Real quick as it's 1.30 and I'm knackered, which I have been a lot lately - last night I conked out at about 8.30 and slept through 'til morning!
Work is extremely stressful at the moment. I hate working for a monster of a man who is solely driven by profit. He recently reneged on a deal with a former employee who had filmed some stuff for us and edited it. He was supposed to get 16p per view, but when the video got 21,000 views in a week and the guy was going to be owed about 3-4k, my boss decided to pay him a pittance (250) because "videos don't directly make money", despite the fact that each video has our logo plastered all over it. Cunt.
He feels exactly the same way about IT as a department too - it doesn't directly make money so therefore it's just an expense. Cunt.
I hate being one of the few people working there who has a passion for the industry we're in and gets the piss taken out of me for being so. (That was an awful sentence. I'm sorry, I'll refer you back to the 'I'm knackered' bit earlier.)
I've started applying for other jobs but the market 'aint great. I spoke to a recruiter about a position yesterday. I had all relevant experience, (which was doing pretty well for a start as they were asking for a lot,) and the only real problem the recruiter had with putting me forward for the job was that my current salary was so low in comparison, the company might not think I was worth the salary they would be offering.
My lack of salary is now holding me back. For fuck's sake...
Picked my car up today as the alternator packed in on the ring road on the way home the other evening. 265 that I suddenly now don't have to put towards the wedding. Fuck.
On that score though, things are going well. The rings are paid for and ready to pick up. Pinklet has finished making the invites so they'll be going out soon. We visited my best (wo-)man at the weekend so she could see the sort of suit I was thinking of. Her local store are getting some in for her in her size. (I was best man at their wedding, although due to circumstances at the time, I think that was something of a misnomer.)
It was awesome to see her & her hubby and we finally got to exchange xmas presents!
We also saw Terminator: Salvation while we were up there, which was good but not great, but made worse due to the fact that someone in the next seats had brought their five year old son who didn't know how to be quiet and kept crawling along the isle next to my friend's feet. We complained and got a refund, which did make things better.
Been working on a website but it's been kicking my ass on the layout/CSS front until my line manager at work pointed something out using an Occam's Razor so sharp I got a shave just from the mention of it. Things are now going better, (I had been overcomplicating things as always,) but still loads to do.
I feel like I've not been on here much recently - I have but I've been lurking a little due to being busy, so tonight I commented on SGUK, a few blogs and the boards, which I haven't been on in ages.
I really wish I had some time off to work on websites and drawings/illustrations. Here's a few post-it doodles I've done at work recently:
I want a new Iphone 3GS 32Gb to complete my Mac fanboy image that I'm cultivating. My Ipod is only 30Gb, so I could completely replace that plus have all the cool stuff Iphone has like easy access to email, being able to VPN to work, apps galore for everything including Twitter...
But (a - They're really expensive and all my spare cash is going towards, yep you guessed it, our awesome wedding.
(b - My current contract doesn't run out until Dec 29th and I'm with Orange at the moment so would probably have to switch to O2. (I almost wish I still worked for them.) So it looks like it's going to be a birthday/xmas/new year gift to myself.
Right it's now 2.10am. I'm off to bed.
Tchus.
Work is extremely stressful at the moment. I hate working for a monster of a man who is solely driven by profit. He recently reneged on a deal with a former employee who had filmed some stuff for us and edited it. He was supposed to get 16p per view, but when the video got 21,000 views in a week and the guy was going to be owed about 3-4k, my boss decided to pay him a pittance (250) because "videos don't directly make money", despite the fact that each video has our logo plastered all over it. Cunt.
He feels exactly the same way about IT as a department too - it doesn't directly make money so therefore it's just an expense. Cunt.
I hate being one of the few people working there who has a passion for the industry we're in and gets the piss taken out of me for being so. (That was an awful sentence. I'm sorry, I'll refer you back to the 'I'm knackered' bit earlier.)
I've started applying for other jobs but the market 'aint great. I spoke to a recruiter about a position yesterday. I had all relevant experience, (which was doing pretty well for a start as they were asking for a lot,) and the only real problem the recruiter had with putting me forward for the job was that my current salary was so low in comparison, the company might not think I was worth the salary they would be offering.
My lack of salary is now holding me back. For fuck's sake...
Picked my car up today as the alternator packed in on the ring road on the way home the other evening. 265 that I suddenly now don't have to put towards the wedding. Fuck.
On that score though, things are going well. The rings are paid for and ready to pick up. Pinklet has finished making the invites so they'll be going out soon. We visited my best (wo-)man at the weekend so she could see the sort of suit I was thinking of. Her local store are getting some in for her in her size. (I was best man at their wedding, although due to circumstances at the time, I think that was something of a misnomer.)
It was awesome to see her & her hubby and we finally got to exchange xmas presents!
We also saw Terminator: Salvation while we were up there, which was good but not great, but made worse due to the fact that someone in the next seats had brought their five year old son who didn't know how to be quiet and kept crawling along the isle next to my friend's feet. We complained and got a refund, which did make things better.
Been working on a website but it's been kicking my ass on the layout/CSS front until my line manager at work pointed something out using an Occam's Razor so sharp I got a shave just from the mention of it. Things are now going better, (I had been overcomplicating things as always,) but still loads to do.
I feel like I've not been on here much recently - I have but I've been lurking a little due to being busy, so tonight I commented on SGUK, a few blogs and the boards, which I haven't been on in ages.
I really wish I had some time off to work on websites and drawings/illustrations. Here's a few post-it doodles I've done at work recently:
I want a new Iphone 3GS 32Gb to complete my Mac fanboy image that I'm cultivating. My Ipod is only 30Gb, so I could completely replace that plus have all the cool stuff Iphone has like easy access to email, being able to VPN to work, apps galore for everything including Twitter...
But (a - They're really expensive and all my spare cash is going towards, yep you guessed it, our awesome wedding.
(b - My current contract doesn't run out until Dec 29th and I'm with Orange at the moment so would probably have to switch to O2. (I almost wish I still worked for them.) So it looks like it's going to be a birthday/xmas/new year gift to myself.
Right it's now 2.10am. I'm off to bed.
Tchus.
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I'm sort of going on a permanent holiday.. i'm moving!
Exciting, but I'm managing to stress myself out about it loads too.
Cheers mate!