I just got my first job this week, training under Bigsby (formerly known as Beaner's) coffee this week. I'm getting paid a solid 7.25 an hour as a senior high school kid.
What was your first job like? :)
I just got my first job this week, training under Bigsby (formerly known as Beaner's) coffee this week. I'm getting paid a solid 7.25 an hour as a senior high school kid.
What was your first job like? :)
cleaning machines in a textile factory during holidays. lasted 3 weeks, worked from 5am to 12am.
Still awaiting to get my first job. Don't think I will anytime soon. xD
I got my first job as well… Working in lingerie/sleepwear at a department store at 8$/hour. Not bad.
Soporte tecnico in a publicity company
Cashier at a Piggly Wiggly – it was fucking awful.
Had to stand for 6-8 hours without a break, the pay was horrible [minimum wage], etc. Only worked there about two-three months before they decided to fire me in the grounds that I stole $9 from the register, which never happened and proof of it was never found outside of the tab being $9 short. And that could easily be explained by miscalculation while taking $$$ during the day, but no, it could never be that. It had to be theft.
Summer of 2006, A hospital where my mom worked
7.10 hour, 8 am to 4 am
Flirted with girls all day long…...
sweeping theaters at 5.50/hr
Farm work for $2/an hour at the age of 8
Working at the zoo
Secretary at a K-8th summer day camp.
@Cyringohn:
Cashier at a Piggly Wiggly – it was fucking awful.
Y'don't say. A friend of mine was a cashier over at the Pig. He said he got nothing but idiots coming in there.
There was this old Korean woman who once paid for $200+ worth of groceries in $1 bills. Infuriated, I confronted the manager and asked if he was going to allow her to hold up the line like that and run the risk of the tab being off because that's two hundred fucking bills to count.
Of course, being the gigantic shitbucket that he was, he was like: "Money is money. You should be counting it instead of talking to me."
That sounds like a story my friend would tell.
He doesn't work there anymore, but still,that sounds like something he would say.
Like he said that one time, someone spilled a jug of ammonia, and they tried to clean it with bleach (or it may've been the other way around). In case you don't know, ammonia+bleach=mustard gas. That goes to show how stupid people around here where I live are.
I worked at Wendy's (fast food) when I was 14, for 5.15 an hour.
Working as a monitor in a camp where 90% of the kids had behavior problems. I never had to run and yell this much in my entire life.
For my first role I took the part of a beekeeper.
Wait…this isn't a play..damn it. XP
Anyway, I really was a beekeeper it was a good job though the stings hurt like hell sometimes. But at least I wasn't allergic.^^
I work in a 3 foot cubicle improperly called a gas station, its my first job, i make around 7 bucks an hour. But sometimes things catch on fire like during storms and hot days
My first job was under the bleachers after a football game.
…
Oh, wait, that's not what we're talking about?
My first job was as a landscaper. God that job was awesome. I wish I was still doing it, instead of my job now. It involved stuff like mowing massive gardens. I'm talking acres here. Planting new flowerbeds and bushes. Cutting down trees. Going to the cafe and having 2 bacon, 2 sausages, 2 eggs, 2 fried toast, beans and a cup of tea. Then at Christmas we had to go around offices, that we also did their indoor plants for, and put out/take down their christmas trees.
Damn, those were the days.
@Sogeking:
My first job was under the bleachers after a football game.
…
Oh, wait, that's not what we're talking about?
^ lmao'd
I worked in a factory packing grapes…
Oh the joyous memories.
McDonalds for (what use to be the minimun wage) $5.25/hr. Sadly, I still work there, but I have had a couple pay raises since I started. Although, I must say that I now know the difference between a franchise owned and a company owned store. Because of this, you get some very interesting orders.
Customer: "I'd like to order some chicken biscuits."
Employee: "I'm sorry, sir, but we don't sell chicken biscuits."
Customer: "Oh, I guess they only have those in Kentucky."
Something along those lines. I have, also, heard some interesting stories. One involves a person trying to order a Whopper at the place I work at. Now here's the kicker, Burger King is right next to us. I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
Working at a movie theater many many years ago. They type of job you only take because you're a worthless, unexperienced teenager and no employer for any respectable job would hire you in their right mind. It was by far the most physically disgusting environment I have ever worked in.
I still remember vividly, this one time me and a co-worker were the doing final rounds at closing time and went to the washrooms to refill toilet paper, soap, etc. And there, in the men's room, someone had the decency to leave behind the hugest, nastiest, most amorphous load of ice-cream shit I had ever seen, not in, but right NEXT to the toilet. Whether it was an act of rage or confusion remains unknown.
And no we didn't clean it.
I still feel kind of bad for the poor guys who opened the next day.
Working at King's (supermarket) right now. I was a cashier for a year, but they recently moved me to produce.
My first job was being an ID Checker/Greeter for AAFES (a military version of Wal-Mart found only on military bases). I worked 7 hours a day, 35-40 hours a week, got two 15 minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch. It sucked so badly. Since they considered me flex time rather than full or part time, I didn't have any benefits and I only got paid $6.95 an hour.
I basically had to stand in one spot, check if civilians, military dependents and Marines out of uniform had their ID cards and greet these same people. I took plenty of verbal abuse and was humiliated routinely. However, I was doing that to pay for college.
On the bright side, I learned the hard way how customer service and retail work and eventually moved to being a cashier for the same company after 6 months. I only worked for AAFES for a year.
My first job was as a tub scrubber at a paint factory my dad worked for when I was fourteen. I acquired this luxurious position when a lot of the staff got fired for drug possession. The solution to this problem was for my dad to bring his underaged son in under company radar until replacements were found. Highlights of this job include:
-Getting paid "As much as a boy your age needs" per hour which equated to about a hundred bucks for two months worth of work.
-Listening to my coworkers bitch about every minority and ethnicity during lunch. You haven't lived until you've heard a bitter, fifty-year-old man blame eskimos for problems with the environment. Apparently them eating all the fish and starting fires on the polar ice caps are the cause of endangered whales and global warming respectively. Very educational.
-Helplessly watching a man get his arm caught into a mixer and watching said arm wrap around it like it was made of rubber. The sound of cracking bone and the banshee-like scream that still haunts my mind showed otherwise. By the time it was shut off, it had absorbed him up to his shoulder, and I spent the rest of the day trying not to throw up.
On the plus side it gave me a hefty fear of heavy machinery along with a newfound ambition to go to college.
my first real job was working as a store model working at Abercrombie and Fitch store. I get paid for about 7.5 per hour but by next year they raise it up to 8. all i have to is let people into fitting rooms, greet customers and say good bye to them, and give good customer services, it not that bad, also, i get to wear their cool clothes. i also put clothes back and fold clothes also.