Remember you're a womble - 2016

sashacat

I forgot, I have just got £41.70 from selling stuff I didn't need on eBay. I didn't buy any of it so can I count that?

sashacat

I have counted it and I hope I have got it in my signature ok

Bobarella

Siebre oh yum. As always your posts should come with a 'may cause tummy rumblings' warning

Sachacat thank you have updated your score.

Bobarella

I had a lovely sample pack of green tea come through with a charity news letter from a cycling charity I support. Claiming £2.

Bobarella

Mr Bob is giving me my quarterly hair trim this afternoon. I have thick long brown hair that is dead straight and in all my 37 years I have never felt comfortable wearing it down god knows why I don't just opt for a skin head and be done with it. Anyway it's got to the point where it just hangs in a lump when I try to do a top knot so chopped it must be. I'm going to claim £40 wombled for this as that is the going rate for a wash, cut and blow dry around these parts.

If he decides to tame my son's unruly mop too then I will upgrade that by £10.

Bobarella

Don't forget if you want me to update your score to post up your totals for the month end.

sugarbaby125

Used 249 Boots Advantage card points to buy corn removal pads saving me £2.49

Had another lovely meal in a Lebanese restaurant compliments of Wayne. A mixed grill: Lamb Kofte, beef shish kebab and chicken kebab with rice and salad and a bottle of water £9.80

20p roadkill found on my Estate as I walked to meet Wayne

Celebration meal for my sister's birthday in a lovely Chinese restaurant with 18 other members of our family. £17.90 for the set meal and large (750ml) bottle of water £4

# current total = £1,789.83

Siebrie

Siebrie wrote: »

Our company does a monthly breakfast for all employees, by the employees. Every month 7 employees organise this, and usually there is some sort of theme. We have had 'India', 'healthy living', 'responsible/ecological', etc. This morning was 'Eastern Europe and Poland', and it was lovely! Lovely cheeses, meat dishes, fresh bread, cream cheese and radish salads, little sweet breads, fruit. Plenty left to snack on this morning, and even some for lunch. I'll claim €8.

There were so many left-overs that I had them for lunch; AND I got to take home a loaf of white bread (now in the freezer), a small box of one-bite cakes (in the freezer), a loaf of cinnamon bread (in the freezer), mini-pretzel circles with poppy seeds (for dds to take to school as a snack for the next few weeks, once or twice a week). There was also a goat cheese salad left-over from a business lunch, still in its box, which I took home and had for dinner (the salad, not the box ). I'll claim €8.
(I posted this yesterday from my tablet, but the post seems to have disappeared, although the new amount in my signature is still there - weird.)

crazy_cat_lady

I wish I worked at your place Siebrie - you sound so well looked after there

Siebrie

Thanks; it's not always been this wonderful, but a change in Management/Executive Committee has helped a lot. My first seven years (of the current 8.5) here were not very nice. My boss was classified as 'horrible' by the agency; so I upped my salary request by €500 a month, and they paid. I should have asked for more.... I never got a payrise other than national or company-wide ones.

She micromanaged with (or because of) perfectionist tendencies, had hardly any self-knowledge, was very intelligent, with an elephant's memory for facts. I had a mix of pity, loathing, admiration for her.

The Exec Committee (of which my boss was a member) was a man's world at that time, with a CEO who had built the company from scratch, and hired and retained people on an 'I (don't) like you' basis. The weeks leading up to Christmas always saw people fired in every department. Christmas 2015 was the first year there weren't any people fired.

The new CEO and three new Exec Com members have changed the atmosphere, the structure of the company, and the HR policies. I now have a new boss who is an (I think) natural leader; she is absolutely lovely, and very intelligent, speaks her mind and sticks to it, admits that she does not know everything and then asks someone in the team to find it out for her, and then trusts this information.

The kitchen/Reception has also greatly improved, and that's where my wombles come from. I think I could not have reported such wonderful wombles 3 years ago.