Today after more than 5 years Natwest twigged that I haven't used my student (now graduate) account since I withdrew their £50 cash gift. They want to know if I want to keep the account, or have the balance transferred to another bank. But I've got three months to decide what to do with £0.04 interest that has grown at an astonishing rate, and they even gave me a pre-paid envelope to put my response in!
Contrast that with the Student Loans Company, who wrote to me today requesting my employment details so they can tell the Inland Revenue to start taking my repayments out of my wages from April 6th 2004. They can't be that keen on getting the necessary information though, because they can't be arsed to supply a pre-paid envelope. Tight-wods.
Jimbo heard today from Detica, who turned us both down for Graduate positions back in the summer, claiming that they had filled their 2003 intake. When they wrote back to us they claimed they would be in touch in October to tell us about the process for applying for job opportunities starting in September 2004. They didn't bother. But it turns out they are now "urgently recruiting for January 2004" start dates, and phoned Jimbo this afternoon claiming to be following up on a colleague "who had contacted you recently". Bull$hit! So he found it most amusing to tell them that he had a job with a rival company just round the corner from their offices!
Meanwhile I'm getting my teeth into an cool project at work now, and surfing a scary learning curve. Payday is Friday thank the lord, and I move into the new gaff next Wednesday.
Posted by jonah at November 26, 2003 09:47 PM | TrackBack