@@moisty254 Just show the guy something simple to do and let him get on with it. There are so many odd jobs that new hires can get out of the way which nobody else wants to do. Cleaning, organising files, filing simple data, shopping, deliveries, whatever. If you don't know how to delegate tasks then that's not the new guys' fault, you just suck at your job.
@tsunax1400 yeah i stapled bits of paper together for work experience and found it pretty fun honestly, the guys who organised it were pretty nice and after I was done they let me play games on my phone. :)
As in he’s the only one who ironically doesn’t get work despite his whims, or the only reason he works there is because he doesn’t get told to work? Prolly both tbh
Same thing with me except I was told to pull random shit apart and put it back together. 1st day I got in trouble for pulling a laptop apart that they only wanted Microsoft word to be installed on. Sat in their office for the rest of the week drawing and plotting to steal one of the gtx 1080 ti’s they had on the wall
Same. Since I'd already built my own PC they put me to work building second hand PC's from garbage parts. Don't think I learnt anything I didn't already know though. My second work experience got me a job at Woolworths.
I did work experience in high school on a house building site. It rained on two of the five days. When that happened the builders got in their utes and left. Leaving me on the site alone for a few hours in the rain with nothing to do and nowhere to go. 😂
It always kind of amazes me that houses get rained on when they're half done for days and weeks and somehow it's magically not a problem. Of course it is a problem, just somehow after they paint it and put some carpets in, no one notices. Might explain why so many houses have warped floors, though. Or maybe they were just drunk.
In Year 10 my work experience was working at a motorcycle shop. So for two weeks I painted the ceiling then received a workplace report back to school saying I wasn’t suited for the industry. It still hurts 30 years later.
@ Well that’s the point. I wanted to work with bikes, but was made to paint the workshop. Was given no exposure to the industry but told I wasn’t suitable anyway. But hey, the bike shop didn’t have to hire a painter so win for them!
@@gcm747 Maybe if you'd finished the ceiling in a more reasonable time frame like I dunno, 2 days instead of 2 weeks you would have been given some more interesting tasks afterwards.
Im a chef i used to love unloading all the tedious prep jobs to the work experience kids and speak to them lile sensei "You must become one with the blade " "Today you must master the prawn shell flick"
My work experience was at the Opera House. After I'd done accounts and touring, I was asked to check in guests and guide them to their respective green rooms and get them anything they needed for the day. In two days I'd met and hung out with John Farnham, Billy Connolly, Hale & Pace, and a bunch of others. Was pretty rad
I got a warehouse job once where the daily tasks i was given took like an hour out of a 10 hour shift. And whenever i asked a supervisor what else to do they would get really annoyed and give me some 20 minute task. Eventually i found a section of the warehouse that was usually deserted for some reason and just spent hours a day wandering around by myself until i got let go
We had a work experience lad a few months ago, work was a bit quiet and everyone knew what they were on, so he got told to sweep the workshop. He grabbed an office chair and a broom, sat down and just pushed himself around on the office chair, with the broom, while still texting on his phone. It was a great laugh for the rest of us, nobody had experienced that before
I got a job at a warehouse. It was described as being entry level both by the recruiter who worked with me and the warehouse itself. To make a grueling story short, they thought I was coming in to work the next day so they had no trainer and were not prepared to sign papers or bring me in to the facility. It was not entry level. I was asked by a coworker if I had kids or a house that I would need this type of job for. This was also during Covid, and I had to go around writing down the names of all the people who I came into contact with. I got like two passes around the facility with someone who definitely didn't want to help me, and them explaining what I was supposed to do. They proceeded to tell me all the bad things that could happen should I make a small mistake. Was told by one of the managers that I essentially should reconsider my life choices for ending up at the job. I was raised in the south so saying "Yes Sir" "No Sir" etc. was ingrained in me, but was quickly told to stop saying it. And then was stuck cleaning warehouse carts for hours for a "commercial" they were going to be doing. I never went back.
Yeah I did that at woolies back in the day. They had me stacking shelves within about 10 minutes. It's easy work, but very boring. Did not get paid though I did get some gloves and a knife.
My work experience involved me getting shoved into the kitchen washing up the dishes. It was not as easy as it sounds, especially not the part where a frenchman kept yelling at me that I was cleaning things too thoroughly and wasting time...
You poor thing Im a chef that used to take work experience kids and I had a rule that they are there for prep and the dishy is still required to come in too many young fellas never learnt to love the job because of the dishy shifts
Spent the day at a machine shop back in highschool. They put me with an old guy. He was putting up with me until i told him my dad works for his old boss. We shared stories about how horrible that guy was. It was great.
