Are you happy in your job?
May 22nd 2006, 9:16 am
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
Originally Posted by Margaret2
[. I also worked as a school cleaner for a bit which I still have nightmares about as in the 3 months I worked there I managed to get locked in the school and have to be let out by the police, kill the pet hamster and leave rubbish in the cleaners cupboard for a fortnight over the Easter holiday only to move it on my return and find it crawling with maggots (which I thought I`d killed with bleach until a teacher opened the cupboard door a few days later to be met with a cupboard full of bluebottles!!) 
PMSL , your having a laarf, surely :scared:[/QUOTE]
LOL - unfortunately not!! I was cleaning the upstairs classrooms thinking how much work I was getting done (not realising my watch had stopped!!) when I realised I ran into the main hall only to set off the burglar alarms and find that everyone else had left 20 minutes earlier!! I also managed to kill the hamster when it escaped (I`d moved somes boxes of books and inadvertantly wedged hammy against the central heating pipes - toasted hamster) The maggot incident was when we broke up for Easter hols - I thought the Janitor was going to pick up the full waste bags from the top of the stairs as usual - came back from leave and the Janitor mentioned that he`d shoved my waste bags in the cleaners cupboard as I should have brought it down (and he basically couldn`t be bothered dragging it down himself) I opened the cupboard (thought it smelt a bit whiffy) moved the bags only to finf the floor covered in maggots ( I panicked and poured bleach over the floor ) the maggots seemed to disappear (well they had into the nooks and crannies of the cupboard) I went into work a few days later and the Janitor asked me if I had noticed anything strange in the cupboard. I put on my innocent face and denied knowing anything "Why ??" I asked only to be told that a teacher had gone into the cupboard and just about had a heart attack on finding the place swarming with bluebottles!! (can`t imagine where they came from
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May 22nd 2006, 9:17 am
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
Originally Posted by ohippy
This may sound sad, but for the last ten years I've always wanted to be a full time stay at home mum
May 22nd 2006, 9:18 am
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
Originally Posted by gobbyjock
PMSL , your having a laarf, surely :scared:
)[/QUOTE]God it gets worse, are u working just now, and do your employers have good insurance :scared:
May 22nd 2006, 9:22 am
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
Originally Posted by Margaret2
LOL - unfortunately not!! I was cleaning the upstairs classrooms thinking how much work I was getting done (not realising my watch had stopped!!) when I realised I ran into the main hall only to set off the burglar alarms and find that everyone else had left 20 minutes earlier!! I also managed to kill the hamster when it escaped (I`d moved somes boxes of books and inadvertantly wedged hammy against the central heating pipes - toasted hamster) The maggot incident was when we broke up for Easter hols - I thought the Janitor was going to pick up the full waste bags from the top of the stairs as usual - came back from leave and the Janitor mentioned that he`d shoved my waste bags in the cleaners cupboard as I should have brought it down (and he basically couldn`t be bothered dragging it down himself) I opened the cupboard (thought it smelt a bit whiffy) moved the bags only to finf the floor covered in maggots ( I panicked and poured bleach over the floor ) the maggots seemed to disappear (well they had into the nooks and crannies of the cupboard) I went into work a few days later and the Janitor asked me if I had noticed anything strange in the cupboard. I put on my innocent face and denied knowing anything "Why ??" I asked only to be told that a teacher had gone into the cupboard and just about had a heart attack on finding the place swarming with bluebottles!! (can`t imagine where they came from )
)PMSL - I`ve found my niche in life I`ve been a civil servant for the last 7 years!! (think of the havoc I can create!!! (evil laugh- mwhahaha!!)
May 22nd 2006, 9:33 am
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
Hey Gobby,
here's something for you....
here's something for you....
May 22nd 2006, 9:33 am
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
This has got me thinking about all the different types of jobs I`ve had since leaving school at 17 _
YTS trainee at the local Co-OP
Sales Assistant at the Co-Op Department store (pet shop)
Boneless chicken stuffer at Marshalls Chunky Chickens
Sales Assitant at the local NAAFI
School Cleaner
Sales Assistant for Carpetwise (got made redundant)
Office Cashire for Carpetwise (got taken back on in another shop a week later)
Sales Assistant for Carpetwise (got made redundant again)
Admin staff for a newspaper distributor
Temped at Natwest for a while
Tele sales
Office Cashier Courts Furnisher
Admin Officer for various Civil service depts
And it all added to the rich tapestry of my life
YTS trainee at the local Co-OP
Sales Assistant at the Co-Op Department store (pet shop)
Boneless chicken stuffer at Marshalls Chunky Chickens
Sales Assitant at the local NAAFI
School Cleaner
Sales Assistant for Carpetwise (got made redundant)
Office Cashire for Carpetwise (got taken back on in another shop a week later)
Sales Assistant for Carpetwise (got made redundant again)
Admin staff for a newspaper distributor
Temped at Natwest for a while
Tele sales
Office Cashier Courts Furnisher
Admin Officer for various Civil service depts
And it all added to the rich tapestry of my life
May 22nd 2006, 9:34 am
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
Originally Posted by Sorchar
Hey Gobby,
here's something for you....
here's something for you....
May 22nd 2006, 9:40 am
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
Originally Posted by gobbyjock
LOL cheers mate - you know anytime you fancy popping round for a coffee just give me a shout!!
:scared: rather you than me mate
May 22nd 2006, 9:40 am
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
Originally Posted by gobbyjock
LOL cheers mate - you know anytime you fancy popping round for a coffee just give me a shout!!
can I bring my friend too ?
May 22nd 2006, 9:45 am
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
What job?
May 22nd 2006, 9:46 am
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
Originally Posted by Margaret2
:scared: rather you than me mate
. Probably just as well I now live down here and don`t have to send my daughter to that school - I think the whole of Fife breathed a sigh of relief - I was just one of those people that daft stuff happened to!"
May 22nd 2006, 9:50 am
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
[QUOTE=gobbyjock] - I was just one of those people that daft stuff happened to!"[/QUO
a female Frank Spencer
a female Frank Spencer
May 22nd 2006, 9:17 pm
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
I used to love my job as a psychiatric nurse, but when I came here found that mental health nusing as certainly 'different' - drugs were being used which had been banned for good reason in the UK, and certain ways of managing situations had a lot to be desired.
I stuck it out for 9 months (basically waiting to go from 457 to PR) and then left.
I felt that I needed a change, and so when I was offered a job working with chess in schools, I jumped at it.
I may or may not go back to nursing in the future - but working within the education system here is quite liberating.
I'm very happy.
I stuck it out for 9 months (basically waiting to go from 457 to PR) and then left.
I felt that I needed a change, and so when I was offered a job working with chess in schools, I jumped at it.
I may or may not go back to nursing in the future - but working within the education system here is quite liberating.
I'm very happy.
May 22nd 2006, 9:37 pm
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
Originally Posted by carolinegorka
I felt that I needed a change, and so when I was offered a job working with chess in schools, I jumped at it.
Cas, will you please let me know if any jobs come up working with chess for older pupils.
May 22nd 2006, 9:38 pm
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Re: Are you happy in your job?
Originally Posted by Bix
Cas, will you please let me know if any jobs come up working with chess for older pupils.
How old were you thinking?
