Rabbit Thought of the Day

I have just received an email from HR asking me to complete a leaving questionnaire, I have had a brief look at the form it contains the usual questions, why are you leaving, have you enjoyed your time and would you consider working for us again, that kind of thing. But I can also ask for an interview with a senior manager or director, which I am planning on doing, although at this precise moment I don’t know which one to see I wonder if I can have the CEO.

I’ll not fill the form in just yet; I’ll think about over the weekend and complete it early next week.

One another ninety minutes and I can head off home, I still haven’t heard anything from Rosemary or Caz about tomorrows little jaunt to Leicester I suppose I will have to wait until I get home to receive the latest updated information.

I already know that she’s not going swimming tonight, so I’ll be on my own again, but thinking about I think I’ll have a change and go out on my bike.

Lunch time on Friday, it looks like a beautiful day out there so I might just wander out for a breath of fresh air. I have already had my lunch which in line with my diet consisted of fresh fruit.

I have been given a couple of jobs to do that will take me through the next four weeks until I leave. It hasn’t turned out as interesting as I thought, my line manager was great about it, although I didn’t expect any problems with him.

However, my operations manager hasn’t said a word to me and has totally blanked me, which of course doesn’t bother me at all. He doesn’t spend much time in the office anyway and as never really said a great lot to me. I have just checked back and in the time I have been here he has only ever sent me two emails the last one being in December last year, now that’s what I call a good communicator.

And they wonder why I am unhappy here!

I suppose this forecast can’t be much worse than the BBC’s

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The world is set for a "big chill," possibly a mini-ice age, according to the venerable and whimsical Old Farmer's Almanac, first published in 1792 and the United States' oldest continuously published periodical.

The 2009 edition, published earlier this month, predicts that the earth already has entered a sustained period of global cooling.

True to form, the almanac also includes tips on gardening and how to stay warm all winter with just one log.

"The next 20 years, it's going to be colder," said Sarah Perreault, assistant editor of the Old Farmer's Almanac. "We do recognize that (global cooling) could be offset by greenhouse gasses and other human effects on the earth, but we're trending toward the cool period now."

The almanac is predicting a period of global cooling partly due to the lack of sunspots, a situation which some scientists believe causes cooling on the sun and, subsequently, the earth. Perreault said the staff still uses the weather prediction method devised by almanac founder Robert B. Thomas, using a combination of solar sciences, meteorology and climatology.

"Obviously we have more technology now," she said. "We have the benefit of having more information than he had, but it's basically the same." She said the method is not exact. Since the almanac is published so far in advance, it cannot take into account the most up-to-date information on Pacific Ocean oscillations El Nino or La Nina, for instance. Still, the almanac has an 80 percent success rate for its weather predictions, Perreault said.

In its early years, the almanac was one of the chief sources for weather forecasts for farmers and other businessmen. While it may not hold that distinction anymore, it is still a "great piece of Americana," said Mike Palmerino, meteorologist with DTN Meteorlogix. Palmerino said the almanac sparked an early interest in the weather in him. "I find their weather forecasts a curiosity. It's more of something that's just a fun read," he said.

The format for the Dublin, New Hampshire-based almanac has been roughly the same throughout its history, with its yellow cover and hole punched in the upper-left corner for hanging in barns and outhouses.

It is not to be confused with the slightly less august Farmer's Almanac, first published in 1818.

In addition to weather predictions for each day of the year, the Old Farmer's Almanac also includes gardening tips about such things as planting milkweed to attract Monarch butterflies. And how does the almanac recommend keeping warm throughout the winter with one piece of wood?

Toss the log out of an upstairs window, run downstairs and outside to retrieve it, run back upstairs, then fling it out of the window again.  "Pretty soon you're going to be very hot and you don't need to turn the heat on," Perreault said.

I have just had a quick word with my line manager and he was quite sympathetic with my situation and doesn’t blame in the slightest. If fact he did go as far as saying that he his keeping his options open. So he has no problem with my resignation and wishes me well in the future.

Of course I will still have to have a leaving interview with HR, my line manager and the operations director in which I plan to let them have it with both barrels, vent my frustrations and tell why I believe things have gone wrong.

Tomorrow’s trip to Leicester has been thrown into doubt, Caz is not feeling too good and to be honest she doesn’t look well at all. I hope she recovers because she has been looking forward to this trip and after all it her future we are talking about here.

It would be a shame if she was to miss to it, but because I don’t know how often the university have these open days so it could be a problem if she can’t go and as to re-book it.

As promised here is a copy of the letter of resignation:

I am very disappointed with the attitude of the company and I feel I was deliberately misinformed at my interview on the position of the company and I have not been utilised in the position for which I was appointed. I was very unhappy with the annual pay increase in April, which was far less than the rate of the inflation at only 2% and the company bonus scheme which was used as selling point at my interview appears to be non existent and looks as if it as not been paid for many years.

The leadership and management of the company is very poor and they exercise little control over its employees nor do they provide guidance for its work force.

In summary I feel as if I have wasted a year of life, whilst working for this company and achieved very little. I was hoping to advance my career while working for Some Building Company, but a number of training courses to which I applied were not approved.

If asked I would not recommend working for Some Building Company  to anyone unless the company significantly improved its procedures and working practises. It is with regret that this letter is blunt but without these points being raised then they will not be addressed. I do however; wish the company well in the future.

Its Friday one again the last day of the working the week, and it going to be an interesting day, I have issued my letters of resignation and I am going to post a copy on here, so it should give every one a good giggle. There’s no going back now the deed is done.

I have now completed all the paper work and it just needs me to post the paper work back to they HR department. It will have to go my registered mail and it will contain my passport, driving license and the originals of my academic certificates. Quite important really.