YAY. But more about that later.

Last week was sooo busy at work. But all good stuff so thats ok. Lots of little jobs to do, and lots of annoying salespersons to deal with. And stupid delivery drivers.

1) Sales persons: I work for a small to medium organisation so we get a lot of faxes and emails relating to people who want to sell us stuff. By far, the most obnoxious and annoying are the printer-toner-and-ink people. I get around 2-3 calls a week from different companies wanting to contract with us for the supplies. Which is stupid coz we spend maybe a grand a month tops. So not worth it. Our current supplier has good pricing (not THE cheapest but good) and they give excellent service so I am happy to stay with them. But these other companies keep bugging me. ARGH!

2) Deliver drivers: Ok so maybe it's not the drivers themselves but the communication chain. For example, deliveries from Dell Computers go Dell (Malaysia) --> BAX (Malaysia to Melb) --> Airroad (Depot to us). We had some big orders recently and needed to get the drivers to take the stuff to a different storeroom, not at goods recieving. So we tell the supplier to get the driver to come to reception so we can escort them there. The supplier sez (no probs). However, the drivers rock up at goods recieving (and unload on the foothpath no less) before I can even get outside from my office. Their run-sheet has no mention of coming to reception. argh. This has happened 4 times now. We went to the effort of ringing AirRoad and telling them specfically (no probs they say) and still nothing. The last delivery, I went out and told the infra guys not to let the damn trucks in the gate. That worked.

3) Three weeks (15 days) till we move to the new building. I have SOOOO much work to do. argh. My back hurts from lugging all these computers around (but thats coz I'm super unfit).

Anyways, on Friday (I was super busy) got called into the Corporate Services Manager's office (my boss's boss == boss^2) and my boss was already in there ("Oh shit" thinks I), to have a chat. To make a not very long story short, they have decided to offer me a 3 year contract as an employee (I am a contractor at the moment). So I am like "Yay". Still, it depends on the wage. Coz I already get paid more than the 1 year old contracted employees. Still, money is tight (with all my expenses). I am hoping to talk them into at least 37 grand (which may not sound like a lot to you) but that is like more than the 3 year old people get, and a 15% rise compared to what I get now. I reckon they'll only offer 34 ish. The going rate is from 30-45 grand and I do a lot more than my job description. Maybe if I spin some shit about taking on additional responsibility I can squeeze some more dollars out of them. It's not like I'm over worked (busy enough tho) and I have never refused to do an extra job. A 37 grand wage would put me back to where I was when I was living with Alan and splitting the bills and stuff (in terms of whats left over each month).






- posted by Lach @ 13:09