Friday, September 22, 2006

Seven Days & One Week So I'm on my last week in Queensland. After next week, I'll have a new job in a new office back home in Melbourne. It's a promotion though (a pretty significant one) so I'm happy about it. At the very least, the hours I've been doing lately will be similar to what I'll be doing down there. So it's something I will be used to in a way. My last week is really being spent trying to pick up after the other staff who left. The HR Manager had her last day yesterday and now all her work has pretty much been put on me. One woman rang up today and said that she'd been interviewed by us four weeks ago...and had not yet had a response about it. Can you imagine that? Going for four weeks and hearing nothing? I hate going for four days without a yes or no. Four weeks must be a nightmare! So I apologised to her and went through the old HR Manager's files to try and work out what was going on. The HR Manager had quite a good filing system, but was very sloppy and didn't keep track of who was doing what. In any case, I think I will offer this applicant a position - I almost feel it's a goodwill gesture after all that time she's been waiting! To top it off, one of the staff (who's last day it was today) left early yet again. She's a full-time staffer yet she leaves at 4:30pm each day...and that's if she decides to leave "on time". Often she leaves even earlier. As you can imagine, this creates resentment among other staff in the state office. Afterall, none of us get paid more for all the hours we put in...and several of us are frequently at work well after 5pm each day. Not to mention that myself and another staff member have been supporting her and picking up a lot of her slack even while she was working with us - not because we like her or anything, but because if we don't do it, nobody else will. And that hurts the company. In addition to all of this, I have people coming through my apartment every day for inspections and it's hard to get sleep because there are sirens going off every five seconds. Why is it that all the ambulances in the country decided to converge on this area only a few weeks after I moved in? Haha. It certainly seems that way anyway! In terms of online things, I've been talking to Justin a bit lately and I think that we are both ready to "move on", so to speak. This will probably end up being a good thing for those of you who visit OtakuBoards anyway. Well, potentially good. When I began thinking about what I'd be doing with the site, I knew I'd have a certain amount of free time - my hours in Melbourne were due to be less than what they are going to be, if that makes sense. Mid-way through I was offered a totally different job down there...and as a result, I'm actually going to be as busy there as I am up here, if not moreso (though at least I'll be getting paid for being that busy, haha). So we'll see how it goes. I'll wrap this up now anyway. I can hear people talking loudly in the corridor of my building...they sound like football fans. Why are they hanging around in the hallway and annoying everyone? Surely they haven't set up a TV in the hall...I don't get it, lol. Wouldn't it make more sense to be noisy inside the apartment, where you have less chance of bothering everyone around you? Normally this wouldn't bother me, but the people across the hall are constantly noisy. They seem to open and shut their front door about twenty times a night...and they slam it. I keep thinking "just go out or stay in, for god's sake!!" Have they got ants in their pants or something? Well, that's an idea... ...I think I'll go and buy some ants. Killer ones. >:P CosmicSailor: I really wish I knew what it was about your computer that wouldn't allow it to handle OB. Hopefully the new site will sort that out...I'd certainly like to know if we can do something on the current site to fix it though. Shin: I rang my sister tonight and surprised her with the announcement (just as they drove her to the airport). She was all confused for a moment...and then she started bawling. She was crying so much that she couldn't even talk. I've never heard her cry in my life. She was just in shock! SunfallE: Yellowstone! I'd like to go one day. You must send pictures! ^_^ Nehszriah: My youngest sister opened up to me recently in a way that she never has before...and we've become very close. I wanted to show her how much I love her by performing a really big gesture, and this was it. It was very costly, but very worth it. I'm just so happy that she's excited about it. KyuubiKhaos: Wow, another name I don't recognize...it's very cool that you guys chose to comment on my page. Thank you! The trip to work has been getting better, I've been getting used to the routine, although I still don't like being away from my loved ones. But only one more week! Deb: My sister was so excited to think that she was going to dinner...the shock of finding out that I'm flying her to the other end of the country was just too much for her. She was in so much shock that I didn't even know what she was saying, lol. She kept starting a sentence and then crying so hard that she couldn't keep talking. It was very emotional... Aaryanna: It worked perfectly! She didn't know until I sprung it on her...it was great! Haha. Hope you enjoy your trip to Yellowstone, too. Maybe one day I will go there myself! SunfallE: Thank you! Hope you have fun there. And thanks for visiting. ~_^ midgetswords: Thanks, I don't know what my rank is...Adam changed my backroom rank to "Down Again :(" or something, haha. He's so mushy at times. ~_^ SunfallE Returns: Thank you, thank you! It will be a great weekend. You two will have to tell me all about your trip when you get home. ^_^

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