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| Topic Started: Oct 7 2007, 10:49 PM (664 Views) | |
| Anti | Oct 7 2007, 10:49 PM Post #1 |
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Yes, Anti's finally gotten his lazy ass off the internet thingy and gotten himself a job. I am now a worker for Safeway (A grocery store. Some of you people in Southern Cal might know it as Vons). I get to do all the grunt work. Today was my first day, I worked from 10 AM to 3:30 PM. All I had assigned was sweeping and carts. Sweeping, as much as it sounds bad, is actually preferable. You get to run through the store and sweep the aisles. If a customer looks lost, you ask them if they need anything. Pretty good, I don't mind running around the store itself. Carts are hell. You guys should know what this is: Running around outside, trying to get the loose carts back into the store. Today had to be a game day for football, so the store was PACKED. It got even worse when I'd duck into the store for no more than 10 seconds to check up on the checkers to make sure they didn't need baggers, and to return outside to find TWICE THE AMOUNT OF CARTS out there than before! Thankfully, I HAD to alternate with another worker on these per hour, so I lucked out there. And then, bagging. Jeez, today I discovered that I totally cannot stand bagging in paper. And for that reason, I will never, ever, EVER ask for paper. Those stupid bags would fold up whenever I tried to put something in them. And then they'd tear when ever I'd lift them. Even worse, I had a lot of people ask for paper INSIDE of a PLASTIC bag. PLUHEEEEZE. That took the cake for the hassle. All things considered, though, it's a good job. my coworkers are awesome. My manager/boss is totally awesome as well. And I get LOTS of time off as well. I mean, this week, all I have to work is TWO MORE DAYS. (4 hour shift on one, 8 hours on the other) |
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| New Harumf | Oct 8 2007, 05:41 PM Post #2 |
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Ahh, a career path! Awesome. Actually, stick there for a while and get a few promotions, and the money does start to stack up, and in the summer you can work full time! Good luck, and don't screw the pooch! |
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| Catholic Europe | Oct 9 2007, 05:14 PM Post #3 |
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Is this Safeway as in the Safeway they used to (maybe still do) have in Britain? |
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| New Harumf | Oct 9 2007, 06:02 PM Post #4 |
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Could be. Big American-style grocery stores with everything from a deli, meat market, bank and pharmacy (chemist). |
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| Holy Catholic Imperium | Oct 10 2007, 08:39 PM Post #5 |
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Plumber is a great future career, they get like 200 dollars as a FLAT fee, plus like 70 dollars an hour, you make your own hours, are your own boss, and the education requirements are not as high as some desk jobs. Not to mention you can do jobs 'under the table' if you catch my drift ;) |
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| Toussaint | Oct 10 2007, 08:45 PM Post #6 |
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Have you had your pipes cleaned recently, HCI? |
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| Paradise | Oct 10 2007, 08:49 PM Post #7 |
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Wow great. This is a very ambitious career Anti :lol: Thinking about career, I wonder how Scy's doing with finding a job and such. |
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| Holy Catholic Imperium | Oct 10 2007, 09:02 PM Post #8 |
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Is that a serious question or are you insulting me? And if that is serious, yes I have. |
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| New Harumf | Oct 10 2007, 09:49 PM Post #9 |
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OK, I don't know what that means. If it was CE or Nag, yes, I would. In this context, No. |
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| Nag Ehgoeg | Oct 11 2007, 04:23 PM Post #10 |
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Neither the pipes NH is thinking of, my plumbing pipes nor my pipes relating to musical instruments have been cleaned recently. I really should get arround to doing that. And I should get a hash pipe. Just so I can say it needs cleaning. |
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| New Harumf | Oct 11 2007, 06:15 PM Post #11 |
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No one cleans hash pipes. The resins are good for you! |
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| Deleted User | Oct 13 2007, 10:07 PM Post #12 |
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I work at a Superstore, another grocery store in Atlantic Canada, and I am a cashier. It's such a tough job and it's surprisingly hard on your body. Oh well, I have some good times there. |
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| Draxis | Oct 13 2007, 10:14 PM Post #13 |
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Maritime Canada? Or the other part of the Atlantic coast region? |
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| Paradise | Oct 13 2007, 10:42 PM Post #14 |
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As long as he is not from NewFoundLand :D |
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| Anti | Oct 13 2007, 11:11 PM Post #15 |
