Last Day
Been a very weird day today. So much to do, but very limited time. Made more limited by so many people wanting to come and speak to me.
The team went out for lunch (sadly not paid for my the company, but hey, they are tight as arseholes, I already know that). That was quite good, because they were so slow we all had ourselves a nice two hour lunch. And the food was fab - although I work with such neanderthals that eating ‘foreign muck’ was obviously a new thing on them. But given the empty plates, they obviously enjoyed it. Could have done without the “How do I know it is lamb I am eating?” comments though.
Finally I have my car sorted. I still don’t actually have a loan, but after the default was removed from my credit bureau info last night (after calling in quite a few favours at work - disgusting that I had to resort to that, knowing other customers don’t get that treatment, but extremely grateful that I could do so and get the mix up sorted so quickly), I have now not been ‘declined’ for my loan. I still haven’t been ‘accepted’, but a ‘referral’ is a much better result than last week, and now when they double check my credit bureau info they will see all ‘greens’.
I had to send them a cheque, and they had to receive it before they were due to collect it back from me. Which was today. And Tuesday, when I went to send off the paperwork, I had forgotten my cheque book (it only has one cheque left in it anyway). I managed to find my old cheque book, so sent off the paperwork yesterday and paid £4.30 to make sure it got there today before 1pm. What a swizz that is!
I had an email from them att 11 this morning confirming that they had the cheque, and were in the process of sorting out the log book to send me.
So then on to insurance - bloody hell, wish I had checked this first, £531. Not sure why it is so expensive - I know it is a convertible, but it is a hardtop, so not like people can just slice into it. And it’s only a 1.6. Hey ho, I didn’t have the luxury of time of shopping around, so had to go with my previous insurers, since they had all my no claims details already with them, saving me the faff of sorting all that out.
I cried. I knew I would cry. I had someone at my desk, and I was going through some stuff, and I had been aware that it was coming, so had been seeing people walking up and down the corridor bit, and noting that they were not stopping.
Then I saw S, who used to work for me when I first moved to this job, but he has stopped to speak to b, which was a normal, everyday occurance. So I turned back to the guy who was with me. I got so engrossed in what I was saying, that it was another couple of minutes before I became aware of the change in noise.
There must have been about 60 people ranged around the floor (and I received emails from people afterwards saying they hadn’t heard about the presentation, and had wanted to come down and see it).
My boss was great, gave a very funny talk, which was fine, and I was fine. Until he started the, “But seriously….” bit. He said such nice things about me. How I have made a difference in my job, how the company is a much better place to work for me having been there, how the fact there were so many people there was testamy to the great job I had done.
Thankfully I didn’t sob, it was just a bit of a sniffly nose, and watery eyes.
They bought me presents. I can’t believe what they bought me - and B said she had never seen so much money collected for any collection ever before. I have a nice leather briefcase, a leather document holder, a fab soap bag with small bottles I can fill up myself - excellent for when I am travelling. And, after they had bought the presents, they still collected more money, so I have £40 to spend at Amazon.
I was gobsmacked.
I am sorry to be leaving them. So many people came up to me to tell me how much they would miss me today. But my new job is a great opportunity, and I know I will love that as much (well, I hope I will anyway).