Reprieve in OD

Sort of. It was announced at work today that the contract for payments, the department I’m in, has been extended till the end of January. No idea yet if that still includes the gardening leave or if it’ll be my months notice. Obviously, I’ll be hoping for the latter.

At least it means I have another month for job hunting. There was a job fair at work yesterday and today. Well, I say job fair. It was a few tables in the canteen with various companies. Two of them outright admitted that there’s no point in me applying cos of transport issues, one is a call centre with, well, odd working hours and the other one I can find no information about the actual job online.

It does mean that I’ll have to book some time off cos NESSA MONSTER WILL BE HERE FOR MY BIRTHDAY! WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I may be a bit excited. Dunno if you noticed.)

In ‘my work may not be the brightest of companies’ news, there’s fun and games with the Christmas meal. Firstsource are giving us £17.50 each towards the meal, as long as we follow certain rules. The money is for an event involving food which has to be approved by our team leader and must be in December. (Seriously, that’s one of the rules. Wonder if someone tried claiming for a meal in January or something.)

Another part of this is that we have to spend our own money and then claim it back. In order to do this, we have to sebmit individual reciepts. except the place we’re going to doesn’t let anyone in a group pay individually. So, God knows how that’s going to work out.

In other news, anyone interested in attending the Sci-Fi Weekender? I’ve won six tickets and am still looking for people to take the extra ones. It is £80 for accommodation but that includes being able to check in on the Thursday, which is normally another £35. Have a look at the website and drop me a note if interested.

Here’s one of the songs I want at my funeral:

And, spot the massive difference between these two names:

Will

P.S. NESSA MONSTER IS COMING BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!