Butterfly Effect

The week saw Lehman go down, with Merrill Lynch and AIG narrowly surviving this round. It has left a lot of people in limbo over their future. While some may say I am in no way affected by this turn of events I beg to differ. I now have friends who are unemployed and thus not in the mood to play with me, overworked due to the increase in workload and therefore unable to play with me, friends who have no peer pressure to come out since everyone else is not out and thus refuse to come out to play with me... This is serious shit.

The week also saw HR finally showing me my new contract. Those sly people were trying to push me into signing a three year deal on the same terms as last year citing 'my visa will expire soon and I need to get a new one really quickly, so I should sign this now'. I don't take well to bullshit so I told them that I was not signing this contract and they looked kinda shocked. I will hold out and talk to the big boss. It seems that historically, we are paid less while new graduate physios etc are all getting paid more than I am and will continue to get paid more unless I kick up a fuss and demand to be paid the same. I am not even talking about any experience I have gained over the past year! I hate bureaucracy!

I am going to one of the islands with the glaswegian-hong-kee tomorrow. It shall be one of those parents-trying-to-fob-of-their-only-son-to-seemingly-unsuspecting-podiatrist senarios. I shall try to escape without having to swear my devotion/love to other people haha... It shall be an interesting trip; The American was right, I am a sucker for self-torture.