Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

Yeah but you have to live in some cunts house and put up with their entitled kids. That ain't no home

The au-pairs I used to know (au-pairs for friends of my daughter when she was at nursery) loved it.

Sure some of the parents were twats, as were most of the kids, and on paper they earned shit money but they got to live in a nice house, got fed for free, and usually got at least another £500/mo in cash in hand babysitting money from the parents. Many had use of a car, and often a travelcard so they could take Portia and Ptolemy to the V&A whenever they demanded.

Most of the au-pairs were students at nearby universities/colleges so being paid some money with free accommodation/food was a huge money saver for them.

I'm sure that plenty of au-pairs are exploited though, there's huge scope for that in a mostly unregulated system.

Foxes are cunts

I'm flying from Singapore to the UK, then onto Vienna, back to the UK, then driving to Briancon.

I had au pairs. My mum heard some shit stories, like one family who bought separate (and shit) food for theirs. Another naive one from some remote Austrian village who got offered money for sex in a bar. She thought it was a pretty sweet gig and turned the house into a brothel in the day hours. One of ours got radicalised at Finsbury Park mosque (before it became famous).

But generally it seemed like a pretty good gig when you're young:

✅ free food and accommodation in a good location in an amazing (and expensive) city
✅ English course fees
✅ Travel card
✅ use of a car depending on availability
✅ Cash in your pocket

In exchange for doing the school drop in the morning, ad hoc food shopping, helping clean, school pick up and bedtime. I mean a chunk of your working day is basically doing the standard life chores you have to do anyway.

Obviously it would be amazing to be able to get a highly paid job and work visa with next to no language skills and only a couple of years work experience under your belt. But that's not actually the counterfactual is it?

In a lot of ways I'm not sure it's as culturally applicable as it once was. If you were from the east bloc it was a great way to get a visa to experience living in the UK and learning English that probably wouldn't have been available. I'm dating myself here but provided a route for a lot of Yugoslavs to get out and set up lives here temporarily or permanently.

use of a car

I used to work with a couple of girls who left the bar to be au pairs as the money and perks massively outstripped a bar salary and hours.

As has been said- accommodation, car, entry to places, food, and more cash in hand money than the bar would pay.

My Gran got an au pair for company and an extra pair of hands a few years after my grandad died. The Au Pair was over to improve her English. They got on like a house on fire. My Gran died, about 15 years ago, but we are all still in touch with the Au Pair via the socials, still get Xmas cards etc. yeah pretty golf club, but nobody got ripped off in that deal

Briancon sounds like the worst possible conference.

Would surpass Davecon in a list of dumb conferences.

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I know someone working in France as an au-pair. If you can stand the kids, it actually sounds pretty cool. They did shit like bought her an automatic car because she can't drive a manual and it sounds like a great knowledge exchange / experience to be fair. I'm sure like any jobs there's exploitation and shit bosses all over the place but that's life. People suck.

Briancon sounds like the worst possible conference.

It's in France, so, lunch will be provided but only during the keynote only for 3 minutes and it will be 30min away from the venue and serve only sausage.

My wife was an au pair when she first came to Switzerland for a year abroad during Uni. She learned French from the kids, got free accommodation in a ski resort for the winter and spent a couple of months in HK in the summer. Yes some of the kids were cunts (one of them chipped her tooth by hitting her with a ski pole) but when she stopped that gig, her next job was working in a bar / club 11pm-5am which was infinitely more shit.

You can't convince me you're not going to a conference of Brians, I'd be embarrassed and would try to deflect in a plausible way too.

Dall-e. My prompt was only ‘a conference of Brians’.

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I’m going to M3AAWG directly beforehand

Also this one.

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It's a room filled with the alternate realities of one man, where his life ended up the same however hard he tried. But which one is Dammit?

What's up with the luge seating?

Tell me more about this bit of the picture:

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Spending some time analysing the picture what I can ascertain is all the white Brians take it in turns to have the only non white Brian sit on their lap. Could be sexual, although initially unclear.

Dall-e's interpretation of diverse is interesting

Diversity of beard styles and that's about it.

But, yes, it's pretty much "Dall-e show me a white person's interpretation of diversity."

Well this guy is increasing the diversity levels to include non-human entities

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I've actually been thinking about learning to fly