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Chris
Some holidays come along. We all need to find some work to get there. I mean, book money come in for when we go back to our education after the summer holidays. We're going to look at some of those summer job stories here today on episode six of Recruitment Unplugged. Inside responsive personnel.
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Chris
So welcome back. So as I say, episode six and we're looking at summer job stories. Delighted to say I'm joined by Dom this.
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Dom
Time I'm back. You're back? Yeah, I missed one.
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Chris
You've been absent for a while.
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Dom
Only one. Did you miss me?
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Chris
Absolutely. Was it only one? It felt like more than that.
00:01:55:17 - 00:01:56:27
Dom
Yeah. Only one. Wow.
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Chris
Blimey.
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Dom
Welcome back.
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Chris
You are funny. You were, weren't you? You were properly welcomed. Yeah, I was surprised how many things had changed since you were here.
00:02:04:02 - 00:02:09:08
Dom
I know, honestly, that you've run through all again. So starting fresh and Italian. Everything I.
00:02:09:09 - 00:02:12:13
Chris
Know. Exactly. Yeah, we've. We've expanded a little bit more.
00:02:12:14 - 00:02:13:29
Dom
Love it.
00:02:14:02 - 00:02:33:02
Chris
Obviously we've gone for a topic here. Summer job stories. Before we move on to the stories. And we're going to have a bit of a giggle about things that I certainly I can bring to the table that I did when I was at university and A-levels and things like that. But first, from your perspective, is it an extra busy time of year in the recruitment world?
00:02:33:08 - 00:02:53:02
Dom
Yeah, as we've said a lot of times in previous episodes, the seasonal trends that we see. So summer is a great time for people who are festival work. I think we spoke about that before. Glastonbury just happened a few weeks ago. So yeah, staff in on all the big festivals as big as Glastonbury and as small as your fetes and local community ones.
00:02:53:03 - 00:03:12:29
Dom
So there's so much going on through the summer, depending what people are into, they have different hobbies. The in shows probably that you you attend as well. Yeah things like that. So yeah there's there's loads going on. The football season is beginning to see pre-season again as well. So people are just getting back into that. We're all missing the sport for the summer I think.
00:03:12:29 - 00:03:32:04
Dom
So that's always welcome back. But yeah, it's nice for us to pick up and, you know, go to do a site visit if it is outside on a, on a nice sunny day and you check in and bounce off, you know, through not to taste test it as well. So I'm a little go so it makes the job a lot easier being out and about.
00:03:32:05 - 00:03:41:29
Dom
You know, we like to be out of the office going to see people, face to face and see the clients and make sure that they're happy with who they've got. So. Absolutely. Yeah. Enjoyable time of year.
00:03:42:01 - 00:03:45:03
Chris
But does it, does it.
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Dom
I.
00:03:45:28 - 00:04:03:15
Chris
Was going to say increase, but I'm confused by, in a way, not just the seasonal stuff, that there is a natural, seasonal kind of work. Yeah. But the fact if I think back to when I was at university, oh crikey, we were stopped for university was like two months off. I think it's a long time.
00:04:03:18 - 00:04:04:23
Dom
It's a bit more now.
00:04:04:25 - 00:04:22:06
Chris
Yeah. And I'm not surprised by that at all. So it wasn't so much that I was looking for work. I mean, I'm going to come on some of the stories of some of the ghastly work that I did. It was just anything at all. However, I'm not thinking, well, there's an influx of people that won't work.
00:04:22:08 - 00:04:28:14
Chris
But are some businesses quieter during the summer months? So there's less positions available?
00:04:28:16 - 00:04:48:29
Dom
Yeah, it averages out through the year, but absolutely right. The students come back and there may be loads of them that think, great, I need some summer holiday money and pay for a trip to go away. But there's we've got clients that work in boilers and heating. So they're looking at the sun going Please, please go away and cool down again and rain.
00:04:48:29 - 00:04:52:01
Dom
And people need for that heating back on earlier in the year they become.
00:04:52:01 - 00:04:53:03
Chris
Air conditioning companies.
00:04:53:03 - 00:05:15:18
Dom
Okay. I do that. So I wonder what else they can do. Yeah. So the absolutely at its peaks and troughs for any business, some have one has random stories that happen that you don't even realize happened in Swindon. One of our clients has all the computers for education systems and sounds. Yeah. So we'll see. They're all in for repair through the summer getting ready to go out in September again.
00:05:15:18 - 00:05:32:17
Dom
So they're the types of jobs students can come in and do quite tech savvy and just boot them up, make sure they're all good to go on, and then be like, oh yeah, I've only been one of the better ones for you. But yeah, so is every client will have. But then when they come back in Christmas holidays, they can go and work at the boiler company.
00:05:32:22 - 00:05:41:20
Dom
Yes. As we busier. So we do see the same students coming back through the summers, and in the Christmas holidays. And, you know, the good ones always want to work.
00:05:41:20 - 00:05:43:05
Chris
And, but it'll be different roles for them.
00:05:43:05 - 00:05:51:20
Dom
Yeah. Absolutely. Understand that. And yeah that's probably why they like it as well doing different things. Yeah. You know every time they go back and say well this is what we've got. So you want to.
00:05:51:22 - 00:05:54:25
Chris
Even down to some basics in the fact that.
00:05:54:27 - 00:05:55:09
Dom
It.
00:05:55:09 - 00:06:01:16
Chris
Includes some jobs that I'm not going to lie, I really didn't enjoy. But because there was a finite period on it, you kind of just.
00:06:01:20 - 00:06:02:05
Dom
Just do a.
00:06:02:05 - 00:06:03:19
Chris
Strap in, then let's.
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Dom
Get, you know, you get paid normally or your guys are paid weekly. So they've got to get through the week and they're enjoying the money through the weekend. So it is that mindset of I'm doing it for summer. I'll be back at uni in September, you know, with a bit of money behind me. I've had a nice summer and they can do as they please because it is temporary.
00:06:21:18 - 00:06:37:17
Dom
As well. They get the flexibility if we've all probably done it, but it's a last minute holiday through the summer that age as being a student, they can just disappear off to enjoy their holiday and there'll be a role probably not the same one when they come back and they can pop in and say, I'm back now, what else have you got?
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Chris
Yeah, you kind of almost. I always used to try and make a really good impression. My, my dad taught me a thing. It's like, don't make a decision before you have a decision to make. Put yourself in a position of strength.
00:06:50:11 - 00:06:50:26
Dom
Yep.
00:06:50:29 - 00:07:11:12
Chris
That in essence, what we're talking about here is that they want you and then it's your decision. Don't start going. Do I want that before you've even got it? And it used to be the same. Even when I'd go and do certain jobs, I might never want to go back to it. But hell, all will work 100%. So that if I kind of went, do you know what that was?
00:07:11:12 - 00:07:16:29
Chris
All right, that I'd have it as an option? Yeah. Why kill it off when it could be perfect?
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Dom
And you never know. You never. So many people say, oh, I fell into this job. Just sort of happened. Yeah. You never know where that's going to lead, what that's going to be like in even a year.
00:07:25:29 - 00:07:36:12
Chris
Which is, if I hadn't thought of it, I just meant as in repeat work, if, you know, next holidays, I get it. But you're right. Is that it could go somewhere and not even that it could be with that company. For example, wouldn't it.
