming of course that they offer it to me!) so as to get straight back into work, even ( Read more... )

What is it with me and Vic and luck? When we came together did we accidentally bring together the two halves of an ancient spell which meant that every brief flash of good luck would immediately be followed by a massive kick-in-the-balls of bad luck? At least this time we were permitted four whole days of thinking that it was all going right for

After last week's unscheduled 4 hour loss of all our computer systems, we've just had a memo that a planned 30 minute shutdown is about to occur. We're having a sweepstake as to how long said 30 minute shutdown will actually last, so far nobody's guessed less than an hour and a half :-)

Someone: "Is your boss about?"
Me: "No, he's off sick"
Someone: "When's he due back?"

Me (thinks): "How the fuck should I know? I'm not his fucking doctor!"

...........that every time I think we're just about to drag ourselves out of the pit of being constantly hugely overdrawn, something falls off the house or my car?

aardvarkoffnord, did you hate the Doctor Who Christmas special.....?

.....I've got the day off today. What am I doing in the office at 6.45am? I hate it when that happens!

I am now an administrator for the 8th most popular website on the internet. Hurrah!

Load of shit.

My pest of a brother and his fiancée are crashing at our place on Friday evening and he's just texted to inform me that they're not planning on bringing any bedding with them. Would anyone have a couple of sleeping bags they'd be prepared to lend me?