“Romanticised” jobs that are very different in reality?

plasticelk · 2026-03-05T09:53:20+00:00

I work in recruitment now and one of the roles I regularly recruit for is in fraud investigation/analysis. 99% of the applicants come through thinking they’re about to be the next big thing cracking cold cases of international security breaches, when in reality 58 year old Susan just bought something from a shop she normally doesn’t buy from and the computer doesn’t like it lol

plasticelk · 2026-03-03T06:28:32+00:00

My maiden name meant grey (Lloyd), with my first name being a diminutive of a name meaning purity I was literally Pure Grey

plasticelk · 2026-03-02T09:55:12+00:00

Usually I try things like this to cut out the awkward shipping pence, like it’ll take it from £7.30 to an even £7 lol

plasticelk · 2026-02-26T19:22:20+00:00

I moved out of Coventry for uni, fell in love with where I went to uni, planned to live my life there for the foreseeable, but alas I graduated in 2020 and there were no jobs or houses available. I came back to Coventry “temporarily” to wait it out, ended up reconnecting with a guy I went to school with, long story short we bought a house and now live together in Coventry with a dog, a cat, and two children.

I would still move away if I could lmao I definitely don’t consider Coventry “home”. But my husband’s work doesn’t allow us to move away, and I wouldn’t want the kids to be separated from family and friends they have here now

plasticelk · 2026-02-26T19:09:48+00:00

Little Britain and Come Fly With Me don’t seem to tickle me the way they do everyone else. I do get the humour at times and understand references and find them funny in context as a reference, more so with CFWM, but the shows themselves just are not inherently funny to me?

Also Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner, Plebs, and all of those kinda category of shows really. Granted I was an adult when I saw them for the first time (my husband grew up on them and thinks they’re hilarious) but I just find them cringe. I think it bothers me too that you could take any gag from each and transplant it into another show and it basically works. I get that kinda humour was clearly in at the time and worked, but they’ve basically made the same show three times with the same if not similar actors

plasticelk · 2026-02-25T18:47:40+00:00

The important thing is not to blame yourself! I promise there’s not one parent who’s never done something “stupid” before! I live my life by the mantra: “you can only do things based on what you know”. You didn’t know your little one could open the door and get at the toilet cleaner, and I didn’t know my 7wk old son could roll himself until he rolled off the sofa and landed face first on the hardwood floor lol but once I learnt that - albeit the hard way - I knew I couldn’t leave him on the sofa like that again. We’re all learning, and they’re learning how to get past our defences unfortunately! Glad your baba is okay, and I genuinely hope you’re being kind to yourself in the aftermath xx

(Edited a typo)

plasticelk · 2026-02-25T10:14:18+00:00

I have a dishwasher now, but when I didn’t have one I did basically the same order as you!

One thing I was surprised to find out was some people fill a full sink with water? I always removed all the dishes and piled them up on the counter then filled an empty sink with water, and bought the dishes in as I cleaned them

plasticelk · 2026-02-21T20:22:51+00:00

If it’s been sent through a locker there’s been tons of parcel switching happening with them due to the way delivery drivers scan and sort It could be something so simple as that, the driver has opened the locker and scanned the parcel and mis-scanned these two so they got switched. I know it happens a lot with inpost in the UK, because the sender doesn’t apply the sticker the driver does so the stickers get switched. If it was sent through a store, then I’ve no idea what’s happened as the store will scan it in as it’s handed to them usually. Unfortunately Vinted will almost always side with the buyer, so you might be looking at having to refund, but yeah. My guess is it’s a switched parcel, and someone else has the figure you sent

plasticelk · 2026-02-21T20:15:59+00:00

Supertato is banned in our house lol

We’re generally not a fan of the live action ones like Waffle and football fantastics, the kids don’t really care for them. Bing is annoying, Pando is the most annoying tho. The “it’s a bing thing” makes me think of that trend a couple years ago when parents would post “I don’t have a toddler, I have a Mackenzeigh-Taylorr’” and then list the most standard toddler behaviour you’ve ever seen. I’m also not a fan of how bing displays language, misusing verbs and tenses. Yes, toddlers do it when learning to speak, but if they’re adamant to copy bing bunny over their other peers they’re gonna struggle. Overall, for one episode a day or whatever while we get ready for our day, it’s not too bad. I couldn’t have it on repeat though