I've never actually experienced a "work experience job" being a real thing, but from what I've heard they're almost forced to accept them (or there's incentives).
lol yeah its a thing we do in schools personally in my school we go do work experience somewhere for an entire week and just get a report about our behaviour, standard of work etc. I did mine in a library, it was actually really fun. But sadly we don't get paid for it
I went on work experience with a "tree surgeon", he had me cutting up logs in the woods. No mobile phone reception so he told me to walk to the top of a nearby hill if I hurt myself. No PPE either, I brought my own ear muffs.
Ugh i remember the torture of work experience. I’d do whatever job they gave me as slowwwwlllyyy as possible when in reality it would take no more than 2 minutes cuz then I’d be left with nothing to do again. Feeling like I’m just getting on their nerves anytime I ask them for something to do, and anytime I’d take initiative and do something that looks like it needs done I’d get in trouble like “what are you doing? I didn’t tell you to do that.” Each day would feel like a month.
That's literally exactly what I'm experiencing right now with my actual job, hence why I'm on UA-cam. Dunno what industry you did w.exp at but the IT industry is not something you get into if you cannot confidently teach yourself something because every. Single. Job I've had in the IT sector the training is absolutely dog shit
Most of the mandatory work experience companies only have to pay $5 for the week, unless they want to pay you more. I was lucky to get $7 an hour at my Dad's work. For 8 hours a day for a week in year 10. And we (me and another employees kid) got actual experience doing the actual job. Then I strolled away with experience and $280. Some companys are just solid gold. Very few of them around anymore though
@@juzzfuzz0 damn, we didn't get paid when I did it. Maybe it was a year or a state thing. Or maybe I did get paid and forgot. Or maybe it's because I didn't do anything
I was living in Brisbane when I was in year 11 in the early 2000s. For whatever reason, they got us to run a simulated business where we all took on roles, instead of the usual work experience thing. The theme was hotels. I was assigned the role of our team's Marketing Director. We won the competition ✌️ Don't recall what I learnt, but it was incredibly fun 😆😁
I did work experience at Subway. The manager didn't give me any real training except to point out the basic location of where things were. Then she had me manning the counter (taking orders, making sandwiches, taking payment) all by myself for the rest of the day while she sat out the back on her phone.
My Work experience was at my local police station. 2 Weeks fully planned out with alot of different stuff to do, paid meals every day and very very friendly staff. 10 Years later and me and my best friend still talk about it sometimes haha. We still greet the officers that we went on patrol with, if we see them.
i might have been the only kid in my year who had a good experience and that was because i asked a science company during a work fair for some 'cause the college i was at was sending STEM students to the red cross charity shop 😭 i was honestly in their way a bit cause i'm sure they were busy but they still actually taught me things and let me experience what they did so i was very grateful
My work experience was at the good guys. They had a full on racing sim set up that i played for the whole week. The only work related thing i did was update all the laptops.
My work experience involved a week on a golf driving range. The second day the guy I was working under got upset that collecting all of the golf balls that went out of range, i.e behind the billboards where the range peters out, only took me a half hour as opposed to the entire morning the first day. Thank you for the memory.
Remember doing retail for 2 months and this was the exact experience i had, i basically got sick of talking to normal employees who kept going to the manager who was in charge of me because they "didnt know about me doing work experience", it eventually got to a point where i would walk in, nod to the manager who was in charge of me, and just go to the backrooms destroying cardboard packing boxes and listening to music, i barely saw anyone and it was fun but stressful because i felt like i was supposed to be doing something else (despite basically being told, yeah just do whatever), on the last day, ironically of my official work experience, the boss of my manager came up to me and goes "yeah we don't need you anymore", like bro no shit, i got told fuck all about my responsibilities the entire time i was there, im only glad my manager signed off on the piece of paper calling me a good worker 😂
Did work experience at a veterinary clinic. Basically folded pamphlets all day and watched some operations. Only then to be paid $25 at the end of the week and immediately spent that on a meal
You're luckier than me, because when I'd I did work experience at a hair salon, I was not only paid ZERO DOLLARS after giving clients expensive hair services, but they took all of the tips that clients left for me at the desk!
@@evanmoss6895 If I did that, they'd have had a problem and ended my placement 😕 I needed the credits, so I shut my mouth about it because I was too close to graduation to mess anything up.
I did mine at a Harley dealership. I dropped a Sportster I finished polishing while attempting to move it. Then I almost blew myself up trimming hedges out front when I cut through the power cord of the hedge trimmer. Ultimately it ended with me crushing boxes and throwing them in a dumpster but they felt bad for me so they had me back polishing bikes but someone had to move each one when I was done.