00:07:36:15 - 00:07:51:16
Dom
Be worth something? Big companies that you may you may be in the warehouse, but if you really did put your mind to it, someone in the office may say, actually, I had a conversation in the canteen with them, and this is what they do in university. Yeah, they are in their last year. They're going to finish in the summer.
00:07:51:18 - 00:07:52:28
Dom
We've got an opening coming up well.
00:07:52:28 - 00:08:08:07
Chris
In Teesdale for my G2 landscape. And it was on last episode. He was saying that he had I think it's more than one example, but certainly one where he came on and there's one sort of almost laboring role for them and has now become fundamental and, you know, managed to grow with it.
00:08:08:09 - 00:08:08:29
Dom
Yeah.
00:08:09:01 - 00:08:10:13
Chris
There's a prime example.
00:08:10:13 - 00:08:28:11
Dom
We just go in, we always will go in and work hard and you never know what may come of it. And thus the students sometimes get asked back by name from the client because they've made a good impression. And most of the students come and say, can I go back there? I liked it, I enjoyed it, and they're all they make friends with each other, which is quite nice.
00:08:28:14 - 00:08:43:24
Dom
So when they come back, they're all still in a group chat or talking to each other. And are you going back there? I'm going here and it's quite, quite nice to see. The problem is when there's five jobs and ten students, you have to split up a little bit and tell them the news. But yeah, we manage it well in this.
00:08:43:24 - 00:08:57:11
Dom
Yeah, certainly a busy time for people coming into the office, and it's nice to see them again. They will pop back in and say hello. And I was, I was uni been to the year. And you know when we see them you know as they finish in what do they want to do then is is the key question.
00:08:57:11 - 00:09:09:09
Chris
Because I loved it because I used to get some, some jobs that I did on more than one vacation, you know, holiday period. And they would they go, how's it going? How's this? And because they'd remember what you were doing.
00:09:09:10 - 00:09:10:27
Dom
And making an impression, you just.
00:09:10:29 - 00:09:19:07
Chris
You know, sort of explained it really there is that you could have five roles, ten people. It's like, well, make sure you've put yourself in a position of strength to get that.
00:09:19:15 - 00:09:25:09
Dom
Of those five B1, b1, this pick, not one that's exactly asked to go in and put on the substance the correct.
00:09:25:09 - 00:09:36:27
Chris
And of course, we've talked of that in the previous episodes that that's from your perspective. So how easy was I to deal with that through the recruitment company? What was the reports you were getting back. Because it's making you.
00:09:36:27 - 00:09:38:02
Dom
Guys look like feedback?
00:09:38:08 - 00:09:43:15
Chris
What was their reaction to me directly? And then hopefully we get it sorted. Yeah.
00:09:43:17 - 00:10:01:25
Dom
Right people right places, as we've said so many times and say just go and work hard, make a good impression, make yourself known. Some people like to think this is just a temporary role. I'll hide in the background and yeah, do my work quietly or not do as much as someone else. But if you are known, you know your face fits and you get on with the right people.
00:10:01:28 - 00:10:06:29
Dom
Yeah, you never know. You never know what what you could need or might need a favor from someone further down the line.
00:10:07:06 - 00:10:13:18
Chris
And presumably that can also include, for the employers perspective that they need holiday cover with people go on holiday.
00:10:13:21 - 00:10:34:15
Dom
Yeah. So we have a couple of clients. Took a phone call before coming here. Actually, someone's going on holiday for two weeks. Have you got a driver that can come and just fill in for two weeks? So not student level, but because we go on holiday as adults and not students. Yeah. Suddenly that leaves a gap in their workforce that that needs filling because the operation can't carry on without it.
00:10:34:15 - 00:10:35:28
Dom
Yeah.
00:10:36:00 - 00:11:00:05
Chris
Probably even more so now because of course, I know it doesn't directly affect when when recruiting through you guys, but of course, the National Insurance, craziness. If I get political for a second, it means that some workforces are slimmed down. So in other words, when that one person is off, it's more of an impact. They don't have the resilience or redundancy of of losing that one.
00:11:00:05 - 00:11:13:04
Dom
Yeah. They used to probably have two drivers and one was just in the cab and they could swap over if they wanted to, or rotate what they needed to do. And if one was on holiday, they'd just put the other one on his own for a week or so. But now, like you say, a full time, it's a lot.
00:11:13:04 - 00:11:13:17
Chris
Meaner.
00:11:13:23 - 00:11:31:09
Dom
Is a lot. You know, it's worth a lot more to a client, a full time member of staff. So it's going to cost them a lot more. So holiday cover? Yes. They pay more through an agency. That's the flexibility. The flexibility of. I only need them for two weeks. Yeah. So I'll pay more for two weeks, but less for 50 weeks of the year.
00:11:31:09 - 00:11:46:18
Chris
And I think it's a great time before we start moving on to some of the funny stories and what have you is that, I've obviously spoken about this now from again, from my perspective, when I used to be a student, which was a lot longer ago than I care to admit.
00:11:46:18 - 00:11:49:07
Dom
Yeah. But I've made a can move quickly. Yeah, we.
00:11:49:07 - 00:12:13:27
Chris
Will gloss over it. But from an employer perspective, is that whether it's that they've got people on leave or whatever, whether they've got, that theirs is a slightly seasonal, fluctuating business and now's a big time. Look, there are people available. Yeah. Come into you guys, come to us. You can get them for one week, two weeks, six weeks, you know, two months, whatever it might be.
00:12:14:00 - 00:12:31:00
Dom
It's there straight away. I mean, in CS, though, he mentioned a good client of ours. He started off with his work for probably a day a week, and now he's full time with him and then doing really well. Yeah. Which the feedback's been brilliant. Yeah, it was probably a day, a week, not even every week. He'd just bring up and say, is he available?
00:12:31:03 - 00:12:42:00
Dom
Can we have him? And we'd make it work for both sides. And yes, it's great. That's one of our success stories that we like to look at. And yeah, you know, hopefully it's business keeps growing. And he keeps coming back to us. Yeah.
00:12:42:00 - 00:12:49:13
Chris
Absolutely. Absolutely. Okay. So moving on to some examples of the, some of the ones.
00:12:49:15 - 00:12:50:23
Dom
That are first hand.
00:12:50:25 - 00:13:06:26
Chris
Yes, exactly. And I have to be honest and say because and I've lost track of which ones were during my uni years on which ones are due my A-level years. Not just because I enjoyed those years too much to be able to remember.
00:13:06:26 - 00:13:08:10
Dom
What was, but,
00:13:08:12 - 00:13:14:09
Chris
Just because I did an awful lot and of course, it included. Yeah, Christmas he stole.
00:13:14:12 - 00:13:16:04
Dom
For weeks off for Easter for uni.
00:13:16:08 - 00:13:31:04
Chris
Yeah. And then a big old some holiday one and I will be serious and say that, of course there is a lot of books that need to be bought. There is that. But there was a lot of drinking and everything else that went on, and living and eating and and whatever. I don't know whether I put them in order that.
00:13:31:04 - 00:13:34:03
Dom
But yeah, probably not. Definitely not.
00:13:34:03 - 00:13:49:10
Chris
Goodness only knows. But I did every holiday it would be doing something and it included some that were fairly standard. Is that quite surprises? A lot of people. I was, I was the breakfast cook at a few places.
00:13:49:11 - 00:13:49:23
Dom
Okay.
00:13:49:24 - 00:13:52:10
Chris
I used to make a mean omelet in particular.
