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    LuFins Dad
    wrote on 3 Aug 2020, 23:03 last edited by
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    The Brad

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      Copper
      wrote on 3 Aug 2020, 23:08 last edited by
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      He deserves a raise.

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        Optimistic
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        https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/2749/first-check

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          4 Aug 2020, 00:17

          https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/2749/first-check

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          Aqua Letifer
          wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 00:59 last edited by
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          @Optimistic said in People of Walmart:

          https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/2749/first-check

          More advanced life tutorials, after one obtains a basic grasp of the fundamentals:

          Link to video

          Link to video

          Please love yourself.

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            brenda
            wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 01:20 last edited by
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            Congrats on the new job! It's always a learning experience in so many ways at that age. I hope he gets plenty of life skills, as well as the paychecks.

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              George K
              wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 01:26 last edited by
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              Congratulations to Lucas for joining the workforce!

              What's he going to be doing there, selling pianos/keyboards I assume?

              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                jon-nyc
                wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 01:35 last edited by
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                Nice! My first retail job paid 3.35.

                Only non-witches get due process.

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                • G George K
                  4 Aug 2020, 01:26

                  Congratulations to Lucas for joining the workforce!

                  What's he going to be doing there, selling pianos/keyboards I assume?

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                  LuFins Dad
                  wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 01:39 last edited by
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                  @George-K said in People of Walmart:

                  Congratulations to Lucas for joining the workforce!

                  What's he going to be doing there, selling pianos/keyboards I assume?

                  Biding his time until he gets the Home Depot Job he wants He’ll be working sales in the toy department, pointing 40 year old Bronies towards the new Twilight Sparkle display.

                  The Brad

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                    4 Aug 2020, 01:35

                    Nice! My first retail job paid 3.35.

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                    89th
                    wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 02:03 last edited by
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                    @jon-nyc said in People of Walmart:

                    Nice! My first retail job paid 3.35.

                    Funny, never thought until now about my first wage. It was $5.50 (minimum wage).

                    Congrats to Lucas!

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                      jon-nyc
                      wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 02:04 last edited by jon-nyc 8 Apr 2020, 02:05
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                      3.35 was minimum also at the time in NY. They had just upped it from 3.15.

                      Only non-witches get due process.

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                        4 Aug 2020, 02:04

                        3.35 was minimum also at the time in NY. They had just upped it from 3.15.

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                        George K
                        wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 02:10 last edited by
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                        @jon-nyc said in People of Walmart:

                        3.35 was minimum also at the time in NY. They had just upped it from 3.15.

                        My first "real" job was in 1972 - it was a factory gig making stainless steel tubing. I was paid $3/hr.

                        Minimum wage was $1.50 from what I can find.

                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                          Copper
                          wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 02:11 last edited by
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                          I think the paper route was my first real job.

                          Up before sunrise every day. I don't think it paid $5 for the week, but you might get another dollar or two in tips.

                          The distributor would deliver the papers to a bus stop in the middle of the night. The idiots would help themselves to papers. The shortage was on me. That's when I learned how to pick open the paper box to get the needed papers.

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                            Rainman
                            wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 03:33 last edited by
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                            Yes, congrats on landing that life experience first job!

                            I hope there are other workers his own age, so he can really come to grips with that life-experience realization of watching lazy to hard workers, and then also learn what assholes (some) managers can be. Favoritism, nepotism, cronyism, wokeism, suxism.
                            There are so many -ism's to learn in that first job.

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                              Mik
                              wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 03:35 last edited by Mik 8 Apr 2020, 13:04
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                              Mine was a TV guide route and farm work. $1 an hour for baling hay or picking tomatoes, sometimes kicking cows around.

                              George, $3 an hour in 72 was not bad at all. I had a factory job in 73 for $2 an hour.

                              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                Aqua Letifer
                                wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 03:37 last edited by
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                                I had a job that paid $2.10 an hour but, well, tips.

                                Please love yourself.

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                                  Catseye3
                                  wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 03:56 last edited by Catseye3 8 Apr 2020, 04:07
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                                  Worked in the base laundry plant. My job was removing the stains from khaki uniform shirt armpits left by the stuff that was applied to get rid of the sweat stains themselves.

                                  Glamour.

                                  Once in awhile I'd do a spell at the mangler -- a HUGE machine that passed wet sheets over these belts with hot air somehow to dry them, and then passed them into some part that spit the sheets out in neat little folded bricks. I had a brush with fame there. If you remember the Stephen King story "The Mangler" -- a demonically possessed mangler that attacked people and then did something hideous upon absorbing their blood -- I got my finger caught in the big ball bearing, nearly crushing it. Had blood dripping onto my white sneakers (and on the ball bearing). Thought about King's mangler for a while. But this machine never did anything bad, TMK.

                                  I carried the scar for years.

                                  I often wondered if King actually spent time working on a mangler in his home town and that's how he got the idea for the story.

                                  Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                                    4 Aug 2020, 03:56

                                    Worked in the base laundry plant. My job was removing the stains from khaki uniform shirt armpits left by the stuff that was applied to get rid of the sweat stains themselves.

                                    Glamour.

                                    Once in awhile I'd do a spell at the mangler -- a HUGE machine that passed wet sheets over these belts with hot air somehow to dry them, and then passed them into some part that spit the sheets out in neat little folded bricks. I had a brush with fame there. If you remember the Stephen King story "The Mangler" -- a demonically possessed mangler that attacked people and then did something hideous upon absorbing their blood -- I got my finger caught in the big ball bearing, nearly crushing it. Had blood dripping onto my white sneakers (and on the ball bearing). Thought about King's mangler for a while. But this machine never did anything bad, TMK.

                                    I carried the scar for years.

                                    I often wondered if King actually spent time working on a mangler in his home town and that's how he got the idea for the story.

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                                    Aqua Letifer
                                    wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 04:07 last edited by
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                                    @Catseye3 said in People of Walmart:

                                    I often wondered if King actually spent time working on a mangler in his home town and that's how he got the idea for the story.

                                    He did work at an industrial laundromat for awhile.

                                    Please love yourself.

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                                      xenon
                                      wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 04:16 last edited by
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                                      I started at $14/hour doing night dispatch at the cab company where my dad worked.

                                      Straight up nepotism.

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                                        4 Aug 2020, 04:07

                                        @Catseye3 said in People of Walmart:

                                        I often wondered if King actually spent time working on a mangler in his home town and that's how he got the idea for the story.

                                        He did work at an industrial laundromat for awhile.

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                                        Mik
                                        wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 04:26 last edited by Mik 8 Apr 2020, 13:05
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                                        @Aqua-Letifer said in People of Walmart:

                                        @Catseye3 said in People of Walmart:

                                        I often wondered if King actually spent time working on a mangler in his home town and that's how he got the idea for the story.

                                        He did work at an industrial laundromat for awhile.

                                        Yep. All his stuff comes straight out of his experience. That is why it hits so close to home. No author has ever captured the adolescents of his generation better.

                                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                          Friday
                                          wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 04:32 last edited by
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                                          Congrats to Lucas! I hope he enjoys it.

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