It was now the day before my work experience started. I was quite excited even though it was not my dream placement. I got together all the things I needed for the next day. I firstly got my clothes ready, and then got my Work Experience diary and left it on my table. The next day was not only the first day of work experience, but it was also the first day of a cricket test match between India and Pakistan. I had an early night and had set an alarm for 4:30. I ended up waking up at 5:00. I went into the room the TV was in and straight away turned the TV on and started watching cricket. Pakistan was batting first and I was quite pleased, as it was 23-1 of 13 overs. I did not watch it for too long, as I wanted to set a good impression on my first day. I then went back to sleep a while later.
I woke up in the morning at 8:30 and then got ready. I was ready at about 9:15 and I sat down for a while too watch the cricket. I was very astonished by the score. I was then in a bad mood because of the score. Pakistan had not lost a wicket since the time I first checked the score. The score was 202-1, and none of the batsmen had there centuries. The two batsmen batting were Salman Butt and Younis khan. They were both on about 80. It was then time to leave and when I left, I tried to look smart, as I wanted to give a good impression about my self. I arrived at the placement and the company definitely gave a bad impression to me about them. They were not there when I went. They then turned up fifteen minutes late and when they came on first impression, I did not really like them. The first thing I was told was that I had my own desk. I was then too myself, “This will not be too bad”. I was just sitting there for quite a while, as I had not been given any instructions. There was a computer and a phone on my desk. I was sitting there looking out of the window bored, until I went on the computer a while later. The first thing I did was to check the cricket score. It was then time for Lunch and after a boring start, I was relieved that I did not die of boredom in the morning. I had been given an hour lunch break. I went home to eat and just chilled out for a bit. The hour had passed very quickly and I then went back to work. It was a much better afternoon then a morning as I had actually been given some work. I was told to put files in price order, there were two files, one a file for houses of flats people wanted to buy and one people wanted to sell. I had not really completed that during that day, so I was told to do the rest the next day.
My two boring weeks nearly ended. It was the last day of work. I said to myself, “If I can survive this day, I can survive anything,” I had never thought my work experience would be so boring. During the two weeks, I had been chatting to some of my friends. All of my mates said it was great. I did not know what to say to them. Could I tell them that it is the most boring job. I ended up telling some of them that it was great and ended up telling some of my other mates the truth, that it was boring.
It was the last day of my work experience. I went to work and sat in my chair on my desk. As it was the last day, I was hoping to get a present, money, or a reward for some work I had done. I was waiting until the end of the day. It was now that I was excited, I wanted to know what I was going to get. I worked like normal until the end of the day. Like normal, it was another boring day. I just wanted it to end. I waited and waited to get something to do. Finally, I had some work to do. However, guess what, it was a boring job. I do not think I should have been told to do such a job. I was told to go home and get changed into clothes that I could get dirty in. I wend home, took my time and then slowly after eating a bit, I went back in other clothes. I went back to work and I was told to clear there board. The company board, which was quite big and heavy, they had taken it down, put it outside the shop, on the floor and they expected me to clean it. I was disgusted and really wanted to refuse to do the job, but I new if I did, then I would not get a good feedback from my placement manager to the school. I ended up cleaning it, but I did not clean it properly. There was this other guy, Viral, who I really disliked. He was also cleaning it. He was trying to teach me how to clean it. He was like, I needed to know how to do the job. He was not even a worker, so it did not really matter what I said to him. When he told me that I would need to know how to do the job, I replied “I will not end up like you, you don’t even have a job, and you’re helping here just because you wife works here, which tells me that you couldn’t even get a job cleaning the street”. He did not say anything back to me, most probably because he knew I was right.
Finally, it was the end of my work. I was happy that the two most boring weeks came to a close. I was hoping to get a little something for working there. I waited and waited till they gave me something. I sat back on my desk, wen on the computer and saved some stuff I had done on the computer on my USB stick. It was all done. All my work was transferred on my USB. I then started to play stick cricket on the computer. I played for a while. It was passed my work time. It was nearly six and my work was supposed to finish at five thirty. I would have gone home by now, but as they never told me to go yet I stayed. I only stayed because I wanted to get some money or a present for working there. The manager finally came. She came and said, you can go now. I was angry, I could not believe how stingy they were. I went home angrily and slammed the door, when I left. When I left, I said “I Hope your business suffers”, but I never said it to loud as I wasn’t sure If I wanted them to hear me saying it, because after all they would have the right it complaining to the school about me.
My tip for the next year’s people that are going to do work experience is to hurry up and sort out your work experience, other wise you will have to work somewhere boring, and you will end up having your most boring two weeks of your life. If you do not get your placement sorted, it will be a whole load of rubbish, just like how mine was, but make sure you know if the workers are safe.
