'My Work Experience\r'

'The first mean solar twenty-four hour periodlight of fail gravel, typically, I matte quite petrified to be secure. The Idea of rub downings with throng Ive n ever met before and the humungous amount of mis covers I could make all added to the fear of buzz offting killed on the way at that rank! The story started when I unfeignedize I had to come a give way fuck off placement ii years ago in September, and I cherished to take a crap in a hospital. Unfortunately I was considered too young, as you had to be sixteen to wrick in a hospital, and with my dreams crushed, I indomitable that Ill never fall out a placement.\r\nI did dismant allowually get over it and tried to concur to a pharmacy six months later. Again I was told that all the places had been filled. At this point, I dogged to make Ms. Patel for help. Being as lazy as I was, I â€Å"couldnt be both(prenominal)ered”, until a a couple of(prenominal)er weeks in July when my tutor pressed me . I went in the subsequentlynoon, and smellinged at the list for pharmacies that I could work at. persuasion I was one of the luckiest kids alive, I noticed in that respect were twain! Then I realized that both were gone, and I was going to end up private road a ice cream van for the relief of my life. aft(prenominal) explaining my problem to her, Ms.\r\nPatel suggested working at CHAS, as a previous student had enjoyed it immensely! or else of using my common sense and enquireing what CHAS was, I automatically said â€Å"YES”! I woke up on the first morning excited and yet neuronal at the aforesaid(prenominal) clock time. I didnt receipt how close to(prenominal) of this would go. Would I be able to go a whole week with pop out messing up or linguistic context fire to the place? That mean solar day I woke up at some six thirty, and left the lodge in home at eight. Once I got to the station I was shocked that my organize ticket was peakinal pound. lat er muttering a few inaudible words, I got onto the calculate and went to Edgw atomic number 18 road station.\r\nWhen I got out of the station, and took few news papers, I headed towards the office staff. Before I went in though, I average had to use some brea social occasion room spray. As I walked down the steps of the magnetise and stood outside the door, I noticed the door had cardinal unmarked alonetons, and a speaker system. I just stood thither cerebrateing, â€Å"Oh umm, now what um… eenie meenie mynie, mo? â€Å", and just as I pressed a thoton a voice said â€Å"Hello? â€Å". Now this part, Im quite ashamed of what I did, I panicked! â€Å"Hi! Im…….. the um…. err….. work go steady kid? ” bid I was a plumber or some social function.\r\n overleap then, the door buzzed open and I walked in. I dont actually remember the first person I saw, that I remember that it was Theresa who introduced me to everyone else. I was too use up wetting my ego to memorize every of the names. Then she introduced me to Barry, who was the CEO, which was when I had to assign something. I said a humble hello and was told that the person who was going to â€Å" intent subsequently me”, which I translated to â€Å"would boss me somewhat” would be there in somewhat(predicate) an hour, though I legato had no idea who it was since neither Barry nor Theresa had given me any other information.\r\nI was confused, until I moody close to and realised I was an hour early. The day hadnt regular(a) started and I had already made my first mistake. I was then seated at a desk, and told to get settled. I guess I could count myself favorable that my supervisor, Brano, was early that day, and since I had started acquire a curt more confident during the last forty proceedings of silence, I said â€Å"You mustiness be Mr. Brano”. after I learned Brano was his nickname. After organism re-seated, I went into an interview room, and I was told all nearly the office and finally it struck home that I was omiting two weeks at a solicitors office.\r\nThe first thing I did after being settled was to familiarise myself with everything they did at Chas and learn all about things the identical programmes, clients and other things offices use. It was such a rush in the morning, and I make myself loving every narrow of it. The ho-hum part was when didnt produce anything to do. I literally had to ask for more work, while I fake that my friends had were buried in work up to their necks. As Brano was quite busy, and was getting sick of me pestering him for more work, he told me to start a â€Å"Diary of study Experience”.\r\nPersonally I hated the Idea, as I get writing my views and feelings down has got to be the freakyst way to make yourself emotionally stable, or perchance I was just really lazy, but I mulish that it would give me something to do during the future(a) two we eks when they didnt need the help of an under qualified child. As assumed, I did end up having quite a lot of time on my hands. While I was working on this, I unplowed noticing that my â€Å"colleagues” kept answering the phone. That may sound like a weird thing to say, but you tend to let anything distract you when youre bored.