Something for the Weekend

July 12, 2005

For Goodness sake!... by Celeste

Sometimes the idiocy of normal everyday things really piss me off.

To start, a majority of people in the UK work the hours of 9am-5pm (give or take a couple of hours) Mon-Fri.

Right so the clever people of doctor's surgeries and recruitment consultants have come up with the great idea to also only open 9-5 on Mon-Fri. Pure genius. Therefore anyone who has an office job will have to take time off to go to either one of these places.

For a start I get precious little holiday as it is. Why do this? Why can't you open on a Saturday? Why do I have to spend most of my holiday visting you people who don'y really give a shit about me anyway?

If doctors were like the caring, life sorting, God-humans like they are on TV I could understand why they would need a weekend to chill out but actually GP's (every single one I've had anyway) are like machines. They make you feel like your worries are stupid and ridiculous. It's as though they have stripped themselves of humanity. Everytime I go to the doctors I am made to feel like a silly, neurotic girl and that I should be tarred and feathered for wasting their time.

Recruitment agencies are just as bad. When they do actually get round to phoning you they ring you during office hours which is really difficult especially if your boss sits in pretty much the same office as you and can hear everything you are saying. It's even more suspicious if you go out of the office into a quieter room.

If you people can't work weekends then perhaps work until about 7 or so in the evening so those of us who work full time can actually have a chance at getting an arsing prescription which all you have to do is sign a piece of paper and recruitment agencies, yes I can understand that you can't contact some companies on a weekend as they too work Mon-Fri but surely it's the ideal time to register people looking for jobs? After all the tests you make them do ( I was there for 2 God Damn hours!) you'll then be armed with loads of 'clients' to contact companies the following working week.

But no no no no all of that is FAR too logical to put into practice. Carry on doing the stupid inconvenient hours you do so people like me can get bloomin' well stressed and old age pensioners get more weekday appointments to show you their bunions.

Chip? What chip? There certainly isn't one on my shoulder.

Comments

I used to work in recruitment and I was 'never' able to switch off. People and Companies hassling at all times.
That's why I left cos the money is really good!

The Company I used to work for always opened Saturday morning to welcome new people onto the files, so maybe it's a case of finding a different agency.

Some of them are really shit, you know.

The doctor and dentist thing does my head in, you can't register with a doctors near where you work because they won't let you on their list but I can't get an appointment at one near my house because I'm meant to be working when they are opening. I'm going to the dentist and doctors next week so I am going to be late for work two days in a row.

Is that really bad?

More flexibility is needed with regard to working. Maybe people who have traditional Mon-Fri, 9-5 jobs could still do 5 days a week, but could choose which 5 out of the 7 days available. So you could have your weekend in the middle of the week and actually get stuff like this done.

I haven't thought it through fully, but it sounds good, so I'm sticking to it.

Yup the only trouble with that is if you only see your significant other on weekends you'd have to get them to change their days off too.

Exactly, that's what you would do.
Anyway, you won't have to worry about that for much longer - you'll have to rename the blog!

"Something for every night of the week" doesn't quite have the same ring...

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