Work sucks...

[Sui]

I have work experience this week, where we all go and do 5 days work at a local employer.

i am working at just add water, which (in my opinion) is one of the best retail jobs i could have gotten (most other people got crappy jobs).

but the point is it is 9:00 am till 5:30 pm... thats 8 and 1/2 hours of work... and i dont really do much :| first i cleaned the place with windowcleaner (including the surfboards... nice and shiny ) then i stood around for a couple of hours, smiling at customers. after my one hour break i was bored STUPID... even though i was keeping myself occupied with putting clothes in racks.

arrrggh, After my first day i am completely bored out of my mind, as was my school student who is working with me. school is loads more interesting... as we do 5 DIFFERENT things and the time flies. even though it is only a couple of hours shorter than work, it feels 3 times shorter.

so i dont want to go to bed, because then i'll be closer to going back to work... and i dont want to stay up, as then i will be tired tommorow and even MORE bored.

sigh.... i dont know how u old people do it....

 

[Shuzer]

awww.. our wittle suicide is growing up!

 

[Foxtrot]

Atleast you don't have to worry about getting fired.

 

[CptStern]

take initiative...look for work to do...it will impress your boss.

A friend of mine got a workplacement job at one of canada's media giants for a summer...right after it ended he was offered a job...10 years later he is still there making $54,000 a year

 

[Bad^Hat]

I don't. And don't call me old.

OR DID HE!?

 

[Shuzer]

take initiative...look for work to do...it will impress your boss.

A friend of mine got a workplacement job at one of canada's media giants for a summer...right after it ended he was offered a job...10 years later he is still there making $54,000 a year

I make that much in one day on the black market!

oh no, I've said too much!

 

[Sui]

take initiative...look for work to do...it will impress your boss.

trust me... i was doing as much as i possibly could to stop my brain imploding due to boredome overload...

the next 4 days are going to get worse and worse.the people i work with are actually realy nice, and the job is good along with the actual store... its just i cant find enought to do in 8 and 1/2 hours...

*edit* shuzer, stop selling your body parts

remember, if your going to a party you need your liver.

 

[HatRabit]

bring lots of food, stuff that takes a while to eat...chips candy etc, helps alot

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

Yeah work does suck....I luckily however have access to irc from work

 

[CptStern]

trust me... i was doing as much as i possibly could to stop my brain imploding due to boredome overload...

the next 4 days are going to get worse and worse.the people i work with are actually realy nice, and the job is good along with the actual store... its just i cant find enought to do in 8 and 1/2 hours...

*edit* shuzer, stop selling your body parts

remember, if your going to a party you need your liver.

but dude, make yourself stand out...how many people at your work would need computer help? (not sure what "Just add water " is...fish store?) Anything that will show up your skills over someone elses

 

[Foxtrot]

but dude, make yourself stand out...how many people at your work would need computer help? (not sure what "Just add water " is...fish store?) Anything that will show up your skills over someone elses

Where I work the managers don't do anything, only the crew leads(normal workers but with blue shirts, and get paid more), they fill out forms every week I think, evaluating everyone they worked with but none of them fill them out honestly it just depends who you are friends with.

 

[Sui]

its a (surfing/skating) clothes store with no PCs... and one of the guys who works there is a web designer anyway, and no-one else cares

plus they would just think im a ggek, and im trying to look all laid back and "kewl".

 

[ComradeBadger]

You're lucky you don't work in a grocery store, where wankers come in, and try and provoke you, knowing you'll get fired if you react, and they'll get off scot free

 

[Foxtrot]

You're lucky you don't work in a grocery store, where wankers come in, and try and provoke you, knowing you'll get fired if you react, and they'll get off scot free

Wow, do people really do that?

 

[ailevation]

:thumbs: I want to start working, it's about time I do too. I'm sure i'll be saying exact opposite when I do get a job, if I do...

 

[ComradeBadger]

Wow, do people really do that?

