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As requested by Tanny, I will update the latest gossip about work.

Well, on the job hunting front, I had my second interview with the phone company and seemed to do OK.. I of course don’t think I nailed the interview.. they asked a few interesting questions, and I didn’t hear back from them today.. So I hope I hear from them tomorrow. Please cross fingers.. they also said that the positions might be full time, and was I interested in that, which I was, so I said yes and tried to play it cool. I had coffee afterwards with a lovely girl named Kiki - she also was one of the people interviewed today, i hope that we both get work there, we got on really well.

So that’s the fun stuff out of the way - I worked for dad this afternoon, and more filing.. that’s all I am at the moment. A big filer! When I worked at UWA, there was a wall of cupboards and a big book which had filing categories etc and i’d say about 40% of my time there was filing the endless streams of paper that came through the office. The rest of the time was admin work - typing, student enquiries and photocopying.. *scream*

OK.. more stuff about BONPA, X told me that PT had a long long talk. It appears as though I am next on the hitlist. The cut of my hours apparently was too “convenient” and they thought I would be ditching work.. which is right, but not on their terms. The issues I had with PT, were discussed with Godiva, who told BONPA, so BONPA thinks that PT and I aren’t best buds.. which is true.. but the stuff discussed, made me sick.. that everything I might have said or done has been repeated back to the evil bitch. Oh.. I should mention that X was told by CEO that her payout was in danger because she was working for a rival.. and that CEO found out through BONPA, and she was told by… Godiva. Nice one.

PT and I happened to talk yesterday.. (she was WeakestLink) and after that chat, where i found she was as loyal to X as I was, she was upgraded to PT. She told me I had to be nice to Godiva because she was the one person who could decide my fate in the company.

The woman who whilst being nice to my face, has been stabbing me and X in the back. SirWankalot and I had a chat tonight, and cleared the air and he’s angry about the whole Godiva/BONPA situation, so I’ll downgrade him to SirWorkalot. You would think that Godiva, who was employed by X, would have a little more loyalty. PT found all this out because she went out to lunch with BONPA and Godiva on friday and discovered to her horror, that I have been painted a villain, that Godiva has revealed much to BONPA and that BONPA doesn’t have an original thought in her head.

Far out, the sooner I get out of this cesspit the better off i’ll be.

M really irritated me last night. I needed to talk and get thoughts sorted in my hair and he wasn’t interested. “i am too tired, it’s too late, meet the press is on” So I replied, “oh so that’s ok.. I’ll just schedule my crisis for more convenient times” *snarl* P was on so I talked to him about it and felt alot better. Thank You P.

I have absolutely nothing to write about really.

Well maybe i do have some things..

I was underpaid by 55 dollars which is alot of money really. I wrote to BONPA about it, I hope she can fix that, because it’s alot of money when right now every dollar counts. SirWankalot wrote an email yesterday which makes him look really bad… He was supposed to meet with BONPA today, I was not invited - which could be a good thing, but might be a bad thing. I think I’ll just keep my head down and keep working, till I can get out of there. BONPA wrote back, she’ll forward on to Mapleleaf land so lets cross fingers.

Lots of lies… I had a friend from IRC send me an email, which was sent to him by the Author, called BSB (backstabbingb$tch), which was a complaint about the main melb and brissy channels being managed by the network. BSB twisted a conversation I had in “hash sydney” and made it look awful by selectively quoting. He seemed to think that she was I don’t know how to feel about this, except maybe… angry about it. I don’t understand why BSB went from being a nice person to a total backstabbing witch! I don’t feel as betrayed as another friend does who really was made to look bad aswell.. at least i wasn’t BSB’s friend.

meh.

He really pissed me off yesterday by rostering me for 12 hours straight and thinking I was ok with it. Apparently he worked those type of shifts too “insert his crap in this space” when actually he didn’t. I asked X who he worked with. So I told him that he should fix it, and he said no. He made out like it was a big deal that I was dropping a wednesday and wanting to do a friday for 12 hours and implied he was going out of his way to help.. sure - lets call that help “You fix the problem Lori, since it’s your shift that it affects” So… I swapped and said in the email something like this:

“After looking at the draft I wasn’t happy with the 12 hours straight that you allocated, and did as you suggested and fixed the problem and have swapped with Saturne” and CC’d to Sue.

Dad’s work is ok.. but the walking up and down the stairs after 3 days .. is hard work with my dodgy knee crackling like popcorn I am really aware of how I need to be careful. I hope my masochist will go easy on me on Friday. Seems weird to talk about the masochist around skinny people and I am not. They generally look at me like “yeah right” but something is working
GMAIL UPDATE!!!

I am out of invitations now, thank you to those who emailed and asked! welcome to the |337 club!

I have my job interview this morning, and I am up already, stomach feeling queasy with nerves and breakfast is cooking in the background. It’s a group interview, which takes some of the pressure off, but from an administrative point of view, it would be interesting to see how it’s conducted because I haven’t actually participated in a group interview before really.

The questions have started about work with BONPA asking me lots of questions that I don’t want to help and answer - All I can do is drag out the process whilst I do the job interview thing and get the job and resign. I think I am wanting this job too much at the moment and don’t want to jinx it! It will be a first for me to get a job outside of my comfort zone and it’s gotta be good
IRC is interesting at the moment, with attempts to keep major channels open, a debate is raging about it, and a former owner is very upset and doesn’t seem to understand that AustNet does have the right to do what they want when it comes to keeping channels open which are common meeting points for the vast majority of IRC users for the network.

