[m i a o w] the cat

Sometimes that thing over on the sidebar really lets me know what was going on a year ago. It’s so odd that almost to the day, I’ve slunk back to do a few days work a week for some of the people I ran screaming from. Ah. It’s the cash - and I can work from home. And, I’m not touted as a ‘researcher’ while I actually am just a trouble shooting computer fixer and smoother overer. I’m just someone who uploads stuff via what appears to be a very crap CMS. In fact, some aged man there referred to me as a ‘data entry girl’ yesterday, while I gaped at him.

So I quit my university job a year ago. I also then quit the job I got to replace it - mostly because we planned to move to NSW and build a catamaran [now taking place in Cannons Creek] and also because I was cramming more than a weeks worth of work into four days a week, even though I’d only been employed to work three. I was doing it as a ‘favour’, and becoming unbearable in the process. I think I may have even quit if we didn’t plan on moving - and I think they know that.

Now I’m back there, they have the fear that I will again up and leave. So when I said I only wanted to work two days a week, they actually listened. I have not once been asked to do more hours in the last two months. Of course, the irony is, that the lady who was hired to replace me is still working there full time - so before I left (a la Melba) I was actually doing two peoples work! No wonder I was coldsorey.