Yep... really annoys me. But I stay calm.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

:thumbs: I want to start working, it's about time I do too. I'm sure i'll be saying exact opposite when I do get a job, if I do...

You will get a job, its going to happen, no matter what!

 

[ailevation]

:O I am scared now Disturbed HOLD ME!

 

[Maxi]

I love it, once at the store where I worked, this customer called and I answered. He asked about a pump for his toilet (for his boat) since the one he had broke down. I said that we are currently out of them but we were awaiting a shipment from the people who make those pumps that week, but i'm uncertain if they will come this week. He asked if I had a confirmation on the shipment, and I said yes, but sometimes they come in too late.

Then he got really upset, and told me in a angrily tone that he works in transportation of goods, and know how things work, and asked me on which day they were coming in. I said that date that we were given but I tried to tell him that stuff has been getting delayed alot lately but he didn't belive me and told me that he was coming in later that week to pick up his pump, and if the shipment haden't arrived by then that we would have to come up with a pump some other way.

****in annoying.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

Give him duct tape.

 

[Gorgon]

Indeed, works suk big time. I used to stay in these forums up to 2 am GMT but now I have to wake up at 4am dress up and catch a train at 5am then start work at 6am. I finish everyday at 3pm.

DAM what a f****ing holiday this year. I am doing this job to save money for my new HL2,D3 PC :| Its good money though, they pay £100 a day just for keep serving FOOD to the customers.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

DAM what a f****ing holiday this year. I am doing this job to save money for my new HL2,D3 PC :| Its good money though, they pay £100 a day just for keep serving FOOD to the customers.

Hehe I am glad being almost done with my pc, then I can think about "quitting" if I really feel like doing so! :thumbs:

 

[Maxi]

Indeed, works suk big time. I used to stay in these forums up to 2 am GMT but now I have to wake up at 4am dress up and catch a train at 5am then start work at 6am. I finish everyday at 3pm.

DAM what a f****ing holiday this year. I am doing this job to save money for my new HL2,D3 PC :| Its good money though, they pay £100 a day just for keep serving FOOD to the customers.

O.O

WHERE can you make 100 quid a day!?

 

[Foxtrot]

One time I had someone ask for a hot dog, and I told him they weren't ready, then he asked for the a number 3 which is a hot dog and a large drink, and I told him the hot dogs still weren't ready yet, then he asked if he could just get the hot dog and I told him it wasn't ready yet, then he said he will just have a number 3 and then I said I will check the hot dogs, I went and checked them, they were about 100 degrees so I told him it would be about 5 minutes then he just walked away....It was a mexican, he knew English I guess he just didn't understand my form of it.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Yeah work does suck....I luckily however have access to irc from work

We know

 

[AmishSlayer]

I work at Menards (Home Depot like store in the midwest)

I work in the outside yard where I bust my ass every day moving stuff. I come back exhausted...but I make good money...so I guess it's ok.

 

[Shippi]

At least you got to go to Work Experience... I had it all arranged and was gonna go to the local paintball site, but then I suddenly get told that that would be too much fun, so I couldn't go. But my mate got to go to a horseriding stables, where all she did was ride horses! Grr. I could have gone somewhere else, but where I wanted to go (laboratory) needed 4 weeks notice, and it was too late ;(

 

[Gorgon]

O.O

WHERE can you make 100 quid a day!?

HOTELS my friends. Hotels.............

I work in RG Hotel 5* that is next to the HydePark :O

 

[Raziaar]

The worst thing about work for me is the lack of things to do when it's a slow day. It just makes it seem to drag on by... I'd like for my usual stuff to not end until the day is over... but then again, I wouldn't like to be swamped with a workload either... That's not fun and causes stress.

 

[^Ben]

Hehehe i work in a freaking factory :| Now that is boring :|

If anybody works in the book trade they have probably heard of gardeners books. So if you're books come damaged blame me and my work collueges goofing around

 

[kingthebadger]

Its boring if your all alone, but if you get a job, where u and ur friend work, its much more relaxing/fun.

