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Post by pauliepoos on Jul 4, 2007 19:36:16 GMT
Jesus, I can't even imagine but you'd have to do at my place to get a written warning. Come work for the NHS, you get loads of holiday, a great pension and its nigh on impossible to get sacked. You forgot to mention that absolute incompetence in the NHS is generally rewarded with promotion.
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Post by xenomaniac on Jul 4, 2007 19:57:36 GMT
Jesus, I can't even imagine but you'd have to do at my place to get a written warning. Come work for the NHS, you get loads of holiday, a great pension and its nigh on impossible to get sacked. You forgot to mention that absolute incompetence in the NHS is generally rewarded with promotion. Indeed, going to the top!
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Post by Andrew* on Jul 4, 2007 19:58:02 GMT
Oh I am in the same situation.
I don't know where to got, what to do or to be.
And looking for a job is hard, unless i just actually have a go at being a geologist.
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Post by Tacye Marley on Jul 4, 2007 21:36:13 GMT
Do you know of anyone in the Carlisle area who would like to employ a boneidle student with an indefinable hair colour? Her intrests include eyeliner, Hollyoaks, that strange new music indie, and attractive men. She has little to no experience but can speak German, read a form of Greek that hasn't been used in about 2000 years, and will be needing time off to go and learn Hebrew.
Why I'm unemployed I don't know.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jul 4, 2007 22:25:12 GMT
You forgot to mention that absolute incompetence in the NHS is generally rewarded with promotion. Indeed, going to the top! I have a mate who was a receptionist for a few years. She was terrible and used to sneak a peak at all the medical records of the people we knew and tell us all about it. She sort of got found out and a complaint was made to the surgery but the Doctor liked her too much and she didn't get an official warning or anything. Today I officially gave up looking for a job. If I get very poor I will, in a plan inspired by Corrie, start flogging my sperm over the internet. That would be a very last resort though, as I'm scared of getting paper cuts from the envelopes in sensitive areas.
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Post by Cherubic on Jul 5, 2007 8:31:09 GMT
And looking for a job is hard, unless i just actually have a go at being a geologist. Do that. Not enough people follow there peculiar 18 year old dreams.
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Post by pauliepoos on Jul 5, 2007 8:34:43 GMT
Indeed, going to the top! I have a mate who was a receptionist for a few years. She was terrible and used to sneak a peak at all the medical records of the people we knew and tell us all about it. She sort of got found out and a complaint was made to the surgery but the Doctor liked her too much and she didn't get an official warning or anything. I know of a woman who disliked her son's girlfriend so much she went through her health records and found out she was adopted, unbeknown to the girl herself, and promptly told her son. She wasn't sacked, she was moved to another post which was actually on a higher payscale. There was an unqualified nurse who used to sit with terminally ill patients throughout the night so their carers could get a good nights sleep. On one occasion the husband came downstairs as he could hear his wife calling and found the nurse asleep on the settee with the wife's blanket, and his wife shivering on the special bed in the lounge. After making an initial complaing the wife died a few days later and the husband didn't want to take it any further. A job in the NHS really is a job for life.
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Post by Cherubic on Jul 5, 2007 8:56:58 GMT
That's some Hollyoaks parenting right there.
Mum: "Your girlfriend is adpted, now you'll have to break up with her!"
Son: "What the fuck"
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Post by Lisa on Jul 5, 2007 9:53:05 GMT
A job in the NHS really is a job for life. Except in Glasgow where a job in the NHS is now reason for people to assume you're a terrorist. Sad, but true.
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Post by LoveMusic on Jul 5, 2007 10:09:06 GMT
Still haven't got a job.
To be fair though, it would interfere with my family guy and project runway schedule.
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Post by Andrew* on Jul 5, 2007 15:43:40 GMT
And looking for a job is hard, unless i just actually have a go at being a geologist. Do that. Not enough people follow there peculiar 18 year old dreams. Unfortunately that isn't my dream, it was my degree - which I think automatically makes it not my dream. If that makes any sense. I have no life direction. Maybe I'll just eat a lot so I can go on 3 fat brides.
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Post by Lisa on Jul 5, 2007 15:48:06 GMT
Oh I am in the same situation. And looking for a job is hard, unless i just actually have a go at being a geologist. I lived with a geologist at uni - our house was always full of fossils and rocks he'd been digging up in Lyme Regis or somewhere. I think he's in China trying to dig up dinosaurs now. Good luck Andrew, lugging all those rocks about always looked too much like hard work for my liking!
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Post by Andrew* on Jul 5, 2007 16:19:26 GMT
Oh I am in the same situation. And looking for a job is hard, unless i just actually have a go at being a geologist. I lived with a geologist at uni - our house was always full of fossils and rocks he'd been digging up in Lyme Regis or somewhere. I think he's in China trying to dig up dinosaurs now. Good luck Andrew, lugging all those rocks about always looked too much like hard work for my liking! Oh goodness I didn't do that. I was a shit geologist. I once brought a rock back from Spain because it was shiny, but that's literally it. I did Geology with Planetary Science so we didn't do fossils. I'm going to work in a restaurant and somehow hope I end up owning the chain. THAT'S the plan.
