Anyone get the feeling they were hired for there jobs just to look at?

[penny]

This has been the 10th or so time my boss has just stared at my breasts…it’s starting to get annoying and I really don’t think his girlfriend likes the fact she keeps seeing him doing that as she also works there with me.

I’m terrible at my job and I know it, yet I still have the dam thing…hopefully the phone call I missed today, which I’ll be ringing back tomorrow, is another job.
*Fingers crossed*

Anyone else get the feeling they were hired for a different reason?

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[pfm]

> I?m terrible at my job

I’m sure you’re not. Do not fret :) . If the guy keeps staring at you you’re well within your rights to say something to him or someone else. Maybe have a word with his girlfriend? I can’t say I’ve never been guilty of doing the same thing at work tbh. Men, we’re just complete twats in that regard, aren’t we? I’d hate to think I was pissing someone off with my wandering eye though.

[Dave]

I started temping at a lawfirm and the word had obviously gotten out that there was new blood in the office because one of the solicitors bounded over, searched around and was crestfallen to discover I was one of those males.

As soon as he left, one of the girls told me he came over daily, sought her out and had a conversation with her that never strayed above the neck.

[Tanya Jones]

Look on the bright side, Penny; at least your ability to do the job doesn’t matter. All you need to do is turn up in low-cut tops. Easy money!

[Joey TORDFC]

A. Yes – it’s a daily struggle *sigh*

[Phil]

A. Yes – it’s a daily struggle. *sigh*

[Joey TORDFC]

I just LOLd.

[Smeg4Brains]

Booooooooooooooooooobs

[Mr Flibble]

Apparently I was picked because the interviewer liked my name, and spent the next few hours saying it out loud.

[Andrew]

I was hired for my lustrous youth and magnificent abs. That and my skills at bullshitting.

Be glad to be ogled while it lasts. For me it lasted for three hours in 1999.

[Baz]

> For me it lasted for three hours in 1999.

That wasn’t on September 13th was it?

[Andrew]

> That wasn?t on September 13th was it?

I had to Google to understand that one…

[Seb Patrick]

… and now I’ve got the theme tune stuck in my head. Class.

[Smeg4Brains]

> That wasn?t on September 13th was it?

I’m sure I’m not the only person but I don’t get it.

[Ian Symes]

I haven’t a clue, but the wife says it’s something to do with Friends.

[mick]

If you have a meaty rack, and present it in a tight or low cut top in a mixed workplace it’s going to get stared at, live with it or get yourself a cardigan.

[penny]

> Be glad to be ogled while it lasts.

I’m fine with being ogled at, but it would be nice if it was some I liked ogling me. *Sigh*

>For me it lasted for three hours in 1999.

You sure it was 1999 that was the last time?

>> That wasn?t on September 13th was it?
>I?m sure I?m not the only person but I don?t get it.

Haven’t a clue…all I found for that day was a bomb exploding in Russia.

>get stared at, live with it or get yourself a cardigan.

I found my other type of bra, so not so high any more.

[Smeg4Brains]

Maybe I could be of more help if you sent a picture…..no? It was worth a try.

[Seb Patrick]

>I haven?t a clue, but the wife says it?s something to do with Friends.

What happened in Friends on that date?

Anyway, everyone knows that was the date the moon was wrenched from its orbit and sent hurtling out into space…

[Tanya Jones]

>I found my other type of bra, so not so high any more.

The balconette instead of the peephole? Wise choice.

[Baz]

For those who still hadn’t worked it out, September 13th 1999 is the date in “Space 1999” that the nuclear waste dump on the moon explodes and the moon is blown out of orbit and sent careening through space.

“Blown Out Of Orbit”

Sounds like the title of a cheap sci-fi porn movie…

[Phil]

>Maybe I could be of more help if you sent a picture?..no? It was worth a try.

We are hereby officially invoking Rule #1.

[Dave]

>We are hereby officially invoking Rule #1

Black card?

[penny]

>The balconette instead of the peephole? Wise choice.

Uh!? You lost me…I wear bras I don’t know the names of them…hell, I hardly remember anyone’s name at work…or the wines Why don’t we just have three basic wines Red, Rose and White so then it don’t that an age to attempt to pronounce the names of them or to find them on the till or at the bar.

I’m so tired now.

[Pete Part Three]

It’s always wine, isn’t it?

[Baz]

> We are hereby officially invoking Rule #1

> Black card?

I thought it was “No Poofters”.

[Seb Patrick]

>The balconette instead of the peephole? Wise choice.

Uh!? You lost me?I wear bras I don?t know the names of them?

I think she was lampooning you. It was a simple lampoon.

Why don?t we just have three basic wines Red, Rose and White

You do know that different wines, even of the same colour, taste completely different, right?

[Joey TORDFC]

>> You do know that different wines, even of the same colour, taste completely different, right?

Not to my uncultured tongue, it’s all pretty nasty stuff. Who thought of drinking fermented grape juice??!

[Phil]

I thought the three basic wines were “Decent,” “Fucking Horrible,” and “Why did I pay $50 for this?”

[penny]

>You do know that different wines, even of the same colour, taste completely different, right?

Yer, but basic right…I was just having a wine about the fact I haven’t a clue about wine and I keep on having problems ensuring costumers getting the right ones and also I can’t pronounce any of the ones we have and therefore I am laughed at by the costumers.

I’m going to pose another question…does anyone else hate their jobs?

