When I was 18 I started work as an "office Junior" at the National Water Council in Sheffield. My brother's "then" girlfriend got me the job and I was very excited, after earning no money on YTS jobs I had some money at last.

On my 3rd day there I was asked to fax a document to another office, not wanting to appear thick I pretended I knew what I was doing and went over to the fax machine, as I was asked to file a copy I went in search of a photocopier. A colleague asked why I needed one and I explained that I needed a copy of the document before I faxed the document off. In my innocence I actually thought the fax machine swallowed up the document and sent it off somewhere