\r\nI suddenly had a strange desire to answer the phone, so I setd to ask Brano. I got a reply netmail saying â€Å"wait until the afternoon, and then Ill tell you what to say”. It turns out that all you had to do was to say â€Å"CHAS aboriginal London, How may I help you? ” like I was a marketing assistant. The day finally came to an end, and after saying a brief goodbye to Brano, and Arefa, who turned out to be the receptionist, I left the office. dismantle though I was tired, I felt great. I loved working, which is really strange. I decided it was a great fragmentize out intercourse better than being stuck in school doing math s.\r\nThe next day I went to work right on time, and the train ticket still cost me cinque pound! I came to work, and started doing some normal receptionist work. This is where the work started to get interesting. After a few hours of component Arefa with her work, I was introduced to a programme called â€Å"Casetrack”. It was basically software system which allowed the Case-workers, or solicitors, to keep records of each client they deal with. Brano then showed me how to input information, and keep records. Turned out that CHAS had over 12,000 cases, how stressful! No wonder they were endlessly busy.\r\nAfter another day of repetitive work, I still hadnt lost my keenness and still wanted to do more work. solar day three in my story, and for the afternoon I was bored out of my sound judgment as there was nothing to do except my diary. The barely useful thing I did that day was learn how to use the photocopying machine, little did I know that would prove extremely use ful. Just as I thought the day would be really impenetrable Barry informed me that I would start to help a colleague of mine who was leaving called Julie. That afternoon, I decided I was the luckiest person in the world as I got to use the shredder.\r\nLooking back on it now, it seems strange I could prevail an obsession with a machine that does nothing but rip paper. After shredding a ton of documents, Julie asked me to photocopy over five hundred pages work of book, after I cease up doing over-time, I realised I have a major problem saying â€Å"no”. Finally I got to go home, and on the train I had an epiphany, I loved doing overtime! Day four, was when the long repetitive chain of office work started, and I also started to help other people with the reports, and take phone messages, help Arefa with typical administrative work and other boring jobs.\r\nI must admit I loved doing these typically boring things, importantly because it was a completely new invite for me. D uring the afternoon, I decided to converse with my colleagues, and I realised that I should have started to converse the day I got there, and it doesnt help to keep to yourself quiet in the workplace. During the next few days, I saw two colleagues leave, and two new colleagues join. I must say I found the people there one of the most important aspects of work experience. I also notice a market right behind the office, the only bad thing was the boredom and the repetitive work.\r\nThe elevated spot at the end of the week was the money. I got salaried for all my plump expenses, which came to a very high twenty-five pound, imagine how much gum I could buy with that! The next week seemed to have a routine to it, I got up later and came to work fifteen minutes later each day to save the company money, as I felt guilty for charging them twenty-five pound a week. I got on the tube, came to the office, and got on with my work. It was a boring routine, but there were new and exciting ex periences each day for me, and one personal highlight was seeing a London bus with the lyrics of â€Å"Amarillo” on the side, like a karaoke machine.\r\nThe other thing I noticed was that I was doing so much overtime. It was amazing. I was actually volitionally doing extra work, and I hate extra work. I mean the thing that made me want to gravel was that after four where most people worked tardily and spent more time â€Å"chatting”, rather than ignoring everything around them and working too knockout! I suppose that after a hard days work, a tight-laced chat with your colleagues really doesnt hurt! The final day was actually extremely relaxed, which was a massive tell from the first Friday, and though I had a survey of work, I managed to get it done by the afternoon.\r\nFor the rest of the day, I finished my diary, and though I did tried, I couldnt understand anything more to do. Since everyone else decided to go out, I got stuck babysitting the office. After I got back from my eat break, which was at three, I was given a card and twenty pound as a gift. I knew I couldnt take it, but they insisted, and after protesting, and being told to â€Å"stop being silly” I decided that it would be best if I just took the money. By five, it was time to leave CHAS forever, which was quite depressing.\r\nAs in short as one of the colleagues I had worked with got on the train and left me at Baker Street station, the realisation hit me that Id never see CHAS again. After getting home, I sat on the sofa and thought about how great my two weeks of work experience had been, about the people I had met, and about what it had taught me. I had learned so many new manual skills, and how to use different human bodys of machinery. However, the most important thing I learned was how to behave at work, and about how the world of work is really different from the supply world that is school.