I haven't blogged about this yet, but I'm changing my job next week. I shall be moving to the Personnel section, after nearly 11.5 years on checkouts, and 2.5 years when I was a student. I'd always said that I would only consider moving to one other section, which was Admin/Office, but there was only one thing stopping me, and that's no longer the case, so when a vacancy opened up, I applied. The only other person to apply was Daniel, and it was very weird to be in competition with him, as well as to know that however the decision went, we wouldn't be on the same section any longer, after nine years of working together.
I applied on Monday three weeks ago, had an informal interview on the following Saturday, and the Friday after that was called into the manager's office and told that I'd been successful. I'd spent the couple of days after the interview panicking, but really, it was more about the fact that everything will be changing, than that the new job scared me. I had a couple of chats with a former colleague who will be one of my managers on Personnel, and she calmed me down and sorted me out!
I'm pretty sure I'm doing the right thing by coming off checkouts, though there are several people who I will miss working with, but I've said that I'll still do some Sundays for them, and I'll be doing lunch covers regularly as well, plus I'll still get to see people in the dining room before shifts and on breaks, and on social club events and meals out.
Although my new section is called Personnel, my job will mostly be cash office, which I've done under Safeway and Morrisons, and love, and general admin and office type work, with some small personnel tasks like sorting out business dress and lockers etc. I'm looking forward to it now, but wish me luck anyway!
Monday, July 30, 2007
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Ordered my glasses.
I ordered my glasses on Thursday evening, from a company called Glasses Direct. I've gone for a style called "Marion", and with basic lenses, free anti-scratch coating, and delivery, the total cost is £18.75.
If I like the frames, I shall order my 'good' ones from there as well, after New York, but this way at least I will be able to see where I'm going (though really, isn't *everything* in America more than big enough to see?!) and get used to the strength of my prescription.
Here's a pic of the frames I've ordered. I've gone for the 'blush' colour option, as shown.
If I like the frames, I shall order my 'good' ones from there as well, after New York, but this way at least I will be able to see where I'm going (though really, isn't *everything* in America more than big enough to see?!) and get used to the strength of my prescription.
Here's a pic of the frames I've ordered. I've gone for the 'blush' colour option, as shown.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
I Can't See Clearly Now ...
... but I might be able to in a week or two.
I've just come home from my first eye test in 14 years (I know, I know, don't all yell at me at once.) I went to SpecSavers this time, after an incredibly bad experience at my old opticians last time I went, and which was the main reason why I haven't been sice. Most people are scared of the dentists - I'm scared of the optician. As usual, I have to be different.
I've noticed my eyesight getting worse over the past few months, and knew it was time to get glasses sorted out, having not worn them since I left college and stopped needing to read the whiteboard at the front of the room.
It turns out that not only do I need *strong* (meaning thick!) distance glasses, but that I have a broken blood vessel *and* a separate small haemorrhage in my left eye, which is the weaker one as well. If that weren't enough, I have early stage cataracts in both eyes. I'm 31!
I asked about contacts, and Louise, the optician, said it will be best if I get used to the strength of my glasses first, then think about contacts. She's written to my GP to recommend that she refers me to the eye specialist for further examination of the broken blood vessel, which may need laser surgery. The cataracts will need careful monitoring too.
Worst of all, having just looked at some of the online optical sites, which are usually cheaper to order glasses from, my lenses are going to cost me an absolute freaking fortune. Because they'll be thick lenses, I'll want to get the "thinner" lenses to compensate, and that element of the lenses alone will cost me up to £130. Plus the frames, anti-scratch coating etc. So, I'm not only freaking out about *more* eye surgery and traipsing back and forth to Brighton eye hospital, which I've done for nine years in the past, or the fact that after cataract surgery last year, my nan is now completely blind in that eye, but about the cost as well! Bugger!
I've just come home from my first eye test in 14 years (I know, I know, don't all yell at me at once.) I went to SpecSavers this time, after an incredibly bad experience at my old opticians last time I went, and which was the main reason why I haven't been sice. Most people are scared of the dentists - I'm scared of the optician. As usual, I have to be different.
I've noticed my eyesight getting worse over the past few months, and knew it was time to get glasses sorted out, having not worn them since I left college and stopped needing to read the whiteboard at the front of the room.
It turns out that not only do I need *strong* (meaning thick!) distance glasses, but that I have a broken blood vessel *and* a separate small haemorrhage in my left eye, which is the weaker one as well. If that weren't enough, I have early stage cataracts in both eyes. I'm 31!
I asked about contacts, and Louise, the optician, said it will be best if I get used to the strength of my glasses first, then think about contacts. She's written to my GP to recommend that she refers me to the eye specialist for further examination of the broken blood vessel, which may need laser surgery. The cataracts will need careful monitoring too.
Worst of all, having just looked at some of the online optical sites, which are usually cheaper to order glasses from, my lenses are going to cost me an absolute freaking fortune. Because they'll be thick lenses, I'll want to get the "thinner" lenses to compensate, and that element of the lenses alone will cost me up to £130. Plus the frames, anti-scratch coating etc. So, I'm not only freaking out about *more* eye surgery and traipsing back and forth to Brighton eye hospital, which I've done for nine years in the past, or the fact that after cataract surgery last year, my nan is now completely blind in that eye, but about the cost as well! Bugger!
