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A Very, Very Expensive Cinema Trip...
May. 25th, 2010 07:35 pm...so a while ago, I got up close and personal with a concrete pillar while parking in a multi-storey car park outside a cinema. Dent in the passenger door, but everything worked. Yesterday evening, while dropping the window, there was a loud bang, the window stopped moving and there were lots of nasty noises from inside the body of the door.
Today, we went to bodyshop and got told it would cost over £1200 to fix, and involve an entirely new door. Even in the event that we find a quote for half that involving a new window motor and some panel beating, it's still going to cost more to pay out-of-pocket than it would be to lose the no claims discount.
Well, fucking hell. Lucky that all happened after the interview.
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For the first time in about five attempts, I arrived early for today's interview at Nationwide House.
Just over an hour early.
I suppose this was a good thing, considering how many barrels it beats out of still looking for a parking space five minutes after your interview should have started, which is how things went last time, but I was almost falling asleep by the time I was called.
This being about my tenth interview for Nationwide's head office, I should have been better at the questions by now. I tried to make sure I explained my reasoning behind my responses, rather than just giving the responses, as I've been told that's been a point of failure in the past. I tried to be brief but thorough and not waffle, but still on more than one occasion they had to ask me to rephrase my answer as it wasn't answering the question they were asking.
I still wouldn't hire me, but, while it would be light years better than what I'm doing right now, this job sounded like the hardest one I've gone for so far. Resource Scheduling involves giving angry project managers as few staff as possible, telling angry project managers they can't have any more, and handling the angry project manager's concerns in the direction of the dispute resolution service. It does play to the only strengths I have within the business sphere, however (data analysis and interpretation and building working relationships), and would involve just over a ten thousand pound pay rise.
Curiously, they asked me about my notice period, any holiday I had already booked, and how much I currently earned. I'm well aware that any holiday I have booked right now would need to be honoured, but I've never been asked those questions at an NH interview before. The tiny part of my soul that is optimistic (I beat it regularly with sticks to stop it getting any ideas) wants to view it as a good sign, as it implies such concerns became relevant during the course of the interview, but the far more rational side suggests that it's probably just HR getting it right for the first time.
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I refuse to accept that my current characters provide the best answers to the recent LARP meme, so this is the ex-naughty boys take on it.
( Vaexarius )
( Mindstalker )
( TJ )
( Sorin )
( Alantha )
Today, we went to bodyshop and got told it would cost over £1200 to fix, and involve an entirely new door. Even in the event that we find a quote for half that involving a new window motor and some panel beating, it's still going to cost more to pay out-of-pocket than it would be to lose the no claims discount.
Well, fucking hell. Lucky that all happened after the interview.
_________
For the first time in about five attempts, I arrived early for today's interview at Nationwide House.
Just over an hour early.
I suppose this was a good thing, considering how many barrels it beats out of still looking for a parking space five minutes after your interview should have started, which is how things went last time, but I was almost falling asleep by the time I was called.
This being about my tenth interview for Nationwide's head office, I should have been better at the questions by now. I tried to make sure I explained my reasoning behind my responses, rather than just giving the responses, as I've been told that's been a point of failure in the past. I tried to be brief but thorough and not waffle, but still on more than one occasion they had to ask me to rephrase my answer as it wasn't answering the question they were asking.
I still wouldn't hire me, but, while it would be light years better than what I'm doing right now, this job sounded like the hardest one I've gone for so far. Resource Scheduling involves giving angry project managers as few staff as possible, telling angry project managers they can't have any more, and handling the angry project manager's concerns in the direction of the dispute resolution service. It does play to the only strengths I have within the business sphere, however (data analysis and interpretation and building working relationships), and would involve just over a ten thousand pound pay rise.
Curiously, they asked me about my notice period, any holiday I had already booked, and how much I currently earned. I'm well aware that any holiday I have booked right now would need to be honoured, but I've never been asked those questions at an NH interview before. The tiny part of my soul that is optimistic (I beat it regularly with sticks to stop it getting any ideas) wants to view it as a good sign, as it implies such concerns became relevant during the course of the interview, but the far more rational side suggests that it's probably just HR getting it right for the first time.
_________
I refuse to accept that my current characters provide the best answers to the recent LARP meme, so this is the ex-naughty boys take on it.
( Vaexarius )
( Mindstalker )
( TJ )
( Sorin )
( Alantha )
