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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
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10:38 am - Random update.
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| Friday, October 5th, 2007
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6:59 pm - Well, thats unfair.. but.. thats that.
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I got called up just over an hour ago form my agency, at about 4:45. Apparently I was laid off the job for not having a 'good attitude towards the work'. The person who rung up said it was the floor manager who said that.. the thing is, the floor manager is hardly seen and doesnt know me from anyone else, she hasnt even seen me since the first day I was there and has no idea how I work.
The thing is.. I was really trying hard. I was turning up 15-30 minutes early every day of the job, and I worked the overtime that was needed, except on one day where I had a prior commitment and let them know that i had to be off when work was supposed to finish. Anyway.. I had to take a half day off work today. My back has been getting worse and worse all week, I dindt sleep last night due to pain. I was going to call in but still went in and worked a half day. I went in and was in 15 minutes early, let the temporary team leader know i was hurt and i asked nicely if I could take a half day off sick due to the pain I was in, but that I was willing to work the first half of the day while taking painkillers since I dindt want to leave them with all that work alone. She was real nice about it and let me. Even asked how I was doing a few times during the morning, i replied I was okay and that I was still able to work etc.
Thing is.. the last two weeks, there was another agency girl there who was treating them like dirt. She had no respect for them and really did have a negative attitude towards the job. She didnt turn up today and i heard the temp team leader say she was fired if she turned up, but she didnt turn up anyway since she had already handed in her notice to her agency the week before.
I really do get the feeling that I am suffering the backlash of the other agency workers bad attitude and lack of respect... I really worked -very- hard there, to the point I hurt myself (my back). I literally did not sit down for 8+ hours straight expect for dinners. I worked so hard and did everything asked of me. They didnt give me full training due to being so busy, but i was trained on a number of things and did well on those things.
I am really just shellshocked.. it makes no sense. I have worked so hard for like, nearly a month.. and then I get spat in the face for my effort.
I'm going to ring up on monay and ask to speak to my real team leader who was absent today. I am just going to ask her if I can use her as a reference for my CV since I will need the details for any future job applications. Other than that.. I dunno what to think. I was only going to work one more week anyway due to the strain i was getting from working so hard, I can only hope this unfair dismissal does not affect any future job applications.
These people have no morals..
current mood:  depressed
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| Sunday, September 30th, 2007
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11:18 pm
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Oh, and in a more RL note:
I started work 2 weeks ago, temp working through an agency for barclays. (yes, oddly barcleys hires temps to sift throguh millions of £'s worth of money). I was suprised at that. You would think that. well, you get the idea. Anyway, i soft through hundreds of K in cheques each day.
Anywya. i'm 2 weeks in, and the job is not going well. I'm on a 12 week contract. So. 2 down, 10 to go.
I still have not recieved my keycard after 2 weeks so i still cannot be trained on the computers.. i'm doing cheque finding and assisting the postmaster in the late afternoon. I work 8:30am - 4:30pm, full time job, though i dont get paid for the lunch hour. Amongst various other office duties, i'm doing the monkeywork. Cant wait to get my card so i can start doing data entry. I want experience of that too. I think atm my ideal job would be data entry.
Oddly, my official job title is 'Customer service advisor' haha.. yeah right. I havent been given any training on the phone, wouldnt know how to forward a call or where to. Not only have i not had training on the phone our dept doesnt do much of that.. just take down card details and check em out to see if they should be paid or to stop paying them etc at the most, usually just forward elsewhere. Essentially my department bounces cheques. We've just been crazily busy these last week weeks so havent been able to get trained on much at all! It really sucks. not sure i'll be stopping after the 3 month contract is up if i'm offered an extention (they have already asked me if i had any plans and if i was able to stay longer, i said 'i had no plans' and she put me down as 'willing to stay longer if need be'. Nope.. 3 months experience then i'm out of there.. thats if i'm not able to get something sooner. I like to have the chance to think about something during the day. I was so fried last friday since it was super busy that i got really hazy and couldnt think for a few hours afterwards..
Anyway, the thing is.. i dont really get on well with anyone there. Everyone is leaning on me atm to get through he extra work they have on them in the form of finding cheques in the shelves (i hate papercuts!) to make their job easier. I hate it. Its too rushed and we're relied on to do way too many things. I think thats the thing I find the worst about the job.. I just cant speak to anyone there. Even if i do try they're so busy they walk off after not too long when i'm trying to make a friend.
So.. I plan atm on working the 12 week contract (10 to go!) and then leaving and moving on to something else. 3 months experinece should be good enough to be applying for more things, will get me a reference too I hope and well, they rely on us to do so much stupid crap that it'll be very good to put on my CV and person specs as being skilled in and having experience of so many things.
I should also start looking for something else while working there. I wouldnt mind a part time morning or afternoon job closer to home i guess.
