Hehehe, gotta love that. I don't hold quite the position of 'knowledge holder' that you do at your job, but I do enjoy slagging off my colleagues so. I can't help it, it's sometimes the only thing that keeps me going during their excruciating conversations and petty lives. I also manipulate them into doing crazy-ass stuff. And they run with that, for some reason...they seem to have blind faith in what I say or do just because I have a college degree. Yeah, I know I'm a bad person.

Re: resignation...I had a good talk with my boss. He was surprisingly cool about it. We even brought up the possibility of a middle road: if I get him to sign a paper saying he will do so, we could perhaps continue the contract and disband the contract on mutual agreement - in that case there would be no financial penalty. I could give a month's notice or something in that case.

I'll have to call HR if that's a practical possibility. If not I'm still outta here. But as much as I hate my job, I'd rather make a little cash in the meantime than risking being unemployed for months. And now the cat is out of the bag anyway, no need to sneak around near my boss.

meh. i wish i was at home playing NWN 2.

well, congrats again, that's a big step. Hope it works out for you. And you better land a decent job this time around.

lol. Hey, this place LOOKED decent when I first applied. And it's got some awesome benefits like ridonculous amount of holidays, cheap insurance and flexible work hours and shit. But it's kinda hard to know what the actual work will look like or who my colleagues will be.

Let's just say that getting paid more than I'm getting here is a good minimum benchmark for my next job.

Just to keep you all posted: I managed to cut out a deal. I got my boss to sign a paper which said that he'd agree to a mutual disbanding of my contract with a minor notice period (a month or so) should I hand in my resignation during the remainder of my contract.

I don't have a new job lined up yet and he can't replace an employee in a week's time (obviously), so it's the best solution for now. This place may suck monkey balls, but I can stomach some more time here if necessary. Much as I'd like to stay home and play games and apply for jobs, money is nice too. Especially given the whole lending-my-brother-a small fortune debacle.

So, for now, I'm still broadcasting from Civil Service Central every day.

well, good for you. Keep us posted. And remember, you owe Shiny and I a visit.

In that vein: I've got a job 'test' at the US embassy around noon. No idea what to expect, but I suppose it'll be English and general aptitude stuff. Ie, stuff I'll smoke. Read up a little on American history and stuff just to be on the safe side - I know you guys are pretty big on those things.

We'll see.

Damn I'm jealous Pev - I am having to go in early and stay late lately. Very stressed out and would LOVE a day or two off. So stressed!

operation? Nothing bad I hope?

But yeah, good going on the 16 days off! I've got about 2 weeks of vacation saved up for this year already, and i'm thinking about taking a holiday or not. I kinda need the days to go apply for new jobs so I can't really blow them all...then again.

thanks for the job test support in any case! It was pretty ok - research, translation, editing. Should have done well. it's a strange atmosphere though, the embassy is in the centre of Brussels and there's cops EVERYWHERE. Blockade, a ton of regular Belgian cops, then a ton of security firm employees, and then, inside the actual building, marines. I thought "hey, a Satis" when i saw a dude in army fatigues.

We'll see how it works out, if it does at all.