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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 01:20 last edited by
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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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 01:26 last edited by
Congratulations to Lucas for joining the workforce!
What's he going to be doing there, selling pianos/keyboards I assume?
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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 01:35 last edited by
Nice! My first retail job paid 3.35.
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Congratulations to Lucas for joining the workforce!
What's he going to be doing there, selling pianos/keyboards I assume?
wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 01:39 last edited by@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 wantsHe’ll be working sales in the toy department, pointing 40 year old Bronies towards the new Twilight Sparkle display. -
wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 02:03 last edited by
@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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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 02:04 last edited by jon-nyc 8 Apr 2020, 02:05
3.35 was minimum also at the time in NY. They had just upped it from 3.15.
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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 02:10 last edited by
@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.
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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 02:11 last edited by
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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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 03:33 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 03:35 last edited by Mik 8 Apr 2020, 13:04
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.
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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 03:37 last edited by
I had a job that paid $2.10 an hour but, well, tips.
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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 03:56 last edited by Catseye3 8 Apr 2020, 04:07
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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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.
wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 04:07 last edited by@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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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 04:16 last edited by
I started at $14/hour doing night dispatch at the cab company where my dad worked.
Straight up nepotism.
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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.
wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 04:26 last edited by Mik 8 Apr 2020, 13:05@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.
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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 04:32 last edited by
Congrats to Lucas! I hope he enjoys it.
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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 06:41 last edited by
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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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 12:07 last edited by
The first thought I had when I saw the email? “Wow, we are really going to have to start paying our delivery crews more.”
Don’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...
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wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 12:25 last edited by Jolly 8 Apr 2020, 12:29
First jobs were like Mik...Building fence, hauling hay, etc. Then, I got a steady gig on the weekends at a place like this:
Then, I got my first forty-hour a week job at one of these:
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.
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First jobs were like Mik...Building fence, hauling hay, etc. Then, I got a steady gig on the weekends at a place like this:
Then, I got my first forty-hour a week job at one of these:
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.
wrote on 4 Aug 2020, 15:25 last edited by@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.
My early jobs were instrumental in my not being such a huge fucking nincompoop.