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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 14:06 
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didn't you do telesales as wel?


Oh, yes! I knew I'd left something out. Trying to sell people portrait photo shoots over the phone.


That sounds horrible... I think we should have a "jobs I hated" thread too.


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Yeah, it was shit. I was fucking good at it though.

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Nothing very impressive at all:

Factory Monkey - Trafalgar Cases (making packing cases for car parts), Pratt's Bananas (Packing bananas (and the occasional lizard or spider) for various supermarkets - £280 a week after tax, when you're sixteen is pretty fucking awesome!), BOC (now Gist - packing clothing and perfumes for Marks & Spencer worldwide).

Retail Monkey - First Sport (the amount of money I would spend on trainers was crazy), Blockbuster Video (I fucking loved this job - By the time I left, I'd basically memorised every single rental barcode in the store), Virgin Megastore (Loved this job too, maybe not as much as BBV, mind you).

Now, I'm a full-time carer. *joy*

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 Post subject: Re: Working stiffs
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OOOh, jobs, I've had a few:

...........

As part of this job, I worked with Procal Harem, MTV Europe, Chips with Everything (appearing on 5-6 episodes), ITV's late night show set in an Internet Cafe, went to loads of gaming events, hosted a trance night every last thursday of the month and that's just the stuff I remember

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Malc


FFS, you worked with Procul Harum but you can't spell their name????!!!111

I'll let you off if you tell more of this, bekuz they are possibly my very favourite band of all time.


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1. Civil servant

1.1 'Box clerk' in an Unemployment Benefit Office (not great, but good training for dealing with the public).

1.2 Placing officer in a Jobcentre. - Slightly better than working in the UBO.

1.3 Training admin officer in a Jobcentre. - Slightly better than being a placing officer.

1.4 Training admin officer in an area office. - Not bad - very little direct contact with the great unwashed.

1.5 Accounts supervisor with the Manpower Services Commission. - Better than i expected it to be.

1.6 Staff training tutor with the Manpower Services Commission. - The dog's bollocks. Did that for seven years until I was head hunted for the next job, which was ...

1.7 Open Learning Liaison Officer with the Manpower Services Commission. - Good fun. Drove around the north west of England demonstrating CBT and interactive video training at exhibitions and conferences to get employers interested in new ways of learning. Got a lot of free lunches on that one.

1.9 NW Regional IT Manager with the Manpower Services Commission/Government Office for the North West. The dog's even better bollocks. No one knew what I was doing and no one cared, as long as the network was working. Managed the installation of the first networked 'puters in our office network, configured the PCs, trained the staff, ran the helpdesk and did sys admin on our Ultrix network. Did loads of user acceptance testing for new apps and email when we were first able to send messages to other offices and not just our own internal staff. - Ground breaking stuff.

1.10 Facilities Manager for Government Office for the North West. - Had to accept this offer when It was outsourced to Fujitsu and I didn't want to leave the civil service when I was getting close to early retirement eligibility.

1.11 Temp Ministerial Business Unit Manager for Government Office for the North West. By far the worst job I ever had and would probably have caused me to have a nervous breakdown if I'd been appointed to it permanently).

1.12 Corporate Performance and Risk Manager for Government Office for the North West. - Allocated to this job during our final restructure, after facilities management was centralised and my post was no longer needed. Basically cutting and pasting directors' reports on performance and risk into big spreadsheets and a big MS publisher Balanced Scorecard chart each month for the management board. Money for old rope, really, but someone had to do it.

2. Unpaid back office manager for a claims management company which has more or less gone out of business.

3. Currently - Freelance interviewer for a national social research organisation. Still making my mind up about this one. It entails interviewing people in their own homes for projects commissioned by academic institutions and government departments on a wide range of topics.


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 Post subject: Re: Working stiffs
PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 22:38 
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Warhead wrote:
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OOOh, jobs, I've had a few:

...........

