Work Experience

[FullMetal_old]

So, I haven't been on in a while because this week and next is Work Experience...In a book shop.
It's kinda crap and would rather be playing L4D or TF2, the worst part is... I'm not getting payed and have to work 9 to 5 for nothing. Bullshit...

But! I have learnt some things:

Music from 50's-60's-70's makes me feel really old when having to listen to it.
That 'They day of the Triffids' is now my fav horror book (I never knew about it till a few days ago!)
and what it feels like to have to be nice to your manager when he's around but talk shit about him when he's not around.
And finally, old people drink alcohol at early hours so it's funny to see them come in drunk. Hand you a £10 note and think they handed you a £5 and hold all the customers up

1 more week and I will be able to be lazy and relax.

[Taekwon-joe]

Did you want to work in a book shop or did you not have a choice?

I did work experience in school and ended up working in Currys. Possibly one of the most boring weeks in my life.

[FullMetal_old]

The school chose for me, The only things that passes time is talking to one of the girls in there likes Manga, anime and the japanese culture so just talking to her makes the day go. I wonder how this place stays in business, It's a independant book shop

[YamNivek]

Its not just a front for a more shady type of business!! hehe.

Just dont go in the cellar, they'll either have people tied up in racks or they'll be som crystal meth bubbling away!!

my work experince was quite fun actually. Me and a mate managed to get a place working for his dads mate who was a drama and music lecturer at portsmouth uni. I had 2 weeks of "learning to use an 8-track" and pissing about on guitars. We also made a game called mallet ball. Its like table tennis only it involes 2 hlafs of a medium sized room, 2 mallets instead of bats and the ball was a polystyrene ball slightly larger than a tennis ball. You can get some wicked spin on a polystyrene ball with a mallet.

[Supernova]

Lucky sob!

We had this book come round when we did work experience, and you got to pick three jobs from the book that you'd like to do (they were all local businesses who were accepting students).

I, being somewhat interested in those areas picked:
* An architect's / planning office.
* A science lab

And as a last resort
* A fish farm


Several weeks later our teacher pulled me out of the class and told me that *not even the fish farm* had any spaces left, and infact the only place that did was the old peoples' home.

THE OLD PEOPLE'S HOME.

On my first day, before I even entered the building, I saw an old man at the window pulling his nappy down.

A start of things to come? I hoped not.

I soon learnt that a "company accepting students for work experience" meant "company not wanting to pay somebody to do all their filing."

I spent 2 weeks, 9-5 every day *filing*.

After a week and a half I got to use the photocopier, then I went back to organising files in different offices.

At one point in the first week I was sitting down (guess what, organising some files) and an old lady came and sat on the chair next to me. A few minutes later she got up and walked off and I noticed a strange smell, there was a WET PATCH on the chair.

I didn't use another chair for the rest of the two weeks.

And apart from the old people stealing each other's mail, wandering around and looking like ghosts, the worst bit was the smell! It *stank*.

And you get a book shop? No fair

I could only dream of getting a bookshop

[Jonnywhy]

That 'They day of the Triffids' is now my fav horror book (I never knew about it till a few days ago!)

Great book.
I had to shadow a group of electricians on my work experience. It was crap on the whole, one day we were working outside and the most rain I have ever seen started to fall down. They were fitting this big old fuse board with several 3-phase cables, but while it was raining they got me to hold a polythene sheet over it to keep it dry, while they sat back having a cuppa, deciding how early they could go home because of the rain and speculating whether or not the rain would make the fuse board explode!

Highlight of work experience: driving a cherry picker for 5 mins on my 3rd day.

[FullMetal_old]

Woah, I feel sorry for you Nova. Some guy in my class has gone to BBC for 1 week aparently.
I'll have to ask him if its true that he is the luckiest work experience student ever, lol

[Jonnywhy]

Woah, I feel sorry for you Nova.

What about me! I could have died! (Ok, unlikely, but still!)

[cockijoe]

got feking banned from doing it for been a naughty boy. And full enjoy it while your still free to pick a job cause its shit out there lol

[George_clooney]

Hmm I guess the sates do it a bit diffrently. When I was in school we had to do 20 hours of community service. (Luckly it was around thanksgiving(US holiday if you dont know) so there was lots of oppertunities at local churches.)
By the end of the month I was one third catholic, one thrid mormon, 1 third Lutheran and 1 third scientologist.