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3	''Work Experience'' is a 1989 short film (10 minutes) directed by James Hendrie.
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5	An affable young man named Terence (Creator/LennyHenry) dresses up in a suit one day and goes out for job interviews. He waits patiently in a supervisor's office only to find out that the job has already been filled. Several different interviews end in failure. Finally, Terence is moping around a department store when a customer sees his suit and clean-cut appearance, mistakes him for a floor manager, and asks for assistance. Suddenly Terence is helping customers, carrying bags, manning the cash register, and performing all the duties of a job he doesn't have.
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8	!!Tropes:
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10	* AndTheAdventureContinues: Terence is really taking the RefugeInAudacity too far at the very end of the short, when he's putting on a doctor's coat and stethoscope.
11	* BaitAndSwitch: The scowling floor manager seems to be suspicious of Terence, as he keeps glancing at him. In fact, he promotes Terence to assistant floor manager.
12	* BillionsOfButtons: Terence is sent to man a register. There's a shot of all the buttons on the register, which he has no idea how to use. His face briefly shows panic, but after a little trial and error he's managing the register confidently.
13	* BrickJoke: Thanks to Terence, a little girl winds up peeing in the supervisor's trash can. At the end of the short the supervisor is rinsing out his trash can with hot water.
14	* CompartmentShot: The opening shot shows a door opening which turns out to be the door to an armoire, as Terence pulls a jacket off a hanger.
15	* EurekaMoment: Terence clearly has a moment of realization after two people in quick succession mistake him for a floor manager and ask him questions.
16	* ExtremelyShortTimespan: No more than a few hours at a department store, except for the AndTheAdventureContinues finale which is uncertainly timed.
17	* HeyWait: Terence is [=BSing=] with a couple of real employees when the sour-faced manager comes right up to him and says "''Just a moment''." Has Terence been busted, no, the manager wants Terence to take over while he talks to Greg, who is up for the assistant floor manager job.
18	* MatchCut: A clever cut disguises that it's Terence who examines a display of ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} dolls but the scowling supervisor who stands up from the display of dolls when a customer approaches.
19	* PottyEmergency: A father has to find a bathroom for his little girl. Terence, who has no idea where the bathroom is, directs the father to the basement. The little girl winds up peeing in the supervisor's wastebasket.
20	* RefugeInAudacity: If you can't get a job, you might as well pretend to have that job. And in fact, at the end of the short Terence gets promoted.
21	* WhipPan: Used to cut from Terence at home to Terence in an office, getting rejected for a job.

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