As part of this job, I worked with Procal Harem, MTV Europe, Chips with Everything (appearing on 5-6 episodes), ITV's late night show set in an Internet Cafe, went to loads of gaming events, hosted a trance night every last thursday of the month and that's just the stuff I remember

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Malc


FFS, you worked with Procul Harum but you can't spell their name????!!!111

I'll let you off if you tell more of this, bekuz they are possibly my very favourite band of all time.


What's worse is that I meant the moody blues!

I rushed the post, and I got confused between those 2 bands as to which one sang "Knights in white satin"

Essentially they came in to the cafe and played that song, and we broadcast it over the interent live on real player (about a week after real player came out) apparently it was the first live band to be broadcast over the internet in this way.

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So.. Employed by the MNA group were you? I am now..


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 Post subject: Re: Working stiffs
PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 23:27 
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My first job was delivering newspapers for next to no money, until I figured I could just recycle them and go for a walk every morning and nobody would notice. I was fired six months later.

My second job was washing dishes and being treated like shit by all of the waitresses and management at a hotel, while I went to college. I lasted eighteen months before impulsively handing in my notice one day, with no other job lined up.

I tried agency work, but after one day in a sweet factory peeling labels off Heinz bean tins ready for them to be rebranded and the agency never bothering to call me about any other jobs, that didn't go very far.

My third job started as temporary data entry at my elder brother's work. After six years I'd managed to move to creating printed maps and various other graphics, to becoming their only graphic & web designer, developing interfaces for reasonably large web applications. Until I was made redundant in the shitty financial mess in April this year. But the pay was poor, I was getting bored of working alone, and wanted to leave.

Now I'm working for a rapidly expanding company making web sites for various charities around the world. The pay is a lot better, and it's given me chance to vastly improve my visual design skills, but ultimately I'm bored at how little the company cares about the fine details of design, and how I'm effectively pushing pixels doing wallpapering for clients I'm three steps removed from ever talking to myself. But it's a step up, and one more towards what I want to keep doing in life.


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 Post subject: Re: Working stiffs
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So.. Employed by the MNA group were you? I am now..

I was indeed. Whereabouts are you "stationed"? :P


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 Post subject: Re: Working stiffs
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I'm very impressed by the number of people who've gone from seemingly-rubbish jobs, straight into the IT sector. What's the feckin' secret?

Me? It's almost too depressing to read, but here you go...

Rosette Maker.

Housing Assistant for various local council offices, starting as a youth trainee and ending up with a full-time, temporary position. Having money for the first time in my life was nice, but I blew it all on computers and telescopes. I'm mad for it, me.

I then decided to go to college and then uni (having left school at 16) and, because I was a mature student, got a "job" as a senior resident in halls. No pay, but free lodging, which was well handy in my third and fourth years.

Graduated with an MA in Archaeology, and went straight to Ireland for 3 years. Worked on a huge (and highly controversial) excavation, first as a plain field archaeologist, then became a supervisor and ended up working on writing the site report for nine months. Looking back, I had an absolute blast, but archaeology isn't really a career for anyone who wants to settle down, and at this point in my life I had to make a decision on what to do - so I decided to move to Canada and get married.

Was then unemployed for a year, while cursing myself for giving up archaeology to come to a stupid, cold country where everybody talked funny.

Finally, swallowing my pride, I started applying for retail jobs. Got a contract position opening a new store, which became permanent, then an assistant manager position. Left after 9 months to go to a bigger store, where I was, over the course of the next 4 years, a Sales Lead, Planogrammer, Shipper-Receiver and Department Head/Assistant Manager.

Two years ago, my then-boss called me into the office and shouted at me a bit for not working hard enough, and told me I should work unpaid overtime. I went home and applied for the first retail management job I saw online, and to my abject surprise (and, I must admit, mild horror) I got the job. So now I'm a Store Manager. In retail. And I fucking hate it, but at this point I'm practically institutionalised.

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 Post subject: Re: Working stiffs
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Malc74 wrote:
I'm very impressed by the number of people who've gone from seemingly-rubbish jobs, straight into the IT sector. What's the feckin' secret?


In my case, an IT degree.

