mjw Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Spent a week in Daiwa stripping cellophane off lengths of plastic that were assembled into fishing rods.It was mind numbing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fratelli Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I went to a legal firm spent most of the week sitting in courtrooms listening to cases, was quite interesting, especially watching my mates dad get done for assault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I was sent to Longannet power station to work in the chemical lab department. Right up my street subject wise but mostly I learned i) how to play solitaire on the computer and ii) don't get into chemistry lab work as the pay is shite. Little did the school realise however that it wasn't just the technician's job to measure samples, but they had to collect it all too. Cue several trips down the coal mines (it all closed the year after) and out to the ash pits to collect carbon / ph readings. I personally loved it, even if the school didn't after I wrote my summary report. Beats sweeping hair at the barbers in a way that should challenge child labour laws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted June 13, 2015 Author Share Posted June 13, 2015 I was sent to Longannet power station to work in the chemical lab department. Right up my street subject wise but mostly I learned i) how to play solitaire on the computer and ii) don't get into chemistry lab work as the pay is shite. Little did the school realise however that it wasn't just the technician's job to measure samples, but they had to collect it all too. Cue several trips down the coal mines (it all closed the year after) and out to the ash pits to collect carbon / ph readings. I personally loved it, even if the school didn't after I wrote my summary report. Beats sweeping hair at the barbers in a way that should challenge child labour laws. Wow, hold up; we had to write a report?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Wow, hold up; we had to write a report?! Yup. Somehow I specifically remember writing it during Frau Cow's German class. Perhaps it was just the school trying to get a testimony to sue Scottish Power, or perhaps that's why the pit closed soon after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted June 13, 2015 Author Share Posted June 13, 2015 Yup. Somehow I specifically remember writing it during Frau Cow's German class. Perhaps it was just the school trying to get a testimony to sue Scottish Power, or perhaps that's why the pit closed soon after. Davidson? We went on a trip to Longannet in P6. I had a Longannet ruler for a while after Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie95 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I went to Asda for two days before becoming ill and not being able to come in for rest of the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I spent two weeks in a solicitors office post room franking mail. I got twenty quid for it which is twenty quid more than my schoolmates and was a bit of a fortune back in 1989 I never became a lawyer but at least I knew how to use a franking machine. At my work the school kids just get to watch and not actually do any work. Should make the lazy little feckers at least make the tea but there's probably health and safety laws against that or something. We got one lassie from the remedial school. I asked her what she was put there for - "Punching a gym teacher" she said. I sympathised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Just remembered that I was once responsible for giving somebody work experience. Didn't trust them to do a proper job so I got them to pain stakingly QC a whole set of copied spreadsheets and digitise a pile of old well log data, letting them think they were contributing to something important. A bit cnutish on reflection, but it kept them occupied for a good while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted June 14, 2015 Author Share Posted June 14, 2015 i) Duncan ii) I had one too. Footered about with it too much probably. Eta: in-joke, sorry. Where did I get Davidson from?! Did you roll coppers down the classroom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Did a week with a firm of surveyors. I quite enjoyed it really. I got to go inside the Northern Lighthouse Board building on George Street, which was pretty interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcat1990 Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Luckily got my first choice at the now sadly deceased McCormacks Music Shop. Spent a week talking about music and playing guitar. Almost cried when it ended and had to return to the hell of school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspy Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Davidson? We went on a trip to Longannet in P6. I had a Longannet ruler for a while after I had one of these rulers. We never had to do a report, we just had to discuss our week during a PSE class. I remember some boy said he was working in Ann Summers helping the women pick out their gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I worked at the Press and Journal, it was great. i went out and about with reporters, went to court, went to a few stories. I wrote a few pieces and got paid for it, ended up going back and doing some writing for local golf tournaments the next summer. one lassie in my year got a placement at an old folks home, she spent her first day looking after some old dear only to come in the next day to be told aforementioned old dear had died. Cue a tear-flecked meltdown and no more work experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamdunk Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I went to the IT dept at the local council. Boring stuff, but we all got away early one day to watch Scotland play Brazil in the world cup which was probably the highlight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwullie Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 A week in Harry Cockburn's chemist at Motherwell cross. Did actually choose that as I was considering pharmacy at the time. Quickly became apparent that being a chemist basically meant working in a shop. Sacked that career choice pretty quickly after that so I suppose it was quite useful. The reality was I was basically working with two 20-something women who spent half their time talking in detail about their Saturday night shagging exploits. Kept my 15 year old self in wanking material for months afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspy Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 but we all got away early one day to watch Scotland play Brazil in the world cup which was probably the highlight. Typical council Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I went to work with my Dad. Made me realise I didn't want to do what he done, and that he could be a bit of an arsehole at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 We weren't allowed to do work experience with our parents when i was in school. Instead i did it with my next door neighbour doing some sort of processing shite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I spent a week at BioMar (they make feed for fish farming) down in Grangemouth docks put down to work in the lab but ended up spending the week swapping pages about in there brochure and ended up getting a mug from them at the end of the week. I was also meant to do a mock interview with them but it was swapped from there office to my high School but after having to walk from there back to Falkirk town centre I never bothered going back for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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