Why Is So Much Of My Job Waiting Around To Have Meetings With Other People?

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I feel like the Charlie Watts of databases. Five minutes of programming and twenty years of waiting around.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

more like Ringo, innit?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

It was a Charlie quote, though.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

"People say what do you do all day, I dunno... hanging around, hanging around, hanging around, hanging around...."

Crikey I only came in today because of these meetings. Marketing manager isn't in yet. Data entry person is still busy doing data entry.

I WORE A SUIT AND EVERYTHING FOR THIS!!!

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

a masonic suit?!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

Kate, you're being paid for doing rien! I see not the reason for complaint! Go out and have a coffee! Make THEM wait! BUY! SELL!

― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

don't sell yers masonic suit, tho!!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

No, a grey pinstripe suit. Not very masonic at all.

Have had meeting with data entry person. She is now doing data entry for me, and then when she's done, I get to do my job. Sheesh.

x-post...

but I'm BORED!!! I hate being paid to do nothing! Then again, it's free interweb so I can't complain.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

am interviewing Sonic Boom in a couple of days...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

Sigh. I was ignoring that.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

xp(haha:)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 7 January 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

Weh-hoo. Data entry done. Now I get to do the first test run of my new super-report, mwah hah hah!

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Do you ever get the feeling that there is really nothing left to talk about on ILX? Or is that just that *I* have nothing left to talk about?

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

Did your new super-duper report work, then?

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

No. I'm having immense amounts of trouble getting my pivot tables to do a SUM rather than a COUNT. And I need distraction.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Look! Over there! A decoy!

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Don't be silly, he's at work, saving the free world or something.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

YES!!!! YESSSSSSSS!!!! I AM THE SUPER-HOT FUX0R QU33N OF DATA ANALYSIS BOW DOWN BEFORE MY PIVOT TABLE SKILLZ YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR!!!!

Ha-hem. I think I've cracked it.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Woohoo!

(can you come up to Grimsby and solve all of my SQL problems, plz?)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could. I mean, it's called GRIMSBY, it's got to be great, right?

And people wonder why I'm a freelancer. At a food intolerance clinic when you just up and down screaming "YES!!! YES!!! PHEAR MY PHINANCIAL ANALY$I$ MAD $KILLZZZZ!!!" they tend to just go "Oh dear, we think you've been hitting the sugar again, haven't you?"

It's a little more frowned upon in The Corporate World when you shout things like "I HAVE SECURITIZED YOUR ASS, JPM0RGAN, PWN3D, EAT MY GINNIE MA3!!!!"

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

My Sarcasm Alarm has just lit up. There's a big red light on it that says "ALERT! DANGEROUS SARCASM LEVELS DETECTED"

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

No! I've always wanted to go to Grimsby since I saw it on a map!

But then again, that might because of my secret goth shame. In which case, I'd be more at home in Whitby, but that's near you, too, isn't it?

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

It's fairly near on a map, but it takes ages to get there because there aren't any decent roads northwards from here.

I was a bit disappointed that there *aren't* many goths round here. I'm not a goth myself, but a lot of my friends are; and I do quite like that whole goth/S&M overlap area.

*draws a Venn diagram of gothness*

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

(My main job this afternoon looks to be sitting around reading an IBM Press book: "Lotus Notes And Domino 6 Development". I've got this I-might-be-on-ILE-a-lot-today feeling)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Which tammagothi would that have been? Kinkygoth? ;-)

I just want my boss to come in already so I can show her my lovely financial analysis and then PROCEED DIRECTLY TO THE DRINKING AND CHASING BOYS element of the day.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Things to talk about? Carl's got a thingy behind his ear, apparently.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Was that what the big medical emergency was all about? Jeez! And we all thought he had adenoidal cancer or something...

Anyway, that's all old news. I don't need rubbish popstar boys. Real life boys are far more fascinating and interesting and beautiful. ::swoon::

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

(A few months from now please do NOT bother reminding me that I said this when I return to normal)

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Tumour behind the ear, beg puddin'

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

What is this tammagothi of which you speak?

I had a polyp behind my ear once. When they cut it away I asked if I could keep it in a jar of formaldehyde, but the doctors said I probably shouldn't.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

He has an actual tumour behind his ear? Seriously? Actually, that is kind of worrying.

