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    Type up correspondence, answer stupid question about correspondence, deal with stupid person who thinks correspondence was typed up wrong, answer another stupid question about correspondence, explain to senior staff member what the correspondence entails and why it looks the way it looks. Receive call from senior staff member's boss about correspondence, explain for 15 minutes why the correspondence was handled the way it was handled (rules, people! I didn't make 'em), hang up the phone once higher up understands the necessary channels and rules regarding correspondence, sit inside bosses office as he yells at you for handling the correspondence wrong even though according to all the rules you were taught when taking the job and according to the dozens of manuals you have read regarding the proper procedures of handling correspondence tell you that you handled it correctly.

    Repeat.

    Every day.

    For three years.

    God, I hate the military.

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    Right now I'm working in a supermarket stacking shelves it sucks!

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    Inserting advertisements into newspapers. You'd ideally want to get 3-4 papers stuffed per minute, often with 6 or more ads per paper. So it's grabgrabgrabgrabgrab stuff slide grabgrabgrabgrabgrab stuff slide, over an over, from 6AM to, on a good day, 2PM every Saturday. I stuffed when I closed my eyes.

    Bundling was so much better. You stand around waiting for people to get done with a bundle of either 25 or 50, take them to the bundling machine (which is pretty fun to use), then stack them in the area for whatever route they were stuffed for (different routes have different ads). You even get paid more per hour. For some reason they preferred me as a stuffer though (even though I was relatively slow).


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    Cleaning. The same rooms in pretty much the same order every day. Bakery, staff canteen, shop floor, toilets...


    "I work in one of those humble call centres... Apparently, what we're doing at the moment is 'sprinkling our magic along the way'. It's a call centre, not Hogwarts." ~ Caroline Garlick, Ayrshire, BBC News Magazine


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    Quote Originally Posted by Harle-Quin View Post
    I dunno why, but "Norwegian Wood" is one of the funniest things I've ever read. xD
    You'd like some of that Norwegian Wood wouldn't you?
    Last edited by Levian; 07-18-2008 at 07:29 AM.


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    Norwegian Wood made me laugh out loud xD

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    Quote Originally Posted by Levian View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Harle-Quin View Post
    I dunno why, but "Norwegian Wood" is one of the funniest things I've ever read. xD
    You'd like some of that Norwegian Wood wouldn't you?
    I like my Norwegians tall and manly.

    But that's not why I laughed, though I realise now I should've. I laughed because everyone thinks of Norway as nothing but trees, and I just imagine the Festival namers looking around trying to think of a name for their new festival. xD

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    xD

    Well, it is located in the woods. Probably how they came up with it.


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    You lot are so original.

    Though I can't talk much. "Glastonbury Festival", "Isle of Wight Festival", "Edinburgh Festival". We all suck.

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    Data Entry. It was the most boring repetitive job ever - but also the easiest job ever and it paid well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miriel View Post
    Working retail. Ughghghg.
    During inventory double Ughghghg.

    At one point I trying to get random strangers to buy boxes of erasers so I wouldn't have to count them.

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    Folding pamphlets/various other office work. I didn't even get friggin paid, it was volunteer work that was mandatory for school.

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    At the my current job is probably what we call 'price sweeping' which involves getting a little gun with a sensor and scanning the barcode of every item in a specific part of the shop (stationery, for instance) and making sure the price on the system corresponds to the price on the label. When you have to do about four different areas as I do now, it gets boring quickly.

    Otherwise filing in my old job.
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