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 Post subject: Re: Working stiffs
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Actually no. I got my degree after I started. Technician was an entry level (9k!) position and I've worked my way up through the grades


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 Post subject: Re: Working stiffs
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GazChap wrote:
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So.. Employed by the MNA group were you? I am now..

I was indeed. Whereabouts are you "stationed"? :P


West Brom. Working for the sister paper.. Was the company as much of a shambles then as it is now?


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 Post subject: Re: Working stiffs
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Craster wrote:
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I'm very impressed by the number of people who've gone from seemingly-rubbish jobs, straight into the IT sector. What's the feckin' secret?


In my case, an IT degree.


Ah, that makes sense! :belm:
For some reason I didn't even think of "crappy early job - education - qualification - really nice job in chosen field."

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:51 
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What's worse is that I meant the moody blues!

I rushed the post, and I got confused between those 2 bands as to which one sang "Knights in white satin"

Essentially they came in to the cafe and played that song, and we broadcast it over the interent live on real player (about a week after real player came out) apparently it was the first live band to be broadcast over the internet in this way.

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Malc74 wrote:
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I'm very impressed by the number of people who've gone from seemingly-rubbish jobs, straight into the IT sector. What's the feckin' secret?


In my case, an IT degree.


Ah, that makes sense! :belm:
For some reason I didn't even think of "crappy early job - education - qualification - really nice job in chosen field."


Damn.. qualifications! Knew I'd forgotten something along the way...

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 Post subject: Re: Working stiffs
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I forgot one!

I spent 8 miserable hours attempting to sell Karate club membership door to door in Stockon-on-Tees.

We were instructed to lay down the hard sell on everyone that opened their door. Even frail old grannies, FFS.

GKR, you can kiss my arse, you scamming fucks


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I forgot one!

I spent 8 miserable hours attempting to sell Karate club membership door to door in Stockon-on-Tees.

We were instructed to lay down the hard sell on everyone that opened their door. Even frail old grannies, FFS.

GKR, you can kiss my arse, you scamming fucks


Punch the grannies in the face when the open the door. Instant sale.


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I forgot one!

I spent 8 miserable hours attempting to sell Karate club membership door to door in Stockon-on-Tees.

We were instructed to lay down the hard sell on everyone that opened their door. Even frail old grannies, FFS.

GKR, you can kiss my arse, you scamming fucks

You did it for goodness sake. A company is the people working for it - you were part of the problem, davpaz. *shakes head sadly*

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Oh, you know the cafes at railway stations, the ones that sell tea/coffee/cakes? I used to work at one. Had to go in at 0530 and get it all ready (sort out the papers, bake cakes, make sandwiches, etc) for opening at 0615. Then work through until 13.30. Or come in at 1300 and work until close, then tidy up. During that time, I suffered verbal abuse from disgruntled train passengers over the state of the nation's railways, got robbed, got to know the taxi drivers and get free lifts in town, turned off a fruit machine after someone below the age of 18 had just stuck £30 quid in it, got £15 in smith's vouchers for being awesome, worked with a really odd bloke ("I'd have more chance of going out with Buffy than you as I know Tae Kwon Do"), several mad girls and older women and the boss hit on me during her leaving do. It was quite good as I got to go surfing in the morning or afternoon and it was only really busy once an hour.

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I was a gardener for the council, and I drove the main road. This was in the summer break one year while I was at university, 20 years old. they gave me my own battered Datsun truck, and I drove around the scenic spots and landmarks of highland perthshire, strimming the verges of carparks and so on. Week-about, I'd mow the lawns of council houses in Aberfeldy. Hard work, little pay and often lonely, but I was happy back then, I think. And fit from all the exercise.


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I was a gardener for the council, and I drove the main road. This was in the summer break one year while I was at university, 20 years old. they gave me my own battered Datsun truck, and I drove around picking up sexy freshers and taking them to the scenic spots and landmarks of highland perthshire. Week-about, I'd mow the lawns of council houses in Aberfeldy. Hard work, little pay and often lonely, but I was happy back then and now have a comprehensive list of the best dogging locations, I think. And fit from all the 'exercise' with the laydeez.


