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Nico ([personal profile] vilakins) wrote2021-10-22 05:45 pm

Questions for 19 - 21 September

19. If you won the lottery, do you think any of your family members would ask you to give them some of your money?
Oh, hell yes - my sister. She already said, no, demanded that I should make my will out to her and her kids. Nope. She'll have to wait till we're both gone which is when it gets divided equally among all our siblings.

20. What is the craziest thing you’ve seen happen at a workplace?
One year when I was at uni I had a summer holiday job at Griffin's Biscuits. I mainly worked on the packing lines putting chilled biscuits (like the chocolatey ones in the link) into trays; the mallowpuffs, (in the middle on the link) looked like WW2 German soldiers on the march as they came along the line in their helmeted ranks. There were also lines that baked and packed automatically, and people used to shrink-wrap their lunches or dinners and pass them through to heat them up.
But that's not the crazy thing. That was on the creme wafer line when two women had a fight and one shoved the other head-first right into a vat of creme*. It was pretty spectacular: they ended up rolling on the floor covered in it.
* disgustingly sweet filling

21. Would you rather read a book or listen to the audiobook?
Read. I love being read to, but it's so relaxing I tend to go to sleep.
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[personal profile] imhilien 2021-10-24 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
I remember watching a TV show in the '80's called 'Lottery' about different people each week winning a big fortune. Most of the time it brought out the worst in them or their families and that always stuck with me as a warning.

A meltdown at Griffin's Biscuits, wow!

I think the craziest thing I saw at work was at one of my jobs and at one event night, the person hosting and in charge of cleaning up, got quite, uh, merry and fell asleep on the carpet. Only to be discovered by the bosses PA the next morning (an old school woman you didn't dare annoy). She wasn't happy. I remember he was a guy who always asked us secretaries for a new pen. When he left his job, his drawer was found stuffed full of pens...