Another day of being pissed off by work. The house refinancing juddered forward another step - maybe. Every time I'm told it's advanced, it turns out to be another dead end. Bah ( Read more... )

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Today I got the first Talk from the supervisor. You know the one, where they corner you in a small room, close the door, put on a serious look and say -

"How would you like a 20% pay rise, paid public holidays, paid annual vacation, and the chance to do something other than shuffle paper into alphabetical order?"

...er, wait, what?

Arrived home at just after four-thirty (early shift this week). Decided to look up a recruiter that megpie71 had recommended. Slung a CV their way in email ( Read more... )

There are times when the world seems to be snickering behind its hand, and not saying why.

Take jobs, for example. megpie71 has just landed one. And apart from a plethora of really dodgy-sounding items in the workplace agreement that seem to date back to pre-union days, it seems as if it might be workable ( Read more... )

I wondered where the extra nearly-two-grand in the bank account had come from, and tentatively assumed I'd miscalculated my contracting company's payment schedule ( Read more... )

One disadvantage of returning to where I grew up - people greet me on the street or in shops, and I have no idea who they are ( Read more... )

OK. Washing partially done, second load on the go. Lunch eaten. Desk assembled. Modular shelving assembled. Heavy-ass monitors positioned. Several boxes opened and their contents strewn about the place. Other boxes emptied, broken down and stacked. Gas bill paid, end-of-month finance bill paid ( Read more... )

For those who don't follow the Transformers fandom, this probably won't mean much ( Read more... )

For the last week or so, I've been hearing my phone ring when it's not ringing. The sound is right, the volume is right, but it's purely imaginary. Sometimes it's loud enough to wake me up if I'm sleeping, and even if I'm not I have to take a second or two to recall if I heard it with my ears or not ( Read more... )