A while back I was reading Metro on the way into work, and there was a debate on the letters page about office juniors, as some lass on an internship had got the sack for not removing empty pizza boxes.
Someone had written in saying early on in their career they'd often been expected to extend their job past the description, and entertain clients, make tea, clean up the office... basically everything short of scrubbing out the bogs. For some reason, they were proud of being taken for a ride by their former employers and acting as a skivvy.
I've never worked in an office, and by the sound of it I'm not missing much.

This is nothing to do my face, voice, mannerisms etc. making me utterly unemployable in polite society.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:35, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

There is one in every office
They either get killed off or stay in middle management wanking over 3 month reviews.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:41, Reply)

The whole culture just seems to be incomprehensible.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:44, Reply)

my mother was a teacher
she said the same thing about office jobs. i've never done anything else since i was about 14 and my dad made me work in his bank every bloody school holiday!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:48, Reply)

My mother is also a teacher.
Fresh from falling face-first down a mountain over the summer and going into the expected A-Level photoshoot looking like 3 rounds with Mike Tyson, she's slipped over and broken her wrist days before an OFSTED inspection. She's got a sense of timing alright.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:50, Reply)

omg
that is unlucky!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:52, Reply)

She's just covering.
The first rule of Teacher Fight Club is: you do not talk about Teacher Fight Club.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:56, Reply)

True, I was in London when both of these things went down
It was really upsetting with the face thing though.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 22:58, Reply)

my mother once tripped over her own jeans
and couldn't put her hands out as she was carrying everyone's dinner. she hit the road face first. then stood up with takeaway curry all over herself. she looked like she'd done ten rounds with frank bruno, it was a real shame.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:00, Reply)

i hope you made her cook a new meal

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:03, Reply)

not before i'd made her clean up the road
littering is a crime
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 23:07, Reply)