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Jul. 23rd, 2008 11:31 pmMy first interview of the day, a lady living on her own, should have taken less than a quarter of an hour. Thanks to her deciding that the job we'd put down last time as her main job was actually her second job, and vice versa, it stretched across nearly half an hour, then another ten minutes of the shift went by when I went to consult the supervisors as to whether extra hours worked that you don't get paid for but do get time off in lieu for count as paid overtime, unpaid overtime or basic hours. And as I returned to my booth to finish the case, Paula asked me all about Jersey so I had to chat with her at the same time as correcting the hours worked issue and coding out. All told, that one survey accounted for 38 minutes of the shift :)
It was poor old Paula's turn to get the evils this morning, so I told her all about my grotty shift on Monday evening. After Paula's second refusal, Margaret came over to her, said "A chance to redeem yourself" and gave her a reissue to call! I call that sadistic.
My e-mail still remains unchecked, as at 1.45, on my last call, the computer threw me a guy who answered for his whole family willing to do the interview then. Thank goodness his elder daughter had left home since the last wave, or I'd have missed my bus.
To Southampton this evening to see The Wedding Singer at the Mayflower. I'd known it would be a real treat, as it's a great story with lots of fun moments, and Natalie Casey, one of my favourite comedy actresses, was playing Julia. She was just perfect. Opposite her Jonathan Wilkes gave a magnificent performance as Robbie, in a rather different style from Adam Sandler's. The stage version is a musical; some of the songs, though newly written for this production, have a very 80s flavour, whether electric dance-pop, Bon Jovi-influenced or 'Jump' style. There are some neat references to 80s song titles in the dialogue, and Glen and his Wall Street workplace perfectly capture the zeitgeist of greed-is-good 1985-89 yuppiedom. Jodie Jacobs was outstanding as Julia's party girl sister Holly, and Camille Devine suitably shrill and poisonous as Linda. It's a roaringly good fun night out and if it's coming your way I can highly recommend it.
It was poor old Paula's turn to get the evils this morning, so I told her all about my grotty shift on Monday evening. After Paula's second refusal, Margaret came over to her, said "A chance to redeem yourself" and gave her a reissue to call! I call that sadistic.
My e-mail still remains unchecked, as at 1.45, on my last call, the computer threw me a guy who answered for his whole family willing to do the interview then. Thank goodness his elder daughter had left home since the last wave, or I'd have missed my bus.
To Southampton this evening to see The Wedding Singer at the Mayflower. I'd known it would be a real treat, as it's a great story with lots of fun moments, and Natalie Casey, one of my favourite comedy actresses, was playing Julia. She was just perfect. Opposite her Jonathan Wilkes gave a magnificent performance as Robbie, in a rather different style from Adam Sandler's. The stage version is a musical; some of the songs, though newly written for this production, have a very 80s flavour, whether electric dance-pop, Bon Jovi-influenced or 'Jump' style. There are some neat references to 80s song titles in the dialogue, and Glen and his Wall Street workplace perfectly capture the zeitgeist of greed-is-good 1985-89 yuppiedom. Jodie Jacobs was outstanding as Julia's party girl sister Holly, and Camille Devine suitably shrill and poisonous as Linda. It's a roaringly good fun night out and if it's coming your way I can highly recommend it.
