Dear Gatsby,

my own experience with work place bullying sounds unfortunately similar to yours. I joined an RE firm as a junior sales assistant a few years ago and there was a female agent who took an instant dislike to me.

whilst nothing was ever said to my face by her in the first few months i had coffee tipped ‘accientally’ into my keyboard, messages intentionally passed on with incorrect information, property files i was looking after going missing off my desk after hours and being subscribed to questionable sites on the net with my work address.

i used to wake up dreading going to work, often in tears when walking out the door. the whole time i wondered what i had done to offend her – turns out she didn’t like that the boss was spending more time training me than paying attention to her sales record…

as it turned out she left the agency shortly after, i never confronted her and never spoke up to the boss – in retrospect perhaps i should have.

my sympathy goes out to you, remember work takes up so much of your time that there is no way you should spend it miserable…

e x

this is more money saving, but someone once said a dollar saved is two dollars earned…

* hang christmas cards you receive from your tree if it’s a bit bare of decoration

* bake and decorate gingerbread men and hand them out to work colleagues / acquaintances (costs about $10 to make thirty)

*if you’re crafty cut up old wrapping paper into squares and make origami gift boxes, reindeers, decorations etc see link for cute ideas:
http://www.origami-club.com/xmas/

*burn cd’s with the recipient’s favourtie music and/or photo’s (music should be downloaded legally where possible[blush2])

*buy plain tshirts and unleash your creative inner being with paints and permanent markers and photo transfer paper

just some ideas, love to hear everyone elses

cheers
e x

my story is more of a tale of being embarassed by someone…

i remember when i was eight and my younger brother and i were taken grocery shopping by my parents who were having their occasional bickering row as they did.

As we went through the isles of woolworths the muttered arguing continued until we got to the cereal isle and my father with his back turned mentioned something about ‘that time of the month’.
my mother (with her super human hearing) standing at the other end of the isle picked up a kilo bag of flour and with the precision of an olympic javelin thrower launched the bag straight at him. Needless to say the whole isle went up in a cloud of white and we haven’t been back there since.
proof i say parents really can scar their children…

cheers

e x

Hi John,

what part of ordering are you having trouble with?

e x

congratulations matt, all the best in your new home!

cheers e x

lol…how true!
e x

morning all,

i too had a fantastic night. Steve, thank you so much for signing my book pre-launch it was great to get 2 minutes to talk to you. Also thank you to Rachel and Shaun for signing their chapter it’s a real inspiration to meet people who’ve been there and done that.

who would have thought dr suess had such powerful messages in what is essentially a childrens book?

thanks again,

erin x

* sobbing * poor lions, how very sad… e x

Go the lions, go lynchie! number 4 here we come !

e x