Work Experience Woes

[Holy_Handgrenade]

So guys I was supposed to do work experience with my tennis coach but it all fell through and wasn't going to work so at the last minute the teachers shoved me with a local estate agents which I wasn't to bothered about except for the half eight till half five working times. I got slightly more annoyed when I found out some of my friends were enjoying theirs and that they only worked four hours a day while I was doing eight and mine is excluding breaks. When I actualy turned up I was doing menial and repetitive yearly tasks that they obviously leave for the poor sap doing work experience with them for two weeks. I swear today I was looking at the stapler I was using to staple around eight hundred sheets together in twos and wondering wether to end it all with a staple to the face.

Now guys I'm on my second day in on my two week stay and I don't think I can take anymore menial tasks like putting four hundred letters into envelopes and stamping them. So guys basically I'm asking what you guys think I should do, right now I'm open to anything from skipping it Ferris Bueller style to trying to get one of my teachers to sort it out. Also tell me what your work experience was like?


PS: My parents understand it's bad but say I have to put up with it If you guys are intrested I will update the thread with new problems and basicaly a blog of how it goes so you can be giving me constant advice, I will definitely need it.

PPS: Thanks in advance for your awesome responses.

 

[Harlemura]

Well, my work experience consisted of two weeks of filing outdated patient records in an optometrist's with a one day break on a hospital trip. So I'd say just bear it.
[sub]Or bare it. Never sure which is right.[/sub]

But I'm one of those weird, dull people that would far prefer something dull and monotonous than anything that puts any responsibility on my shoulders along with genuine consequences if I screw up. So I guess this advice is coming from a different boat to the one you're in.
/slightly labored metaphor

 

[aba1]

shit happens....

everybody gets a job like that once your lucky yours is only 2 weeks and not 4 months

 

[Jakub324]

I used to do it at a charity shop and a woman spent 30 minutes haggling with me before some more customers showed up and I could finally ask here to either buy the thing or move away.

 

[Holy_Handgrenade]

Well, my work experience consisted of two weeks of filing outdated patient records in an optometrist's with a one day break on a hospital trip. So I'd say just bear it.
[sub]Or bare it. Never sure which is right.[/sub]

But I'm one of those weird, dull people that would far prefer something dull and monotonous than anything that puts any responsibility on my shoulders along with genuine consequences if I screw up. So I guess this advice is coming from a different boat to the one you're in.
/slightly labored metaphor

I'm not looking for a responsible point of view, I want some one to go yeah Max, do a Ferris Bueller pretend to be your Dad and call in sick!

 

[baconsarnie]

I did my work experience in an opticians. I would have been grateful for menial tasks to do, i literally spent half the time just sitting there doing nothing.

 

[Tallim]

Work Experience *should* be a chance for you to see what goes on in a job you are interested in. As you have been lumped in to something you really didn't want to get involved with I'd say skip it, call in sick whatever. 2 weeks work experience on your CV doesn't count for anything.

Although I never did any *because* they couldn't get me a place where I wanted. I got to chose to either take something very similar to what you are doing or do a 2 week fun activity course that the school was running. I ended up doing boxing training. That I enjoyed.

 

[William MacKay]

this was mine: day 1/2: snowed in. day 3: bus, through snow, to the community access center (basically, council offices) then get told i was about to phoned and told not to come in for the rest of the week and that it would be rescheduled. it wasnt. most of my year got sent home.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Sorry to say but you going have to tough it out. My first work experiences was at a bank. It was fairly boring since one day they had gotten me to fold up the letters and put them in the envelopes for several hours (it took me two days to complete it) which I end up getting some paper cuts!

 

[Holy_Handgrenade]

Work Experience *should* be a chance for you to see what goes on in a job you are interested in. As you have been lumped in to something you really didn't want to get involved with I'd say skip it, call in sick whatever. 2 weeks work experience on your CV doesn't count for anything.

Although I never did any *because* they couldn't get me a place where I wanted. I got to chose to either take something very similar to what you are doing or do a 2 week fun activity course that the school was running. I ended up doing boxing training. That I enjoyed.

