gonzo Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 13 minutes ago, Spider said: My lad started a job as soon as his exams finished. Earning really good money and I top it up a bit as I’d only have to be giving him spends anyway. Little shit has more spare cash than me now. He loves the work as well and is picking up loads of extra shifts. loads of his mates are struggling to find work though, I’d have thought there’s be plenty knocking about for 16 year olds Loads of bars and cafes only have 18 year olds now 🤦♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radcliffe white Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 8 minutes ago, Spider said: My lad started a job as soon as his exams finished. Earning really good money and I top it up a bit as I’d only have to be giving him spends anyway. Little shit has more spare cash than me now. He loves the work as well and is picking up loads of extra shifts. loads of his mates are struggling to find work though, I’d have thought there’s be plenty knocking about for 16 year olds Yes loads struggling to find primark McDonald’s kfc etc was hammering indeed a month ago but positions now gone shes in for a shock pissed myself the other day ‘if I don’t feel up to a shift do I have to go in’😀 wouldn’t mind only contracted to 16 hours a week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted July 14, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted July 14, 2023 1 minute ago, radcliffe white said: Yes loads struggling to find primark McDonald’s kfc etc was hammering indeed a month ago but positions now gone shes in for a shock pissed myself the other day ‘if I don’t feel up to a shift do I have to go in’😀 wouldn’t mind only contracted to 16 hours a week 😆😆 lad is on a zero hours contract so can accept or decline shifts each week when the rota is produced. Not a fan of zero hours in most cases but it works at his age. Have to give him credit, he’s not missed any shifts yet and is always ready on time and willing to do extra hours. There’s probably a bird there he fancies that’s keeping him on his toes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Cheese Posted July 14, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted July 14, 2023 My 17 year old did McDonalds for 6 months then quit because management were utter incompetent wankers. Walked straight into another job at a highstreet retailer which pays more and is far more relaxed. Managed to get shifts that worked around college, and is now doing 5 days a week during the summer holidays, plus another side job on a Sunday while saving up for a car. Couldn't be any more proud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweep Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 43 minutes ago, gonzo said: We just been sent a thing for a trip to Madrid for £750. Its shit as that £750 could pay for a proper holiday with his family. My nephew, about 3 years ago brought home a letter for a school trip...to Japan. It was about £2500. Apparently loads of kids went, he didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traf Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 2 hours ago, DazBob said: Schools really should think long and hard about what parents are expected to cough up. Rivvy and Blackrod had a school trip to ... wait for it ... New York, earlier this year. 1 hour ago, Sweep said: My nephew, about 3 years ago brought home a letter for a school trip...to Japan. It was about £2500. Apparently loads of kids went, he didn't. Jnr's school trip was to China... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 1 hour ago, Cheese said: My 17 year old did McDonalds for 6 months then quit because management were utter incompetent wankers. Walked straight into another job at a highstreet retailer which pays more and is far more relaxed. Managed to get shifts that worked around college, and is now doing 5 days a week during the summer holidays, plus another side job on a Sunday while saving up for a car. Couldn't be any more proud. Belting. Im having my lads out as soon as they're old enough on Saturday mornings and school holidays. Our peg had nightmares with younger staff when she had the pub. They just didnt want the hours. It was jnn an area where they were good for money etc, they had the bank of mum&dad to fall back on. None of em would turn in on a Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickbrown Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Mine works at a local primary's after school club. £11 an hour And get this, when they are on school holidays, she still gets paid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter MickyD Posted July 14, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted July 14, 2023 2 hours ago, DazBob said: Rivvy and Blackrod had a school trip to ... wait for it ... New York, earlier this year. Of course they did. I’m sure Traf will concur here, I’m sure when arranging group travel you’d get a free trip for every x-number of paying customers. Ideally, they’d split the cost of the freebies to give everyone a slightly cheaper trip but somehow, I doubt that’ll happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 These trips seem a bit odd - mine went to Germany (not GERMANY) because she did German, and middle one will be going to Spain because she does Spanish. Old school! