Speaker 1: Welcome to them. Christian o'connon show podcast.
Speaker 2: What is your work Experience story? Good on into Stacey.
Speaker 2: Our workers emailed this one him. When I was in
Speaker 2: year ten circa nineteen eighty eight, I had a work
Speaker 2: experience at the Melbourne Theater Company. Hey probably would have
Speaker 2: seen Patsy on the red carpet.
Speaker 1: I was so excited.
Speaker 2: They had me working on their set designs. Each set
Speaker 2: designers meticulously created in a minsha version before they build
Speaker 2: it to scale. I don't know this particular day, out
Speaker 2: of glue over fifty pole beads onto a wire above
Speaker 2: the stage which represented lights. So I was left to
Speaker 2: my own devices with no supervision. After couple of hours,
Speaker 2: I started a little wit woozy. Turns out I got
Speaker 2: high on the glue and passed out on the floor.
Speaker 2: Only this is the eighties, when the glue was very different.
Speaker 2: In the eighties. I had to be discovered half an
Speaker 2: hour later by my concerns supervisor. That's called an ambulance.
Speaker 2: But I came to and seemed seemed okay. Next day
Speaker 2: they found me a different job. That's from Stacy.
Speaker 1: Greg.
Speaker 3: Good morning Greg, Good morning Christian, Greg.
Speaker 2: What's your work experience? Story made well again.
Speaker 3: In the nineteen eighties. I did work experience for the
Speaker 3: Air Force armory and they had me rebuilding rifles and
Speaker 3: arming bombs and making things.
Speaker 2: You bank, this is amazing. First of all, how old
Speaker 2: are you.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm a sixties child.
Speaker 2: Yes, how old were you when you were actually working
Speaker 2: with rifles and bonds in an armory fifteen fifteen. See
Speaker 2: you're handing like you know, munitions and gunpowder.
Speaker 3: Well, to start with, the riffles had to be cleaned
Speaker 3: and stripped, because a new service is a regular maintenanceing. Apparently,
Speaker 3: after every fifteen you met your test fire them while
Speaker 3: they left me to my own devices. And I had
Speaker 3: seventy eight rifles ready for test fire, not fifteen.
Speaker 2: What could possibly go wrong fifteen or boys unsupervised? Either
Speaker 2: one rifle is too many, seventy eight. You've got your
Speaker 2: own militia there.
Speaker 3: What they gave me three boxes of ammunition, said go
Speaker 3: down the firey range and testify them.
Speaker 4: So I did.
Speaker 2: Do you know we could do a whole phone and
Speaker 2: stories like your Greg called. It was a different time.
Speaker 2: It was the eighties.
Speaker 3: Look, the best part was and you know those those
Speaker 3: old ladies movies where they were arming the bomb and
Speaker 3: the guy was squeaking and shaking and don't touch the sides. Yes, well,
Speaker 3: they had me doing that with laser guided missiles for
Speaker 3: the for the Air Force one day and they told
Speaker 3: me if I touched the side, you will go bang.
Speaker 3: There's a fifteen year old me literally squeaking trying to
Speaker 3: put this detonator into a bomb. It was awesome.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, right, we can look about
Speaker 2: No good, my god, that's so dangerous for you. That
Speaker 2: must have been like some of the greatest days of
Speaker 2: your life.
Speaker 4: Fifteen year old boy?
Speaker 5: What could be better?
Speaker 2: Seriously, every fifteen year old livestream, what did you tell
Speaker 2: your parents you're doing every day when you go? How
Speaker 2: did you even make it.
Speaker 3: To Well, see, that's that's a great thing. Because I
Speaker 3: lived a small country town in New South Wow, So
Speaker 3: I had to find my own billert near Newcastle, Coause
Speaker 3: I was at the ref base in Williamstown, so I
Speaker 3: didn't get to see my parents for two whole weeks.
Speaker 3: There was even better.
Speaker 2: So you were just sort of camping in with the
Speaker 2: actual sort of the end of the airmen and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, and the pilots.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what a story.
Speaker 2: Greg, that's a great one. Thank you very much for
Speaker 2: givinci call.
