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"Work sucks"

Who could have thought a tiny 4 hour shift could make me think so much about stuff.

I went to 'training' at Pizza Hut last night. It was busy as schools were off so we got thrown off our tables and into the staffroom... its very small, like the size of my bathroom. Then they threw us into the kitchen and we had to work with very little clue what to do.

I cleaned the floor
I cleaned the oven
I emptyed the bins
I stacked the freezer
I made about 500 plates of dough for the next day, including lifting pans and seperators all over the place
I washed the dishes
I blew up bloody ballons

It was the slowest four hours of my life and to make things worse I had the worst headache I've had for about a year threw the whole things.

And I don't even get the minimum wages... £3.70 an hour. What annoys me... my new work friend person is over 18 and gets £4.20 and does the exact same jobs as me.

Erm its not all bad, my 'team' are quite cool and the managers seem nice enough.

So when I got home last night I was nackered but studied for my History exam this afternoon for an hour or two. I went to bed but couldn't get to sleep, awake the whole night and all I could smell and taste was pizza *shivers*. The way I look at it is, I've been lazy this year and not done/needed to do much at school and already guaranteed place at Uni next year. So as well as the money I get, I think it's good life experience. Work in a really crap job to remember how good my life can be and that this is where you could end up if you suck at school/uni etc

I'm sorry for my need to tell everybody stuff that I think and what I do the day before, but meh.

ah, but if machines do EVERYTHING, thn, no-one will need to work, so everyone can get stuff free. Within a certain lmit ofcourse.

Money

In from 6-10 again tonight

Machines can do everything now, why should we have to work?

A very lazy ~maddmun~

Your point about it being life experience is good - I think sometimes you have to go through the hardships of life to truly appreciate the good times.

A very philosophical ~RM18~

:D

Started working at Woolworths in 2000 after I found Birmingham Uni was, whilst supposedly decent, crap so I started an impromptu gap year. First year there was okay, second year I found myself ultra cynical about it, this year I packed it in because I'm halfway through my second year at Uni and only have another year left. Yes, for a bit crap jobs can seem like life experience, but I've come to the conclusion that you can probably learn just as much from seeing what the most popular TV programs are, and what totally un-newsworthy stories get print. The person who thinks Beckham getting a boot is a worthwhile read is probably your average customer at most crap jobs, take the rest of your learning from their..... However the best thing is when you pack the job in, especially when it's for no apparent reason :) Like I did, or at least not a reason you want to tell people you know there, or mine would have been "because I hate it here, we take all kinds of $hit and still have to be nice to people, 95% of the customers are braindead idiots...e.t.c."

Still, it should inspire anyone at university not to screw it up, or you'll still be on $.20 or something when you're 30......

A very cynical ~~Belldandy~~

Unbeliever wrote:
> My first job was working in a sandwich factory.
>
> *shudders*
>
> Apart from the £2.70 p/h, there was a rancid smell all over the
> place that made me sick all the time and after I'd witnessed the
> going-ons in that place, I resolved NEVER to eat a stinking
> prepackaged sandwich EVER again. And I've stuck with it. That was when
> i was 15. 8 years on, I've come pretty far - I now work in London for
> a Private Bank...which is nice.

Was this those sandwiches that you get from M and S and Asda and place like that. Oh gees, I have eaten many of them.

I kind of gave up eating fast food last Easter, mainly because I realised it was crap and I read a book and err stuff.

Even though Pizza Hut is more of a restaurant and you need to put more effort into making a pizza than say throwing meat on a grill for 2 mins at McDonalds. Errm yeah I still don't fancy eating the stuff... and I need to for my break... well I don't needed to but I do.

I'm talking crap today

The frozen meat looks like little balls of crap and popcorn

My first job was working in a sandwich factory.

*shudders*

Apart from the £2.70 p/h, there was a rancid smell all over the place that made me sick all the time and after I'd witnessed the going-ons in that place, I resolved NEVER to eat a stinking prepackaged sandwich EVER again. And I've stuck with it. That was when i was 15. 8 years on, I've come pretty far - I now work in London for a Private Bank...which is nice.

50 years of work

" Your a slave to money then you die-e-e-e "

It made me think about a lot of things though, like even though I'm not a spoiled little git I still take money from my parents for granted... they do all the hard work and I'm the angsty-little knob that steals their money.

Yes, IB I could have a worse job but errr it really is a pretty stressful place in that kitchen. Maybe you just didn't meet the amazing requirements of the Pizza Hut organisation... remember Pizza Hut loves me and its customers.

I've had so much information to process in under a week. Had my first driving lesson, need to lean all stuff with that. Had my first day at work, need to learn all of that. Hd three mock exams, needed to learn all of that me.

Dum de dum

IB are we still starting that game of chess today?