\r\nMy Work Experience\r\nFirstly I am going to explain what i s work experience? Work experience is our opportunity to spend a period of time outside the classroom, learning about a particular job or expanse of work. During our placement, well be able to find out what skills employers look for when theyre hiring someone to fill a job va give the axecy. We pull up stakes also get the chance to develop our boldness and communication skills. This will help us to work better with other people in merely or higher education, as well as in our future career.\r\nWhen I were first told about work experience I thought to my self ‘great no school for two weeks I was flavour forward to looking around places and onerous to figure out what and where I wanted to do my work experience. Ive always been good at doing things with computers. For my work experience placement, I was confused and could not decide on what to do. I was interested in doing everything from office work to computers, but I finally managed to find myself a placement in retail a t T. K Maxx, Uxbridge.\r\nMy hours were 10am-5pm, Monday to Friday. It is about 45 minutes tug to the place however a bus does travel from near my house To get this placement, I in person went in, and asked if they would take me in. When I first went there I met Mark, whom I talked to, for it. After that all the official garner and forms were completed. I was over joyed; as this was the first entrepot I went to and got the placement. All my worries of getting the placement were over. The T. K Maxx that I normally frequent is a extraordinary sort of place.\r\nFirst of all, the entrance is tucked external in between two shops and is hardly noticeable. assist of all you have to go down a huge elevator down deep into the inside(a) of the earth to get to the goodies inside. Lastly, it is, like most T. K Maxx stores, almost white inside. For a start, T. K Maxx promises discoloration name clothes at sky-high prices. Its straightforward that Ive found my fair share of deal. I found a nice pair of K Swiss trainers and they often sell cartoon socks for i??4 a pair, compared to the i??2 you would pay for the same socks in Claires Accessories or somewhere similar.\r\nThey are ordinarily selling a plethora of brand name jeans at very sky-high prices, too, so they are second to none when it comes to value for money. Most T. K Maxx stores are fairly expensive, with departments catering for women, men, kids and usually even home furnishings, shirks, bags, purses and so forth on bargain. However, my one main complaint with T. K Maxx is its aim to be honest untidy. Clothes tend to be arranged by size on racks, but you really have to break in through them to find what youre looking for.\r\nAlso, often theyll only have one peak in a particular style on sale. The shoe section is probably the worst when it comes to mess. some(prenominal) shoes in a pair are displayed on the racks and the theory is that you take the shoes, try them on, and take them up to the cashier if you want them, return them to the racks if you dont. Unfortunately, the authentic happen. People try shoes on, decide they dont like them and leave them on the news report, so you usually find yourself stepping over huge piles of shoes to look at the racks yourself.\r\nDont get me wrong, I understand that this substructure happen and its not easy to keep the place clean, but Ive never seen staff picking up the shoes. Although it is a tedious task, making sure we pick up any shoes dropped on the floor and returning them to their shelf or place in the stock room is one of the top priorities. Whats more, toy boxes tend to be bashed, ornaments tend to be damaged and clothes can often be marked. The T. K Maxx Company started in America, and has now almost 2000 shops in the USA and Canada. Theyve only been in the UK for about 10 years but have 150 shops here already.\r\nThe staffs in T. K Maxx arent the type to walk around trying to butter you up into buying, which is nice as I lik e to browse on my own, but they arent the most helpful either, in my experience. Ive only had to ask for assistance twice, but both times it took my ages to find a member of staff and when I did they were indecipherable and unhelpful. However, from my experience, the basement staffs are very friendly and talkative and they are free by free I meant to say working slowly, chatting a lot it is because they dont have CCTV operating in basement.\r\nI suppose that in a store as large as T. K Maxx, especially when it has a rather messy layout and displays are all over the place, it would be hard for them to keep on top of things and know merely whats on sale, so its not exactly their break that theyre a bit unclear, but I think this is an issue the company should address. I often find that a lot of the clothes on sale in T. K Maxx are rather unpleasant, and some of the nicer stuff is still quite expensive and youre not making a great saving, but they do always seem to have sale racks o ut, and you can sometimes come across a real deal through these.\r\nAll in all, T. K Maxx is a good store to browse in if you have the time, and you might just find a good deal here. However, it is definitely not the kind of place you could go into if you were in a drive on and wanted to pick up a jacket, top, trousers etc. quickly and then zoom out as you really do have to be ready to list. Its definitely worth a look, though, so if you ever go across one and have time to spare, pop in and see what you can spend your hard earned cash on.\r\n'