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how i got Fired from EVERY job I've had [tod_4PkE6kk]

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  1. So today I want to talk about how I got

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  2. fired from basically every single job I've

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  3. ever had. After 35 years on this planet,

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  4. none of the jobs I've had went very well.

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  5. Technically speaking, I've never actually

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  6. been fired from any jobs, and I feel

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  7. pretty smug to be able to say that I've

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  8. never been fired. I just walk out or I

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  9. quit before they get the chance to fire

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  10. me. I just put in the title how I got

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  11. fired instead of how I walked out on

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  12. nearly every job before they had the

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  13. chance to fire me because because it flows

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  14. better. You'll notice that every single

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  15. job I've ever had, the same thing happens.

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  16. I get really lazy. I don't do the jobs

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  17. properly. I end up becoming enemies with

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  18. my coworkers because they all hate me

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  19. because I'm lazy and I make a lot of

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  20. mistakes. And then it becomes really

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  21. awkward at the workplace and I end up

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  22. having to quit because I feel like

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  23. everyone hates me now. And after hearing

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  24. my stories in today's video, maybe you'll

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  25. understand why I don't want to get a job

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  26. ever again.

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  27. So my first ever proper job, I worked in a

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  28. traditional British pub slash inn called

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  29. the Roebuck Inn, and I was working as a

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  30. kitchen porter, a kitchen assistant, and I

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  31. worked there for about a year and a half.

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  32. And the owners or the managers of the

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  33. place, Lynn and Bernard, I think their

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  34. names were, a married couple, British

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  35. married couple, and they were kind of

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  36. nice, I guess. Lynn, the woman, she was

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  37. very nice to me, very friendly, but the

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  38. man Bernard, he was a bit of a dick and

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  39. not very nice. He was like very fat, very

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  40. rude and vulgar, and he avoided talking to

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  41. me, maybe because he thought I was weird

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  42. and creepy. And every time he wanted to

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  43. tell me something, he would tell his wife

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  44. to tell me. So for example, he would say,

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  45. tell Daniel to cut his hair because it's

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  46. getting too long, and then she would tell

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  47. me instead of him just telling me. He kind

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  48. of had a point because back then my hair

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  49. was looking pretty stupid and pretty long.

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  50. I was really into having this kind of

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  51. anime Final Fantasy hairstyle that was

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  52. full of hair wax and hair gel and

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  53. hairspray to make it hold its shape. And

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  54. they were getting fed up with my stupid

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  55. hair and they told me to cut it. And I

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  56. thought this was dumb because Lynn was a

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  57. woman and she had even longer hair that

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  58. came down to like here and she was cooking

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  59. all the food and she said I needed to cut

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  60. my hair because my hair might get in the

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  61. food when I wasn't even doing any food

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  62. preparation. I was just washing dishes and

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  63. cleaning the kitchen and her hair was

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  64. literally longer than mine and she was

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  65. doing all the food preparation and cooking

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  66. and she didn't have to wear a hairnet. So

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  67. I thought it was pretty dumb that they

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  68. complained about my hair being too long.

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  69. And this is kind of the recurring theme

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  70. here. Keep— people keep telling me to do

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  71. stuff that I think is dumb, and then I

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  72. rebel against it, and then I get in

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  73. trouble, and it causes awkwardness and

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  74. tension between me and the people I'm

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  75. working with. And then there was also this

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  76. problem with food. So at lunchtime, Lynn

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  77. would always ask me if I wanted a sausage

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  78. sandwich for lunch, and I'd always say yes

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  79. because obviously I'm hungry, it's

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  80. lunchtime. But Bernard didn't like it. He

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  81. would always complain to her, saying, oh,

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  82. you're giving away free food now. Like,

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  83. he didn't like the fact that I was eating

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  84. the food for free, even though it's pretty

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  85. common for people who work in food places

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  86. to be able to eat the food there for free.

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  87. And he didn't tell me that I was supposed

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  88. to bring a packed lunch or anything. He

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  89. would just complain about me to his wife,

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  90. and I could hear him complaining because

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  91. it was just in the other room. And he was

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  92. also a very violent and— the lights just

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  93. flickered there. I don't know why the

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  94. lights are flickering. Kind of weird. But

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  95. anyway, he was a very violent and vulgar

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  96. person. One time I came in to do my

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  97. morning shift and he was like beating up

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  98. his wife, grabbing her whacking her and

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  99. then also verbally being very abusive. So

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  100. he was not a very nice guy. I didn't

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  101. really know what to do, so I just waited

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  102. outside of the kitchen until they finished

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  103. fighting, and then I went in and pretended

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  104. I didn't see anything because I don't want

