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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2015 17:45:36 GMT -1
Ms R's been doing ok with the photographic modelling this past few years, bringing in a wee bit of cash throughout Uni to stave off the dreaded student loan. That and the few shifts a week, minimum wage, down Ashton Lane. She's just been offered a new short-term job, working in telly! Entry level, as a runner on Channel 4's 15:1 quiz show, which is being filmed over at Pacific Quay. I'm not sure how she'll get on, to be honest: it's a 0730 start (eek!) and a 13-hour shift at a wee bit more than minimum wage; she's to take care of the contestants, the presenter Sandi Toskvig and the production team in the gallery. Glorified tea and coffee runner, really Total hoot. It'll be quite the experience-- if she can thole it *Gets popcorn*
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Post by notanimby on Jul 16, 2015 18:00:01 GMT -1
Ms R's been doing ok with the photographic modelling this past few years, bringing in a wee bit of cash throughout Uni to stave off the dreaded student loan. That and the few shifts a week, minimum wage, down Ashton Lane. She's just been offered a new short-term job, working in telly! Entry level, as a runner on Channel 4's 15:1 quiz show, which is being filmed over at Pacific Quay. I'm not sure how she'll get on, to be honest: it's a 0730 start (eek!) and a 13-hour shift at a wee bit more than minimum wage; she's to take care of the contestants, the presenter Sandi Toskvig and the production team in the gallery. Glorified tea and coffee runner, really Total hoot. It'll be quite the experience-- if she can thole it *Gets popcorn* 0730 - is that all - see weans nooadays............pah - tell her I'm at my desk in Embra every morning at 0700. One of my friends's son started at Channel 4 as some sort of production trainee about 6 months ago or so - he had to move to londinium. Graduated with a first in sound/video/music degree from what was Paisley Tech - and done some movie makin, tv programme stuff until the C$ job came along Impressive lad who hasn't let his mild disability ( cerebral palsy due to bein 3 months premature) hold him back
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2015 18:11:44 GMT -1
Ms R's been doing ok with the photographic modelling this past few years, bringing in a wee bit of cash throughout Uni to stave off the dreaded student loan. That and the few shifts a week, minimum wage, down Ashton Lane. She's just been offered a new short-term job, working in telly! Entry level, as a runner on Channel 4's 15:1 quiz show, which is being filmed over at Pacific Quay. I'm not sure how she'll get on, to be honest: it's a 0730 start (eek!) and a 13-hour shift at a wee bit more than minimum wage; she's to take care of the contestants, the presenter Sandi Toskvig and the production team in the gallery. Glorified tea and coffee runner, really Total hoot. It'll be quite the experience-- if she can thole it *Gets popcorn* 0730 - is that all - see weans nooadays............pah - tell her I'm at my desk in Embra every morning at 0700. One of my friends's son started at Channel 4 as some sort of production trainee about 6 months ago or so - he had to move to londinium. Graduated with a first in sound/video/music degree from what was Paisley Tech - and done some movie makin, tv programme stuff until the C$ job came along Impressive lad who hasn't let his mild disability ( cerebral palsy due to bein 3 months premature) hold him back I'll tell her, hell yeah, Nota...not like I've not drummed into her that bills get paid by by me and Mr R grafting silly hours...my TiTP alarm set for 0545 10 days running! UWS is a great degree, I have 6 grads from there on my team in the day job. I'm not surprised he's done well. They turn out smart kids that are fit for work. Very impressive he's also overcome significant challenges. Well done him, he'll go far.
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Post by ozneil on Jul 17, 2015 8:20:55 GMT -1
YEAH its hard starting a career lucky to get a job if one can believe the papers.
However well done!!!
When I started I had to wade thru thigh deep snow in Queensland ( see other thread for proof of snow), people with short legs were terrified they would not arrive intact, clean out the fireplaces and set fires for the bosses coming in, all this before the 7am start then sit at my high desk for 13 hours (10 on a Saturday) with a 30 second toilet break every 4 hours... times were tough then!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2015 18:31:58 GMT -1
YEAH its hard starting a career lucky to get a job if one can believe the papers. However well done!!! When I started I had to wade thru thigh deep snow in Queensland ( see other thread for proof of snow), people with short legs were terrified they would not arrive intact, clean out the fireplaces and set fires for the bosses coming in, all this before the 7am start then sit at my high desk for 13 hours (10 on a Saturday) with a 30 second toilet break every 4 hours... times were tough then!!! Hahaha, I'm reminded of the Monty Python sketch, Four Yorkshiremen. LUXURY!......oh, look it up on google... So anyways, well, it's all gone OK for Ms Rolo. She's been struggling to get up on time, to be honest, despite the exec producer giving her a lift to Pacific Quay each morning at 0745...! Day One she was tasked with taking care of the high heidyins on the gallery team. Who, it seems, have not been particularly demanding in terms of frequent tea and coffee runs. She said it was difficult trying to look busy with so little to do, so I reminded her this was the BBC, LOL! Day Two she was taking care of the quiz contestants and the presenter, and texted me to say she'd had a great day between the Green Room and the studio floor. And that she'd been flung together with people from all walks of life and backgrounds but they'd all found something to talk and laugh about. I think her big urban state school experience maybe just helped prepare her for that. Anyhoo she was most surprised to find out that most directors/producers started out as runners, like they were charmed beings or something! A lot to be said for starting at the bottom. I sure did-didn't we all?
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Post by ozneil on Jul 31, 2015 22:00:29 GMT -1
It was indeed Monty Python he has a lot to answer for here that and the Goon show!!