[Baz]

Nope, my job is great. I’m doing what I wanted to do (and have been doing) since leaving university. I’ve currently got a chance to enhance my career, pick up a specialism no-one else is doing, got a boss who is a bigger geek than me, work right in the middle of London, get to see my girlfriend a lot (just had lunch with her, having dinner with her this evening), living nearer some good friends than I was before, working 5 mins walk from Forbidden Planet/Gosh Comics/British Museum. ‘S great.

Also I have a job that is towards the top end of weird in my particular field. Which is a plus.

[Danny Stephenson]

One of my jobs is shit, the other is a foot in the door to what I REALLY want to do, so it’s not a complete loss…

[Dave]

>Also I have a job that is towards the top end of weird in my particular field.

Crikey. Do you mind if I ask what you do?

[Baz]

Assistant Curator at the Freemasonry Museum in Covent Garden.

Now that I’ve told you this I will have to kill you of course.

[Dave]

I think you should insist that the phrase “top end of weird” is incorporated into your job title

[Baz]

The subject matter is strange enough (though it’s a fascinating and under-reported piece of social history) but getting emails telling you not to worry about the sound of gunfire in the office corridor (they were filming Spooks, we’re their HQ building) or having the Grand Temple dressed up as Finland (Spamalot launch party) can be bizarre too.

The Temple was also seen in HHGTTG, moonlighting as the church of the Great Green Arkleseizure, we’re one of the top 10 film locations in London.

[pfm]

> Nope, my job is great. I?m doing what I wanted to do (and have been doing) since leaving university. I?ve currently got a chance to enhance my career, pick up a specialism no-one else is doing, got a boss who is a bigger geek than me, work right in the middle of London, get to see my girlfriend a lot (just had lunch with her, having dinner with her this evening), living nearer some good friends than I was before, working 5 mins walk from Forbidden Planet/Gosh Comics/British Museum. ?S great.

You’re just a twat, aren’t you…

I’m actually going to Covent Garden this weekend – Lord of the Rings musical at Drury Lane and then basically just tossing around Covent Garden. I bet the Freemasonry museum is only open during the week though. Ohhhhh, secretive bunch…

[Baz]

> I bet the Freemasonry museum is only open during the week though. Ohhhhh, secretive bunch?

How did you guess. 10 to 5, Mondays to Fridays. Free admission, and you get the tours (at 11, 12, 2, 3 and 4) unless the Grand Temple is in use, which isn’t often (the stars have to be right, or something).

[Baz]

Repeat post, ignore. Fnord.

And the LOTR musical was utter smeg in my opinion, Lackluster performances, unengaging musical numbers and a story abbreviated to the point of farce. Like to hear your opinion though.

[TheLeen]

Oh man, and I wanted to go and see it some time next year. Please, someone tell me that it’s great.

[Michael Warren]

I can only agree with Baz on the final point – I thought the performances were good, and some of the numbers were excellent (for an example – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k796JtCVa7k). But the story itself is very heavily compromised by the running time (and the necessity of getting people out before the Tube shuts down…)

[Smeg4Brains]

I hate my job with a passion. In fact I got so pissed off yestersay that I walked out in the middle of a shift…I then turned around and went back because I need the money and can’t afford to loose my job.

[penny]

>Oh man, and I wanted to go and see it some time next year. Please, someone tell me that it?s great.

Urm…it’s great.
*Avoids telling I haven’t watched it*
…ooops!

[penny]

Talked to a great careers couch on the phone today which was really useful. More so by far than the bloody jobcenter who when you tell them you are dyslexic and have many problems filling in forms and need help…they give you more bloody forms!

[Seb Patrick]

Quite right too.

[Tanya Jones]

Baz, do you know if Exeter used to have Freemasonry links? There was a letter addressed to the Grand Wizard of something or other at our address, and when we opened it (after several days of it lurking in the post box), it was a request for the history of Freemasonry in the South West (or something of that ilk). We were confused.

[Baz]

“Grand Wizard” is not, in fact a title in English Freemasonry, it’s Grand Master. The Grand Wizard is the head of the KKK actually. And there are masonic lodges all over the UK. Sounds dodgy to me, anybody who knows the basics of Freemasonry will know there’s no such title in it (Rob and Doug obviously didn’t, see Timeslides). Nevertheless, here’s a few addresses you can send it on to.

Devon has a Provincial Grand Lodge, which is in Exeter as it happens (http://www.pgldevonshire.org.uk/index2.htm), or failing that you can send it to us (Library and Museum of Freemasonry, Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5AZ). Mark it for the attention of Andrew Tucker if you send it here, the Provincial Lodge should be your first port of call though.

Where do you work to get asked questions like this though? Or was it to your home address?

[Ian Symes]

> The Grand Wizard is the head of the KKK actually

No, that’s Colin Baker.

[mick]

we have photographic evidence.

[Tanya Jones]

Thanks for the link, Baz; this now makes total sense. Of course, when I said ‘Grand Wizard’, I meant ‘Grand Master’. It appears that the person got the house number the wrong way round, which is why it ended up at our address. I really should have googled it and put it in the right letterbox! Unfortunately, we threw the letter away, assuming that the sender had the wrong end of the stick entirely. The Devon lodge certainly don’t advertise themselves…

[Baz]

Yeah, well, saves a brick through the window from the occasional moron. Actually there are 136 lodges in Devon, 11 and the provincial HQ in Exeter itself. No doubt the person will write again when they’ve not got any reply.

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