People of Walmart
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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:
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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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Congratulations to Lucas for joining the workforce!
What's he going to be doing there, selling pianos/keyboards I assume?
@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. -
@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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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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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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I had a job that paid $2.10 an hour but, well, tips.
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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.
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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.
@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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@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.
@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.
