Work - Outside of Work!!!

Summer Fetes, Pin chasing and
The new social club

If you are not interested learning about my work stuff, you should probably stop reading here. If however you would like to read about the things I have been getting up to when I am not on shift let me begin. I have been working hard to build up a local schools database for Tenpin Birmingham, it includes the schools in roughly a 5 mile radius of the bowling alley.

I have phoned roughly 40 schools around Birmingham asking if they had a summer fete and if they did I would ask to take mobile bowling to them, any money we made would return to the school as we just wanted to advertise our Birthday Bash. 3 schools said yes starting 3rd July we had 1 summer fete each week until school finished (so 3 fetes). I took a group of 2 -3 members of staff one to wear out costume and the others to reset the pins and giving out gift bags. 

At our first school fete we made £4.50 because it was extremely windy and out mobile bowling is made out of light weight plastic so the pins just kept falling over. It was also to hot to wear the costume, we gave the gift bags out with our advertisement in but the fete for Tenpin wasn't a success. Our second one went much better though one of the members of staff couldn't wear the suit for longer than an hour, we made £28 for the school and the wind only knock over the pins a few times.

I am training to become a pin chaser which is learning the basics on how the bowling lanes work and learning how to fix them which is a lot easier said than done. I spent 5 hours learning about how to do it and was shattered. I will be doing more training in a few weeks in coventry to get some more experience and confidence to get signed off. I will not only get an extra 25p an hour but it will give me more experience at Tenpin.

We had our first ever social club last week and it was a fail the only person who showed up other than me was Ash I had to persuade robbie and Emma and Moet had just finished a shift. I was the only person who bought cakes.... it failed.... I am thinking of leaving all the arranging stuff to Caz because I feel really let down when it goes wrong.

What out of work activities do your team take part in?? 

Becky xx