Weekly Flylady Thread 14th December 2009

zara*elise

greenbee wrote: »

Given that my contract says that if my performance is satisfactory my employment will be made permanent, surely his inability to plan/measure is not my problem?

Mind you, I could just put my CV up on monster and take advantage of the 1 week notice period sometime in the next three months...:D

LOL! I would take the latter option, but then I'm not very motivated! I suppose your mentor should be able to clarify things further, it's just ridiculous that despite completing your training earlier than needed, they still need to 'evaluate' you. Have they at least given you a timescale of when they can get back to you?

carlsberggal

Dh had emptied DW washer before I got home, I'd S/S'd kitchen and living room before work so not looking bad on the surface. I have wednesday, thursday and friday off so 5 days off work to do a mega clean, last bits of xmas shopping and buying family cards. Lets see how I get on shall we? Piggers can always throw a mule at me and I don't want Toots to have a go either!! LOL!

Dh managed a bit of his course work before the sh$te hit the fan again with his DD who is now calling her mum all the names under the sun and saying she wants to come down here; her mum won't answer her phone. I think she's playing one off on the other now and so does DH really, but cos she lives so far away we can't just nip it in the bud by having her down for tea/and or visiting to get to the bottom of it. Honestly we've had ennough trauma to last us a couple of months at least; why all in 3 weeks? Soooooooooo, am sat with a medicinal beer and ignoring the world, reading on here and playing bejewelled!!!! I'm only doing it to keep JillD company! DS should be back in Germany now, but back on the 22nd until the 3rd of Jan!!! WTG. DD2 rather quiet, she went up to her Dad's last night and we haven't seen or heard from her; to be fair it's rather nice!! That sounds mean but if you lived with her at the moment you'd know what I mean!!! Her sister told her to "p£ss of out of my bedroom" yesterday! She doesn't talk with you she talks at you nineteen to the dozen; I honestly think she breathes through her ears as she certainly hasn't got time whilst she's talking/ranting/screaming to breathe normally!!!

Sorry for the rant again.

Hope Sexym has got on ok today, the flyladies were right behind you scowling at all the nasty people for you!

jjef

sexymouse - very well done.

toots - kitchen star for me please WM is on at the mo

It seems to be a day of good news on the thread today - i have passed my OU exam which I sat in Oct so once I collect DD1 from her xmas party and think a G&T will be poured to celebrate.

Off to do a HHI should anyone which so join in

carlsberggal

Sexym - just seen your post WTG girl and done in the face of adversity, shows what a star you are!! Well done you!!! x

JillD_2

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIVA
Good job cake is not chewy eh

Sexy - WELLDONE WOOHOO WTG ETC :T:T:T:j:j:j

greenbee - carppy news about your pronationary period :mad:

cant remember if I had anythig else to say to anyone.

As I have had such a rubbish day myself I thought "I know! Why not round it off with a nice argument with an insurance company's overseas call centre for a laugh"
So I spent 7 minutes explaining my problem - to no avail of course - then sat listening to the same dire piece of hold music - 4 times - for 8 minutes then I hung up (15 minutes of my life I will never get back) and tried a different number and am waiting for them to phone back. I asked for the [STRIKE]moron[/STRIKE] helpful person who sold me the policy in the first place so I really hope its him that calls back as the mess up is all his fault and oh boy do I need someone to have a go at!!!!
Basically he refused to take details about a claimles incident and promised, when I asked, that they would email to confirm that they didnt need to know. They didnt of course, and on following it up they said they DO need to know, and I am a bit worried that they will try and up the premium .......:rolleyes:

soappie

jjef wrote: »

It seems to be a day of good news on the thread today - i have passed my OU exam which I sat in Oct so once I collect DD1 from her xmas party and think a G&T will be poured to celebrate.

Well done Jjef :T:T

snooptigger

Thank you for all the lovely welcomes. I've started to complete some of the tasks this evening. I currently work in a warehouse making suncatchers and guardian angels in crystal. My boss is on holiday so I get a few more hours and he's I start earlier. Back to normal tomorrow so I can get some cleaning done before I go to work. I've done my cleaning for today and going to relax and do some jobs for christmas while catching up on the tele

Monday ~ Kitchen of Grot and Dining Room of Gloom
Level One
[STRIKE]Declutter and mop/vacuum the floors[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Find and wipe the worksurfaces[/STRIKE]
Level Two
[STRIKE]Wipe the big appliances and units.. don't forget kickboards![/STRIKE] wiped down all the big appliances - will do units next time 1 thing at a time
[STRIKE]Wipe small appliances and replace.. do one thoroughly.. descale or decrumb or degunge![/STRIKE] cleaned inside and out of microwave
Clear and wipe a shelf and a window sill
[STRIKE]Run the appliances through a clean cycle! degunge filters etc[/STRIKE] - don't need to do just had to buy a new machine
Level Three
Wipe the table and replace the cloth if necessary.
Sort through and clean out ALL the food cupboards.. Sling the grot that has been in there since time began!!
Clean the oven and hob..
Extras

1. Thoroughly clean out the fridge.. make use of anything almost past its best
2. Wash the windows
3. Get those last minute cards and presents posted!! - will all be delivered on christmas day or close after (as all thats left is family)
   
4. Dust and Deweb

greenbee

soappie wrote: »

Hmmm - do you REALLY want to do that?

It won't hurt to have a look at what's out there... I've had several calls from headhunters recently, and if they're finding my CV at the moment they're looking VERY hard!

zara*elise wrote: »

LOL! I would take the latter option, but then I'm not very motivated! I suppose your mentor should be able to clarify things further, it's just ridiculous that despite completing your training earlier than needed, they still need to 'evaluate' you. Have they at least given you a timescale of when they can get back to you?

It's another 90 days... which means 3 more months of the 1 week's notice... in some ways it works to my advantage, but I really think it's out of order. Just proves my point that my boss is an idiot really...:rolleyes:

carlsberggal

Hugs Greenbee sounds like a case of out of the frying pan into the fryer work wise. What a bunch of useless get's to think you haven't completed all they have asked of you! Have you any form of recourse regarding their decision?

Wilf - what do you mean by needing a blood transfusion - you don't have to answer if you don't want to. No wonder you haven't the energy though. Hugs x

greenbee

JillD wrote: »

Basically he refused to take details about a claimles incident and promised, when I asked, that they would email to confirm that they didnt need to know. They didnt of course, and on following it up they said they DO need to know, and I am a bit worried that they will try and up the premium .......:rolleyes:

I had that with mine too... I was so not amused, so I sent something in writing clarifying that I'd told them about it, they hadn't put it on the form, I'd queried it at the time, so if there was any change I expected them to absorb the cost and reserved the right to cancel the policy seeing as they'd caused the problem in the first place. I did read the Ts & Cs on the contract as well, so could quote the termination bits to them...

Congratulations jjef :D:D

Carlsberg - american company, totally hopeless at people management (organisationally, not just my boss), so god only knows whether there is any process for dealing with this. I need to speak to my mentor and discuss with him whether the team want me to stay. If I get a positive response, I'll take it one way - if they're lukewarm then I'll shut up and start looking. There's plenty out there for the kind of thing I do, as it's a small market, and I have a very wide and active professional network. And the contact details of most of the headhunters who deal with my sector

In the meantime, rather than doing the writing I'd planned on this evening, I think I'll find some supper and take a book to supervise the fire