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to cheer everyone up...it's now nearly $2 for every pound...wooohooo...

stephen's magic emporium here i come...

...and I'm going to post another "yay" post in the moaning thread just to give closure to the saga...

I found out what the squeaking was on my steering wheel (for Jordan's curiosity - airbag latch catching on something or other - just needs a little felt circle glueing onto it! Workshop manuals from eBay are a wonderful thing...), and also the engine electronics worry turned out to be a failed crank sensor - apparently a common fault in Vauxhalls, esp. vectras, so didn't cost much to diagnose and fix... I was bricking myself that it was going to be some major engine part that would be £800 to fix!

And the RBS have finally sorted out my overdraft so I CAN EAT THIS WEEK!

I was catching a train back from Sheffield on sunday night and it was due in at 19:03 but was eventually delayed until 20:08 because of "signalling problems and a passenger taken ill at Derby" :@
I'm glad I'm not the only person who hates Russel Brand. I first saw him when he was doing the big brothers big mouth on E4 and noticed he had awful awful hair I watched the first of his chat show but only because Matt Lucas and David Walliams were on it.

I can't stand the man! Have never watched any of his show things because he put me right off in the adverts.

You know sometimes you just feel you might as well go to the bank, get out all of your cash, go home, lock the bathroom door, spend a satisfying afternoon on the pan and then clean up with your bankroll?!

£50 this week that I would have benefitted from more had I blended it with some ice cream, a few bananas, poured it into a tall crystal glass, garnished with a few cherries and rammed sideways.... ahem...

So yeah - £20 in cashback that I didn't pick up as it comes out of some tiny little crevice of those self-service supermarket lanes, a substantial amount of time after your receipt. And the honest student after me obviously saw this and ran after me, but keeled over and died of a heart attack just as they were catching up... or something...

And then I have just been given a present from our dear valiant boys in blue, a £30 spot fine for driving along literally 20 yards of "bus and taxi only" road section, despite the fact that people have done it carefree everyday on this particular stretch for, ooh... EVER. Yet another police initative to protect the wellbeing of our city's fair citizens. Hmm. Christmas bonus time, anyone? Just one question - WHERE'S MINE?

I hate it when that happens. Its just how i felt after buying Ultimate Card Through Window...

I havent had a moan in a while. Let me think.... Nope, cant think of anything.

Oh, starting work at half 6 today. WHY!!! Feels like a day off where you spend the day relaxed only for someone to come upto you right at the end when you want a beer, snatch it out of your hand and tells you to get to work. AHHH!!! Much better now!

i shall shout at the Post Office...stuff ordered and sent on the 4th of december...nada...

an xbox 360 game, 3 or 4 magic books and effects...if someone pinched them from the P.O...may they die horribly on christmas morning, all alone, and be found in the new year, blue of face and maggot-mouthed...

i've had other items ordered on the 13th, already turn up to add insult to injury...bah....and indeed.....bah...

hey i will trade yuo something for linking laces all i need is the second tie i cant to that... please what do yuo want but pm me the secret and a list of what you want

zero's first pm.

can i have a prize for the most requested secret giver awayer or something.

I went for an interview at short notice on thurs b4 christmas. I had no idea of the format of the interview so went along expecting a normal interview. The interview was conducted from a bloody booklet with questions on each page that he asked and someone else noted the answers I made.

Anyway, he calls me on friday to tell me I hadn't got the job - mainly due to me being a creative person which is clear from my cv and he felt the role would be too restrictive (it was a call centre job) for me - I said I didnt mind as I had chosen to apply for the job after all but then he brought up the fact that other candidates had scored higher than me on the interview scores!!

This made me a bit annoyed afterwards cos I have exemplary customer service skills, I come from a working background where evrything has been customer focussed from sales to event coordination.

So since when did the right person for the job become about scores in a bloody booklet and not about the RIGHT person anymore???? If I had known it was one of those types of interview I could have learnt the top answers from the internet and got close to top scores...... would I have been right for the job then? Not necessarily but would I have got the job.... probably - based on my scores!!

Arghhhhh!!

Jordan C wrote:I went for an interview at short notice on thurs b4 christmas. I had no idea of the format of the interview so went along expecting a normal interview. The interview was conducted from a bloody booklet with questions on each page that he asked and someone else noted the answers I made.

