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7d I quit!

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B. Read the text quickly and match the names of Laura Mitchell, Southampton
the people with the job they are describing. Two I once worked at a sweet factory putting sugar on sweets
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people are describing the same job. and biscuits. I thought it would be nice because I was a
big fan of sweets. Well, I used to go home with sugar in
Laura
a. zookeeper my hair, up my nose and in my ears! It was disgusting and
Dan the smell was so strong that I couldn’t get used to it. I
b. factory worker only lasted a week, but one good thing did come out of
Eleanor my experience. By the time I left, I had given up sweets
c. call centre agent altogether.
Willy
Dan Given, Hemsby
C. Read again and write L for Laura, D for Dan, E for I worked for one summer at a safari park. I liked feeding
Eleanor or W for Willy. the penguins and the other animals in general, but cleaning
up after them wasn’t much fun, as you can imagine. The
1. I worked there for a month. worst job I had was in the monkey reserve. You see, as
2. I soon got used to it. visitors drove through, monkeys usually climbed on their
3. I was happy when I lost my job. cars for a free ride. At the exit of the reserve, one of
us had to stop the monkeys from getting into the next
4. I enjoyed part of my job.
reserve. I can tell you, chasing monkeys around with a
5. My job helped me improve my health. stick in the middle of the summer is not fun at all.
6. I still have the same job.
Eleanor Ignes, Uxbridge
7. I worked there for less than a month.
My job can be really hard sometimes as it involves taking
D. Find words/phrases in the text that mean the customers’ orders, answering calls and in general, dealing
following: with people and their complaints. You see, I work at a
call centre and the things I have to put up with are awful.
1. extremely unpleasant, horrible
Just because people can’t see you face-to-face, they think
(Laura): it’s OK to be rude. It was really difficult in the beginning,
2. an area of land that is protected but by the end of the first month, I had learnt not to take
it too personally. Once, I got so angry with a customer, I
(Dan):
shouted back at him, and it almost cost me my job.
3. a thin piece of wood (Dan):
4. accept something that is annoying, without Willy Hawkins, Bath
complaining (Eleanor): I often remind myself, no matter how bad things get,
they could be worse. I could still be working there. I
5. help somebody remember something
don’t know how I lasted a month at the box factory.
(Willy): I’d had enough before the end of the first week. It was
6. really tiring (Willy): exhausting on the body, but what it did to your mind was
most worrying. Boring, just isn’t a strong enough word. I
worked with a man who had been there for twenty years!
E. Discuss.
He told me he dreamt of boxes, he saw boxes when he
• Which of the jobs in the text would you closed his eyes, and he even tasted boxes when he ate. I
least like to do? Why? was so glad when I was fired!

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