“Hey, I see in my file that you have a truck drivers license. You wanna job as a truck driver?”
Yeah, sure, I accepted because I really needed a job there and then.
Well, turned out the job was maybe 10% driving, and the rest was spent manhandling large copymachines (Xerox, Konica Minolta, and all of the other brands) up several flights of stairs.
And then I placed it there for the “technician”* to set it up. After that it was usually an old machine that needed to go the opposite way.
I quit after one month upon realizing that there were plenty other jobs available to me that didn’t break my back, and for better pay.
*: I put “technician” in double quotes because what they did was essentially set up printers. I’ve since worked (and still work) in various flavors of IT, and we all joke that nobody understands printers… but yo be frank, if that is all you do, it’s not rocket surgery.
After leaving I worked at a tyre servicing workshop. Car come in, change tyres, car go out. Pretty lowbrow, but it was easy, chill, and my coworkers were fun. I started my actual career shortly after that in IT/offshore geophysics, but I still look back at the tyre job as something I genuinely enjoyed.
“Hey, I see in my file that you have a truck drivers license. You wanna job as a truck driver?”
Yeah, sure, I accepted because I really needed a job there and then.
Well, turned out the job was maybe 10% driving, and the rest was spent manhandling large copymachines (Xerox, Konica Minolta, and all of the other brands) up several flights of stairs.
And then I placed it there for the “technician”* to set it up. After that it was usually an old machine that needed to go the opposite way.
I quit after one month upon realizing that there were plenty other jobs available to me that didn’t break my back, and for better pay.
*: I put “technician” in double quotes because what they did was essentially set up printers. I’ve since worked (and still work) in various flavors of IT, and we all joke that nobody understands printers… but yo be frank, if that is all you do, it’s not rocket surgery.
After leaving I worked at a tyre servicing workshop. Car come in, change tyres, car go out. Pretty lowbrow, but it was easy, chill, and my coworkers were fun. I started my actual career shortly after that in IT/offshore geophysics, but I still look back at the tyre job as something I genuinely enjoyed.
Fucking printers, right? (And copiers too).
Some of the worst tech I’ve ever dealt with.
For some reason they haven’t gotten better in 30 years