Life moves pretty fast… in OD

Particularly when you’re not really expecting it to.

I had yesterday off work. I was supposed to be going to a Doctor Who convention, but it, sadly, didn’t happen. But, hey, off work on payday, I’ll take that.

about 10 yesterday morning I got a phone call from work. Turns out I have an interview for the quality position on Monday. Woot! Woot sayeth I and woot it shall remain till the end of time.

I bumped into some folk from work last night and they all seem to think I’d be good at the job. Just hope HR agree.

Now, I’m going to be wearing my suit for the interview, which poses the question: bow tie or normal tie? I know that a normal tie would be more professional, but I did as many interview technique courses when I was on the dole that I know that I have to take any chance I can to make myself memorable. Which the bow tie would certainly do. Thoughts?

(It’s funny, everyone I’ve pit that question to has immediately said normal tie till I give the memorable thing which they then agree with. Except Nessa monster, who bought me the bow tie in question so may be biased…)

Knowing my team leader, he’ll have asked someone from the quality team to give me advice. As long as it’s not Jen, cos she’s a bitca…

What else is happening?

Finally got myself a new lava lamp (I do love me a lava lamp). sasly the shop had run out of the red ones so it’s green, but still, tis cool. As I was leaving the shop I noticed they also had Galileo thermometers, so I circled straight back round and got one of those as well.

I also spent today shopping for a MP3 player. I’m allowed to listen to music at work, but I’m not allowed my phone on the floor.

This is due to the hyper paranoid state of BOI when it comes to data security. I may have mentioned before that, when the contract started, they were sending us files by someone flying over from Ireland with a hard drive in a briefcase. We’re not allowed phones on the floor in case a) we text account numbers to someone, b) we use email on our phone to email account numbers to someone (we have work email but only team leaders can actually send emails) or c) we take pictures on our phones and use them later.

I’m not kidding about c. It’s the reason that any MP3 player we do use is not allowed to have a camera on it (like an iPod touch).

So, I have a new MP3 player. It only cost me a fiver, cos I’m buggered if I’m spending more than that on something I’m only using at work.

Have to go. Need to trim my beard and shave my forearm.

Will