Are you sure it's a tumour and not a horrible but non-invasive growth type thingey like I had last year?

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Dunno, that's what the NME said anyhow.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Man, I wish they'd let me keep my growth. But it was skanky chip pan oil type liquid, and not a nice little lump.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

I kept my fifth wisdom tooth. Apparently its a rare thing to have (had).

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh god, I've just had a text message from my boss saying she's had a PR disaster (I assume this was the rubbishing of our firm and our product in the Metro which I read on the train to work this morning) and cannot come in until next week. ARGH!

Do I leave now, and therefore get to change out of this suit before the whole drinking and chasing boys portion of the day, or should I futz about and get paid for doing nothing until 4pm?

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Futz about on ILX all afternoon, obv

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to go and eat some lunch. That will waste some time.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Keep the suit and let the boys chase yew...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

I feel very chizzed. My "vegetable bake" had only two measly pieces of broccoli in it. Boo, hiss, etc.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Bums. My cheesy broccoli bake was loaded with the stuff, but I think the lad behind the counter has a soft spot for me. Heaven knows why as I'm inevitably storm-faced and tetchy.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I am very very jealous. But then again, mine was Morrisons own brand and that sucketh big hairy moosecock. :-(

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Mind you, it's probably a good thing as I have managed not to spill broccoli or cheeseybakesauce all over my suit.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear, I am so asleepy now, I need coffee. Mmmm there's a Starbucks on the way to the station. Gingerbeard latte, mmmmm.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm always sleepy just after lunch myself. I tend to spend the second half of my lunch hour lying back half-asleep in my office chair, reading ILE and thinking kinky thoughts.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Yup, that's me right about now. Except I've got under an hour to try and piece together this... stuff. (I love how my descriptive language skills fail after lunch.) And I still need to write my boss an email saying what I've done all week.

"Muck about on the interweb, talk about Dr. Who and, erm, daydream naughty thoughts about crushboys." Yup. Sounds constructive.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

My work was *completely* hectic from the middle of last week (well, the two days I was in last week anyway) up until yesterday lunchtime, so I feel obliged to get away with a bit of skiving right now.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I hadn't been at work for nearly a month, so I've got no excuse.

Except inability to readapt!

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm waiting for the library to open so I can train my new student worker in the ways of opening another building. Hmm.

Kate, you should listen to some Crawling Chaos. (This is my new phrase du jour.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

I had enough chaos on Wednesday when I came back to find my database COMPLETELY DESTROYED, thank you kindly, sir!

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Wowzer! In the meantime, I will be visiting London again in July, so fear my approach or something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

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My day is going to be spent randomly copying DLLs about between systems in the vain hope that this will make up for an application having a completely broken installer

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Mmmm, typography. I used to have big font posters on my walls when I was a teenager.

Completely broken installer? Oh, yikes! Did it come like that or is, ha-HEM, a not entirely kosher application?

One report down, but still no clue where to send it. One to go, but at least the financial directorpersonnage will take a look at that.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

No, it came like that.

It's not the *worst* broken installer we use - the worst one is supposed to set up about 10 ODBC DSNs, but only actually does 3-5 (depending on its mood), and gets them wrong, so they all have to be manually input and/or edited.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear! That sounds awful!

The highlight of my work day has been mistakenly logging into my email in Czech. That was interesting indeed. I wonder what other languages I can get.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

kate, i'll ring your dataentry person and pretend that i'm an outsourced capacity-building consultant, say that i'm analyzing the future of her role in the organisation, and that i've been speaking to her team members, who seem to have indicated that she's not worth the air she uses in the office, so she'd really better sort that out in the next few days, or she's going to be in Very Big Trouble?

it's only 11, and i'm already quite bored today. reading the jobs in the guardian, and remembering that i'm not sure what i want to be when i grow up :(

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm not going to be mean to her, and I'm trying to cut some slack because she's newer than I am and took over a role which was very difficult to step into. I made her a cheatsheet type thing, and hopefully that will help.

Please don't get me started on the whole "what do you want to be when you grow up?" issue because I'm just so disenheartened and confused and stressed and bored in my job, but know that I'd be ever more bored if I had to do this sort of thing full time, but I'm sick of bloody rolling pennies to pay my bus fare (Seriously. I paid for half my bus pass in 2p coins yesterday) because freelancing sucks.

