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And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
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Finally, the time is approaching that I never thought I would see. The time at which I leave ntl for good and, hopefully, start a new job somewhere else. Where, I do not yet know.
As I announced recently, I have handed my notice in at ntl due to my failure to secure an alternative role to replace my own when I am made redundant at some point towards the end of the year.
I have numerous skills and experience within the company, but I cannot jump through hoops at a role play interview and say the right buzz-words. I simply can't. I've tried, but I've failed. So the end looms. Today my team leader persuaded me to try one last throw of the dice & very kindly put me through a 'mock interview' for my own existing job to see if we could shed any light on it. I failed the interview. I cannot even pass a role play for the exact job I already do. It is a hopeless case. I knew as I was speaking that I was fluffing it. It's bizzarre, I just can't do in a fake situation what I do every day for real. But they can't make special rules for me. I don't cut the mustard at the interview, and if that happens, you don't get the job. Period.
Although I have some shifts still to do, I shall be using up some holiday time during my notice period. On top of that, I hope nobody takes offence when I say that I don't really intend to do any more than the bare minimum during my last few weeks at ntl, so offering any further assistance on here is not really an option. I'm truly sorry about that, but it's realistically the way things are.
I don't know what I will do on that final day. I am no good at them. They are bad enough when you DO want to leave, but I've never done one where I *don't* want to leave before. Leaving my now-famous desk knowing that I shan't be returning ever. Taking home the large collection of spider plants that I have become eccentricly famous for. There's so many I will have to do a couple at a time. It'll be like a countdown to the end. And I doubt any other employer would actually let me have so many. I tend to favour not coming in on the last day, but not deciding that until after you've left the previous shift. Then your last day only becomes known as your last day retrospectively...if you see what I mean.
Losing my ntl services as well. Because, for the same reasons I can't keep posting here, I can't keep them either. Actually having to use BT for broadband and Sky for TV. What have I ever done to deserve this? I've used cable since 1994! That's 10 years.
I'd like to thank my own department's management team, who really have done their best to get me coached in role plays so I could get another job, but I think perhaps they thought I was exaggerating when I said I was crap at them!
I'd also like to thank the team at this site for the great job they do in here, plus I'd like to thank the members here for the banter, the fun, the arguments and the atmosphere. I hope I've been of some use to those I have tried to help. I'd like to thank Bill C as well who has unswervingly gone round to fix all those customers with horrendous broadband problems in the NW for me...there may be one or two more to come from my remaining time but after that you'll be free!
Believe it or not I'd like to thank ntl! I've had, overall, a great three years with the company. There's been ups and downs, and downs again, but overall it's been great and I'm desperately sorry not to be staying on as the company moves into another new era.
I think perhaps I was a little niave in assuming that because I knew the job, the systems and the company so well, I'd walk into another job with them. That's not the case, and it brought home with a bump that however good you think you might be, there's always someone better. Better people than me are replacing me, and that's got to be for the best ultimately I suppose. I'm a bit of a loose cannon, I speak my mind and I occasionally break rules to get the job done. I don't think they want people like that any more, and if I'm honest I can see why. My time has passed.
I hope everyone here understands my reasons for leaving the site altogether, and realises that it's not indicative of any problems or dissatisfaction on my part. I just need a clean break. I don't want to be coming here and be constantly reminded of how things were, and how things could have been. When it's time to move on, you cannot leave bits of you behind, and that's the way it has got to be.
Finally, good luck to all the great people in Coventry who got their 90 days today. Ironically, that's where my job is going to go later in the year! And good luck to all the colleagues I'm leaving behind. For most of them, the end draws ever nearer, but
THE SHOW MUST GO ON!!
Au revoir
Arrivederci
AdiÃÃâ€*’²s
Auf wiedersehen
Dag
Yassou
Adeus
Pahkah
Syohnyrah
Zai jian
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And so......goodbye! (long boring post)
One of the directors said to see him on Monday to try and find a solution but 
can't see any way around it.
I personally wouldn't go aroound bragging abt things like that 