At work, I will be 'celebrating' my 10th anniversary this week. It's okay though, I celebrate it with 10 others, so I'm not the only one.
Personnel phoned me up on Thursday and asked me if I wanted 200 quid's worth of champagne or 200 quid's worth of vouchers. Vouchers, of course, please. So, tell me, have a think - what would you go for?
Have a think...
You said HMV, right? lol. So did I at first.
Well I finally decided to split it between Amazon and Itunes. I wonder if i made the right decision. Amazon is very useful, and I often buy from 'used and new' so I should be able to get loads. I was gonna go for Forbidden Planet - but I guess I can get most of my stuff from Amazon, and I get 30% off at FP anyway. Still, imagine blowing 100 quid on comics mmmm
Itunes - well, I dunno if I made the right decision there, especially since I just discovered a naughty downloading website lol (I don't normally download naughtily). Plus it did seem a bit 'wasteful' to go for 100 quid on itunes. I mentioned it to a colleague and said I was thinking about the starving kids in Africa and feeling selfish - he just said that they probably couldn't do much with 100 quids worth of itunes vouchers...
So I dunno if I made the right decision, but the decision has been made, so that's it.
Of course, maybe I could have put it towards helping to replace my dying washing machine - but...nah, way too sensible...
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amazon is always a good bet, I think, because that covers everything from books through CD and DVDs to electronic stuff -- and, as you say, the marketplace sellers are really very good value on most stuff (odd weirdo aside -- I read a bit of feedback from a diusgruntled customer of one amazon marketplace seller, and said seller's reply was, literally, "sod off" -- is there nobody from amazon monitoring this stuff???)
Bloody hell, I'm in the wrong job. (Tell me something new.)
I've been here 18 friggin years now and never got a voucher for nothing!
really rol? blimey.
actually, some of my fellow 10-year people were saying 'why wasn't it 500 quid'. jeez, 200 will do me!
Erm...in May I went on an all-expenses-paid, business-class-travel trip to Beijing. Does that count as a perk...?
No vouchers, tho, so maybe Rol and I are in the same boat :)
i'd settle for friday afternoons off or flexi time in my job really :-(
(like a lot of other publishing companies do)
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