00:13:52:10 - 00:13:54:21
Dom
That your specialty was the omelet station.
00:13:54:21 - 00:14:02:04
Chris
It was bad news. I mean, where I used to do it is that, it was like, you know, you'd sort of bulk cook all these sausages and the bacon.
00:14:02:08 - 00:14:02:11
Dom
And.
00:14:02:18 - 00:14:10:26
Chris
Make sure that the counter was topped up and it was in, the first one was this, you know, these modern factories that it's like, almost got a restaurant.
00:14:10:26 - 00:14:13:06
Dom
Yeah, yeah. So you can see it is.
00:14:13:06 - 00:14:28:24
Chris
And it was only ever I'm pretty sure it was that other than maybe occasionally do the lunches and dinners, but predominantly I had the breakfast side sorted and it would be get all the stuff going out, keeping it going out, keeping the eggs cooked, you know, being cooked constantly. But for whatever reason, it was omelets were always to order.
00:14:28:24 - 00:14:30:23
Chris
Never actually had a station for this place.
00:14:30:23 - 00:14:31:05
Dom
Okay.
00:14:31:10 - 00:14:32:12
Chris
But it was to order.
00:14:32:12 - 00:14:32:19
Dom
Yeah.
00:14:32:20 - 00:14:40:15
Chris
And it was like a war. And you go, yeah, I get you on what you want and blah, blah, blah, get it done. And then I was a victim of my own success on that one because.
00:14:40:15 - 00:14:42:02
Dom
People were longer. Yeah.
00:14:42:04 - 00:14:45:13
Chris
Because they'd go, oh yeah, you got to have one across these, omelets.
00:14:45:16 - 00:14:46:16
Dom
So make them all. Yeah.
00:14:46:16 - 00:14:55:20
Chris
The wife is like an omelet. Whenever we have omelets, she she has a crack, and I think they're beautiful, but she's like, oh, no, they're still not like yours. What do you do different? I'm like, I don't know.
00:14:55:21 - 00:14:58:17
Dom
I just the way you do it, it's just it's just.
00:14:58:19 - 00:15:01:28
Chris
Something in there. I need to analyze what it is. There's no secret or anything.
00:15:01:28 - 00:15:04:23
Dom
So she doesn't want to cook. She just says omelet. Yeah, or.
00:15:04:23 - 00:15:07:05
Chris
She says, I'm not cooking. I went, I've only got omelet in my.
00:15:07:10 - 00:15:13:24
Dom
Yeah, that's what you can make all I got a sausages any time of day. You have an omelet, right?
00:15:13:29 - 00:15:15:24
Chris
Exactly right. Good protein.
00:15:15:24 - 00:15:17:23
Dom
As well. Yes. Works well.
00:15:17:25 - 00:15:31:27
Chris
And so yeah, I used to do, to do that a lot for those people. And then it kind of express, express, expanded to, modern in Bristol because I live Bristol. Yeah. And back then and this was it, Filton, the massive mid place that.
00:15:31:27 - 00:15:32:09
Dom
Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:32:10 - 00:15:39:26
Chris
That was incredible. That was what I used to hate though is that when it would go onto the lunchtime it would involve making sandwiches.
00:15:40:03 - 00:15:41:21
Dom
Oh my. That's a lot of sandwiches.
00:15:41:21 - 00:15:47:16
Chris
That's a lot of butter in a bread. Honest to God, if you if you ever watched Dinner Ladies, the sitcom.
00:15:47:16 - 00:15:49:00
Dom
Yes.
00:15:49:03 - 00:15:59:07
Chris
And they've got the bit where they get all the loaves of bread or delivered, and there's one of them that's just stood there and just buttering, slice after slice afterlife. I want to see that.
00:15:59:07 - 00:16:02:15
Dom
Was that was your job was. Yeah. There you go.
00:16:02:17 - 00:16:07:10
Chris
It was demoralizing when you suddenly rip a piece of bread.
00:16:07:13 - 00:16:09:16
Dom
There goes wild. Yeah.
00:16:09:17 - 00:16:10:25
Chris
Little tally of how many.
00:16:10:27 - 00:16:16:12
Dom
Slices you killed. Yeah, it was absolutely rips. It it was mad.
00:16:16:15 - 00:16:22:23
Chris
And another one that I did that, the final one I did that was, rack, you know, the M4, M5 interchange.
00:16:22:23 - 00:16:25:09
Dom
Yeah. What? That wicked tower. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
00:16:25:10 - 00:16:37:03
Chris
And it would be working. And that wasn't just breakfast. That was different ones. And they would be, functions that go up, on up in the tower. And so you get everything on the trolley, and you take up the elevator and you're overlooking the motorways. That was.
00:16:37:03 - 00:16:39:22
Dom
Quite cool. That's that's a different. Yeah, viewpoint.
00:16:39:26 - 00:16:41:00
Chris
It was very, very different.
00:16:41:00 - 00:16:42:10
Dom
Quite cool up there as we thought it was.
00:16:42:10 - 00:16:42:21
Chris
It was a.
00:16:42:21 - 00:16:43:25
Dom
Great.
00:16:43:27 - 00:16:45:29
Chris
Place that you weren't the one stuck in the motorway.
00:16:46:03 - 00:16:49:24
Dom
Yeah. Looking at me. Yeah. They've broken down.
00:16:49:26 - 00:16:53:18
Chris
Another one that you're very, familiar with his warehouse work.
00:16:53:21 - 00:16:54:21
Dom
Yeah. Our favorite.
00:16:54:23 - 00:17:12:22
Chris
Yeah. And, again, Bristol direction with the likes of Booker and places like that. And it would be you'd get the sheets and it would be like, right, go off and pick all the bits and they'd have all the destinations on the way. Yeah. Just have a set of headphones in you go. Right, here's this one. Wander around, bum bum.
00:17:12:25 - 00:17:20:13
Chris
Off it goes. Ready for the trackers for the camera. We will pick him for the next day. I can't remember what we were doing now, but we would.
00:17:20:15 - 00:17:21:09
Dom
Be picking him up.
00:17:21:09 - 00:17:26:20
Chris
Yeah, and then there was another point where we'd be loading up the trucks. And then I also went and did truckers mate.
00:17:26:22 - 00:17:28:25
Dom
Okay, you literally do the full cycle.
00:17:28:27 - 00:17:32:02
Chris
But at different times. I'm sure they were different times.
00:17:32:02 - 00:17:34:00
Dom
Different places, different times.
00:17:34:03 - 00:17:56:05
Chris
So always the same place. I don't think I only ever worked in the one place, but I did the different roles in there. I don't think you did. The whole history is that for this holidays, I was on the picking and it was just great. Headphones in, just got on with it. You just had all these, these shapes and you're just picking everything, getting them ready in the tall trolleys.
00:17:56:07 - 00:18:02:11
Chris
Ready to go. Then that was that possibly did include the loading, probe. That would make.
00:18:02:11 - 00:18:04:12
Dom
Sense where you just put in the trolley where it needs to be.
00:18:04:12 - 00:18:12:05
Chris
And then loading them onto the lorry. But the trucker would get involved then, because they'd want to make sure it's in the right order, and that they were all on.
00:18:12:08 - 00:18:15:13
Dom
Yeah. Make sure they don't leave it on in the warehouse. Exactly. Yeah. I thought.
