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TCM_3

Horace, your business seems to be taking off for you!!! Well done!!

I think being at charity things gets your name out and about so I think of things like that as a good PR exercise.

I am so bored today it is unbelievable! Not a good attitude to have I know but I don't know what else to do! I have all of my accounts as up to date as I can have (am wondering where Paul is to rob him to pay Peter!) and I have cleaned all the shelves and moved stock around! I am praying now for some customers!

nzmegs

For those of you who have been following my attempts at getting a new job I have some news....no not a new job but a promotion!
I was called in my MD's office today. it was the first time this has happeed to me in 3 years and I was scared I had been caught out at something. But I was told that my comments on my personnel meeting form had been noted and that it seemed I was unhappy and looking for a new challenge.
Of course I said that was true and that i thought i was capable of more than I did currently. So I was told ther is a new postion being created in marketing and would I want to do it? They will keep my current hours as I made it very clear I do not want to work any longer at the moment (cuts into my writing time).
Only downside is that it will be for just 2 mornings a week to start and then move to 5 mornings a week. So I will stay in recpetion on the other three mornings for now. Also no extra money iuntil it becomes a five day a week job.
I won't be expected to do all my current work plus what I do now. I have been told I am allowed to delgate my tasks to others in the office as i see fit.
This was the longest conversation I have had with my MD since I started and I was surpirsed he had even noticed me - but apparantly he had and I suspect someone has been pushing on my behalf.
All I wanted was a general Admin role and top be put into a specific department with a specific project is pretty cool actually. Need to negotiate on the money front though once it all starts to happen.
The best thing is that for 2 days a week i won't ahve to open post and wear the hideous uniform!

Horace

If only you hadnt gotten rid of your human statue TCM - you could have stood it in various poses and moved its arms about, that would have provided some entertainment for you:rotfl:

Everywhere seems quiet today and I am thinking that people are skiving to take advantage of this lovely weather:rolleyes: Hope you get some customers in soon.

Doing charity things is definitely a good PR exercise - when I can afford it I am going to buy a pop up banner and have the charity logo on that too. Organsing events for them is great fun and hard work but it is also giving me a load of new experiences.

Wordsmith

Well done, Megs - that's great news.

TCM, I rode a lot when I was a teenager. Gave it up for a few years then started again in my late twenties - loved it, but had to stop again when I got divorced because I couldn't afford it any longer. Some (ahem) years later I went with a friend to a local trekking centre and went for a lovely ride. I expected to be a bit stiff the next day, but, MY GOD, I was in sheer agony. The tendons on the inside of the tops of my legs (maybe not tendons, but I don't like to think of the tops of my legs too much as chocolate tends to go straight from my lips to there - I might just as well glue it on rather than eating it) had become so inelastic that I seriously thought I was going to have to move to a bungalow because stairs were impossible. I was still in agony when I went riding again the next week, thinking that maybe it wouldn't be so bad the second time. How mistaken can you be! I could barely get off the horse (luckily there was a mounting block for getting on - how buttock-clenchingly embarrassing would it have been had I tried to mount all the way from the ground - am cringing now just thinking about it) and when I did I found that the blood had stopped going to my feet and the shock of landing on the yard surface after leaping (translation: slithering/falling/scrambling) off my patient horse almost caused me to pass out. Just walking to my car was an ordeal - especially since the friend I was with was older, slimmer, fitter (better looking, nicer boyfriend, better-paid job ...) and was fair bouncing along. I moved shortly after that (yes, it was that bad ... actually I was moving anyway) and although I would love to ride again, I am not getting on the tiniest pony until I can afford to go out every week forever, since no way am I going through that agony again.

Wordsmith

Went to the post office to post a parcel yesterday. Should be a fairly simple affair you'd think. I went to the post office in my local village. As much as I want to support local businesses, I do avoid going there as I have had a few negative experiences with them. Yesterday, however, I couldn't go further afield and so I decided to give them another go.

