Some of us didn't do A-Levels, some of us decided to go get a job and do a living and not go on a gap-lifetime.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:35, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I thought you answered the phones at a mini cab office?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:36, Reply)

zing

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:37, Reply)

I got more respect for someone who pours a coffee for minimum wage exactly to little Tarquin's faux-latino standard, than the little Tarquin using mummy's store card between shopping at River Island and Primark.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:48, Reply)

eh?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:50, Reply)

You were belittling me for my job, you shouldn't belittle someone because of their job.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:53, Reply)

Sorry Gonz, it was only because you opened with "some of us.." which is all arsey

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:55, Reply)

It's OK, truth is I never considered it a 'proper job', or at least, not a career job, not for me anyway.
I'm now making websites which have pageviews of several million a month.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:59, Reply)

The truth is, working awnsering phones in a minicab office is a very skilled job.
- You have to know how long it takes to get from more or less any point in your area to any other point
- How much that would cost
- Be able to chain up jobs (eg, "Driver 62 is dropping off at X, he then pick up in Y around the corner, rather than send out a new driver who has to travel much further to the pick up for a local)
- Be able to deal with all sorts of members of the public, such as drunks and infirm... most of them talking to you like you're scum.
- Knowing about 100 drivers, eg, not to send a driver who doesn't speak much english to a regular elderly lady who can't hear properly.
- With the locations above, knowing all the local pubs, venues, resturants...etc.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:57, Reply)

Addresses, quickest routes, peak traffic times, people who can hardly speak, let alone speak English, irate drivers who get a string of no-pickups
Lost items, customers with no money, useless co-operators rarely turning up on time, sometimes not at all, a boss only interested in weekly rent and not building business or customer satisfaction. I kinda like my job though, shame the money's fucking diabolical and it murders my self-esteem every time I have to get out of bed for £5 an hour.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 18 May 2011, 10:01, Reply)

Oh yes, all of these.
And the attitudes stink a lot of the time too, people always banging on about anyone female who walks across the street, crude comments by dirty old men about what they'd like to do to them.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 18 May 2011, 10:08, Reply)

On the road to teaching assistant training now.
Need to get my head straight first, but I'm getting out of this pit eventually.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 18 May 2011, 10:10, Reply)

Good man, not that I really know you in any depth, from what I do know you can do so much better for you*
* in the respect of you not being happy there, if you were happy as larry, you couldn't do better... if that makes sense.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 18 May 2011, 10:20, Reply)

Thanks gonz =)
Brilliant to see you've landed on your feet in your job too, couldn't happen to a more deserving chap.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 18 May 2011, 10:22, Reply)

Cheers, you'll do the same =)

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 18 May 2011, 10:35, Reply)

What about the person who pours coffee for minimum wage for the hard working engineer who worked hard at uni and now designs flood defences?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:50, Reply)

+ IS IN A STABLE RELATIONSHIP AND IS GETTING PROMOTED IN JULY?

Jesus Christ you self-aggrandising turd.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:53, Reply)

*psst*
I thought Vippers did that work, not Al
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:56, Reply)

broadly correct
I didn't work hard at uni though
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:57, Reply)

hahah oops

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:57, Reply)

Two things
One - I'm not an engineer who designs flood defences, I was merely questioning at which point you respect the person buying the coffee more than the person pouring it.

Two - It's brilliant that you can't see the hypocrisy in constantly going on about how shit your life because of your own mistakes to get attention on the internet but you think you can criticise me for making one jokey comment about how you wish your life was more like mine when I have never promoted my life style beforehand.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:57, Reply)

The point was not to belittle the person pouring the coffee.
I don't wish my life was like yours, I just wish I was _in_ your life more.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 18 May 2011, 10:10, Reply)

If they're paying £5 for a cup of coffee with more syrup, creme and calories than a box of Krispy Kreams... then more fool them.
Nothing wrong with going to uni, I just don't buy that everyone's little darling is a scholar who is a failure in life who doesn't have a degree on their wall.... which I truely believe no one here believes, but i was almost imposed as doctrine by Tony Blair.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 18 May 2011, 10:04, Reply)