What are you doing right now?

[Minty]

The interview was a fiasco. The only way to get to the place is by car or taxi as it's in one of those weird out of town industrial estates off a dual carriageway with no pavements & well away from any bus stops or train. If there was any risk of pedestrians going near the place they'd probably erect machine gun towers.

The guy supposed to interview me had forgotten about it & gone out. I had to wait until quarter to 12 for someone to be available to interview me. The job it turned out was NOT what I'd been told it was, it was in fact merely to be one of those automated nuisance callers jobs on minimum wage trying to get you to buy Sentinel Gold if you had bought a product they are "partnered" with. Those I talked to had all been sacked & brought back many times, never lasting longer than five weeks - temping by default. Fair enough to get a bit of money in before Christmas, but they also told me there was no guarantee of hours - if they found they were slack, you'd be sent home & only paid for the time on. The other advantage for the company is that by having nothing but temp staff, it means no holiday day

I am beyond furious. Working Links sent me to the first crap job they could find it in the hope of getting a "success" one way or the other: either I took the job or they could claim I had rejected a legitimate offer of employment & have my claim stopped. I was no sooner in the door than they were on the phone asking me how the interview went, an interview that represented £20 down the drain in fares for a wild goose chase.

I came home as well to find the kitchen top flooded with water. It seems the kettle had developed a hole in it. Since trouble comes in threes, I'm hoping that cold, crap interview & broken kettle makes up this month's allocation.

What am I doing right now? Sneezing!