One C4 size envelope about an inch thick. I send out a lot of packages this sort of size, normally cosing about €13 for Express post. First off, she asked me whether I had weighed the envelope. Er, no - that's why I brought it to a post office. Then she wanted to me to fill out the receipt myself - everything, the date, the cost ... Then, after much deliberating and pouring over the price chart, she said it would cost €24. Are you sure???? Oh, no, maybe it is €31. :eek: How much would it be normal post? She said it would be about €10. Why "about"? "Well, it's quite heavy so we'll put €10 on to be on the safe side." But if it's in one band it's one price and if it falls into the next band it's another price. "Yes, but it's quite heavy so we'd better be sure." (Irish logic.) Well, how heavy is it? "It's over 1kg." Yes, but how much over 1kg? "I don't know because my scales don't weigh anything over 1kg." I was in a POST OFFICE, for God's sake. It was very important that the parcel get to its destination today, so I took it back off her, drove to the shop (even though the post office was within walking distance of where I was working and normally I wouldn't dream of using the car for such a short journey, I'd somehow thought that it would be prudent to take it), weighed it on their scales, went back to the post office to tell "the woman" how much it weighed and we started another get nowhere conversation. After much deliberation of her postage chart, she gave me another off-the-wall price. I had armed myself with a price chart myself by this time and I said, "No, it's not. It's €10.50." "Where are you getting that from?" she asked. I pointed out the column and the row and the price where the two did meet. "Oh," she said, "I thought you were sending it to England." Yes, I have an English accent, but the parcel face uppermost right in front of her, had DUBLIN written in capitals in my very best handwriting. I asked for a receipt, and she said that I already had it. So I had to explain that I had given that back to her after our previous conversation. So she gave me a new one to fill out and then stamped it. The stamp came out as a black circle - that's it, no post office name, no date, just a blurry black circle. I asked her to restamp it so it was identifiable, and got another black circle. I timidly mentioned this, and she waved the stamp at me and said, "That's all it does. Look!"

When I went back the shop the boss said, "Ah, I think she's still on medication after her husband passed away." She may be, but actually the reason I don't go there unless I absolutely have to is because I had similar conversations (for example, I had to decide whether my envelope was a large envelope or a package - they didn't have a ruler to measure it, so could I decide) way before he died.

His was the first rural Irish funeral I went to. Open casket with the family sitting round, people filing past shaking hands with all of them. Very, very different from how things are done in CofE. I have to say, it was not an experience I want to go through too much. I don't know if it gives the family any comfort - if it was happening to my family, I don't think it would help me and would just be a test of endurance. But it's the way things are done and have always been done here, but it's not the way for me. Some funerals have people queueing up through the church, outside the door and down the street - the family have to shake hands with them all as they file past. I don't wish to offend anyone who might be used to this, but if I was in the family's situation I don't know how I would cope with it.

moneymabel

Oh dear Wordsmith what a nightmare! Almost feel guilty for laughing but it was written so well I had to have a chuckle. luckily my local post office is great-yours sounds like its staffed by Ann from Little Britain..eh..eh..eeeeeeeeh!

Congrats on the job Megs recognition at last and about time too-well done.

Horace sounds like you will get some good advertising out of the charity event thats great-your really putting yourself out there and are a good inspitation for me to get off my butt and do the same..once my website is done.....zzzzzzzzzzzzz still waiting!!

Horace

Aww sorry Megs I missed your posting about a promotion and only just read it today:rolleyes: Congratulations and well done by the way:T The new project sounds really exciting:cool:

Wordsmith maybe your local postoffice is an exception and should be one for closure? I wonder if its worth making an anonymous complaint to the Post Office HQ? The woman sounds like a nightmare:eek:

Please let us know when your website is up and running Mabel so we can go and have a look:D

Mudbath

Well done on your promotion Megs!

I've been keeping busy. I've now got all my three fold leaflets and they're looking good. I started back at the hospice yesterday (had been off for 6 months after my op). It was sooooooooooo good to be back. It's voluntary work but really focuses me on adapting treatments to clients so I know it's good for my business that way.

I was going to start a big promotion but have decided to wait until September as I work reduced hours during the summer holiday. It wouldn't be much good getting more clients and then not having time to do them!

Hope you're all keeping busy xx

TCM_3

Well done Megs!!!!! Thats fantastic news, I hope you made time to celebrate!

Horace - if I had kept the statue and it quiet, I think I would be propped up in the corner with a large bottle of gin, either crying or laughing!

I can relate to the post office Wordsmith. The one beside me is staffed by a "jobsworth" who is most unhelpful. The attitude that meets you when you go in and it gets harder every time to bite my tongue and tell her to go and get another job or just leave if she hates it as much as she gives the impression. You have to get back on a horse again! The west coast has such lovely beaches to gallop along and free your head of worries etc - take 2 painkillers before you go and 2 when you get back and you'll be grand! :rolleyes:
I used to ride competitively, but like you divorce put paid to that but I managed to keep hold of the horses(have since sold one due to lack of time) and it is so hard to get back in the swing of it again. I do not bend the way I used to and I have a few extra spare tyres to accommodate!

The weather is definately putting people off coming out and about. I did nothing yesterday and have had 1 customer this morning. Have plenty to be going on with but the motivation is somewhat lacking today!

Wordsmith

nzmegs wrote: »

i just wrote an article yesterday about car insurance and how the govt will be fining us if we do not remember to renew it - whether the car is on the road or not....glad the rule isn't in yet though!

I know (bitter experience, etc., etc.) that it's a good idea to insure a car that's off the road, but why would the government make us insure them? When does the new rule come in? I haven't heard about this one before.