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  105. to get involved with domestic problems,

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  106. someone else's marriage. What am I gonna

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  107. do, go in there and say, Bernard, get your

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  108. hands off her now or else I'm going to—

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  109. what am I gonna do? So it was very awkward

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  110. having to work there whilst also trying to

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  111. pretend that this marriage domestic

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  112. fighting wasn't really going going on and

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  113. just try and ignore it. But Lynn was

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  114. pretty nice to me and I never really had a

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  115. problem with her. And then they retired

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  116. the year after I started to work there and

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  117. this new guy came in, this Scottish guy,

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  118. and he was a real horrible person. He was

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  119. like trying to be Gordon Ramsay or

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  120. something, always swearing, always really

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  121. rude, always treating the staff really

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  122. badly, especially me. He really didn't

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  123. like me. He said I was slow and I was

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  124. useless and I was the worst kitchen porter

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  125. he ever had. And he would always be like,

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  126. Daniel, why are you so effing slow?

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  127. Daniel, didn't your mum ever effing teach

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  128. you to do this? Why don't you effing clean

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  129. under appliances? One time he started

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  130. boiling a pot of potatoes and then he just

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  131. left the kitchen and never came back until

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  132. like half an hour later. And then the

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  133. boiling water started bubbling a lot and

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  134. started spilling out of the pot. And I

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  135. didn't know what to do. Should I touch it?

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  136. If I touch it and then he comes back,

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  137. he'll be like, Daniel, why did you effing

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  138. touch my boiling potatoes? So I decided

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  139. not to do anything. And then he comes back

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  140. and sees all the water spilling over. And

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  141. then he completely flips out. He starts

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  142. shouting, F this, F that, and then says to

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  143. me, why didn't I do anything when he

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  144. didn't tell me to keep an eye on his

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  145. stupid boiling potatoes? He shouldn't have

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  146. just walked out the kitchen whilst cooking

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  147. something. And then he had the nerve to

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  148. say that I had bad communication skills

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  149. when he didn't really have great

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  150. communication skills either. Otherwise,

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  151. he would have instructed me on what to do

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  152. if he was going to leave the kitchen.

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  153. Also, he was really lazy, so he didn't

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  154. really have a house yet because he just

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  155. moved to the area and you get a free

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  156. house. With the job and his house was

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  157. being cleaned or something. So he used to

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  158. live or stay in the hotel room that was at

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  159. the inn, and I saw him in there playing

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  160. Xbox games in the bedroom, and I thought,

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  161. Jesus, this guy's so damn lazy, and he has

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  162. the nerve to complain about me being slow

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  163. or lazy. Then one day I go into work in

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  164. the morning, I enter the kitchen, and

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  165. standing at the sink doing my job is some

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  166. boy called Perry. Apparently he just got a

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  167. new kitchen porter to replace me, maybe

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  168. because he felt like he needed 2 kitchen

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  169. porters, or he was was getting ready to

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  170. fire me and then use Perry to do my job.

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  171. So I go in there and I didn't know what to

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  172. do because Perry is already doing my job,

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  173. washing the dishes, and he's already done

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  174. the cleaning. So there was nothing to do.

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  175. I just stood there watching him wash

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  176. dishes. And then the Scottish guy comes in

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  177. and then he's all mad and angry, saying,

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  178. why are you just standing there doing

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  179. nothing, Daniel? I don't pay you to stand

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  180. around doing effing nothing. And then he

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  181. tells me to help Perry do the dishes. So 2

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  182. of us are standing there and at the sink

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  183. washing dishes. 4 pairs of hands going

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  184. into the sink washing dishes. It was just

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  185. stupid. And then he tells me to go over to

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  186. his house, which is just down the road,

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  187. and clean his house because the previous

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  188. owners, Lynn and Bernard, they had a lot

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  189. of dogs and they were very untidy people

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  190. and the house was a mess. So he wants me

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  191. to go over there and wipe down all of the

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  192. surfaces and give it, give it a deep

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  193. clean. So I had to spend the entire day

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  194. mopping and cleaning his stupid house.

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  195. And I just really hated working there.

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  196. This Scottish guy was so horrible. He was

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  197. so unbearable to have as a boss, and I

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  198. really wanted to quit. Luckily, my dad got

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  199. me a job at his company, the company he

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  200. works at, and he got me a job as an office

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  201. junior. So then I tell the Scottish guy,

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  202. I got a new job, I want to quit. And guess

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  203. what he says? He says, good, you are the

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  204. worst kitchen porter I've ever had. And

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  205. then he asked me what my new job is, and I

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  206. say, office assistant. And then he says,

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  207. you know, you have to have really good

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  208. communication skills to work in an office,

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  209. which I don't think you have, Daniel.

