The best day in the history of NMW
Well the things I did today:
- 2 hours work on my project, fixing a problem that had being puzzling me for days
- Showered (now an optional extra as I am home alone, although today rather more important than usual, read on....)
- Put on a suit for the first time in a long time
- Drove to the station
- Failed to locate a single parking place
- Missed my train
- Drove to Bath (Chippenham, where my work is) and as I was running early I stopped at EVERY service station of the M5 and M4 (a world record for a person with no bladder condition perhaps?)
- Had meeting with boss that went like this:
Boss: You are a day late!
Me: *look at watch* Actually I'm 5 minutes early
Boss: You were supposed to come on Tuesday
Me: Oh Shit
Boss: Look on my calendar it says Tuesday 3:30 -4pm
Me: Oh Shit
Boss: Look here is the email you sent me which says..... Wednesday
Me: Um
Boss: Oh Shit, I'm sorry.
Me: That's OK I forgive you.
Boss: I can't really chat to you now as I have to make some people redundant
Me: Will I have a job when I graduate?
Boss: Oh yes of course we can't wait for you to come back, we have loads for you to do. Unfortunately *points to guy waiting to come into his office* we don't have much for him to do.
Me: Ah that sucks
Boss: Yeah, I have to tell him that
Me: Do you mind if I emigrate to Australia?
Boss: Yes I mind, but you can go after Christmas.
Me: Thanks.
- I then talked to my mate Tim who I work with about his VW camper van for 40mins about how it passed its MOT after he welded a new floor in made out of old office desk chairs he found in the company’s skip.
- I then talked to my line manager:
Me: I will be starting full time in Mid July and emigrating (hopefully) to Australia in January.
Line Manager: Fine, do you what to go to India for 4 months first?
Me: What's the catch?
LM: No catch, but you'll be on your own and nobody else on the team wants to go
Me: I'll think about it.
- I then met up with the Managing Director of Westinghouse Australia for a job interview.
- As it was 6pm we went to a pub for dinner.
- The BEST INTERVIEW ever because:
* I got to drink beer (free beer)
* I got a free dinner (tasty dinner)
* He was the nicest bloke ever
* He offer me a JOB in Melbourne for whenever I want to start in the next 2 years
* He said I was special (in a good way I hope!)
- I drove home.
I am SO LUCKY!!!!!!!! WHAT A GREAT DAY. I AM SOOOOOOO HAPPY.
- 2 hours work on my project, fixing a problem that had being puzzling me for days
- Showered (now an optional extra as I am home alone, although today rather more important than usual, read on....)
- Put on a suit for the first time in a long time
- Drove to the station
- Failed to locate a single parking place
- Missed my train
- Drove to Bath (Chippenham, where my work is) and as I was running early I stopped at EVERY service station of the M5 and M4 (a world record for a person with no bladder condition perhaps?)
- Had meeting with boss that went like this:
Boss: You are a day late!
Me: *look at watch* Actually I'm 5 minutes early
Boss: You were supposed to come on Tuesday
Me: Oh Shit
Boss: Look on my calendar it says Tuesday 3:30 -4pm
Me: Oh Shit
Boss: Look here is the email you sent me which says..... Wednesday
Me: Um
Boss: Oh Shit, I'm sorry.
Me: That's OK I forgive you.
Boss: I can't really chat to you now as I have to make some people redundant
Me: Will I have a job when I graduate?
Boss: Oh yes of course we can't wait for you to come back, we have loads for you to do. Unfortunately *points to guy waiting to come into his office* we don't have much for him to do.
Me: Ah that sucks
Boss: Yeah, I have to tell him that
Me: Do you mind if I emigrate to Australia?
Boss: Yes I mind, but you can go after Christmas.
Me: Thanks.
- I then talked to my mate Tim who I work with about his VW camper van for 40mins about how it passed its MOT after he welded a new floor in made out of old office desk chairs he found in the company’s skip.
- I then talked to my line manager:
Me: I will be starting full time in Mid July and emigrating (hopefully) to Australia in January.
Line Manager: Fine, do you what to go to India for 4 months first?
Me: What's the catch?
LM: No catch, but you'll be on your own and nobody else on the team wants to go
Me: I'll think about it.
- I then met up with the Managing Director of Westinghouse Australia for a job interview.
- As it was 6pm we went to a pub for dinner.
- The BEST INTERVIEW ever because:
* I got to drink beer (free beer)
* I got a free dinner (tasty dinner)
* He was the nicest bloke ever
* He offer me a JOB in Melbourne for whenever I want to start in the next 2 years
* He said I was special (in a good way I hope!)
- I drove home.
I am SO LUCKY!!!!!!!! WHAT A GREAT DAY. I AM SOOOOOOO HAPPY.
posted by Nurton at 10:30 am
6 Comments:
Amazing! Congratulations!
Can you explain the redundancies thing to me?
That's great news, but be warned:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4467563.stm
You may have already seen it; you've got a car so it shouldn't matter anyway.
Kris, Thanks! I also think it is amazing. I have been walking around the house all morning grinning to myself and practising my Australian accent (needs work).
Last month my company (which is quite big (~1800 employees in the UK)) announced 200 redundancies. This is due to one of our largest customers stopping all orders while they sort their financial mess out. This has hit us hard. Luckily I work for R&D and hence we are the only busy ones as our work has little to do with current orders. It is more propeller hat stuff!
PS: In my short career I have given 5 presentations and only one person has fallen asleep (the f*cking intern!). This is due to the Law of Powerpoint*, which plays to my poor Powerpoint skills.
*delegate attention is inversely proportional to the number of special features such as flying text and sounds you incorporate into your presentations.
Jon. That is very funny. That is SO the kind of trouble I am going to get up to! Ha ha ha!
How weird. That's exactly how my day went. Joking...my day was shit. Glad yours was great!
Congrats on the job offer. It's a good thing that where you live has absolutely no impact on me whatsoever. Just keep blogging.
Thanks for the congrats Bandick. You're right, as far as I am aware both Australia and India now have the Internet so I should have no issues blogging.
Just had an email from my current boss, seems he didn't reckon with me getting the job as he doesn't seem best pleased with the idea of me leaving. Funny that, as I think it is an excellent idea, maybe if I offer to take him with me?
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