Grim... wrote:
Five?
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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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jul 09, 2014 20:28 ] |
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Five? |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Wed Jul 09, 2014 20:56 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Five? 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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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Jul 09, 2014 20:56 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Five? They'll make you get down. Yeah. |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Wed Jul 09, 2014 21:05 ] |
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TheVision wrote: Grim... wrote: Five? 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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| Author: | TheVision [ Wed Jul 09, 2014 21:15 ] |
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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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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jul 09, 2014 23:28 ] |
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Curiosity wrote: Grim... wrote: Five? They'll make you get down. Yeah. 
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| Author: | Zio [ Thu Jul 10, 2014 11:32 ] |
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Trooper wrote: TheVision wrote: Grim... wrote: Five? 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! 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!  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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| Author: | Trooper [ Thu Jul 10, 2014 11:57 ] |
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Zio wrote: Trooper wrote: TheVision wrote: Grim... wrote: Five? 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! You still owe me £500 in missed referral bonus, you bastard 
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:33 ] |
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Trooper wrote: Zio wrote: Trooper wrote: TheVision wrote: Grim... wrote: Five? 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! 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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| Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Jul 10, 2014 13:48 ] |
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The wife got a new job in the NHS. Only the one interview. Efficiency! |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Thu Jul 10, 2014 14:01 ] |
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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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| Author: | Mimi [ Thu Jul 10, 2014 16:38 ] |
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Congratulations! |
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| Author: | Zio [ Thu Jul 10, 2014 17:56 ] |
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Indeed Curio, pass on congratumalations. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Jul 10, 2014 19:37 ] |
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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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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Fri Jul 11, 2014 9:03 ] |
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Yay! Also; WEDDING!!! |
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| Author: | markg [ Fri Jul 11, 2014 9:05 ] |
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Yay! Also I got shat upon by a seagull yesterday. This is good luck apparently! Yay! |
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| Author: | Morte [ Fri Jul 11, 2014 9:09 ] |
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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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| Author: | Kern [ Fri Jul 11, 2014 9:17 ] |
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Lots of yays this week, always good. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 17:52 ] |
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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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| Author: | Zio [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 17:53 ] |
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That's really awesome news sir! |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 18:02 ] |
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| Glad to hear you've got it all out of your system, dude
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| Author: | Mimi [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 18:07 ] |
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Kern wrote: 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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| Author: | TheVision [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 18:44 ] |
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Good on you Kern! No looking back now. |
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| Author: | markg [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:18 ] |
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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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| Author: | Cras [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:33 ] |
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Nice! |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:35 ] |
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Very nice how long is the secondment for?
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| Author: | KovacsC [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:36 ] |
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That is great... |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:37 ] |
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Ace! |
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| Author: | Kern [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:37 ] |
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Yay! |
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| Author: | markg [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 12:03 ] |
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Trooper wrote: 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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| Author: | Cavey [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 12:15 ] |
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Awesome Mark, like your style. £££ Kerrrrching!! |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 12:18 ] |
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markg wrote: Trooper wrote: 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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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 13:00 ] |
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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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| Author: | markg [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 13:09 ] |
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Cavey wrote: 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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| Author: | Cavey [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 13:22 ] |
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Sure thing mate, all eminently sensible and admirable. Quite simply, well done and congrats, enjoy.
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| Author: | Satsuma [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 14:00 ] |
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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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| Author: | Trooper [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 14:03 ] |
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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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| Author: | Cavey [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 14:16 ] |
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Trooper wrote: 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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| Author: | Satsuma [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 14:35 ] |
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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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| Author: | Cavey [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 14:39 ] |
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Saturnalian wrote: 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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| Author: | Satsuma [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 14:43 ] |
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Cavey wrote: 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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| Author: | MaliA [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 14:45 ] |
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Saturnalian wrote: 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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| Author: | Bamba [ Tue Jul 29, 2014 15:11 ] |
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Saturnalian wrote: 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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| Author: | Zardoz [ Thu Jul 31, 2014 23:22 ] |
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markg wrote: 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 Fucking nice one. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:47 ] |
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Probation period has been and gone and now I'm getting more responsibilty. Ulp. |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Fri Aug 01, 2014 12:22 ] |
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Commiserations dude, responsibility sucks. |
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| Author: | Malc [ Thu Aug 21, 2014 17:01 ] |
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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! Malc |
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| Author: | asfish [ Thu Aug 21, 2014 19:23 ] |
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Malc wrote: 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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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Aug 21, 2014 19:49 ] |
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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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| Author: | Goddess Jasmine [ Thu Aug 21, 2014 19:50 ] |
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That's great news Malc!
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