Awkward questions you've always wanted to ask someone who works in a specific job...

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I thought this would be a good way for us to get answers to those awkward questions we would never dream of asking someone to their face in their place of work.

These are questions relating to my life that i would love honest answers to.

Hairdressers - When someone with bad dandruff/psoriasis sits on your chair, do you shrug it off, or do you quickly have a look to make sure it's not lice? Are you able to tell the difference right away or does it need investigating? And do you really want to know what my plans are for the day, or would you rather work in silence?

Teachers - do you get annoyed when parents write in homework diaries that a specific piece of homework was too tricky for their child? Do you take it as an insult to your teaching skills?

Waiter/waitresses - do you expect people to offer to clean up their children's mess before they leave, or do you just shrug it off as part of the job? If you're busy and haven't had chance to clean a table yet, and a new customer came up and asked for a cloth to clean it, would you be offended?

I'm a trainee SLT so not quite sure if I'm qualified to answer any questions regarding that line of work yet.

But i have experience working in a Subway sandwich store, a library, a gym and as a cleaner. So i can answer any cleaning, book or sandwich questions that are burning away inside you all.

yes you only get your family members ashes back (we are subject to very strict rules about cross contamination) also coffin is cremated at the same time with fixtures and fittings. we cremate at 1000 0C so yes all of the body is cremated, the ashes you see are calcified bones.

I think a general trim is the most popular pubic hair style. I'm not bothered by what it looks like, makes no difference.

DH asks what happens with fillings and cremations?

18 babies! Impressed! How exciting.

DH also wants to know who is your dentist if you are a dentist? And do you constantly think "you need to floss more" at dinner parties etc?

all remaining metal is removed after the cremation with a magnet, fillings are so small they normally disintegrate.

What happens to all the gold teeth after a cremation? Does it get sent to cash4gold?

He said "ooooh" :)

It's quite a process then by the sound of it. I've never thought about it much.

In fact
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Marking my place because I am loving this thread. I am a medical/technical editor so if anybody wants to know how to spell anything long and medical (or general copyediting stuff?!), fire away.

Taxi drivers - why are you never staunchly liberal?

gold teeth/rings all melt during cremation so all collects at the bottom of container so we remove it and put it in a bottle, every year it gets recycled and the money is given to charity.

I'm not going to list all my jobs because the combination will out me, but I can answer questions on universities, petrol stations, bingo halls, and pharmaceuticals.

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sales assistant here -

are we only friendly to get you to buy stuff?

good question
I think you go into sales/ stay in retail long term only if you genuinely are a people person, interested in meeting and building rapport with strangers. I enjoy all of the 'characters' I get to meet, finding out about them and their lives, I think to some extent we are quite nosy too!

just being a 'false' nice to get people to part with money is the sharp end of selling, anywhere high pressure, high commission and wouldn't be enjoyable to me.

As a nurse poo and wee fine! Phlegm....NOT...make sme want to be sick!
HTH!

my answer to another shop question -
'does it boil my piss if your 5yo pays'

not at all, great for kids to interact respectfully with shop people.
Maybe not if there's a huge tutty queue though

I will always try and talk a kid out of a tantrum, it improves the whole ambience and pleasantness of the environment. I love finding out what people have named their kids too :-) it's the nosiness again...

I used to work in a supermarket. I was nice to the screaming kids in the hope I could get them to stop screaming - no one wants to listen to that. Also the mother is more likely to pack and pay quicker if said child is quiet for 5 mins, thus removing the child from the shop and restoring peace.

I was also a waitress. Don't leave chewed up food everywhere, I don't want to touch it. Wrap it in a tissue and put it on a plate - just have some consideration.

I was a postwoman as well. When there was a second delivery, post rounds used to take about 2.5hrs and then about half for the second delivery. Now there is one delivery and they average about 4 hours. But there is A LOT more work now. It used to be a case of coming in, getting your job ready, delivering it and going home. Now there is sorting before a delivery, most offices operate 'van sharing' where two people work together to complete two deliveries. They also have to cover rounds where people are sick or on leave now within normal duty time and thus overtime is almost non existent these days.

im trying to think of all the questions ive ever asked myself over the years....

i can answer questions about police, and eyes. i think.

ooo. i have one for the crematorium person....what happens to the ashes that never get collected? does that happen much?

Beauty people - do you really use all that gloop on yourself?

Dermatologists - is overpriced gloop better than soap, water, and a cheapie moisturiser/Vaseline on the lips?

TIA

Oh, one for the lady who drove buses - does it bother you when school trips etc burst into endless choruses of "90 green bottles" and "oh, you canny push yer granny off a bus"? Or do you quietly join in?

Bingo callers - Are you really so naturally happy? Really?

Flight attendants - Do nervous fliers get your genuine sympathy, or annoy you slightly?

Taxi drivers - Do you only start talking to me ("how's your day been?") just as we're pulling up to my house because you want a tip or do you really want to know how my day has been?

Midwives - If a mum who was as high as a kite on gas and air moaned about how ugly her baby's nose was for the first ten minutes after birth, would you judge...? outs self

Ooh I have a crematorium one, what about pacemakers and that sort of thing? Do they explode?

ashes are either held for witnessed scattering, collected by funeral director or scattered by ourselves 15 days after cremation.

Very rarely are ashes left with us, we charge storage charges that's why funeral directors tend to collect ashes, they store them until family has made up mind where they are being scattered/kept on the mantlepiece.

pacemakers do indeed explode, we need written confirmation that a pacemaker has been removed.

question to police officers/legal types/ social workers/ midwives anyone who needs to spot a fibber

I always look guilty when am asked questions! Lord knows how I'd cope if ever needed to answer proper questions
Do you look for body language 'tells' or can you spot a liar, or does everyone go red?
what type of grief/shock reactions are considered normal? what abnormal?

I'm a gardener if anyone wants to know anything.Like the posters who are cleaners,I love a messy garden with lots to do,you can see where you've been and you know you've made a difference.The ones that make my heart sink are the sterile little concrete and lawn squares where the customer expects you to spend 2.5 hours 'tidying' it up.