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Oh man, earlier today I had this one ungrateful son of a bitch who I bent over backwards to help for the better part of an hour. During that time, I got one piece of information wrong but when my coworker questioned me about it I corrected myself and apologized. Then this asshole gets mad and says I need to get my act together. Fuck you, buddy! I'm pretty sure that getting my act together would probably involve shooting you the bird from both hands and walking the fuck out to take my chances in the wild west of the job market.

 

Oh, a man can dream.

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Had an interesting day. It went by quick, thankfully. Had a bit of hangover and that sucked. But for once my effort to be nice was rewarded. Some guy forgot his bag, and I caught him just as he was getting into his car. He stuffed a dollar in my apron pocket and drove off. He seemed really pleased--and that made my day a little better. YAY DOLLAR.

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I had one kind elderly man one time when I worked at Circuit City (HA FUCK THAT PLACE) who I got into a nice discussion with while he was looking for some stuff. We got to talking about Hendrix, and I mentioned my father was a big Hendrix fan, so I grew up listening to it, blah blah, and was planning on getting him this new box set for Christmas that year, trying to make a sale or whatnot, yea.

 

Guy ends up making a comment about he wishes he could get his father a gift and hands me like 20-30 bucks after I finalise his purchase. Tried to give the money back but he has none of it and walks off.

 

Thank you, kind sir, wherever you are.

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Working the day after Christmas. Not sure what to expect. At least they're giving me New Year's DAY off. I can sleep my hangover off.

 

I got New Years off because it's my mom's birthday.

 

I got into work yesterday at around four. I was on the register 'til 9:30. Which is 30 minutes after we closed. Then we cleaned for two and a half hours.

 

Hangovers are definitely deserved for New Years.

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I don't currently do it anymore but back before I went to uni I had a 3 month stint at R&R Icecream. (Richmond & Roncadin). They make branded ice cream n such for supermarkets as well as Nestle icecream.

My dad works there as Projects Manager in the Engineering dept, designing n making the various machines n such. So yeah that's how I got in. I was probably one of the few there native to UK.

I started out on the ripple pump, topping up a hopper with chocolate(stinks to high heaven in large quantities), raspberry n toffee sauces for the cornetto icecreams. Thats where the cheap jeans come in cos at the end of the week they'd be caked in cack. I was then moved to the packing end of the line. There the boxes were pushed together then wrapped in clingfilm and a hot knife would cut through then conveyor push it up to us where we'd toss it on a pallette then wrap it up. I got to drive the small forklift truck too which was cool. Thing goes pretty fast. Scary fast when you have like a ton of icecream hanging off the front end and it's small, so no seat. Oh yeah that hot knife used to get pretty hot. It's always awesome to get to shout "Fire!" in an freezing cold factory. Normally it'd just burn itself out though. No huge issues, but once it did spread to the rest of the machine, but it's mostly melted so just a few singed smarties boxes.

I was also there when we ran a short prototype line of Fab cornettos. I had a good eye on the Nutritional information and I think the fact one cone provided 1/4 of an Adults RDA of sugar is why it never went into full production. I ended up taking a few boxes home. Probs my largest sugar rush ever :P

Then in the final month I was put on the Artic Roll line.

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It runs along a conveyor belt in one huge snake, we have a knife and cut it up (Theres a small segment inbetween cos the cake outer is in pieces, just the icecream in one strand) then we put it on a conveyor that goes into the freezer. most mundane thing ever. I was only english speaker there and it was some iranian twat heading that section and he'd put me on cutting for hours on end. Fucking hated it.

 

In the end I got about £3,500 out of it which got me through Uni pretty well and an awesome PC to start uni with. At the time I hated the work, primarily the artic roll stuff, but in retrospect that cash sure was a nice boost. Especially now it's all ran out :/

What was somewhat annoying about this all is that unless you give the full explanation and just say "I worked at an Icecream factory" folks suddenly get this idea of it having oompa loompas running around and a river of vanilla icecream n such.

 

A while before that, during yr 10 iirc, I was a volunteer helper at "Riding for the Disabled". I used to help out with horse riding as a kind of physiotherapy for paraplegic kids. Mostly just propping them up on the horse n walking/running along side them, bringing the horses to n from the stables, n cleaning out their hoofs n getting their tack on. 'My' Horse was a horrible beast called Red. Used to bite n stamp on me.

Oh then after we were done we got to do some horse riding. I only got as far as going round at a light gallop though. Horse riding is pretty draining, You put in a fair amount of effort to control it. It's not just yanking on the reins. Gotta get you legs moving about too.

We ended up moving though, but it was somewhat fun way to spend sunday mornings.

 

edit: holy crap I wrote alot :P

tl;dr: I used to work at an icecream factory, and before that a volunteer worker helping disabled kids ride horses.

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I suppose you could say I work, but I don't get paid for it. I student teach. Actually, I'm at the tail end of it--thank God. Those middle-schoolers are a fucking nightmare. I wish I could be back at my high school placement. Now that was one hell of a great experience. Anyway, I hope to, in the coming months, be able to finally get paid for that with my own classroom...or at least a sub job.

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Good luck with that. My wife finished student teaching last year, subbing now, hoping for a job next year.

 

Unfortunately, due to some miscommunication and left over issues to be dealt with for licensing, I probably won't get my license for another few months. That's all fine and dandy I suppose since the market for teachers is just absolutely horrible at this point. April and August are the months that may be looking up, so fingers crossed. Of course I'll sub first just to get my name known around and my bases covered, but it doesn't look like I'll have my own classroom for at least another year.

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