Rabbit Thought of the Day

I have completed all the necessary leaving forms (I think) and I have requested a leaving interview with HR and the Southern Area Manager. There are a few points that still need to be addressed that weren’t in the ‘Leaving Survey’.

I was rather critical but nothing too nasty, because I will still them to send a reference to my new employer, but the remarks I did bring up were all true, after there’s no point in lying because everything is documented and you will just make yourself look an idiot.

I think I’ll put one of them count down timers on here, if I can figure out how to do it.

Considering Monday got off to bad a star, it sort of getting better as the day progresses. I have been very busy and it should continue for the rest of the week. Not stressful busy, but enough o keep me occupied without busting a gut, if you know what I mean.

The senior manager have now disappeared, the meeting didn’t last very long. I find it difficult to understand why they would organise a meeting se early in the morning. It seems a little ridiculous if you ask me to start at seven in the morning. I am sure they could have had a better found a more convenient time to start, after all it just a matter of managing your time better, oh I forgot that management they aren’t able to do that.

This is my 1000th post since I first became a member of site, I have made many on line friends and have enjoyed my short time on here. It has been a bit of an obsession really, I feel I must make a post a least once day, if fact since I have been a member you can count the number of days I have missed on one hand.

Here’s to my next 1000 blogs.

I have just spoken with Rosemary who has taken the news of my misfortune this morning with her usual humour even when I told her it was her debit that I had lost ( she didn’t even use the term plonker). I said I would go and collect as soon as they phoned.

News this morning is that I have to attend a meeting on Wednesday in London, with me giving my notice and being given another job to do for my last four weeks here. I thought I may be able to escape the London meetings, it seems I was wrong. I don’t mind going into London, because it makes it a short day, what I do dislike is that the meeting are generally a waste of time and nothing is ever achieved. I suppose I shouldn’t complain it only a matter of time before I leave and then I won’t have to attend any more.

A Berlin auction house says it has sold one of the few remaining sections of the Berlin Wall for more than 7,800 euros (£6,150). The large graffiti-covered stretch of the wall, which once divided capitalist West Berlin from the communist East, was bought for display in an office.

Many fake pieces of the Berlin Wall have been sold in the past, but the auctioneers said this item was genuine. The wall was demolished in 1989, after the collapse of the East German state. For nearly three decades, it kept East and West Berliners apart.

Much of the demolished wall was used for constructing roads. Other sections were collected and eventually used in a monument to Germany's division.

Authentic pieces are in museums around the world, including at the Imperial War Museum in London.

About 1,065 people were killed at the wall trying to escape from East Germany.

Miners in Lesotho have discovered a huge gem stone which may become the largest ever polished diamond. The stone weighs 478 carats and is the 20th largest rough diamond ever found, said Gem Diamonds.

The company said the uncut rock was recovered recently from the Letseng mine, owned by the company in Lesotho. The diamond, which is as yet unnamed, has the potential to yield a 150 carat cut stone, and could sell for tens of millions of dollars, the company said.

"Preliminary examination of this remarkable diamond indicates it will yield a record-breaking polished stone of the very best colour and clarity," said the company's chief executive Clifford Elphick.

It would be bigger than the 105 carat round-cut Koh-i-Noor diamond, which is part of the British Crown Jewels. It would still be dwarfed by the Cullinan diamond discovered in 1905, which was 3,106 carats uncut and yielded a teardrop shaped diamond of 530 carats called the Great Star of Africa.

The Letseng mine is owned by a mining company of which Gem Diamonds controls 70% and the Lesotho government 30%.

I was quite surprised this morning, when I arrived at the office we have quite a few senior managers in. They have a meeting stating at 7am, what time is that to start a meeting it’s barely daylight. Still that why they get paid mega salaries for they have to take the rough with the smooth.

I have only four working weeks left before I leave for new horizons, well it will be less than that I have a few days holidays to take and I will have to hand in computer a few days before I leave, once I have done that I will be unable to do much more work, because in my job I need a computer, there are hot desks, but no hot computers, what a shame.

Monday morning, and it not been a very good start. I had to call in at Tesco this morning to get some fuel. The queue in kiosk was quite long considering the time of morning so I decided that I would use the pay at the pump facility, after scanning my Tesco’s club card, the instructions were to insert my payment card. I will blame it on being so early on a Monday morning and not being fully awake I inserted my debit card into the wrong slot. It was then I discovered it wasn’t my debit card but Rosemary’s card. I had it in my wallet when we went shopping the other day and she didn’t want to take her handbag. So I have not only lost a debit but Rosemary’s debit card.

Well it not exactly lost, I do know where it is, but unfortunately I am not able to get it back just yet. I spoke to the person ion the kiosk and they have to call out an engineer and that could take up the 24 hours. I hope Rosemary is in a good mood when I tell her the news.