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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Christmas work at CurrysA few highlights:
- Getting deliveries of fragile electrical goods downstairs by simply throwing them, which is how everyone else did it.
- Opening the box containing a new Alba "hi-fi" for shop display, whereupon the entire front panel fell off, exposing the shitty cheap electronics within.
- Spending half a day putting up some shelves in the stockroom with another guy. We did a bloody good job, but were then told to stack irons 20 high on them. The next day I walked past and a steam iron fell on my head.
- The chronic BO of the manager and the deputy manager, who was his wife.
- Observing the chronic bullying of the ginger junior manager, who once spent a morning reorganising one side of the stockroom. Assistant manager comes downstairs, says "you haven't fucking done much, have you?" and literally pushes a pile of big TVs on top of him.
- Repeatedly getting electric shocks when cleaning the shop floor TV display.
- Being sent out regularly to buy JPS and Peter Stuyvesant fags for the chain-smoking staff. Usually allowed to keep the change though :-)
- All for a fabulous £1.17 an hour in 1985. I could almost afford the bus fare home.
(, Fri 11 May 2007, 21:43, Reply)
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