Part One
So...
Since my last entry, a lot has happened, some things have eventuated, and other things have not. I can't quite figure out where to start
You'd all know by now that I'm working on assignment at the ATO - yay me. You'd probably also know that I get nothing but calls from people checking on their IT refunds and/or their Tax Bonus Payments, courtesy of the Australian Government (and God knows how much debt - something like $300billion by now?). Oh how I long for the calls to simply change addresses or update EFT details. Judith, your job might suck, and you don't get paid enough for it, but at least you only have to deal with children - I have to deal with all types of people after only one thing.
Money money money money money money money money money money money money money money... GAH!
I'll be glad when this assignment is over, and I get something else - hell even the Debt department in the ATO looks appealing. I can actually talk to people that specifically have business with us - even if they try as they might to avoid it...
One thing that gets to me about the job, is one of the temps who works with us - she pretends to be everyone's friend, but she is just white trash (she also reminds me of a poor version of Rachel, but perhaps that is too insulting, even for someone like Rachel, to be compared to bogan white trash like this certain person - at least Rachel can pretend to be an educated human being while holding a conversation) who does not do any real work, and should have been fired ages ago. Her only saving grace, is that she makes the rest of us look really good, in spite of how late I am, or how little Heather gives a damn about the job, or how bitchy Carly is on the phone...
Two months to go, then it will be over, and maybe two weeks after that, I do not know.
So, apart from my little vent about work, and how much I hate it, life has been interesting. I got a girlfriend back in June, which you all know about, I finished watching Farscape and BSG, I chose to defer university for family reasons (which I shall get into at another point), I have moved house to the Southside of Brisbane (ironically to be closer to uni and work), and I am getting a car very soon. My uncle's partner is giving me her son's shitbox car to get my hours up in - which will be good so when I get my licence I also have a car with which to drive over to see Marni in Cleveland - and insurance and rego to go with it. My family and I are no longer at each others' throats, which is encouraging. My affairs are finally in order, or so it would seem...
I don't like making statements like that, because whenever I do, it seems that something or someone comes along to throw a spanner in the works. One thing I did learn from Tracey, is that you can only ever depend upon yourself - I have been deceived, disappointed, and let down by some of the people I loved and trusted the most, so nobody ever knows what I am truly thinking or feeling. Don't get me wrong, I do not set out to distort perceptions, but I do only allow people to see what they can see, or what they can bear to see - the truth sets people free, but it also canes you if you are not prepared for it. As Thucydides said, "The strong endured what they could, and the weak suffered what they must" - TBC
Since my last entry, a lot has happened, some things have eventuated, and other things have not. I can't quite figure out where to start
You'd all know by now that I'm working on assignment at the ATO - yay me. You'd probably also know that I get nothing but calls from people checking on their IT refunds and/or their Tax Bonus Payments, courtesy of the Australian Government (and God knows how much debt - something like $300billion by now?). Oh how I long for the calls to simply change addresses or update EFT details. Judith, your job might suck, and you don't get paid enough for it, but at least you only have to deal with children - I have to deal with all types of people after only one thing.
Money money money money money money money money money money money money money money... GAH!
I'll be glad when this assignment is over, and I get something else - hell even the Debt department in the ATO looks appealing. I can actually talk to people that specifically have business with us - even if they try as they might to avoid it...
One thing that gets to me about the job, is one of the temps who works with us - she pretends to be everyone's friend, but she is just white trash (she also reminds me of a poor version of Rachel, but perhaps that is too insulting, even for someone like Rachel, to be compared to bogan white trash like this certain person - at least Rachel can pretend to be an educated human being while holding a conversation) who does not do any real work, and should have been fired ages ago. Her only saving grace, is that she makes the rest of us look really good, in spite of how late I am, or how little Heather gives a damn about the job, or how bitchy Carly is on the phone...
Two months to go, then it will be over, and maybe two weeks after that, I do not know.
So, apart from my little vent about work, and how much I hate it, life has been interesting. I got a girlfriend back in June, which you all know about, I finished watching Farscape and BSG, I chose to defer university for family reasons (which I shall get into at another point), I have moved house to the Southside of Brisbane (ironically to be closer to uni and work), and I am getting a car very soon. My uncle's partner is giving me her son's shitbox car to get my hours up in - which will be good so when I get my licence I also have a car with which to drive over to see Marni in Cleveland - and insurance and rego to go with it. My family and I are no longer at each others' throats, which is encouraging. My affairs are finally in order, or so it would seem...
I don't like making statements like that, because whenever I do, it seems that something or someone comes along to throw a spanner in the works. One thing I did learn from Tracey, is that you can only ever depend upon yourself - I have been deceived, disappointed, and let down by some of the people I loved and trusted the most, so nobody ever knows what I am truly thinking or feeling. Don't get me wrong, I do not set out to distort perceptions, but I do only allow people to see what they can see, or what they can bear to see - the truth sets people free, but it also canes you if you are not prepared for it. As Thucydides said, "The strong endured what they could, and the weak suffered what they must" - TBC