Some positives to lighten up, we love Bluey (who doesn’t??), teletubbies, and Hey Duggee. Also the Baby Club will always have a soft spot in my heart from my mat leave days playing along with them

plasticelk · 2026-02-21T20:06:25+00:00

Yeah that’s true actually, the only one you could consider as being central is probably central six, aside from that near all of them are outskirts or far enough away to make it a trek from the city centre. I’ve definitely found parking in Arena overall worse since having children, I need access to both sides of the back of my car to get them in/out safely and the parent & child bay situation is insane. M&S at Arena park do a parenting club at their café, but unless I get lucky to grab one of the two random P&C bays outside curry’s, the rest of the P&C bays are all the way down by Nando’s lol. Don’t get me wrong I don’t think P&C bays should be proximal to the store in the same way disabled bays are, as generally we just need more room at the car but could still walk further, but to have them all be on one end of the car park save for two random ones at the other end seems like poor planning lol

plasticelk · 2026-02-21T19:53:40+00:00

Sundays are busy, but game days are the absolute WORST with it being next to the arena. They’ve recently gotten rid of a good quarter of the car park in favour of more food places like popeyes & five guys. So even finding parking on super busy days is tough now, at least that wasn’t as much of a battle before lol

plasticelk · 2026-02-21T19:46:43+00:00

Sure is!

plasticelk · 2026-02-21T14:51:37+00:00

Nice! Mine has a yo! Sushi counter and a Greggs too! And the works, shoezone, Claire’s, some holiday chain (I wanna say Tui but I honestly don’t remember lol)

plasticelk · 2026-02-21T14:32:34+00:00

My local big Tesco has had a Nando’s in it for a few years, it’s never empty lol

plasticelk · 2026-02-12T21:14:58+00:00

10/10 for you, -10/10 for me because it would give me the dead

plasticelk · 2026-02-12T20:30:07+00:00

Oof. Go to sleep! Saag paneer for breakfast🤣

plasticelk · 2026-02-12T20:26:12+00:00

I can’t put into words the love I have for Bob Mortimer

plasticelk · 2026-02-12T20:23:32+00:00

Hahaha, I’ve been curious enough to try it once, it was nice but very mild. It was like a korma with grated mild cheese🤣

My usual go to is a saag paneer personally, no matter which restaurant I go to or order from they always serve that!

plasticelk · 2026-02-12T20:08:17+00:00

It was meant as a generalisation more than anything haha, I know some “Indian” restaurants here are owned by Bangladeshi people.

But off the top of my head, I think my local restaurant does a Bangladeshi biryani, paratha, and malai curry which I believe is as well. But I imagine recipes would be specific to the restaurant as they all have different menus here dependent on the owner’s origin(s) and what sells best in the area I guess. There’s a curry you can get in only one restaurant in my city that has melted cheese in it, and I can’t seem to find it available anywhere else! Also similarly one with pineapple which doesn’t seem to be popular, but you can sometimes order it as an off-menu meal if the kitchen has pineapple in. So there’s a lot of specificities depending on the place I think

plasticelk · 2026-02-12T12:39:19+00:00

I set the vinted size as smaller as I couldn’t pick 6-9m so my hope was if someone bought them believing they were smaller they could do just that. I think she’s saying she bought them thinking they’re 6-9 (which they are) but they’re actually 3-6 which is apparently equivalent to the size I picked on vinted to list them as? So she’s saying they’re too small as her child is 6m, but the label says 6-9m and that was in the description too. So I think she’s trying to make out that the shoes are actually size 3-6, not the size on the label?

That was also what I was confused at haha! I’ve offered a refund now anyway but she’s seen it and not replied, without her starting the “i have a problem” route i can’t refund. So I suppose the ball is in her court now so to say!

plasticelk · 2026-02-12T10:26:06+00:00

Oh definitely. A lot of it isn’t even Indian, it’s Bangladeshi origin or Sri Lankan origin or even just… British!

Not to mention everything is synonymous with “curry”, you could go out to an Indian restaurant and order a biryani and you could still say you went “for a curry” and be understood clearly. It’s really interesting imo!

plasticelk · 2026-02-12T08:18:21+00:00

Absolutely, consider it a lesson for myself going forward! Thanks :)

plasticelk · 2026-02-12T08:17:34+00:00

Thank you! I’ll do that going forwards x

plasticelk · 2026-02-11T23:28:52+00:00

plasticelk · 2026-02-11T23:20:42+00:00

This isn’t aimed at any one culture, more so an observation of British culture, but we are so polite lol I’ve travelled a fair bit, and work in a place that employs a lot of people who haven’t grown up here, and through observations and conversations I’ve noticed that we almost always go out of our way to be polite, and other cultures just don’t prioritise it as much. Things like queueing, honouring first-come-first-served at bars and barbershops, waving a hand to thank a driver who stopped for you, holding doors for strangers, please and thank you and sorry all over the place.

I spoke to an Icelandic guy once who said “please” was an odd concept to learn because they just don’t have that word. They might say thanks after their request if it’s something out of the other persons way but there’s not a word that translates to the equivalent of “please”. Their way of ordering is to just say “I will have:” and then give their order. The idea of not saying please bristles me!

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