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Post by goldmother on Sept 30, 2008 9:09:21 GMT -5
Watching my sons face crumple up and start to blub this morning when I told him that I was going for a job interview "But I don't want to go to breakfast club and afterschool club" And nor do I want you to my little sweetpea - thankyou wanky bankers. You've made a little boy cry.
Wearing winter boots. My feet really fucking hurt now. Is it acceptable for teaching assistants to wear converse, cos I'm going to die otherwise.
Smart clothes. Like ewwwww. I do kooky creative clothes. Not smart and boring.
Fopp being next to the bus stop in Nottingham - lethal.
Primark. It's so bad and unethical, but it has such great cheap stuff which I end up buying and then I get shopping guilt.
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Post by barkill on Oct 1, 2008 6:28:41 GMT -5
On a football theme, Rafa Benitez, and Steven Gerrard. Who kept Barry? Ha Ha Ha., Tossers. Just for the record...while RB and SG do enjoy god like status here in Liverpool we were ALL perplexed by their interest in Barry and ALL breathed a HUGE sigh of relief when it transpired that we were keeping a FAR BETTER (and YOUNGER) player in ALONSO. Time will tell.
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Post by Lester Piggott on Oct 1, 2008 7:41:13 GMT -5
On a football theme, Rafa Benitez, and Steven Gerrard. Who kept Barry? Ha Ha Ha., Tossers. Just for the record...while RB and SG do enjoy god like status here in Liverpool we were ALL perplexed by their interest in Barry and ALL breathed a HUGE sigh of relief when it transpired that we were keeping a FAR BETTER (and YOUNGER) player in ALONSO. Time will tell. As a semi neutral observer I was baffled when I heard that Liverpool were trying to flog off Alonso to raise the moneu to buy Barry. For me Alonso is one of the top 2-3 midfielders in the Premiership (along with Gerrard and Fabregas). While Barry is a decent player he is no where near as good as Alonso and certainly worth nowhere near the £20m that was being touted.
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Post by goldmother on Oct 2, 2008 4:29:57 GMT -5
Today. Trying to write a job application form when you've not worked for nine years. I've just signed up with an agency to do teaching assistant cover, but discovered yesterday that my kids school has a teaching assistant vacancy... no childcare costs, no travel nightmare (how do you drop the kids off, get to the otherside of town using an inadequate public transport system and still earn enough money to make it actually worthwhile?) The first thing is previous employer, with contact details etc. I last worked (proper paid employment with tax and NI and stuff) doing temping at Companies House in 1999 after I finished Uni. I was only there for two months. It looks pretty shit from the start. Then we get to references, two of them, which are not allowed to be family and friends. I am foxed. I haven't worked for 9 years. I doubt anybody at companies house remembers some girl outsourced by capita to answer phones. Are Notts County Council really going to phone up one of my lecturers at Uni and ask if they can remember this girl whose dissertation she supervised nearly ten years ago? I have teaching experience, a degree and a postgrad TEFL. I have run a parent toddler group singlehandedly for 3 years and obviously like kids otherwise I wouldn't have killed any career prospects I had to be with them. No disrespect to any teaching assistants out there, but I can do this job more than adequately. But without my shiny NVQ 2 certificate I have to jump through hoops to prove my worthiness. I'm capable of being creative with my CV, emphasising my transferable skills and life skills etc, but it feels like I'm climbing a mountain from the start. Is it any wonder that somebody on benefits and a great deal less education and experience than I've got might just decide to take the easy option and stay on benefits? I would if I could claim benefits.
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Post by Tribec on Oct 2, 2008 12:55:20 GMT -5
Today. Trying to write a job application form when you've not worked for nine years. I've just signed up with an agency to do teaching assistant cover, but discovered yesterday that my kids school has a teaching assistant vacancy... no childcare costs, no travel nightmare (how do you drop the kids off, get to the otherside of town using an inadequate public transport system and still earn enough money to make it actually worthwhile?) The first thing is previous employer, with contact details etc. I last worked (proper paid employment with tax and NI and stuff) doing temping at Companies House in 1999 after I finished Uni. I was only there for two months. It looks pretty shit from the start. Then we get to references, two of them, which are not allowed to be family and friends. I am foxed. I haven't worked for 9 years. I doubt anybody at companies house remembers some girl outsourced by capita to answer phones. Are Notts County Council really going to phone up one of my lecturers at Uni and ask if they can remember this girl whose dissertation she supervised nearly ten years ago? I have teaching experience, a degree and a postgrad TEFL. I have run a parent toddler group singlehandedly for 3 years and obviously like kids otherwise I wouldn't have killed any career prospects I had to be with them. No disrespect to any teaching assistants out there, but I can do this job more than adequately. But without my shiny NVQ 2 certificate I have to jump through hoops to prove my worthiness. I'm capable of being creative with my CV, emphasising my transferable skills and life skills etc, but it feels like I'm climbing a mountain from the start. Is it any wonder that somebody on benefits and a great deal less education and experience than I've got might just decide to take the easy option and stay on benefits? I would if I could claim benefits. It's a lot harder to become a TA than it used to be, I'm not sure with my nursery nursing qualification I'd get a post right away. However, having previous experience and as my current job is working with young people (not children any more!), then I'd guess I'd scrape into a TA's job without a NVQ.
