DoodlebugDreams' musings

burble burble

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:01:45 GMT

Sorry, just got home to find an email saying I've made it to first interview for a reception post! Interview is next Thursday at 9am, so please keep me in your prayers/cross fingers/ whatever...

Responsibilities

Provide administrative support to a multi-disciplinary technical office
General administrative duties including reception, typing, filing, dealing with incoming and outgoing post, ordering office consumables, dealing with petty cash, fielding telephone calls.
Data entry, manipulation and report generation from our bespoke databases.
Assisting the team managers in maintaining other record systems as required and other ad hoc duties assigned from time to time.

okkkkkkkkkkkkk

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:53:21 GMT

well those in England know we have bad times at the moment, actually the US as well (grin). Mark came home last night with the news that his company might be taking the decision that we all dread-today he was made redundant. He finishes his current job at the end of the month, they are giving him a month's money in lieu of notice (nice of them) and that's on top of the redundancy package that is still being finalised...and they're letting him have time off for job hunting and interviews?

Doctor Who countdown...

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:49:15 GMT

please, can no one phone me during the time Doctor Who or Confidential is on...
for those who are not in the know or haven't guessed I am addicted to this programme!
The cliffhanger was the Doctor is finally reunited with Rose (who was on another Earth) only to get zapped by a Dalek!
Jack, Rose and Donna watch as the Doctor starts to glow...

car breakdowns

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:19:47 GMT

Ok, now I'm steaming. Around four maybe five weeks ago we traded in our Ford Mondeo for a Zaphira-now that might not be the right spelling I know?
It lasted a week before it started kangaroo hopping on the road up to the Midlands (Mark was camping Easter weekend). Lucky for him he got cold feet (before the rest of the camp did:-)) and turned back home.
The car dealer we bought it off, leant him a little Ford Focus as a courtesy car.
Mark phoned about 545 tonight to say the Focus has conked out and won't go. He's phned the AA, they know he's diabetic and have said they're on the way, and gave him an ETA.
He phoned them again 20 mins after that ETA to ask where they are and finally a local chap turns up to have a look and he can't fix it! So Mark (who luckily had two cereal bars with him) is still stuck on the side of the A14 downwind of a truck stop, waiting for a tow truck to pick him and the courtesy car up so he can get home and cook some tea>
And tomorrow morning he either can phone the car dealer and ask for a second courtesy car or charge up the motorbike battery overnight... and its cutoff week I think which means loadsa paperwork

Hallejujah!=Missing girl found!

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:02:48 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7296756.stm
which translates as they've found a young girl who's been missing for three weeks and she's alive! They've arrested someone but she's been reunited with her family!?

interview

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:05:09 GMT

OK, for those who I asked to cross their fingers or pray, today's the day? It's for a reception role at UKI Partnerships in Ipswich and its at 1.30 UK time

cross your fingers?

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:58:50 GMT

I had a phone call from Andrew at Blue Arrow saying I'd gotten through to the interview stage and what time would I like, 1.30 or 2.15 on Thursday? So if anyone would like to, please cross your fingers or whatever at 1.30UK time on Thursday 7th of February?
Its a receptionist vacancy in Ipswich so I haven't got to travel but I'll have to get used to wearing a suit for work (Suisan will you stop sniggering) if I get through this interview then get the magic phone call/letter?

Happy Dance!

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:12:19 GMT

Dear Ruth
Congratulations on your new assignment! I’m delighted to confirm the details below.

Company name
Huawei Technologies (UK) Co Ltd

Work address
IF Suite 52
Barrack Square
Martlesham Heath Ipswich Suffolk IP5 3RB

Nature of business
Telecommunications

Reporting to
Yang

Start date
07 January 2008

Hours
09:00 - 17:30, must take 1 hr lunch

Job title
Receptionist

Anticipated end date
08 January 2008

Hourly rate
£ 6 per hour

Yes I know its only two days but I'm getting paid for it!?

um....what day is it?

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:30:19 GMT

oh Wednesday (slightly confused) I swear with all this weird hours, I don't know what day of the week it is so I apologise to Suis and Amy for not seeing them in my usual slot on MSN I'm asleep! It's now half seven in my neck of the woods and I still feel dopey?
OK today's the day our local schools break up so Tescos is battening down the hatches cos we've (gasp) sold out of nutcrackers, frozen turkeys, cocktail sticks and the rumour is marzipan? Fresh turkeys come in today but we're slap bang in the middle of this blessed bird flu area-stand by for riots if they run out of those?
Off to look at the job sites again, cya later guys!

the trains are back........

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:08:12 GMT

For the last two days, we've had no trains running up to work? But mid afternoon yesterday, they were back-just in time for me to get a lift home with a workmate:-)
So I cycled down to the station today, got my daily escort across the line to park my bike on the train and legged it back to the buffet for my fix of a medium hot chocolate and a chocolate muffin?
Got to Bury and its starting to drizzle, good job I had the waterproofs on-although no offense they act like a sauna so I hope I lose weight quicker?

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh part 2

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:09:01 GMT

Ok according to One Anglia's website, most of the trains heading in my direction have been canceled so I'm hitching a lift home with one of the girls who lives in Ipswich-just hope the trains are running tomorrow?

oh sheeeeeeeeeeeesh

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:43:20 GMT

ok, after talking to Suisan and Amy this morning, I decided to take their advice and walk down to the station as it was quite windy, to catch my train...only to find find there was no train! Or rephrase, there will be not many trains today cause of signal problems on the line, Mark might even have to pick me up from work?

follow up to 'happy dance'

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:47:28 GMT

Needed lotsa tissues today, they gave me a huge bunch of flowers and pressies thinking I was leaving today, but actually its tomorrow! So I'll have tissues on standby there too!

happy dance............

