I have just started a new job in an office in my home town. It's just a temporary contract through an employment agency, that I'm essentially using to save up some money to go abroad do a TEFL course, but is nevertheless a step up from the temping jobs I've had in the past. These have included more filing and photocopying than anyone should ever have to put up with, winding balls of string in a factory from 6am until 3pm, and taking orders for a company that made toilet cubicles.
Despite my experience at Plimsoll Publishing (a company that sells financial reports to struggling businesses), being so far so good, I do have the occasional tedious, repetitive task asked of me, so am prone to the odd fit of boredom.
Yesterday, for example, whilst checking some email addresses on a database, I found myself drawing round my banana onto the back of an invoice. I then photocopied the banana outline, scanned it and sent it to a few friends in an email. Today, I made up a jingle for the company. It is sung to the tune of "I am the very model of a modern Major General" from Gilbert and Sullivan. Here it is:
If you do not
want to suffer
profit growth par
alysis
We can send you
your financial
study or an
alysis
We can put it
in the post or
send it on the
internet
Print it off and
read it through and
you'll no longer
be in debt
Plumber, banker,
manager: it
doesn't matter
what you do
Write it on the
order form and
we can find the
one for you
Order it in
French or English,
order it in
Japanese
Top One Hundred,
Acquisition,
all for very
modest fees
We'll send it to
Parcelforce and
it should reach you
in a week
Unl
ess of course your
company's in
Guadeloupe or
Martinique
Please remember
just one thing, and
that's to pay your
fee on time
Or you'll go to
Recofact and
you may face a
hefty fine
So
if you think you're
dans la merde (in
English that means
'in a stew')
Come to Plimsoll
Publishing and
we can tell you
what to do!