One of my work experiences was with the estates department of my local hospital. Was weird af, in the morning I’d be looking around the inner workings of the hospital and the generators etc, and in the afternoon I’d be building a shelf in a sick ward…
@@samwalter3646for certain courses school requires a set amount of work experience hours preferably at something related to your course but if nothing is available anything works as a substitute
every time ive done work experience ive honestly had a decent time. grunt work is grunt work but if youre actually engaged they seem to always be happy to have you.
When I did work experience after high school I sat in reception waiting for them to acknowledge I was there at reception and I legitimately waited 30 minutes for them to acknowledge I was there for work experience. It was my 3rd week by then. The same place had a lady asked me if I knew how to use a tape dispenser… It got to a point where they just had me doing tasks that they didn’t want to do. I had to photocopy an already existing folder of documents because it “gave me something to do”
My work experience was supposed to be at a power company but there was a major storm and the entire town lost power, got a last minute call saying they were too busy for me to come in and so just had a week holidays instead lol...
This is way to true. I worked at CSIRO, the big science place. They made me count cells in a microscope to collect an average for the sample. ( As an adult, it all makes sense now. )
When work experience came up for me in yr10, it was a pretty bad time in life for my family. I didn't want i bother them to get me to and from some shitty work site every day, so in classic me, I ignored it hoping to just not have to do it. Anyway, after the careers council flipped their shit at me, they chucked me in a local nursery growing and breeding Warratah. It was great. Got paid $50 for my week (2 years later I was earning $5/hr) and got offered a job. Worked there and at a few other nurseries for a number of years and loved it. Wish I stayed in the industry.
I got a reference from my Work Experience Employer. He didn't sign it, then left immediately after I did. I have no idea where he went, and I got paid $5 a day. The whole thing was a waste of time.
I did my work experience at my school lol, I helped in the admin office and my position was called the “school host”. I later realised that this was the schools way of not having to pay for an admin assistant. Had fun though!
You forgot to include the part where you're actually already skilled in that area of work, do easily 3x the amount of work as everyone else, and then get told you're useless.
For me it was organizing physical files in alphabetical order at a small company creating racing / emergency vehicle driving simulation and training systems, interactive games for amusement parks, creating actual rides for amusement parks, and more. In hind-sight I’m thinking they could’ve probably made me like test out their pneumatic toys for the week but nope, sorting files it was.
I went to the doctor once, and a kid with a caddy full of cleaning supplies saw me waiting by the reception. He put his caddy down and sat behind the computer and asked me if he could help me. I said, "I have an appointment. To my horror, he asked for my date of birth Then proceeds to quote from my medical record Your privacy was public long before Internet.
My work experience was the polar opposite. It was at this place that sold old action figures and toys and the most hard work I did was bagging and boarding comics. And that was for like three days straight.
Think internship but for high school students. Basically they spend a week or so at a workplace getting a taster of that industry. Quality of learning is mixed to say the least, but kids like it because they get out of school for a bit.
@@randomchick1234 Coming from an American that hasn't done it, here's what I would guess: It's the type of thing that's great in theory but not in practice because I'd imagine many of the businesses do not have a week prepared for anyone being brought in. Some branches of chain locations likely have it forced upon them from overhead. I'm not sure if there is some sort of benefit for the company offering work experience, but if there is I would guess all they care about is getting someone to do it so they get whatever said benefit is.
@@parkercrossland410 The benefits probably aren’t worth it if they aren’t making use of the students tbh. There’s also definitely good experiences many students have, even if others are just treated like burdens and denied better experiences. I guess in some ways it’s still an insight into what some workplaces can be like.
I did work experience at a computer store and they didn't know what to do with me so they got me to burn CDs of installation discs (it didn't occur to me at the time that this was probably dodgy as it suggests they were selling pirated software). I challenged myself to see how long I could take to unwrap the plastic from each CD-R case, to make the task take as long as possible. I think I got up to 12 minutes.
honestly this is why i've never willingly done work experience. i hate people getting in my way with their incompetence so i don't want to do it to others
I only had one work experience get assigned to me when I used to work in warehousing. Guy was 16 and picked like he was on the goey, gurning out over the ESL machine. Easiest week ever haha.
I had work experience in yr 11 at Western Sydney Uni, one of their small reception. We literally did nothing all day and she said for me to just walk around campus and do whatever...... She even said just stay home..... When the report came to my teacher, I got perfect mark lol
My work experience was on a horse farm. I got there at 7am and worked until 10.30am. I got dropped off at home (14 and I obviously couldn’t drive yet) and the lady was going to pick me up at midday to go back for a few hours. I never got picked up. I worked 3 and a half hours while everyone else was at different places working 9-5 and hating it
I went to a private school that made us do volunteer work but they didn't actually provide any support on finding something and it was such a mess. I volunteered at an MPs office although it was on a day parliament was sitting so there was not much to do.