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  210. But, you know, good luck anyway. I ended

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  211. up just leaving and I didn't go back to

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  212. get my final paycheck because I never

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  213. wanted to see him ever again. I ended up

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  214. getting my mum to go there to pick up my

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  215. paycheck because I just— I felt so

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  216. miserable and I didn't want to have to go

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  217. back there ever again.

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  218. So I start my new job at my dad's office.

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  219. It was a small office, small engineering

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  220. company, maybe about 5 or 6 people working

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  221. there, and they made refrigeration

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  222. machines. And they made these

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  223. refrigeration cooling machines, cooling

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  224. systems for all kinds of things— shops,

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  225. small shops, businesses, all the way up to

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  226. big ships like Royal Navy ships. And my

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  227. dad was the project manager, and he had to

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  228. design these machines on the computer and

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  229. actually get the parts ordered and have it

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  230. built in the warehouse below the office.

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  231. And then that will get sent out to the big

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  232. Royal Navy ships. And if there was any

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  233. problems with the machine, my dad had to

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  234. go out to wherever the ship was and fix

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  235. it, because for some reason they didn't

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  236. have their own engineers on the ship that

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  237. could fix it. My dad had to go all the way

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  238. out to the ship. Sometimes he had to go to

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  239. places like Bahrain Malaysia, Dubai.

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  240. So my job at the company as an office

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  241. assistant was to mostly help my dad

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  242. because he had to print out these massive

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  243. instruction manuals for the machinery.

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  244. And then I had to organize the instruction

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  245. manuals page by page so that that was a

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  246. pretty easy job, just putting the pages

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  247. into a folder. But then I had other jobs

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  248. like data entry into computers and

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  249. organizing the cabinets and organizing the

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  250. folders in the cabinets and stuff like

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  251. that. That was all fine and everything,

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  252. but there was a guy there called Gordon

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  253. who I really didn't like. Gordon, he was a

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  254. very annoying person, like a super strict,

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  255. super serious, hard-working kind of guy

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  256. who didn't like it when other people

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  257. slacked off. And I slacked off quite a lot

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  258. when I had nothing to do because sometimes

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  259. there was just no work to do. Sometimes

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  260. there'd be a quiet period at the job and

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  261. there wasn't really much to do. And at the

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  262. time I was very into studying Japanese.

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  263. So I'd sit there with a piece of paper

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  264. just practicing kanji and practicing

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  265. Japanese, and he would see me sitting

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  266. there doodling or scribbling, and he

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  267. didn't like it. So he always came over to

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  268. me when I seemed like I had nothing to do,

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  269. and he would get me to make tea and coffee

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  270. for the entire office. And I really didn't

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  271. like this. I just quit a job doing kitchen

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  272. assistant kitchen work, and now he's like

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  273. sending me back into the kitchen to be a

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  274. tea boy, which I found very demeaning and

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  275. insulting. One time my dad had this very

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  276. important meeting in the conference room

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  277. with his boss and some very important

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  278. clients, customers, probably from the

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  279. Royal Navy, who knows. And then stupid

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  280. Gordon tells me to go and make tea and

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  281. coffee and bring it into the meeting room.

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  282. And I felt so embarrassed having to go

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  283. into the meeting room with my dad there,

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  284. and I'm like serving coffee to these

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  285. people. And it felt humiliating because as

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  286. you see I'm Asian or half Asian. I'm not

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  287. white. But everyone in the meeting room,

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  288. including my dad, were white. And I felt

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  289. like an slave, like a, like a maid

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  290. or a servant working in some kind of

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  291. British Empire office in one of the

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  292. British Empire colonies in Singapore or

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  293. something. Like it's 1947. And it just,

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  294. it felt really embarrassing. My dad was

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  295. also kind of upset as well because he was

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  296. hoping that I would get a job at the

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  297. company and be trained up as an engineer

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  298. or trained up as at least an office

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  299. person. But all they were doing was

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  300. getting me to make tea and coffee for

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  301. everyone like I was servant boy. And then

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  302. the last straw was when Gordon came up to

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  303. me one morning and said, okay, Daniel,

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  304. since you're not very busy— he had like a

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  305. very condescending, patronizing tone. The

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  306. most annoying thing about Gordon was the

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  307. way he spoke. It was like a very

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  308. irritating, patronizing way of talking

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  309. that he had. So he says, okay, Daniel, so

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  310. since you don't have anything to do, I

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  311. want you to go around the office every day

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  312. at 9 AM and and 3 PM and ask everyone if

