What would happen if all the people on this board actually met?

vivatifosi

I worked while at school to Pastures and Sue, doesn't harm anyone. I worked from 5-7 each night at an office cleaning and my Saturdays at BhS as a Saturday girl in the lingerie section. My finest moment was when a size 24 lady came in looking for a suspender belt (we didn't they only went up to size 20), ever the helpful sales person I offered to sell her two size 12s and join them together (well you can't fault my maths even if my logic sucks) and she accepted. My word, all those dangly bits, must have looked a bit like an octopus round her waist when she got them home.

carolt

vivatifosi wrote: »

I worked while at school to Pastures and Sue, doesn't harm anyone. I worked from 5-7 each night at an office cleaning and my Saturdays at BhS as a Saturday girl in the lingerie section. My finest moment was when a size 24 lady came in looking for a suspender belt (we didn't they only went up to size 20), ever the helpful sales person I offered to sell her two size 12s and join them together (well you can't fault my maths even if my logic sucks) and she accepted. My word, all those dangly bits, must have looked a bit like an octopus round her waist when she got them home.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Fabulous initiative! I hope you were paid on commission!

vivatifosi

carolt wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Fabulous initiative! I hope you were paid on commission!

Sadly no, I got £6.60 for a whole Saturday and £8 per week for my evening job. Slave labour!

carolt

£6.60 for a whole Saturday! My word - I hope you're about 95, because otherwise that was slave labour indeed!

I wouldn't have got out of bed for less than a tenner.

vivatifosi

I'm only in my forties... Scary isn't it. But I felt really rich at the time.

Pobby

I was another. Worked in the Co-op carpet department on a Saturday. £1.25 a day, well I am older than you. The full time blokes were on commission so deals were set up where I would write the order in their book in exchange for ciggies.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah, another "thing" about the speshulness is "not getting jokes". If there are in jokes that I saw created I can keep bringing them up, if there's a twist on words I can work those out, if there's dry humour based on common themes I can usually cope with that ..... but actual humour no

And ... to cap it all off, I didn't even know/realise I didn't. I've always thought I had a great sense of humour. Saw it on the list of traits and smugly thought "Ha - not got that one!", then somebody actually had the courage to tell me to my face that I didn't get it ... and suddenly 100 past arguments and misunderstandings with people became clear.

I ... am ... humourless

Someone told you wrong. You are funny and you get plenty of the jokes. You might not get them all because of speshulness, but you get the ones here. everyone misses the odd joke, and plenty of people with nothing speshul about hem really ARE humourless.

lostinrates

I worked. Strted working younger than most.

SingleSue

carolt wrote: »

I love this! Wow - you sound incredibly full of initiative, Single Sue!

I did the paper round and babysitting too - though I have no idea what I spent my pittances on - music, I suppose, or clothes....

My first 'proper' job was filing, in my brother's office, when I was 15, for 2 weeks over the summer. I got the princely sum of £75 a week for my full week's work, which I spent on...a snooker table. Of course. The essentials. :rolleyes: It's still at my parents' house, funnily enough. Not used it in years - can't think why.

That's what having a teenage crush on Alex Higgins does for you. Oh dear....

I was actually pretty shallow, I was cash motivated..the more I could get the happier I was.

Think it went back to when my dad had his accident and couldn't work for a while and we had to live in jumble sale clothes. I vowed I would never wear a jumble sale item ever again (and haven't - boot sales don't count :rotfl:)

It was the same stance I took into my full time working years, worked like a trojan for the money... in at 7 in the morning and home at 8 or 9 at night plus all over the weekend too. If I didn't get paid enough, I moved jobs to one which did and then made myself indispensable.

It was how I moved up the employment ladder so quickly and which is why I find it all so frustrating now....if I wanted anything extra or the car went bang, I just worked that little bit harder on overtime or got a second job to pay for it without finance.

Some are motivated by loving the job or doing it for family life, I always did it for the money and sod the family/social life.....pretty shallow eh?

Edit - one of the most quoted sayings to me was "There is more to life than work and money", I could never understand that stance and would give a good impression of looking at an alien.

carolt

Was all that before you had kids, Sue?

I'd imagine that would be a pretty hard lifestyle to keep up if you had kids....