What a little fucker. Based on the tone of the article I’m willing to bet this was his first job.
I would have killed for a job at a place like Whole Foods in high school. Ever seen the hot trophy wives in there buying their organic baba ganoush? Certainly better scenery than the places I worked:
1.) “Meat Clean-up Boy” (my official job title): Mopped up blood, disinfected meat grinders and scraped sinew, tallow and viscera off of butcher’s blocks - all to the endless cacophony of hundreds of pigs being slaughtered.
2.) Mascot. I dressed up as a Polar Bear (my hometown’s mascot, despite being thousands of kilometers under the arctic circle) and danced around in the sweltering heat to the amusement of asshole kids. I got kicked in the balls and ass so many times I lost count. One kid threw a hot dog at my face, and the ketchup stained it red. It looked like I had been shot by an Inuit hunter.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
What a little fucker. Based on the tone of the article I’m willing to bet this was his first job.
I would have killed for a job at a place like Whole Foods in high school. Ever seen the hot trophy wives in there buying their organic baba ganoush? Certainly better scenery than the places I worked:
1.) “Meat Clean-up Boy” (my official job title): Mopped up blood, disinfected meat grinders and scraped sinew, tallow and viscera off of butcher’s blocks - all to the endless cacophony of hundreds of pigs being slaughtered.
2.) Mascot. I dressed up as a Polar Bear (my hometown’s mascot, despite being thousands of kilometers under the arctic circle) and danced around in the sweltering heat to the amusement of asshole kids. I got kicked in the balls and ass so many times I lost count. One kid threw a hot dog at my face, and the ketchup stained it red. It looked like I had been shot by an Inuit hunter.
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LOL.
I’ve said it before, but I quit Astroworld the day it started raining and after climbing to the top of the “Texas Tornado” to get the trash bag, it broke open and spilled out all over me, the ground, the ride and my dignity. I think I was more pissed that people laughed than anything else.
Crying Whole Foods guy sounds like he had it easy.
So one day in high school I swing by McDonald’s to pick up a burger. Lo and behold, it’s my good friend handing it to me out the window!! WTF?!? I didn’t know he had a job there…
So, as it turns out, he went with his dad to buy something a couple of weeks before. Apparently, he made some smartass comment about the employees/shitty job/whatever. Well his dad was pissed and made him apply the same day. And thus, the lesson began.
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
So one day in high school I swing by McDonald’s to pick up a burger. Lo and behold, it’s my good friend handing it to me out the window!! WTF?!? I didn’t know he had a job there…
So, as it turns out, he went with his dad to buy something a couple of weeks before. Apparently, he made some smartass comment about the employees/shitty job/whatever. Well his dad was pissed and made him apply the same day. And thus, the lesson began.
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
So one day in high school I swing by McDonald’s to pick up a burger. Lo and behold, it’s my good friend handing it to me out the window!! WTF?!? I didn’t know he had a job there…
So, as it turns out, he went with his dad to buy something a couple of weeks before. Apparently, he made some smartass comment about the employees/shitty job/whatever. Well his dad was pissed and made him apply the same day. And thus, the lesson began.
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I like that one.
My first job was picking up carobs and almonds. I was a skinny 16 years old kid, doing physical hard work and sharing time with 40+ years old losers who would spend the breaks whining about their ex-wives and talking about prostitutes.
It was from 7 am to like, 6 pm, but the salary was quite high (black money, so no taxes) for a job without any formation required except how to pack up stuff and how to keep my ears closed during those break times.
Even though he comes off as a little bitch,I can sorta relate how he feels about his job. I work in a similar setting and I have to remind myself that “Its only temporary. Im only doing this to put myself through school” I feel that if I ended up doing what I do now in another 2 years,i’d probally shoot myself.
[quote]QuadasarusFlex wrote:
Even though he comes off as a little bitch,I can sorta relate how he feels about his job. I work in a similar setting and I have to remind myself that “Its only temporary. Im only doing this to put myself through school” I feel that if I ended up doing what I do now in another 2 years,i’d probally shoot myself.[/quote]
This is the reason you have these type of jobs Token to make you appreciate your education and job when you get older. Also it is to make you an empathetic person later in life when you are a consumer and find yourself as a customer in a store like this. Makes you appreciate that kid working at that store someday and you treat him with respect.
