I Quit!Scaryduck writes, "I celebrated my last day on my paper round by giving everybody next door's paper, and the house at the end 16 copies of the Maidenhead Advertiser. And I kept the delivery bag. That certainly showed 'em."
What have you flounced out of? Did it have the impact you intended? What made you quit in the first place?
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chthonic, Thu 22 May 2008, 12:15)
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trueSome might remember that I worked very briefly as a rep. This is obviously the worst concivable job for someone like me, who has no social skills and who hates everyone. I lasted about six weeks until my boss came to observe one of my 'welcome meetings'.
The purpose of this was to grab tourists straight off the plane and sell them excursions in a jaunty voice, pointing out all the attractions of the island. We had scripts, but on this occasion I went slightly off script:
Hi - welcome to the beautiful isand of Cephallonia [pause for ironic expression]. There are loads of facilities in this small village - two bars, a restaurant and a hairdressers. There's no car hire, no post office, no bank and no supermarket [pause for jaunty wink]. There is a bus, but it goes before six in the morning so you'd be better off on one of our excursions, a snip at 100 times the cost [jauntiness at maximum effect].
If you need to ask me any questions, I'll be outside your hotels in the early hours of the morning and when you're on the beach. Don't come to me when you're sunburned or injured because you got too drunk - that's your own problem [laugh jauntily]. Any questions? No? Right, I'm off for a free meal at the taverna.
Within hours, my company car had been taken away and I was on the ferry off the island.
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You........hahahaha........rep.....hahahahah.....you!Why!
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girlinthehole, Thu 22 May 2008, 14:39,
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At leastyou were honest, unlike most of the reps I've encountered. Who don't give a shit, but pretend insincerely to care.
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If this was........was circa the summer of 1992 i'm pretty sure I saw you.
Crap Island....i spent all my time at that bar thing with a pool down the bottom of the hill, i forget it's name.
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The Pollitt chooses to listen to Enya on, Thu 22 May 2008, 16:08,
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Really?Sometimes I have to re-read Mr frankspencer's postings with just a certain level of "sceptisim mode" active.
Strangely, I found myself believing this story 100%.
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HSDriver was probably still at work on, Fri 23 May 2008, 0:04,
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