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Postby surferdude_scarborough » Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:01 pm

Nunwood fleshin' Consulting!!! cold calling people to ask if they want to do a survey only to be told to fleshin' off and stop trying to sell something
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Postby Hang11 » Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:28 pm

Working as an auditor, during the summer hols, in an office on my own, no windows, no phone, nobody else there, just going through piles of paper all day. On the third day, there was a good swell, I walked straight past the door and went for a surf instead. Never went back.

Everything else I've ended up doing has been OK.
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Postby kitesurfer » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:20 am

pat42 wrote:I've dug ditches in the depths of a German winter......which I didnt love, but the money was great



I knew you were old Pat, but i didn't realise you served in the war
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Postby pat42 » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:52 am

1st world war that is (or was) :lol:
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Postby tomcat360 » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:30 pm

Served food to old people at an old folks home for a year. Along with washing the puree off the plates with 190 degree water. My hands are still tough though, haha.

That was the low. Worked in an equipment shop for 2 years coming home covered with asphalt, tar, engine oil, hydraulic oil, diesel fuel, etc, and worked in a shop with no AC in the middle of the summer.....but loved it.
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Postby grammarnazi » Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:26 am

wrapped candy canes in a candy cane factory -- in July.
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Postby Luke » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:46 am

grammarnazi wrote:wrapped candy canes in a candy cane factory -- in July.


i take it it's not really like willy wonka's then.
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Postby grammarnazi » Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:34 am

Luke wrote:
grammarnazi wrote:wrapped candy canes in a candy cane factory -- in July.


i take it it's not really like willy wonka's then.


Not unless willy wonka had a secret back room where the oompa loompas were wearing hairnets and getting accidentally electrocuted.
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Postby Broosta » Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:56 am

Did a few months working offshore on the rigs in North Sea as a Roustabout, which means 'general dogs body' in proper english. Worst part was working in the chemical room - hot airless room wearing thick overalls, big wellies, rubber apron, goggles, leather gloves, filter mask and hardhat having to pour various 20kg bags of stuff slowly into the drill mud for a 12 hr shift!

Sold Filter Queen vacuum cleaners for a month - they cost £1200 and we had to go round to pre arranged appointments to demonstrate its cleaning ability and then really hard sell using ALL the tricks in the book! I sold 2 to little old ladies who really didn't need them - not that anybody really needed them...

Did one 8hr shift at a factory on the Mayonaise conveyorbelt taking the 8-packs off the rollers and stacking them on a pallet. And thats all you do for 8 hrs! You don't even take the pallet off to somewhere else, thats another persons job, you just stand in the same spot doing the same few movements. I told them to fk off and walked out after being asked if I wanted to continue for another 4 hrs, and the rate I thought I was getting was incorrect as I had been quoted the night shift rate not the much less day shift rate! People on that line had been doing it for 25 yrs in some cases :shock: better people than me for sure!

Worked for a magazine distibuters for about a year but got 'promoted' to the magazine office from the customer services phone office. My newly aquired post's day consisted of copying numbers (no letters at all, just numbers) from a printout and typing them into a computer. ALL DAY LONG! Kinda lost the enthusiasm after that and quit after about a month.

In order to get my current job as Paramedic I needed to gain some work experience of doing care work. So I helped out at a care home for elderly 3 days a week for a month. Had to get the old folks up for their brekky which meant toileting and washing them and cleaning up after the odd misshap during the night :x . Bassically as soon as you walked into the building the stench of urine was in your face - and that was the best of it! Again to all those who do that for a living, I take my hat off to you because I couldn't do it. :)

My work as Ambulance Paramedic gives some people the shudders but its not too bad at all due to the variety of stuff we do. Ok we do deal with some gnarly stuff but just as often we deal with nice stuff, or do nothing but watch tv for an entire shift, or cruise about in the ambulance on a saturday night checking out the hot ladies who are pissed and like men in uniform :wink: and then have to scream off heroically with the blues and twos when the radio says so.

During my life I've worked out, for me at least, it is the monotony of a job I find hardest to deal with.

...still don't know what I want to be when I grow up tho...
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Postby tomcat360 » Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:50 pm

These are pretty funny
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Postby surf patrol » Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:09 am

Any of my jobs that involving having to work with the general public.

(Apart from selling icecream on Cromer Pier for a summer)
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Postby deewhy1981 » Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:26 am

Barista at Coffee Beanery, stuck up customers :x
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Postby handsome_devil » Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:39 pm

Reverend wrote:I also worked at Mcdonalds for two weeks and then got fired !!! :oops:

haha

is that because they realised you have qualifications??

(that was a joke and i really don't want to offend anyone. i'm really no snob.)
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Postby Dr Rev » Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:13 pm

No, got fired for smoking on the job !!! :oops: :lol:
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Postby libby » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:47 am

Looks like i am now an employee of my local Spar :oops:
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Postby Dr Rev » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:06 pm

At least its a job Libby !!!!!
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Postby CHarvey » Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:56 pm

I worked in a bagel shop, Computer builder, Costco, was a machinist for 3 different companies, warehouse manager, mail room manager, worked on a rock quarry for 76 hours a week, construction, welder, and now I do Computer support in downtown San Diego.
Can I retire yet?
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Postby joem » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:37 pm

i havent worked yet and would like too keep it that way
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Postby PapaW » Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:13 pm

Libby wrote:Looks like i am now an employee of my local Spar :oops:


A short trot down the road... tis ideal really. what hrs are you doing?
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Postby northswell » Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:13 pm

Libby wrote:Looks like i am now an employee of my local Spar :oops:


Means to an end.

I start tomorrow at my old job i swore i would not go back too.


See it as a temporary thing and make sure you get your shop discount. :lol: Cheapo Jaffa Cakes
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