What made you happy today?

[think positive]

Leath and lala have arrived in Athens.


That's a long trip with the stopover in Singapore, considering I dropped her off at the airport at 10am yesterday.

Looking forward to following her on Facebook and hoping I don't have to go all Liam Neeson on Europe

Cool movie though! Can you jump rooftops??ill stalk your page to check out the pics! I love holiday snaps!

[watt price tully]

Just got back from a ricde to Frankston & Olivers Hill.

Distance: 82 ks.
Top speed: 62.8 km's / hr
Average speed: 25.2 km/hr
Calorie loss: 4140
Knees: Not too bad - ouside right not the knee but " tendon falt a bit but all good now
Arse: A bit of a barge but not sore (the butt cream working well)
Back: nil isssues ( a bit when I first started at 7.10 this morning but stiff from waking and no stretching)
Fluids: 2 bottles of water: 750 ml each and stopped for 10-15 in Mordy for coffeee on the way back.

Tacked on to a group from mentone all the way back to North Road making riding a hell of a lot easier.

Danger: bikes: 1 older dickhead who rides fast in a group thinks it's OK to ride 1cm next to you as the group passes - gave hiim a verbal spray. Cars: all good today.

Now for brekky/brunch, magnesium tablets and make two rolls for the footy

[think positive]

[stui magpie]

Looking at the daughters holiday snaps on Facebook.

They've just done a tour of the city of Chania on the Isle of Crete. Now my knowledge of European geography is shite, so I had to google it. Wow.

Dead smack in the middle of the Mediterranean sea, far closer to Libya, Syria , Turkey and Egypt than to France or the UK. Lots of history to the place as you'd expect.

I've never really had the urge to visit Europe, but I may revisit that as I follow her holiday.

[luvdids]

Europe is great, recommend going there to anyone - everything is so close & it's much more interesting than America IMHO (glad I went to the US & checked it out but been there, done that, much more to see, still think you'd like Vietnam too).

What made ME happy was my weekly Sunday night walk with my neighbour (being woman wouldn't possible go on my own!) where we did our usual 4.4km route and smashed our pace - first time we did 10.26 mins per km, last night we were down to 9.48mins per km.

Strava app tracks all the stats, burned 469 calories & the km split with 11m elevation was 9.54 minutes, first time we did it that km was 10.09. We powered up that MF

[stui magpie]

Got a phone call this arvo from someone i used to work with at my last job. The reason for the call was that she's confirmed what we both knew, i was overpaid in my separation payment. I won't go into details but both me and the payroll manager queried the calculation at the time, but thr new IR person was adamant that they were right. They weren't.

Good luck getting it back, the amount is detailed in a signed deed of release.

The part that really made ne happy, also made me a bit sad. Apparently I'm missed by those who worked for me and it's not a pleasant place to work anymore. Some people who used to enjoy coming to work, now wake up dreading it apparently.

I'm happy with the compliment and happy I'm not there anymore, but I'm sad that the culture we had has been destroyed and it's no longer a good place to work

On reflection, the other bit i was happy about was how my brain kicked into gear when she was describing work situations. It is like riding a bike, you may be out of practice but you never forget how or that you're always a tool in lycra.

[luvdids]

Ummm, why would payroll be discussing your pay with some other employee?
Not very ethical.
Where are you working now?

[K]

^ Bound for Hollywood (soon --- we think).

[stui magpie]

Ummm, why would payroll be discussing your pay with some other employee?
Not very ethical.
Where are you working now?

Payroll did a quote for my payout, it was discussed with the IR manager on direction from the head of HR. nothing unethical there.

Now, I'm an unemployed bum looking for a job.

[luvdids]

Ummm, why would payroll be discussing your pay with some other employee?
Not very ethical.
Where are you working now?

Payroll did a quote for my payout, it was discussed with the IR manager on direction from the head of HR. nothing unethical there.

Now, I'm an unemployed bum looking for a job.

No, that doesn't sound unethical but- who's the bird that called you? I was meaning discussing your pay with someone else sounded dodgy, unless she's the IR manager or head of HR.

And oh, didn't realise you were still unemployed, any prospects? What are you looking to do?

[think positive]

Ummm, why would payroll be discussing your pay with some other employee?
Not very ethical.
Where are you working now?

Payroll did a quote for my payout, it was discussed with the IR manager on direction from the head of HR. nothing unethical there.

Now, I'm an unemployed bum looking for a job.

uh hmmm, i believe the term is actor with other interests!

[stui magpie]

Ummm, why would payroll be discussing your pay with some other employee?
Not very ethical.
Where are you working now?

Payroll did a quote for my payout, it was discussed with the IR manager on direction from the head of HR. nothing unethical there.

Now, I'm an unemployed bum looking for a job.

No, that doesn't sound unethical but- who's the bird that called you? I was meaning discussing your pay with someone else sounded dodgy, unless she's the IR manager or head of HR.

And oh, didn't realise you were still unemployed, any prospects? What are you looking to do?

All discussions were above board, no dramas.

I've started aplying for HR jobs, waiting hear back on a couple at the moment. Part time on good coin would be great but those jobs are few and far between so I'm also looking at full time close to home.

As much as i enjoy handyman work, it would kill me to do it full time and anything less wouldn't pay enough, so I'm screwed. Anyway, had a good break, I'm ready to saddle up for a few more years til i can get my super. I've got enough cash to last me another 12 months if i need to, but I'd rather get some coming in and keep the cash as a nest egg.

The acting was fun, I'll keep having a go while i can, but it's not going to pay the bills

[luvdids]

Oh, sorry, didn't realise you were still looking - don't come in here much & don't tend to trawl through the pages I've missed.

If you don't mind me asking, have any of the jobs you've applied for queried what you've been doing since the last one, like - why so long not working? We get applicants with gaps in employment & for whatever reason the owners aren't really keen on them. Which I don't get, if they take time off to travel or whatever, what difference should it make?

Have you done more than the Neighbours gig? Never know, could be the next George Clooney!

[K]

... like - why so long not working? We get applicants with gaps in employment & for whatever reason the owners aren't really keen on them. Which I don't get, if they take time off to travel or whatever, what difference should it make?
...

Is (say) 6mths, 12mths, 18mths, ... really regarded as "so long" by employers?
I thought that was quite short, actually...

[stui magpie]

Oh, sorry, didn't realise you were still looking - don't come in here much & don't tend to trawl through the pages I've missed.

If you don't mind me asking, have any of the jobs you've applied for queried what you've been doing since the last one, like - why so long not working? We get applicants with gaps in employment & for whatever reason the owners aren't really keen on them. Which I don't get, if they take time off to travel or whatever, what difference should it make?

Have you done more than the Neighbours gig? Never know, could be the next George Clooney!

When ive applied for jobs via recruitment agencies, they've asked. I put on my linkedin prfile that i was having a career break.

Jobs I've just applied for direct, I'm yet to get an interview which is a tad frustration as most of them i could do in my sleep