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  313. they want to have a coffee or a tea and

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  314. take a piece of paper and write down how

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  315. everyone likes to have their tea or

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  316. coffee— sugar, no sugar, milk, no milk,

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  317. that kind of stuff. And I just had enough

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  318. at that point. I managed to last about 6

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  319. months there. I saved up quite a lot of

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  320. money for my first trip to Japan, which I

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  321. was really excited for, and I decided to

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  322. just say no to him. And I didn't care if I

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  323. got fired, so I said no, I'm not going to

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  324. do that. And then he says, okay, Daniel,

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  325. let's go and have a chat with Phil, the

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  326. manager. And then I had to get taken into

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  327. Phil's office. And Phil gave me a lecture

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  328. on why it's important to make tea for the

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  329. team, because it creates like a family

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  330. atmosphere and you can bond with the other

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  331. people working there and become like a

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  332. family, which is very important when

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  333. working in an office. And then he said,

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  334. do you think you can do that, Daniel? And

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  335. I said, no. I'm not going to do it. And

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  336. then he said, well, then unfortunately we

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  337. won't be able to allow you to continue

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  338. working here. And I said, okay, whatever.

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  339. So I guess you could say I got fired from

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  340. that job or I accepted to get fired

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  341. instead of just listening to what they

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  342. told me to do. In hindsight, I should have

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  343. just made the damn tea because the money

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  344. was pretty good. I worked there for only 5

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  345. or 6 months and I managed to save up about

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  346. £7,000, which was pretty good. I didn't

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  347. have any expenses. My dad drove me there.

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  348. Because I went there with him. So no

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  349. transport fees. I lived with my parents,

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  350. no rent. My parents paid my food. I didn't

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  351. pay for anything. So I saved every penny

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  352. that I made from that job and I made like

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  353. £6,000-£7,000, which was loads of money

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  354. for me at the time. I think I was about 20

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  355. years old and that was just huge. And I

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  356. managed to go to Japan for the first time

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  357. because I had that money. So in hindsight,

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  358. maybe I should have just shut up and made

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  359. the tea and worked there for a bit longer.

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  360. To make even more money. But I kind of let

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  361. my ego and my pride take over and control

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  362. my decision-making. But Gordon was so

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  363. annoying. I couldn't stand working with

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  364. him. Even my dad didn't like him.

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  365. Sometimes my dad came home from work and

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  366. he would complain about how annoying

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  367. Gordon was because Gordon tried to tell my

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  368. dad how to do his job when it's not really

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  369. Gordon's place to be telling my dad what

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  370. to do. Gordon doesn't know anything.

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  371. About engineering. So I quit the job and I

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  372. go to Japan for my first time ever, and

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  373. I'm instantly hooked on traveling to

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  374. Japan. I have my first experiences with

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  375. women. I meet and hang out with lots of

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  376. different people from all over the world.

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  377. I make friends, have a great time in

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  378. Japan. And from that point onwards, all I

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  379. cared about was being able to save up

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  380. money so I can go to Japan again. So I

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  381. come back after going to Japan and I'm

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  382. already thinking about going to Japan

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  383. again the next year. And the next year I

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  384. want to get a job in Japan. And I get a

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  385. job in Japan doing the working holiday

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  386. visa. My second time in Japan, I do the

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  387. working holiday visa and I get a job at

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  388. Lawson, a convenience store. And I was

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  389. very proud that I was able to get a job at

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  390. Lawson because I had studied very hard to

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  391. learn Japanese and my Japanese was good

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  392. enough to be able to work at Lawson and be

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  393. able to deal with Japanese customers.

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  394. Unfortunately, working at the convenience

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  395. store was a complete nightmare. The

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  396. problem was my Japanese was okay, But it

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  397. wasn't perfect and my Japanese had a lot

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  398. of holes in it. And there were a lot of

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  399. times where I just didn't understand what

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  400. the customers were saying. And then the

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  401. customers got grumpy at me. Either they

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  402. mumbled and I couldn't really catch what

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  403. they were saying, or they were just saying

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  404. a word that I had never heard before. For

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  405. example, this one time a customer comes in

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  406. and he asks us for a spray that discharges

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  407. static electricity. And I don't know what

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  408. static electricity is in Japanese. So he

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  409. says the word And I don't understand what

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  410. he's saying. I tried to take out my phone

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  411. to look on Google Translate, but then my

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  412. coworker's like, oh, no phones whilst

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  413. we're working. They were very strict about

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  414. not opening or using your phone whilst you

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  415. were working. So I didn't know what to do.

