eh?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:50, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

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)