Do you know what type of flowers these are?
They are HELLO I WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT NOW flowers. A brand new, better-paying variety, generally given when somebody is going to leave a job where they have to talk to a large number of twats each day for a job where they will hopefully sit at a computer and drink many cups of tea.
That is, for reasons which I am yet to fathom, I have been offered a new job, which I gladly (FEROCIOUSLY) accepted, and I start on the 11th of December.
OMG LOLZZZ!!111111@1!!!!!!
posted by GBE at 9:12 am
23 Comments:
Woo Hoo!
Congrats, GBE. I hope it all goes well for you and they have nice tea, not that crappy Bushells stuff.
YAY!!
I'm so happy for you!!!
Congratulations!!
(P.S They are lovely flowers :)
Congratulations, from one pube to another! =o)
Whoa!! They chose you? That's unbelieveable! Congratulations. I'm glad it's better paying, it will take far less time to pay off the men who organised the series of accidents of the other applicants.
Go you and your good hair!
Congrats!
You start awfully quick, short notice to give at old job?
I got a new job in beginning of November (leaving the government!) but can't start until January (although it should be February but the government is being nice to me..)
Yeah, congratulations :D Maybe you can wear tailored business shirts and smell nice now.
Hurrah! Yippidy Do-dah! *doing a victory dance*
I knew all these fingers & toes crossed would count for something! Now, room for lots of celebratory cake eating and beer drinking. Beer? what say i - CHAMPAGNE!!
Congrats, GBE!
Oooh well done! They look like lovely and expensive flowers too :)
I'll keep my fingers crossed for the lack of twats in your new job
:)
Looks like the banners here in Indiana payed off. Sorry for the hiatus. Things been pretty busy. . .
So, it's back to being an office wench then? Well done!
CONGRATULATIONS! Send some of that good luck my way, will ya? I'm applying for a govvie job, too!
- M
Congrats!!! Nothing like a new job to drive oneself out of the dark into the light!! Good on you!!
How great! Grats!
thanks is fantastic news
congratulations!
i hope you enjoy the public service!!
Congrats on the job, and they have excellent taste in flowers!
Enjoy the wonders of Flextime and general government jobbyness....
m
W00t!!!! Yay for you. Now you're married, you better work on having this job's babies!!
Serious Congrats!! It's about time you "own a piece of the rock". (Sorry a Prudential Insurance Company line, but since you are out of that game maybe it will be funny for you!)
Looking forward to "GBE versus the Government" surely if your governemnts are like ours you'll have at least six lifetimes of idiocy to write about.
Congrats again.
Mr. Guinness
Congrats on the job. I too work for the Govt. Although great money and RDOs, flextime etc, you have to tone your personality right down, to where you are a complete drone in the workplace!!! But for the money, I can put up with working with boring, overweight freaks. Especially considering maternity leave is paid for 3 months, or 6 mths at half pay.
Enjoy!
When Labor wins next year, it might be more cruisy too.
Wow! I will so never look at those flowers again the same way. They must be pretty special to honor the govt jobs. So does that mean they're no good for Easter anymore?
Big big congrats! That is fabulous news! And hope it's a great change for you!
Miss LaRue, thank you, I'm hoping for some posh tea, or, failing that, some decent hot chocolate.
Jen, thank you muchly, and they are very lovely but unfortunately starting to lose their petals because of this bastardly heat.
Enny, ta, does this mean I can loudly refer to myself as a Pube from now on? Oh, poor taste jokes galore!
Adam, I give no credit to my hair, because it is appalling at the best of times - it must have been my friendly disposition and use of medium-sized words that sealed the deal.
Lulu, yes, thank God for starting soon! I wish they'd asked me to start sooner so I didn't have to hang around at Crappy Insurance Job - now that I know that I'm leaving it's near impossible to do any work.
Joi, well done on your new job too! Officially, we're supposed to give two weeks notice, but I convinced them to let me go in a week and a half so I get four days off before starting at the new place. Mini-holiday!
Mark, nope, it's only boys that have to do that. I'll stick to crinkled clothes and foul body odour, thanks.
Thanks, vapidly vibrant! I had some champagne on Friday night and then I had a hangover so bad I almost cried. But it was great at the time!
Ellie, unfortunately, I think there's got to be at least one token twat for every job. Or else life would be far too easy. Maybe I'll find it easier to avoid them this time round, though. Hurrah!
Abe, I shall eventually forgive you, particularly seeing as your Hire GBE Parade was so successful.
Don Quixote, yep, suppose I am - I think I've realised that office wenching is much preferable to being on the end of a customer complaint line. This office wench job should be at least a zillion times better than the last one, too.
Marcheline, thank you, and good luck! I put in a pretty fancy application, but my interview went terribly. Maybe this is the key to landing government jobs.
wxguesser, thank you! Things are definitely looking up. :-)
MHE, thank you very muchly!
Somewhat-sober, ta lovey, we'll see how it goes but I suspect it is going to kick much arse over what I've been doing previously. Yay!
MMQC, this flextime business seems to be cropping everywhere but I honestly have no idea what it is or how it works. When people have asked me why I'm leaving, I've been saying "oh, government jobs come with excellent benefits" but I really don't know what they are. Hooray for discovering!
Hawkeye23, I'm going to put in one hell of an effort. Checking my temperature, standing on my head, paying attention to the lunar cycle, THE WORKS.
Mr. Guinness, thank you! I expect that joining the ranks of the Frequent Tea Breaks Brigade will bring many blog tales. And also many tea breaks, hurrah!
Anonymous, well, I might just have to have me a couple of sprogs to get my money's worth out of this place! And I usually keep my personality to myself, anyhoo, so I'll fit right in.
Miss Devylish, I suppose you can still use them at Easter if you really want to, just so long as you remember their true purpose. And thank you! I'm hoping it'll be a big change for the better.
Excellent way to bring out the lurkers there!!!
Can't wait til I get to do the same.
Congrats on the job. is this the absolutely fabulous one that you didn't want to tell us about, in case you jinxed yourself? The one where they woke you up to get your supervisors number so they could call him as a reference?
If so (and regardless) HUZZAH!!!! CONGRATULATIONS ETC ETC ETC.
Well done Girly
That's brilliant GBE. As you know by now, I am also temping in a cushy government jobs and I do drink quite a lot of tea! My desk is also right next to the window with a large partition behind me. Internet reading ahoy with no one to peak behind my back! Huzzah! You are going to love it...
The best part about the government is when you get in, you basically have a job for life.
Phishez, yes, the very same. They picked me despite my hungover bleurghing into the phone! (There can't have been too much competition, to be honest, particularly after that effort) Thank you, lovey!
Audrey, oh, how I hope for a large partition. I am going to use this opportunity to try many different types of tea, and become a tea connoisseur. This job for life thing sounds tops. Though I hope they do not fire me when I announce that I have a month-long holiday planned in three months. Oh dear.
Pomgirl, double yay! Yay yay!
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