Work ExperienceWe've got a work experience kid in for a couple of weeks and he'll do anything you tell him to... He's was in the server room most of yesterday monitoring the network activity lights - he almost missed his lunch till we took pity on him.
We are bastards.
How bad was your first experience of work?
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chthonic, Thu 10 May 2007, 9:45)
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Not me, but a friendStarted his new job. On the first day, the guy showing him around (his name was Jim or something) said to my friend:
"I'm going to introduce you to Dave. Now whatever you do, DO NOT call him Michael."
"Why not?"
"Just don't. Trust me."
So for the next year, my friend worked with Dave, all the time straining not to slip up and call him Michael. He obsessed so much that it got harder and harder to call Dave "Dave" and not "Michael."
My friend and Dave got to be good friends, and finally my friend couldn't take it anymore. He had to know.
"So, why shouldn't people call you Michael?"
"What are you talking about?" Dave asked.
"When I started here Jim told me never, ever to call you Michael."
"Oh, that's just Jim. He does that to new people just to be a bastard."
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setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred, Thu 10 May 2007, 14:24,
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