Y VIVA ARRIVA!

Well I finally got the phone call I've been waiting for this morning. I start officially for Arriva North East the day after I finish at the airport. Just as well, as Arriva pay is weekly but a fortnight in arrears, which sounds a bit awkward to me but still, it will be very strange going back to weekly pay for the first time since about 1988.
I've arranged an exit interview with the HR dept for Thursday afternoon which should prove interesting. Not that I think they will take much notice of what I say but to see how far they go to defend the management.
I am still going to the gym when ever I can and the Weight Watchers meetings, hope to hit the 28lb loss target tonight, if I don't then it should be pretty close to it, last week was 23lbs so it will probably be around 26 or 27 tonight knowing my luck, still ANY loss is better than a gain.

Bye-bye Park & Fly!

We all now know that I have passed my medical for Arriva North East, I have also printed off, signed and handed in my resignation letter to Park & Fly. I leave at the end of the month, hopefully I can have a week off and then start for Arriva around the 6th June. My current boss Peter 'Cone-head' Guthrie was so shocked to hear the news he almost choked! They are so glad to get rid of me they said I only need to work one weeks notice not the usual four, but just to be a thorn in their side I said I would stay until my last shift this month which is nights on the 29th. I am not best pleased with Peter's lack of professionalism in immediately going in and telling everybody I had handed in my notice before he had it in writing and also making a comment about 'shall we hold a minutes silence?' Still I have an answer for him 'at least Arriva have managed to do in two weeks something he and Eric Wrightson(Land-side Ops Manager) could not do in two years!.... the answer..... GET ME OUT OF THE AIRPORT!'