And with that, i'm off to sleep. Goodnight folks!
current mood:  sleepy
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| Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
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12:49 am - A must see.
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wow.. I just saw the most awe inspiring and terrifying movie of all time.
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331
Zeitgeist. Now.. you can skip part one if you want to go watch it. Its all about christianity and its relation to other religeons. In a way its really not related. Parts 2 onwards though.. simply terrifying. The last part was the worst. Its about 2 hours long in total, but once i started watching I couldnt stop.
current mood:  worried
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| Saturday, June 30th, 2007
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4:02 pm - o_o
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Someone bought me a 6 months paid LJ thingie.
Who is the mystery benefactor! :O
current mood:  confused
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| Thursday, May 31st, 2007
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8:20 pm - Well..
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Good and bad news.
Good: I got the job!
Bad: Not taking it.
It turned out to be a door-to-door type sales job. Starting 8am and finishing at 6pm.. 7pm teu and thu. Long hours of physical work. Not only that.
The baseline pay is £0. Its totally commision based. I may get paid a lot, or i may earn nothing for all my work. Thats bad.. I cant live with a totally random partly luck based job like that.. combined with the long hours its just totally ot worth it. I want to know i'm earning money.. pfeh. Gonna phone em up tommorow morning (due to start the afternoon) and BS then about accepting another job offer i had. Well, still.. not feeling too bad about it. I got a job, which has my confidence up, even if I didnt take it.
current mood:  blank
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| Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
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5:45 pm - Second Interview
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Okie.. It was okay. The person was real friendly and took me through a bit of a chat about the company. It was pretty relaxed and personal.. dindt stop me from seeming nervous though. Second 'interview' is tommorow. 9-6... its kinda like a day at the company and they're taking me around, telling me things etc.. then testing me on things at the end, to my knowledge. If i do okay i'll get a third I think he said o.O Lots of steps.. but I hope it'll be okay.
Apparently they're a marketing company.. that has me scaredish. I've never considered myself a good talker. Still, i'm going to try.. they do full training with real opportunities, its how they expand.
Anyway.. wont chunner on about this job too much. I just eed to get my mind of it.
Heh.. today I got home at about 1. Went to sleep at about 2:30ish.. got up at 5, i was just so sleepy and exaused mentally. I need to be up a 6 tommorow so had to get myself up.. will go to bed again at about 8 to make sure I get enough sleep, with sleeping medication.
SO scared. :O I dont know why.. the sound of verbal sales is so scary to me for some reason. Always have been the kind to be offput at the idea. They are giving full training etc so.. and I desperately need this job.. bleh.
current mood:  nervous
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1:51 am - Job interview
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Wheee.. got a job interview today. Been so long since I've been jobseeking that ive been getting kind of stressed at times. Wish me luck.
current mood: scared
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| Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
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5:18 pm - Grar
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I wont apologise for lack of updates.. journals / diaries were never my thing.
Anyway.. i just need to rant somewhere. I'm so stressed. I was down with flu yesterday. It was real bad.. i was bedbound for the first time in over 10 years.. i havent been bedbound by illness in a very long time. I was aching.. my skin was hyper sensetive and even the bedsheets were painful to touch.. it was painful swallowing.. i was weak (very weak) and i had a fever. It was awful.. thankfully kinda recovered today. I'm still a little weak and get chills but i can move about and do stuff. Yesterday was very boring..
Anyway. Yesterday morning i went to Manchester to Adecco, hoping to get a job. I didnt want to go in... but i forced myself to. I'm tired of procrascinating on things.. i desperately need a job. Really stupid of me.. It really messed me up.. i might not have got that bad had i not overexerted myself.. bleh,, anyway i was only 2-3 minutes there.. handed in my CV and came back home (and collapsed in bed). Rest of the day i was bedbound.
Anyway, they called today with a position.. working for the Royal Bank of Scotland, 5.80 an hour.. thing is the advisor asked me how much i wanted to be working for and i messed up,.. said i was hoping to start at around £7 an hour or 12.5k.. (doesnt sound a lot for a graduate does it?) thing is, i've still got my pride.. i have a fucking honors degree, it seems to mean fuck all.. its all about experience.. the woman on the phone (who had a fucking banshee's voice, i had to hold my phone about 2-3 inches from my ear) said that its all about experinece and that i needed years of experience to get that blah blah fucking shit. I have a fucking degree and it seems to mean nothing. Gah.
Anyway.. she didnt leave her name (or i dindt catch it) and she didnt offer again, i probably should have taken it.. i really want it now. Even if its probably my bare minimum i could ever work for with my qualificatons it would at least be experience. Gah.. i feel like such a fuck up now.. literally. I feel like a real loser.. i should have taken that job. I need to start going somewhere.. sigh. Its just not fair.. thing is, i feel like that because i'm really afraid that they'll have thrown my CV out after that. I'm putting a lot of hope on Adecco to find me a decent job.. tat job i realise wouldnt have been the best but it probably would have been ok, and it may have gone permanent / somewhere, which would have meant a pay increase.