I once did work experience at Woolworths. I had to work in different departments throughout the week. When I worked in the deli section I would have to wrap up the cold meat for some customers, but I was terrible at it. One lady kinda scowled at how I wrapped her devon.
I have had a slightly similar experience, however I got to sort 60,000 paper bills in the right order. It was completely useless for their current business situation and they didn't even check up on if I completed the work, they just "perhaps" wanted it done if some customer asked for an ancient bill. I however got to roam around in an *ENORMOUS* warehouse and pretty much did some "urban exploring" in shut off sections of the office buildings during my breaks (it wasn't urban exploring, but in my teens, it felt like it lol)
Did work experience as an art teacher, the art teacher for the first 2 days just kept giving me art projects to complete in the corner, and then was shocked when i mentioned wanting to teach, got to teach after that lol
Do the wise thing, do your mandatory school work experience at a kindergarten. Nothing but playing with kids the whole day and, once you get home, some of the best sleep you‘ll ever have.
the only dude who WANTS to work there is getting told to do nothing
Yeah but there for a day, totally useless, and has to be shown everything with his hand held 😅
@@moisty254"nobody wants to work anymore"
@@moisty254 Just show the guy something simple to do and let him get on with it. There are so many odd jobs that new hires can get out of the way which nobody else wants to do. Cleaning, organising files, filing simple data, shopping, deliveries, whatever. If you don't know how to delegate tasks then that's not the new guys' fault, you just suck at your job.
@tsunax1400 yeah i stapled bits of paper together for work experience and found it pretty fun honestly, the guys who organised it were pretty nice and after I was done they let me play games on my phone. :)
As in he’s the only one who ironically doesn’t get work despite his whims, or the only reason he works there is because he doesn’t get told to work?
Prolly both tbh
My work experience was in a computer repair shop. I spent the whole week playing Battlefield 3 on the boss's gaming rig. I got an A.
y'all got graded on your work experience? We just came back to school and the teachers never asked or mentioned a thing
Same thing with me except I was told to pull random shit apart and put it back together. 1st day I got in trouble for pulling a laptop apart that they only wanted Microsoft word to be installed on. Sat in their office for the rest of the week drawing and plotting to steal one of the gtx 1080 ti’s they had on the wall
Same. Since I'd already built my own PC they put me to work building second hand PC's from garbage parts. Don't think I learnt anything I didn't already know though. My second work experience got me a job at Woolworths.
Nice
Yeah I did mine at IBM & spent the whole time playing Dead or Alive lol
“Okay Daniel listen to me.”
“My names not Daniel.” LMAO
😂
Yeah I can never remember their names.
I did work experience in high school on a house building site. It rained on two of the five days.
When that happened the builders got in their utes and left. Leaving me on the site alone for a few hours in the rain with nothing to do and nowhere to go. 😂
It always kind of amazes me that houses get rained on when they're half done for days and weeks and somehow it's magically not a problem.
Of course it is a problem, just somehow after they paint it and put some carpets in, no one notices. Might explain why so many houses have warped floors, though. Or maybe they were just drunk.
@@aluisious To be fair I don't think every builder will have tarps that will cover the entire building any time it rains. What CAN they do?
Ouch sorry to hear that like youd think they'd have at least say go home or something
@@Krenisphia have tarps that will cover the entire building any time it rains
@@Luciferhelidon You have clearly never worked on a building site.
In Year 10 my work experience was working at a motorcycle shop. So for two weeks I painted the ceiling then received a workplace report back to school saying I wasn’t suited for the industry. It still hurts 30 years later.
you either did a really goodjob and they thought you wanted to be a painter or a REALLY bad job
@@funky555 Bro spent 2 weeks painting a ceiling, either it was a *really* big shop or he was slow as shit..
Who tf wants to paint ceilings? "Industry" my ass. Literally no one is applying to be a painter 😂
@ Well that’s the point. I wanted to work with bikes, but was made to paint the workshop. Was given no exposure to the industry but told I wasn’t suitable anyway. But hey, the bike shop didn’t have to hire a painter so win for them!
@@gcm747 Maybe if you'd finished the ceiling in a more reasonable time frame like I dunno, 2 days instead of 2 weeks you would have been given some more interesting tasks afterwards.