I certainly started at bottom see post aove
However glad the young lady (cant call her the wean any longer) is getting on well. First real job is always a shock to the system. My partner Keng says he often wondered what a real office would be like. Is this just a stepping stone or does she fancy a career in TV?
PS love header photo ... gorra find that umbrella grand daughter would love it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2015 19:59:03 GMT -1
It was indeed Monty Python he has a lot to answer for here that and the Goon show!! I certainly started at bottom see post aove However glad the young lady (cant call her the wean any longer) is getting on well. First real job is always a shock to the system. My partner Keng says he often wondered what a real office would be like. Is this just a stepping stone or does she fancy a career in TV? PS love header photo ... gorra find that umbrella grand daughter would love it. The wean, err I mean *young lady*, is keeping her options open, Oz. She got the chance for (paid) work experience at BBC so grabbed it with both hands. They've said they'd welcome her back next time an opportunity arises, so that's good. Getting jobs is so often about how you behave rather than your paper qualifications, don't you agree? A few more irons in the fire that're more relevant to her degree, sure, but for the moment she's adding to her bar shifts down Ashton over the *summer* to keep herself relatively independent and she's off to the Borders tomorrow for a magazine fashion shoot. Which has turned out to be a bit strange/good, more in a bit...
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Post by ozneil on Aug 4, 2015 21:13:15 GMT -1
good not resting on her laurels then.
One of my main criteria, after confirming applicant can actually do job, is will they fit in to office it makes it much more pleasant and efficient place to work. My one or two real blunders soon left.
OK so its not politically correct but so what, probably sexist and racist too but it was a pleasant place to work.
We did, however have Continuing Professional development meetings a brain storming session , hoisting the flag and seeing who saluted and other correct buzz PC/HR phrases. The weekly session was at 4pm every Friday.. we all sat round the main office and had a beer or three and discussed week's happenings , what was on the horizon and who had done what.
One Chinese guy said the office was the closest thing to family he had in Australia.
I was quite flattered
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2015 21:39:21 GMT -1
Totally agree, Oz. We're flung thegethir 40+ hours a week: disparate personalities, some big egos going for the big picture, some more considered shyer ones going for the detail. Any organisation needs both. Getting the mix right's the important thing. That, and treating everyone as you'd like to be treated yourself. Not difficult, really.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2015 22:11:17 GMT -1
OK, slightly freaked out here in the Rolo household tonight, here's why. Wean's been booked for a fashion shoot this weekend. Agency just sent the details; she's to pitch up in Selkirk in the Borders at 8am. Not an easy trip on public transport from Glasgow at that hour, so Mr Rolo's offered to drive her there, on a rare day off. Looking for directions to the venue, Mr R found this on g**gle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_HainingWe know his family were originally from that part of Scotland but that the wean's off to a house /estate owned by her dad's direct ancestors is really, REALLY weird. She's well up for checking out the portraits on the walls for a family resemblance.. No such thing as coincidink, ever! Everything happens for a reason.
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Post by ozneil on Aug 4, 2015 23:49:05 GMT -1
WOW! what a coincidence. Good luck getting there
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Post by notanimby on Aug 5, 2015 5:07:53 GMT -1
OK, slightly freaked out here in the Rolo household tonight, here's why. Wean's been booked for a fashion shoot this weekend. Agency just sent the details; she's to pitch up in Selkirk in the Borders at 8am. Not an easy trip on public transport from Glasgow at that hour, so Mr Rolo's offered to drive her there, on a rare day off. Looking for directions to the venue, Mr R found this on g**gle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_HainingWe know his family were originally from that part of Scotland but that the wean's off to a house /estate owned by her dad's direct ancestors is really, REALLY weird. She's well up for checking out the portraits on the walls for a family resemblance.. No such thing as coincidink, ever! Everything happens for a reason. Were they border reivers and cattle rustlers/stealers? If so you should get some advice from Oz about having criminal ancestors - efter all he's australian
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2015 18:49:17 GMT -1
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2015 19:06:42 GMT -1
ANYWAY, this little story just gets better and better. So they drove over hill and dale the back road over to Selkirk very early doors and found The Haining no bother. While Ms R was being all made up for the photo shoot, Mr R decided to have a wee look around and found portraits of his ancestors all over. One guy from 1800-ish was called Robert, same as his own dad. His grandad--another Robert--is named on the WW1 memorial in Central Station. He'd never been to Selkirk before but on driving out, passed a building that looked like a small cottage hospital (you can usually tell!). He was born in that hospital... So he got out the car and took a couple of pics of the outside, when a lady came out and said hello. He explained he'd been born there in the mid-50s and had only found it by chance. She said it was now a care-home but that she knew the building of old, would he like to come in? She took him to the room that had previously been the labour ward. Such a lovely kind gesture. And why I believe there's no such thing as coincidink!
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Post by ozneil on Aug 5, 2015 20:20:24 GMT -1
wonderful experience for Mr R. there are some lovely people in this world Funnily enough I read a book on the Border Reivers in which the Pringles were mentioned apparently the came under the umbrella of the Kerrs. The Rolos also get a mention Here is a passage out of the book starring the Pringles. book is "The Reevers" by George Macdonald Fraser ex editor of the Glasgow Herald Here is a precis of the book Here, for instance, is a snippet in which a malevolent wizard is peering into a cauldron that magically displays events taking place far away: So be warned. He also wrote a history of the reivers callede "The steel bonnets which is serious. Hope YL dun good there too and enjoyed herself. PS mrs Oz bought a Pringles jumper in Scotland
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