00:18:15:16 - 00:18:35:21
Chris
But then the truckers mate was a different one, and that was intriguing because obviously it was just in the passenger seat and you got the drops that the drivers got to do, and then it was like, right, all hands out. We get get these right ones out, get them off. Some of them you had to actually unload for the client, others you would pick up the the empty that would have been left full last time.
00:18:35:26 - 00:18:36:08
Dom
Take that.
00:18:36:08 - 00:18:46:08
Chris
Back. All documented. And then of course, the truckers. Oh, my God, it was like a whirlwind. Because if they were paid for the load.
00:18:46:15 - 00:18:46:26
Dom
Yeah.
00:18:46:26 - 00:18:48:06
Chris
Rather than the time.
00:18:48:06 - 00:18:49:27
Dom
Rights, they would just get it.
00:18:49:29 - 00:18:58:21
Chris
If they can get finished early, it's like, crack on. Let's do this. I remember once I was coming back up the M5, dying for the way.
00:18:58:24 - 00:18:59:22
Dom
Didn't stop.
00:18:59:24 - 00:19:10:03
Chris
He did. But my God, my life was not worth living afterwards. Honestly, I thought I'd taken a dump in his kettle or something. Honestly, he was that fuming.
00:19:10:04 - 00:19:15:22
Dom
But there the job and not because known as in the industry. Yeah. Once you finish off you go I just.
00:19:15:25 - 00:19:19:24
Chris
I was terrified then thereafter I was like, I mustn't need the toys again.
00:19:19:24 - 00:19:45:21
Dom
So yeah, don't drink anything all day. So keep the bladder empty. Not now. It was my it is. People do just switch off when I, I did a stint in a warehouse in Swindon for. I think the incentive was a bit different for me. The incentive was it was gym clothing. And if you turned up every day, I think for three weeks, every shift, you got to get your own gym clothing at the end of it so you could buy, I think it was 30 items for 30 pound.
00:19:45:23 - 00:20:02:03
Dom
So for us, this, this this is do easy. It's amazing easy job today. So I did I signed up every day without fail. I mean I have probably signed up every day anyway just cause I needed the money. The extra incentive always helps. But, yeah, went in at the end, had a few, spoke to a few friends and said, do you want anything?
00:20:02:03 - 00:20:05:18
Dom
I sold it to them for more than a pound. Yeah, as you would, but yeah.
00:20:05:24 - 00:20:07:11
Chris
Know what? You know, you missed the tax man.
00:20:07:16 - 00:20:21:27
Dom
Yeah, I sold it. You know, it's, But yeah. So yeah, literally sold it to friends and picked all up. It was good fun. And like you say, you just have your trolley on your own, walking around, music on. There was radios on in the warehouse.
00:20:21:27 - 00:20:22:13
Chris
Yes.
00:20:22:13 - 00:20:33:00
Dom
I remember people going so and it was quite digital then. So I literally said I will six have to and you thinking this is it's easy work. You just have to switch off a little bit.
00:20:33:00 - 00:20:49:02
Chris
Flip side to that though, I remember one year I can't for the life remember what it was. I went through something. They might have been something that really wasn't as dramatic as I made it feel like a break up with a girlfriend or something. And I found it hard because I was too much in my thoughts for that one.
00:20:49:05 - 00:21:03:14
Dom
Yeah, you have to. There's a balance, isn't there? For sure, if you think too much. What do you end up thinking about? You have to have something almost to either focus on thinking, like planning what you're going to do next. And, you know, what am I going to do? What's the next job? What am I going to do?
00:21:03:14 - 00:21:05:03
Chris
Invariably, is what was I doing tonight?
00:21:05:04 - 00:21:08:29
Dom
Yeah, yeah, I should say good days without.
00:21:09:01 - 00:21:18:25
Chris
But I know people that that wrote lyrics to songs. All right. So whatever else while they were doing it they were sort of like coming up with ideas for books because on the way into writing.
00:21:18:26 - 00:21:38:10
Dom
Yeah, you know, all sorts. You got such a mix of people in warehouses, they're all there for different reasons. Different stages of life. Some do it just as shift work. So, yeah, the parent can be at home. So you do get a real mixture of and then you get like older people and students talking to each other and suddenly they're sharing ideas.
00:21:38:12 - 00:21:51:16
Dom
But yeah, it's the canteen is an interesting place to be of people that you say scribbled things down and ideas and writing shopping lists or. Yeah, things like that. Just absolutely anything to keep them busy enough in their mind to just keep going.
00:21:51:18 - 00:22:00:22
Chris
And you talk about one of the incentives you had. One cool thing that I had, I probably shouldn't have named the warehouse that I was with, but I don't think it's a bad thing. I think they're well enough now. Names?
00:22:00:23 - 00:22:01:20
Dom
Yeah.
00:22:01:23 - 00:22:11:20
Chris
And of course, there was was I would just say groceries. No, because it was including things like shaving foam and, I don't know, a thing that comes under the sundries, whatever.
00:22:11:20 - 00:22:12:10
Dom
Yeah.
00:22:12:12 - 00:22:26:25
Chris
Everything that was going into these shops, like one stop shops and whatever else, and the great thing is, was it every week? No, it can't have been every week. Was it an end of the month or something? And there were these boxes.
00:22:26:28 - 00:22:27:11
Dom
Yeah.
00:22:27:11 - 00:22:47:06
Chris
That were full of odds and sods that had maybe fallen or damaged. Yeah. And it could be anything from food stuff. It could be Brillo pads, it could be toothpaste, it could be, you know, a real mix of things. Yeah. And I don't remember now. It would be like fiver for this box or something stupid. And of course for uni.
00:22:47:09 - 00:22:48:00
Dom
Oh wow.
00:22:48:00 - 00:23:03:00
Chris
It's amazing. I would like have so I can't remember how many. I'd have 2 to 4 of these boxes to go back to uni with. Yeah. And it would just some stuff you'd never end up using, but it was like the majority of it, I don't know, I've got washing.
00:23:03:00 - 00:23:05:10
Dom
Up liquid little bit for the year. Yeah.
00:23:05:12 - 00:23:06:18
Chris
Especially as we didn't use it. Right.
00:23:06:24 - 00:23:10:27
Dom
Yeah. But what do you suspect exactly. Looks good on the side.
00:23:10:29 - 00:23:13:20
Chris
Some tea towels. Tea towels. What are they for?
00:23:13:23 - 00:23:16:09
Dom
To wash them or stuff. I mean.
00:23:16:11 - 00:23:28:09
Chris
Don't get me started on that. We used to actually, instead of washing our tea towels, we had these, this pound shop up the road that was next door. This particular house. In our second year, we didn't have a washing machine, so we'd go up to the launderette on the high side.
00:23:28:09 - 00:23:30:06
Dom
Yeah.
00:23:30:09 - 00:23:34:24
Chris
Which was next to a Threshers. Remember that off license Threshers. That is that after your time?
00:23:34:24 - 00:23:37:25
Dom
Might be after that. Before your time. Before my time? Yeah.
00:23:37:28 - 00:23:42:00
Chris
Used to buy a slab of Heineken for about how many?
00:23:42:05 - 00:23:44:16
Dom
How many? We couldn't find a slab. What what what did you get?
00:23:44:16 - 00:24:00:24
Chris
What would you get in that? 24 of them? Something like that. Yeah. And it would be like a quid stupid like that. And so we'd get that whilst the laundry was on and the tea towels though, we'd go actually bin them. Let's go and get another pack. Five details for a squid.
