#91
CS (Colin S) wrote:
mrs h wrote:
a job interview? :p
Go on - do tell :)
Well, it’s working in the Odyssey VIP area as a waitor / bar staff hopefully.
http://www.odysseyvip.com/?page=home
All seems very swanky to me and not the usual scummy bar work I’m used to.
Advertised as £6.50 per hour too, but I’m not expecting that!
Congrats, Squall :)
Posted on Tue, 9 September 2008 at 15:59 in reply to an earlier post
#92
Charlie wrote:
Posted on Tue, 9 September 2008 at 16:27
#93
Charlie wrote:
deadsetgav wrote:
If you turn up to interviews looking like you don’t give a fuck - how do you expect to get hired?
… Perhaps I should explain myself a bit clearer ?
I was told WHSMith were hiring, so i just went in wearing what I was wearing, jeans, t-shirt, scruffy hoody. I asked about interviews and the guy said ” oh right - you can go up now if you want ” so I did - its not like I purposefully turned up like that. usually I wear all clean tidy clothes :)
Posted on Tue, 9 September 2008 at 16:30 in reply to an earlier post
#94
deadsetgav wrote:
Ah. In that case you are forgiven.
Posted on Tue, 9 September 2008 at 16:38
#95
Charlie wrote:
And I WAS hired. Thats my whole point.
Posted on Tue, 9 September 2008 at 16:39
#96
Tubthumper (Scott) wrote:
Colin, do you not have to be 18 to do bar work?!
Posted on Tue, 9 September 2008 at 22:30
#97
Graeme55? (Graeme Williams) wrote:
i think he might mean picking up glasses from tables and clearing them etc.
Posted on Tue, 9 September 2008 at 22:33
#98
Charlie wrote:
Or he’s gonna be working in an Ironmongers.
Posted on Tue, 9 September 2008 at 22:45
#99
Charlie wrote:
Posted on Thu, 11 September 2008 at 17:30
#100
CS (Colin S) wrote:
Tubthumper wrote:
Colin, do you not have to be 18 to do bar work?!
Legally, to serve drinks, yes.
But it’s considered age discrimination if they don’t consider under 18s.
Graeme is exactly right, it’s glass collecting. Not a nice job, but it pays and once you’ve worked in one bar you can walk into any basically.
Posted on Thu, 11 September 2008 at 22:08 in reply to an earlier post
#101
Charlie wrote:
Stop me if you’ve heard this one…
A boy walks into a bar…:)
Posted on Thu, 11 September 2008 at 22:14
#102
Dennis wrote:
CS wrote:
Legally, to serve drinks, yes.
But it’s considered age discrimination if they don’t consider under 18s.
Graeme is exactly right, it’s glass collecting. Not a nice job, but it pays and once you’ve worked in one bar you can walk into any basically.
In fact, from the pub’s point of view getting glass collectors who ARE too young to serve the drinks is good business sense, as the whole minimum wage thing means they can be paid loads less, whilst for the youngsters themselves it is GREAT to have such “huge” amounts of money to spend on Pokemon stickers and/ or crystal meth.
Posted on Fri, 12 September 2008 at 11:40 in reply to an earlier post
#103
Charlie wrote:
Posted on Fri, 12 September 2008 at 11:50
#104
mrs h wrote:
CS wrote:
But it’s considered age discrimination if they don’t consider under 18s
Did you make that up? There’s certainly no English law that says you have to consider employing children, I’m sure!!
Posted on Fri, 12 September 2008 at 16:46 in reply to an earlier post
#105
CS (Colin S) wrote:
I meant people who can legally work (16 and over) and under 18…
But there are some jobs which you have to be over 18, ie. security, driving, direct credit card sales, stuff like that. I don’t know why the last one is a must for over 18 though, never understood it.
Posted on Fri, 12 September 2008 at 16:48
#106
mrs h wrote:
I guess it’s because you could bypass the checks and get yourself a credit card.
Posted on Sat, 13 September 2008 at 08:44
#107
Dennis wrote:
I suppose it makes sense - if you aren’t old enough to have credit, you aren’t old enough to give credit.
Note to anyone yet to get a credit card:
DON’T!
Posted on Thu, 18 September 2008 at 16:42
#108
Gimme Back My Brainsaw (Mike Hunt) wrote:
Its like the bar laws your not allowed to serve alcohol unless your old enough to drink it.
if im not mistaken though in a supermarket its fine as long as theres an older member of staff near.
Posted on Thu, 18 September 2008 at 17:02
#109
Dennis wrote:
My wife is 28 next month and STILL gets asked for ID in the supermarket when she tries to buy fags.
I get very irate (once I have left the supermarket, of course, I mean, I wouldn’t actually really in real life you know complain or anything…) cos what does that make ME if she’s underage?!
Barstids.
Posted on Thu, 18 September 2008 at 17:05
#110
Gimme Back My Brainsaw (Mike Hunt) wrote:
yet im 17 and can get served for fags in pretty much every shop in britain no questions asked, and i havent been to a bar that wouldnt serve me yet.
Posted on Thu, 18 September 2008 at 17:24
#111
CS (Colin S) wrote:
Got a job interview in Odyssey cinema on Monday ;)
Notice a pattern?
Posted on Thu, 18 September 2008 at 17:49
#112
Charlie wrote:
Well I had two interviews and didnt get either of them. I’m really fucking depressed. I’m surprised i’m not having nightmares or insomnia or some shit.
Posted on Thu, 18 September 2008 at 20:55
#113
Dennis wrote:
Or nightmares about insomnia. THAT would be bad.
Posted on Thu, 18 September 2008 at 21:44
#114
Charlie wrote:
Posted on Thu, 18 September 2008 at 21:52
#115
Graeme55? (Graeme Williams) wrote:
bloody hell, man, these people have to fucking be retarded, these days you prolly need qualifications just to stack a shelf!!
really do feel for ya dude, just think, its their loss.
Posted on Thu, 18 September 2008 at 23:13
#116
Divers (Simon) wrote:
Sounds silly but have you thought about working in a pub/bar… just say your Australian, normally seems to work?
Posted on Fri, 19 September 2008 at 01:22
#117
Dennis wrote:
Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:
yet im 17 and can get served for fags in pretty much every shop in britain no questions asked, and i havent been to a bar that wouldnt serve me yet.
maybe they have an inclining my wife is old enough and hence she WILL have ID, problem solved, whereas they fear you may not have ID which would put them in the tricky situation of having to refuse you service, which is usually too much for a panicked jobsworth minimumwager to cope with.
Posted on Fri, 19 September 2008 at 08:42 in reply to an earlier post
#118
Charlie wrote:
Had a dream last night I moved back to Guildford and I was really happy. :D may be the answer. I do miss it.
Posted on Sun, 21 September 2008 at 14:11
#119
Gimme Back My Brainsaw (Mike Hunt) wrote:
Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:
yet im 17 and can get served for fags in pretty much every shop in britain no questions asked, and i havent been to a bar that wouldnt serve me yet.
I shoudlnt of opened my mouth, friday night i got ided in a fucking social club of all places.
Posted on Sun, 21 September 2008 at 16:13 in reply to an earlier post
#120
mrs h wrote:
* thinks about screaming*
don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it…
Posted on Sun, 21 September 2008 at 16:21
