Avi’s blog

If you take these on board you will be happier and more fulfilled.

1. You are not entitled to anything
2. The only person you can really rely on in life is yourself.
3. People always put themselves first in the end
4. You are not important or special in this world, but little things you can do can help the world be a better place, or a worse place – it is up to you
5. Anything that you do get, given or paid for, or worked hard for – you are incredibly lucky to have.
6. You are not entitled to keep anything – if you lose anything, well you were lucky to have it for the time you did.
7. If you want anything to change you need to do it yourself, and you may be unable to achieve it.
8. If you want anything at all – you better be ready to work very hard for it, and accept if it doesn’t happen for you.
9. The most successful people in the world are those who refused to give up, no matter what was thrown at them.
10. Sometimes G-d says no. Accept that. He knows the bigger picture and has reasons, and we may not be able to comprehend them.
11. Know when to be stubborn and when to accept things the way they are.

That last post was written two years ago.

And the corporate has lost it’s shine…. 

>They have lots of toilets!

Let’s just say you get used to that…..

>New job as a psych!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!! pay is better,

Let’s just say I’m being paid on the 27th percentile, as a registered and experieienced psychologist? Hello?? 

>and they have heaps of
>benefits – sound like they have respect for their staff (manky brothel has
>none)
 

Respect? HA!!! 

No, they have respect for money…..

>now I’ve renamed my current workplace as “manky brothel”, and the new job
>as “shiny corporate”
 

Let’s just call it “THE FIRM” 

>I bought a couple of suits on the weekend – shiny corporate dress nicely.
 

You get over that one too… 

>Shiny Corporate have a lovely “wellness” program – where they pay for my
>gym membership, massage, yoga and more
 

the gym is 20 minutes walk away – by the time you get there and back you’ve done your exercise, it’s actually inconvenient and would be more useful if they paid for membership at a gym of your choice! 

>Shiny Corporate will be paying for my petrol as well as any kilometres I do
>for work, and will pay for my mobile phone (time for an upgrade!!!!!!!!!)
 

Can’t complain there! Didn’t get un uprgrade though, and they are trying to convince us to get risd of our petrol cards in exchange for more cents per litre! Sure!

>Shiny Corporate have an excellent social calender >involving cocktails
>parties and a holiday with all staff and their partners.
always booked at times I can’t attend…. and apparently it’s standard in an MBA that if you throw alcohol at your staff, you pay can get away with paying shit!

>My workplace are freaking out – two of us have resigned now. THATS COS ITS
>A MANKY BROTHEL AND THEY SHOW US NO RESPECT AND NO REWARD FOR HARD
>WORK!!!!!!!!! SUCKED IN!!!!!!!!!!!
And they no longer exist……………

And I’m looking for a new place now!

Avi

I RESIGNED THIS MORNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay! I’m leaving this old brothel in three weeks from today. (For those who don’t know – yes my work moved into an old brothel. It has a very manky smell about it and is very cold – don’t know how those girls managed!! Our
heaters are crappy too, don’t work.)

I got a new job …

They have lots of toilets! (Manky brothel has one loo for all to share, but at least it’s insde – the last building had one outdoor loo, mmmnnn men, women, clients, staff and visitors – all one loo)
New job as a psych!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!! pay is better, and they have heaps of benefits – sound like they have respect for their staff (manky brothel has none)

now I’ve renamed my current workplace as “manky brothel”, and the new job as “shiny corporate”

I bought a couple of suits on the weekend – shiny corporate dress nicely.

I will be in the city now – real city - …. not east ….. Next door to Department of Justice – so I can still see my parole officer buddies

Shiny Corporate have a lovely “wellness” program – where they pay for my gym membership, massage, yoga and more

Shiny Corporate will be paying for my petrol as well as any kilometres I do for work, and will pay for my mobile phone (time for an upgrade!!!!!!!!!)

Shiny Corporate have an excellent social calender involving cocktail parties and a holiday with all staff and their partners.

My workplace are freaking out – two of us have resigned now. THATS COS ITS A MANKY BROTHEL AND THEY SHOW US NO RESPECT AND NO REWARD FOR HARD
WORK!!!!!!!!! SUCKED IN!!!!!!!!!!!

