This Is The Thread Where I Say.......Part Seven!

I'm about to take a nice hot bath, put on my casual day clothes, and gradually make my way to work.

I'm glad you got some retail therapy in, Sam. It really does wonders for me, even though I end up putting it all on credit cards.

If anyone wants to totally make my afternoon and email me, my address (for today at least) is mark at casar0tt0 dot uk dot com (the numbers in the name should be replaced by letters). I promise I'll write back to anyone who drops me a note - it is SO dull being away from the internet!! (I'm on someone else's PC during lunch write now, btw)

(I'm serious about getting emails, btw - it will make me so happy)

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Maybe I don't hate my job so much after all.

Well, technically it was two reports for four months, so that makes eight of them.

But still. I did two weeks of work in two and a half days!

And my boss was so pleased!!! She was really impressed, and all "wow, thanks for doing this, I really appreciate how hard you've worked" and it's so stunning when management actually SAY and MEANS this, I'm quite flabbergasted. It's always nice when that happens.

So I'm going to celebrate by doing nothing for the rest of the day. Heh.

Million to one odds, she's easier to get along with than I am though. Which I think sometimes counts for more than actual quality of work for people who have to deal with me daily.

Whoooooooooo Kate! You should fit some beer into that doing-nothing.

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When I had to leave my software testing job, there was this software that only I worked with, and it involved a lot of workaround coding so I had to learn the code and all of the little dances you had to do to get around bugs. You tilt your hip just so...

I'd written out super-detailed instructions for the people who replaced me, but they never got the software to work again and had to abandon the stuff that the company had spent shitloads of cash on because they weren't as good as me.

And naturally I was evilly happy to hear this.

This is the thread where I get all vain to try to evade feeling a bit worthless right now.

me: "No, because anyone who has ever used the internet knows how to do that."

Him: "I am interviewing several people who have never used the internet before so you have to consider it!"

He also asked me to write out instructions on how to find out someone's phone number without their address and vice versa.

I guess this means he plans to hire someone who is really stupid?

What's especially funny (well, kind of) is that almost everyone has asked for a higher salary than I would have been getting had I stayed!

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I am sick of work today. No, I am calling in sick to work today. Well, e-mailing.

Right now, my cat is on my chest as I type this on my bed, and she seems pretty happy with the whole arrangement. I live to serve!