Me gidda jawb!

Dipstikk · #1 11-23-2005, 04:02 PM

That's right, folks. I just got hired at the local K-Mart. I'm a cart-boy, and I also work in the stock room.

Not too glamerous, but considering that this is my first job, I'll take it. I start Tuesday. I work from 9 am to 4 pm, as I understand it, and I'm getting paid $6.75 an hour.

****in' sweet!

***Nate*** · #2 11-23-2005, 04:26 PM

Yeah, I need to get a job soon, seeing as I'm staying longer than my original budget expected in a foreign country. I'm thinking I'll go to Starbucks because I love the smell of coffee.

All my friends work in fashion stores, which I would never have the patience for. One guy who just started to work at GAP had to try on every pair of jeans just to know what they fit like. Even girls!

AquaticAmbi · #3 11-23-2005, 07:33 PM

I've never had a job... or car. It's an endless cycle of needing a car to go to a job but needing a job to get money for buying a car. Meh, I don't think I could handle the stress of a job during school anyway.

Hmm, what about the tattoo businness, Dippy? Whatever happened?

T-nex · #4 11-24-2005, 12:17 AM

I recently got a job too.. I don't see the point about flipping over it :-S Anyways, it's just a boring job at some food-restaurant thingy. But i need monay for christmas presents

Dipstikk · #5 11-24-2005, 12:35 AM

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Hmm, what about the tattoo businness, Dippy? Whatever happened?

Oh, yeah. I'd been meaning to tell you guys, too.

Turns out that the guy who hired me wasn't supposed to hire people at all. He was fired, and in turn, so was I.

I'm gonna call them back and tell them to take my design off of their list, and ask for the rest of my payment, which they should have done anyway.

Dancing Steef · #6 11-24-2005, 04:52 AM

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Oh, yeah. I'd been meaning to tell you guys, too.

Turns out that the guy who hired me wasn't supposed to hire people at all. He was fired, and in turn, so was I.

I'm gonna call them back and tell them to take my design off of their list, and ask for the rest of my payment, which they should have done anyway.

that's kinda cruel n' weird, huh? hope ya get payed with the rest of the money they owe you

Anyway here in Sweden it's almost a "tradition" to look for work anytime at year and then work at the summer. "A summer job" we call it... anyway I worked at my grandpa's place at an old sawmill, cleaning up and stuff. But it was kinda tough for me so I quit... dumd as I was

therefore I haven't looking for another job. I may look for one soon, but then it'll be on a petshop or something in that style

Cullen Heath · #7 11-24-2005, 11:22 AM

I have never had a real job but I once worked in my brother's school for about 2 months and got paid 10 dollars an hour!!! I had to feed the kids and clean up after them and put them down for a nap, just easy stuff like that. I was a good deal! Then my brother moved up to kindergarden.

SeaRex · #8 11-25-2005, 04:30 PM

Well, at least you don't have to deal with customers. Much.

***Nate*** · #9 11-25-2005, 06:28 PM

Unless he has to deal with parents. Then anything to do with kids becomes the worst job ever.

Cullen Heath · #10 11-25-2005, 10:35 PM

No. No parents, just feeding them, playing with them at recess, putting them down for naps and making sure they didnt kill each other or themselves or break anything.

Havoc · #11 11-26-2005, 06:15 AM

Ewww... a job... :P

Nah, nice going Dipstikk. I used to work at a super market... what a dull job that is >.>. Besides, I broke more then was sold. That what you get if you put ME in the section with the vegies in GLASS jars... where I need to fill them on racks that make the jars almost fall off... I must have broken at least a dozen of those stupid things in one week :P.

metroixer · #12 11-26-2005, 10:48 AM

at Havoc. You are always the clumsy one aren't you? Anyway the only job I had wasn't even a flipping job. Walk one dog each day. Get 1 friggin dollar a day. After a week I found out it was so not worth it.

***Nate*** · #13 11-26-2005, 11:46 AM

Back when I was living on Kibbutz, they had me working in the bee factory. Basically they bred bees in little plastic cubes 20cm on each side (about 100-200 bees in a hive) and then rented them out to farmers and greenhouses where they would be opened up and the bees would go out and pollinate everything. They were big-arse bees too. The worker bees were about two centimetres long and one wide and the queens (which we had a lot of) were about four or five centimetres long. Mostly they were trapped in the containers but you'd always have a queen or two buzzing around the roof. My boss told me never to open the hives as there were enough bees in one to kill a man.

My job was to put lids on 3000+ jars of nectar then put straws in a hole in each lid. Then I would take them to the hives and replace old jars with new ones, keeping my fingers clear because they could sting through the air-holes.

One day I was pushing a trolley with 20-odd hives on it, some of which were the new 'special' genetically-engineered bees, when I bumped the trolley into a shelf and all the hives fell off and open. I have never run so fast in my life. I was up and out of the room before the bees had even realised what had happened. So then I had to build up the courage to tell my boss that I had destroyed a couple of grand's worth of bees. So he had to turn on the red lights (bees can't see red and in the dark they settle to the ground) and he then went and stomped on all them. Goodbye special bees. *sniff*

Cullen Heath · #14 11-26-2005, 01:35 PM

Man, Im sorry, wait did you get fired?

