Work ExperienceWe've got a work experience kid in for a couple of weeks and he'll do anything you tell him to... He's was in the server room most of yesterday monitoring the network activity lights - he almost missed his lunch till we took pity on him.
We are bastards.
How bad was your first experience of work?
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chthonic, Thu 10 May 2007, 9:45)
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Berk experienceI did my work experience in the Jaguar engineering and design plant in Coventry just as they were launching the S type. In spite of there being a huge complex filled with the most expensive and coolest toys in the world, me and my pal Tom basically sat in their cantina colouring in wiring loom diagrams. Oh, and we also sat in a lot of long boring meetings about cup holders.
After one such long boring meeting, I commented to our supervisor that the meeting was hard to follow, to which he replied:
"Yes, they do use a lot of anachronisms."
"Anachronisms?" I ask.
"Yes, like TLA, and SPD. Anachronisms."
"Right."
I stifled my chuckles, picturing what hilarious anachronisms they would be using, perhaps papyrus for their technical diagrams, or brass dividers to work out angles. What's more, every time I explain this to someone, they just look at me blankly, thereby compounding how funny it is. Am I a git for laughing at their cretinous vocabulary deficiencies?
I spent those two weeks learning that I never want to be an engineer. The fortnight was only enlivened on the last day by one of the engineers taking us for a spin in a prototype XKR, nailing 140 on the A46. I have never been in a car that fast. Woooo!
(, Thu 10 May 2007, 10:04, Reply)
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