no cheeky mare (and Dawn you too lol)
I had to go for a test today, stage 2 of a job I have applied for, a job I could do with my eyes shut, it all went horribly wrong.
Went into this room, lines and lines of computers, sat down at one of them and the test was all on computer. There was a warm up test for 3 minutes which I did, then you had to click enter to get onto the actual test, I clicked enter, entered one bit of writing and the computer froze
so, i'm sitting there in a room with another 14 people who are all clicking away and i'm thinking what can I do, there was no personnel in the room with us, but a sign on the door said 'when all finished, someone ring 222 and someone will come and open the door' so I quietly dialled 222 and explained it had froze and a lady came down and said it had indeed and needed rebooting, but everyone else was nearly finished so she said did I mind if I let everyone finish so as not to disturb them, I didn't mind so waited.
When they'd gone she rebooted and I did the test again but by then it had thrown me and I was shaking, literally shaking, how ridiculous is that? I KNOW I can type quicker than they required to pass but don't think I have as I felt I was in slow motion.
Then, when I came out my dad was waiting to give me a lift to work and asked how it had gone and I explained all that and he shouted at me
'well you didn't prepare for that well did you if you let nerves get the better of you' couldn't believe it, he's bluddy barmy.
Then I went straight to work and when I came home this was all wrapped up with a 'well done' card
My dad must have felt guilty as well as he's just bought me a bottle of wine lol
The company wont take into account what happened because they reset the test, so it was my fault I got nervous and can only wait now gggrrrrr for a rejection letter gggrrrr