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  416. The coworker had to step in and take over

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  417. because I didn't understand. And I felt so

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  418. useless and rubbish at my job. And this

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  419. kept happening almost every day where I

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  420. didn't understand what the customer was

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  421. saying. And then they got kind of grumpy

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  422. at me. They tutted or sighed at me, and

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  423. this didn't really feel very good. Every

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  424. day I was filled with anxiety, fearing

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  425. that I was just not going to understand

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  426. what the customer was going to say again.

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  427. There were lots of very fiddly, annoying

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  428. procedures we did at the convenience

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  429. store, like refunding items was a very

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  430. annoying process I have to go through.

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  431. Adding points to a transaction was also a

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  432. fiddly process, so we always had to ask

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  433. the customer if they had a points card.

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  434. Before scanning their item. Because after

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  435. you've scanned the item and taken the

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  436. money and given, given them their receipt,

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  437. you can't add the points to the purchase

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  438. anymore. You have to refund the item and

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  439. then go through the entire process from

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  440. the beginning. And then when you refund

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  441. the item, you've got to fill out in the

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  442. book why you refunded it. It's just a very

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  443. annoying process. And this one time I got

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  444. lazy and I decided not to ask the customer

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  445. for a points card. And he didn't show me a

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  446. points card, so I just assumed he didn't

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  447. have one. And then I scan his item, I take

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  448. the money, I give him his change and his

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  449. receipt. And then afterwards he says, oh,

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  450. I have a points card. And I thought, oh my

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  451. God, it's too late now. So I just refuse

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  452. to add his points because to add his

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  453. points, I would have to refund the whole

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  454. item, take back the money, and then rescan

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  455. the item and then just do it all from the

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  456. beginning, but there was a massive queue

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  457. of people waiting and it was really busy.

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  458. And for some reason I was on my own behind

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  459. the counters and I just panicked and I

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  460. just refused. I said, no, sorry, I can't

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  461. add your points now. And he was just

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  462. standing there looking dumbfounded that he

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  463. couldn't believe that I was refusing to

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  464. add his points to the purchase. So I just

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  465. said, next please, and I ignored him and

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  466. eventually he just walked off. The entire

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  467. cash register is in Japanese, in Japanese

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  468. kanji. Which can be very hard to read when

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  469. you're under pressure and there's a

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  470. massive queue of people. And I couldn't

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  471. remember exactly how to do a refund.

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  472. There was a refund button, then you press

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  473. this button, that button, and scan the

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  474. item, and then you got to put the money

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  475. back into the till and then write

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  476. somewhere that you added money back into

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  477. the till. It was really confusing, and I

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  478. just kind of had a mental flip-out,

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  479. and I couldn't do the refund under that

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  480. kind of pressure. I kept making these

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  481. silly little mistakes as well. For

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  482. example, I kept forgetting how long to put

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  483. things in the microwave or how long do I

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  484. deep fry the fried chicken? Is it 20

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  485. seconds or 30 seconds? I had to keep

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  486. asking and then they got frustrated

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  487. because I couldn't remember how long I had

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  488. to do stuff. One time I put a bento

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  489. microwave meal into the microwave and I

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  490. forgot to take off the sachet of sauce and

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  491. then it exploded inside of the microwave

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  492. and made a massive mess. And me and the

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  493. customer were standing there with tissues

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  494. wiping off the sauce. Thankfully, the

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  495. customer was quite friendly and quite

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  496. nice, so it wasn't a huge problem. But my

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  497. coworkers did not like it. And after

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  498. working there for about 3 months, they

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  499. took me into the back office and they

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  500. scolded me for making mistakes still,

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  501. said I wasn't trying my best, said I kept

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  502. making mistakes. And at that point, I just

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  503. had enough. I was fed up, had so much

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  504. anxiety and stress every day. From the

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  505. communication problems. I really hated the

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  506. job as well, and it was just very

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  507. stressful. I ended up just not going back

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  508. there. I didn't even tell them I quit. I

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  509. just left without saying I'm not coming

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  510. back. And because I didn't have the

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  511. willpower to find a new job, and I didn't

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  512. have YouTube, and I didn't have any kind

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  513. of way of making money, I had to leave

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  514. Japan after about 4 months instead of just

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  515. staying there for a whole year, which is

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  516. what my working holiday visa allowed me to

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  517. stay there. So I wasted my whole working

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  518. holiday visa, and I had to leave Japan.

