Still feeling smug and waving my old job in the construction industry good bye, I sign up with a whole load of temping agencies! To me, temping agency’s are like estate agents… a bunch of shitsters that help themselves to your hard earned cash without actually doing anything at all! Anyway moan over…they find me a 4 week contract in a government funded organisation. No interview needed, I turn up on a Monday morning and start as an administrative temp. My feeling of smug begins to disintegrate when I realise I am back in the construction industry. This does not bode well!
So after been told there is actually no desk to sit at I am stuck in what I would only call a prison cell. A glass box situated smack bang in the middle of an open plan office with one tiny desk and a lamp. Great, the whole world can see what I am doing. It is bad enough being in solitary, but having people snoop at your screen makes it a whole lot worse. (I guess no facebook for me!) So after been given a pile of mundane tasks to get on with (the ones that really take five minutes but you try make last a week) I begin to think that temping was not such a great idea. Underpaid and treated like the office dogs body I begin to count down the hours, minutes even seconds of the day. You know it’s bad when you start to schedule in tea and toilet breaks into your day. 9am start work (not a minute before and sometimes 10 minutes after), 9.30 tea break. 10am toilet break. 11am another toilet break, 11.30am. another tea break. You get the picture.
After taking what thought to be a lifetime to finish the first lot of crap they gave me, my luck takes a drastic turn for the worst. Two words…Cold Calling. By this point it’s either laugh or cry. I swore to myself this is one job I would never do. I am defiantly not a sales person. And I definitely don’t like ringing people up trying to flog them something that they clearly don’t want… and as it happens nor do they like receiving the calls. (Funny that!!) This is not a good combination! I am given a script and told to ring 500 schools; I manage to ring five in one day. Oh dear. I have however in this process discovered that I am a fantastic procrastinator and can make myself look really busy when I am actually doing sod all, a trick that has come in very useful!
The weekend can’t come soon enough…
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