Felt a lot better today.
Had an excellent interview at my current employers. Location isn't ideal though, as it's in an area with higher rent.

And I have another interview with another supermarket tomorrow.
Better location, more hours offered, but a change of employer so I'd need to work out my notice, and I'm apprehensive that the position might not be one I will enjoy.

Of course I haven't been offered either job yet!
But it will be a dilemma if I am offered both...

Anyway, any further update will hopefully NOT be in this thread, just wanted to close this off.

Best of luck, Sundae!:)

Do you know how long you will have to wait before they let you know?

Not specifically, but I would be surprised if I hadn't heard back from Waitrose by Thursday.
They have another group interview tomorrow, but there were only six of us at this one, and I was old enough to be each of the other five's mother. Turns out it was only advertised very briefly (I thought I'd come across the advert very late, but not so much) and it was very vague regardinh hours and job role. My guess is that they needed extra cover and needed it fast and if only teens applied they'd make up more and shorter shifts. With a large student population on their doorstep they can afford to tinker with things like this.

Me applying might have upset the apple cart a little, because with no exaggeration I can say I have experience they would not have expected from the net they cast.

All the kids were super-smart and clued up, don't get me wrong. But my counter, checkout and cafe experience within the same company can't really be matched by a seventeen year old Nigerian student who has no previous work experience. Even if she is a medical student who has been accepted onto a prestigious course a year early, is a Student Ambassador and plans to be a paediatrician. I mean there's impressive, and then there's hit-the-ground-running useful ;)

Worried about tomorrow having read the standard brief.
I'll be turning up without the correct paperwork for a start as I wasn't expecting this interview. I know they know my circumstances, but I hate to look disorganised.
And I have to get a taxi there as its too late to scout out the location. It's at least two miles out of town and I have done too much walking today to trust my feets not to bleed. I also fear getting lost, especially as I can't print out the helpful map they sent to refer back to, which worryingly seems to assume you are travelling by car anyway...

Worry, worry, worry.

This time next month I'll look back on this and laugh.
And laugh and laugh, until the nice nurse puts the comfy jacket with the long sleeves on me again.

I hope all that works in your favor Sundae!

Good luck! I've been thinking of you all day, and will continue to do so tomorrow! XXX


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Good luck, Sundae. Thinking of you, and will be doing so tomorrow. xxoo

I'd hire you over some Nigerian teen prodigy any day of the week! ;)

Hmm, Sundae?
French maid costume?
Very dusty bottom shelves?
Yeah, that works. :frog:

It's quarter-to-still-dark but I think that I'm awake enough to wish you all best for today's events, Sundae!

Now, as it is Wednesday I shall be in Aylesbury in a couple of hours to do the weekly shopping. :eek:

Wish me luck!:thumb:

Oh god. I've stalled.
I have honestly just stopped.
I probably only have 2-3 hours worth of work to do, but I can't start and I cant face it.

I will.
I mean, I have to.
And this happens every time I move. But I've still not learned how to deal with it.

What's upsetting you today?
 

I do that with major chores, too. Not much left to do, and it'd be so good to get it all finished, and I just stop. And knit, or do something more fun. I don't think we're alone in that, either ;).
Imma gonna turn up with that van on Wednesday morning, ready or not! X


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Hell no, some of us have made it an art form. :thumb:

Limey, thanks for herding the wench into her new digs, you're the best.:notworthy

I have a lot more done than the last time I posted.
I managed to start after all.
Mum & Dad are having a snooze downstairs, which is why I am dallying here.

Diz is more unsettled than I've ever known him.
iPad on lap + fractious jumpy-jump cat + frazzled human = the desire get the walloping hands out. But of all the bad things I may be, an animal abuser isn't one.
And yes he is probably going to pee on the carpet given his current stress levels, but I'm moving out. Ha.

All I can do I try not to make it worse for him by shouting.
Even if I want to pee on the carpet myself right now.

Attagirl! Should I buy some incontinence pads for the van seats?

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I can hold it in ;)
And Diz has some knockout tablets.

Washed "his" two jumpers (woolly sweaters).
Going to sleep with them tonight and tomorrow night.
They won't go in the cat carrier, but they will go with him to the cattery.
And if he pees all over them then they will go in the bin afterwards; i hope not, they belonged to him and Dylan since I brought them back to my place eight years ago.

Got caught up reviewing old photos.
Gosh, don't you sometimes waste film time and money and emotion on people who don't deserve it?
I can only excuse having so many photos of the Evil Ex on the fact we went to some pretty cool places together. All of which I paid for of course.
All of which have now been binned because, really, I saw them with my own eyes and I don't need to see his face in front of the sights to remember them.

Poetry books packed.
All books packed in fact.
Three library books left to keep me sane/ be returned by Mum.

Camera has no charger. Or at least charger can't now be found.
Great.
Dad! [shakes fist]
Cheap digital camera needed, preferably with charger.
Birthday 1st July, address on application.

As I said before, they have done so much for me.
It's just aggravating that my own personal camera was lost and has still never turned up, along with many cables, chargers, converters etc. and now this. It's such a waste. Sigh.
Keep everything crossed that the battery holds out tomorrow. I'll hold off on the usual train station pics to preserve as much juice as I can.

I have a job. I have a flat. I have a £25 Waitrose voucher. I have friends. Good friends.
No crappy camera can compare to that.

Right, back to the coalface.
Bite sized pieces.