Of Mild Mortification February 15, 2008
Posted by Jen in : Journal , trackbackWhat a funny old week. Is it really Friday already? Hurrah.
So, let’s sum it up, shall we? Started new temp job. ‘Tis all very nice: nice people who remember my name even though I’m merely a humble temp; an adorable boss-lady who has not made me cry even once; a supersonic photocopying device that resembles a Concorde cockpit. I could photocopy my bottom and email it to everyone in a jiffy if I so desired. Luckily, my desire to do so has been contained so far.
I have been offered a super-duper new job. This means that I will no longer have to live on fluff and Marmite. Perhaps I’ll take a little pot with me to sniff when I’m alone in the new office though. Usually, in the traumatic first few weeks in a new job, I do at least try to appear normal. This is quite a strain, as you can imagine. Sadly, my (most lovely) new colleagues and boss have already discovered this pitiful melange of nitwittery. Oh my giddy aunt. I’m doomed. Maybe I could offer them a little lick of the fluff ‘n’ Marmite. That would do the trick.
Ho hum. Talk about starting on a back foot. Maybe, of course, it will work in my favour… after reading this piffle, they will be relieved that I am, in reality, utterly dull. And quiet as a mouse. And other things. Gawd. Bloody Google. I’m doomed, I tell you, doomed.
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Your OTHER blog though…not for the fainthearted.
Felicitations on the new job - hoorah! If they are reading your blog, does that mean you’re going to start being all sensible and dull? I do hope not. And, I don’t think you’d convince anyone…
If you do photo-copy your bum and email it to everyone, will you make sure you reduce the size before sending? Not because your bum is on the large side, but because we’re halfway up a mountain on dial-up and large files won’t get into the In-box.
Bon weekend Jen!
Mya x
having a real job is sooooo scary though, isn’t it!?
Look at it this way…..he read your blog AND STILL offered you the job!! That’s got to be a good thing!!!
C x
Save the photocopying your bum till you want to make a grand exit from somewhere. Can you add sound files? maybe I did it my way or Je ne regret rien would be good
Yvonne!!! You did make me laugh though.
Mya - yes, it’s sensible and dull all the way now. Can’t you tell? I hadn’t thought of re-sizing my behind on the techno-gadget. Much better than dieting; good thinking.
Helen - is v scary indeed. I haven’t worked full-time for about fifteen years! Hope they don’t mind when I slip into my pyjamas and pour a glass of wine at 4pm. Old habits die hard…
Carol - ’twas most embarrassing indeed, I tell you. I will have to be a good girl from now on. Well, a bit good anyway…
Breezy - I think there must be a vast array of songs to accompany one’s bottom into an inbox. Luckily, I can’t think what any of them might be. Oh dear. Why am I talking about bums? Sigh.
Yay! Spiffing new job. Big congratulations!
If you start telling us to ‘think outside the box and ‘number crunch’ we’ll know you’ve been abducted and forced to do Normal:-) Noo….
ps is this ‘posh gent’ job?
x
Well done Jen. You’re on a roll; novel finished, new job! That is fantastic. I bet you did photocopy your bum and kept it yourself. You’re not fooling me young lady!
Congratulations on the new job, Jen. Great news!
Hoop - la!
They probably took you on because of this, and now you’ve got to be dead funny all the time just to live up to it and please them!
But well done, and how I wish I was an egg-timer…
Well done on the new job!
I’m still waiting to hear about mine. Although the longer I wait the more likely it is that I haven’t got it. Oh well. Never mind!
Congratumalations! You can now have toast with Marmite. Don’t photocopy your lady-bum until you’ve been there at least a month.
Congratulations on the new job. At least you have the choice to photocopy your bum if you so wish.
Lane - the ‘posh gent’, yes. But, y’know, you’ve got to think outside the posh box a bit…
Pacha - you’re right, of course. My bum is most important as I talk out of it all too often.
Maddie - ta!
Lucy - I think they’re all chortling quietly to themselves and thinking that I’m never going to live it down?
A Writer - you’ve still not heard? Blimey. But no news is good news and all that.
Karen - Oh God, I can’t believe you just said ‘lady-bum’. Am feeling a bit weak. You do know that I’ll be tarnished with all these allusions to bots and other nether regions, don’t you?
Debs - To photocopy or not to photocopy. I’m sort of thinking ‘not’?
Well, I’m personally hoping getting a ‘proper job’ isn’t gonna mean all your long, hard hours of work and dedication writing the novel will get put on the backburner and go to waste.
Big congrats by the way.
I’m glad you had a good first week. Nie people make all the difference.
Bedshaped - I’m hoping that doesn’t happen either. I’m looking forward to having a ‘proper’ job but a little worried how I’m going to fit everything in. I suppose I’ll just have to get up earlier; where there’s a will and all that…
Nez - Nice people rock.
A new job!
A new opportunity …
for Jenificating people
and advanced Jenology
How enchanted will your new office chums be?
Can learning curves go down as well as up???
Congragulations Jen, starting a new job will be like a breath of fresh ‘marmite’ after the ‘fluff’ and nonsense of temping. See, I’m normal too, completely lol.
I thought it was just me who had bosses who made me cry when I was temping {{{Jen}}}. Honesly, some people are such poopers.
H
xx
Ooh, look at you two nestling cosily together in the comments box!
Monsieur Bobo - I rather like the idea of a learning curve going down rather than up. It’s sort of a bit miserable and cosmic all at once?
Ms Hullaballoo - Normal is as normal does
Temping is quite tear-inducing, it must be said. Or perhaps we are just tremendously delicate flowers..? X