00:24:01:00 - 00:24:08:01
Dom
It's just easier in that it's just that's logic to the blokes. That's just exactly what's much easier.
00:24:08:03 - 00:24:21:11
Chris
We digress. Sorry, that was my fault. We digress. One of the worst jobs I did, and I actually went back several times to this. I worked in an abattoir now, not in the worst part.
00:24:21:11 - 00:24:22:14
Dom
It was already.
00:24:22:15 - 00:24:24:06
Chris
Sliced and it was already in.
00:24:24:11 - 00:24:25:04
Dom
40 slides.
00:24:25:09 - 00:24:45:03
Chris
Yeah. As in, you just it was what you'd see at the supermarket. Yeah. It was either that they were coming down because you get some that were maybe barbecued, some that were ready and they'd come down this conveyor belt and I'm trying to remember it, go across the scale and it would print out a sticker. Then it would go through the wrapping and you'd put the sticker on, and then you'd put it onto the crates.
00:24:45:03 - 00:24:57:11
Chris
That was to satisfy these orders. Yeah. It needs to be this many of these particular things. And it was like keeping that flow going. And the other one was in the freezer section. So that was past that part. And you had to be fully dressed up.
00:24:57:11 - 00:24:57:20
Dom
Yeah.
00:24:57:26 - 00:25:06:20
Chris
Hard hat and all of this stuff. And you're getting all of the crates and you're putting them on trolleys, getting them wrapped up already. But you're in this freezer.
00:25:06:22 - 00:25:07:02
Dom
Yeah.
00:25:07:09 - 00:25:08:07
Chris
Doing all of this.
00:25:08:07 - 00:25:10:22
Dom
Trying to keep warm. Exactly. It makes you work harder there.
00:25:10:24 - 00:25:17:08
Chris
Oh my gosh, it does. Yeah. That's me. Really does. But you know that one I just couldn't get rid of.
00:25:17:08 - 00:25:21:05
Dom
The smelly I was about to say was was the smell. Yeah. Just stops.
00:25:21:05 - 00:25:27:01
Chris
You. And it did. It really did. I never asked anyone whether it actually did or whether it was just in my nostrils.
00:25:27:01 - 00:25:27:18
Dom
Yeah.
00:25:27:20 - 00:25:29:22
Chris
Because I didn't want to know the answer to that.
00:25:29:24 - 00:25:30:22
Dom
Just say no.
00:25:30:25 - 00:25:37:21
Chris
But that paid well. Yeah, that was a good. And that's why I think I went back there, probably just for the present times.
00:25:37:21 - 00:25:43:06
Dom
Just because you need to do do it, get it done, take the money. Yeah. And it's not long term.
00:25:43:13 - 00:25:50:27
Chris
Exactly. It was that finite period. It was there. It was like going you know Crikey I know. And it motivated me to work hard at uni when I got back.
00:25:50:27 - 00:25:52:22
Dom
There's still no end up there. No.
00:25:52:22 - 00:25:56:21
Chris
Exactly. But you know, it was it was a great bunch of people there.
00:25:56:24 - 00:26:01:14
Dom
Yeah. That's normally what makes the job were really conversations. The chat.
00:26:01:15 - 00:26:04:13
Chris
Yeah. Salt of the earth. Great fun team.
00:26:04:13 - 00:26:07:28
Dom
Spirit. Everyone knows they're not in the most luxurious environment.
00:26:08:01 - 00:26:10:14
Chris
So yeah, it was that was an interesting one. That one that.
00:26:10:15 - 00:26:10:25
Dom
Got that.
00:26:10:25 - 00:26:12:02
Chris
Long.
00:26:12:04 - 00:26:16:28
Dom
Any benefits from that one? Free free dinners.
00:26:17:01 - 00:26:23:23
Chris
I do recall coming back being or at least being able to come back with some little hamper. Yeah. I can't remember the details of.
00:26:23:26 - 00:26:27:16
Dom
The offcuts anybody probably did want to know about that because that was a and.
00:26:27:16 - 00:26:33:16
Chris
I don't think that I particularly want to having smelt it, having watched the trucks arrive with the animals.
00:26:33:20 - 00:26:34:09
Dom
Yeah.
00:26:34:11 - 00:26:38:13
Chris
The what was that. That was pigs. I think it was that suddenly vegetarian.
00:26:38:13 - 00:26:40:04
Dom
Sounds appealing. Yeah.
00:26:40:06 - 00:26:42:21
Chris
It kind of put me off for a little while. I got over it.
00:26:42:21 - 00:26:44:00
Dom
Yeah, I'm fine now.
00:26:44:03 - 00:26:52:15
Chris
Let's get these things on the go. It's fine. No problem. Get these chops on. But, yeah, it was, it was, it was, it was just, yet another gig.
00:26:52:22 - 00:27:09:28
Dom
Yeah, absolutely. It people do all sorts of people register with us. And, you know, you go through their history and you think, well, does that job even exist? And, you know, things they say to us until I could go down that avenue and it happens. I know I didn't go to uni, I mean, education and a bit of a disagreement.
00:27:10:01 - 00:27:27:13
Dom
Yeah. So, I had, always had a job, but you could say and there was a joke in the office, so I'm sure that all, you know prompted me to say something at this point. I've had a lot of jobs. Probably too many, but, it's good to try things, try a few different things. We have.
00:27:27:13 - 00:27:33:13
Dom
Some probably lasted shorter than your uni assignments, in summer. So I think.
00:27:33:16 - 00:27:34:18
Chris
Were short, to be fair.
00:27:34:19 - 00:27:39:05
Dom
Yeah, I think I was four days as a permanent employee.
00:27:39:08 - 00:27:40:00
Chris
I think you in.
00:27:40:00 - 00:27:44:18
Dom
So then go in. Actually, it's not for me. And then off you go and try something else.
00:27:44:18 - 00:27:45:24
Chris
And it does happen doesn't it.
00:27:45:24 - 00:28:03:16
Dom
But while everyone's at uni, I think if you don't go that route, you sometimes you don't know where you want to be to try, try a few different things. But I think work ethics, I'd try your hand at anything and, and give it a go. And like you say, make a good impression. And I seem to have done okay, sort of going along and trying all the different jobs.
00:28:03:22 - 00:28:13:10
Chris
Well, and it is those different things that either you learn from, you get to know people or motivates you. I think they're all sort of quite important.
00:28:13:13 - 00:28:30:17
Dom
The motivation is massive. I think if you go in a job that you think, I don't want to be in this job long term, the motivation to get out of it because you can't. I was brought up that you can't leave a job if you don't have a job to go to. Yes, that was always the role. I don't mind, you know, quitting the job, you to pay rent or bills or whatever.
00:28:30:19 - 00:28:50:07
Dom
So you can't be unemployed. So I think the motivation factor of I don't want to be here, but I need something else that then get home from work. How do you find another job and make an impression? Yeah. You know, there is competitive out there. Always will be. It always has been. So you have to be the one that stands out from the crowd.
00:28:50:09 - 00:29:17:12
Chris
I love as well. I mean, because, you know, to make sure that we're, we're managing the tone of this conversation is, is not sort of suddenly being derogatory over any roles in the slightest. Everybody's preferences are different. And that's what I've what you and I will be different as well. Massively. We know from from our roles. And, and I've watched I mean, I know that there's a lot of people that go, I don't want to have to think about my job when I go home.