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You know if I wasn't in this job I'd love to work as a gardener.

I like the idea of it but I reckon it would be a bit miserable sometimes. I was watching something the other day which had a tree surgeon on it and he was saying that everyone he ever talks to who works in an office says that they'd love his job. He thought they were all idiots.


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Well yeah, it's like that with most jobs though I suppose.

It's just from enjoying doing things in my own garden really.

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Ooh - I missed out three agency jobs.

I worked 12-hour shifts on a production line in a plastics factory that made baby wipes bottles. My job was taking the lids out of the machine (with gloves, because they were fucking hot) and closing them before putting them in the next machine. Job satisfaction a-go-go!

I did night shifts at a newspaper distributor, piling stacks of newspapers into a machine which bound them with that plastic tape stuff. Saw a guy lose 3 fingers doing that, nasty.

I did night shifts at the Royal Mail sorting office before Christmas. My job was to take all the stupid-shaped Christmas cards that the autosorting machine couldn't handle, and sort them by hand.

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I did night shifts at the Royal Mail sorting office before Christmas. My job was to shake them to see if they had money in.

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I did night shifts at the Royal Mail sorting office before Christmas. My job was to take all the stupid-shaped Christmas cards that the autosorting machine couldn't handle, and sort them by hand.


Oh, I did that one, too. My job was to stand still for ten hours, hunched over a standing desk, and sort piles of letters into first, second and business class.

I've never experienced back ache like that before or since. Terrible work, but decent pay.


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I worked the Christmas Post once. Loved it. Did fuck all, got paid.

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I did night shifts at the Royal Mail sorting office before Christmas. My job was to steal them if they had twelve £1 coins taped to the outside.


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You know if I wasn't in this job I'd love to work as a gardener.

:this: I suppose it'd be a bit of a crap job here though, since there'd only be about 5 months work every year.

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All-righty. I'm sort of interested to see this myself (and to see how much I'll forget). It's going to be a long'un. These are sort of in order, although often jobs overlap each other.

