Well this could be old news to some.
This is how the story goes...
In November I applied for a job with a centre that helps children and adults with learning difficulties. The interview went well and they seemed impressed with my knowledge and background.
During the interview I had to hand in a Garda checking form. This is like a CRB check in the UK only a lot more in depth. You have to put down EVERY address you've ever had. I also had to give them three references. I gave them two ex-employers and a social worker from fostering.
So jump forward a week or so after that...
I get a phone call. My Garda check hasn't come in and they are missing a reference. I give them the email details of the reference they are missing and wait some more.
Now jump forward to three weeks ago.
I get a phone call to say my Garda check is clear but they are miss two references. The social workers and my last job! It just so happens that I spoke to the social worker the week before and she'd been off work for weeks and weeks and weeks due to a broken akel and had only just got my reference request. She promised to fill it in and send it off as a priority... which she did... but my ex-employer... my last job... still hadn't done theirs! Bitches! No, not fair... bitch I should say ... there is only one of them that is a bitch, the others are all lovely and fine. It just so happens that my reference has to come from this bitch. So I give the new job a different name to contact at the office and hope that things get moving!
MJ knows these people quite well as he does a taxi run for them and the girl he picks up has been asking him constantly if I've heard anything and he has to keep saying because... well because I hadn't!
Until today...
She has just rang!
I START TOMORROW!!!
