Tax Free
June 14th, 2007 at 00:12
Today was my last evening working at the tax office. In retrospect, I actually feel vaguely saddened that I’ll no longer work there – presumably because of the people rather than the work involved. As much as I loved endlessly processing forms in a navy-blue on grey console application, I don’t think I’m going to find myself wishing I could be back there.
Leaving in the way that I did has been a bit like euthanasia in a way – I’ve chosen to leave on my own terms – I don’t have another job to go to – I simply fancy doing bugger all for the summer.
As it was my last day, the mood was a bit more relaxed – I was tempted to just say “big tax rebates for everyone!”, as I processed a pile of tax forms. What were they going to do? Sack me?
To try and win the kudos of my (now former) colleagues, despite months of secretly slagging them off on the internet, I bought a couple of boxes of Cadbury’s Miniature Heroes in. Vaguely interestingly, it was once again proved that nobody likes Picnics and Topics, as they were the only ones left over. This has happened in every Miniature Heroes Occasion I’ve ever participated in – presumably this now means that I can call this phenomenon O’Malley’s First Law, and have loads of creationists dispute this official scientific theory. They’d probably claim that this natural (non-random) selection doesn’t occur when someone picks a chocolate.
Excellently, my colleagues got me a card as I was leaving – and it wasn’t just a regular card, it was bereavement card, just to illustrate how sincerely they’re going to miss me. “May your memories be a comfort to you”, says the front of the card. I’m assuming the fireworks and high-fives as I left the building was just a coincidence.
I spent a lot of today shamelessly plugging my blog to my colleagues, so hopefully one or two of them will be reading this – so I’ll just re-state my opinion on the record that it has been lovely working with the following people: Michael, Nick, Keyur, Kam, Nilay, Hemel, Michon, Nit, Jeet, Ricky, Linda, Manish, Julia, Lee, Chet, Jit (I think that’s everyone) and all of the casual acquaintances who I’ve been too rude to learn to the names of over the past ten months.
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