I really dislike recruitment agencies. The so called "consultants" are usually rude, arrogant and salesey. They are only interested in getting you in to register with them, they then promise you the world and you don't hear from them again, unless they want to flog you some job they can't get anyone else to do and think you will go for it because you are desperate or don't have 5 years plus experience in the particular field you are interested in. They will hardly ever put you forward for permanent work because they make more money out of you if you are just temping via them. They lie to you about the jobs and what they involve, making rubbish jobs sound like they are more high profile than they really are and they even lie about the salary / hourly rate you will get, if they think it will get you to say "Yes, please send my CV to that company!". Their philosophy is: "Get them to agree to it and worry about the details later!"

My experience of recruitment agencies has been a very dissapoiting one. I have been lied to, treated as if I were an idiot, pushed around, patronized, insulted and told off for calling or emailiing them every once in a while to ask if they actually have anything for me! Today I was even told by one of these "high-flyers" to "not call" her or "email" her please "about jobs that are not relevant" (i.e. I had applied for a job she felt was too senior for me) as this was wasting her time and she was very busy! How rude. She even had the audacity to leave this message on my work voicemail!!! And she was from one of the biggest agencies...

Please feel free to share any bad experienecs you have had with recruitment agencies, as it would be really 'therapeutic' to hear from fellow 'sufferers'. :-)

Being unemployed and on summer holidays, i have an incredible amount of spare time on my hands. I've now got a horrible method of filling this spare time with looking at desperate dating ads in the paper. You know the "single, 52, looking for a woman younger than me to aid in my mid-life crisis" type ads and i found one which um, was interesting to say the least.

Looking for a princess who is also an exhibitionist and submissive. I am 45 yrs old, 6'4" and 230lbs. I would like to meet a woman/women smaller and younger than me. By that I mean 40 or younger, 4'9" to 6'0" slender to ample. Positive & happy with themselves. Looking for a lady who does not mind leaving the lady at the door, as the sub enters. They can be shy and yet kinky or bold as can be and kinky. Involved or interested in Bondage, Blindfolds, Clamps, Candle Wax, Chains, Collar and or Lead/Leash, Oral, Pain, Role Playing, Spanking, Talking Dirty, Whips and being naughty in public. I am a voyeur who enjoys watching men and women jockeying for a better position to see what they saw or thought they saw.

Domination of a submissive does not include getting you into my 3 bedroom 2 bath 1 dungeon home two hours after we meet for the first time over coffee. Thats a gift you must earn. To earn a trip into the dungeon, you must open your mind. Your picture gets mine, as well as cam, after we have chatted and both are interested.

....whoever that princess was, who was permitted entrance to his 3 bedroom 2 bathroom 1 dungeon home, is a lucky lucky girl. Wow, just wow.

So i came back to Uni after an endurance test of a holiday (parents, tsk) to find that my room smells and the floor is drenched with brown muck.

...I want to cry...

But i cant waste time on over sensative emotions! I have a landlord to call!

(and this provides the perfect excuse to get an extension on my 3 essays due in next week! YESSS!!)

A conversation with my housemate cast my mind back a couple of years to the days where i had an arch nemisis, or nemisi.

And when I say 'nemisis' i mean someone who I knew hated me back, not some stranger who had no clue i disliked them.

If you have never had a nemisis before, you are missing out on a very special and unique emotional experience. The feeling of spite is something nearly exotic, exquisit and (most important) addicting. Its like love, but more fun: no longer must you watch what you say and do. The more outrageous your pokings are, the better the consequences.

Ever hear that you caused, with little effort, someone to have what could only be called a nervous breakdown? Ever read an angry email from someone that was so unhinged and out of touch with reality that you could only smile and say to yourself "I did this?" That's real nemesising right there.

It's a well known fact that the best Nemisi are produced in the same factory beneath a vulcano. All are brilliant minded, but twisted- a nemisis cannot be an idiot. They all have the ability to accomplish great things but seem to use their gift for their demented ends. Someone like Lord Voldemort, Darth Vadar and EA. I guess the fun of a nemisis is trying to outwit these brilliant people with nothing but your own average wit.

I've only had two nemisi. Both happened during my last years in Secondary school, just before moving to 6th form college. I Haven't had a new nemesis since. I guess an all girls private school is a setting that is conducive for such spiteful relationships and once you leave it's hard to keep up that same level of antagonism. You just don't have the time or resources to devote to properly smiting to your nemesis. But faking being someones nemesis is just like faking an orgasm...it degrades the whole experience for everyone and I'd rather not bother....

10 days remain until the holiday i dread the most- mainly because this will be the fourth Valentines day in a row where i have been boyfriend-less. No doubt I, like many other single girls out there, will end up curled on the sofa, eating a pot of ice-cream whilst watching a soppy love film (i've chosen Phantom of the Opera this year). BUT, to make myself feel better ,i have come up with a list of ways to battle the feelings of lonliness which are gradually increasing as the days go by. Whether this will actually be theraputic for me and for others remains to be seen (im presuming, it wont be), but it is a distraction from doing my Latin homework, so here goes.

Five ways to combat Valentines Day

1) Do not define yourself by your relationship status! Your relationship status is not your identity.

2) Remind yourself that V-Day is a commercial holiday. Look at how much money your saving being single!

3) Plan in advance to do something which will keep you out of the way of cooing couples.

4) Remember- some of the greatest minds of the world never married. Don't let a couple driven society make you feel bad!

5) Affirm your single status by rubbing your freedom in the faces of those tied down to having to take their partners to a fancy resturant. Be creative with this! The possibilities are endless.

Yeah..short and not very good i know. I'll keep my fingers crossed for a fairytale-like meeting with a decent guy during the next 10 days but dont be suprised if my next blog is a review of the Phantom...

xxx

Just incase you find yourself at loose ends with only a laptop and interet connection on the beautiful day. Here are 10 things you can do to pass the time on the internet, instead of trying to roll your still heavily drunken uncle out of your house

1.) Find as many ways to watch the Queens Speech as possible

Because this year its on BBC1, ITV, Sky HD and BBC HD not to forget it will be a podcast this year and no doubt will hit Youtube in a matter of minutes after its over.

2.) Watch the Great Escape online

Because you watch it every Christmas Day, but for some reason this year it was on Christmas Eve and you forgot about it!

3.) Add Christmas decorations to your blog!

Go on! You know you can't resist adding some green and red sparkly animations to your page.

4.) Update your blog

Remember, everyone wants to know how many sprouts you ate, how smashed you got and about how your family is just like the Platt's from Coronation Street. And if you don't have a blog to update...

5.) Start a blog.

Just because you can, and it will be the worst thing you ever wrote!

6.) Use the Internet movie database to make a list for charades.

Because you know that sometime between the Queens Speech and Eastenders someone is going to want to play this low-tech favourite so you may as well prepare for it.

7.) Start planning next years collection of USB gadgets

Because you can never start too soon to overload your computer with useless tat.

8.) Start Ebay auctions for all those unwanted gifts

Hey, you might as well make a profit. Just make sure not to start whilst the person who gave you the gift is in the same room.

9.) Visit your favourite forums and make a christmas themed thread

Because you must never forget about your friends who, according to Philosophy, don't really exist until you actually meet them.

10.) Update your Gamespot wish list/now playing list/collection list

because i know your not still playing RE:Outbreak.

Merry Xmas everyone!