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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DesignersMy work experience was held at a manufacturing company that made girders, then made the building out of said girders.
It was all very technical... the bosses sent me to make tea all day long, the welders told me rude words, the designers, well, wore silly clothes mostly.
However, I had two weeks at said job, and a week of which I spent with the designers. I found out that their job isn't to 'design', but more to 'count the number of drill holes and welds needed to complete the building'.
ONE WHOLE WEEK of counting holes and welds on both paper and CAD designs of nothing but girders interlocking and I cracked.
I actively changed their spreadsheet design so that any inputted numbers were replaced with 'I'm sorry, I can't do that, Dave.'
I got a glowing report though, but the bastards didn't give me a penny for my trouble.
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Pointy Head poked another hole in my anorak on, Thu 10 May 2007, 13:04,
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