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Post by frapperia on Jul 5, 2007 17:19:16 GMT
Having been reduced to tears in the last hour for about the billionth time in the last month or two, I thiink I'm quitting tomorrow.
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Post by laine on Jul 5, 2007 17:22:31 GMT
I got a new job today, in a debt collecting agency. I'm the nice person who phones you up to help arrange to pay all your debts in one easy monthly payment.
xx
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Post by Nicholas on Jul 5, 2007 19:09:47 GMT
I got a new job today, in a debt collecting agency. I'm the nice person who phones you up to help arrange to pay all your debts in one easy monthly payment. xx For some reason, that really made me laugh! But, good luck with it!
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jul 5, 2007 23:13:19 GMT
I lived with a geologist at uni - our house was always full of fossils and rocks he'd been digging up in Lyme Regis or somewhere. I think he's in China trying to dig up dinosaurs now. Good luck Andrew, lugging all those rocks about always looked too much like hard work for my liking! Oh goodness I didn't do that. I was a shit geologist. I once brought a rock back from Spain because it was shiny, but that's literally it. I did Geology with Planetary Science so we didn't do fossils. I'm going to work in a restaurant and somehow hope I end up owning the chain. THAT'S the plan. Oh m'gosh, we have a similar plan. Though mine involves a book shop with nice chairs. I'm torn between Borders and Waterstones. EDIT: I know that neither of those have particularly nice chairs, but they will be added after I have my say. EDIT: Also, do you say "Books E T C", or "Books Etcetera"? It's been bothering me.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jul 5, 2007 23:32:42 GMT
Having been reduced to tears in the last hour for about the billionth time in the last month or two, I think I'm quitting tomorrow. Oh gawd, good luck whatever you do.
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Post by [james] on Jul 6, 2007 0:29:29 GMT
EDIT: Also, do you say "Books E T C", or "Books Etcetera"? It's been bothering me. It's said etcetera. Apparently Waterstones is quite a dull place to work but that just might be my local branch.
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Post by Lisa on Jul 6, 2007 10:27:41 GMT
Oh goodness I didn't do that. I was a shit geologist. I once brought a rock back from Spain because it was shiny, but that's literally it. I did Geology with Planetary Science so we didn't do fossils. I'm going to work in a restaurant and somehow hope I end up owning the chain. THAT'S the plan. Just got completely carried away then with the idea of a lowculture coffee shop. Celebrity endorsed, of course, where celebrities would come and ask our opinions on scripts and potential jobs, and we'd chat about their futures over coffee and cake, and they'd leave thankful for having met us. [james] could give voice coaching, except to Hannah Tointon who'd regret for ever more being such a wench as she'd get no further jobs and [james] would be cited in all celebrity interviews as the one that helped their careers the most. I'd just clean the coffee machine and sweep up crumbs, with a content smile on my face that the world was a good place. Best get back to the day job though I guess, not that pensions aren't just as thrilling.
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Post by Tacye Marley on Jul 6, 2007 11:56:08 GMT
Ooh can I work there too? We could decorate it with LOLyoaks Macros and pictures of various Lowculturers with random celebrities!
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Post by Lisa on Jul 6, 2007 12:02:26 GMT
Ooh can I work there too? We could decorate it with LOLyoaks Macros and pictures of various Lowculturers with random celebrities! guaranteed employment for all, although as yet no actual wage or benefit structure in place!
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Post by [james] on Jul 6, 2007 12:58:49 GMT
[james] could give voice coaching, except to Hannah Tointon who'd regret for ever more being such a wench as she'd get no further jobs and [james] would be cited in all celebrity interviews as the one that helped their careers the most. That would be amazing! I could combine my two main skills - talking and abusing people. In slightly more real employment terms, I just found out I got the summer temp job at Monsoon which means I can finally have some money in my account and leer over the beautiful boy who works there who would so love me if he didn't have a girlfriend. And was a gay.
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Post by charlie on Jul 6, 2007 13:03:05 GMT
I worked in Waterstones for a year and it was incredibly dull. My dreams of lengthy discussions about contemporary literature, soon gave way to spending all my working hours hunting for that book 'with the green cover' or 'with a picture of a man on the front' or ones written by an author 'whose name begins with B' for customers. Happy days...
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Post by frapperia on Jul 6, 2007 13:23:24 GMT
[james] could give voice coaching, except to Hannah Tointon who'd regret for ever more being such a wench as she'd get no further jobs and [james] would be cited in all celebrity interviews as the one that helped their careers the most. That would be amazing! I could combine my two main skills - talking and abusing people. In slightly more real employment terms, I just found out I got the summer temp job at Monsoon which means I can finally have some money in my account and leer over the beautiful boy who works there who would so love me if he didn't have a girlfriend. And was a gay. Don't Monsoon give you a 75% discount as well as staff? I've always wanted to work there just so I could afford the clothes! I'm still waiting on my temp agency to give me some frigging work. Nothing yet. Waiting. Waiting.
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