working in a bookies

[pushybabe1]

i know its supposed to be all high tech these days, so what exactly do the counter staff do, any sites i could look at would be great thanx

[ummmm]

They take bets....and pay out winnings. They probably have a machine that calculates the odds.

[Postdog]

Fill up the tea machine

[ummmm]

Sweep up cigarette butts from out side.

Pick up screwed up betting slips that have been thrown on the floor in temper.

[carrust]

Judging by ummm's gruff answers she used to work in a bookies......

[pushybabe1]

you are right carrust. must be sarcastic thursday today, then again some people just cant help themselves but i did ask a question but didnt think it was stupid.

[ladyalex]

I cannot help you about the counter staff, but I used to work in a bookies many many moons ago. I was in the back office, taking the telephone bets and working out the returns. We had ready reckoners as it was before the days of calculators.
I absolutely loved it.
Didn't start until nearly lunch time, work was either totally hectic or not a lot to do (mostly hectic, people want their returns pretty quickly) and the time just flew in.
I expect it will be similar on the counters.
Occasionally if a regular punter had a big win, we got chocs from them.
This was in a very tiny back street bookies.
Give it a go.

[ummmm]

No I didn't....I used to be sent to put bets on for customers in the pub. That was before the smoking ban....