It feels like only yesterday since I blogged – can’t believe it’s getting on for 3 weeks!

For a while now I’ve not been happy in my current job. It was difficult before with being away from my family and friends and Joe, but then things started to get a whole lot more complicated. Suffice to say, there has been enough drama (both work-related and personal) to write at least a trilogy about, and there were definitely times I convinced myself that I was stuck in a crazy reality TV show. So I got bored of waiting around for someone to rescue me and rescued myself (well, maybe with a little help) – how’s that for a new age fairytale?

Basically, what I’m trying to say in a very long-winded way is that I accepted a job in Nottingham and I start on the 13th July. I am so happy you wouldn’t believe it. I’ve had enough of being treated like a child, I’m tired of the swearing and screaming and crying of the directors, the way we are yelled at for not listing someone in particular first on emails, of people requesting we pick up their water bottles for them because they can’t be bothered, or buy them a newspaper, or stay till 11pm for no extra pay. Even though I haven’t been directly involved in all these things, I’m also disgusted at the way the lower members of staff are treated. Talking of which, several of my friends and colleagues have been made redundant, and there is at least one person who is considering sueing. And quite frankly, he has very good grounds for it, since they advertised a job almost identical to his the day they kicked him out.

What frustrates me most of all though is that they are incapable of making a good decision. At least in The Devil Wears Prada, which my job in publishing scarily reminds me of, they know how to run a company and run it well. Where I work, the ideas and decisions carry on getting more and more ridiculous. For example, they decided the search engine wasn’t working (which it is, anyway) and decided to move it to the bottom of the page (?!). They also decided they didn’t want to look at the webpages on the website, or from the database, or on the test site, so they told us to print them out and photocopy them. Thousands and thousands of products on one page each, which took four of us a good couple of days. Because they decided they also needed certain bits highlighting on each page. And then they complained they couldn’t see the colour of things (because they’d asked for it in black and white). Yeah, I don’t understand how the company is still going either.

In short, I’m not doing what my job description and title as ‘web copywriter’ entail, really. I’m more of a copy editor, and even then I don’t do as much of that as I like, because they are forever getting people doing my job (because they are now stuck with a ton of managers with nothing to do because they made the people who did actually have work ‘redundant’), which means everything takes twice as long to fix and edit after they’ve broken it.

My new job, on the other hand, can’t possibly be as bad (she says, tempting fate). No, seriously. Because even if I do have a bad day, it will mean going home to my friends or Joe and moaning about it and then doing something fun and/or going somewhere. Plus, I get to write about shiny Apple and Adobe products instead of gimmicky, tacky things like bath safety handles and the world’s smallest solar powered car.

I have learnt a lot in my current job, but I can’t work with people who refuse to communicate, have no idea what they’re doing and won’t ask for help or advice. I don’t see why I should. And it’s a shame it ended up that way, because this job was initially really inspiring with a lot of nice people and a lot of new projects on the go. Since they’ve all been made redundant and the crazies have taken over, there’s been nothing but drama. I’ve had at least a lifetime’s supply, thanks. It will make a fantastic book or film one day though

I will be sad to leave a lot of the people I met, particularly as we’re pretty close and see each other outside of work, such as at Lee’s BBQ on Saturday, which was pretty cool. Nice catching up with everyone.

I don’t have a whole lot to do now, and I think I deserve a bit of a break, so I’m doing a bit more webdesign work than I probably should at work now (though I am meeting all my deadlines several weeks early and even helping out with repro work on images). The Adobe Photoshop tutorials are coming on really well, and they look all smart now. Hopefully they should be fully live in a week or two, once I’m completely finished with the editing.

In other news, I’m so sick of my weight right now, but office food is so hard to resist!! Over the past couple of days I’ve eaten really well though, and I’m upping the workouts so hopefully it will make more of a difference. Once I’m back in Notts I may join the gym again, or maybe the pool. We’ll see.