Electronics Retail
Whilst at uni, I got a job with a high street electronic component retailer whose name sounds like something to do with "Hi-de-hi". I say components, they just sell shite now.

Anyway, Saturdays were quite hectic in so much as there were actual customers to serve sometimes. The easy bit was the day after.... we were one of the only shops in the city to open on a Sunday, seemingly a decision had been made at head office without anyone thinking about local trends. Not to worry.... we were three young gentlemen in a shop full of gadgets! We could make our own entertainment.

I think the highlight was wandering around the rest of the retail block, unoccupied at the time, wearing night-vision goggles and using the walkie-talkies. Obviously we had to close the store to do that. Or rewiring the store PA system to play any sort of offensive music whilst we "destruction test" the fun looking stuff. Remember those frisbees with the LEDs on the side, displaying messages as they flew? For some reason our stationary display model read "Pissflaps".

Competitions were held, the most popular being "tag the customer" where security tags were stealthily applied to any customers who happened to wander into the store. We could then tut and glare as they set the alarms off on exit.

The best job was going through the returns pile, making sure when it went into the skip it was unusable. This involved using inventive methods to break it, basically.
(Pillock, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 22:41, 2 replies)

Click
I wish I had this job...
(davidcompression, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 23:26, closed)

Click'd!
Mostly for Tag The Customer
(jellybeanflicker Jesus was Korean, but there he was Cho Sun Wun, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 4:16, closed)