Jobs
 

I know that some of this board is below the legal working age, but I still see plenty of posts that relate to how jobs suck up so much of our precious precious forum time. So what job, if any, are you holding down, or have held down?

I'm currently a server/cashier at Boston Market. 6 bucks an hour, people aren't so bad, and flexible hours. Customers can still be jackasses though (My favorite is the guy who comes in during rush hour, on his cell phone, then proceeds to order what seems like half our inventory, then gets mad at me for forgetting the thing he said eight meals ago). Plus, 50% off food, so i pay next to nothing for my treasured Mac and Cheese.

I wish I had a job right now to take up my time. Shouldn't be long before I work security...

Working in retail sucks. I work in the store chain of Argos, here in the UK. I am, however, begging my manager for overtime so I can hoarde money. But next year, for sure, I'll be looking for a new job. £5 an hour just doesn't cut it for the amount of shit we get put through.

My job consists of many roles, most of which are not in my job description. I have been trained on the cashier desks, stockroom, jewellery department, refunds desk and dispatch counter.

The till work involves knowing catalogue numbers off by heart, assisting customers with finding the right items, dealing with shitty aura software, taking delivery details, offering and explaining the advantages of item insurance and the Argos Card. As well as dealing with all sorts of customers including those who don't speak English and those with attitude problems.

Stockroom involves picking and putting away stock, clearing away and checking the damages which are returned to store, putting away the good stock that is returned to store, counting and re-binning stock, making sure that the aisles are clear, dealing with interstore transfers and MORE picking of stock.

Jewellery department involves EVERYTHING of the rest of the departments combined, as well as display work. The bonus of being over here is having a small stockroom where you can hide away and scream when customers are getting annoying. Other jobs include ordering rings for customers, dealing with jewellery enquiries, measuring peoples fingers, sending items of jewellery away for repair, closer guard of showing stock to customers and complete knowledge of all the items of jewellery we sell.

Refunds desk = the bitch of all departments. You get to deal with people bringing back items that aren't even stocked by us. Items which they've broken and are trying to return. Items which aren't covered by our money back guarentee for hygiene reasons, and yet are still attempted to be returned. Customers yelling, demanding and basically being rude. The whole process of refunds is fine - check the item is in the box, refund the amount paid in the way paid and send the customer on their merry little way. But nothing ever goes to plan.

Dispatch is shit. I hate it. You basically just have to stand there, stamp a customers reciept, put their item into a bag and smile all the while. Then you get the idiots who ask for a bag for their microwave or didn't realise how big a stepladder would be. You have to deal with customer views, where customers look at the items before purchasing as well as dealing with the customers waiting for the items they've already paid for. I hate this department most of all.

So, there you have it. This is why £5 an hour SUCKS ASS.

That's like... 10 USD per hour, about, right? I'd sell my soul for that wage at this point. Unemployment sucks.

I work in the army as a combat medic. 500 S$ a month for my job is hardly enough.

I work as a power engineer (that's stationary engineer, in the US, I think), in the boiler room of a mushroom farm. I maintain both a glycol heating boiler system, and a low-pressure steam process system, as well as a chiller and its appendages, and a variety of air handling equipment. I also manufacture and replace temperature probes used in the compost pasteurization tunnels, and I'm part of the emergency on-call responder rotation (so if there's a power failure or something, we can keep the farm running). I do all the water treatment on the farm, both for the boilers and for the service taps - the farm water is trucked in, then combined with rainwater and raw well water, so its not drinkable, but it has to be safe because its used for washing hands and food-prep equipment. And last but not least, I do the purchase orders and paperwork for the Maintenance department. I do all this for about $30,000/year CDN, plus bennies and mileage. I don't have much to do with the actual growing of the mushrooms themselves, but I know enough about it that I'm often asked to give tours of the farm. We create our own compost onsite, so we can show the full process, alpha to omega, from raw straw to packaged mushrooms loaded onto the truck.

I just quit my job as a shoe salesman for JC Penney and I'm now going into a cashier job at Wal Mart. $8.15/hr to sit behind a register all day, hell yea I'll do it.

$8.15 from wal-mart? Holy crap.

I used to work for an injection molding plastics factory - my job was to take parts off a conveyor belt and put them in a box. It doesn't GET worse than that.

Then I lost my job! I made $10.05

Now I work for my uncle hanging drapes, curtains and miniblinds for 2 grand a month. He's a fun guy, pays well, buys lunch, provides beer. Only thing I don't like so much is I am away from my baby. I miss her during the week. :\

However 'cause of this we will be able to afford our wedding. I don't need anything else.

I worked temporary as a cart pusher and mad $7.50 an hour there, plus a dollar extra an hour on sundays. Wal-Mart pays well. It also provides benefits to part time employees, something that's hard to find. Of course, you have to avoid he 'morning meetings' like the plague unless you want to get stuck doing a cheer... but considering the pay and benefits for such a low skill job at entry level, it's not so bad.

Currently, however, I work at L&M Fleet Supply. It's a Minnesota only chain, don't feel bad if you've no idea what I'm talking about. Anyway, I happen to work in the dirtiest and smallest of all the stores, and it's a hardware/supply store. This means we sell things like concrete and sand blasting sand (by 60 and 100 pounds, respectively). My job involves carrying that stuff around for customers. Which, wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't just the weight, but our warehouse also isn't nearly big enough for all the crap we have, which means I have to carry all that while climbing over pallets of dog food, lawn equipment, shovels, clothes, and various other things.

All while being covered in dust and concrete, because the place has no ventilation... for a mere $6.70 an hour (after a 20 cent raise).

It's alright though... I'm their '1337'est employee. ...Yah, I got bored and played with my nametag:

Right now I don't have a job and it's driving me insane! I have nothing to do, but that wouldn't be so bad if I had money!!

Hire me damnit!!!