I’m pretty sure TV has convinced kids that low level grunt employees opinions matter. Like the stocking boy who gives the CEO sage business saving advice. Either that or that these low level jobs aren’t just shift after shift of busy work; as though they’ll be sitting around pulling pranks, having fun, and doing shit with a completely oblivious boss.
Guess what. Work sucks. Nothing there seems any different then anywhere else. Except they give you t-shirts to wear instead of making you buy them.
I wonder how he’d feel if the shift after his arrived 20 min late consistently?
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
Is it just me, or did that read like it was written by a Canadian woman?[/quote]
Well, they used punctuation and basic sentence structure, and made reference to being employed, so I guess we can rule out any Texan woman as the author!
This could turn into a ‘first job/worst job’ thread. Mine as a teenager was working for a cleaning company at the yearly county show. Genuinely hard and dirty work and the company shafted us on pay.
Taught me a lot about the real world though.
[quote]big nurse wrote:
This could turn into a ‘first job/worst job’ thread. Mine as a teenager was working for a cleaning company at the yearly county show. Genuinely hard and dirty work and the company shafted us on pay.
Taught me a lot about the real world though.[/quote]
I was sorta,hoping it did turn into a “worst job” thread,lol. I work in a similar job as the wholefoods guy. Im sorta glad I have the job that I do because when I started working here,I was a wide eyed kid,naive and lacking of any real confidence. Now though,I always stand my ground,look at everybody straight in they eye,and do what im suppose to do as oppose to doing other peoples job.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]QuadasarusFlex wrote:
Even though he comes off as a little bitch,I can sorta relate how he feels about his job. I work in a similar setting and I have to remind myself that “Its only temporary. Im only doing this to put myself through school” I feel that if I ended up doing what I do now in another 2 years,i’d probally shoot myself.[/quote]
This is the reason you have these type of jobs Token to make you appreciate your education and job when you get older. Also it is to make you an empathetic person later in life when you are a consumer and find yourself as a customer in a store like this. Makes you appreciate that kid working at that store someday and you treat him with respect. [/quote]
Amen brother. I never fully appreciate how a terrible job can affect peoples lives. It can really make people more angry or depress because your life revolves so much around it. Its really important to find something you like and stick with it,despite the pay or location. I know that once I leave,I’ll never let myself get to the point where im back here again.
Meh, my jobs weren’t the worst: McDonalds, Baskin Robbins, Cosmetic Factory, farm worker.
However, that idiot needs to learn that you NEVER burn bridges. It looks great in movies and sounds great in songs but it’s pretty stupid in real life.
When I was 16 in the holidays one I worked at a creche Monday and Tuesday, as a cleaner on Thursday and Friday and a lifeguard on weekends, not realising that all 3 involved a lot of crap. I experienced more bodily and animal (long story) fluids and excrescence than is legally allowed in 19 countries. Didn’t help that the nursery made you wear giant day-glo outfits. Everything from then on has been up.
[quote]QuadasarusFlex wrote:
Even though he comes off as a little bitch,I can sorta relate how he feels about his job. I work in a similar setting and I have to remind myself that “Its only temporary. Im only doing this to put myself through school” I feel that if I ended up doing what I do now in another 2 years,i’d probally shoot myself.[/quote]
This is the reason you have these type of jobs Token to make you appreciate your education and job when you get older. Also it is to make you an empathetic person later in life when you are a consumer and find yourself as a customer in a store like this. Makes you appreciate that kid working at that store someday and you treat him with respect. [/quote]
I like this view. So many people forget when things were slim for them. I often see customers (in stores or restaurants) who treat young workers like they own them.
[quote]QuadasarusFlex wrote:
Even though he comes off as a little bitch,I can sorta relate how he feels about his job. I work in a similar setting and I have to remind myself that “Its only temporary. Im only doing this to put myself through school” I feel that if I ended up doing what I do now in another 2 years,i’d probally shoot myself.[/quote]
This is the reason you have these type of jobs Token to make you appreciate your education and job when you get older. Also it is to make you an empathetic person later in life when you are a consumer and find yourself as a customer in a store like this. Makes you appreciate that kid working at that store someday and you treat him with respect. [/quote]
I like this view. So many people forget when things were slim for them. I often see customers (in stores or restaurants) who treat young workers like they own them.
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