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Post by barkill on Oct 3, 2008 2:00:24 GMT -5
I hate seeing English teams losing in Europe. Last night did however remind me of quote from a book called Here we go gathering cups in may ... About lfc obviously...
"the last time everton were a success crossing the channel the boat had cannons on it"
Such little pleasures make me smile like a toddler on xmas day ....
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Post by goldmother on Oct 3, 2008 9:17:18 GMT -5
Lazy reviewers. It's 9.13am california time and still no review from last nights gig... ;D Did Jim really get pissed off with the stupid throwing things at the stage guy? EDIT: I may have time zones a bit wrong. Perhaps 7.13am is still early
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Post by lostinsound on Oct 3, 2008 10:28:35 GMT -5
The "Things I Really Hate" thread being three pages longer than the "Things I Really Love Thread". Oops, I should post in the other one before I look like a hypocrite.
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Post by sandra on Oct 10, 2008 10:41:33 GMT -5
not being able to get killers' tickets! Having ticketmaster vouchers that are impossible to use! Why can't we use them online? They're going to expire soon
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Post by oneofthethree on Oct 10, 2008 14:01:44 GMT -5
Lazy reviewers. It's 9.13am california time and still no review from last nights gig... ;D Did Jim really get pissed off with the stupid throwing things at the stage guy? EDIT: I may have time zones a bit wrong. Perhaps 7.13am is still early I've just read this. I didn't get in until 3am and my host didn't have internet. Even Tim pulled me up for not having a review up by noon. I think I need to lower people's expectations a tad.
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Post by chris815 on Oct 10, 2008 20:16:46 GMT -5
Running into arseholes from an old place of work. In short, I walked out of a job a few years ago due to the regular customers being dickheads and the managers not giving a shit about their staff - and before I had met / knew any of you all (you all missed my ranting about it ). Just left and went, didn't say bye to a single person. 2 of those arseholes happened to be in my new place tonight - only good thing is I don't think they recognised me, but they were still idiots!
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Post by brotherofjesus on Oct 12, 2008 1:06:22 GMT -5
I hate Chris Iwelumo. I do. I mean how could he miss? [/QUOTE] Even I could have tapped that in. It even worse when you watch it on youtube..... uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hK5EZzNyZRgYou've got to feel sorry for the steward that comes crashing through the door 9/10 seconds into the clip. He must have been watching it on a telly in the back and thought it was a goal. ;D It's true. I hate Chris Iwelumo.
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Post by Lester Piggott on Oct 12, 2008 6:13:06 GMT -5
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Post by lisa on Oct 13, 2008 2:26:12 GMT -5
Having to use the word 'dickhead' before 8am in a public place (I accidentally missed the 'L' out of 'public' at first, would've been a whole other story).
Mastering the stairs in Bristol Temple Meads is hazardous in itself. Mastering them when not quite awake makes things worse. Add 'it's being raining' to that and we're looking at neck-breaking territory. So you dont need El Knobbo barging his way past you at 7.55am shouting 'I start work at 8 let me through!'.
In a word, no. He shoves past me and this other bloke, I call him a dickhead (louder than intended but I had my earphones in, fyi Boom Boom was playing). He turns to see who has shouted it and falls down the remaining few stairs.
I carry along my merry way, grinning at the crumpled heap of dickhead at the bottom of the stairs from platform 5. Good enough, you silly twat.
I shall now add something to the 'things i love' thread, just to balance it out.
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Post by goldmother on Oct 13, 2008 3:51:08 GMT -5
Adding balance:
I loved going to work - spent the day in a special school with some lovely kids. Challenging, but very rewarding.
However, working does have it's downsides:
£7 in busfare to travel 3.3miles. Fucking OAP's and their free buspasses which I am subsidising in extortionate fares. I would cycle, but it involves a mile of near vertical hill. I want to work, not get carted off in an ambulance.
I applied for a job in my local school - but didn't even get shortlisted. However, on the same day I got a phone call from my agency asking if I wanted a permanent job in an inclusion unit at a dodgy comp on the other side of the city. Not only would I be solely responsible for 10 hellraisers, locked into a room (yes, the school has a lockdown policy and LOCKS you in with the blighters!!) but the role also included EWO responsibilities - ie knocking on doors around the estate asking parents and their pitbulls why Chardonnay hasn't been at school lately... To recap: not good enough in a supporting role for well behaved 10 year olds, but good enough as a lead TA for illiterate knife wielding 16 year olds with severe behavioural problems... it'd be ironic if these kids futures weren't at stake...
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