I have an excuse for not updating! Yeah, I’m ill again. I’ve been coughing, not unlike a car backfiring, for the past few weeks. If the amount of snot I am currently blowing out of my nose onto a tissue can be described as having a good time, then this illness has been fun. Not [...]
Archive for the ‘A Small Plea’ Category
3 May
*cough**cough**sneeze*
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, Academia, Finding a job, Not actually employment related. Tagged: applications, David Cameron, day off, eleection, general election, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, Gordon Brown, graduate, holidays, hospital radio, interview, job centre, jobcentre fun, left wong, looking for a job, looking for a proper job, Nick Clegg, Not actually employment related, old style left wing, on holiday, ooooh! distracting, PGCE, schools, uk general election, unemployed, unemployment. Leave a Comment
19 Apr
Not hiding
Posted by graduatecalling in *grumblegrumble*, A Small Plea, better luck next time, list, Uncategorized. Tagged: career options, Diversion, driving, feeling angry, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, interview, judgemental, looking for a job, looking for a proper job, looking for jobs, ooooh! distracting, schools, self esteem, shop assistant, shop work, whining, working in a shop. Leave a Comment
Golly goodness me, where has that semi-properly-employed wench got to? (re: the rant below. This followed a below average day in the ongoing war between retail and customers. Thankfully, there was no blood, as glasses are suprisingly sharp. I’m also annoyed at the sensation of boldly going nowhere. Now, an hour out of my mood, [...]
28 Mar
Work Experience
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, better luck next time, Finding a job, Stunned. Tagged: 14, bad economy, classroom assistant, day off, Diversion, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, Not actually employment related, ooooh! distracting, school, schools, the economy, volunteering, work experience. Leave a Comment
Child at School: “Miss! Miss! You look, re-ealllllly tired.” Moi: “Uh… Thanks.” *is secretly embarrassed that make up does not hide the fact that she got up earlier than usual, on her day off, and she has already had a driving lesson before turning up in the class today* Child: “I’m tired too, Miss.” Moi: [...]
27 Mar
Having a Mare
Posted by graduatecalling in *grumblegrumble*, A Small Plea, Academia, This could go horribly wrong.... Tagged: Admissions Office, applications, career options, employment, Finding a job, getting all of the information in the world, Haiving a mare, PGCE, PGCEs, wrong.. Leave a Comment
This week, my Mum came out with this classic, naive sentence about University Bureaucracy: “It’s only an Admissions office error! It will be fine!” After my fine establishment finally confirmed my place on the course (despite the length of time it took, my CRB and everything else effortlessly breezed through and got a nice tick [...]
16 Mar
Sod that, find me a TARDIS!
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, Academia, better luck next time, Not actually employment related, This could go horribly wrong.... Tagged: and now for something completely different, The onion. Leave a Comment
Oh, the Onion, how I love thee…
13 Mar
This is what a NHS eye test DOES NOT mean
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, Finding a job, list. Tagged: list, working on saturdays.. 1 Comment
It does not mean we can try and lie about your eyes so you get a free test, It does not mean that I am going to make up a medical complaint so you can get a free test, It does not magically change age brackets to accommodate you. Any of the requests above actually [...]
15 Feb
Stupid stuff wot customers said, innit.
Posted by graduatecalling in *grumblegrumble*, A Small Plea, better luck next time, Finding a job, list. Tagged: being vulgar, career options, Checkout, christmas, Christmas job, Christmas Temp, day off, Diversion, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, ooooh! distracting, shop assistant, shop work, unemployed, unemployment, working, working as a christmas temp, working in a shop, Working over Christmas. Leave a Comment
This is a small collection of quotes, questions and general enquiries that I heard while working over Christmas, at other jobs, and just recently. However, I will probably end up updating this as more occur to me. I submit these to the jury, only to show that the customer is not always right: *** Customer: [...]
26 Jan
Out of recession
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, Academia, better luck next time, Finding a job. Tagged: applications, career options, end of the recession, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, interview, job centre, jobcentre fun, playground, playtime, recess, schools, the economy, the recession, unemployed, unemployed rabbit, unemployment, working in a shop. 2 Comments
Today, the British government announced that we are now not out/almost out/out of recession now/by as much as we should be/yet. How does this make me feel? Plain. Neutral. Nothing. Nothing at all. I know that, with the announcement of the recession being over, I should be happy as things will get easier. Theoretically, I’ll [...]
15 Dec
You know when you are working over Christmas when…
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, better luck next time, Finding a job, list, Stunned, This could go horribly wrong.... Tagged: Christmas job, Christmas Temp, customers, customers being right, day off, Finding a job, finding a proper job, full time work, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, looking for jobs, ooooh! distracting, selling, shop work, the economy, tills, working, working as a christmas temp, working in a shop, Working over Christmas. 1 Comment
You can go to work, walk past a busy shop floor full of people whilst wearing your work top, and never get asked a question. However, the moment that one person queries you for something, you have 4 or 5 people try to interrupt you. You develop a personal relationship with the till.In fact, you [...]
18 Nov
Speaking as a bookseller…
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, Not actually employment related. Tagged: Black Books, books, Bookstore, Christmas job, Diversion, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, The Guardian and Waterstones, unemployed, waterstones, Working over Christmas. Leave a Comment
Okay, I may or may-not be a part-time bookseller for the company described in this article by the Guardian (which should really know better, especially when it sells a lot of its books). I admit it. Therefore, this article explaining why my company is supposedly destroying an industry does not make much sense [...]
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