Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

I admire you for doing it.

The thought of it exhausts me. That you have the vision of what you want, and create your own highs by carefully choosing what materials, fittings and furnishings to go in and commission and project manage the tradesmen and professionals is something to behold.

I would be paddling about in a trough of despair.

Oh.....its not necessarily what I want. Often its not what I/we want at all, but what the house demands. Its quite a chunky masculine house. This house would not have been MY first choice, but nevertheless its a charming house, and DH adores it, and so its OUR choice.

Its a very confused house, and the periods argue with each other in almost every room, which means living with things that feel incongruous historically, but are right for THIS house. The argument with oneself and the house is the most exhausting part of the 'design' and the architect's brief was to protect the house from us. We'd both turn the place into a gin palace very easily.

misskool

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Yeah, most people in my world are on 3 months notice. So you write an advert, divisional management takes two weeks to approve, HR sit on it and forget to publish it, eventually gets published a month after you drafted it, spend a week triaging the 150 applications for each job, a week or two later first interviews, then second interviews a week later, then a week to decide who to offer to, then divisional management argue with you for a week over the salary trying to reduce it by £500, then HR sit on it for a couple of weeks, then offer goes out, then several weeks of messing about with references, then successful applicant hands their notice in at current employer...

A minimum of six months end to end.

I can't believe I have a 3-month notice period. Not that it matters as I am now on the 3-months to the end of my contract.

lostinrates

Yes, just tried to take pics....its too dark now....

And very messy ...but this is a blurry dark pic of sparkly corner...full of tart and a bit knocked a not today

Spirit_2

misskool wrote: »

I can't believe I have a 3-month notice period. Not that it matters as I am now on the 3-months to the end of my contract.

We have staff with a range of notice periods from 4 weeks, 8 weeks rising to 12 weeks.

A large number of service critical staff have only 4 weeks notice, a risk that needs to be mitigated imo.

When someone is leaving, the gun is in their hand and long notice periods become negotiable.

Nikkster

Hugs to lir x
You get on and cope with a huge amount. You've had a a tough past year for a variety of reasons. I would have been feeling broken of spirit long before now.
Hope the hospital trip goes well tomorrow too.

Spirit_2

I am watching a tv prog about the Burrell Collection.

It reminded me that I have book about the Glasow boys..so I have started to flick through it. Now I want to go to a gallery.

On Saturday OH is invited to a race series in Cardiff Bay, so I am going too . Whilst he is in a meeting and enjoying the hospitality I might try and visit the Welsh parliament building as I have never seen it and am told it is beautiful.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

These

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/simplysuzyq/product/aventurine-faceted-earrings

And these

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/ashianaforhurleyburley/product/aqua-chalcedonay-drop-earrings

There is obviously a bit of a theme there.....:o. One has to pick what suits one as well, of course.

Sorry you're having a rough time lir.

I was really surprised that those designs were not by the same person. I liked both of them, but particularly the chalcedony ones.

Good luck tomorrow.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was taggered when I found out that teachers get time off for interviews. In the 'real world' you hide the fact you're going for new jobs and struggle to get the time off to attend interviews as you're given the time/date and booking any holiday at work's a nightmare for most.

It'd be great to be able to be open and know you'll get the time off.

It's difficult to see how it could possibly be any different for teachers. The interviews have to be during school time so that they can observe the candidates teaching a lesson. Teachers have no such thing as "holiday" during term time, so there's no possibility of taking a day's leave to go to the interview.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My mother said that - her contractual notice was half a term, but it was apparently the done thing to give notice even earlier if you could, to give the school time to make a lesiurely selection of another teacher.

My mother gave in her notice for the end of the summer term just after the end of the Easter term (late March or so), and then left the school at the end of July (as it was then). She resigned because she was intending to start a family, and didn't want to be pregnant, sick, tired, and teaching, or to leave half-way though the school year so assumed she'd have no trouble getting pregnant, and gave her notice in anyway.

Fortunately, she turned out to be right, otherwise she'd have had a lot of sitting on her backside worrying about not being pregnant! I was due on 11th March, and born on 31st, the following year.

Half a term is standard in the state sector. For most private schools these days it's a whole term. Our contract says we have to give notice by 31st Dec to leave at Easter, 30th April to leave at the end of the summer, or 31st August to leave at Christmas.

Nikkster wrote: »

Hugs to lir x
You get on and cope with a huge amount. You've had a a tough past year for a variety of reasons. I would have been feeling broken of spirit long before now.
Hope the hospital trip goes well tomorrow too.

What Nikkster said. All of it.

zagubov

Dog needs an op.:(.

It explains a lot of changes in his behaviour.

As if that wasn't bad enough I feel like a total eejit.

Turns out we never cancelled the direct debit with our old pet insurance comapny when their policy doubled in cost. I picked up the wrong info and contacted them by mistake and spent the afternoon discussing it with them and they dealt with me like we were still covered.

DW comes home and says nope, we cancelled and switched over a year ago and produces the new policy and digs out an email confirming the old policy cancellation and telling us to stop the direct debit (which would be useful to know!). So that's about £500 we'll never see again.:mad:

So now to contact the new insurance company and the vets and rearrange everything so it comes from the new company.

I worry we're over-insured. Our insurance companies seem to change their underwriters and brand names at an appalling rate and I can't always remember which is which any more.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

I feel Autumn in the air....

Yay!

That means it's almost Cassoulet time!