My worst job was when I was a student, and I was a night-time shelf stacker for PoundstretchersThe job itself wouldn't have been too bad if the manageress hadn't taken a shine to me.
I spent most evenings trying to avoid her unsubtle advances, and attempts to get me on my own in the stock room. Of course all the other staff thought it was bloody hilarious and would go to great lengths to ensure she and I ended up alone in various rooms of the shop together.
The best job I ever had was when I was 16 and working in a video games store, for a boss that was starting a porn empire. My days involved playing video games and helping the boss decide which pictures from the latest hard core shoot would make it into the next publication.
Fantastic.
(I spent most evenings trying to avoid her unsubtle advances, and attempts to get me on my own in the stock room. Of course all the other staff thought it was bloody hilarious and would go to great lengths to ensure she and I ended up alone in various rooms of the shop together.
The best job I ever had was when I was 16 and working in a video games store, for a boss that was starting a porn empire. My days involved playing video games and helping the boss decide which pictures from the latest hard core shoot would make it into the next publication.
Fantastic.
jonas is not my name,
Mon 10 Nov 2003, 16:11,
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Ooh, worst job in my real careerWas when I worked for Logica, and got sent to a client site to add some features to a system they had. I was the only one from Logica on site, and was stuck in a cupboard pretending to be an office for 3 months.
It wouldn't have been so bad except that I completed the work in the first week and wa then told by my manager to "make myself look busy" as Logica were charging the client for a full three months.
Being a contractor, I wasn't permitted access to the internet, and only had a 386 computer to use.
3 months. no net. and nothing to do but pretend to work when someone walked by. which was frequently as the room had no door and was next to a major corridor.
(It wouldn't have been so bad except that I completed the work in the first week and wa then told by my manager to "make myself look busy" as Logica were charging the client for a full three months.
Being a contractor, I wasn't permitted access to the internet, and only had a 386 computer to use.
3 months. no net. and nothing to do but pretend to work when someone walked by. which was frequently as the room had no door and was next to a major corridor.
jonas is not my name,
Mon 10 Nov 2003, 16:17,
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I call spies !My workmate ex-Logica knows you, says you were some sort of management bod and never left the office in 3 years.
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Wed 12 Nov 2003, 9:32,
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your spies are mis-informedI was only at Logica for a year before leaving for a company that didn't treat you like a moron, and had some idea of how to adapt to new technologies.
( jonas is not my name,
Wed 12 Nov 2003, 10:00,
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many apologiesThe quality of my information might be tainted by the fact that co-worker stayed at Logica until *they* decided they didnt want him.
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Wed 12 Nov 2003, 10:11,
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My Dream jobNot exactly on-topic but I thought I'd share anyway.
Day 1 - Started as a low-level telemarketer for a web-promotion firm in Lancaster.
Day 2 - Asked if I'd like a promotion (well, Duh!). Asked if I had any moral objections to looking at pornographic images (well, Duh!)
Spent the next 8 months viewing and trying to contact porn sites to ask them if we could help them with their web-promotion.
People who say that you can view too much porn are losers. I never got bored. Not even once.
Ever.
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Sun 16 Nov 2003, 7:48,
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Day 1 - Started as a low-level telemarketer for a web-promotion firm in Lancaster.
Day 2 - Asked if I'd like a promotion (well, Duh!). Asked if I had any moral objections to looking at pornographic images (well, Duh!)
Spent the next 8 months viewing and trying to contact porn sites to ask them if we could help them with their web-promotion.
People who say that you can view too much porn are losers. I never got bored. Not even once.
Ever.