So, my first job was working on a farm, shovelling grain into a Archimedes screw type thing.
Various other farm jobs followed, involving normal farm-type stuff, and one escape from certain death. If you want to see me go white when telling a story, ask me about it.
Me and a friend did some gardening around the village we lived in - we earned £1 an hour each. Whoo yeah!
I helped my old man look after a rich chap's racing cars sometimes, which involved going to race tracks and stuff, often in other parts of Western Europe. They were the only times I left the UK.
I've beaten for bird shoots a few times.
I worked as a trapper (person that presses the buttons when someone says "pull") at a clay pigeon shooting site, eventually becoming a CPSA referee.
I've worked till at Sainsbury's and Tesco, and had jobs at KFC, McDonalds and Burger King.
I buy a flashing light and dig the sub speakers out of my car to be a DJ for a night. I keep it up for a long time.
I worked as a cashier for a local petrol station. I used to play on my Playstation on a black and white TV under the counter.
I left school, which I was shit at.
I went to work for Spalding (the sports people) picking goods in their warehouses. I got fired for crashing a forklift into one of the shelving units and knocking a load of stuff down. That same weekend I got fired from the petrol station because the boss thought I was stealing cigarettes. Not a great weekend.
Then I got a job with a company I can't remember the name of, who used to make rubber door seals for cars. My job was to measure the door seals against a bit of wood, making sure they fell within two marks. I stood there from 8pm to 8am, measuring one every five seconds, at a guess. In the two months I worked there, I had three seals that were the wrong length :S
I remember wanting to stay at that company, because when you'd been there for a year they would send you to Germany for two weeks on an exchange program. I get really weird emotions when I think now about how excited that made me - mostly fear and guilt, like I'm betraying myself somehow. Fuck knows. The job was turning me into a fucking zombie though, so I quit.
I get a job with a builder friend of the guy running the clay pigeon site helping him out building a garage when he was low on staff. I tell him I can drive a JCB backhoe loader, which I'd done once about six years ago, but it turned out I was fairly handy at it. He kept me on after the garage job, and loaned me some money so I could get the proper license for driving vehicles on building sites and let me pay it back out of my wages each week. I remember crying when he offered it to me, because it was the first time anyone had done anything like that for me. Builders have trouble knowing what to do in those situations ;)
I get work in a night club at the weekends. I start in the bar, but after one night I'm moved to 'indoor security'. As I didn't have a certificate, I wasn't allowed to be an official bouncer, but that's what I was. I DJed at the club a few times, too. At that time I was working for the builder all week, bouncing on Friday and Saturday nights, doing my JCB course on Saturdays and still working for the clay pigeon site on Sunday. I was perfectly happy and would still be doing it now, but a girl broke my heart and everything went to shit.
Four weeks later I have no jobs at all, and don't leave the house except to put the bins out. I'd saved a thousand pounds or so up over the years, so I could probably have stayed that way for a few months. At the time I didn't think much about it, but it's pretty clear that I was depressed. It fucking sucks. That whole time, and a lot of stuff from my relationship with said girl has simply vanished from my head. It sounds like a cliché but I really have to try hard to remember things about it, and often I can't at all.
A guy called Jake saved my life, and got me the fucked up "job" of living in a woman's house. She worked for Shell, and spend 95% of her time in Dubai. I looked after her house.
I took what was left of my money to pay the builder back (it was about £700). He told me he'd forget about it if I came back to work for him and finished the course. I agreed, but there was no crying this time - I was (and am) a very different person to the guy he used to employ.
I prove this three weeks later by resigning the second I had completed the course to work for Her Majesties Highways, building the Bedford bypass. He was understandably angry about it, and asked for the his money back. My last words to him were "show me a fucking contract and it's yours". One day I'll call him up and apologise.
I discover that working on roads is exactly what everyone thinks it is - basically a fuckload of waiting. I learned how to work all kinds of machinery, it was awesome. When the road was nearly finished, I got into an argument with the foreman about wearing my hard hat when I was inside the tractor. He called my bad things. I laughed in his face. He pushed me, I pushed him. He went to hit me and I took him out. Unsurprisingly, that was the end of that job.
Jake had moved into the woman's house with me by then, and he lived in a somewhat different world - he was a computer programmer and earned loads of money, and he was bisexual, a thing that hadn't existed in my life up until then. He was an attractive guy and never had any trouble hooking up with either sex. I would always be his wingman, but because I was out of work I couldn't afford drinks once he'd pulled, so I started introducing myself to women by telling them they should buy me a drink. Thus was born the "aggressive romantic style" that led to :titler: It also found its way into the rest of my life, and now it's hard to imagine a not hyper-arrogant me.
Anyhow, Jake had got me interested in computers, and I got a job working in a warehouse 'refurbishing' laser printers and keyboards, which basically meant I'd test them, replace any broken parts from the big "pile of bits" if I could, and clean them. If they were properly past it, I'd strip them for the pile. Unfortunately the company ran out of money, and had to let me go.
Next door to where my dad worked a new branch for a nationwide "IT warrantee" company move in, and I got a job with them. They gave me a Rover 600si and I had to drive around the country swapping faulty hardware out, or repairing it on site if I could. I loved the job, but I hated the boss, and he hated me. Eventually he used the fact that I was putting petrol in my car on a Friday night and a Monday morning to fire me, although everyone else did it too. Cunt. I grab a "beyond repair" PC on my way out, and fix it when I get home. It's the first one I'd ever owned.
Hooking up with a temp company I work for Fujifilm telling lorries what printers (big, photo-processing printers) to take where. I work for Eastern Energy, helping renew contracts for big companies during their end of year rush. I do various other things too, that I don't really remember. My first software job is for something to do with the parole office - I made them an Access database thing that let them store all their employee details. There were printed-off help files everywhere :) All the time I'm still earning money from the woman who wants me to live in her house. Years of having no money at all had made me put letters from the bank into the bin as soon as they arrived, but when Jake realised I was doing that he told me off and dug one back out, and I had over £10,000. That was one Hell of a night.
Off I went to work for a company called Tenser, that invented smart cards (credit cards with remote-read chips in, like Oyster cards) as a software tester. I write a "fault database" in PHP. I can't begin to imagine how terrible my code was. I stay at Tenser for a fair while.
Miss Grim... (she wasn't Mrs Grim... back then) suddenly decides to do an MA in London, and invites me to come with her. I leave my job at Tenser, and move to Bermondsey. I blag my way to a couple of Guest DJ spots at The End, and get paid more for fours hours work there than I used to get for a week digging up roads. I get an interview for a role of Junior Web Developer, and lie through my teeth. Bullshit needle pushed to critical, I get the job, which pays twice what I earned at Tenser. I've stayed there ever since, and HERE ENDS THE SURPRISINGLY PERSONAL BALLAD OF THE WORKING LIFE OF GRIM....

