Feeling a bit wobbly about tomorrow!

Good luck for the interview phoenix. Hope the job is more to your liking and that it is offered!

It will soon be time to get prepared for another day at the ranch. I am keeping my fingers crossed for Wednesday. Have you told your new employers yet?

Oh buggery bollocks, just did a BIG response, and it disappeared!

Oh well...................

Excel spreadsheet. One column chronological. In another column give them a number. You can sort on chronology or your own number system.

About the filing system - If he is adamant on the chronological order, my first move would be to make a paper list of them in alphabetical order, with their date of construction (where they wi8ll be filed) beside them. Keep that on the desk.

Sounds very hairy.

You could have made an interesting cocktail, phoenix. Or save it up for when you need to strip some paint.

Galen I challenge you to make sense of it in the current, real world!
The date order for bookings, yes, obviously makes sense, but then the subdivision into villa order (as in when built, not alphabetical WHAT ?

when thank you, so very glad that it is not only me!

Makes sense to me! I would have loved to have studied archaeologiy and in that chronology is VIP!

Well, I've heard of some filing systems but that takes the biscuit, phoenix. What an 'interesting' job this is turning out to be

Ha Ha, Phoenix. His home-made wine sounds just like ours.

Alert! Had a brief meeting with the owner re my thoughts so far etc, and also to collect money for the 3 days worked this week.

He offered me a bottle of the infamous wine, and I said NO ! (made up some excuse about alcohol free day, and if I had a bottle I would be too tempted truth is the wine has been prepared for maximum alcohol content and bugger all other qualities, including taste!)

Now, speaking as someone who looks forward to a drink once the sun is over the yardarm, this may give you an indication of how I feel about his wine!

What? Drink the wine ?

Cheers phoenix someone has to do it!

I am currently enjoying a glass of Sauvignon Blanc

Absolutely positive that this job is NOT for me, but will keep going for now!

Cheers all!

Hope everything is going ok phoenix. Well, it is Friday!!

How is it going Pheonix?

just go with the flow Pho !

Onwards and upwards phoenix - just change the thing and when he complains just and remind him that he's employing you for your skills and filing is one of them.
Seriously, it's early days yet and it'll take a while to iron out the wrinkles. (Did you see what I did there?)

Day 2 in the phoenix new job house (think the Geordie accent of the Big Brother House thing) still alive!

Trying to overcome the glaringly obvious things (38 "villas", filing alphabetically ? No, of course not! Filed in a list that runs as to when they were built Have asked "Why?" Told "well,
we have always done it like this" Suggested that it might be changed, response? "Well, you can try, but the owner will not have it!) Aaaaargh!

Big shouty capitals alert! *JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALWAYS DONE IT LIKE THAT, DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU SHOULD, OR THAT IT IS THE BEST WAY!

And breathe...............

Hi phoenix I've only just caught up with this as we've been in Suffolk with a howling which kept blowing the connection away!

Hope you are enjoying the work experience. In my experience mad as a box of frogs in ok. We used to count Mum in numbers of boxes eg 12 = really, really bad!!!!

How did the second day go, phoenix?

What's all the fuss about cleaning toilets? It's not as if any of us have never done it before!

Believe me Phoenix as an ex nurse, I have had to clean a lot worse than a toilet

Chin up, it's a means to an end.

Just tell yourself that cleaning is therapeutic and remember to take your rubber gloves!

Good luck with your other interview Phoenix because unsure that working for anyone as mad as a box of frogs could work well.You need to know where you are with people and have boundaries. A friend of mine worked for a very eccentric person once who was either giving her presents or asking her to do other people's work and was infuriating.It's a job for now, but keep looking for other things.

The title should stand you in good stead for any future job applications, though. After all it could have been an employer who chose to call you 'cleaner'.

Yes, where you live isn't helpful. My sister bought a house nearby, in deepest rural Suffolk, because as she travelled around the UK seeing clients in the southeast it didn't really matter where she lived, she was fed up with London and her head office was in Herts. She had only been up here for six months and her department was closed. She tried to get all manner of jobs, even a cleaner in a local home for mental health patients for which she would have first had to take a course in self-defense, but now finds herself in the position of only being home at weekends and having to sleep on various friends' and family's sofas while she is back working in London.

I did warn her that the only avaiable jobs up here, apart from chicken-catching, were either picking cabbages or looking after them, but she didn't believe me. She has a beautiful house, but of course can't sell it.

So, fingers crossed for next week, but maybe you will enjoy working for the eccentric, who knows?