Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian No Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Everyone on this team, we all did some kind of
Speaker 2: awful work experience, didn't we It's a rite of passage,
Speaker 2: isn't it?
Speaker 1: A very boring week of work experience.
Speaker 3: I thought I had a cool work experience lined up.
Speaker 3: I did a guitar shop on Brunswick Street called Fredit Instruments.
Speaker 3: I was very excited to go to my work experience.
Speaker 3: Thought I'd be tuning up guitars, testing amplifiers, strumming away
Speaker 3: a week. I spent all five days in a back storeroom,
Speaker 3: no windows, crunching down cardboard boxes.
Speaker 1: Yeah see, you'll know it. So you didn't even touch
Speaker 1: a guitar.
Speaker 3: Didn't see a guitar on the on the every morning
Speaker 3: on my way from the front door of the store,
Speaker 3: as I walked through out the backstoreroom that smelt like
Speaker 3: seaweed and our crunch boxes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we used to have.
Speaker 2: I think it was like an eighteen month waiting list
Speaker 2: for kids to do work experience in my old radio station.
Speaker 2: It was a big national radio station, and I used
Speaker 2: to feel so sorry.
Speaker 1: Day one. You see these kids say radio literally the
Speaker 1: it's actually cruel what they do. They wiled them into
Speaker 1: a studio.
Speaker 2: Can't believe I'm sure I'm going to be seeing you
Speaker 2: around me strugg and I'm like, I will never see
Speaker 2: you again. Anyway you're going to I'll see you. It's
Speaker 2: in the post room two days eight.
Speaker 1: You see these disheveled souls having seen sunlight three days?
Speaker 2: Are they feeding you?
Speaker 4: Speaking yourselves? I had a blast for my week.
Speaker 1: Did you straight into a newsroom? I'm guessing yeah.
Speaker 4: I went into radio stations. It was really funny.
Speaker 2: I was your life is basically born than you're doing
Speaker 2: the news. It was out over maybe half an hour.
Speaker 3: Every time you tell your story, you get younger.
Speaker 4: Well, I was about sixteen and I was at months. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's right. I was at two a Y and Aubrey,
Speaker 4: and there was two darling old men in the newsroom.
Speaker 4: They're about eighteen not out, and they sent me to
Speaker 4: cover this court story. I was sixteen. I was like
Speaker 4: in year ten and Paul, one of the guys, handed
Speaker 4: me the keys to his car and he goes, there
Speaker 4: you go, you can just drive down, I said, Paul,
Speaker 4: I'm sixteen.
Speaker 3: I can't try.
Speaker 1: Wow. Now that is a great work experience.
Speaker 2: Patsy, genuinely, that is the only great work experience story
Speaker 2: I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: The rest someone like Jack and Ire. You're in a
Speaker 1: window's room doing so destroying work. I tell you what
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: It's a wake up call because I remember the same
Speaker 2: as you. It's just crushing boxes. You're doing just mean
Speaker 2: your stuff, thinking I can't, this can't be the life.
Speaker 2: And so I felt like a scene in a musical
Speaker 2: that in any musical I've seen, there's always a moment
Speaker 2: where someone goes.
Speaker 1: This is not the life for me.
Speaker 2: That's everyone at someone doing a god awful week of
Speaker 2: work experience. All right, So we want to hear your
Speaker 2: work experience stories today. Even this guy we had yesterday, Matt,
Speaker 2: this should have been a great one work experience with
Speaker 2: the drummer from men at work.
Speaker 5: And then I did work experience with the drummer for
Speaker 5: men at work. I ended up washing their cars and
Speaker 5: cleaning the toilets.
Speaker 2: There you go, That is what work experience was the
Speaker 2: experience of the drudgery of work.
Speaker 1: Nine four one one O four three.
Speaker 2: We want to hear your work experience stories, the ones
Speaker 2: like Jack can I. I don't know if we get
Speaker 2: another one by half Fate that's actually got a great
Speaker 2: one like Patsy where we were giving the keys to
Speaker 2: the car.
Speaker 5: You're listening to the Christian No Carl Show podcast. Grant morning,
Speaker 5: how are you, Christian.
Speaker 1: I'm good, Grant, So tell me about your work experience.
Speaker 5: I was in the control tail at Aravian Airport.
Speaker 6: In there looking at the planes, and then one afternoon
Speaker 6: I ended up down in the with the fire stations
Speaker 6: that was at the airport in those days, and driving
Speaker 6: around in the fire truck and actually driving it myself.
Speaker 1: Give it that plane.
Speaker 2: It's not that they trained pilots there, so you've got
Speaker 2: you've got too many.