***Nate*** · #15 11-26-2005, 02:54 PM

No, I eventually just told them I didn't want to work there because I was sick of coming home sticky and stinking of honey, which is one of my least favourite foods. So I worked in the date fields instead.

Kimon · #16 12-04-2005, 05:56 PM

Hey, I have a jahb. 2, in fact. And heeeere they are:

1. I write for my local newspaper. w007 w007 <---15 buckaroos per article.

2. I'm directing a film about my cities' Main Street. It should be cool. <---1000 buckaroos in total.

used:) · #17 12-04-2005, 06:02 PM

Damn! thats soke fine money, honey! I seriously need a jib too! I am not spending my summer next year doing long agonizing work for 3 dollars an hour again.

Kimon · #18 12-04-2005, 06:19 PM

^Typo?^

Ferdy bucks an hour = SHITLODED.

used:) · #19 12-04-2005, 06:58 PM

OMFG!! U GAWT M3!!!! 1 @C$1D3NTLYY P00T 30 !!33!

Leto · #20 12-05-2005, 05:52 PM

$3 an hour... Isn't that illegal or sumfins?

OANST · #21 12-07-2005, 05:47 AM

I'm getting a little irritated with my job right now. I keep convincing people that they need the damn service that we provide but when I turn in the paperwork (with tons of extras added on, because I'm a hell of a salesman) the underwriters decline it. They won't let me sell shit! There is nothing worse than spending a couple hours working on a deal, calculating your commision for that deal to be about 500 dollars, turning it in and hearing "Sorry. These guys are just too high risk." You wanna know what high risk is? Pissing me off is high risk. I'm about to go on an underwriter killing spree.

Rex Tirano · #22 12-07-2005, 06:03 AM

Jawb! On work experience at the moment, and it's the coolest. Working at the local YMCA [Theater] and it's amazing. My "boss" is a laugh and Jamie [the guy who is on work exp. with me] is great. My supervisor is an arse, but he just follows my "boss" around so it's okies.

My first day, I put up Xmas decorations, it was so good. Me and Jamie put up the tree, and made the Santa [on top of the tree] a little blue tinsel hat. We only work 3 and a half hours in the morning, and it was such good fun.

Today, we had to shift all the props from on garage to another. It was really hard work but fun, and my "boss" kept letting us have a tea-break. It was great, and I broke one of the stage props, and me and Jamie were laughing for ages about it [although my "boss" and supervisor don't know].

And, to top it all off today... It was a sunny gorgeous day, and we were allowed out of work half an hour early. ^_^

I <3 work.

- Rexy

Dipstikk · #23 12-07-2005, 07:05 AM

Well, since this topic is no longer mine, I guess it wouldn't be appropriate for me to talk about how the Kmart situation is going, eh?

Leto · #24 12-07-2005, 10:38 AM

No, I guess it just evolved into a 'What is your Job?' thread, so you can tell us about yours! YAY! ^_^

***Nate*** · #25 12-07-2005, 10:40 AM

Well as long as you're talking about a jawb, it should be fine.

Dipstikk · #26 12-07-2005, 11:01 AM

Well, the hours have changed (due to my l33t negotiation skillz) to 10:30-4:00, and I get a collective 45 minutes of glorious sitting time (30 for lunch, 15 for break). I get paid in exactly 7 days from now, and will be getting paid somewhere around $300.00.

I'm constantly on my feet, retreiving carts that these old fat sacks can't seem to return to the corrals. Seriously, almost everyone who shops there is over 50 years old, and none of them can read!

But 300 big ones, that's pretty f*ckin' sweet. That's basically what keeps me going.

***Nate*** · #27 12-07-2005, 02:42 PM

Yeah, I've been there.

I only survived my last full-time job because I knew I was getting paid way more than the average for what was effectively work experience.

Dipstikk · #28 12-09-2005, 11:44 AM

Well, I've been fired. Apparently I was complaining about the customers within earshot of a customer. The one Kmart shopper who hasn't lost their hearing to age.

At least I'm leaving a job with a paycheck, as opposed to my last job as a nursing home assistant. Never get fired from a voulenteer job.

Oh well. I'm applying for some art classes at Manatee Community College in January, maybe I can get an on-campus job.

***Nate*** · #29 12-13-2005, 05:38 PM

I just applied at Starbucks and Barnes & Noble today. I got a good vibe from the manager at Starbucks and B&N told me they had two positions going.

I've got an interview for B&N tomorrow which has me stressed because I hate interviews. I always screw up in one major way (I'll tell a few stories when I have more time). Plus, all my good 'impress the boss' clothing is back on the other side of the planet.

AquaticAmbi · #30 12-13-2005, 06:42 PM

I don't mean to take this thread off-topic-ish, but why are you getting a job in the US? I thought you were just travelling and having fun.