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Danny Short <DannyS756>

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	Some Punctuation - Finding Work	564 dni temu
	Since you guys all pretty much said the same thing about the first "Some Punctuation" (apart from Jad and those that didn't read it!) I have decided to make this installment somewhat shorter ... enjoy! I may not show it in my bright, sparkly whinges on this webpage, but I am deeply troubled at the moment. For the first thing, I'm losing money. I've finally run out of luck when it comes to money, left now with a growing problem of paying money to my parents (fortnightly and in bets that didn't go well ... ASK MY SISTER!). That said I'm not broke so don't pity me for that. So anyway to my MAIN point, I'm back looking for jobs (on top of my ongoing voluntary work), and my agency assures me that they have another job for me, an ongoing one with some office company (too far away) where my task will doubtless be something that I didn't ask to do. A question that nags me is this: How come you never see a newspaper headline reading "Psychic wins Lottery"(LOL)? But the question that nags me most of all goes like this: Why am I finding it so difficult to find work? Why am I having to rely on an agency to find menial monkey work once every blue moon? Here are a few suppositions I've come up with. 1. Trapped in Employment Limbo I'm not unqualified, I know I'm not. I've got nine GCSEs and a couple of City and Guilds qualifications in an adminstrative assistant role. I know how to use a computer and how to file. Surely I have all the necessary skills for temporary/ongoing office work, but whenever I ask for it, I'm told I need more experience in an office environment. It's the typical catch-22, really. So I toddle off to the office next door to see if they've got any menial warehouse work I can pay the bills with, but they frown and shake their heads(I don't really but I thought it went with the story). I'm trapped in the little gap between menial work(that I don't want to do anyway!) and less menial work, too qualified for one and too inexperienced for the other. Really makes me want to spit. 2. Parents Conspiracy Once I ruled out bad references and qualifications there was only one thing left to explain why I had failed every interview(all three of them!) I've attended for fourteen months. Conspiracy. The first party I looked at through narrow eyes was my parents; would it not be easy for them to phone my interviewer later behind my back and say I had suddenly fallen off a bridge or got another job offer(insert own example here)? But why would they do this? Personally, I think they don't want me to leave home, and want to keep me locked up in this house like some kind of pet. Jokes on them, though. If I ever find this out to be the case, I'm going to murder them both! Ha ha! (Dark sardonic humour doesn't come across well in text format does it?) 3. World Conspiracy After laughing that last one off, I started getting paranoid. Why would my parents conspire to keep me unemployed? I'm quite spiteful to them but they need my rent payments. So ... I guess it must be a conspiracy on the part of the whole world. Let me tell you some more about the last place I applied to. The agency had struck upon gold. The company in question was looking for a "certain type of employee" with me coming under that "certain type" ... or so I thought! Looking back I am still struggling to see where I went wrong and this is real life, its not like 'The Apprentice' where you get fired and then get chastised by three so-called experts (or 2 if Vanessa Feltz is on the show) and Adrian Chiles. At least on that show (The Apprentice - You're Fired) you find out where you slipped up/ why you didn't get the job. Not so in real life, OK I turned up on time, I was dressed appropriately AND most importantly ... I accepted their offering of a glass of water!!! No I'm kidding (well not entirely as I DID accept their offering of a glass of water) but I did do all the other things that tick the boxes; I remembered the interviewers names (there were two you see?) I answered the questions clearly and elaborated when necessary and EVEN spoke to them in a friendly tone (actually if I'm honest as far as interviews go this was quite informal). I left afterwards feeling a sense of elation as I thought my wait for a job was finally over. Patiently I waited for their response, a week later I got it. I could not believe it, basically the crux of their feedback was "We were very impressed with how you conducted yourself in the interview process(good so far!), however we at *insert company name here* believe that you would have no problem finding a job(WHAT!!!!!) and thus we have decided to give this role to someone who is more in need of it". Wow great logic there!! Don't go for the best candidate or anything!!! You know ... like a NORMAL business company! *Pauses for breath* Do you STILL think I'm overstepping the mark by thinking that the whole world is against me in this portion of my life (everywhere else world treats me fine) 4. Poor Interview Skills Pff. Yeah, right. In the meantime, why don't you readers give me a hand with the ever-expanding sum of money I owe my parents? It stands at about ninety quid at the moment, so please give generously. NO TAKERS?!?!?!? Shame on you for seeing through my lies! Anyway I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Some Punctuation"
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2 komentarze:

	Jaddius mówi…	562 dni temu
	On text format, no, dark humor does not always come across correctly, but I understand what you mean as I am mature. You are not overstepping the mark/boundary/line/dot/can anyone else think of something else by thinking that the whole world is a gainst you. You are a teenager (until October, just thought I'd put that in), we all think the world is against us at some point in our teenage years. Personally, I can't seem to find any logical reasonw hy your parents would want to keep you locked away, and I quote "like some pet". One less person brings down the food bill!
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	Danny Short mówi…	562 dni temu
	@ above I'm glad you understood what I meant by that as I wasn't sure how it would come across to others however it is not mature to say you are mature (you were REALLY mature when you lying prone on your stairs at the end of your party!!!) It appears thoguh you have missed the point of "the world being against me" analogy as I said that in others aspects of my life the world "treats me fine" therefore the analogy is not an illogical "teenage" rant and should not be dismissed as one (OWNED!!!) OK you got me on the "like a pet" issue I got lazy and thus used a fairly shoddy example but in my defence it was not exactly relating to the main issue anyway! The food bill is not up for discussion as the rent I pay currently (unspecified denomination!!!) covers usage of everything food, electricity, water, other stuff... to clarify I would be contributing more to the payment of stuff if I had a job (as the rent would increase) so I guess my parents aren't to blame!!!
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