Best place you've ever worked

Carroller16

I don't know whether this has been done before or not.

I did a search and couldn't find anything.

So what's the best place you've ever worked in.

I'd probably say STARBUCKS COFFEE

mikemac

Procter & Gamble (Max Factor, Oil of Olay, Hugo Boss, etc)
I was only on the factory floor but there was a great atmosphere and management were brilliant

markpb

I did six months work placement in Enterprise Ireland a few years ago - great guys, interesting work, a boss who regularly bought custard donuts for everyone, a secretary who made vodka smoothies on Friday evenings and a team who spent most lunch breaks and evenings playing MOHAA in the training room

youcancallmeal

Superquinn when I was seventeen. Once the shop closed we pretty much helped ourselves to whatever we wanted and also had forklift races around the shop among other things. The floor manager couldnt stop us because most nights we were doing him a favour and staying back for hours getting the shop ready the next day. Then nightpacking was brought in and it all came to an end. Ah yes good times

Carroller16

had the same sort of thing in Tesco ha

MollyCoddle

An off-licence in London.....free drinkies every night after it closed.

Best 'grown up' job was with Cadbury in London.....sadly my waistline suffered but man it felt good at the time!

rain on

Cork County Libraries. English graduate + books everywhere = happy as a pig in fecal matter.

The Insider

Symantec - Great atmosphere, management knew how to treat there staff, great benefits and pay.

Superquinn - Worked part time there for about 5 years and had some great crack and met some lovely women.

MagicMarker

Working a summer in Burger King when i was 16/17.. Bloody hard work but a great laugh all the same, parties every weekend and dicking around in work. Then a lot of people moved on and the craic eventually deteriorated. The last year or so of that job just sucked!!

Dudess

A tie between Cork City Council housing department (admin) - great laugh, and the Irish Examiner (admin) - also great laugh. A bit of fun makes a massive difference to a job - it's not as if the work was that riveting but the people made it worth going in every day.

admiralofthefleet

the pub im in at the minute, brilliant atmosphere, everybody is there to help one another out and we all get on great, thats 75% of the job done as far as i am concerned

cazzy

On the J1 in the states in 1996 - i worked in the office of a ferry company - job entailed counting money, eating a lot of free food, drinking a lot of free drink (came with the job) listening to the radio and generally having a good time.

Oh how life is so different now ...

Work 40 - 50 plus hours a week. No radio, free food, sunshine or dossing. Just stress and hassle.

lil_lisa

I worked for a promotional company called CPM and had to do work for Halo3 two weeks before it came out-got a company van, halo3 bag, tshirt, hoodie, the whole works! there were only eight of us doin it throughout the country, it was so much fun!

fletch...

king arthur movie extra, best job of my life. funny thing was my old previouse boss who ide walked out on after about 5 years rang me - asked would i come back ect... for crap pay ect.. and told me to get a proper life/job and cop on to myself

Haha! 2 days work there (and i was there ages) was the equivalent of a weeks work stuck in a 20x20 ft lab. + we where getting paid to run around mountians fields of fire half naked sword fighting and all sorts! every kids dream. if any of yous get an oppertunity like that - definatly take it, its great craic

20 Times 20 Times

The job I'm currently is is the best job i have ever had for various reasons , technically I'm a backpacker so im currently working for an I.T company in Melbourne getting paid $40 Dollars a hour , 38 hours a week i have free internet obviously i don't have any targets at all , i get told what we need doing Monday morning i come in takes me about 2 hours to do one weeks work. I sit on the internet until Thursday , Friday i come in and my boss takes me for beers while i get paid to sit in the pub all day Friday. best job ever. I have my own office too

20 Times 20 Times

fletch... wrote: »

king arthur movie extra, best job of my life. funny thing was my old previouse boss who ide walked out on after about 5 years rang me - asked would i come back ect... for crap pay ect.. and told me to get a proper life/job and cop on to myself

Haha! 2 days work there (and i was there ages) was the equivalent of a weeks work stuck in a 20x20 ft lab. + we where getting paid to run around mountians fields of fire half naked sword fighting and all sorts! every kids dream. if any of yous get an oppertunity like that - definatly take it, its great craic

My Girlfriend worked as a markup artist on that movie.

PeakOutput

axa insurance

nice people, free bar once a month, regualr casual days with donuts and cakes etc and easy work, was good times till i got lured into a different company by a hard sell recruiter which was a huge mistake

meh im in college now though having a class time with no job

Keano

My current job! Bonuses beat any of the company around and we get paid €627 extra every year for not having a sick day - i.e. getting out of bed after a day on the booze

run_Forrest_run

mine had to be working part time in an independent (family run) super market during college. Money was bad but we had some laugh, lots of 'unofficial' freebies and many races in the stores on pallet trucks etc. Many times I was part of the opening staff on early Sunday mornings, the heads on a lot of us was hilarious! So many stories!

GerryRyan

Going to go with the building sites (last two Summers).

The work was hard, no doubt about it, but the rest of the labourers and apprentices were all around the same age (17-20) and we all got along no bother. Some stories there

Had a nice tan and a lot more muscle to show for it too

GerryRyan

Sarge wrote: »

The job I'm currently is is the best job i have ever had for various reasons , technically I'm a backpacker so im currently working for an I.T company in Melbourne getting paid $40 Dollars a hour , 38 hours a week i have free internet obviously i don't have any targets at all , i get told what we need doing Monday morning i come in takes me about 2 hours to do one weeks work. I sit on the internet until Thursday , Friday i come in and my boss takes me for beers while i get paid to sit in the pub all day Friday. best job ever. I have my own office too

slap :mad:

Elessar

My first ever job. I worked in an internet cafe and was pretty much left on my own for 6 hours a day. We used to do gaming nights every friday and loads of kids would come down and we would have a great time. Made friends with loads of them as they would come down often, especially after school. I did everything from cash to maintenence of the computers to cleaning to accounts. At 17 I was basically a manager. The friends I made were the best though, even though they were mainly younger. Eventually I left and people moved on and now they're just other faces on the street.

*sigh* Good times.

J.S. Pill

It would be a toss-up between Apple in Cork or the Library HQ in Wexford.

The latter was one of them student summer work placement thingys - I managed to read two novels in the 6 weeks as we had very little to do.

The former was good again because there was very little work and this, coupled with full internet access, meant that I spent quite a lot on time on boards. Still hang around with some of the people I met there. If only I could have lasted - Why god, WHY!

bringitdown

Best fun I ever had was serving the crazy ass customers in my local Texaco.

In terms of overall satisfaction my first 2 years out of college in a company called Logica Aldiscon was great, good training and experience, regular pay reviews, great atmosphere and social life, just brilliant. Then the bubble burst and the last year was layoffs, rumours and strife.