 

[Raziaar]

Let me tell you... nothing is as bad as working with two female co-workers who, are always talking to each other in hushed tones, talking about you and your other male co-workers, about all kinds of bullshit, complaining that you're chatting, etc.

Example. I walk over to talk with a co-worker for a moment, and come back to work... then slide over, talk up a STORM about how we were talking to each other, and how wrong that is. Does anyone see the stupidity here? I've even caught these two women passing notes talking about my other co-workers and myself(read the notes)... and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. They're all buddy buddy with the women bosses working in the human resources department, and my boss won't do a damn thing about it.

 

[Shakermaker]

sigh.... i dont know how u old people do it....

cheer up, you'll only have to do this for about forty to fifty years. After that you can do what you want.

 

[oldagerocker]

i work in my local superdrugs, and the pay is awful... barely minimum wage. I work odd shifts, for example im going in tomorrow at 5 til 8 in the evening. thats three hours, times the shit pay = 3 hours of poo pay and no job satisfaction!
I have to put up with the dumbass general public, who really are uber thick. and the people i work with get so irate about it all. i do work hard, but all my mates have better jobs and earning loads of money, they can all afford cars and things.
I cant get another job because the other jobs dont have the security i have now, i know i won't lose this job. Whereas i may in jobs which are better paid and are more demanded.
oh well, its better than nothing... :-/

 

[Edcrab]

Raziaar: shoot them. Or maybe not.

For my work experience/work shadow/whatever I worked as an assistant at my dad's old workplace (he was, once upon a time, a senior lecturer on pscyhiatric health) and also as a research assistant at an art college. Mostly I learnt a lot about coffee machines, and that I didn't want to do either job when I left school...

You're lucky you don't work in a grocery store, where wankers come in, and try and provoke you, knowing you'll get fired if you react, and they'll get off scot free

I feel your pain Badger. My advice? Either befriend your boss or work until you find yourself in a position where your employer is in fact your uncle, who'll take your word over any old ****wit who comes through the door :E

God, I wish I had a job right now. Boring as they all are, at least I'd have some sort of income.

 

[Loshadka]

Meh... I crave for job that involves "doing nothing", because I get tired at my current job and by the end of the day my pubis hurts so much from the cleaning after those crap eaters(if you only knew in what they cook those chips and chicken nuggets).

Does anybody in the Montreal area would like to offer me a job other than at a fast poop restaurant?

 

[Loshadka]

Let me tell you... nothing is as bad as working with two female co-workers who, are always talking to each other in hushed tones, talking about you and your other male co-workers, about all kinds of bullshit, complaining that you're chatting, etc.

Example. I walk over to talk with a co-worker for a moment, and come back to work... then slide over, talk up a STORM about how we were talking to each other, and how wrong that is. Does anyone see the stupidity here? I've even caught these two women passing notes talking about my other co-workers and myself(read the notes)... and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. They're all buddy buddy with the women bosses working in the human resources department, and my boss won't do a damn thing about it.

Make a counter-attack - talk about the two chicks. There isn't anything funnier than to mentally torture stupid chicks.:E First they say how immature you are, then how stupid this all is. Then, when they have nothing elce to say, they start to talk stupid shit exuces - that is when it's gets fun.:E

 

[Raziaar]

Well, they act all 'friendly' when they're alone... What is it with some women(notice i'm not saying all... I happen to love women. I'm not a woman hater)? They're like... nice when alone, but when more flock to them, they suddenly take on a pack mentality, become hostile and nasty and exclusive.

 

[Dalamari]

Haha, im a lazy SOB and I do nothing all day

long live poverty

 

[craig]

Heh, work placement playing 'grown up' for a week... I remember doing that at school. Is it still the case you're not meant to get paid for the placement, but the employer usually slips you some cash at the end of it?