Life Sucks - Then again maybe not.

** Found out yesterday that the job I took is about to end, thats real nice of them a few days before Christmas! So just e-mailed my cv out to a load of companies and going to call up a firm later on today about a job they have advertised.

So fingers crossed I shall walk right into another position. Still the wages from my last job will keep the wolf from the door for a while.

Mind at least now I am not working for NTL/Fujitsu (my old employer) where the staff- or at least me got treated like shit - even starvation would be preferable to going back to that hellhole. For anyone who has not read previous posts, whilst working there the following happened:

• My mp3 player was stolen
• My phone was also stolen on a seperate occasion
• We were given piss poor training.
• No support from management, in fact management were never seen(I saw mine just once in the whole time I worked there)
• Breaches of company policy - re abusive e-mails/abusive comments.
• All in all, not a nice place to work.

** Quick update re work: Just had a call back and been offered a position in a nearby town, so all sorted again. At least I can pay the bills that our beloved Chancellor Gordon "cyclops" Brown keeps putting on us.

Onto other things: Just found this on the looney in Iran. It seems that he has decided that the latest threat his nation faces is western music. Thats the way, Iran modernising and rushing ever forwards to the 7th century...

Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has banned Western music from Iran’s radio and TV stations, reviving one of the harshest cultural decrees from the early days of 1979 Islamic Revolution. Songs such as George Michael’s “Careless Whisper,” Eric Clapton’s “Rush” and the Eagles’ “Hotel California” have regularly accompanied Iranian broadcasts, as do tunes by saxophonist Kenny G.

But the official IRAN Persian daily reported Monday that Ahmadinejad, as head of Iran’s Supreme Cultural Revolutionary Council, ordered the enactment of an October ruling by the council to ban Western music. “Blocking indecent and Western music from the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting is required,” according to a statement on the council’s official Web site.

Ahmadinejad’s order means the IRIB must execute the decree and prepare a report on its implementation within six months, according to the newspaper. ...

Music was outlawed as un-Islamic by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini soon after the revolution. But as the fervor of the revolution started to fade, light classical music was allowed on radio and television. Some public concerts reappeared in the late 1980s.

Western music, films and clothing are widely available in Iran, and hip-hop can be heard on Tehran’s streets, blaring from car speakers or from music shops. Bootleg videos and DVDs of films banned by the state are widely available in the black market.

Following eight years of reformist-led rule in Iran, Ahmadinejad won office in August on a platform of reverting to ultraconservative principles promoted by the revolution. (link here for more....) Banned banned banned! Infidel music stops here.

_{Mike Thompson - The Detroit Free Press}

** Right thats me lot, no more posts for a fay or so days as going to be busy working. After all someone has to keep all the civil service staff in index linked pensions, oh and pay for all the stealth taxes that get dreamed up by our beloved cyclops of a Chancellor Gordon Brown.

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