Mood:
chillin'Now Playing: Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
What better music to listen to when you're about to go on the dole? It took 22 minutes on hold, but I've begun the proceedings to start collecting govenment money that I neither earned NOR deserve. Personally, I blame the way job searching goes on over here. Back home, you see an ad, respond to it, they give you a call, an interview a day or two later and you're hired and start next Monday. This is how it works over here:
You get the application and send it off. ... Time passs until the application deadline passes (Usually 2 weeks after the ad first went out) ... Time passes and you're called about an interview - next week. You go to the interview and ... Time passes until you hear from them and then you get to start a few weeks to a month later. Even the lady at the Job Center agreed that it takes too long!
In retrospect, it was a stroke of luck that Elisabeth's company wasn't like that - at the time she did the whole interview thing, we were very close to being in some serious financial trouble. Had they have decided to hire her the Britsh Way, we'd have been living inside royal Holloways library.
Mind you, getting the dole also takes a million years. The person who advised me to go on it, didn't get her money until after she started working, 3 weeks later. I get to take an extensive phone interview Thursday to finalize things. Yikes!
PS - Andrew W.K.'s "Ready to Die" is probably the best rock'n roll song EVER. Silly Elisabeth thought he was an 80's rocker and didn't beleive me when I said he was a contemporary >ahem< rocker. Although, I do understand her confusion; he looks disturbingly like Cro-Magnon Man.