That’s about it this morning, I have to shower and make myself beautiful.

UPDATE!!UPDATE!!UPDATE!!UPDATE!!UPDATE!!UPDATE!!UPDATE!!

They rang me this afternoon, and I had my choice of interview times for Monday! Apparently its going to be a personality test + behavioural interview and some other stuff, so might take about 2 hours apparently.

Worked at Dad’s today.. holy crap is he behind on the filing or what. I have spent 8 hours just trying to file what’s on the desk! Not even halfway through. I am also sleepy.

BONPA has sent me 4 emails since yesterday’s phone call, each one asking for info about stuff I don’t have or can’t get to. SirWankalot has been curiously quiet and not said much at all. I wonder what he’s up to.

Gmail Supply and Demand (TechNews.com)

This made me laugh, apparently my Gmail account can make me money if I do the Ebay thing and Auction invites for friends to use G:mail.

I’ll do it for free if people want a GMail invite. Leave a comment with your email address or email me if you don’t want to list the email address in comments, address them to freakychickatgmaildotcom - I don’t know how many invites I can send. Keep in mind that Google do scan the contents of emails to market products at you, but as yet, I have not received any spam and I’ve had the email address for a couple of months now.

I was beginning to think my blog was starting to look like a livejournal.. all my life drama’s splurged out. Actually other people I know at the moment who blog have their life drama’s splurged out on their site too, so that makes my life splurging on my blog OK in my books. However I have some good news I guess after a week of sleepless nights.

Firstly, my workout today went really well. I did everything fast because I had to go to a meeting with my X boss, X - and talk about other plans that she was making. I got my Masochist to come over earlier and I can do pushups now! Abcrunches are easy for me, but my god, the calf raises absolutely cause every muscle from the calf up to my backside to scream in pain by the time I finish the second set of reps.

So back to the meeting, I met up with some of the other staff and listened to S, whom from now on shall be called SirWankalot since he does alot of oral masturbating during these meetings and the teleconference with CEO and BONPA in Mapleleaf land. We sat and gossipped over steaming mugs of coffee after SirWankalot left, munching bikkies and talking about plans, laughing over gory details of BONPA and CEO’s encounter where he was apparently sucking her boobies at the traffic lights in full view of other staff in the car next to them at the lights. Good, I would have loved to have had a camera for that Kodak classic.

I eventually got home to do some work and got a call from the mobilephone company. It looks like applying for a job on Seek.com.au actually worked! “Seek and ye shall find” sayeth the job advert. I got a call from B! and have some kind of group assessment interview on Tuesday! wow! My first corporate job interview since I gave up on the rat race 4 years ago after working for the meanest nastiest bastard in Perth when I worked at the COG. I quit suffering a bit of burnout and didn’t work fulltime for 2 years, only did casual or temp jobs with no commitment. So now it looks like I’ll strut my stuff infront of a group :>

The one thing I know I can do is react in a crisis to protect myself. Within 5 days of finding my job is in jeopardy, I have aquired one new job, and possibly a second *crosses fingers* It’s also made me realise how determined I am to survive and not be dependent on others. I feel much happier and can sleep finally and not have nightmares. I have those alot when I am stressed. So… enough of my ramblings..

David! the Perth Weblogger meet didn’t look too scary XXX

Ben! lix

With all this Drama of the last few days, I realise that my blog life can really be placid and content, because I don’t write about everything that happens in my life here unless it’s so big, I need to utilise the therapy value of writing my angsty thoughts so then I no longer feel angsty.

When I found out on Sunday that X had quit, and that support would be cut in hours I was gutted. The bad timing could not have been worse. M resigned from his company as a directory and secretary, which means he no longer gets a wage, and now with my uncertain job prospects, I felt the cold hand of fear around my stomach squeezing me. I had a mini breakdown and wailed about what was I going to do and got over it. I rang my parents and spoke to dad and now I have a part time job as Office Admin for his work. I REALLY don’t want to get into Office Administration again. I left it all behind because I wanted a change in my career, and I found Customer Support and IT were really things that I enjoyed doing. However, I need to pay the bills, this job will let me do that, It’s for my dad, he’s under alot of stress at the moment and finding it all a bit hard to deal with and I want to ease that burden for him, so that’s what I will do. It helps both of us out, and I get to find out what it’s like working for him.

CEO and BONPA sent some emails during the start of the week which were concerning and made me sit back and think about their plans for the future. Two lines in one particular email made me pay attention: ” I have no desire to become involved in the politics, remembering that I did not ask to be put in this position, but am here purely to to do a job” and “Future changes within the operation however, is dependant on how we all behave and perform over the next couple of months.” - The first line is a lie, she was involved in both attempts to be rid of X, I know this, she knows this, the staff know this. The second line was interesting.. how we behave and perform - these, if applied subjectively by BONPA and CEO as they have done with X will result in job losses.

I needed to get out of this particular job, because I can not face working for BONPA, not knowing what I do, and how she shafted X 18 months ago, and how they did it to her this time and was successful. Such was their plan, they were going to make her pay for her own ticket over to MapleleafLand, and then refuse to re-imburse her the cost when she returned after either A: resigning or B: being terminated. Since that was their plan all along, they also have refused to pay her out her entitlements (3.5 months), and she has a mortage, and three children to feed. Luckily for X, she convinced CEO to pay for her ticket so she was not left out of pocket.

But, it has been those actions which made my decision final. Thank you for your kind words David re: yesterday’s post, it helped with my decision making process.