A quick update on the psychometric testing. Last post’s cartoon was, I thought, a slight exaggeration of the truth for comic effect. Today I got home, euphoric from the successful capture of a three month contract at my former job, to find a package from a government department waiting for me. Inside, a letter informing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘I am a public servant sometimes’
Truth: stranger than fiction
Posted in Chap, I am a public servant sometimes, Me: shit, unemployment, tagged Chap, I am a public servant sometimes, Me: shit, unemployment on July 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tell us about a time when you demonstrated leadership/resolved an issue/improved your knowledge base/went batshit-fucking-crazy
Posted in I am a public servant sometimes, unemployment, tagged I am a public servant sometimes, unemployment on July 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been going to a fair few job interviews. As they have all been for public servant-type roles, they’ve all essentially been the same interview, and anyone who has ever interviewed for a job in the public sector will recognise the standard set of questions they ask, and the jargon in which they ask it. [...]
Lowering the Tone
Posted in Chap, I am a public servant sometimes, procrastinating, thesis, tagged Chap, I am a public servant sometimes, procrastinating, thesis on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just what you all wanted, more physicist pillow talk. Tomorrow is my last day at the place where I am a public servant! After that there are no excuses for days like today where I didn’t write my thesis because Chap needed help with buying a suit.
Hourly Comics Day- the results
Posted in 2 Austin Terrace, Chap, comics, drinking/drunk, I am a public servant sometimes, miscellaneous friends, sartorial concerns, the boys, tagged 2 Austin Terrace, Chap, comics, drinking/drunk, I am a public servant sometimes, miscellaneous friends, sartorial concerns, the boys on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I hope you enjoy them! It was a lot of fun to make. EDIT: Sarah’s hourly comics are up. She is being modest about them but they are hilarious. Also we just ate the giant fish in a curry. He fed seven people comfortably and he was delicious.
Hourly Comic Day
Posted in 2 Austin Terrace, comics, I am a public servant sometimes, miscellaneous friends, the boys, tagged 2 Austin Terrace, comics, I am a public servant sometimes, miscellaneous friends, the boys on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hourly Comic Day was dreamed up by webcomic superstar John Campbell a few years back. It’s pretty simple, and yields some surprisingly funny results. The way it works is, on the 1st of February, for whatever time zone you are in, you make a comic for each hour you are awake, documenting your day. Heaps [...]
Normal Service Resumes…
Posted in Chap, comics, drinking/drunk, I am a public servant sometimes, summer, Technical failings, thesis, tagged Chap, comics, drinking/drunk, I am a public servant sometimes, summer, Technical failings, thesis on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The above is a brief but accurate summation of the state of things as 2008 ended. Yes that is right I am back after an unforseeable absence caused by laying around in the sun for three weeks negelecting everything except my alcohol intake, and the recent death of my computer. My computer that has on [...]
This One Doesn’t Even Warrant A Proper Title
Posted in 2 Austin Terrace, Chap, drinking/drunk, I am a public servant sometimes, London, miscellaneous friends, politics, sartorial concerns, the boys, thesis, tagged 2 Austin Terrace, Chap, drinking/drunk, I am a public servant sometimes, London, miscellaneous friends, politics, sartorial concerns, the boys, thesis on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I leave on Friday. For various reasons, the most prominent being the new government (Murray McCully for Foreign Affairs Minister, anyone?), Marks and Spencers, proper autumns, London bridges, a twee club night where the entire crowd sang along to Lazy Line Painter Jane, pear cider, pub meals, Camden, and an intellectual dismantling and reconstruction which [...]
Exciting Tales from Public Servant Land
Posted in brain disease, I am a public servant sometimes, Technical failings, tagged brain disease, I am a public servant sometimes, Technical failings on September 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Back at work for the first time since the passing out episode, I am attempting to cut my orange with a butter knife. Presumably there is some kind of Ministry directive somewhere forbidding the presence of sharp knives in the kitchen, for reasons that could be OSH-related, or could possibly be to prevent stress-related suicides. [...]
The Government Pays Me Money
Posted in I am a public servant sometimes, politics, tagged I am a public servant sometimes, politics on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And in return I waste the Government’s time. Two days a week I work at a government department as a Graduate Advisor. I don’t really know what that title means. I have never given anyone there any advice, unless you count telling Max the 9th floor team historian that maybe he shouldn’t wear his jeans [...]
