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:this: I'd have told them to stuff it after 2.

I only had 1 interview for my current job... Which does explain a lot now I think about it.


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They'll make you get down.

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:this: I'd have told them to stuff it after 2.

I only had 1 interview for my current job... Which does explain a lot now I think about it.


Our place does half a dozen or so, it's quite usual in the tech industry these days, especially for the larger companies.


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It will come as no surprise that I work for a local authority. That's why I only had one interview.


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They'll make you get down.

Yeah.

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:this: I'd have told them to stuff it after 2.

I only had 1 interview for my current job... Which does explain a lot now I think about it.


Our place does half a dozen or so, it's quite usual in the tech industry these days, especially for the larger companies.


Indeed - I spent a whole bloody week interviewing for a place at Trooper's company and still didn't get the bloody job! :DD

To be fair this hasn't been so bad. I had a telephone interview with a recruiter, then a simultaneous videoconference with the help desk heads in London and Dublin, then a videoconference with the call centre head in Califonia, then a videoconference with one of the senior IT guys and then the overall head of IT for FB at their California HQ. All the California ones were done in the evening, so I've not even had to take time off work for any of it.

The final interview is a face-to-face with someone in London at the actual office. It'll be the first and only time I've met anyone actually physically in person during the entire process! :D

I did point out that a visit to the office would help me decide if it was definitely the job for me and was told that it's unlikely anyone at all would step foot in that office and not want to work there. Which does sound pretty awesome, to be fair.


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Five?


:this: I'd have told them to stuff it after 2.

I only had 1 interview for my current job... Which does explain a lot now I think about it.


Our place does half a dozen or so, it's quite usual in the tech industry these days, especially for the larger companies.


Indeed - I spent a whole bloody week interviewing for a place at Trooper's company and still didn't get the bloody job! :DD



You still owe me £500 in missed referral bonus, you bastard ;)


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Trooper wrote:
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:this: I'd have told them to stuff it after 2.

I only had 1 interview for my current job... Which does explain a lot now I think about it.


Our place does half a dozen or so, it's quite usual in the tech industry these days, especially for the larger companies.


Indeed - I spent a whole bloody week interviewing for a place at Trooper's company and still didn't get the bloody job! :DD



You still owe me £500 in missed referral bonus, you bastard ;)

And now they've marked your card, Trooper, 'do not trust this man's recommendations.'

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 Post subject: Re: The 'Yay!' thread
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The wife got a new job in the NHS. Only the one interview. Efficiency!

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The interview process was privatised.

NHS cuts strike again.

I'm all out of political replies. Tell her well done.

And indeed well done to all the other yays here recently.

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Indeed Curio, pass on congratumalations.


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 Post subject: Re: The 'Yay!' thread
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Heh. Forgot this was the Yay thread. Only mentioned it due to the chat about interviews (though it is a yay).

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Yay!

Also; WEDDING!!!

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Yay!

Also I got shat upon by a seagull yesterday. This is good luck apparently! Yay!


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Interviews? Last two jobs I got because someone said "Do you want a job?"

..of course I was standing under a street light down by the docks at the time.

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Lots of yays this week, always good.


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Little 'yay' for me today. After almost a year of emo crap and several false starts, I really feel like I've got over the falling out with that ['person' - Legal ed.], have moved on, and, frankly, am better off without that ['human' - Legal ed.]

So grateful to have so many good friends both on here and elsewhere.


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That's really awesome news sir!


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:this: Glad to hear you've got it all out of your system, dude :)


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Little 'yay' for me today. After almost a year of emo crap and several false starts, I really feel like I've got over the falling out with that ['person' - Legal ed.], have moved on, and, frankly, am better off without that ['human' - Legal ed.]

So grateful to have so many good friends both on here and elsewhere.


You'll miss Wendy and the baby though, right?

;)

In all seriousness, that is fantastic news. Being able to draw a line under things and move on will always make you feel emboldened. So glad to know that you are feeling a lot better about it, and three cheers and many hugs to friends and the support they bring x x x

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 Post subject: Re: The 'Yay!' thread
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50% pay rise get!

Only for a secondment while I train some people up and put some processes in place, but hey, better than a kick in the teeth!


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Very nice :) how long is the secondment for?


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Very nice :) how long is the secondment for?

That's not been decided yet. I need to try and somehow guess how long it will take which is tricky until I've seen things over there. I don't want it to go on for too long though as it will involve about three or four hours driving each day. It may even be that I end up doing two or three days a week there and the rest here.


