Summer arrived and I was happy but not really learning as much. Still the customer in Durham was plenty happy with me. Now in July for reasons I've still never really fathomed they hired a guy from a rival company to be their IT manager. I guess because they were growing so fast and wanted to get some control over their own IT systems. Nice enough ( Read more... )

Well it's been a while since I posted here though I do login and keep an eye on the rest of you. I don't really think I have too much to go through from here on in (yeah right ;) but it will be possible to keep it a bit shorter ( Read more... )

Right this is taking a while so I'm going to get to a year behind (besides this bit still pisses me right off in a couple of ways ( Read more... )

I was reading through some of your entries and a few of you had this card thing. Out of idle curiosity I fired it up, read through stuff and tried to answer truthfully. I near pissed myself laughing when this came up. (I kid you not, first go!)


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So now here I am thinking I have only a couple of weeks to get a last minute cancellation. I wait getting more and more tense until I spot one on the 2nd october. It's at the middlesbrough centre which was a definate plus. This is agreed to be 'close enough' I'm working my arse off at this point, just in case ( Read more... )

Ok so I'm on full time, I have Craig taking me up to durham show me the ropes (and prevent me fucking up) as I still feel like an imposter that does'nt have a clue. It's not going too bad there, really nice place to work and it seems I am quite unique in the company in that I don't think the durham site is too bad ( Read more... )

Yeah ok so it's days late but I'm still off work and alcohol still is'nt illegal in this part of the world! I've had a pretty good one, hope everyone else has as well. I've managed to get by without ( Read more... )

I worked there for a little over a week before it was casually suggested I might like to visit the 'big customer in Durham' Silly little lamb that I was I just agreed, thinking I was just tagging along. We more or less ended up going straight into the office of a guy called Peter, who was the financial director. He said hello and then popped to get ( Read more... )

I really can't remember if I stopped around that day or not. Things were a bit of a blur unsuprisingly. I do know he asked to see my CV and a list of my strengths and weaknesses though. Twinkle helped me out so much with that. In fact it'd be fair to say she dictacted (via Y!M?) and I typed! Thanks for that one, I owe you. I remember her suggesting ( Read more... )

I had two weeks off from that hell hole. I did'nt intend to do much, maybe go on a few long walks with the dog. Maybe play a little gothador (I'd had the internet for months now, like I say I'd forgotten this journal ( Read more... )