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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child abuse!My own experience of school-ordered work experience was being sequestered with a classmate to a primary school, where we had tuck shop duties. They didnt tell us what our duties entailed so when we weren't selling subsidised sweeties and crisps, we were cleaning up the stock. Literally. If I ever see another package of 2 oatmeal cookies I'll puke. I think we filed stuff for a bit, except we mostly took it in turns to smoke too much in the staffroom. And to smoke the fun stuff behind the outside stores.
In the last few days they decided I was the trustworthy one so I got to supervise classes while the teachers left for sanity breaks or boozy lunches, or whatever reason it is they have to leave the class for in the middle of the day. I was hip and cool and funky and chatty until one of the kids got mouthy, a few others followed suit, and I got one mouthy kid point blank in the middle of the forehead with the blackboard duster and walked up and down one row of mouthy kids slapping them all on the forehead then the back of the head with a ruler. The real shocker is that they loved it. I was cooler than ever, then.
The school gave us £20 each at the end of it. Presents from kids and staff too. Suckers!
And I was so hip and cool (what with being a 16 yr old white chick with big boobs and multicoloured dreds with bells wound in) that they wouldn't report me. Certainly not back in them days.
Our work experience guy is a champ. Not in the great worker sense, more in that he'll take 3 months off and then come in completely fucked off his face and demand pay for the months that he didn't do, for a job he does for free. Because he's that fucked up, he's forgotten. He amuses us all greatly which is why when social services come in, we pretend he still does his obligatory day a week, and more even, because he's just that keen! Really, we just like to see him cowering in front of his social services examiner trying to make like he knows what we do every day and feeding him all the wrong lines. I have no idea how he manages to stay on this course. I think social services would rather have a forgetful stoner work for them than a paedophile, just to have a guy employable in childcare.
(, Sat 12 May 2007, 1:47, Reply)
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