Neil Hopcroft

Sounds like the meeting was the standard selfcongratulatory corporate event I’d expected it to be…good job I wasn’t invited. Still, the food after wasn’t bad and it was a chance to meet some of the other people working there. Not that I actually met that many, most of the people I know already are new(ish) […]

I’ve just been sent home from work for the afternoon – they’re having an employees only meeting, and being a subcontractor I don’t get invited to such meetings, and they don’t let subcontractors on site without a permanent member of staff present. Oh well, I’m not complaining, I get to make the best of this […]

That CD was something of a disappointment, it contained mainly recordings of the interviews in the magazine, which is about as much use to me as the squiggles in the magazine itself. Oh well, I:m going to try to find another magazine with free disk tomorrow. I will find out about the music scene here, […]

First day at work today… there was something disturbing about turning up at the reception desk and everyone going “Oh, you’re Neil”. Oh well, it seems they were expecting me at least. Loads of boring work-y stuff, which I can:t really go into…seems they need someone like me though. They:re earlier in their project than […]

After weeks of ‘preparation’ (which has mainly involved procrastination) I’m flying to Japan tomorrow (1pm, Heathrow). Hopefully I’ve got most of the paperwork ready and the information I need to find both the hotel and the office when I get there. I’ll still be available on my normal email address, though my responsiveness will not […]

Work permit nearly sorted. Looks like next week is probably my last week in the UK for the moment. I’m aiming to come back for Whitby in November.

My first day as a doley and I’m up at 930…hrumph…thats not supposed to happen. Maybe I’ll get into it over the next couple of weeks.

Today I became officially between jobs – my last day was…interesting. I just went in to pick up some odd bits and pieces. As I was leaving at 5:30, someone pulled me aside and suggested that I should stay around for a meeting with some members of the board at 6. So, I ended up […]

Hmm, all looks a bit complicated to me.