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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Never trust a work experience boy with a gun.My brother did a stint of work experience on a farm. Pretty much everything that could go wrong did.
He was shown how to drive the ute, but while running some errands on the property he rolled it, spilling hay everywhere and "misplacing" the dog that was riding on the hay bales. He accidentally speared a cow with a hay-bale lifter (akin to a forklift). After being shown how to cross giant ditches with a tractor (head on, the tire's diameter is bigger than one thinks), he lost his nerve and veered sideways into 2 feet of water, lodging the tractor into a muddy channel at 55 degrees.
But his competence really shone when he went 'roo shooting.
He was given a .303, and stood on the back of the ute, leaning over the top of the driver cabin. As a 16-yr-old city kid, he was somewhat unprepared for the recoil of the big gun. He fired his first shot at some 6-foot big red.....and nearly passed out in shock at the kick of the rifle. In order to nurse the pain of his nearly-broken shoulder, he put the rifle down....on the roof of the ute....while the farmer was still driving over fairly bumpy terrain.
The second shot (from the now unattended and briefly airborne rifle) went straight through the engine block, 30 centimetres from the farmer's nuts.
My brother spent the rest of that week digging stones out of the 4 kilometre farm driveway.
(, Fri 11 May 2007, 12:14, Reply)
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