Neil Hopcroft

Perhaps I should be posting a bit more frequently…? In the meantime, heres what I’ve been up to for the last 48 hours…

…is gonna be a bit tight over the next couple of months – seeing as I didn’t get paid for my last months work. Yet. With a little luck it’ll be through in the next couple of days. Dammit. Still, at least I got credit cards.

Just had my ‘welcome to jobseekers allowance filling in the form over the phone’ call. What a bizarre experience, they obviously don’t trust me to fill in the form myself. Next I get to meet with an advisor on friday who will put me through some ritual humiliation of some sort before I can claim […]

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 […]

During the run up to the end I received a call from a guy I used to work with. He was wondering if I knew anyone with EPOC skills who could help out on a large project….so we arranged to meet up. The meeting was a little more interview and a little less meeting an […]

Sooner or later the will to continue the project left the company… we were all given notice of redundancy sometime around 16th April. Hurrah! Of course this leaves the project team slightly demotivated, and questions about the future viability of the project abound. There is a potential way out, but the talks to make that […]

(corporate stuff… don’t get too hung up on this – theres a happy ending, well a new chapter at least) Out of the frying pan, into the fire… I knew it was doomed three days in when I asked a question about repeat sales. Never-the-less I stuck with it ‘cos I figured I could learn […]