Regular readers may remember that last year I had issues with my P60 disappearing when it was sent out by the incomparable twunts at Parasol, the umbrella company I’ve been using. (And thank God that period is coming to a close)
It’s P60 time again, and at least this year I’ve received it. Which is more miraculous than one would suppose, considering it was posted to:
Lyle
[My House_Name]
[The Street_Name]
[Postcode]
(Obviously I’m not going to give out the address details on here, but you get the idea)
Yep, no town, no county, nothing. Just house name, street name, and postcode. Luckily, that’s all the address data that is really needed – but it’s hardly the best way of getting essential (and non-repeatable) documents to a person, is it? And particularly when I’d gone through all the hoops for making sure my address data was accurate on Parasol’s records. As insisted upon by bloody Parasol!
I called them up to find out why.
“Oh, well, we’ve found out that actually payroll use a different system for the addresses to what’s on our own records, so there have been some problems with people who’ve changed their details. The IT department are looking into it.”
But I reported this problem last year, when Parasol screwed up sending out my P60.
“Well it’s been reported by a lot of people this year now, so we’re looking into it.”
The day I leave them just can’t come soon enough. (9th May, I’m looking at you here)
I’ve just had an email from an agency (that will remain nameless) describing…
This highly sort-after role
Of course, you know what they mean is sought-after , but that’s the joy of spell-checkers.
Maybe when someone writes a spell-checker that can work semantically from the words around it, and understands phonemes and the like, we might get somewhere closer. Thing is, that’d involve lots of AI, fuzzy logic, and nightmarish rule structures.
Or just, you know, education.
So it turns out I didn’t get the job I interviewed for last Friday. I got the call last night to let me know – and as expected, the main reason was because I didn’t have certain bits of experience that were on the list. I’m not a project manager, and my experience is techie-based rather than communications-based. (which gives some clue about what the role might’ve been – but that’s the only clue you’re going to get)
Still, they were impressed with my interview, presentation, and technical skills – and apparently I came about third out of the eight people interviewed. So overall, could be worse.
I’m not surprised I didn’t get the job, really. It would’ve been good to have, but I’m sure something else will come up. Among other things, it’s quite possible they’re going to want some techies at the same place before long – and I could certainly do that job.
Just have to see.