TLDR: I've done a lot of different jobs.

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Bloody Hell.


You've not sobered up yet, then.

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Heh - you guys out last night?

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I worked as a cashier for a local petrol station. I used to play on my Playstation on a black and white TV under the counter.
I left school, which I was shit at.
I went to work for Spalding (the sports people) picking goods in their warehouses. I got fired for crashing a forklift into one of the shelving units and knocking a load of stuff down. That same weekend I got fired from the petrol station because the boss thought I was stealing cigarettes. Not a great weekend.


Presumably you wouldn't have got fired from the garage if you hadn't unplugged their CCTV to plug your Playstation in? :p


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Grim... wrote:
I worked as a cashier for a local petrol station. I used to play on my Playstation on a black and white TV under the counter.
I left school, which I was shit at.
I went to work for Spalding (the sports people) picking goods in their warehouses. I got fired for crashing a forklift into one of the shelving units and knocking a load of stuff down. That same weekend I got fired from the petrol station because the boss thought I was stealing cigarettes. Not a great weekend.


Presumably you wouldn't have got fired from the garage if you hadn't unplugged their CCTV to plug your Playstation in? :p

No, they didn't mind the TV. It's probably all the cigarettes I stole.

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I know a guy who did a school project on farm safety ( Geography A-Level, I think ) and he once showed me a file of coroners reports from farm accidents he had compiled. Blooming 'eck, I was having open-grain-screw and unguarded-drive-shaft related nightmares for a while. I can well imagine your escape from certain death.


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By my estimates, Grim... is about 4768 years old.

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Bloody Hell.


I'm glad you said :this:

That's a lot of interesting stuff... and without it all, we'd probably all be paying £2 a month to chat.


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I know a guy who did a school project on farm safety ( Geography A-Level, I think ) and he once showed me a file of coroners reports from farm accidents he had compiled. Blooming 'eck, I was having open-grain-screw and unguarded-drive-shaft related nightmares for a while. I can well imagine your escape from certain death.


A good friend is an HSE accident inspector with responsibility for farm accidents. She's seen some things, mind.

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A good friend is an HSE accident inspector with responsibility for farm accidents. She's seen some things, mind.

Bull shit.

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By my estimates, Grim... is about 4768 years old.

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I know, right? There's this big old list of stuff and then "then I left school" :S

Like said, a lot of the jobs overlapped, and I did some on some days of the week and some on others.

I've remembered two more - working in a dairy for a temp agency hauling big trollies of milk around (which involved a fight with a French guy called "Ox", which is a fairly interesting story) but when they found out I was fairly smart and could speak English they bumped me up to "robot technician", which basically meant when the robots got stuck I would smack the stuck bit with with a steel rod until they worked again. If this didn't help I would use my rod to bend the mischievous bit out of the way.
Another job involved doing HTML web work for a small one-man company, which I got because I was fucking his daughter at the time. I stopped fucking his daughter, and the job ended soon after that. Thus began my oath that I would never get into a relationship with anyone who was something to do with my job.

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