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09:01 / 20.02.02

OH! and itmight help to look at it this way- a cosmic reason for everything getting (or culminating, or even remaining) difficult at the moment you decide to drop the habit is that if you pull through- you'll never have to go back, because if you can put up with this nonsense WHILE nicfitting like a man insane then you can easily put up with it with cleaner, nonadicted lungs.
~wanders off to smoke a cigarette~

The Natural Way

09:01 / 20.02.02

Big spell for you tonight (of the dry kind).

Zap.

[ 20-02-2002: Message edited by: Fantastic YOU [I, Runce] ]

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

14:47 / 20.02.02

Hope all goes well, Tom. Trying to quit smoking at this already stressed out time? Are you mad? But hey, if you manage to stay of ciggarettes for good, you a much stronger man than I.

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14:53 / 20.02.02

You're not going to get the job. No need to worry.

15:21 / 20.02.02

Good luck, guy. I'll be rooting for you and trying to send the good vibes your way...

Morlock - groupie for hire

15:30 / 20.02.02

Bollocks, too late again. Good luck retrospectively, anyway, can't do any harm. Let us know how it went.

Don't hesitate if we can do anything more than this.

15:48 / 20.02.02

...good luck, Tom...if you need anyone to speak for you, tell them you have a couple hundred fans behind you...

17:21 / 20.02.02

Good luck - or hope it wnet well - is all I'm going to say.

Apart from: you have to be good to have made it as far as you have. The BBC keep on turning me down before the interview stage...

18:50 / 20.02.02

Huggles.

19:52 / 20.02.02

Tell us then, tell us, absolute torment from start to finish or not that bad really? Whole day assessment? Thought that was so 80's. Did one of those once, the horror, the horror! Hope you have a good feeling about it.

20:31 / 20.02.02

Good luck. I know I'm late, but then, time is an illusion.

As for the cigs, I'll smoke your share for you, that's gotta help. It's gonna hurt like a bastard but I'll do it for the good of the board.

I'm sure it was... nice and smooth.

09:26 / 21.02.02

Please tell us how it went TOm.

09:26 / 21.02.02

Ouch. Occupational Psychologists....

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:26 / 21.02.02

Occu-WHAT?
(Hope the "ouch" part doesn't mean it all went terribly... too late to wish you luck with the interview, unfortunately, so I'll wish you luck with the fags and ignoring of twatty emails instead).

09:26 / 21.02.02

Hope you're feeling okay today, fella. Let us know how it went as soon as you're up to it - fingers to be uncrossed, breath to be unbaited and all that...

10:48 / 21.02.02

quote:Originally posted by Tom Coates:
Ouch. Occupational Psychologists....

Increasingly common in interviews for large companies. Don't worry: you may have scored high on anxiety but you're not psychotic and you're not a psychopath; that's generally what they're looking for.

14:45 / 21.02.02

Don't you have help running Barbelith? I always thought you did. If not, can't you get some old hands to help with the running of this place? I'm sure they won't mind.

Anyway, good luck

15:48 / 21.02.02

Well moderators are really the help aren't they...

I'm kind of OK with it all today - it was pretty horrific, but I don't think I was completely insane. Pretty insane, but not completely. I would say that there is no more than a 50% chance that I'm through to the next stage.

Basically started with a 1 1/2 hour assessment which presented us with the basic organisational crap for something resembling a 'Children in need' style event and asking us to build a parallel web event. Which was really fucking dumb as there were a HELL of a lot of questions that needed to be addressed and it was so compeltely out of the blue and not what I was expecting that I realyl honestly think I fucked it up.

Second half was six of us sitting around a table attempting to find agreement on a couple of issues. I found this actually kind of funny in a hysteric, let me get the hell out of here way. I don't think I did very well in that either, mainly because I was so frustrated by eveyrone else...

I hear tomorrow about whether or not I get a further interview...

Lazlo Woodbine [some call me Laz]

16:07 / 21.02.02

Durring times of unimployment and stress, i find the most relaxing and often commical thing to do, is to take a walk around your home area, sit on a bench and watch the people you see every day, but notice, go about their daily business.

Concerning the arse mailer.
If it is a 'he' :
Find him, then, show him a picture of a beautiful lady, then stab him in both his eyes with his stiffend cock and beat him to death with his ball sack.
If it is a 'she' :
Find her, then, rape her!

16:18 / 21.02.02

You've got my phone-in vote, Tom. Unless you're up against Gareth.

17:19 / 21.02.02

tom bro,

you can do it, put your a$$ into it*

trans: have some faith in yourself, there's no really good reason not to

17:25 / 21.02.02

Tom, are you able to determine whether these unsolicited emails come from the same computer? If so, I may forward you my 'Icarus' correspondence - just to see whether all Knodge-related spam stems from the same source...

23:05 / 21.02.02

Don't worry, mate. You will go well.

In my exams, when I think I have S**t it up (always), I got the best results.

It's like all the terrible energies that are around you are doing an ultimate effort to pull you down.

How about you make a sigil and ask us to charge it? I can bet everybody here will help!

The_Player

06:01 / 22.02.02

posted by buttered scones:

"Concerning the arse mailer.
If it is a 'he' :
Find him, then, show him a picture of a beautiful lady, then stab him in both his eyes with his stiffend cock and beat him to death with his ball sack.
If it is a 'she' :
Find her, then, rape her!"

sorry to thread rot here, but what the fuck????

[edited to add: best wishes to you, tom]

[ 22-02-2002: Message edited by: shortfatdyke ]

06:39 / 22.02.02

may i second sfd's WTF???

and i'm still thinking of you today, tom. hope things are good.

alas.

06:59 / 22.02.02

Have you heard yet, Tom?

And can you get me a job when you get in?

Ganesh: I have to put together a 36 page glossy souvenir magazine in the style of Smash Hits all about Gareth Gates. Can I interest you in a copy? Or would you like to write something gushing for it?

07:44 / 22.02.02

Good luck Tom - I had to do tests for this job and was convinced I'd done so badly it was shameful - but apparently not.

and can I 'third' SFD's WTF to Buttered scones? Arse.

07:55 / 22.02.02

That was a rather bizarre comment to say the least. I'm sure Battered Sconce has some rational explanation...

<that's a cue to defend yourself, by the way>

mr insensitive

08:01 / 22.02.02

Stop being so bloody petty.

08:09 / 22.02.02

What's petty? The fact that several female posters thought that the phrase "find her and rape her" was a tad off-colour to say the least?

If some cockwipe had brayed that loudly in a pub and some people at the next table had made their feelings known, would you have replied the same?

And does that make you as big a cunt as the person who said it?

Questions, questions.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

08:54 / 22.02.02

Buttered Scones is 187, which I think is an RRM suit. I thought they were fighting for women?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

08:54 / 22.02.02

(Nah, 'Scones is 517. And at the risk of sounding petty... WTF?)

More importantly: will be keeping my fingers crossed for success and prosperity in Tomsville.

13:32 / 22.02.02

quote:Originally posted by Sax:
Ganesh: I have to put together a 36 page glossy souvenir magazine in the style of Smash Hits all about Gareth Gates. Can I interest you in a copy? Or would you like to write something gushing for it?

Erm, thanks but no. I'm not quite that 'Jonathan King'...

8-/

13:35 / 22.02.02

More WTF?-ing here.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

13:40 / 22.02.02

But rape-and-mutilation jokes are funneee, people! What's wrong with ya? 'Specially when you sneak'em into a help-and-support type post, so anyone taking issue feels awkward about derailing the thread. What's up- no sense of humour?

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