Captain's Blog, 22nd June
Do you know, it took me 6 HOURS to fill in one stupid four page form yesterday, and it almost reduced me to tears. It was Form 80, titled, "Personal Particulars for Character Assessment" i.e. lots of details about my life that will be checked on in addition to the Police Check I will also require...
So here's a quiz: how long would it take you to assemble the names and addresses of all of your previous employers, together with evidence that you worked for them, and the exact dates of your employment since you left school? How would you be able to prove what you did in between jobs, if there's a gap? Can you remember the addresses of all the places you've lived for longer than 12 months in the last 10 years (well, this might be easy for some of you but I've moved around an awful lot in my life! Luckily for me it is only 4 addresses in the last decade). What about all the countries you've visited in the last 5 years? You need to be able to state the exact dates of your visit, the purpose of your visit and work out the exact duration of your visit in days. Then all you have to do is provide the inside leg measurement of your father and your mother's dress size and intimate personal details and you're done! If you've got the evidence to back it up, of course.
Luckily I've always been the sort of anal retentive who files their paperwork so in fact I have, stashed away, the payslips I received for my first official job as a Grade C Counter Assistant at Butlins in Bognor Regis, when I was 18 years old! I seem to remember trying to learn New Testament Greek in my lunchbreak whilst trying to fend off the unwanted attentions of a sleazy manager who was likely to stick his hand up your skirt if you stood still for too long...
AAAAARGH!
So here's a quiz: how long would it take you to assemble the names and addresses of all of your previous employers, together with evidence that you worked for them, and the exact dates of your employment since you left school? How would you be able to prove what you did in between jobs, if there's a gap? Can you remember the addresses of all the places you've lived for longer than 12 months in the last 10 years (well, this might be easy for some of you but I've moved around an awful lot in my life! Luckily for me it is only 4 addresses in the last decade). What about all the countries you've visited in the last 5 years? You need to be able to state the exact dates of your visit, the purpose of your visit and work out the exact duration of your visit in days. Then all you have to do is provide the inside leg measurement of your father and your mother's dress size and intimate personal details and you're done! If you've got the evidence to back it up, of course.
Luckily I've always been the sort of anal retentive who files their paperwork so in fact I have, stashed away, the payslips I received for my first official job as a Grade C Counter Assistant at Butlins in Bognor Regis, when I was 18 years old! I seem to remember trying to learn New Testament Greek in my lunchbreak whilst trying to fend off the unwanted attentions of a sleazy manager who was likely to stick his hand up your skirt if you stood still for too long...
AAAAARGH!
posted by Sara Bowen at 9:38 am
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