00:29:17:14 - 00:29:20:06
Dom
Yeah, I want to go and do it and clock out.
00:29:20:08 - 00:29:22:10
Chris
And you know what? There's times when.
00:29:22:13 - 00:29:23:25
Dom
It sounds available to me.
00:29:23:26 - 00:29:41:12
Chris
Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, the work that I do is very high pressured, a lot of the stuff in different ways. Even my media work is very pressured. Life, streamed around the world or whatever you call it. Huge pressure. Yeah. And there's times that you go, oh my gosh, why am I putting myself through this?
00:29:41:12 - 00:29:56:09
Chris
But that's for me, is that I need to have that challenge or need to be pushed. And it's like, I love the variety that is out there for everybody to do. And of course, the great thing is, is that you provide that that variety.
00:29:56:09 - 00:30:11:19
Dom
Absolutely. We have and that is, you know, hats off to some people that do the warehouse work that, you know, I think now look at I'd be bored even if I had music and I'd be I need a bit more. But they're quite happy, you know, that the nature of work is fair play to them, because I'd struggle to be in that routine.
00:30:11:19 - 00:30:30:02
Dom
But they say I have to work nights because my wife loves the daytime. So to make the childcare affordable, make it work. I have to work nights. So they're doing it from a need's point of view. Not even, it suits me. It's just what they're doing for their family. And, you know, hats off to them because they're making it work.
00:30:30:04 - 00:30:54:14
Chris
And I find it interesting how people change themselves over what they have their that what, what they want to do, what they may be enjoyed to do, what their priorities become. There was a guy, the I know a little bit and he was a he was like, something very technical, something very well-paid. And he got made redundant.
00:30:54:17 - 00:31:08:04
Chris
And I think it was around the pandemic time when it was difficult to sort of just go back into your own role. And he got a job. I won't name the company. They're, an online shopping.
00:31:08:06 - 00:31:11:11
Dom
We'll get around the name, but we'll we'll get there with.
00:31:11:11 - 00:31:13:11
Chris
A very high tech warehouse.
00:31:13:11 - 00:31:14:06
Dom
Yeah.
00:31:14:08 - 00:31:22:19
Chris
And he got a job in there, and it was supposed to be a means to an end. Fill the gap. He's still there because he's, like, going this great.
00:31:22:22 - 00:31:25:05
Dom
Doesn't have to think about it. Probably in exact time.
00:31:25:05 - 00:31:30:25
Chris
No pressure. It's it's a very different world in a warehouse compared to when I was doing it.
00:31:30:26 - 00:31:31:25
Dom
Yeah.
00:31:31:27 - 00:31:36:14
Chris
And he's he's still there now. Yeah, yeah. 2025. So five years after the pandemic.
00:31:36:14 - 00:31:51:19
Dom
A lot of people do, especially the, the older, you know, people, sometimes they just want something to do as well. It comes down to they don't want a full time job even. They just come in and say to us, it's something pops up and you think, me, give me a shout, I'll go and do it. I've got nothing else going on.
00:31:51:19 - 00:32:14:06
Dom
So, like you say, people's perspective of what they want to do changes massively. For me, Covid, I was working in property, as we previously said, that stopped and didn't can't didn't continue. We got made redundant from it. And I worked in the co-op, if we can name them and Sainsbury's if we can name them. We have, other food outlets available.
00:32:14:08 - 00:32:30:21
Dom
But again, just for that period, I was start I started at 1 to 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. as part of the other one at 2 a.m. to 10 a.m., and slept just for the bits in between. Oh. Cause were you can do anything. Yeah. So I was like, I want to be a worker. Obviously, because what else is there to do.
00:32:30:23 - 00:32:32:27
Chris
While I was barbecuing and drinking in the.
00:32:32:28 - 00:32:50:09
Dom
Yeah, I mean that was probably sounds more appealing right now. What did happen though, weirdly, because I was in what became Essential Places I was in, I saw the deliveries that came in when people were short of things. Yeah. So people were gone. Have you got any of this in the shop today? Sainsbury's was the, the you know, we do the online shopping.
00:32:50:10 - 00:33:06:18
Dom
Yeah. So I was in there before the shop opened and you were allowed to buy what you wanted before the shop opened through the checkout. Oh, wow. So I had people texting me, can you get me some flour? I'm like, yeah, bought that. So in between shifts I then go and deliver it and you know, have a little commission on it.
00:33:06:18 - 00:33:10:25
Chris
Those those are the months when toilet roll. Yep. Became like.
00:33:10:25 - 00:33:17:02
Dom
Gold dust. I was gonna say pasta was the golden flour anyone was baking. It was all flour and things like that.
00:33:17:04 - 00:33:18:15
Chris
For five times about.
00:33:18:17 - 00:33:35:13
Dom
It was crazy. But even the cow up in the afternoon, the lorry turned up and then the cages would come out and I'd be looking for income on that side, and it'll. We sold. But just to me, yeah, it was, it was a funny all the time because. Yeah, every time I just knew every time the clock hit 2 a.m., I'd be a go to work or something.
00:33:35:13 - 00:33:51:28
Dom
Work? Yeah. And it was just that routine I got into. And for that period of life, it did me fairly well. Yeah. And just to keep me, like you said about that mindset just kept me ticking over. But yeah, it did become like the local flower dealer, if you like.
00:33:52:00 - 00:33:53:14
Chris
Not the kind of flower I was. Patron.
00:33:53:20 - 00:33:54:25
Dom
Yeah.
00:33:54:27 - 00:34:08:12
Chris
Yeah. I mean, you know, we've touched on it in previous episodes as well. It's people that want or need extra work as well. Yeah. Over and above that, that that's that's available. When we certainly talked about like the, the festivals and the bar work and this and that we can work.
00:34:08:12 - 00:34:08:20
Dom
Yeah.
00:34:08:20 - 00:34:27:27
Chris
That's a very popular one, for, for in any industry. And it makes sense to, to, to go and do that sort of thing. I got to finish off with a couple of crazy ones that I did for them. This one is weird and I'm still question myself. The details of it. It was, you know, those big shipping containers that go on the trucks and then go on the ships that the metal was.
00:34:27:28 - 00:34:28:21
Dom
Yeah.
00:34:28:24 - 00:34:39:03
Chris
It was one of those possibly two of those on a truck empty. And we then had to load it with boxes of wagon wheels. You know, the chocolate wagon with.
00:34:39:04 - 00:34:42:07
Dom
Yeah. You mentioned this on a previous. So how about yeah, one of these.
00:34:42:07 - 00:34:50:20
Chris
And this was going in my I'm like going surely this isn't right. But it was going abroad like some kind of relief truck thing.
00:34:50:22 - 00:34:52:19
Dom
Some wagon wheels.
00:34:52:24 - 00:35:01:27
Chris
So I mean my head going back cannot be correct. But that is absolutely how I remember it. And it was weird because we were having to sort of always be builders with boxes.
00:35:01:29 - 00:35:02:17
Dom
To fill.
00:35:02:17 - 00:35:03:18
Chris
This thing as best.
00:35:03:18 - 00:35:06:15
Dom
We could. You benefit from the Wagon Wheels? We did. Yeah. We were.
00:35:06:15 - 00:35:12:18
Chris
Allowed to to to eat them because it was it was not like it had to be on stock, which I got to be honest, probably after a day.