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  519. And then finally, my 4th and last job that

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  520. I've ever had. I had this job back in

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  521. 2016, which was like 8 years, 7 years ago

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  522. now. I worked night shifts at a petrol

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  523. station as a sales assistant, and I was

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  524. about 26, 27 years old. And this is

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  525. probably the most annoying and the worst

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  526. job I've ever had. And this is all because

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  527. I had this one coworker who I really

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  528. hated. This guy from Nepal, the Nepalese

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  529. guy, he was basically like a carbon copy

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  530. of Gordon. Very strict, very hardworking,

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  531. very strong work ethic, didn't like

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  532. slacking around, very annoying and

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  533. patronizing, condescending way of talking.

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  534. I think he and Gordon would have been

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  535. great friends, but I really despised him

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  536. and I couldn't work there. After about 9

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  537. months of working there, I just couldn't

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  538. work there any longer because I couldn't

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  539. stand this guy. So I chose night shifts

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  540. because I thought doing night shift would

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  541. be easy. There's gonna be hardly any

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  542. customers, gonna be really quiet, we'll

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  543. just be standing around doing nothing most

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  544. of the time. I was very wrong. There were

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  545. so many things to do, like restocking the

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  546. shelves, checking expiry dates, cooking

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  547. and baking things like donuts,

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  548. pies, sandwiches, stuff like that, ready

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  549. for the morning service. And then we also

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  550. had to manage customers. Surprisingly,

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  551. still quite a lot of customers came in in

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  552. the middle of the night— truck drivers,

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  553. lorry drivers, police people, that kind of

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  554. stuff. And also the worst customers I've

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  555. ever experienced— the Irish travelers

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  556. would come in every weekend completely

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  557. smashed and drunk and have fights and

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  558. cause problems. And we had to call the

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  559. police several times. We even got

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  560. shoplifted, which was pretty scary, and

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  561. had to call the police. And it was a very

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  562. chaotic and not peaceful at all doing

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  563. night shifts in a petrol station. The

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  564. problem with a petrol station is it's like

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  565. an easy target for criminals because it's

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  566. a very quiet area in the countryside and

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  567. it's very isolated and it's the middle of

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  568. the night, not many people. It's like very

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  569. easy target for criminals because it has

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  570. all of the stuff criminals like. It's got

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  571. money in the cash register, it's got

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  572. alcohol, it's got booze, it's got

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  573. cigarettes, and they just come and they

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  574. think, oh, it's easy, we're just going to

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  575. steal from that place because Daniel's a

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  576. very weak and timid guy. So when I say

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  577. Irish travelers, if you're not from the

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  578. UK, maybe you don't understand what I

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  579. mean. I'm not talking about tourists from

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  580. Ireland, Irish tourists. I'm talking about

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  581. Irish travelers who are people who usually

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  582. live on a piece of land and they don't

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  583. have a house. They live in a caravan or

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  584. some kind of trailer or like a mobile home

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  585. that's on wheels, so it doesn't

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  586. technically count as a building, so they

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  587. don't have to pay certain types of taxes.

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  588. Maybe in America it's like the equivalent

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  589. of trailer trash or rednecks, if that's

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  590. what you call them. They're not very

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  591. pleasant people, let's just put it that

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  592. way. And almost every weekend they would

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  593. come in and cause some kind of trouble.

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  594. One time this massive gang of them, maybe

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  595. 8 or 10, arrived at the petrol station in

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  596. cars and they were all drunk, holding

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  597. pints of beers they probably stole from

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  598. the pub they came from. They were all

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  599. completely drunk and fighting in the

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  600. petrol station, smashing stuff. We had to

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  601. call the police by pressing the emergency

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  602. button under the counter to do like an

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  603. instant distress call, and then the police

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  604. show up after they leave, and then we had

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  605. to like file a report and tell them,

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  606. explain what happened. It was very scary.

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  607. Before working at that petrol station, I

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  608. had absolutely zero experience interacting

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  609. with the police. But then I was

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  610. interacting with the police so many times

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  611. because we kept getting shoplifted. The

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  612. Irish people kept coming and shoplifting

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  613. or fighting. So I had a lot of

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  614. interactions with the police, which was

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  615. kind of interesting, I guess, but I didn't

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  616. really enjoy it because it's very

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  617. stressful. So not only was it stressful

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  618. because we had scary violent criminal

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  619. customers sometimes, but I also didn't get

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  620. along with the Nepalese guy who was my

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  621. coworker for night shifts at all. He was

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  622. very nitpicky and was constantly

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  623. complaining about the way I did things.

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  624. So for example, one of the jobs we had to

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  625. do was to check for expired food on the

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  626. shelves. And there was a lot of food,

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  627. loaves of bread, loads of stuff in the

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  628. refrigerated food area. I had to check

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  629. each and every packet to see if it was

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  630. expired or not. And sometimes I would not

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  631. check properly and I would miss something.