Well it’s just over six months, I guess that means it’s time for my next blog

Lots and lots of spam comments (yay!)

What have I been up to? Who knows…… Life. Nothing major or surely I would have written about it??

Yoch’s car got broken into Wednesday night…. the dog told us and got really stressed and we told her to shut up
She then jumped on me in bed – cuddled into me growling heaps – I told her “it’s alright” and tried to go back to sleep.
His car alarm didn’t work
The next day I looked at my insurance, realised it was overdue and paid it.
Yoch stayed home to sort out everything and got a quote on an alarm for our house.
We bought the dog some presents and promised to listen to her more often.
They stole his subwoofer from his boot, his car stereo face, scratched the stero trying to get it out, and took his entire ashtray, coins and all, oh and took all his cd’s. Luckily Yoch isn’t very trusting of people and cars so all his Cds were copies of what we have in the house.
They broke their scissors cutting the wires to the subwoofer so they could take it – the police told us to keep the bit of scissors in a plastic ziplock bag as they may want those….. (sure!)
Then to top it off….
The insurance company denied part of their policy that says there is no excess or damage to no claim bonus if you get broken into
The insurance company upped the excess without telling anyone.
The insurance company also stated that it’s in the small print that they an change the policy at any time, hence the changes!
The insurance company denied that they had ever been told he had a car stereo let alone a subwoofer.
The insurance company stated that they wouldn’t cover the ashtray either, as it “wasn’t part of the car, and you didn’t tell us you had it” !?!?!?!?!?!

So today Yoch cancelled his insurance with SGIO and moved to HBF (I found their service wonderful). He even told HBF about his non standard wheels – not making that mistake again!
He’s discovered he can replace the stereo face and ashtray for about $250.00, when the excess was $350.00 (that’s the upped excess)
The subwoofer/amplifier will take several hundred, aka might not happen.

Lesson 1 – listen to the dog!
Lesson 2 – Check the small print!

Avi

Well Friday started well.
Started in a traffic jam the pretty much ran from my house to my company car park. Went through the usual emotional reactions – the “I’m sure this finishes just around that corner” blind hope, the “maybe I should go down that road and take another route”, the “I should have gone down that road, I’d be there by now”, staring at other people in traffic “man I’m bored” reading the paper (traffic just wasn’t really moving OKAY!)…. look up, guy on motor bike staring in at me reading the paper… crap… stare forward and ignore him really hard…. to “Oh my God I’m soooooo late panic, to just completely numb, accepting that I’m over 1/2 hour late, got no excuse.
It was in just completely numb where I drove my car in between the moving heavy plant machinery and over the pile of sand into the company car park (yes, we have road works blocking off our car park), enter the car park, try to round the corner, hear a large cruching sound (normal with the road works) and look out my window to think – “that pole’s a lot closer than usual” (ie. in my door), proceed slowly, more crunching (hmm not good) and park my car.

Get out of the car, have a look…. hmmnn …… door smashed in, big side panel scrape…..
Get files out of the boot of car, look up ….. hmmm… the plant machinery has stopped and the workmen are all staring, big open eyes…. wave of nausea….
Snap ….. Smile my biggest smile, wave and say “Good Morning” in my brightest sickly sweet voice, and walk briskly into the office.

Get to my desk, lots of messages … clients in crisis, things that were working are suddenly “going pear shaped” (as my manager says). More like going down the crapper. Pears are nice. Client crises are not.

Ended up leaving at 3 with a headache / beginning of a migraine. Nice psychotic client happy to reschedule.

Got a quote on the way home. Quote mans says ” you’ll have to put in a claim” “I can do the insurance assessment right now ” “It’s take about a week to fix….”

Later I call the insurance company, explain the whole process… insurance lady not laughing??
Turns out quote man lied, need to get an insurance assessment. In the middle of the day. More time out of the office I need to make up….
And I can’t pick who fixes my car….. I have to wait for them to let me know.

Had a cranky at the insurance assessor – costing me more by making me come out in the middle of the day, not going with my preferred car fix people!
(Yes I have preferred people. They have hire cars, and can service the car at the same time.)
(Shut up!)

We’ll see what happens?