00:35:12:18 - 00:35:18:04
Dom
Or two. Enough. Yeah. What's for lunch? Great. What's for lunch tomorrow? Wagon wheel. But that was.
00:35:18:04 - 00:35:23:06
Chris
All, you know. And it was like that was a sort of a finite period is like, right, we've got to get these to.
00:35:23:09 - 00:35:27:01
Dom
Very short term. Yeah, absolutely. Someone just imported them, I guess.
00:35:27:03 - 00:35:33:00
Chris
I don't know, I genuinely is that from in my head it was some kind of charity relief type thing.
00:35:33:00 - 00:35:34:18
Dom
But for Wagon Wheels.
00:35:34:20 - 00:35:38:05
Chris
Yeah, I don't know, maybe they donated them or something, but I don't know it.
00:35:38:05 - 00:35:39:03
Dom
Yeah, potentially.
00:35:39:05 - 00:35:40:09
Chris
It doesn't quite compute.
00:35:40:11 - 00:35:46:08
Dom
Overseas as aid. Yeah. It's just it's weird though and probably benefit more from your omelets than solutely.
00:35:46:09 - 00:35:59:07
Chris
I should have been. I should have been delivered with cans and eggs and everything. Yeah, it's been fine. The jobs I didn't like, I did telesales for a pipe company and data entry for a mobile phone company. That will remain nameless.
00:35:59:10 - 00:36:01:18
Dom
Yeah, that was ghastly. That doesn't sound fun.
00:36:01:18 - 00:36:06:26
Chris
No. And a chemical company that did paint mixing.
00:36:06:28 - 00:36:07:22
Dom
Okay, that.
00:36:07:22 - 00:36:20:06
Chris
Was quite intriguing. Yeah. The fact that you've got this ultimate color, that means you've got to mix this chemical with this chemical with this, that, to do that. And it was like, really quite weird, but it was really old fashioned inside this.
00:36:20:07 - 00:36:21:27
Dom
Did you get many wrong.
00:36:21:29 - 00:36:22:19
Chris
No.
00:36:22:22 - 00:36:24:00
Dom
And end with the wrong color.
00:36:24:00 - 00:36:25:20
Chris
No I don't you couldn't.
00:36:25:20 - 00:36:26:03
Dom
No.
00:36:26:03 - 00:36:29:09
Chris
It was like properly controlled. It really controlled.
00:36:29:15 - 00:36:30:14
Dom
It was fun very.
00:36:30:14 - 00:36:33:08
Chris
Very weird one. And then the obvious one was like bar work.
00:36:33:10 - 00:36:33:22
Dom
Yeah.
00:36:33:23 - 00:36:36:21
Chris
And glass collecting in a nightclub.
00:36:36:23 - 00:36:39:29
Dom
Yeah. I always pops up, but no one, no one really enjoys that.
00:36:39:29 - 00:36:44:18
Chris
That was bad. Especially as we had a thug of a head bouncer at this place.
00:36:44:20 - 00:36:45:06
Dom
Oh.
00:36:45:09 - 00:37:03:01
Chris
And there would be times when we couldn't go into the kitchen because he'd be in there with one of his mistresses away. And so because this had doors either side for the bar was out here into the kitchen, and there was a door out here that was this corridor with the lace. And we actually had to if they were in there we go round helpful.
00:37:03:01 - 00:37:10:05
Dom
Yeah, yeah it's mad, but I think everyone always is a little bit intrigued by bar work. Yeah. People always love to pull a pint or.
00:37:10:06 - 00:37:10:21
Chris
And it sounds.
00:37:10:22 - 00:37:30:15
Dom
Sociable. That's the thing. You know, if you want to talk to people, you go work behind the bar and use fast pace, but also when the downtime is having a chat and getting to know people. Not even probably not and temp work. But yeah, people do think are always intrigued by it. And the full time is they're the ones that normally say any bar like in the evenings and weekend.
00:37:30:21 - 00:37:50:10
Chris
It's there is something I it's hard work, very hard work, but it is great fun. My turning point on that one is that, I went in, I think it was on weekends that I was doing this and, and it was a sort of a pub restaurant one. And I went in and I'm there and I'm already and I'm happy and having a giggle and whatever.
00:37:50:11 - 00:38:04:29
Chris
And I suddenly I felt really heady, sweaty and nauseous. And the next thing run off and I was ill. So I threw up. I was like, where's that come from? Okay, wash my hands properly. And everything went back in because of course, base classes of food.
00:38:04:29 - 00:38:06:16
Dom
Yeah.
00:38:06:18 - 00:38:22:05
Chris
And I'm like cracking on and trying to do the best with it. And I went, oh, here we go again was ill again. And I went to the, to the husband and wife that ran this place. I'm really sorry. I've just been sick twice. I'm going to have to go home. She went mental. Absolutely mental. I'm like.
00:38:22:07 - 00:38:22:19
Dom
What do you want me.
00:38:22:19 - 00:38:29:28
Chris
To do my work? I think I'm up for question here, but I'm not going. I cannot be doing this. I'm handling. Yeah food in.
00:38:30:05 - 00:38:30:20
Dom
Yes for.
00:38:30:20 - 00:38:41:26
Chris
These people. And I just went, you know, I quit there as soon as I got home. I was that traumatized. Not the right word, but I was fuming, that's for sure. And I just went acid. Done. And I've never been back since.
00:38:41:29 - 00:38:58:07
Dom
But that circles back to what we said at the start and that of that relationship of, you know, you made a good impression, do everything you could and they've ruined, yeah, your sight of them and thought, I'm not going to work for them. Probably after they'd calmed down a bit, of course, are probably good. Well, so we've just annoyed.
00:38:58:09 - 00:39:00:19
Chris
The probably have arrogant say never thought back on it, did.
00:39:00:19 - 00:39:01:15
Dom
They? Probably not.
00:39:01:15 - 00:39:04:26
Chris
The weirdest one that I did at uni was, a snooker hall.
00:39:04:28 - 00:39:05:10
Dom
Yeah, I was.
00:39:05:10 - 00:39:06:14
Chris
Brushing down the tables.
00:39:06:19 - 00:39:08:26
Dom
Okay. Yeah, that's different.
00:39:09:01 - 00:39:15:25
Chris
Because it was, I don't know, there's about 20 tables in this thing. It would be like early in the morning and, and they've got these special two, two tones of brushes.
00:39:16:00 - 00:39:16:25
Dom
Okay.
00:39:16:27 - 00:39:25:18
Chris
One. That's quite you know, strong. And then the other one's quite soft. One and you'd be down and it's amazing how much dust is coming off of this like chalk dust and.
00:39:25:21 - 00:39:26:14
Dom
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:39:26:14 - 00:39:30:29
Chris
And you're getting it all down and then you're sort of like the soft ones to sort of sort it.
00:39:31:01 - 00:39:33:07
Dom
It has a bigger snooker table is. Yes.
00:39:33:14 - 00:39:35:09
Chris
That's where my height came in at six foot three.
00:39:35:09 - 00:39:35:24
Dom
00:39:35:26 - 00:39:45:26
Chris
Good advantage of that. And you had to get all these. I mean, that was mind numbing, but you'd get it done early in the morning, which was interesting because as a student, I'd forgotten I had to get up early.
00:39:45:28 - 00:39:50:07
Dom
Yeah. This is this is only one 6:00 in the day. Yeah, exactly.
00:39:50:10 - 00:39:53:16
Chris
And that's when we were halfway through drinking a lot.
