dear gods, the forms, the forms *sobs* make them stop!! [Scribblings from the Mitchy Side]

I wouldn't say work has been a bit hectic this week because it'd be a lie. It's been sheer bloody chaos. PartyGirl and I had been a smidge worried that we'd not had more Nursery Education Grant claims forms back prior to yesterday's deadline. This is pretty unusual, as although we always get a lot in deadline week, usually we get a couple of "clumps" of returns in the week prior which makes it easier to cope with the load. We were right to be worried.

We got two huge loads of post on Wednesday and yesterday. Yesterday's post was epic, they will sing songs in its honour. Most of it was carried up to our office in a crate. Never, ever, ever have we been so inundated before. Sheesh. I haven't seen my desk surface for two days :P

But after much back breaking effort, we've juuuust about tamed the paper mountains down to very large hills. And PartyGirl, bless her, was so pleased with our efforts yesterday she bought me and TheTempWithNoNickname a bar of chocolate each yesterday afternoon as a thank you for getting so much work done :) 's nice to be appreciated. As we muttered late yesterday afternoon, neither TooBrightTies or FogHorn have a frickin' clue what PG's job involves. I think they dismiss it as trivial. This is going to be a mistake because there are Things Afoot.

*looks left...looks right*

PartyGirl's got a new job! She applied for one of the higher grade positions at County Hall that were available through this Finance reshuffle/The Way We Work restructuring and she got the post! She's going to be working for SEN funding from July 1st. I'm thrilled for her. For me? It just gives me a whole 'nother reason to get a job somewhere else. The chaos when she leaves and (I'm betting) there's no-one up to speed to take her place? Yeh, so plan to not be there, there is not enough pay in all the world that could tempt me to be there for that *shudderfits just at the thought*

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Well done on taming the paper mountain!

If PartyGirl is going, won't that create a vacancy for which you have rather a lot of relevant experience..?

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Yeee-eeees and, then again, a rather resounding no. See, it's about 2-3 ranks above my pay grade, which is a big leap. I could do it, especially if I had the next six months to work with PG to learn everything that's in her head (hah!), but whether my application in two months time would be taken seriously, I have no idea. Plus, although I'd be nuts to turn it down, there's a hellava lot of downsides to the job, mostly the management I'd have to work with, which would be slightly different to the ones I have now. Technically I'd still work for School Funding BUT the NEG comes under Early Years in terms of budget and policy. So it gets messy. The manager of Early Years now is deeply useless, and it makes the job nine times more difficult than it needs to be.

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Yes, I feel the same way about my last job. My boss mentioned that he would be advertising for the position again, and I avoided eye contact until he asked me about the interviewing committee. I'll gladly serve on that, but I do have a habit of scaring applicants away.

How, do you tell them What It's Really Like? :)

http://sanba38.livejournal.com/399190.html

*gigglefits* I see what you mean :)

Dear God that brings back memories. I used to do Nursery Education Grants at Barnet, and yes, it was a 3 week job:
week 1: bored. Worried will lose temp position as am obviously waste of money.
week 2: OMG paper has covered my desk so completely you can't tell there's a desk. Have to process 300 forms to excavate chair.
week3: senior accountant asks how many people have applied for grants for the same kid at 2 different nurseries. Scrutinise spreadsheets until my eyes bleed.

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mitchy-shaped jobs at SEN funding?

Are there any mitchy-shaped jobs at SEN funding?

There might be. Tough to say at the moment. The way the restructuring is working is that first of all, all permanent staff have to be either slotted, ring-fenced or allowed to apply for any other permanent finance post. After all that, then, and only then, will any non-permanent staff be allowed to apply for anything. They haven't even touched the admin side of things yet. Earliest I expect to be told I can apply for even my own job? Best guess at the moment is March.

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I haven't seen my desk surface for two days :P

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