I work in an office of a heating company. We are a bit jack of all trades so we answer the phones, type invoices, chase late payments, process invoices & payroll.
I've just been told that one day next week we are going to have 2 year 9's in for the day from a local school (one of them is the daughter of one of the engineers)
What do we do with them? I've seen too many utter mind numbing work experience placements where I used to work where they made tea and nothing much else. What sort of thing would you expect/would your child be wanting?
I can't do anything payroll wise because of confidentiality and it has to be processed on a different day. I thought of saving the post from the day before so they could sort that (we don;t get much though its mostly emails). Then maybe save some delivery tickets and do some cross referencing.
Perhaps save some invoices and get them to enter them up and cost a couple of jobs up (labour, materials, add on profit to get to the figure we charge the client). They can't really type invoices.
What else?