I want to be a postman but theres never any jobs going at the Royal Mail by me

same here, being a postie would be pretty cool!!!

i'd also quite like to be a lab tech... but there's not really any places to get that kind of job around here

Immortalicide wrote:

Styxx wrote:
I can't believe they don't do full and stringent security checks for the royal mail! I mean, if they get their own temps in, interview them themselves and check them properly it's fair enough, but they pretty much just called the agency and said "Who do you have that can work tomorrow?" and then took what they were given.

that is something we all actually discuss at work, as we have a few temps when its busy or we are short staffed. We have to go through rigorous checks when we apply, and we have to sign the official secrets act too once we have been accepted, this is partly because being ROYAL mail, all post actually belongs to the queen from the time it leaves the posters hand to the point it arrives at its destination, and also because we handle material of a sensitive nature (doctors letters / bank statements / court papers / criminal records checks etc). Yet these temps just sign with an agency and away they go. There are a few limitations to their work tho, like they cannot handle any special deliveries, but that isnt a big part of the job anyway.

Well, when I signed up to this temp agency I worked for, they did a minor check and said it was for if I worked for Royal Mail, but like, they might as well have just asked me "Are you trustworthy?" and put a tick on their fuckin sheet. And even if you don't get to handle special deliveries, I mean if someone wanted to, I bet it wouldn't be hard to sneak a letter bomb on the sorting office or burn the place down or whatever. Yet like you said, if you work there properly you gotta be thoroughly checked. Mental. Being a postie would be cool, one of my mates did it once and said it was ace. Another mate of mine, Patrick, went for a postman job but didn't get it, I was well dissapointed! He would have been Postman Pat! As for lab tech, well my mate does that. He did 3 years of some degree of biology with various words that I don't know what they mean in front of it, and now he works as a lab tech doing fairly menial work. He sets up and runs experiments, each very similar but with a minor variable, so he's pretty much doing the same thing all day, but doesn't actually get to plan out said experiments or have any decisive input. Apparently you need a PHD for that sort of thing. Still, beats working in a clothes shop or some crap. At least he's helping cure cancer.

I quit my job in April last year after 5 years of constant hatred towards the managers and the stupid shite un-social hours I was working. 4 months later I still had no luck finding another job so I had to go back. I only work there part time now though, because if I did full time in that shithole again, I'd cut my fucking wrists. Emo style.

You should do it, that's very in with all the cool kids at the moment. Unfortunately it's not "in" enough.

if it was 'in' with the chavs and scallies, then the world would be a better place!

I'm going doing it now though. I've got a hangover and ending my life is the quickest way to stop the pain!
Oh the pain!

Fried breakfast from a greasy spoon man, it's the way forward.

I still need to get a job.

I failed 6th Form (WINNER!!)
Had a year out where I could just play bass and do whatever I wanted (whilst looking for a job)
And now I need to knuckle down and get one.
I've applied at different places but everytime I apply some stuck up posh twat walks in and gets the job instantly. :/

Spanner wrote:I still need to get a job.

I failed 6th Form (WINNER!!)
Had a year out where I could just play bass and do whatever I wanted (whilst looking for a job)
And now I need to knuckle down and get one.
I've applied at different places but everytime I apply some stuck up posh twat walks in and gets the job instantly. :/

Is that related to the interviewer's question "What have you done previously?" to which your answer is "well,bugger all really,I wasted a year of my life doing nowt"

Try appllying for a job cleaning out toilets,or emptying the bins,safe to say no posh twat will want that.

So 'posh twat' = someone with qualifications?

Povey wrote:Yeah im applying to be a postie when I come off tour, walking around listening to my ipod sounds ace! As long as I deliver the mail I have no one to answer to.

I might try that again actually at some point, I had an interview a couple of years ago but obviously didn't get the job. Early mornings though!

Stevedot2 wrote:

Povey wrote:Yeah im applying to be a postie when I come off tour, walking around listening to my ipod sounds ace! As long as I deliver the mail I have no one to answer to.

I might try that again actually at some point, I had an interview a couple of years ago but obviously didn't get the job. Early mornings though!

UKThrash: We've come for your mail

No wonder theres never any jobs going there every fucker wants to be a postman.

Been working for Asda for 4 and a half years. Spent about 6 months on fresh meat, which I hated because most of my colleagues were assholes. The fish counter was part of the fresh meat department so I had to look after that and maintain the meat aisle all by myself on a Saturday night.

The store underwent a massive revamp in the first half of 2004, and I was offered to transfer to the counters department as the fish counter would become part of that department after the revamp. I took the offer, the main reason I highly disliked the people I worked with, and a minor reason that there were some hot chicks on the counters at the time.

Working on the counters has had it's ups and downs, several times I've felt like walking out since my mate became manager, because he's shit at his job. He's barely ever on the department, fucking around on some other department, so there's little control over the staff.

Things are a bit steady of lately, my main issue is that some of the kids on the department really need to pull their fingers out of their arses, lazy shits! I want to be a supervisor so I can abuse my power. I actually bollocked a lass one night for leaving the curry pot sink a mess; leaving shit in it and not putting away the pots and spoons before finishing (she had no reason not to do it) and she threw a right hissy fit. Had it have been a manager it would have been a different story, she needs the sack!

\m/Steve\m/ wrote:Been working for Asda for 4 and a half years.

You brave boy.