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Someone on Bluesky yesterday was like, “actually how about national service for Boomers and Gen X doing customer service jobs?”

And I’m like, you want to put me, a nerd with zero fucks given and oppositional defiance tendencies, into a customer service job that I can’t get fired from?

You know Police Academy, right? You remember Mahoney, right?

I would have SO MUCH fun!

(And yes, I have worked customer service, but back then I needed to be polite to the ghastliest of customers)

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“You, there woman! Where are my chips?”

“Do I look like the fucking chip whisperer?”

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Y'know, I'm struggling to find work and it's bloody depressing just being no earthly use to the world.

I volunteer as much as I can, but I'm not really the type (doing charity work takes a certain kind of *good* person who has a *vision* for the Universe).

So if someone told me that I had to report here or there to serve coffee, or whatever, I'd happily do it. Having some kind of purpose would be wonderful.

I get on quite well in customer service jobs (being top 50% doormat, bottom 50% whetstone), but there are so few that hire at the 21-and-over minimum wage rate..

(Gen X)

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@Ghost of Hope William Hill and Ladbroke in my case. People who thought that being able to throw a hundred quid at a dog race made them better than you.

And I smiled, and was all, “here you go, sir”

Wouldn’t smile this time.

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@Ghost of Hope I remember in the first year of cadets, the senior NCOs had been to Germany camp and it was raining so they were made to give us a presentation about it.

And they reeled off the list of aircraft they saw, and then said, “what else do you find in Germany?”

I put my hand up.

“Cadet Brown?”

“Germans”

I got this.

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@Ghost of Hope See? IT’S TAKEN 34 YEARS TO APPRECIATE MY COMIC GENIUS!

They just made me write an essay on “why it’s important not to disrupt class”.

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