Drag 2010: A Decade Dawns

[sojourner]

God I hope I get this job. I get £120 JSA tomorrow and fifty quid of it's gone on Direct Debits already. 35 quid a week for the next fortnight.

I really don't think I could live on the dole now. Used to be able to, but not with the amount of DDs I have now.

When do you hear about the job?

 

[sojourner]

Grrrr

I can see I am going to spend the entire day doing ninja kicks on the front door, because cunts keep leaving it open, with an arctic wind blasting through it straight onto me

 

[neonwilderness]

Lock the cunts out?

 

[Voley]

That is a bit tough mate.
Done your budget for the fortnight?

Yeah. It doesn't add up. Already cancelled all luxuries. (Fuck me Lovefilm don't half spam the hell out of you when you leave them)

When do you hear about the job?

Couple of weeks, they said. None of my temp agencies have got anything right now because of weather and various other things.

Pretty dire, really. Still, I'm not gonna starve. I've got a roof over my head. Could be worse.

 

[Ms T]

I'm dragging at home today. Working tomorrow. Didn't sleep very well (I am all over the place after nights) and feel a bit rubbish. Nothing exciting on the agenda other than a trip to Lidl, probably.

 

[Badgers]

Already the 12th of Jan and I still can't get back in routine. Lost a couple of snow days to mess with body clock but still really struggling. Tired all the time, most unlike me and a tad annoying....

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Had a good night's sleep but still feel rather bleurgh - my train is wierd at the moment, virtually no regulars but absolutely packed. I wonder if the trains from Oxford are still disrupted and so there are more people getting on mine. My trian, mine I tell you!!!! I don't like disruption

 

[Ms T]

I read somewhere that some train carriages had been damaged by the weather so trains were shorter than normal and so more packed. Or something.

 

[Biddlybee]

I'm dragging at home today. Working tomorrow. Didn't sleep very well (I am all over the place after nights) and feel a bit rubbish. Nothing exciting on the agenda other than a trip to Lidl, probably.

Let us know if there are any good deals on

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

hi all, first day back this week as couldn't make it yesterday due to sickness. this year isn't starting with a bang, or the time off was too good cos am finding it all very difficult to find the energy and motivation i have to say...

 

[Ms T]

Let us know if there are any good deals on

I'm trying to work out if it's even open tbh. Drove past last night and it looks like a building site.

 

[Badgers]

Okay, okay....

Am bucking up since my earlier post.
Back in the saddle with a million things to do and am reading proofs for new business cards

 

[sojourner]

hi all, first day back this week as couldn't make it yesterday due to sickness. this year isn't starting with a bang, or the time off was too good cos am finding it all very difficult to find the energy and motivation i have to say...

First day blues - not good is it?

I've gone and left my fucking already-baked spud in the fridge at home. This means I am going to have to BUY some lunch

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

First day blues - not good is it?

I've gone and left my fucking already-baked spud in the fridge at home. This means I am going to have to BUY some lunch

it's not first day blues tho sojjy, i was back all last week already. i forgot my mobile phone today (which may be a good thing in fact).

 

[Treacle Toes]

Am in a computer room in the college...library still cosed for exams....it is soooooooooooooo cold in here I am typing in gloves...

 

[Badgers]

I've gone and left my fucking already-baked spud in the fridge at home. This means I am going to have to BUY some lunch

Me too (not a fucking already-baked spud) but still have to BUY some lunch

it's not first day blues tho sojjy, i was back all last week already.

Back on the 04th and 05th
Left early on the snowy 06th
Snowed off again on the 07th
Not in office on the 08th
Not in office on the 11th
Back in office on the 12th

All out of kilter here......

 

[sojourner]

it's not first day blues tho sojjy, i was back all last week already. i forgot my mobile phone today (which may be a good thing in fact).

Ah - didn't realise. Oh well, work is still shit

Me too (not a fucking already-baked spud) but still have to BUY some lunch

But I NEVER buy lunch! This is wrong. But it was quite nice - bacon and egg barm, with a runny yolk, and brown sauce

 

[pootle]

Hello draggers!

Hope you're all well - ain't got time to read the thread, but I bring a message, and love from 53tIIa

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric....orge-Michael/B3E797D6856FA7314825686A00227482

 

[Badgers]

But I NEVER buy lunch! This is wrong. But it was quite nice - bacon and egg barm, with a runny yolk, and brown sauce

Padawan learner popped to the sarnie shop.
Nice big wholemeal baguette with meatballs, boiled eggs, salad and mayo

 

[Biddlybee]

That sounds like a meal in a baguette Badgers

The Incredibles is on iPlayer... I wonder if I can watch it all at work this afternoon?

 

[Badgers]

The Incredibles is on iPlayer... I wonder if I can watch it all at work this afternoon?

I liked it....

There is another cheery film on there too?

 

[Biddlybee]

I have seen it before, I'm just hating work and have loads of it to do.

Cheery?

 

[marty21]

drove in today, managed to lose my weekly travel card about an hour after I bought it yesterday and they don't replace weekly ones, couldn't face going in again and seeing the same bloke and buying another weekly one, I think i dropped it on the bus, hopefully a person with limited funds found it, and gets free travel for a week out of it

and I'm buying weekly as I'm off on holiday (hopefully) in 3 weeks so not worth buying the monthly, although had I lost a monthly one, I could have got a replacement for a small fee

still...payday this week

 

[Voley]

Agency say there's more chance of me getting work if I get a CRB check. It's going to cost me £36. That's this week's food money gone, then. I've got to laugh or I'd fucking weep.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Hands are now warm as have relocatted to the library...now my breasts are cold... Thank god for pashminas.

 

[Biddlybee]

Agency say there's more chance of me getting work if I get a CRB check. It's going to cost me £36. That's this week's food money gone, then. I've got to laugh or I'd fucking weep.

You have to pay for the CRB check? That's a bit cheeky.

Hands are now warm as have relocatted to the library...now my breasts are cold... Thank god for pashminas.

Hands on boobs.. everything is warm

 

[marty21]

Agency say there's more chance of me getting work if I get a CRB check. It's going to cost me £36. That's this week's food money gone, then. I've got to laugh or I'd fucking weep.

shit, I didn't have to pay to get a crb check done - the employer paid - and surely it's worth the agency paying for it, they'll get it back when they score you a gig

 

[Badgers]

I would be too scared to get a CRB done, it would remind me of my past sins

 

[marty21]

Hands on boobs.. everything is warm

best advice this decade

 

[kittyP]

Your employer will only pay for a CRB if they are your employer.
If your unemployed, paying for your own CRB might help your chances of getting employed (more if you might take temp work as a temp employer will probably expect you to have your own) but only if your sure that you will only work in the one borough.
They only cover the borough you had it done in. If you want to work in another borough you have to pay for another one.
Shit innit.