00:39:53:19 - 00:39:55:27
Dom
So you're in the mix? Yeah, exactly.
00:39:56:00 - 00:40:01:04
Chris
So, yeah, there is a whole raft of jobs that we've done, and we've talked around some where the one there's.
00:40:01:04 - 00:40:03:00
Dom
So many things out there, there is just give it.
00:40:03:00 - 00:40:18:14
Chris
And I think if anything, what we're trying to demonstrate here is that it's not just about doing the work. There's memories, there's stories, there's contacts. There's all sorts of and as well as the money that that can tide you over or whatever it is. And there's such a raft and it's like, look, don't prejudge.
00:40:18:17 - 00:40:35:06
Dom
Yeah, let's go and give it a go. Get your head down, work hard. If you don't like it, come and tell us. Yeah, exactly. Let us know who find something else. We thought so much about the right people in the right place. That's what it comes down to. And people have to be open minded. Go and try it.
00:40:35:09 - 00:40:43:04
Dom
And you never know. Like we said, you never know what that may lead to. May lead to funny stories. And yeah, in future that we're talking about it. But I love the memories.
00:40:43:04 - 00:40:47:21
Chris
Even the ones that I look back go, oh my gosh, that was all for I love the memories, I really do.
00:40:47:21 - 00:40:57:14
Dom
It's part of what makes you as a what. You take a lot of that into what you will do full time. Because the dude and the ethic. Yeah, you're going to go and work hard. And when you're doing something, you enjoy an.
00:40:57:14 - 00:40:59:09
Chris
Appreciation of all the people.
00:40:59:15 - 00:41:01:15
Dom
Yeah, absolutely.
00:41:01:17 - 00:41:14:23
Chris
We really do appreciate that. I genuinely love it. And equally, if you're an employer, is that now's the time. Get in touch with you guys. There is this sort of is it right to say glut of people coming in like students or is it not?
00:41:14:24 - 00:41:22:03
Dom
It's it's fairly we can be fairly consistent through the year. It's just we know the workforce is going to be that of a younger age currently.
00:41:22:06 - 00:41:24:09
Chris
Yes. Okay. Yeah, I guess so.
00:41:24:09 - 00:41:42:16
Dom
You know if you do need some some muscle probably in some places or some intellect. So elsewhere we've got people coming in. Go. We had a large register earlier I think he sat there. So I'm doing a course in counter-terrorism at uni. And you think, oh, you're not silly. So yeah. And there's all sorts of walks of life coming through the door perhaps.
00:41:42:22 - 00:41:55:04
Dom
So then go and try something completely different for six weeks. Yeah. And then get back to uni and probably talk about it over a few beers. Yeah. So but yeah, the main thing just come and give it a go I agree.
00:41:55:06 - 00:42:00:06
Chris
Any particular roles at the moment in the you've got on the go that are worth name dropping in.
00:42:00:09 - 00:42:08:16
Dom
We got we got Barbara coming up. The sun is still shining. Hello. I'm not sure I might be kind. Can't see the weather from here. Might be rain in this afternoon. I think I.
00:42:08:16 - 00:42:09:19
Chris
Got a needs it to be.
00:42:09:22 - 00:42:18:06
Dom
Yeah, hopefully. But, yeah, we go to work all through the summer. That's that's the main thing at events. I say the football season kicking off again. And you.
00:42:18:06 - 00:42:34:08
Chris
Mentioned, like the car shows and stuff. Yeah. I'm hosting the British motor show at Farnborough, the John Haynes Classic down at the, Heinz, Museum, down on the radio three. That's a big event. Now, there's quite a lot of things happening there for sale at motor racing circuits.
00:42:34:10 - 00:42:34:25
Dom
So cool.
00:42:34:25 - 00:42:37:21
Chris
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of things that come up this time.
00:42:37:21 - 00:43:01:05
Dom
I think there's even, like, Yeah, like you say, car shows. I've got one up in Chatsworth. Chatsworth House. So yeah, there's loads going on. We've recently teamed up with, it again sounds one of the random ones that you hear about a laundry factory, locally. So, you know, when, again, I'd never thought about it, but when you go to a hotel, you think everything gets washed on site now.
00:43:01:05 - 00:43:15:22
Dom
Goes in a truck picked up. Off it goes. Yeah. So, yeah, anyone you know can bring in some long hours and make some decent money over the holidays? Just, again, give it a go. And as there's a lot of people in there, so you never know what relationship you're going to build.
00:43:15:22 - 00:43:17:20
Chris
So absolutely, it's.
00:43:17:22 - 00:43:22:09
Dom
All fun and games. So yeah, just speak to us and see what fits what you're looking for as well as sites people.
00:43:22:15 - 00:43:24:07
Chris
How do they get hold of you?
00:43:24:09 - 00:43:34:25
Dom
Give us a ring. Call us. Sure. We can display the number, on the website, on the telly. Love that. Facebook, Instagram.
00:43:34:27 - 00:43:42:08
Chris
Actually, that's a big one. Your social media is is keep an eye on that because you you're very proactive. I've put in.
00:43:42:10 - 00:43:43:02
Dom
Roles. Yeah.
00:43:43:04 - 00:43:44:09
Chris
You're looking for.
00:43:44:12 - 00:44:06:27
Dom
Yeah. Absolutely. So Facebook, Instagram a massive for us roles will go on there potentially even first before anyone else. Oh really. Yeah. So that probably go straight on there. App, you know, download the app on the App Store responsive personnel and you get a push notification on there that says work available for a week or, you know, pick as and pack as needed.
00:44:06:29 - 00:44:21:28
Dom
Just on there be a phone number, a WhatsApp number, just ring it off as a message. You can always get Ahold of us 24 hours a day some days, as we've mentioned. But yeah, just reach out. We're a friendly bunch as people hopefully learn.
00:44:22:05 - 00:44:39:26
Chris
Absolutely. Yeah. Nowadays and as we've discussed loads of different roles available, loads of opportunities, I do recommend very heavily go and check out with these guys and see what you can do. But that's it for episode six this time round, reminiscing about all those summer jobs stories.
00:44:39:27 - 00:44:40:20
Dom
Thanks, Chris.
00:44:40:23 - 00:45:01:15
Chris
Yeah, a bit of fun. I feel exhausted just thinking about the things that I did, but, I hope you've enjoyed it. A bit of lighthearted, way of looking into that subject of summer work or any holiday period work in reality. But get in touch. Responsive personnel.com is the website. Look on the social media and you'll see everything there.
00:45:01:22 - 00:45:14:10
Chris
But from episode six of Recruitment Unplugged inside Responsive Personnel, we'll be back for episode seven. What we are now, it will be August, late August probably. Yet we haven't picked a topic yet.
00:45:14:10 - 00:45:17:12
Dom
So I'm not sure if I'm on it or not yet. We'll see if I get the call. Up. You get.
00:45:17:12 - 00:45:20:06
Chris
You get till quite late from work now, so it's fine.
00:45:20:09 - 00:45:24:16
Dom
I'll get my excuses if I say that's what you mean. Yeah, he's.
00:45:24:16 - 00:45:28:11
Chris
What he's done. Danny was going to be with us, but even swamped. So hopefully here we are next time.
00:45:28:11 - 00:45:28:24
Dom
Hopefully.
00:45:28:24 - 00:45:33:17
Chris
Well, who knows what it will be. But until then, we'll see you next time. Thanks all. Cheers.