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  632. And then he would double-check, and he

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  633. would always catch what I missed. And then

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  634. he would be very annoying about it. He'd

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  635. be like, Daniel, you missed something

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  636. again. Do you need to be trained how to

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  637. check properly? And then he would tut and

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  638. sigh at me, have this very condescending

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  639. tone. I found it very irritating. And then

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  640. when I had my second break, or kind of

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  641. unofficial break, he really didn't like it

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  642. when I had my second break. I'd have a

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  643. short 5 or 10 minute break before around 5

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  644. AM, which is when I started cooking the

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  645. morning pastries and sandwiches. It's

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  646. silly because I only had 2 breaks and he

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  647. had like 4 or 5 breaks because he had to

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  648. smoke. So he kept having smoking breaks.

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  649. So he was allowed to have all these

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  650. smoking breaks, but I wasn't allowed to

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  651. have my second unofficial break. He would

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  652. come into the office when I was having my

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  653. break and then he would just tut and sigh

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  654. at me and be like, oh, you're not gonna do

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  655. any effing work, are you, Daniel? He was

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  656. just really rude. And I tried really hard

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  657. to just keep my mouth shut about it and

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  658. just take it. But then one time I just

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  659. completely snapped and I talked back to

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  660. him and I was like, I don't like the way

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  661. you talk to me. You're being very rude to

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  662. me. I'd prefer it if you didn't say

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  663. anything to me and just did your own work

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  664. and I'll do my own work. And I was so

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  665. scared because I usually don't talk back

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  666. to people or get angry at people. My lips

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  667. were trembling, my knees were shaking from

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  668. all the adrenaline. I just felt very

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  669. scared that I actually talked back to him,

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  670. and he ended up complaining to the manager

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  671. about me. And then me and the manager had

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  672. to have a talk, and then I told her that

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  673. he was swearing at me and he was being

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  674. very rude. And at the time, I was making a

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  675. lot of YouTube videos about my new job at

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  676. the petrol station, and I'd make videos

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  677. about him, complaining about him, talking

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  678. about how much I hate the job, how I wish

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  679. I got fired. And somehow the manager found

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  680. my YouTube channel and she saw these

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  681. videos. She also saw the video where I

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  682. filmed during one time I had a night shift

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  683. where I was all alone because the Nepalese

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  684. guy took holiday. And then when he takes

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  685. holiday, I have to work alone. And I

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  686. decided to make a vlog in the petrol

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  687. station, what it's like doing night shift

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  688. alone. And she found it and she was not

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  689. happy with it. She said it was a security

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  690. risk and people who were thinking or

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  691. planning to rob the place could use the

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  692. video to plan a robbery, which I think was

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  693. stupid. If they were really planning a

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  694. robbery, they could just come into the

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  695. store before and just walk around and look

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  696. themselves. So she made me take down that

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  697. video of me vlogging my shift at work.

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  698. It's back up now because, you know, I

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  699. don't care. She can't tell me what to do

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  700. anymore. But she also told me to take down

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  701. the videos where I was cussing out the

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  702. Nepalese guy, and I had to take them down.

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  703. I didn't take them down, I just set them

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  704. to private because I didn't want to get

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  705. fired yet. But it was really awkward after

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  706. I had that chat with the manager. Me and

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  707. the Nepalese guy, we never talked to each

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  708. other ever again. We would start our

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  709. shift, we wouldn't even say hello. I would

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  710. go to the petrol station, walk in behind

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  711. the counter where he was already there,

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  712. and we would just avoid eye contact. We

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  713. wouldn't say anything. He would go out and

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  714. do his jobs, and I would just sit there,

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  715. and then he would come back, and then I'd

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  716. go out and do my jobs. And we would try as

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  717. hard as possible not to interact with each

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  718. other at all. And the manager could see us

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  719. on the CCTV camera feeds from her house,

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  720. and she thought it was really weird how I

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  721. refused to talk to people. And she

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  722. complained to me about how I was being

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  723. very antisocial and I wasn't trying to

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  724. talk to people. I was just ignoring people

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  725. at the workplace. And that was just

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  726. because I felt fed up. I couldn't be

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  727. bothered anymore. I felt really burnt out

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  728. having to say hello, good morning, good

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  729. evening every single damn day. And also

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  730. there's like this weird drinks tea

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  731. culture. It's kind of like British culture

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  732. where if you go to make yourself a tea or

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  733. a coffee, you, you kind of have to offer

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  734. everyone else if they want to have a tea

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  735. or coffee. And if you don't, it's

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  736. considered impolite or weird. So there was

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  737. a tea coffee machine and I used to just

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  738. make my drink before I started my shift.

