‘Sometimes people are angry, and very rude, but there is almost always a positive, happy outcome - even with the drunk and disorderlies’
‘Sometimes people are angry, and very rude, but there is almost always a positive, happy outcome – even with the drunk and disorderlies’Ruthe Ege has been a holiday rep for nearly three decades, and now works for Tui in Turkey. The 53 year-old tells Nick Duerden how she manages to survive a 60-hour week.
“I’m from Lincoln originally, but I’ve lived in Turkey since 1994; my repping career brought me here. It was my fourth year in the job, and I’d already worked in Corfu, Tunisia, Ibiza and the Gambia, and picked up malaria. But it was Turkey I fell in love with. I fell in love with the people and the culture, and then I met a tall, dark handsome Turkish man, and, well, the rest is history. We have two children, and we’re living happily ever after.
“When I was 16, I went on a school trip to Russia. The first people that greeted us there were Thompson reps, and they were amazing. It made me think about the work they did, and I liked the idea of doing it myself. “My job initially was to greet people at the airport, to stand there with a clipboard, and to see them all on the right coaches. I’d then get on one of the coaches myself and, while we made our way to the resort, gave them a welcome speech, and all the vital information they needed about the country: what they needed to avoid; don’t drink the water; whether or not to put the toilet paper down the toilet, that kind of thing.
“It’s hard work, repping, and you do have a lot of responsibility, a lot of people to look after, but it’s very much a job where you work hard and play hard. The average working week is 60 hours so, you know: a lot. It doesn’t feel like a holiday, no, but there is a holiday atmosphere, and the sun’s shining, of course.
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