Quick opinion pol...

Okay, so...I only work tuesdays, wednesdays and thursdays these days, right? I come in to work of a tuesday morning, and my inbox is full of all the corporate emails that have been sent between 3pm thursday and 9.30am tuesday. I need to check through them, just in case there are important procedural announcements in amongst all the fax failure notifications, heckling between my fellow team members, and the updates on that annoying breakdown-selling competition that I can't participate in.

So....my question is, on that particular day of the week, do you think it's fair of me to claim the time it takes me to review my inbox as time out of my work day? I get in with just enough time to fire up the computer and load up all the necessary software, before I have to knuckle down and try to meet my daily productivity score.

My supervisor doesn't seem to think it is.

Wow, look! She's actually studying!

I have one more assignment to go on my French course before the End of Course Accessment (ECA), and my study-buddy Jenny and I have arranged to meet up on the computer twice weekly to prepare for it.

The first half is an informal conversation, covering the things that have been on the course such as family, holidays, interests etc. The other half is a role-play scenario where you're being interviewed for a job.

I've been trawling through my books and can compile loads of vocab and phrases which will come in useful for practising the first part. But the job interview? I can't find that anywhere in the course's set-books....*flicks through them with growing anxiety*

At least I've got about five weeks to prepare for it. 'Course, there's that final assignment due at the end of this month too....