Rhiannon was born on the 22nd July 1989 to humble beginnings in South London, England. Her most recent completed studies are her A levels, which she wrote at St Philomena’s Catholic High School For Girls in Carshalton, Surrey, England. Rhiannon studied Psychology, English Language, English Literature, Music, Biology and Photography.
During school Rhiannon had started working for a local window-cleaning firm, cleaning windows (surprisingly enough), filling in numbers and answering phones. She did this for two years until she was 16 and then went to work for British Home Stores. At BHS Rhiannon worked on a variety of departments from the shoes, to the homeware, to the stock rooms. Eventually she ended up working at the customer service desk and assisting the visuals manager. In this time Rhiannon learnt that she had a lot of patience for people who didn’t know their dress size, how to handle money, stock and screaming children, all whilst keeping her department beautifully clean and tidy.
Once Rhiannon turned 18 she landed a job as an Assistant Manager in a betting shop, Corals. Rhiannon was only with them for a few months over Christmas handling a very busy shop, lots of money, pressure and drunks, when she was offered a job with an online organic grocery store. Rhiannon is well known to love food (mainly cheese) so she jumped at the chance. After a short holiday in South Africa she started at Abel & Cole, for the first time.
At Abel & Cole, Rhiannon worked with an award winningcustomer service team. Her work involved taking orders, dealing with complaints, giving out free stuff, dealing with hairy drivers, playing shoe golf and taking technical queries for when people let their babies eat gel packs or cooked rotten food.
During her time at Abel & Cole Rhiannon and her partner decided to move to South Africa. So after 6 wonderful months of eating yummy food, Rhiannon hopped on a plane to start a new life.
Once she was settled (about two weeks in) Rhiannon landed a bar-job in what can only be described as a white shebeen. After 3 grueling months of 16 hour shifts and smelly beer, Rhiannon called the night life quits and moved down the road to work in a kwikspa. Rhiannon enjoyed a few eventful months of robberies and hijackings at this local community shop until her partner proposed to her romantically in spur. Rhiannon agreed and so they decided to head back to the UK for a 6 month stint to earn a bit of cash.
So, Rhiannon joined Abel & Cole for the second time. This time as she knew her stuff, Rhiannon dealt with more involved queries and suggestions, conferred with a lot with technical people and the elusive buying department. She also handled lots of interesting debates on things like farmed salmon, raw milk and why you can’t avoid the odd slug on your lettuce. Rhiannon actually decided to stay for 7 months as she enjoyed it so much, despite the fact that she was living in a tent in her mother’s back garden to save money.
Back in South Africa, Rhiannon decided not to work for a few months and busied herself with getting married, sipping rum on the beach and trying to learn some of the local lingo (not very well, I hasten to add). 3 months of semi-bliss passed and Rhiannon went to work for a web design company as a sales woman. She soon realized she was useless at telesales and that driving an hour to work to be useless wasn’t very productive. So, Rhiannon posted an advert on the internet for an employer, interviewed a few companies and settled in to a nice job with Stiletto Marketing. Rhiannon was Stiletto’s web and graphic design lady, their in-house photographer and their SEO expert. Rhiannon left after nearly a year to join the upper ranks of management at iX Online Motoring, running their in-house media-team.
The Rhiannon Hanger story is still in progress and is soon to be a full length movie starring Chuck Norris as Rhiannon and that fat guy from Shaun of the Dead as her friend.