Jon Deller: Company Man.

That's not strictly true of course, because importantly the GSCC is not in fact a company but an organisation. An arms length body of the government that is effectively apart of the department of health. (Or a QANGO if your down with the terminology.)After 6 long months of unemployment how am i finding the transition into the work of full time employ. Pretty easy actually. Yes i miss the huge amount of time to do my own thing that not having a job had and yes i do have to get up earlier in the morning, but you know what? Work really isn't that bad. Once you get to know it anyway. The first to days were by far the hardest though that was mainly down to the fairly complex computer system i am now relatively competent at using and the sheer volume of procedural documentation i had to read through. So what is it i do exactly? I hold the very exciting title of "Registration Assistant" and basically means that when someone on the Social Care Register (its a register of social carers in case the title didn't give that away), changes their name, martial status, address, work place, job, qualifications, favourite colour or dies than i am the mug that has to go onto the computer system and update their entry with said information. It also means that i have access to and huge amount of people's personal information the practical upshot of which is the i know my cousin Al's ex's middle names. If i were to become an identity thief i would be an extremely good one!

The pay is good for starters, as are the prospects, the pension and the holiday. GSCC employees get 5 "privilege days" which basically means 5 extra days paid holiday on top of what we already get and bank holidays. What is really good however is that i get 4 weeks paid sick leave and i will tell you why that is good in the next paragraph after i have finished talking about my new job. Apparently i am learning the system very quickly which pleases my line manager no end, however what i thought was the best result of my first week on the job was that i got to use the BIG shredder on Friday and it was gooood!

So why is all that sick pay an especially good thing? Because on the 10th July i will be going in for surgery to remove my tonsils. The waiting list was apparently not that long! It'll take me about 2 or 3 weeks to recover from, depending on how much of a wuss i am and be back at work so the fact that i'll be being paid over this time is fantastic!

I know its a long time to wait for a very average posting. At least i have a valid excuse now though! I'm busy working!

Next week: Jonbar attends "Staff Day" in London.
(Well technically it was this week, but i'm working a week behind at the moment.)