More on the job

I meant to say, in the post I did on the place I’m working at, at present, that for some of the staff a good deal of the day is spent running (not literally) back and forth between the two buildings. This is probably about a 100 metre walk from where I work, along the road to the corner and down at right angles, but several of us indulge in this form of exercise several times a day. When, as a temp, I was in the job I was originally employed for, I spent more time wandering back and forth. It gave me some fresh air, gave me something to do to fill in the not-always-filled time, and gave me contact with a different set of faces. In my current status, I’m not able to leave the office quite so much, but there are still excuses for getting over there, such as when one of the other staff says, ‘Are you going over to H St?’ and I say Yes, because why should I not?
I’m not getting the normal exercise I’ve had for years in my other jobs, where I was able to walk to work. With this job starting at 8, it takes quite some effort to get away by 7.30, and it’s further away than my other jobs were. I may yet start to gear myself up to getting up early enough to do this, but after some months of not having to get up quite so early as in the past, I’ve got out of the habit.
By the way, I mentioned the ANZ man in yesterday’s post. For those who don’t know what I was referring to, this is the link.

That destructive ANZ man...!

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Something that really bugs me about the latest ANZ credit card ads is this. We see a guy – and he looks like a really nice guy - happily chopping up credit cards with shears, in a shredder, with a chain saw, and even burning them with a blow torch. And the reason he’s doing this? So he can tell you that you can get rid of your old credit card by swapping it over to ANZ’s card and saving yourself a lot of interest in the process.
For six months.
But if, as I do, I already have an ANZ credit card, do you think I can get that same sort of low interest figure. Don’t be silly. If I asked for that, I’d find that same nice man chasing me down the bank corridors with his shears, chain saw or blow torch.
If I complained that such a policy is unfair, I’d probably wind up in the shredder.
I see that people in the UK can go to a site for credit card advice, that is, they can find out where to get the best deal on credit cards, rather like a mortgage broker. I don’t suppose it’ll be long before we have something similar here in NZ. They also offer news about changes and such in credit cards, something that you don’t really hear about here, where the only ‘news’ you get is advertising news, and that ain’t likely to be too objective!
I think I’ll include their site in my favourites section under ‘financial’ and keep an eye on things. It might be surprising what I’ll learn!