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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Network Installation MonkeyWhile in college, I worked for my brother in laws company that did networking. Great big networks too! (this was the early 90's) Pulling cables through ceilings, punching down CATV wires in the telephone closets, etc.
So my first day on the job, a couple of senior guys tell me to go head out to the van and bring back two buckets of 'dial tone'. I dont know what you guys call it over there, but dial tone is that noise you hear when the phone is working properly and you've just picked it up.
It doesnt come in buckets.
I learned that when I saw them doubled over in laughter.
I subsequently did it to every new guy hired after me. I still laugh now just remembering some of the looks on their faces when they would come back and say "There ARE no buckets of dialtone." and I asked "Did you open all the buckets and listen?!"
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Citadel Because the world needs less morons, Thu 10 May 2007, 15:40,
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