Im a chef i used to love unloading all the tedious prep jobs to the work experience kids and speak to them lile sensei
"You must become one with the blade "
"Today you must master the prawn shell flick"
That's what it's for!
the kids must've loved that lol
Sounds like you offered useful and engaging work experience actually.
as a teacher, “your presence is a problem I have to solve,” is a perfect encapsulation of certain students
For placement I was praying for them to say the magic words "yeh its not that busy you can go home early if you like"
That happened to me twice, once i got the extra hours logged, the second time my supervisor made me log the hours i actually did. Still pissed 😅
My work experience was at the Opera House. After I'd done accounts and touring, I was asked to check in guests and guide them to their respective green rooms and get them anything they needed for the day. In two days I'd met and hung out with John Farnham, Billy Connolly, Hale & Pace, and a bunch of others. Was pretty rad
this is basically the plot of suits
Based
or the exact opposite since the boss wanted the one guy who had no experience and basically made him do everything?
Mike was never given on job training😂@@daviiidgordon
I got a warehouse job once where the daily tasks i was given took like an hour out of a 10 hour shift. And whenever i asked a supervisor what else to do they would get really annoyed and give me some 20 minute task. Eventually i found a section of the warehouse that was usually deserted for some reason and just spent hours a day wandering around by myself until i got let go
We had a work experience lad a few months ago, work was a bit quiet and everyone knew what they were on, so he got told to sweep the workshop. He grabbed an office chair and a broom, sat down and just pushed himself around on the office chair, with the broom, while still texting on his phone. It was a great laugh for the rest of us, nobody had experienced that before
I got a job at a warehouse. It was described as being entry level both by the recruiter who worked with me and the warehouse itself. To make a grueling story short, they thought I was coming in to work the next day so they had no trainer and were not prepared to sign papers or bring me in to the facility. It was not entry level. I was asked by a coworker if I had kids or a house that I would need this type of job for. This was also during Covid, and I had to go around writing down the names of all the people who I came into contact with. I got like two passes around the facility with someone who definitely didn't want to help me, and them explaining what I was supposed to do. They proceeded to tell me all the bad things that could happen should I make a small mistake. Was told by one of the managers that I essentially should reconsider my life choices for ending up at the job. I was raised in the south so saying "Yes Sir" "No Sir" etc. was ingrained in me, but was quickly told to stop saying it. And then was stuck cleaning warehouse carts for hours for a "commercial" they were going to be doing. I never went back.
Sounds like they did that to make sure they would drive you out of there. Definitely didn't want you around, it seems.
It's a warehouse if you can't take banter get out lol
Now tell is which warehouse it was. This is an Australian channel so it's okaym
accountant Jaxon should thank the boss for the invaluable counting experience he's getting early on
We had work experience kids at Bunnings recently. It's great for an under-rostered retail store with a lot of grunt work.
Yeah I did that at woolies back in the day. They had me stacking shelves within about 10 minutes. It's easy work, but very boring. Did not get paid though I did get some gloves and a knife.
@@calculuscondensed812 Gloves and a knife? Like you were paid in csgo skins? lol
My work experience involved me getting shoved into the kitchen washing up the dishes. It was not as easy as it sounds, especially not the part where a frenchman kept yelling at me that I was cleaning things too thoroughly and wasting time...
You poor thing Im a chef that used to take work experience kids and I had a rule that they are there for prep and the dishy is still required to come in too many young fellas never learnt to love the job because of the dishy shifts
Cleaning too thoroughly? I'd hate to dine at a place where it's "bad" to properly wash your dishes
Spent the day at a machine shop back in highschool. They put me with an old guy. He was putting up with me until i told him my dad works for his old boss. We shared stories about how horrible that guy was. It was great.
That sounds like a good ending.
All the problems of having to train a new hire, with none of the expectation that he'll be useful one day. Truly a lose-lose. 😆
Woah, a work experience job where they actually want you even though you don't have any work experience? That must be a first.
I've never actually experienced a "work experience job" being a real thing, but from what I've heard they're almost forced to accept them (or there's incentives).
lol yeah its a thing we do in schools
personally in my school we go do work experience somewhere for an entire week and just get a report about our behaviour, standard of work etc. I did mine in a library, it was actually really fun. But sadly we don't get paid for it
I went on work experience with a "tree surgeon", he had me cutting up logs in the woods. No mobile phone reception so he told me to walk to the top of a nearby hill if I hurt myself. No PPE either, I brought my own ear muffs.
Did mine at a sound production studio, I literly spent the whole time with the new guy jamming out to doom music.
Ugh i remember the torture of work experience. I’d do whatever job they gave me as slowwwwlllyyy as possible when in reality it would take no more than 2 minutes cuz then I’d be left with nothing to do again. Feeling like I’m just getting on their nerves anytime I ask them for something to do, and anytime I’d take initiative and do something that looks like it needs done I’d get in trouble like “what are you doing? I didn’t tell you to do that.”