All this while The Spy is working 80 hour workweeks and messaging me to say that I should stick to composing because he thinks I'm better at it, and working the way he does sucks.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

I keep fantasising about quitting this job and designing typefaces for a living. What's wrong with today? I guess it's not just midweek, it's the beginning of a really long stretch before holidays happen again.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

January is teh suck in more ways than I can possibly count. OK, I guess my holidays didn't really feel so pronounced because I had been unemployed for a month and a half, but it's still hard to get back in the swing. To be honest, I'm relieved to have somewhere to go and something to do two days a week, but still.

My ex boyfriend's father designed typefaces. It just seems like such an idea occupation.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

Ok, next hour's project: what to have for lunch.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

By the way, otm about freelancing. Much as I dislike this, I'd much rather have a staff job than freelance right now. But I still don't feel grown up.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

Gah, I always bring my lunch so it's not even a dilemma. OK, 30 seconds of staring in the fridge thinking "will I want cauliflower cheese or will I want veggie shepherds pie?"

x-post...

It's all about the freedom to work 2 days a week so I can compose the other 5 days a week. Except it never works that way, does it?

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, another fun job I've been given today: fixing a printer which won't print - or, at least, won't print when people are watching it, but works fine if there's nobody within 10 feet of it. Suspected diagnosis: an imperceptibly wobbly floor.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Could also be a psychic printer which is susceptible to other people's electrical fields and auras... you never know!

I am now trying to code a questionnaire, only to discover that they have repeated several of the questions. Sigh.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

Ah, I've had email from my missing boss now, thanking me for my reports at least. And making fun of the Yeats quote I have as my .sig. Oh dear.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

I did consider that it might be a nasty magnetic or electric field - we have tried several printers in this particular spot, and all jammed on site but worked back on the workbench.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Surely it's lunchtime ladeez?!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Lunchtime? Not for at least another hour for me! In fact, it may be even later as I'm going to have to kick everyone out of the DB for an hour or two. Sigh.

What is near the printer? Is it a particularly dusty spot, either? That kind of thing can wreck havoc with printers and copiers, as well.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

I was too hungry to wait today, so 12 o' clock lunch for me!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

It is - that's why I'm posting to ILX whilst eating my sandwich, and not messing about trying to see how much the warehouse floor shifts when people move about.

(xpost)

It's in the office part of one of our warehouses. Doesn't look particularly dusty (you should see the insides of some of our boxes, especially the ones that have been at the West Yorks office). It's on the same shelf as a PC that runs just fine; that was what I thought might be causing a nasty field.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Usually PCs (unless they're old) are shielded quite well. What's on the other side of the wall from the shelf? Also, is there any wiring *in* the wall? If it's right by where the power mains come into the building, you could have trouble. But then again, that would probably affect the PC as well. (trouble would show up especially on the monitor.)

Gah, your job sounds so much more interesting than mine right now.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

((Now I am waiting for people to go to lunch so I can get into the database. Sigh.))

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

It's against an external wall; I don't know if there's any wiring in it, though.

The PC is fairly new, has a metal case, and hasn't had any h/w problems at all. The monitor is quite a way from it - and is a TFT, too - so any nasty fields around the printer/PC wouldn't show up on it anyway.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

External walls can be the worst! Because you never know what it behind them!

At my last job, the building next to my office was some kind of television production studio. I have no idea what was in the room right next to my office, but whenever they switched it on, the images on my monitor would start dancing around like I was hallucinating. Very disorienting.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

Now I am waiting for people to go to lunch so I can get into the database. Sigh.

Cow-orkers are all bastards. I just go round the building saying "please can you shut down XXX - I need to take the server offline". They're usually co-operative.

One of the mechanics is pissing me off today, though. He keeps coming into the outer office and buying rounds at the coffee machine. He comes over to me:

"Want a coffee?"

"No."

"Want a coffee?"

"No."

"Want a coffee?"

"No."

(he goes and gets me a coffee)

"I told you, I don't want a coffee"

"Well, you've got it now. You've got to drink it, because noone else in here will drink it. Noone else has it like you. You've got to drink it now."