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:28:26 GMT

For those in the know, I have been searching for alternative employment and it's been an interesting week?
I applied for a vacancy last Friday but one, which was a receptionist/admin assistant approximately 40 miles away. How would I get there-there's a train service that runs quite regularly?
I went to register at the agency who was the contact for the vacancy, and she suggested that 'as I was in town, would it be more convenient that she try and get me in for interview that day?'
So guys and girls, as the saying goes, I 'winged it' and got a lovely phone call on Friday saying...you've guessed I got the job?!
I got verbal confirmation on Friday, just waiting for the written confirmation to come through and my letter of resignation is ready to submit to Tesco...
Yeah, its gonna be wrench to leave the place where I've been for the last twenty years, but I want to spread my wings and pay off some debts too?

I hope its sweet sixteen?

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:35:23 GMT

that refers to the number of interviews I've had? Number sixteen was a law firm in Ipswich, my home town but there's always number seventeen which is a firm in Colchester? I'll keep you posted?

job hopes

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:48:31 GMT

I made the mistake of taking my mobile in to church this morning-thank god (I did) it was son silent! The darn thing went off five times!
When you've stopped chuckling at the image of Ruth clutching her breast pocket each time it vibrates...I've got a job interview on Monday!

hmm-friend in need...

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:40:47 GMT

Poor Fluterbev! For some reason her LJ is up the creek unless she posts via email?

if three interviews is a hat trick, what is four....?

Wed, 30 May 2007 12:46:17 GMT

I checked my cell phone/mobile after my interview at Warners and there's another message from Hays, they also want me to interview? Guess I'd better get my glad rags on again on Monday...230pm if someone wants to offer up prayers?

ok it's a hat trick?!

Tue, 29 May 2007 11:46:29 GMT

Adecco just phoned, asked me to go down, they have another reception vacancy that they'd like me to interview for, so that makes three? Scrutton Bland were last week (waiting for 2nd interview stage), Warners tomorrow and now UKI on the Friday we drive up to Birmingham..so I got the first slot on that one at 9am...

prayers requested...

Tue, 22 May 2007 17:22:46 GMT

OK, I got a magic phone call today telling me I've got an interview! So please, think of me at 4pm UK time on Thursday? And just to top it off, I got another phone call inviting me for another interview next Wednesday! And they're both reception work! Yay!

oooooooooooooooh

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:22:43 GMT

I'm sitting at home hoping the phone will ring and it'll be someone offering me a new job? And part of me is afraid she'll be saying I didn't get it?
For those in the know, after the recent deaths in my local area I decided enough was enough and decided to go job hunting for a job that paid more, had decent hours and I didn't have to wear a uniform?
The job I'm hoping to get is working on the reception desk of an insurance company in the town centre 9-5 Monday to friday which means full time hours-no problem there I started at Tesco with full time and I'd like to go back to it?
Tonight I have the Guild Office at St Mary Elms so I might not be online? And if anyone knows of a miracle cure for a crinkled cassock-let me know?

Christmas Eve.........

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:13:37 GMT

reads like a bus time table... communion service at 10am, clear altar and get things ready for next service, ok its Midnight Mass so we change altar panels to white and gold...right home now and its time for lunch then off to work, then tea, then snooze (set alarm for 9pm) and then off to Midnight Mass?
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok.............

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:01:52 GMT

only my mother would move house at very short notice! For those not in the know, Mum and Dad live in a ground floor flat over near town. They've been offered a bungalow/single story house on London Road, not far from ours? She's so determined to move asap, they're moving next weekend! And most of it is being done on Sunday! So she tells me I won't be at church in the morning, but I will be there in the evening for the carol service...but we can;t take them out for a meal to save her cooking cos Focus (Dad's works) are having their do the same night, after the service? Oy vey!

Dishwasher solutions...

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:47:48 GMT

A little while back, we traded in our old dishwasher as basically it died? The new model is about the same size, sits on thw orktop, does what its supposed to do-except for one small problem?
When you need to put some dishwasher salt in, this model has no dispenser! The old Bosch had a tray that you just fill then plug it into the side of the machine, and it flips over and fills it up? This one has the screw cap in the insode, and a HOLE? Mark and I have been filling it using a minute scoop which takes FOREVER until tonight!
We cracked it!
We had a problem with limescale so I bought some Steredent, falling back on a old trick the store café used to do which was steep the teapots?
Hence we now have an empty Steredent tube, which nicely tips the salt into the machine! You tip the salt down a funnel into the tube and it takes four tubes and that's it? NA PROBLEM!!

ok I'm celebrating!

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:57:15 GMT

cos I just passed my first aid course! Every three years you have to take a refresher exam cos everything changes over? Cor blimey my knees are knackered-you now have to do thirty compressions...it used to be fifteen? In case you're wondering what I'm talking about, if you are trained to do CPR, you now check they're breathing, if they're not breathing, its now more important to get the heart pumpoing what oxygen may be in the body round, then you do the two inflations....mind you, wouldn;t you be worn out after those 30 chest compressions?