h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've got an interview tomorrow in Stockport, with a recruitment agency. Hopefully I'll be able to blag my way into an 8 week proofreading/copywriting assignment for a well known high street retailer.

It's only short term, but it's better than nothing.

Are we allowed any clues as to the retailer?

B

Yeah, they're Marks and Spencer.

Bloody hell. You won't be writing those grotty adverts, will you?

B

They're revamping their website apparently. So hopefully I'll have nothing to do with those ads.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

Well someone's got to do it I suppose...although I'd always assumed it was monkeys chained to typewriters

Not just a temp. An M&S Temp.

Have you been interviewed yet? If so, how did it go?

Best of luck from me, too, though I might be a little late with it.

I've only held two temp positions, but both have led to wonderful full-time positions. Hopefully you'll have the same luck.

I had the "test" this morning at the recruitment agency, and I've been informed that they only faxed over half of it, so now I have to go to the prospective employer's offices tomorrow.

When you put the word 'test' in double inverted comments, you are aware that you make it sound like a sexual health examination, aren't you?

B

Indeed. I do these things to brighten up your day.

How did it go?

I got it, and it's been a comedy of errors. I'll do a journal when I get home I think.

This is terrible.

Oh, dear.