I've just come back from an assessment day
for Eurostar in Ashford. They say they'll let me know one way or another on Thursday.

I absolutely loved the place, and understand entirely why people stay there and work their way up through the ranks, it's a lovely atmosphere to work in and the work is just stretching enough for someone just starting out.

The disappointments were as follows:

- Signing in at the reception desk only to see a few lines above my name for the previous day:
09.10 [STALKER GIRL] - ASSESSMENT DAY.

Do. Not. Want. I've spent the last two years getting away from the bitch, and she knew I wanted to work there. If I have to deal with her psychotic grin every day, assuming I get the job, it will spoil the experience - that I have wanted since I was in my first year - altogether.

- The interview in the afternoon, after spending all morning and most of the afternoon doing teamwork exercises, listening in on calls and eating the buffet lunch they laid on for us, is where I came unstuck, once again because I have no experience and because they asked me a really tricky question: "why do you think selling by phone is better than face to face?" and I didn't have a clue how to answer it. The rest of it was mostly standard interview stuff, strengths/weaknesses etc, but I'm pretty sure in spite of having 40 vacancies I'm not getting in. And if they hire Stalker Girl and not me I'm going to cut a bitch.

On the plus side, one of the PCs I was using had a printout of No Hands Kittin stuck to it.
( Maladicta, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 16:34, 10 replies)

Miss! Miss! I know!
It's because you can put the bastards on hold and call them all the names under the sun, then take a deep breath and resume your business.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 16:40, closed)

Well
If she's as mental as she sounds I'm sure she won't have a hope.

At my first interview for my current job I was asked what's 7% of 7. Might be easy for some but seeing as I did history at uni and gave up maths after GCSE this threw me a bit. I said 49. He asked if I wanted to think about that.

I wouldn't worry about the employment thing either. If you're getting to that stage of the interview process then they'll be prepared to overlook it so long as you're good at the practical side.
(Milo Minderbinder, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 16:43, closed)

^ I was trying to find a diplomatic way to say you're more in control
like that but the words would not come :(
( Maladicta, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 16:44, closed)

7% of 7? Wouldn't have a clue.
The problem with Stalker Girl is that her grade-A nuttiness means she'll talk to literally anyone (fellow students, hobos, cashiers, clipboard people) about literally anything (her sex life, her "ex"'s length and girth and how he would never ever give her oral, the latest ailment to attack her rancid mimsy, you get the picture) so she's comfortable in interviews and has previously had jobs, whereas I haven't. The only edge I have on her is that her French is shit, it's barely better than Del Boy's French and as I assume we're both going to be applying for the French-speaking team there's more chance I'll have to work with her, and if I have to work in an office with her while she's hanging round my ankles wailing "Why are you being so horrible to me, I'm only being friendly!" then I'm going to look like the bad guy. The other people I was in with today were absolutely lovely and I'd be really keen to work with them, plus we get two free daytrips - one to Lille and one to London as part of training, plus a free trip to Paris (to which Mr Maladicta is coming whether he likes it or not) but I hope you're right about that one question :( it's hard to come up with examples when you've never earned money...
( Maladicta, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 16:47, closed)

I apologise if this comes off as unnecessarily rude
But how can one girl have so many stalkers? Could it be that these are people that want to form a genuine bond of friendship and it's your perspective that's slightly skewed?
(Boar is dreaming of get rich quick schemes..., Tue 1 Jul 2008, 16:54, closed)

^ I've come to the conclusion I have "MUG" written on my forehead in a language only nutters can see and read.
Stalker Girl started out perfectly normal, then she got weirder and weirder until she started to threaten suicide every time I even said hello to anyone else and told me I was a "selfish cow" for wanting to have other friends, tried to split me and then-Mr Maladicta up, ruined my 21st birthday because she didn't want me to spend time with other people, and generally acted like a bunny-boiling psycho, so I consider her to be the one with the skewed perspective.
( Maladicta, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 17:02, closed)

Fair Play...
She sounds a bit like one of my exes. Not called Claire is she? :P
(Boar is dreaming of get rich quick schemes..., Tue 1 Jul 2008, 17:28, closed)

Best of luck for Thursday M
If she's that unstuck from reality and you two did end up working together, surely others would notice that she's got a screw loose and not think you're being the bad guy?
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 20:15, closed)

@ Boar
No, her name is Alison. Bear it in mind if you ever meet a short, fat blonde with "green" (grey) eyes who dresses like an old woman and talks like Vicky Pollard would if she was from Hastings. Oh, and every other sentence begins with "my boyfwiend" or "my ex".
( Maladicta, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 22:18, closed)

@ Becky
Thanks :) I'm also moving to my third temporary home on Thursday so it's going to be crazy!

One would hope so really, she tends to get this desperate "be my fwiend? pwease?" look in her eyes when she's talking to someone new, and her whole manner takes on this absolute desperation: "Oooo! You like music! I like music toooooo! We should be fwiends, give me your number!"
( Maladicta, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 22:21, closed)