Miscellany

1) If a firm has a full application form, with boxes for your personal statement and your extra-curricular activities and so forth, is it safe to assume they don't want or need a CV and cover letter as well? Or is it best to send them the whole lot? Obviously when it's an electronic form this is made clear, but for forms you download and email back it's rather ambiguous. "Application Forms & Additional Info must be returned to..." - do they mean they require Additional Info or is that just for when you can't fit everything on the form (which doesn't really apply for a Word document, does it)?

2) There's something terribly final about the way the 1571 woman says "DELETED"; it's a good job I don't have to delete a lot of voicemail or I might get a complex.

3) In similar vein, there's something hugely annoying about the way the O2-credit woman says "Let's get going!!" as if buying calling credit is some kind of exciting and slightly flirtatious adventure.

Business as usual, you see...