The trick is to work with people you know
Spent my work experience at a IT company where I was mates with many of the staff, including the owners.

Great time, me and a mate from school got in there (both knew the company pretty well, which was a small company but the majority of staff spent all day at various customer sites), there was also this other kid from another school.

We'd heard what *normally* happens to work experience kids there, but our expertise (we were administrating our school network on a day to day basis) and our knowledge of the company meant there was discussions over which one of the staff would get our help on sites everyday.

Turned out that I got to work with the one owner, ended up replacing some of the hardware in a few machines and tinkering with the server in the school we were working at. This was all while I was checking the hot ladies out and being checked out by them(!) (the head of IT put one of his cute 17 yr old first year sixth formers on the spot when he talked across the whole class to me about her interest in me, which he overheard when helping someone else).

The guy from the other school? Well he got their typical work experience job...sorting the various screws into the correct boxes. When he complained the owner just said "Don't do it and I'll write that in my report"

As for the rest of us, well due to timetable constraints at my school we couldn't do more than a week work experience. Of this week the company was shutting down on the Thursday and Friday for a Microshite conference in the NEC....First week of first job and a four day weekend \o/
(iapetus, Thu 10 May 2007, 11:01, Reply)