How should I go about skipping it? My parents wouldn't believe I was sick as they know how much I hate it. So we need to have an elaborate masterplan!

 

[Sticky Squid]

I worked at gamestation for 3 days, stacking shelves and dusting upstairs.
Walked out due to not being paid and the boss being a wanker.

 

[Holy_Handgrenade]

I worked at gamestation for 3 days, stacking shelves and dusting upstairs.
Walked out due to not being paid and the boss being a wanker.

Exactly what I feel like doing and was there any repercussions?

 

[Sticky Squid]

I worked at gamestation for 3 days, stacking shelves and dusting upstairs.
Walked out due to not being paid and the boss being a wanker.

Exactly what I feel like doing and was there any repercussions?

I wasn't faced with any, probably due to me being a good student the teachers were more on my side.

 

[funguy2121]

So guys I was supposed to do work experience with my tennis coach but it all fell through and wasn't going to work so at the last minute the teachers shoved me with a local estate agents which I wasn't to bothered about except for the half eight till half five working times. I got slightly more annoyed when I found out some of my friends were enjoying theirs and that they only worked four hours a day while I was doing eight and mine is excluding breaks. When I actualy turned up I was doing menial and repetitive yearly tasks that they obviously leave for the poor sap doing work experience with them for two weeks. I swear today I was looking at the stapler I was using to staple around eight hundred sheets together in twos and wondering wether to end it all with a staple to the face.

Now guys I'm on my second day in on my two week stay and I don't think I can take anymore menial tasks like putting four hundred letters into envelopes and stamping them. So guys basically I'm asking what you guys think I should do, right now I'm open to anything from skipping it Ferris Bueller style to trying to get one of my teachers to sort it out. Also tell me what your work experience was like?


PS: My parents understand it's bad but say I have to put up with it If you guys are intrested I will update the thread with new problems and basicaly a blog of how it goes so you can be giving me constant advice, I will definitely need it.

PPS: Thanks in advance for your awesome responses.

Type cannot possibly convey tone with any real effectiveness. Just understand, I ain't trollin' ya.

I won't go into my own work experience woes, but I'll admit I found my reaction to your post was a mixture of incendiary humor and class envy. Bitching about your tennis coach and then complaining that your part-time office job was too menial...wow.

Most people have to work, at least occasionally, from the time they're 16 or 17. If someone were born around my first day of work, they'd be nearly old enough to legally have sex with in the States. I've worked a 99.75-hour workweek before, I've been screamed at by inept bosses, I've had to deal with drug abusers of every type (talking about my coworkers here), I've been covered in animal blood and what I can only deduce was human excrement, and I've been told that I need to improve my productivity while the person saying this was absolutely unwilling to provide any insight into how.

So I hope you realize that I mean this in all sincerity when I say, grow a thick skin and accept life's little annoyances. If this bothers you this much now, then I don't envy you when real problems arise.

 

[ciancon]

Well if you feel like updating this post every day or so in order to stop yourself from dying of boredom i'll read it!

My worst work experience was in a bookshop. It was only for a week and they didn't work me particularly hard but you see, every week they change the music theme and when i was working there it was "Abba Week".

 

[Annoying Turd]

I get rejected from every job offer available to me.

that's my work experience.

 

[mofo phill]

in would suggest inform your teachers that your work experience is meant to help you understand how it feels to be in a working environment and to prepare yourself for when you get a job but the job you describes was something a real employee wouldn't do so you are not getting an real experience and switching to another job would help provide you with the experience the work experience you where supposed to get or an alternative would be asking where you are currently getting work experience and see if you can get a more rewarding experience

also when i did my work experience at a primary school i had to put my hair in a pony tail (im a guy) and the kids kept calling me a pirate

 

[mofo phill]

to put it short just say this is a rare ocasion where you can get a chance to get some valuble exsperiance and this humdrum job is just wasting that and it is simply making you unhappy and this can be esaily avoided by just asking a favour

hope this helps