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  739. I'd get a cup, put it there, press the

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  740. button, make myself a hot chocolate or

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  741. something. And the manager complained to

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  742. me, said to me that I need to ask everyone

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  743. else if they also want a drink when I go

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  744. and make my drink. And I was like, oh my

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  745. god, not this again. I had this problem at

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  746. the stupid office job where people were

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  747. whining at me to make coffees and teas for

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  748. everyone. What is it with British people

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  749. and goddamn freaking coffee and tea?

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  750. Can't they just make their own drink? Why

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  751. do I have to make other people's drinks?

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  752. I never want anyone else to make me a

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  753. drink. I just make my own. Myself my own

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  754. drink. But it's like this big problem when

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  755. you work in the UK. To seem normal,

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  756. you have to ask people if they want a

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  757. drink. So I just ended up not making my

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  758. own drink anymore, and I just bring a

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  759. bottle of water into work and drink that

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  760. instead of making myself a tea or drink.

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  761. So I didn't want to have to ask every damn

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  762. time, do you want a drink? Do you want a

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  763. drink? I'm gonna make a tea now. Do you

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  764. want one too? Because they would ask me

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  765. every time that when my co-workers went to

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  766. make their own drink, they would ask me if

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  767. I wanted a drink as well every damn time.

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  768. I said no thank you, no thank you, no

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  769. thanks. So I really just felt fed up

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  770. working there. I hated the Nepalese guy.

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  771. It was really awkward now. I mean, it was

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  772. nice that he stopped bossing me around and

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  773. complaining about me or complaining to me

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  774. after we had that talk with the manager,

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  775. but now it was just really awkward because

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  776. now we weren't talking at all and it was

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  777. just weird. And the thing I really found

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  778. annoying was the the fact that he was

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  779. younger than me. He was like 2, 3 years

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  780. younger than me, but he kind of had like

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  781. old man vibes. He was young, but he kind

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  782. of looked old, like weathered and worn. I

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  783. guess that's because he was born and

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  784. raised in Nepal, which is like very harsh

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  785. environments on a mountain, which probably

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  786. doesn't— isn't a very easy life compared

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  787. to someone like me who had a very easy

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  788. life when he was a kid, and I was very

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  789. spoiled. But he had like 40,

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  790. 50-year-old old man vibes. He wore a big

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  791. heavy chunky looking metal wristwatch,

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  792. and I don't know, he did things like tuck

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  793. his shirt into his trousers. He just

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  794. seemed like an old man even though he was

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  795. younger than me. When I found out he was

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  796. younger than me, it just annoyed me even

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  797. more that he was bossing me about in my

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  798. own country when he's younger than me. It

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  799. just really annoyed me, so I had to quit

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  800. the job. So basically every single job

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  801. I've ever had follows this pattern of I

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  802. start the job with good intentions. I want

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  803. to work, I want to make money, I want to

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  804. earn money and do a good job. But then

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  805. after a few months, I don't really seem to

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  806. get any better at the job. I still kind of

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  807. suck at the job. I don't try my best. I

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  808. get lazy. I take shortcuts. I end up

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  809. falling out with at least one or two

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  810. people at the workplace because they are

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  811. hardworking and I am not. And then they

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  812. get mad because I'm lazy. And then they

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  813. start nagging me, and then I start hating

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  814. them, and then it gets really awkward,

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  815. and then I end up having to leave, or I

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  816. get fired because it's just too awkward to

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  817. carry on working there. And I just don't

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  818. care enough about the job to want to be

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  819. really good at the job. I couldn't care

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  820. less about being the best petrol station

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  821. sales assistant or being the best

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  822. dishwasher at a stupid kitchen in some

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  823. stupid inn pub. So I really hated— I

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  824. didn't really hate the work. I felt okay

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  825. just working and it felt nice to be making

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  826. money. I just hated everyone that I had to

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  827. work with because they would nag at me,

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  828. boss me around, complain about me, and

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  829. they were just very annoying people to

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  830. have to work with. And for that reason, I

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  831. just don't really want to have to get a

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  832. job again because I know exactly the same

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  833. thing's gonna happen. I'll just eventually

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  834. end up falling out with everyone after a

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  835. few months and then just quit. So I don't

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  836. want to have to get a job. Hopefully I

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  837. won't have to get a job ever again. I've

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  838. got about 30 years left of life, so

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  839. fingers crossed I won't have to work again

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  840. for those 30 years and we'll see how it

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  841. goes. This has been a really long video.

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  842. I don't know if anyone's still watching,

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  843. but if you did get all the way to the end

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  844. of the video, type in the comments

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  845. something like, I don't know, banana

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