Posted: Wed 19 July, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: General, Travel, Work-related |
Well, it all seemed to go pretty well, thank God.
I’ll know more in the next ten days or so – and hopefully sooner, rather than later – but the feedback on the day was positive, and it’d suit me nicely. In fact, yes, I actually want the job. *gasp*
The presentation went fine – considering I did it as a simple talk, rather than fucking about with PowerPoint® and so on. The specs of the interview had said “let us know if you need a projector etc.”, and I hadn’t done because I didn’t need one, but all the same, there was a projector, laptop, PowerPoint etc. already installed, set up, and running, but I didn’t use it. They seemed quite surprised and/or impressed that I didn’t – but as well as not being great with it anyway, I usually feel that PowerPoint presentations actually just show you can use PP, rather than necessarily understanding the subject, and what you’re on about. Which, in an interview like this one, is not an ideal situation.
So I did it on the fly, with some notes for reference to make sure that I didn’t forget anything, and that was all I needed.
But I still hate doing them.
Posted: Tue 18 July, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: General, Thoughts, Travel, Work-related |
So tonight I’m travelling up to Norfolk for that interview tomorrow.
In many ways I’m really cool with it – I know that I can do the job with my eyes closed, and they’ve liked what they’ve seen of me so far. I also know there’s only two people going to interview, and that the odds are pretty good in my favour, unless I make a right arse of it.
The problem is that the first quarter of the interview is a presentation. I hate presentations, and have been known to make a right arse of them.
So there’s still plenty of room for me to be nervous…
Posted: Thu 13 July, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Travel, Work-related |
OK, so next Wednesday is crunch time – that’s when the interview is going to be held for the job I actually do want.
I’ve also got to come up with a presentation – a fifteen sodding minute presentation – which should be fun. I hate doing presentations, and avoid them wherever possible.
Still, it’s all looking promising so far – there’s only me and one other person been invited to interview stage. Fingers crossed, and some heavy thinking to do in the meantime.
Posted: Wed 5 July, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Thoughts, Travel |
Well, everything went OK yesterday with the interview in the end. I don’t yet know whether I got the job, but we’ll see – hopefully by end of the week.
Even the driving between Bracknell and Cambridge went OK, which was a pleasant surprise – two hours door-to-door each way, and I managed to avoid all the really nasty rush-hour crap, which is no bad thing at all.
However, it did make me realise just how much I hate tosspot truck drivers. I should point out, by that I mean “truck drivers who are tosspots”, not necessarily all truck drivers. But the sheer number of tosspot ones that are out there is really quite amazing. I lost count of the number of times the traffic flow slowed down to 55/60mph, because two lanes of traffic were taken up by fuckwit bastard truckers trying to overtake when they can only go maybe 2mph faster than the one they’re overtaking. Watching trucks overtake is like watching tortoises shag – it’s so awesomely slow – and fucking annoying too.
I just don’t see the point of it – in fact, I’d like to see motorways etc. with one lane specifically for trucks, and then to have them barred from overtaking. You get your place, you stick to it – after all, they’re all going at 56mph. And that way it frees up two lanes for normal traffic, rather than limiting all the cars to the outside lane, and thus fucking that up too.
This post has been brought to you by the number 56, and the letters C, U, N and T.
Posted: Tue 4 July, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Getting Organised, Travel, Work-related |
I’m away from my desk today. In fact, for most of it I’ll be driving to or from Cambridge, as that’s where I have an interview.
God only knows what they’ll make of me – but one that that’s good is that I don’t have to be suited and booted. Especially as it’s supposed to hit 34°C today. So I managed to wangle it so I can just turn up in “smart” but without doing the full suit gubbins. Works for me.
And I’ll write more about how it went once I get back. Yee-Ha.
Posted: Fri 30 June, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Getting Organised, Travel |
Gah, why is it that on the one occasion you really need a certain website in order to check the availability of trains before organising an interview, the fucking thing’s down, and you can’t access it at all?
Bastards.
Still, yes, I have an interview. In Cambridge. On Tuesday. Eek.
Posted: Tue 27 June, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Thoughts, Travel |
Standing at the platform this morning, waiting for my train to arrive, I was “treated” to the following conversational gem…
Him : Where’s the train? It says up there it’s at 8.50.
Her : It’s late. It says on the right, it’s due at 8.59
Him : But it says there it’s at 8:50. Look underneath, it’s 8:55. The train’s late.
Her : Yes. Because it says right there on the right, it’s due in at 8:59
Him : But it’s 8:55. It’s late.
Her : …
Him : And it said it would be 8:50 on that TV fingy in the ticket office
Her : very gritted teeth And it said ‘on that TV fingy’ that it would be nine minutes late too…
Him : But it’s 8:56 now, and it’s still not here…
I opted to move at that point – I figured she didn’t need the witnesses, if she pushed him under the fucking train. I’d’ve pushed him, you can be sure of that.