I hope they phone back again soon, i feel like such an idiot.. i'll probably try and call back tommorow and see if they still have my CV and the like.. x_x
Ive got too much pride i guess.
Heres a lesson for all you in school / college / whatnot; Education means fuck all. Experience is all anyone wants these days.
current mood:  aggravated
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| Sunday, December 31st, 2006
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2:11 am - I'm still here..
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Kinda, i guess. I very rarely visit LJ anymore, sorry.
I know i dont pop around IM's much either, but ive been trying of late. Only Seere has really been emailing me though.
As for me.. well, i'm still unemployed. I havent bee looking too hard.. once every week or so.. though the jobseekers direct requires me to search 3 times a week, i guess i'm in such a rut i rarely get round to it. I really do want a nice job.. just.. i dunno, its just so hard, sigh.
Anyway, just thought i'd look round here and le folk know i'm still round.
Take care.
current mood: blah
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| Monday, June 19th, 2006
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8:43 am - Whee!
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Just letting everyone know the good news. I passed my exams, yay! ^_^ I got a 2.2
I dont know what to do now.. other than relax for a while! o.o
current mood:  accomplished
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| Friday, May 12th, 2006
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1:27 pm - I finished!!!
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Woohoo!
I just finished my last exam, just waiting on my results.. but i worked so hard i'm sure cant fail, i think i aced those exams too }:=8D
Yaaaaaaaaaay!
Thats Uni over with i think!
I'm so scared! I dunno what i'm gonna do but.. i'm sure i'll get by!
I'm planning on taking a break for now.. but then, who knows =o!
current mood:  bouncy
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| Monday, March 13th, 2006
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7:19 am
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| Saturday, February 4th, 2006
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12:58 am
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| Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
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12:50 am - Blah
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Well, seems some folk havent seen me for an age so i'm sorry, i'll post.
Been addicted to Second Life, tis awesomes.
IRL news: gah, it was getting so good! My necks been healing! Its not 100% but its worlds better than it was a few months ago, sometimes i can even forget theres a problem because the problems lessened to the point were i can do that! yaay!~
Its not been great today, but thats cause i slept funny x.x
Anyway, bad news today (or yesterday as the case may be) I got a letter from university complaining about y attendance. I went in and explained that my attendance was sucky because of my neck problem and they said they understood *sigh* Well, i see the tutor today and i'll explain to her.. but yeah, i dunno how that'll go. We'll see. I think i can start making it in reguarley now that my necks getting better.
*hug*
WttW all
current mood: i dunnos o_O
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| Sunday, December 25th, 2005
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6:52 am
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| Monday, November 28th, 2005
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8:47 am
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Good news: I'm feeling better, yay! yayayay!
Bad news: it just started snowing very very heavily. And i have overdue uiversity library books, the system wouldnt let me renew their loans online becaus eof some glitc and.. worst, i have an in class assessment on thursday. Hope its cleared up by then...
current mood: sleepy
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| Saturday, November 19th, 2005
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12:06 pm
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Still suffering from neckproblems.. eyes started to get bloodshot last night and it was fairly bad. Ended up going to bed early.. still a little bad this morning and i got scared its computer use. I guess the neck may be but i'm afraid to mention that to anyone.. this is the only thing that keeps me sane.
I think i'm gonna see about going back to docs on monday and mention my neck problem again and say i dont think its stress related, but rether computer related.. also see about opticians if my eyes arent better 100% by then.
Little behind on my work but working on a book review now. Get this done today hopefully.
Love you all.
current mood:  sigh
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| Friday, November 4th, 2005
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6:48 pm - Welp
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Went to the doctors, saw a Doctor who wasnt my usual Doc (hooray). He says that its stress that is causing this problem, and that on saturday i probably picked up a bit of cold or flu which weakened me.
So basically, i need to be calming down and learning to cope with stress.. He also told me to be excersising, said that its not only good for me, but also that it will help with the stress. We spoke for a while and he was great. My normal doc never seems to talk to me like that..
Sheesh.. i wish my normal doctor was that good.. i'm gonna see about changing doctors. After visiting that guy its like a weight was lifted from my shoulders. My stress level has gone way down, and my necks feeling better today.
I am not 100% the neck is stress, but its likely a possibility.
I still have the occasional anxiety attack, but otherwise i'm fine. Like i'm winding down.
Love you all.
current mood:  Okay
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| Monday, October 31st, 2005
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7:39 pm - Trying something 'relatively' new
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Opened an SL account again. I wanted to use Kaerou Xia but tey purged my old account :( (despite me being able to log in with that name on the site..)
Anyway, i am now: Kaerou Sieyes
Sie yes!
hehe.. was either that or 'Ghia' went for Sieyes.
Hope to see some of you on there.
current mood: hanging in there
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