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Awesome Mark, like your style. £££ :)

Kerrrrching!!


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Very nice :) how long is the secondment for?

That's not been decided yet. I need to try and somehow guess how long it will take which is tricky until I've seen things over there. I don't want it to go on for too long though as it will involve about three or four hours driving each day. It may even be that I end up doing two or three days a week there and the rest here.


With a 50% raise, surely the answer to that is "ages, guv"


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Congrats Mark!

Belated congratulations to Zio too, hopefully the new job will go some way to helping you with your finances too. :)

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Awesome Mark, like your style. £££ :)

Kerrrrching!!

Indeed, but even if it was a 100% pay rise I'd still be cheap compared to a private SharePoint contractor/consultant and I know the sorts of problems they face a lot better than the majority of those. With the extra travelling it's the least I'd really want to do it for, with my wife and our nine month old baby girl at home I value my free time pretty highly. I just want to get it done successfully because it will save another trust some cash and also it won't do me any harm to gain some different experience.

It's all come about because a couple of members of our staff went to work there and they want the stuff that I've done here. They already have SharePoint and the other bits we use and have had for some time but just aren't using it and we've done loads here to eliminate some of the insane paper/fax/email trails and just generally speed things up.


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Sure thing mate, all eminently sensible and admirable. Quite simply, well done and congrats, enjoy. :)

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Well done MarkG!

Elsewhere, I might have some news about going solo soon! No more working for da man. Maybe. We'll see.


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I actually don't mind working for da man, I find him a much better employer than the arsehole I would be working for if I started my own business.


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I actually don't mind working for da man, I find him a much better employer than the arsehole I would be working for if I started my own business.


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Well fuck me, I've just been authorised from 1/9/2014 as a recognised sole practitioner (provided I do some things in the next 7 days) with my own firm.

Is this real?

That was too sudden. In the space of an hour with an exchange of letters (with over 12 months of work mind but still). Can someone please phone the sinister regulatory authority and tell them I ain't ready?!


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Well fuck me, I've just been authorised from 1/9/2014 as a recognised sole practitioner (provided I do some things in the next 7 days) with my own firm.

Is this real?

That was too sudden. In the space of an hour with an exchange of letters (with over 12 months of work mind but still). Can someone please phone the sinister regulatory authority and tell them I ain't ready?!


Meh. Probably the best thing you'll ever do. Personally I could never stand working like an idiot to line someone else's pocket, for usual entirely illusory "job security" (just about anywhere I've ever worked, you were pretty much only as good as your last job and month's invoicing/fees).

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Probably the best thing you'll ever do. Personally I could never stand working like an idiot to line someone else's pocket


Exactly right. That was precisely the reason I did it in the first place. Thanks Cavey!


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Well fuck me, I've just been authorised from 1/9/2014 as a recognised sole practitioner (provided I do some things in the next 7 days) with my own firm.

Is this real?

That was too sudden. In the space of an hour with an exchange of letters (with over 12 months of work mind but still). Can someone please phone the sinister regulatory authority and tell them I ain't ready?!


You'll do very well.

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Can someone please phone the sinister regulatory authority and tell them I ain't ready?!


They already know. They're always watching. Otherwise they would just be the plain old 'regulatory authority'.


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50% pay rise get!

Only for a secondment while I train some people up and put some processes in place, but hey, better than a kick in the teeth!

Fucking Hell! The RC planes are on you!

Must have been the seagull shit :D

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So, my eldest son got his G.C.S.E results today.

A Distinction in IT (not sure why this is done like a music grade, but it's apprently the same as an A or A*)

A* in Maths, English Lit. and English Language
A in Further Maths, RE and History
B in Geography and Physics
C in Chemistry, Biology and German.

Which is more than enough to see him on to his A-Level courses (Maths, English, History and Physics).

Well proud of him!

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So, my eldest son got his G.C.S.E results today.

A Distinction in IT (not sure why this is done like a music grade, but it's apprently the same as an A or A*)

A* in Maths, English Lit. and English Language
A in Further Maths, RE and History
B in Geography and Maths
C in Chemistry, Biology and German.

Which is more than enough to see him on to his A-Level courses (Maths, English, History and Physics).

Well proud of him!

Malc


Great results, does he like IT, the maths and IT results show he would have an aptitude. Did he do a Physics GCSE?? Thought you couldn't do those at A level if you hadn't??


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Please hi5 him on my behalf, and pass on my congratulations on the rewards of his hard work.

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