Working Illegally for IKEA

I saw this job offer online through my university career service page. It says work for IKEA and earn double pay for 4 hours. I was attracted since its such a good pay and I don't mind laying folding chairs at night for the amount of money. Hence, I took the offer though its going to be an odd working hours at night(midnight!!)
Reach the storage at 2.30am, few of us standing there waiting for the briefing with the drivers. The briefing started with appropriate attire for work and the odd thing comes next.

They say:" If any authorities approach you to ask what is going on, refer them to the driver which is your team leader. If you are told to leave, just leave the chairs there and walk right away." Sounds strange isn't it? After that I got to know the truth from a guy in my team. He told me that they did not receive a permission from the authorities to lay all the chairs in the public open space and that was why we were working at odd hours to get the things done. The next shocking thing was those chairs are for free to public as a promotion from IKEA new store! Those chairs worth a cost price of £7 each and the company invested 10 thousand chairs on this promotion!

We have 5 teams working at various locations in the Greater Manchester and is on news at 9 on BBC for this crazy ever promotion. We took quite some pictures before all the chairs are gone and I should be editing them to go with this blog soon after I got them. Some of us were working in parks which are pitch dark and it is so romantic that we actually need the spotlight from the truck in order to see....

Since it is for the public, we decided to go home with chairs as well. I got a few nice chairs in my room now that I could put my legs on to rest when I am tired. Yahoo!

I went back to the spot at noon to see how many chairs left and I couldn't be;ieve my eyes cause that was the most selfish thing I ever seen in my life. There was this guy who tear off all the free notice stickers and grab all the chairs to himself. He shouted at me:" Don't you dare to touch the chairs! They are all mine." Shame on you! You think you gonna be proud and be able to sell those chairs you just grab? Face the fact, we have spray paint on every single chairs to make sure this wouldn't happen. That might be people who is gonna buy it from you but you should be shame of yourself. Good luck to you if you have make an earning from that. What a shame. Anyway, for those who manage to grab a chair from other location, be happy, each of it worth around £10. :=)