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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For fax sakeWe had this 16 year old lad in for a week of work experience as a 'junior office assistant'. I gave him a pile of about 1000 faxes to send to clients, and he duly scurried off to the post room to start the tedious task of tapping in numbers and feeding the sheets in. We had a particularly decrepit old fax machine, which required the operator to hold the paper and manually feed it, and had a nasty habit of refusing to send more than one page at a time, so I figured this would keep him occupied for the best part of a couple of days.
Less than a day later this lad comes back looking pleased with himself as he'd done the lot. I was impressed, so I figured he was ready for a bit more responsibility. I sent him off to the stationery cupboard to count the biros and tidy the box of Post-It notes and then the phone rang. It was a client, wondering if we'd meant to fax them a blank sheet. Then another one, and another.
The little twerp had sent 1000 faxes the wrong side up.
(, Sun 13 May 2007, 0:00, Reply)
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