Oh No No No No
Posted in Money, house, work on June 13th, 2008This isn’t going at all how I envisioned it would. First, my fun-loving bohemian flatmates have managed to somehow screw up the council tax payment so that we are now either due in court or have to cough up extra money. For once, me being piss-poor at registering for anything I have to comes to my advantage, as I’m not actually on the list of the council tax payees for this place. However, it’s still unfortunate and because I have informally agreed to participate in the council tax (I just consider it an extra thing in my rent) so I think I’ll have to cough up the court avoidance fee.
The internet connection we got is, in theory, pretty good. In practice, I think the architecture of the house is giving me grief with connections, as I seem to lose connectivity every few minutes. It may be just me typing in my bed that makes it flaky, but I’m directly above the modem on the next floor up - there shouldn’t be that bad an obstruction to disrupt the signal.
Oh, and another thing. Work. I had somehow envisioned me working nearly full time over summer, as ever since I started at my part-time job people had been telling me good things about the money. Now my boss has posted a schedule that people can tack their desired shifts on. But get this: He actually says “for the time being, please do not take consecutive days.” What?! So not only would I be splitting a five-day work week 4 ways (as there are four of us), it would mean I wouldn’t be able to split it in the most sensible possible way (have one full week at work, one week off, say) that would allow me to actually have some holiday time as well.
I somehow didn’t see this coming. I knew there would be less shifts to go around during the summer, but also thought there would be less people staying on. I’m still a bit dazed from all this, as I’ve just woken up. In any case, it looks like I’ll have to find a second job to cover my expenses of staying in London. And how will I respond to the email from my boss? I’d need to indicate my availability for shifts on specific (non-consecutive) days that would fix my schedule and therefore prevent me from planning for any contingency. How is one to deal with this kind of situation? Damn.