Anyway, he calls me on friday to tell me I hadn't got the job - mainly due to me being a creative person which is clear from my cv and he felt the role would be too restrictive (it was a call centre job) for me - I said I didnt mind as I had chosen to apply for the job after all but then he brought up the fact that other candidates had scored higher than me on the interview scores!!

This made me a bit annoyed afterwards cos I have exemplary customer service skills, I come from a working background where evrything has been customer focussed from sales to event coordination.

So since when did the right person for the job become about scores in a bloody booklet and not about the RIGHT person anymore???? If I had known it was one of those types of interview I could have learnt the top answers from the internet and got close to top scores...... would I have been right for the job then? Not necessarily but would I have got the job.... probably - based on my scores!!

Arghhhhh!!

Sorry to hear you didn't get the job, Jordan, but you shouldn't have let it slip that you're good with customers... As it's a call centre you probably blew it right there!

I believe that to gain a position in many call centres you have to demonstrate the following skills:
- You should have no ability or desire whatsoever to help customers;
- You must be completely lacking in any customer service skills;
- You should have no product knowledge whatsoever or any desire to acquire that knowledge;
- You should demonstrate an ability to wind up customers to the best of your ability.
- You must be able to ensure that the customer speaks to as many people as possible in the longest possible time without gaining any useful information that might enable him to resolve the problems he rang for in the first place.

Learn all those skills and you're sorted!

magicdiscoman wrote:

hey i will trade yuo something for linking laces all i need is the second tie i cant to that... please what do yuo want but pm me the secret and a list of what you want

zero's first pm.

can i have a prize for the most requested secret giver awayer or something.

Yeah, I got one of those off him too.

Jordan C wrote:I went for an interview at short notice on thurs b4 christmas. I had no idea of the format of the interview so went along expecting a normal interview. The interview was conducted from a bloody booklet with questions on each page that he asked and someone else noted the answers I made.

Anyway, he calls me on friday to tell me I hadn't got the job - mainly due to me being a creative person which is clear from my cv and he felt the role would be too restrictive (it was a call centre job) for me - I said I didnt mind as I had chosen to apply for the job after all but then he brought up the fact that other candidates had scored higher than me on the interview scores!!

This made me a bit annoyed afterwards cos I have exemplary customer service skills, I come from a working background where evrything has been customer focussed from sales to event coordination.

So since when did the right person for the job become about scores in a bloody booklet and not about the RIGHT person anymore???? If I had known it was one of those types of interview I could have learnt the top answers from the internet and got close to top scores...... would I have been right for the job then? Not necessarily but would I have got the job.... probably - based on my scores!!

Arghhhhh!!

Now I understand why call centres are so incompetent! What a rediculous way to conduct an interview. I am almost certain that the booklet does not measure what it is suppose to measure. Anyway a creative person is almost by definition bound to answer in ways a bit outside what they expect.

A famous creativity test works as follows: Lets say 100 test subjects takes part. They are asked to provide as many answers to a simple question like: What would hapen if it never stopped raining, or what can bricks be used for.

Each person is now reward point for each answer. However the more "original" an answer, (i.e the fewer times it appear as an answer given by other participants) the more poins are rewarded. Thus answers like "there would be a flooding" or to "to build a house" would give hardly any points, while "prices on diving equipment would raise" or "as a swengali deck for elephants" presumably would score better.

Getting a high score in such a test is highly correlated with creativity.

Sadly, being creative is often a disadvantage in incompetent tests that really test "conformity" like the questions you most likely got. Anyway, good luck in you hunt. I am sure the right job will come along!

Here's a slightly belated one, I managed to crash my car into a wall on christmas morning. Luckily I've only got 3rd party f+t cover so I can't claim for it, my mechanic chum's coming round later to probably tell me it'll cost a fortune to fix. I'm grimly resigned to shelling out a grand first thing in the new year. Great.

On the good side I've pulled off James Brown's Cards Opener several times in the last couple of days, I was always a bit scared of trying it because of one particular tricky move but now I've popped I can't stop.

bronz wrote:Luckily I've only got 3rd party f+t cover so I can't claim for it,

That's LUCKY??

Ok so maybe a hint of sarcasm there. It does mean it won't put my premium up though, hurrah!