Each day would feel like a month.
That's literally exactly what I'm experiencing right now with my actual job, hence why I'm on UA-cam. Dunno what industry you did w.exp at but the IT industry is not something you get into if you cannot confidently teach yourself something because every. Single. Job I've had in the IT sector the training is absolutely dog shit
'Your presence is a problem I have to solve' - that's gold!!! Can't say it out loud to the work experience kid in my workplace.
Most of the mandatory work experience companies only have to pay $5 for the week, unless they want to pay you more. I was lucky to get $7 an hour at my Dad's work. For 8 hours a day for a week in year 10. And we (me and another employees kid) got actual experience doing the actual job. Then I strolled away with experience and $280. Some companys are just solid gold. Very few of them around anymore though
You get paid for work experience?
You got paid?!!?!!
@@Skibbi198 It was 2010, in Australia
@@Jayden-n5y straya, they can pay you $5 for the whole week but Inner Range actually wanted to pay us
@@juzzfuzz0 damn, we didn't get paid when I did it. Maybe it was a year or a state thing. Or maybe I did get paid and forgot. Or maybe it's because I didn't do anything
You guys have had me absolutely dying with these bangers you've been pumpin out.
I was living in Brisbane when I was in year 11 in the early 2000s. For whatever reason, they got us to run a simulated business where we all took on roles, instead of the usual work experience thing.
The theme was hotels. I was assigned the role of our team's Marketing Director. We won the competition ✌️
Don't recall what I learnt, but it was incredibly fun 😆😁
i did this as well! but like 20 years later
same theme as well
I have lived both sides of this
Welcome to the wonderful world of work!
Now don’t bother me for the next 45 years.
Productive day at "Count It!" the store that counts really high for you at half the cost of other high counting stores.
I did a cafe in High School and all I did was wash dishes.
The illegal immigrant experience.
Yeah, you need more experience 😅
I did work experience at Subway. The manager didn't give me any real training except to point out the basic location of where things were. Then she had me manning the counter (taking orders, making sandwiches, taking payment) all by myself for the rest of the day while she sat out the back on her phone.
It’s been a year since i saw you lads on my feed. It’s nice seeing you again after all this time, glad to see some things don’t change
My Work experience was at my local police station. 2 Weeks fully planned out with alot of different stuff to do, paid meals every day and very very friendly staff.
10 Years later and me and my best friend still talk about it sometimes haha.
We still greet the officers that we went on patrol with, if we see them.
I worked for a printing company and got bored of admin so I got moved to production, was a right blast 😂
i might have been the only kid in my year who had a good experience and that was because i asked a science company during a work fair for some 'cause the college i was at was sending STEM students to the red cross charity shop 😭 i was honestly in their way a bit cause i'm sure they were busy but they still actually taught me things and let me experience what they did so i was very grateful
My work experience was at the good guys. They had a full on racing sim set up that i played for the whole week. The only work related thing i did was update all the laptops.
0:01 bro sounds like he's about to start the auction off at $10
My work experience involved a week on a golf driving range. The second day the guy I was working under got upset that collecting all of the golf balls that went out of range, i.e behind the billboards where the range peters out, only took me a half hour as opposed to the entire morning the first day. Thank you for the memory.
Remember doing retail for 2 months and this was the exact experience i had, i basically got sick of talking to normal employees who kept going to the manager who was in charge of me because they "didnt know about me doing work experience", it eventually got to a point where i would walk in, nod to the manager who was in charge of me, and just go to the backrooms destroying cardboard packing boxes and listening to music, i barely saw anyone and it was fun but stressful because i felt like i was supposed to be doing something else (despite basically being told, yeah just do whatever), on the last day, ironically of my official work experience, the boss of my manager came up to me and goes "yeah we don't need you anymore", like bro no shit, i got told fuck all about my responsibilities the entire time i was there, im only glad my manager signed off on the piece of paper calling me a good worker 😂
my work experience forgot, then cancelled on me when i got there, i got a week off school instead, this rang very true for me.
I've had jobs where "see how high you can count by the end of the day" would have been the most useful thing I'd done that week.
A shame the people with your flag generally can't really count that high 😂
Israel
Pally flag
Having a job
Pick one
Sorry for the weird replies you received. It reflects more poorly on them when they talk to people that way.
Jaxon has really had a full upgrade, good for you man👌🏻
Did work experience at a veterinary clinic. Basically folded pamphlets all day and watched some operations. Only then to be paid $25 at the end of the week and immediately spent that on a meal
You're luckier than me, because when I'd I did work experience at a hair salon, I was not only paid ZERO DOLLARS after giving clients expensive hair services, but they took all of the tips that clients left for me at the desk!