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Good job they both dropped Latin, or else it'd have ben a week in the library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickbrown Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Off course school trips are in ace places. The teachers go for nowt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 11 minutes ago, mickbrown said: Off course school trips are in ace places. The teachers go for nowt. I'd rather stay home than have to take a group of 30-odd 15 year olds on a trip anywhere. No thank you. Those Spanish kids that stop outside tube entrances at rush hour, some of their teachers have almost ended up on the rails. Fuera de mi camino pablo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickbrown Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 14 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said: I'd rather stay home than have to take a group of 30-odd 15 year olds on a trip anywhere. No thank you. Those Spanish kids that stop outside tube entrances at rush hour, some of their teachers have almost ended up on the rails. Fuera de mi camino pablo! Me too. I always avoided them Plenty of volunteers though. The ski trip was a massive piss up that sounded downright debauched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 13 minutes ago, mickbrown said: Me too. I always avoided them Plenty of volunteers though. The ski trip was a massive piss up that sounded downright debauched. Remember when my mum was on a school trip to the lakes. The NQT's got the whole group (kids included) kicked out of the hotel for being pissed up. She woke up to be told they all had to go home, expected to hear the kids snuck out or something to be faced with a load of hungover 20-year olds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Do they still do foreign exchange students? All a bit weird all that innit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowack Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 25 minutes ago, gonzo said: Do they still do foreign exchange students? All a bit weird all that innit. Daughter starts French A level next year and she has just informed me that she is down to do it with a school in Paris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter FrancisFogarty Posted July 14, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted July 14, 2023 7 hours ago, Cheese said: My 17 year old did McDonalds for 6 months then quit because management were utter incompetent wankers. Walked straight into another job at a highstreet retailer which pays more and is far more relaxed. Managed to get shifts that worked around college, and is now doing 5 days a week during the summer holidays, plus another side job on a Sunday while saving up for a car. Couldn't be any more proud. That's what a bit of self confidence does for you. Well done that young person. 'A' for effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MancWanderer Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Last day of school we went to The Howcroft and got leathered on Frank’s snakebites. Lads, girls, utter carnage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter FrancisFogarty Posted July 14, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted July 14, 2023 9 hours ago, Spider said: Little shit That phrase (the) little shit always makes me laugh out load. Wilf the Dog is my 'little shit'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted July 14, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted July 14, 2023 2 hours ago, gonzo said: Do they still do foreign exchange students? All a bit weird all that innit. I did that in my 3rd year. Went to France for 2 weeks and he came here for 2. Worked an absolute treat- my French speaking improved more in 2 weeks than in the previous 2 and a bit years. Well worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: I did that in my 3rd year. Went to France for 2 weeks and he came here for 2. Worked an absolute treat- my French speaking improved more in 2 weeks than in the previous 2 and a bit years. Well worth it. That's what I said before. Mind you I went for a 'day trip' to France. I spent time the journey to Dover listening to Nevermind on a loop with my mate. Then the school bully having an argument with a local selling him caps. Learnt tit all. God bless comps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traf Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 9 hours ago, MickyD said: Of course they did. I’m sure Traf will concur here, I’m sure when arranging group travel you’d get a free trip for every x-number of paying customers. Ideally, they’d split the cost of the freebies to give everyone a slightly cheaper trip but somehow, I doubt that’ll happen. Correct 4 hours ago, gonzo said: Do they still do foreign exchange students? All a bit weird all that innit. Yeah, we had German students stay with us three years in a row. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogs Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 We did a school trip to France for a week, year 10's/11's, 1998. Load of us got pissed on the first night on vodka one of the lads managed to slip off and get served for. 2 girls spewing up all over the place, scene of absolute carnage when the teachers heard what was going on and came in to shut it down. Still remember hearing one teacher say to the others at breakfast the next morning, "well at least the drama is done with early in the trip". Little did they expect 3 of the lads to be arrested for shop lifting a couple days later. What do you expect when you take feral young lads from haliwell/J Fold away for the first time without their parents (who didn't really give a shit either) 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayjayoghani Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 10 hours ago, gonzo said: Belting. Im having my lads out as soon as they're old enough on Saturday mornings and school holidays. Our peg had nightmares with younger staff when she had the pub. They just didnt want the hours. It was jnn an area where they were good for money etc, they had the bank of mum&dad to fall back on. None of em would turn in on a Sunday. Heard from a very good source at a well known popular Bolton pub the young people he employed would relay any kind of reprimand to their parents and he would get their wrath. Similarly wealthy area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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