Jho

Two spring to mind. I could rant forever about them but I’ll try to keep it short.

First was an apprenticeship at a furniture logistics company. I was essentially an extremely overworked and underpaid spreadsheet monkey (I got paid £4 an hour). I received no training and gained no valuable experience or qualifications. In hindsight it’s clear to me the company just wanted cheap labour from vulnerable teenagers.

After this I took a job handing out leaflets for a store which buys/sells goods. The job was in fact not to hand out leaflets like I thought but to harass people I saw walking towards CEX (to try and convince them to sell their games/consoles to us instead of CEX). Obviously this was seedy as hell and embarrassing. I’d get told off at the end of the day every day for not bringing in multiple PS4s or whatever.

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There’s being loud, and then there’s being so loud that you’re being inconsiderate to the people around you who are just trying to enjoy their own evenings. The latter kind of loud is what I’m talking about. It’s inappropriate and it’s selfish.

Brit here. I recently went on holiday to Poland (Gdansk) and was pleasantly surprised at just how peaceful it was there on an evening despite people drinking.

It’s a completely different story in the UK. It’s normal/acceptable to be loud and a complete nuisance when in areas where people frequently drink alcohol (like city centres). It’s embarrassing. You won’t get into trouble unless you do something more severe like vandalism.

I don’t think a lot of Brits realise that this hasn’t been normalised in other countries, and that it shouldn’t be behaviour that is acceptable here (or anywhere) in the first place.