I was temping for a whileand got a position as a 'data input clerk' for a data processing company.
They had sent out a few of hundred thousand 24 page questionnaires for NHS patients to complete, which were then scanned into a computer.
My job was to sit at the screen and verify anything the computer wasn`t sure of.
[wait thirty seconds]
[press '0']
[wait thirty seconds]
[press 'B']
[wait thirty seconds]
[press 'Y']
[wait thirty seconds]
[enter a telephone number manually]
The computer would crash every 20 minutes, and while it was being restarted, I had to open envelopes, and put the various letters into piles.
I stuck at that for 3 days.
(They had sent out a few of hundred thousand 24 page questionnaires for NHS patients to complete, which were then scanned into a computer.
My job was to sit at the screen and verify anything the computer wasn`t sure of.
[wait thirty seconds]
[press '0']
[wait thirty seconds]
[press 'B']
[wait thirty seconds]
[press 'Y']
[wait thirty seconds]
[enter a telephone number manually]
The computer would crash every 20 minutes, and while it was being restarted, I had to open envelopes, and put the various letters into piles.
I stuck at that for 3 days.
Reckless_Rik,
Mon 10 Nov 2003, 17:42,
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