Back on The Road to Mandalin

Mandalin being a job. Today has been highly frustrating. I got a phone call at exactly 8:19 this morning asking me to ask a temp job for 9 am till 5. They described it as "data entry and admin". I knew it was going to be boring but I needED the money for Manchester as I found out that £45 of the fund will not be coming in time. So, I got up, so quickly that I had to sit back down again because my head started spinning, and walked/ran to this place 20 minutes away to start a boring day's work. As I was power-walking my way there, I wondered how much I was getting paid per hour... £6-00 was my guess. Not so bad. I got there. They said, "do this" and I did it. The hours rolled by at the pace of a snail in slow motion and at 2pm... the knockout blow. Transcript below:

Employee: So you want to be in an office environment do you?
Me: (sort of lying) Yeah you know, if you have a laugh while working, the days just fly by you know. (Bear in mind, these guys were about as boring as Gordon Brown injecting Boredom.)
Employee: Ok cool. Apparently there are about 30 people taking part in this Voluntary Project. I was surprised by the turn out.
Me: Voluntary Project?
Employee: Yeah.. you didn't know about it?
Me: No..
Employee: Yeah, a project for 16-24 year olds to "acclimatise to an office environment". You didn't think you were getting paid to do this did you?
Me: No.. no of course not. Ok if I go on my lunch?

Where did I go you may ask? Home. Fuck me if I'm going to waste my time photocopying blank pieces of paper a million times before scanning that empty piece of paper into an empty computer folder. I was fuming. Well, fuming and very very sad. Hence my quick note of an entry earlier. Part of that note was true mind you. I'll get to that. I had spent 5 hours, (without a lunch break as that was due at 2pm), doing trivial and mindless, monotonous jobs for completely nothing. I got a phone call from the recruitment agency and they shouted at me for not completing the day, so I shouted at them for not telling me the whole truth, then hung up. I still think they're expecting me to go in tomorrow. There's more chance of that happening than me getting a job as the Chief Executive of BP. Talking of BP, I may have a night-shift job coming up there.. (I may have mentioned it already?) I'll keep you posted.

As for earlier, I have been lying to myself. And you. My depression has been better recently but I've still got a long road to travel if I am to completely get over it. The note earlier was just me venting my frustration at the days events, but I won't delete it. It shows that I have stages of up and down and I think it's important you know that even the smallest of things can change my mood from very good to very bad. It's the way of the depression.

On to a lighter mood, I have recently got a music program called Spotify on my laptop. Most of you should be aware of this program, and apart from letting you play any song you like for free, they play the most annoying adverts in history from Shockwave. I was so "angered" that I sent a sarcastic e-mail to them displaying my apparent anger and shock at such an advert. If you would like to see it. Ask.

Big weekend of football coming up so I will update you on that soon. As for you lot, have a good weekend. As usual, I trust that you will.

Cheerio x