Last Day...

As of 13:00 hrs today, I stopped working for Arvato.

My last day was a complete waste of time too

I officially end my contract on the 10^th January, but with holidays to use up and a perceived lack of work for January (plus my replacement ha ha) it was felt that today would be the best day to end my 13 month tenure with the company.

Unfortunately, I had already assumed last Friday was to be my last day, so today was little more than an anti-climax.

Friday was cool. I finished all my work, and true to form, half-finished my final (and most important) task lol. My team, a great bunch (who I know will read this- I wish would stop being pathetic and start talking to each other again), had a whip round and bought me some leaving gifts. As much as I LOVE getting gifts ha ha, I hate stuff like that, get very embarrassed very quickly. I managed to mumble out some words of gratitude, ha ha actually I thought I handled it quite well, but I’m sure they’ll disagree. And then they applauded. Face reddens. And then the team next to them started clapping too – very loudly. Knees start trembling. Looking for the exit now.

There you go – my own ‘Captain O’ Captain’ moment. Sadly minus the standing on chairs, but I was touched. A very cool moment which I will relive time to time when I’m alone and drunk, cheering myself up.

I wrote a heartfelt email (ie full of stupid jokes) to say goodbye proper, and made my peace with the fact that it was over.

So, how do you top that?

Sadly, you cannot.

I was asked to come in today to say goodbye proper (again I guess) and (Yay! 1999 just come on Shuffle – two weeks early but fuck it, party tune Yay!)

Balls where was I?

Oh yeah, I had half-heartedly applied for another position in work. A position that I was informed after applying had already been assigned to someone else. When agreeing on today, my manager mentioned the interview as she had forgotten about it – not exactly awe-inspiring. With this knowledge, I approached today with all the enthusiasm of a death row prisoner tucking into a larger than usual meal…

I waited till midday and still no news of when the interview was going to be. In the end, I asked myself did I really want the role considering I’d realized how happy I was to be leaving the place (I do want the money lol). I sent an email to HR & my manager with some guff about not feeling right for the role and withdrew my application.

(As I’m blogging this, there is a good chance they could be reading this ha ha).

I sent an email to the entire staff thanking them for the past 6 months, very short email. Put on my coat, said goodbye to the few who were sitting close by, and walked out.

A quiet ending to a strange topsy-turvy 13 months.