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  • CopperC Offline
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    Copper
    wrote on last edited by
    #12

    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.

    ![alt text](9d30fef4-7df3-44ed-99f2-b7c868015218-image.png image url)

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    • RainmanR Offline
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      Rainman
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      #13

      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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      • MikM Offline
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        Mik
        wrote on last edited by Mik
        #14

        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.

        โ€œI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.โ€ ~Winston S. Churchill

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        • Aqua LetiferA Offline
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          Aqua Letifer
          wrote on last edited by
          #15

          I had a job that paid $2.10 an hour but, well, tips.

          Please love yourself.

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          • Catseye3C Offline
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            Catseye3
            wrote on last edited by Catseye3
            #16

            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. โ€“ Mike Ditka

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            • Catseye3C Catseye3

              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.

              Aqua LetiferA Offline
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              Aqua Letifer
              wrote on last edited by
              #17

              @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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              • X Offline
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                xenon
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                #18

                I started at $14/hour doing night dispatch at the cab company where my dad worked.

                Straight up nepotism.

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                • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                  @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.

                  MikM Offline
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                  Mik
                  wrote on last edited by Mik
                  #19

                  @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.

                  โ€œI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.โ€ ~Winston S. Churchill

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                  • F Offline
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                    Friday
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #20

                    Congrats to Lucas! I hope he enjoys it.

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                    • RainmanR Offline
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                      Rainman
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #21

                      There was a job I got from a comic book ad. I think it was selling boxes of Xmas cards, where you could make big money (right...) just selling to family and friends.
                      When I couldn't sell them because they were cheap and ugly, there was the issue of having to pay "the company" back. That's when I had to involve my dad. The lectures I had to endure about the various levels of stupid I was, a real ego boost. Thanks Dad, I understood 10 minutes ago when you started the rant.

                      Those were the good 'ol days, when getting scammed or screwed came from comic books. And BTW just so you all know, those "X-ray Glasses" that would make all the girls naked? Wasn't true. Not true at all. I was a very heartbroken 13-year-old.

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                      • LuFins DadL Offline
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                        LuFins Dad
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                        #22

                        The first thought I had when I saw the email? โ€œWow, we are really going to have to start paying our delivery crews more.โ€

                        Donโ€™t get me wrong, we pay them okay now, but paying teenagers $11 an hour to point to the newest GI Joe accessories is going to cause inflationary pressure on all jobs. Of course, that just means we will have to charge more for delivery...

                        The Brad

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                        • JollyJ Offline
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                          Jolly
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                          #23

                          First jobs were like Mik...Building fence, hauling hay, etc. Then, I got a steady gig on the weekends at a place like this:
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                          Then, I got my first forty-hour a week job at one of these:
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                          Every job teaches something. I applaud the lad for working. Every young man needs a little well-earned jingle in his pocket. And kudos to a good dad for teaching him some valuable life lessons.

                          โ€œCry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!โ€

                          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terroristsโ€™ "due process". โ€” Buck Sexton

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                          • JollyJ Jolly

                            First jobs were like Mik...Building fence, hauling hay, etc. Then, I got a steady gig on the weekends at a place like this:
                            alt text
                            Then, I got my first forty-hour a week job at one of these:
                            alt text

                            Every job teaches something. I applaud the lad for working. Every young man needs a little well-earned jingle in his pocket. And kudos to a good dad for teaching him some valuable life lessons.

                            Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                            Aqua Letifer
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #24

                            @Jolly said in People of Walmart:

                            Every job teaches something. I applaud the lad for working. Every young man needs a little well-earned jingle in his pocket. And kudos to a good dad for teaching him some valuable life lessons.

                            ๐Ÿ‘

                            My early jobs were instrumental in my not being such a huge fucking nincompoop.

                            Please love yourself.

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                            • HoraceH Offline
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                              Horace
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #25

                              Good for him.

                              Education is extremely important.

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