The sun is shining:

[sovietsong]

Ive also just stumbled across this, excellent stuff, congrats on the new job

[MANTIS01]

Fantastic to see someone making progress through life because of a positive attitude and decent endeavour. Fair play.

[action man]

well done son

[Delboy]

Great to see you active on the forum again Taxi.

Excellent news about the job. Well Done mate 

[taximan007]

Saturday 6th Sept 2008


Have settled into the accommodation and job very nicely. The room is actually in a house the hotel owns, 5 Min's walk, and its very nice. 5 bedrooms, kitchen/dining room, large lounge, shower/bath/toilet upstairs with separate toilet downstairs as well, utility room with washing machine and tumble dryer and a large secluded rear garden, so couldn't really want for anything else.

Seem to be doing more driving than portering at the moment so not complaing there. Tues just passed i had to drive myself and 4 of the young ladies from the restaurant to Ashford, Kent for a training/exam day in food hygiene and safety, so that was a pleasant break.

The hotel is very rural, as in the nearest towns in any direction are 13+ miles away, and being rural means public transport is pretty lame but hey I cant spend any money so added bonus, that said there is a well stocked village shop which is a 3 mile round trip, and it takes me 20 minutes each way to walk, cos i just done it and I'm knackered

Have managed to get hold of a second hand laptop (borrowing) and 1 of the lads in the house has one of those dongly things and says we can use it as much as we like for £2 a week each, so that seems a fair deal to me, so hopefully i will be online a bit more again now ( i can hear the groans already). Probably take me 3 months to catch up with all the posts i have missed (bloody boldie and kin got a lot to answer for  )

[Graham C]

Nice one Taxi, good to see you're ok

[cia260895]

Nice one Taxi, good to see you're ok

+1 m8

[suzanne]

Great news Graham and glad to hear you are doing so well x

[Ecosse]

You've landed right on your feet there Taxi, congrats.

[Geo the Sarge]

You've landed right on your feet there Taxi, congrats.

+1

Geo

[boldie]

Nice one Taxi, good to see you're ok

+1 m8

+2...very good to hear...and sounds like a good job as well.

[Harmony26]

Glad to hear you have a good steady job and are enjoying it.  Great to hear the accomodation is good also.

Congrats, Taximan, and all the best to  Roxeanne.

B&H

[sovietsong]

Taxi your an inspiration

[taximan007]

Thurs 25th Sept 2008

I RUN SO GOOD!!!!!

After my last little update I honestly thought that would be it for quite a while, but you never know the hand that you are going to be dealt and how things will transpire, good or bad. It really is a matter of TIMING

For those of you who have been following my ramblings (I thank you very much) you will know that the majority has been mainly in the plus and certainly since my arrival back here it has all been good news, so I am sure you are all wondering and waiting when I am going to hit my first hurdle!!! I am ever the optimist but even I am beginning to wonder when this particular bubble is going to burst!!! If I had this much luck playing in the wsop I would win at a canter without putting all my chips in at anytime (how 1 can dream).

Well I can tell you I am not going to disappoint you at this time (at least I hope you wont be disappointed), I have now been working as a Night Porter/driver at the hotel on a permanent basis for 25 days, and I have to say I love the job, it is probably as good as I could have wished for given my circumstances, then yesterday I am called into the office!!! (can’t think of anything I have done wrong, but still feel guilty!). They tell me they would like to offer me the position of Night Manager, the previous one having left at the weekend, well I have to say I am gobsmacked, I know I’m good but hey. The night team is a small team, the assistant night manager is a Slovakian guy, really nice, not completely fluent in English but gets by, 3 night porters including myself, as much as I am happy with this offer I am the type of person who likes a quiet life and doesn’t like to rock the boat, therefore it is not my wish to tread on anybody’s toes, I am assured that none of the other 3 guys will be offered the position if I turn it down, and this will be explained to them. I leave the office with a couple of days to think about it, probably silly to even think about turning it down, its an extra 4K a year, the only real downside is I would need to find accommodation as the I would be earning to much to remain in the staff house (company policy) but they do give me 3 months grace to find somewhere.

So there you have it the bubble is still well and truly inflated and taximan carries onwards and upwards, until next time guys……………

[thetank]

Good going man! If you're the sort of chap who stops to think about the 3 other guys first before you snap up the promotion then you're probably the sort of chap that the 3 other chaps are not going to begrudge working under.

Any idea why the last night manager left? Not wanting to rain on the parade with negativity, but worth making the enquiry as a formality more than anything else before you snap it up the post. (Unless you've done so already)

If he left because of a problem he was having, history may repeat itself. That might not be in itself a reason to not take the postion, but worth knowing about anyway, going into things with your eyes open etc etc.