Speaker 1: Train not fire kids as well.
Speaker 3: Now, Grant, we can't let you fly the plane, but okay,
Speaker 3: have a go in the fire truck.
Speaker 1: Nuf out. There's the keys. Grant. That's brilliant. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much and cool buddy. Have a good morning.
Speaker 7: Thanks you.
Speaker 1: Amanda. Good morning.
Speaker 5: Hello, Hello, how are you.
Speaker 1: I'm good, Amanda, And tell me about your work experience.
Speaker 8: I did a week with the CFA, so spent a
Speaker 8: week there. We washed the trucks, tried out the apparatuses,
Speaker 8: and on the last day got called out to a
Speaker 8: fire and got to ride in the back seat. Only
Speaker 8: to get halfway there untild. We weren't needed, so we
Speaker 8: turned around.
Speaker 7: And came back.
Speaker 1: But the excitement for a while, so.
Speaker 8: Close yet so far?
Speaker 1: A ride along that been incredible. At least they were up,
Speaker 1: Yeah it was.
Speaker 8: It was good fun. Yeah, lots of fun.
Speaker 3: Did you get to go down the pole or is.
Speaker 8: That just no?
Speaker 5: No, it wasn't that.
Speaker 8: There was just a CFA one didn't have the pole
Speaker 8: and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: Do they still have the I don't know.
Speaker 8: There's a there's a training center out of Craigieburn where
Speaker 8: I used to work, the one there and they've got
Speaker 8: all the towers and the poles and stuff.
Speaker 2: Do you know what, they can make a nice little
Speaker 2: side money turning those fire stations into like an amusement part.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'd pay five bucks to have a little side
Speaker 2: down that pole with the poles. Your brain right now,
Speaker 2: I know, I know it's a bit quiet at home.
Speaker 2: You know that could be.
Speaker 1: A strip pole. What sorry, he's got a lot going
Speaker 1: on right now.
Speaker 2: You didn't work experience, you could have a go and
Speaker 2: knock yourself out on the fire.
Speaker 1: Amanda, great call, Thank you very much.
Speaker 7: Have a good one nine.
Speaker 2: Four one four one O four three, you're right over there.
Speaker 5: The Christian Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: And we'll get about strippers. Okay, Jack hand on the
Speaker 2: five minutes he tod, I said.
Speaker 3: You one of the dogs.
Speaker 1: Test. I still think i'd like to hear that story. Okay.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that I'm getting on email later today, so
Speaker 2: I've got something to look for to at lunch. We'll
Speaker 2: get some great stories today about your work experience.
Speaker 1: Frank.
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, there you go on.
Speaker 1: We're good. Frank, welcome on board. Thank you if you go, Frank.
Speaker 7: Okay, So basically, on the Monday morning in nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 7: I was fifteen year old kid, got a job at
Speaker 7: Maya in the computer department. So I was telling the
Speaker 7: good old commodore Amiga. If you guys remember that I do. Yeah,
Speaker 7: basically yeah, So on the Monday, I've got I owned one.
Speaker 7: I owned one at the time as well, so I
Speaker 7: was selling heats of them from Monday through to Wednesday
Speaker 7: and my manager was loving it. But then the other
Speaker 7: two sales reps were dying because I was smashing their
Speaker 7: sales records. So the Thursday morning I actually go to
Speaker 7: back to my upstairs and they give me a form
Speaker 7: of transfer form, and they sent me to the women's
Speaker 7: department's shoes departments and I I was selling shoes for
Speaker 7: two days. So I ended up downstairs because they didn't
Speaker 7: want me to break the sales records.
Speaker 2: This is incredible, Frank, I love the idea about the
Speaker 2: junior sales legends.
Speaker 1: They still talk about it to this day.
Speaker 2: God Goud just knows what he's out there selling now,
Speaker 2: NFTs or something whatever it is.
Speaker 3: That boy could sell computer like noone else.
Speaker 1: Struggled with a shoe though, But computers.
Speaker 2: Do you know what's actually a good sales gimmick? A
Speaker 2: young kid talks to you about computers.
Speaker 1: You trust them, Yes, they should have just kept you
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 7: Well, look the manager love you. But I think on
Speaker 7: the day off, on his day off, those other two
Speaker 7: sales repstraates. Yes, yeah, So basically I slashed their records
Speaker 7: and they couldn't. They were just dying that that I was.
Speaker 1: I was beating their records up, crushing them.
Speaker 7: I ended up serving women selling shoes. I had no
Speaker 7: idea what a stileno was.
