Telesales
After a few weeks of looking both me and Garth got a job at a telesales firm. There was two days of training, which could easily have been cut down in to an afternoon - but hey who was complaining, we were getting paid for it! Most of the training was pretty lame, and there was a lot of star jumps and neck massages and team building sorta stuff!
The days were however kept highly entertaining by a bloke called William....now William was a slightly slow 19 (I think) yr old Aussie and his brother (who left after one morning!). William wasn’t the brightest spark and during some role plays where we had to team up and pretend we were on the phone to our team mate he made just a few pretty obvious gaffes - the best being that the computer script on screen had everything you needed to say. Obviously we didn’t have log in names yet for the computer to input our name in to the script so it was defaulted to 'Training' - unfortunately William continued to start off every role play 'Hi my names training' and then continued the rest of the stuff continually saying 'im training'. At one point William had to call a Mr Andrew Smith, Martin the bloke paired up with him answered and said there was no Andrew Smith but he was now Andrea Smith and had had the op, poor old William didn’t know what to do (as were not allowed to talk to anyone except for the card holder) and got quite flustered and blurted out 'miss' to jenny our trainer (just like the old school days where peop would slip up and call the teacher mum = classic!)
Also during training there was an interesting older Aussie guy who thought he was pretty big game. Jenny the trainer had told us about not having mobiles on etc. and at one point Nick was at the opposite end of the table looking down at his hands....Jenny sorta had a go at him to put his mobile away and stop txting or whatever, at which point Nick got all defensive 'I don’t even have a mobile, I lost it the other day etcetc' and then he held up his hands and said 'look not a mobile, I was filing my nails' ......at which point everyone laughed and looked slightly concerned!!