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This last friday was utter horror. I drove to work with it pissing down rain outside, and guess what? I had to do carts in that mess. I got soaked doing carts. Woo hoo. Not to mention I'm working an 8 hour shift, so I also have to close the store. And someone kept destroying soda bottles and liquor bottles in those aisles, and I had to keep on cleaning them up. I was tired as hell, but I got my training paycheck for $27. Woohoo. |
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| Tristan da Cunha | Oct 13 2007, 11:38 PM Post #16 |
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I used to work at Meijer ( a regional supermarket chain in the Midwest)... I got hired ahead of a whole stack of job applicants because the Korean store manager was a racist who preferred to hire Asians, and seeing that I'm Asian I was just hired on the spot. But I'm an conscientious worker so it worked out for the store. |
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| Draxis | Oct 13 2007, 11:46 PM Post #17 |
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Thats sort of what I was dancing around, trying not to mention the dreaded n word (newfie). |
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| Anti | Oct 27 2007, 03:24 AM Post #18 |
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More work bullshit. I have four managers. Two of them are men and they work morning and early afternoon. The other two are women and they work late afternoon and evening. Well, I got really sick one day a week ago and called in. I got one of the women, and the conversation went as follows: "I may not be able to come in today...my diabetes is raging out of control and I'm in no condition to work." Manager: "Since you are on probation, if you take a sick day, you won't have a job when you get back." Me: "I'll call back in two hours and we'll see what happens." I ended up showing up to work, horribly torn up and not feeling well, but I did make it through. Barely. Then, this same lady begs me to stay an extra hour. I had to open the store, and I was quite tired, but I decided to go for it. This pushed my shift into 6 hours, so I expected another break. "No, you cannot have one." WTF? I voluntarily do an extra hour and you can't even grant me a 10 minute break? Lame. Other than that, my other managers/bosses are awesome and think highly of me. Which is nice. And I got my first raise. $7.50 to $8.30. Because I said I was going to quit because $7.50 isn't enough. |
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| New Harumf | Oct 27 2007, 09:43 PM Post #19 |
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I know this will sound very dumb, but if your job has a 401K plan, invest at least $20 a paycheck, or whatever you can afford. My 401K increased by 22% this year since Janurary. Plus, most companies match what you put away up to like 3% of your income, and it is tax free. Never, ever, turn down free money, especially tax-free money. |
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| Nag Ehgoeg | Oct 28 2007, 04:11 PM Post #20 |
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I know this will sound very dumb. Don't listen to an old man giving financial advice. Even if it's good advice that will lead to your future happiness. You're young. Now is the time to live and do stupid things. Invest at least $20 a month in trying to get drunk and laid... or you know, whatever it is you colonalist children do for fun nowdays. |
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| New Harumf | Oct 28 2007, 06:12 PM Post #21 |
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People like to get drunk with, and get laid by, rich people. Don't listen to the man in the silly Mickey Mouse hat. Be a capitalist. Be an investor. |
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| Abnar | Nov 4 2007, 10:30 PM Post #22 |
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the lurkiest of them all?
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'Allo, back for a moment, figured I'd catch up. Carts are hell, aren't they? I was a bagger for a year before I (thankfully) left for college. Don't let the minimum wage get you down! |
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| Nag Ehgoeg | Nov 6 2007, 08:12 AM Post #23 |
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People they think are rich. How are you going to convince people you're rich if you don't spend spend spend? |
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| New Harumf | Nov 6 2007, 05:33 PM Post #24 |
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Hit them with your bank book, read the Wall Street Journal, and get really paraboid whenever anyone discusses their Smith-Barney accounts! |
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| Anti | Nov 12 2007, 02:11 PM Post #25 |
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I got transferred and promoted. I got transferred because a Food Maxx opened near my store, and all the business disappeared. So three people got transferred, and three got let go. The new store is pretty far away so I have to use the bus. That's roughly $4/day, meaning that I'd have to pay about $20 this week in bus fares alone. I could get two weeks of food from the store if I had that much. Ughh. But I did grab a small promotion, however. I got promoted to courtesy clerk/engineer (I have no idea what that's really supposed to mean), which means that I basically get to boss other clerks around. Not like I'd ever use it, since the team at the new store has absolutely no slackers in it. I believe I may have also gotten a raise to $8.30 an hour, which would be awesome. |
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