Unexpected Good FortuneTravelling through Seattle a good 15 years ago, I remembered an old friend I used to blow up Action Men with. We were bored, nothing to lose , so I looked him up in the phonebook. He was the only one of that name in there. "Come and stay," goes he.
Me and my mates were living in a car at that point so a bed was a novelty. After searching for a while, we rock up to a very posh mansion on Puget Sound with its own Helipad. "Come flying," goes he.
Has your luck held out recently?
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chthonic, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 18:43)
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blessed by the employment fairyWas working for a web design studio in Sheffield run by tight-arsed feckwits, who were paying me 14k a year and refused me a payrise at my appraisal. I was already interviewing all over the place to try and find something (anything!) else, when they dropped the bombshell and sacked me, the cheeky scamps.
Couple of days later I get the call from a recruiter asking how much money I'd be looking for in a new job. I thought I'd try and blag it: "Um, 18k?".
There was a moment's silence on the line, and I gloomily waited for them to tell me to hop it. But no...
"Well the salary range for the job I'm calling about starts at £25k. Would that be okay?"
It's not every day you get a 78.5% payrise for moving to a job with less hours, paid overtime, free laptop, free mobile...
(, Fri 15 Sep 2006, 1:27, Reply)
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