I actually love my current job
so I don't find ways to skive. Then again this morning I was greeted by a Rottweiler puppy who was intent on licking every patch of spare skin he could get at and then by a labradoodle who got jealous of the rottie and pushed him out of the way to get cuddles. But I digress...

I once worked for large video rental head office and within two months of working there, convinced my boss to hire my best friend and end her Woolworths hell. We were recent film graduates with big dreams ahead of us, so thought working there would be a good stepping stone into greatness. Not to be, as we shared an office that was about the size of a tesco express with no windows, no net access and racks and racks of shelving along all four walls.

The previous employees had always been agency staff that were keen to stay on there as it was a pretty cushy job, so would take their time over labelling each tape or DVD and stretch the job out over a whole day. The boss assumed that we would do work of the same standard, so would never be on site, preferring instead to be at the main head office.

We quickly worked out that the job was a dead end one with no prospects, but liked the fact that we could rock up around 10am, have as many smoke/ps2/xbox breaks as we liked and always leave on time. There was always the added bonus of the cheese toasty machine located in the corner of the office for snackage purposes.

The main lure and primary reason why I stayed there for longer than I should, was the sheer volume of VHS and DVDs that were placed in alphabetical order upon these mighty shelves. We'd get all the actual work done by midday, have a two hour lunch break and then watch films all afternoon.

All good things must come to an end and we were subsequently made redundant when chip and pin came into force as the vending machines we were supplying weren't able to cope with such advances in technology.

On a side note, we often had home videos returned with our stickers on instead of the original as the system was hardly foolproof. We'd always watch them and see if they'd sent back pr0n. So if anyone out there is missing a very very weird christmas special of a tape labelled 'Holm family video'...mindbleach is still needed.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:24, Reply)