Speaker 3: You have a great weekend, guys enjoying William.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: So many great stories yesterday about work experience, and after
Speaker 2: a while quite a few of these stories were so
Speaker 2: drawl dropping. They were about obviously very young people, teenagers
Speaker 2: being given way too much responsibility. Ten minutes ago we
Speaker 2: heard from Greg who when he was fifteen did work
Speaker 2: experience for the Air Force, And yesterday when we were
Speaker 2: sharing our stories about work experience, it's what work experience
Speaker 2: is now. It's born as hen, isn't it a cardboard box? Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Guitar show. That's like Monday to Friday. Greg in
Speaker 2: the eighties was cleaning and firing seventy three rifles and
Speaker 2: then handling and maneuvering a laser guided missile and told
Speaker 2: not to not to miss the edges. We'll all go
Speaker 2: up a fifteen year old. So that's why we're doing
Speaker 2: more of these sim home, good morning, good morning. Some
Speaker 2: I know you had a good week. So what's your
Speaker 2: work experience story mate?
Speaker 5: Way too much responsibility for someone so young. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: was doing work he experienced as a radiographer at a
Speaker 5: local hospital. So I got the awesome opportunity to go
Speaker 5: into theater to a surgery that was happening that needed
Speaker 5: the next raydon I go in there because this is awesome.
Speaker 5: It's like, oh, okay, this is what I really want
Speaker 5: to get into, either nursing or radiography or you know
Speaker 5: that kind of thing. And go in there and the
Speaker 5: surgeon invites me up to the table to come and
Speaker 5: have a look. So I go up there.
Speaker 2: Wondered if they're up to that while we're on conscious day,
Speaker 2: you know, just inviting mates face. Let's get this blobby.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 5: I got up No, I think close. They called me
Speaker 5: up and they come on, come on work experience, go
Speaker 5: come on home.
Speaker 4: Look.
Speaker 5: So I go up near it and it's like, ah,
Speaker 5: oh okay. Then he's talking and the words are starting
Speaker 5: to blur and become a bit warped, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: feel a bit funny. So I take a step back
Speaker 5: and keep stepping back, stepping back, stepping back back, kicks
Speaker 5: the wall and then all of a sudden, I'm just
Speaker 5: sliding to the floor. Yep.
Speaker 2: So what I just seening? Obviously what there was an
Speaker 2: open It was.
Speaker 5: There was no blood, no blood, lots of yellow so
Speaker 5: I'm assuming eye done or something, and just lots of flesh,
Speaker 5: lots and lots of flesh.
Speaker 2: What was the surgery?
Speaker 5: It was I think knee replacement. It was a knee
Speaker 5: because it was held up high on an angle and
Speaker 5: open exposed knee and muff fall and bone and.
Speaker 2: All right, room starting a woozy in here, right, And
Speaker 2: so what happened to the career was a working in medicine.
Speaker 5: Good time, four pet early and decided that really wasn't
Speaker 5: for me.
Speaker 2: Simon, thank you very much your story. Have a nice weekend, and.
Speaker 4: You two guys take care.
Speaker 2: Tanya.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 1: Hell are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good Tanya? What was your work experience story?
Speaker 5: Christian?
Speaker 4: It was nineteen eighty five. I was sixteen and a
Speaker 4: half and I was assigned to the broad Minnows Magistrates Court.
Speaker 4: And on the fourth day I was after observing all
Speaker 4: the clerk of courts, they asked me they were short
Speaker 4: staffed and they asked me father would do a case
Speaker 4: on my own. So left in a room because it
Speaker 4: was a case being heard in camera and swearing in
Speaker 4: witnesses and passing evidence to the judge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never this. This takes a biscuit laser guided
Speaker 2: miss out. I could understand. It's Australia.
Speaker 6: This, this justice system needs to be upheld wherever you
Speaker 6: are in the world, Australia swearing your witnesses.
Speaker 2: Didn't you put it on your left hand and the
Speaker 2: other one put up in the air. I've seen the movies.
Speaker 2: I've seen Pelican Brief and yeah, you say telling pokey
Speaker 2: bies and did you do it or not? Well the way,
Speaker 2: just did you do it? I'm curious.
Speaker 4: I was so engrossed in the in the case that
Speaker 4: because the doors are locked, of course I missed them
Speaker 4: trying to call me on the on the back phone
Speaker 4: on the desk, and so missed the flashing red light,
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden I saw three or four
Speaker 4: heads pop up in the at the door in the
Speaker 4: glass panel going motioning for me to answer the phone
Speaker 4: because they were so worried about Mick and they couldn't
Speaker 4: come in to see if I was okay.
Speaker 1: Sounds terrifying.
Speaker 5: It was fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Tanya, thank you very much. Cool, have
Speaker 2: a nice weekend.
Speaker 4: You too, Banks Well.
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