Employment

[nivrip]

I' semi retired, which means I can work at times that suit me. Or not work at all if I choose.
It's great.

 

[murdoch]

Nice amount of jobs Mr Flopps & all good life experience.

Once got fired for felling a tree onto a house
But you should have seen the damage it caused & it was only a small Oak tree!!!
Now where's my chainsaw gone

PS: Did you win against the chef?

 

[floppybootstomp]

'Fight with the chef'

and 14 jobs in 4 years! Oct 69-74...very impressive

14 jobs eh? I'd never looked at it that way before

I'm semi retired, which means I can work at times that suit me. Or not work at all if I choose.
It's great.

Me too, to a degree, though if a valued customer asks for a job to be done yesterday, I jump, gotta keep 'em sweet And I actually like to work, start twitching if I'm sitting around for a few days or more.

Nice amount of jobs Mr Flopps & all good life experience.
Once got fired for felling a tree onto a house
But you should have seen the damage it caused & it was only a small Oak tree!!!
Now where's my chainsaw gone

PS: Did you win against the chef?

Aye, it's been a somewhat chequered career

And yes I did win that little squabble.

Here's how it happened. Once a week, one of us kitchen porters (kitchen porter = washer-up and cleaner) would have to clean the three stone steps leading up to the meat cold store.

This involved lots of hot water, bleach, cleaner and scraping off the accumulated greasy gunk with a knife. This usually took about 30 minutes. Breakfast was at 10am and at 9.55am the head chef asked me to clean the stairs.

'OK' I replied 'Straight away after breakfast'

He said 'No, now'

I remonstrated that if I started now I'd miss breakfast and repeated that I'd do them after breakfast.

He said 'You're not having a breakfast until you've cleaned the stairs'

Well, that went for about another five exchanges and after I realised he wasn't going to budge I slipped him a right hander.

He sort of went down on his back, slid across the floor and was out cold for a couple of minutes.

When he came to I threw me apron and scourer at him and told him I quit.

Went straight up the pub and got a job as a barman.

He was a Welshman named Peter. Really cheesed me off, cos I helped him move in, lugged his furniture and stuff, helped him with some decorating, and then he done that to me. I have no idea why.

He did have a big fat ugly nagging wife though, she was twice as big as him, maybe that's why

And no, I'm not into rucking but we all lose our temper. In fact I don't think I've lashed out in anger since '84.

 

[cirianz]

lol, John's daughter is a chef & has been fired 4 times so far for fights with the head chef....
Usually over hygiene, although a couple over generall obnoxiousness.
Maybe it's having a scouser father, but she won't take sh*t from anyone.
Never came to blows that i know it... but i wouldn't put it past her if she was het-up enough.
Plus she's been fired/quit a couple of times after fights with the boss too

....But, so far, head chef's have come & gone... & she's still there

 

[exosyphen]

I am Indie Game Developer, running my small studio Nice job