Then you go to the desk, take the money and run
@@evanmoss6895 If I did that, they'd have had a problem and ended my placement 😕 I needed the credits, so I shut my mouth about it because I was too close to graduation to mess anything up.
“Where do you want me to be through that though” 😂😂😂
I almost lost a finger at a robotics factory, because they actually let me work on something. After that they just sat me down to count screws.
I did mine at a Harley dealership.
I dropped a Sportster I finished polishing while attempting to move it.
Then I almost blew myself up trimming hedges out front when I cut through the power cord of the hedge trimmer.
Ultimately it ended with me crushing boxes and throwing them in a dumpster but they felt bad for me so they had me back polishing bikes but someone had to move each one when I was done.
One of my work experiences was with the estates department of my local hospital. Was weird af, in the morning I’d be looking around the inner workings of the hospital and the generators etc, and in the afternoon I’d be building a shelf in a sick ward…
my "work experience" made me read a manual for hours. I could have done that at home
Feeling it for both sides on this video. Reality is hard.
At McDonalds the manager just told me to walk around and watch other people 😂
Bro there is no way you did work experience at Macdonals 💀💀 just get a job there if you really want to know what it’s like.
@@samwalter3646for certain courses school requires a set amount of work experience hours preferably at something related to your course but if nothing is available anything works as a substitute
@@samwalter3646 Yt channel is from 2023 so checks out
Looking good Jaxon. Enjoying the podcast boys.
every time ive done work experience ive honestly had a decent time. grunt work is grunt work but if youre actually engaged they seem to always be happy to have you.
When I did work experiance at Harvey Norman they had me out walking the floor selling stuff on my second day.
0:59 - “That’s a hurtful thing to say to someone at my impressionable age”.
At least he’s _very_ socially aware at that age 😂
Go get us lunch, from 3 hours away.
At building sites they get sent for long stands, skirting ladders the list goes on 😂
I do work experience at a doggy daycare and all I do is sit on a sofa and play games on my phone while shouting at dogs
When I did work experience after high school I sat in reception waiting for them to acknowledge I was there at reception and I legitimately waited 30 minutes for them to acknowledge I was there for work experience. It was my 3rd week by then. The same place had a lady asked me if I knew how to use a tape dispenser…
It got to a point where they just had me doing tasks that they didn’t want to do. I had to photocopy an already existing folder of documents because it “gave me something to do”
How it feels working with a journeymen electrician as an apprentice
My work experience was supposed to be at a power company but there was a major storm and the entire town lost power, got a last minute call saying they were too busy for me to come in and so just had a week holidays instead lol...
This is way to true. I worked at CSIRO, the big science place. They made me count cells in a microscope to collect an average for the sample. ( As an adult, it all makes sense now. )
When work experience came up for me in yr10, it was a pretty bad time in life for my family. I didn't want i bother them to get me to and from some shitty work site every day, so in classic me, I ignored it hoping to just not have to do it.
Anyway, after the careers council flipped their shit at me, they chucked me in a local nursery growing and breeding Warratah. It was great. Got paid $50 for my week (2 years later I was earning $5/hr) and got offered a job.
Worked there and at a few other nurseries for a number of years and loved it. Wish I stayed in the industry.
I got a reference from my Work Experience Employer. He didn't sign it, then left immediately after I did. I have no idea where he went, and I got paid $5 a day. The whole thing was a waste of time.
Forgetting most of our grandparents and everyone who came before them started real work at 14.
literally how I feel with every work experience kid I've had to deal with
So much easier in America. You gain work experience by getting a job. But you need work experience to get the job in the first place. So easy.
We’re not so different in that regard.
Fire watch in a nutshell.
I did my work experience at my school lol, I helped in the admin office and my position was called the “school host”. I later realised that this was the schools way of not having to pay for an admin assistant. Had fun though!
Yep thats pretty accurate
You’re an inspiration! I love your work.
They were inspirational to me back in the day... :)
@@IsaacWale2004 They weren't even born Back In The Day
@@InvisiblerApple You don't know what I meant by "back in the day" 😅
As a friend once said, the wheely bins get more respect than guys on work experience.
You forgot to include the part where you're actually already skilled in that area of work, do easily 3x the amount of work as everyone else, and then get told you're useless.
Just make em pull weeds around the property in the scorching hot sun all day
On my work experience I got sent to buy Christmas presents for the boss’s kids 😅
For me it was organizing physical files in alphabetical order at a small company creating racing / emergency vehicle driving simulation and training systems, interactive games for amusement parks, creating actual rides for amusement parks, and more. In hind-sight I’m thinking they could’ve probably made me like test out their pneumatic toys for the week but nope, sorting files it was.
