Blah in OD

The course is going. Not really learning much I didn’t already know, but that was expected, to be honest

Triage are in shit, though. I may have caused it and, before you ask, no, I don’t actually care about that. It turns out that Triage have been flat out fibbing to people to get on the course. Various people have been told:
that the job interviews are guaranteed (this includes me),
that the job interview is for one of two Poundland stores (it’s just for Coulby Newham),
that the job interview is for the new Poundland in Billingham (it’s not)
and some people weren’t even told what company it’s actually for.

So, Working Links took a note of all the problems (or lies as others might call them) that Triage have been giving and filed a complaint.

In further course news, I had my mock interview yesterday. It went well, the only problem was with some of the feedback.

Y’see the first question I was asked was what I had been doing the past two years. So i told the truth. I’ve been unemployed but I keep myself busy looking for work and writing. They then told me I should mention my experience at the cinema and Buger King.

Except none of that is from the last two years. So it’ll look like, to me, that I don’t want to answer the question. That advice is easy to ignore.

Talking of my writing, the short story I subnmitted to the BBC Opening Lines comeptition has been rejected. Which is a bit of a bummer, but I’ll keep plodding on.

One competition I’m definitely entering is the Bloody Scotland crime short story competition. It’s part of a new crime writing festival starting in Scotland called, strangely enough, Bloody Scotland.

The prizes are a week long writing retreat, being the main story in an ebook anthology of entries (ten runners up will also be published), a weekend pass for the festival and a besopke crystal decanter filled with 35 year old single malt whisky.

Guess which prize I want the most?

Beyond that, not much is happening. Plugging away as usual, really.

How are you lot?

Will