Speaker 2: Frank, what do you now, By the way, because you've
Speaker 2: got the gift of the gap, I'd buy whatever you're selling.
Speaker 7: Mate, I'm actually a hairdresser, so I've been made a
Speaker 7: business and manner has been running for twenty five years.
Speaker 1: And what about is Frankie's hair It's.
Speaker 7: God's good hair bit chick Tony in McLeod's love it.
Speaker 2: I love a good old school hairby and you obviously
Speaker 2: Frank Chony. Yes, I am pleasure to meet you, missed
Speaker 2: Chacony my friends.
Speaker 7: Thank you very much?
Speaker 1: And where abouts are you in Melbourne?
Speaker 7: In McLeod, McLeod.
Speaker 2: Gotcha in McLeod. Okay, that's why hair By Checony you
Speaker 2: got to come in.
Speaker 7: For a haircut. I'll look after you.
Speaker 1: You got any cold holes out of the back as well?
Speaker 6: Mine?
Speaker 1: Amiga or sixty four?
Speaker 7: You know what, I won't say any women's shoes.
Speaker 1: I'm worry. Frank lovely chatting to you. Okay, you have
Speaker 1: a good day.
Speaker 7: Cheers, cheers, guys.
Speaker 1: He was a joy. James morning.
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 1: Is this the testical guy?
Speaker 2: Okay, James, good morning? Sorry James carey work experience.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I was about sixteen. I was sent to a
Speaker 5: travel agent in the little town that I lived in Queenslane,
Speaker 5: and the guy was known to be a bit dodgy. Actually,
Speaker 5: I think it might have been Frank. He sounded like Frank.
Speaker 2: And no, hey, A might to Coney, I won't have
Speaker 2: this kind of talk on the show.
Speaker 5: Well, this is how it is. I didn't make this
Speaker 5: story up, so some of it. Some of it's made up.
Speaker 5: And on the first day I turned up, he goes,
Speaker 5: i'll bring you passport tomorrow. We'll see if we can
Speaker 5: find something interesting for you to do. Oh, okay, I
Speaker 5: did that. I've bought the passport to work and the
Speaker 5: first thing in the morning, he's taken me in the
Speaker 5: car who's gone to Brisbane airport and he's given me
Speaker 5: twenty bucks and he goes, you'll need this when you
Speaker 5: get to New Zealand. I want, are you joking?
Speaker 8: Mate?
Speaker 5: So sure enough, I jump on this slide from Brisbane
Speaker 5: to Melbourne. I had to work out how to get
Speaker 5: around the airport to get to the international side. I
Speaker 5: made my flight in time, and all I had was
Speaker 5: this box. He goes, oh, you're going to take this box.
Speaker 5: There's going to be a guy there in christ Church
Speaker 5: as soon as you get out through customs. I just
Speaker 5: give it to him and he'll give you another one
Speaker 5: and just bring that back.
Speaker 1: That's all you got to do, shot James.
Speaker 5: No, nothing, suss, No, it's fine. Frank said it was
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 2: It's a wig in there, I swear, Oh James, that
Speaker 2: is unbelievable.
Speaker 5: Oh well. The worst bit was I spent all my
Speaker 5: money at Brisbane Airport because I didn't realize how expensive
Speaker 5: it was the airport, so because I think it was
Speaker 5: my second ever trip to an airport. And when I
Speaker 5: got to New Zealand, I got I got out. I
Speaker 5: gave this box to this bloke and then he gave
Speaker 5: me another one and I couldn't get out without paying
Speaker 5: a ten dollar departure attack. So I had to go
Speaker 5: back and find this guy to then pay a ten
Speaker 5: dollars departure attack. And I'm like, I got on the
Speaker 5: same plane that I left on and the host he
Speaker 5: was like, oh you are right, yeah, yeah, I just y, yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't mention that, just get on the plane. I
Speaker 5: told her what I had to do, and she.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a scene from the Tony Soprano so a
Speaker 2: pre col movie.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wasn't. I was packing it all the way home.
Speaker 5: I was under street and not to open the box.
Speaker 5: And anyway, I got I got home, the hate that
Speaker 5: was on the flight. They said, yeah, no, don't don't
Speaker 5: tell anyone to about this thory. I'm going off and
Speaker 5: straight through and.
Speaker 2: This is like the only like the first two days
Speaker 2: wiping the rest of this week.
Speaker 5: Oh that's another day, mate, I'll tell you that little
Speaker 5: riding on one.
Speaker 2: They had to go and do a hit on someone
Speaker 2: who had paid on time. James outstanding, cool, well done,
Speaker 2: Thank you all right, take it easy well, Christian know
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