Okay but that’s a useful job at least. Organised files makes life significantly easier
be like the Milford Academy from Arrested Development~ "Be neither seen nor heard"..... lol.
I went to the doctor once, and a kid with a caddy full of cleaning supplies saw me waiting by the reception. He put his caddy down and sat behind the computer and asked me if he could help me.
I said, "I have an appointment.
To my horror, he asked for my date of birth
Then proceeds to quote from my medical record
Your privacy was public long before Internet.
NO WAY LMAOOO
😂
My work experience was the polar opposite. It was at this place that sold old action figures and toys and the most hard work I did was bagging and boarding comics. And that was for like three days straight.
"work experience" must be an Australian thing, have never heard of it before
Think internship but for high school students. Basically they spend a week or so at a workplace getting a taster of that industry. Quality of learning is mixed to say the least, but kids like it because they get out of school for a bit.
Not just Australian, we have it in the UK
@@randomchick1234 Coming from an American that hasn't done it, here's what I would guess:
It's the type of thing that's great in theory but not in practice because I'd imagine many of the businesses do not have a week prepared for anyone being brought in. Some branches of chain locations likely have it forced upon them from overhead. I'm not sure if there is some sort of benefit for the company offering work experience, but if there is I would guess all they care about is getting someone to do it so they get whatever said benefit is.
@@parkercrossland410 The benefits probably aren’t worth it if they aren’t making use of the students tbh. There’s also definitely good experiences many students have, even if others are just treated like burdens and denied better experiences. I guess in some ways it’s still an insight into what some workplaces can be like.
I did work experience at a computer store and they didn't know what to do with me so they got me to burn CDs of installation discs (it didn't occur to me at the time that this was probably dodgy as it suggests they were selling pirated software). I challenged myself to see how long I could take to unwrap the plastic from each CD-R case, to make the task take as long as possible. I think I got up to 12 minutes.
Burn at 1x speed, technically it's a higher quality recording depending on the disc media and disc drive used.
I did work experience at the local council. I actually understand why they don't get anything done!
honestly this is why i've never willingly done work experience. i hate people getting in my way with their incompetence so i don't want to do it to others
I only had one work experience get assigned to me when I used to work in warehousing. Guy was 16 and picked like he was on the goey, gurning out over the ESL machine. Easiest week ever haha.
I had work experience in yr 11 at Western Sydney Uni, one of their small reception. We literally did nothing all day and she said for me to just walk around campus and do whatever...... She even said just stay home..... When the report came to my teacher, I got perfect mark lol
My work experience was on a horse farm. I got there at 7am and worked until 10.30am. I got dropped off at home (14 and I obviously couldn’t drive yet) and the lady was going to pick me up at midday to go back for a few hours. I never got picked up. I worked 3 and a half hours while everyone else was at different places working 9-5 and hating it
This is just true there is no joke just cold hard reality and we all know it.
I went to a private school that made us do volunteer work but they didn't actually provide any support on finding something and it was such a mess. I volunteered at an MPs office although it was on a day parliament was sitting so there was not much to do.
I once did work experience at Woolworths. I had to work in different departments throughout the week. When I worked in the deli section I would have to wrap up the cold meat for some customers, but I was terrible at it. One lady kinda scowled at how I wrapped her devon.
This was me for the whole of 2024😂
I have had a slightly similar experience, however I got to sort 60,000 paper bills in the right order. It was completely useless for their current business situation and they didn't even check up on if I completed the work, they just "perhaps" wanted it done if some customer asked for an ancient bill. I however got to roam around in an *ENORMOUS* warehouse and pretty much did some "urban exploring" in shut off sections of the office buildings during my breaks (it wasn't urban exploring, but in my teens, it felt like it lol)
I've been in the supervisor's position too many times.
I did work experience with the fire fighters. When there isn't a fire there is very little to do. I mopped the floor and watched 9 and a half weeks.
Did work experience as an art teacher, the art teacher for the first 2 days just kept giving me art projects to complete in the corner, and then was shocked when i mentioned wanting to teach, got to teach after that lol
Lach in
on the last day of my work experience at coles we could not find our supervisor anywhere so me and the girl i was doing it with just left
Yeah. This seems pretty accurate
Do the wise thing, do your mandatory school work experience at a kindergarten. Nothing but playing with kids the whole day and, once you get home, some of the best sleep you‘ll ever have.
Fraser-Mcgurk did well as the role as Jaxon Fairbairn in the role as the work experience guy
When your last name is the same as the company's name
not only high school... this was also exactly like my uni prac...