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Tears?
Not my personal work experience but that of my old school friend "meatball." Meatball was habitually bullied throughout his school life mainly due to the fact he had a head shape very similar to that of a... Meatball.

Anyway it's year 10 and we all have to get work experience and somehow Senor Meatball is able to get a 2 week placement with a local Architect firm. Meatball has wanted to be an Architect all his life and is therefore dead chuffed. He goes on and on about how good his work experience is going to be and even tells me that they will likely offer him part time job once he has finished. As it get closer to the first week of work experience, it’s obvious that for once in his life Meatball has got something to look forward to. He struts round the school with a smile, even as the local bullies take their allotted pound of flesh.


Two days into the first week and I give meaty a call to see how everything is going and tell him how bored I am. Meatball tells me that he is now working with his mum and that his other placement "Didn't work out."


Once I get back to School I find out the full story.When Meatball had turned up to his dream work experience they had told him to wait in one of the stock rooms whilst they sorted "some admin". After 4 hours of waiting Meatball started to need the toilet and was worried that they had forgotten him and starting crying. He then proceeded to run out of the office with tears running down his overly large head where he was seen by the vast majority of the bullying elite who were working on the adjacent building site. He was then chased for the remainder of his journey and ended up begging the school receptionist to let him back in school...
(Mon 14th May 2007, 12:21, More)