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"What I really miss..."

...working in a burger bar.

No, seriously.

I worked in a burger bar in Oakwood Theme Park in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Just about every day I went in, I got tired, annoyed, and fed up.

And I also laughed so much. I miss the people there, and I miss working as a team as something. I miss nearly dying of laughter at watching the secret handshake of the rollercoaster club, I miss making hand puppets out of chip boxes and telling little kids through the puppet that "YOUR CHEESEBURGER IS DENIED!"

I miss playing poker at lunch time with my friends. I miss Tim, our resident complete idiot who was going to "blow up my house and burn my dog".

I miss carving little Jesuses out of cheese and putting them in the cheese burger in the hope that someone would open it and shout "I've SEEN THE LIGHT!" or something.

I miss us making tip boxes out of coffee cups and trying anything to try and get tips, then hiding them away when the supervisiors came near. I miss the fear of being caught.

Because it was so much fun. I couldn't work there all my life... but, I'm really looking foward to going back this year. We got so bored, but we entertained ourselves so well.

I miss finding out what "pugwash" means. I miss trying to work a completely random word into the conversation with a customer. I miss the games we used to play. I miss desperately running about in my break trying to find where the little pocket where your phone would work for that day would be, so I could text my best friend.

All from working in a burger bar. :0) So don't ever believe you're too good to work there, because there's more to it than meets the eye.

I've been spat on, shouted at and cursed at. I've had to defend others and I've risked my job for defending friends. But things like that are worth doing, completely.

Can't wait to go back this year. :0)

There's nothing degrading about working in an independant burger bar, it's just Mcdonalds and Burger King, where a legal requirement for employees is to be an illegal immigrant.
You won't have fun working there. Because you're not allowed to.

I work in GAME. Its excellent in the Wimbledon store and I also know its unlike any of the other games (been and worked in others in London). The staff in the Wimbledon branch care and try and help the customer.

And I rule.

I know what you mean, I miss working in MVC in Exeter. Those were the days. Problem is that you can't make a living from something like that if you need a bigger house and more 'toys'.

Currently, I'm hearing lots of things about how my company isn't as good as the competition and they are going to cut the jobs etc. Reports have said that our competition has lovely places to work, great free food and great support for employees. What's the betting that if we did get that, then it would be the London office, and down here we would be forgotton (again!) Though we do some major work for the company, we never get treated with the same respect, just because of the location.

Yeah, that will really motivate the employees.

They only really act, in games anyway, as a reason for one kid in a school to get picked on because his Mother can actually see the big age rating plastered onto the game.

I wonder if age ratings actually help or hinder us anyway.

I work part-time in Game at the mo, on Saturdays every other week.
Some man came in, brought The Getaway up to the counter.
"What's this game about?"
"Erm.. gangsters, shooting, and all that kind of thing."
"Does it have any rude bits in it?"
"Rude, as in how?"
"Like, nasty.."
"It has swearing, nudity and blood.."
"Why doesn't it say that on the box?"
"It has a big fat Parental Advisory sticker and an 18 rating."
"No, it should say that it has blood in. My kid wants this for his birthday."
"How old is he?"
"11"
What a retard. I told him that I wasn't responsible for game ratings, and told him that he doesn't have to buy it if he didn't want to. And he still bought it..

Hehe, good luck Craig. :) Just entertain yourself... but not in the way you're thinking.

How scary... I'm kinda starting my job in Pizza Hut in about an hour

I met two cool people at induction day yesterday... hope I have fun :P

Hahaha, I'm glad you miss it... so you wrote about it on here and made me laugh.

You foolish genius.

Grix Thraves wrote:
> Cool. Sorry if I terrified your child. :0)

Heh, and me probably...