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What's the worst place you've ever worked

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    #41
    Aluminium factory in Banbury. Entire town stinks of sh!t 24-7 thanks to Krafts "food" factory. Gary Glitter is also their most famous son...

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      #42
      Newcastle - RPA Project..
      Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life

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        #43
        Originally posted by One Nihilist
        Aluminium factory in Banbury. Entire town stinks of sh!t 24-7 thanks to Krafts "food" factory. Gary Glitter is also their most famous son...
        I know Banbury quite well. This quote amused me no end...

        Very low wages, high property prices, police everywhere except when you need them, some road dug up somewhere all the time, dirty town centre full of charity shops and banks/building society with most of the supermarkets on the edge of town. Very high council tax and the wonderful link to London via the M40 does not mean much if you live on the wrong side of the town centre. On a bad day it can take you more than 20 minutes to get from the cross to the motorway.

        Entertainment in town is virtually non-existing if you do not like hanging around in pubs. Parking impossible or expensive with traffic wardens that have read (or should I say written) the guide on how to be without compassion.

        Depending which way the wind blows the smell of Krafts is just unbearable.
        From http://www.findaproperty.com/wordont...=0&areaid=1187

        You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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          #44
          Originally posted by Cliphead
          As in location. As per the earlier post, Birmingham wasn't a highlight. Hounslow perhaps comes a close second.
          First: Canary Wharf

          Second: La Defence, Paris
          I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.

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            #45
            Leicester - a dismal dreary town, however to cheer myself up I made a trip to Coventry which was profoundly depressing.


            This Town - is becoming like a Ghost Town
            Too much fighting on the dance floor ..
            Last edited by AlfredJPruffock; 18 January 2007, 14:48.

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              #46
              Originally posted by interested
              That brings back, erm, fond memories of doing bugger all for months on end in 2001.

              I think I OD'd on sausage sandwiches from Debenhams breakfast bar in the shopping centre.
              We kept Bar Ispani in business.

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                #47
                Salford!

                On second thoughts, Wythenshawe!


                Churchill - In "It's grim oop north" mode!

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                  #48
                  Originally posted by scooterscot
                  Newport - south Wales

                  I could not understand them they could not understand me, it was linguistic challenge and then some
                  venice - italy

                  I could not understand them they could not understand me, it was linguistic challenge and then some more.

                  it was a big manufacturing dinosaur of a firm. built in the 50's and unchanged from the 50's.

                  the toilets.... well, they didn't have any. except those hole-in-the ground versions where flushing means flooding the whole place....not the easiest to manage in a suited and booted mode.

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                    #49
                    Originally posted by Churchill
                    Salford!

                    On second thoughts, Wythenshawe!


                    Churchill - In "It's grim oop north" mode!

                    try openshaw .... thats real grim!
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                    SA - Is it like a dragons nostril?

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                      #50
                      We can conclude from this thread, The North is grim, the South East is Grim, the east is Grim, Scotland is grim, Wales is grim.. which leaves?
                      The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

                      But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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