AAARGH

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

I *could* kick them all out of the database if I really wanted to, but I'm nice and wait until they are done having their training session. After all, this may help the data entry minion to be more accurate, so it's in my best interests.

Also, I probably have to wait till the Sys Admin comes back from his meeting (I have been moved so that my desk now faces the Sys Admin which is helpful so we don't have to shout across the room at each other.) as I probably have to disable the remote users.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

What a strange thing to do. (xpost)

I've just spent ages trying to install the office's new printer on my computer. And the fonts it came with, woo. Now I'm going to get a sandwich. I thought you should know.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

I probably have to disable the remote users.

Kick them in the shins!

(I'm lucky - there aren't *that* many things we have that have remote users, as for most things each location has its own database servers. Organising remote administration of users' machines, though, is a pain, involving lots of phone calling to negotiate when they can stop working.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

I spoke too soon. The Chief Financialperson has just started having problems with her printer, right while the Sys Admin is still on his meeting so I was asked to fix it. Which I did, basically, by standing up, and moving over to her computer.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

It's worrying how often things mysteriously start working when I just go over and stand next to them.

(which is the opposite of my current printer problem, of course)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

(I'm also going to be waiting around to have a meeting after lunch - with a departmental general manager, and the Office Crush (who is one of his underlings). Woohoo!)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear. The managing director just caught me mucking about on ILX. But I told him I'M WAITING FOR THE SYS ADMIN TO GET OUT OF YOUR MEETING SO HE CAN LET ME BACK IN MY DATABASE!!! which was a narrow save there.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

OK, this is just getting silly.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

I just realised that I have the Sys Admin's mobile phone number. Would it be really rude to text him and ask him if he's coming back in?

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

give us the number and we'll txt?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

...actually, I'd kind of like to keep this job, Ken.

I did just text, and he rang to say he was just at lunch and would be back in 20 minutes. Phew.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Now the Sys Admin has spent 20 minutes on the phone with the ACT people because he can't kick out the remote users, either. WTF? What is the point of having a special database person come in to work on a database that no one can edit. So much for going home at 4pm like I usually do. I'm going to end up here until some ungodly hour tonight, I just know it. :-(

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Have you even eaten yet kate?

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. I gave up and ate at about 1:30. It was rubbish. Sainsburys microwave cheap dinners are awful. Morrisons/Safeway may be rub as a supermarket, but at least their microwave dinners are edible.

(OK, I should stop complaining because I don't get to go home at 4pm today, because The Spy messaged me at 1am this morning, apparently still at work or something.)

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

I really wasn't expecting my afternoon meeting to last a whole TWO HOURS. The Office Crush has a terrible cold, was coughing and sneezing all the way through it, and really shouldn't have bothered coming in today. Bet I'm going to come down with it too now.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

You should have made sure of that by lunging in for a snog.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the only thing that mitigates having the Lurgee is knowing that you got it from your crush. ::remembers last cold and swoons::

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

p.s. the Exchange Server has been restarted and my database is up and running again so I actually have to work now. Boo, hiss, etc.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I have finally finished work at TWENTY PAST FIVE!!! What is this nonsense? I'm exhausted! I've actually been in the office eight hours today. I can't remember the last time I did that.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the only thing that mitigates having the Lurgee is knowing that you got it from your crush. ::remembers last cold and swoons::
This is beautiful. Kate, you pass the Turing I-am-Not-a-Nerd Test with flying colors. Sorry, coloUrs.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm meeting people for dinner later near here so I just have to hang around in the office till about 7.30, ugh... can't be bothered going to the shops or anything so it's my own fault though.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

YES!!!! YESSSSSSS!!!!

::does happy dance around the server room::

I got my BIG FATT CHEQUE today!!! I am saved from the workhouse and crushing poverty. I can go out tonight indeed.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

Woohoo!

(11 days to payday for me)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

11 days till I can turn in another invoice... I'm going to Paris when I get that!

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Yay! Big fatt cheques rule.

I got a letter yesterday from the Inland Revenue telling me they were sending me one too! I'm suspicious.

Why Is So Much Of My Job Waiting Around To Have Lunch?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

Oh god, I forgot I have to keep some of this to pay taxes with at some point. Argh. Except I'm sure that the IR will owe me due to overtaxing at the last job, since I didn't last the whole year.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

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