Basic level jobs like that in general suck. With the only exception I can recall being Home Depot. You get to learn some stuff working there. Learned how to use a chainsaw to cut and trim Christmas Trees, Learned how to operate a fork lift, Learned how to use a table saw to cut plywood. Learned a lot about tools, gardening and what not from customers and older co-workers. Oh and you get bonuses called success sharing. Where if the store meets the sales quota for the quater. Everyone gets a bonus check. The higher we best the quota the bigger the bonus. Largest check I got was 700 bucks. So as far as basic retail jobs go I highly recommend Home Depot.
Unless you start out as Lot associate. That is just pure fucking ass. 8hrs of racking carts, and these aren’t just shopping carts. Talking those heavy ass metal flat carts and wood carrying carts. lifting 60-80lb bags of concrete into trucks, dumbasses who want to bring a fucking Bently, or some other fancy car to haul the shit and want you to be extra careful and make sure no dirt gets in the trunk. Loading up bails of hey into trucks. That shit is itchy. And god help you if you’re at a location where you are the only lot associate.
That was pretty much my experience as well. I wasn’t a stocker back then though. I was a cashier like I’m gonna be starting tomorrow or whenever they have me scheduled.
(Yeah, Costco probably has the best benefits in general of those type of jobs. Good luck getting accepted though.)
While I somewhat agree with @Million about sadness inherent humanity, other sapient species and the rest of the universe as it relates to the Fermi paradox, at the same time at least part of me thinks that the fact likelihood that we’ll never become truly spacefaring can only be a good thing for the rest of the universe, especially if there are other species out there (who aren’t already assholes or have been destroyed). Given how poorly we treat the Earth and each other and other many, many flaws, it only really seems like we could do more harm out there, at least at present.
That’s probably why I don’t get too sad about it despite liking astronomy myself.
Pfft. Even I know that pity isn’t the same thing as “love”, though many mistake it as such.
Also, does this mean that you suffered through both The Shaft (a.k.a. Down if you’re Wasted or an another Australian) and The Ring 2? I still one my money back for the latter and I am still surprised that someone decided to make a movie about a killer elevator when it comes to the former.
…Actually, the former is totally where you get your user name from, isn’t it @“Shaft Agent”?
(Gods damn. The trailer for this totally gives everything good away…just like SJW Ghostbusters’s and Suicide Squad’s trailers 15 years later. Will Hollywood never learn?)
I’ve applied to soooo many minimum wage job. The reason I got the job at Kroger’s is because they were hosting a job fair and you could get an interview by walking in; but no one in town wanted me to scrub their toilet or what not. It’s like what Epidemic said, they typically look for teenagers out of HS for those jobs. I’m almost to the point of where I’m gonna have to start drawing from my 401k. That crazy lady really fucked up sideways and up.
I don’t think I want to work in a corporate office environment. Engineering is just like any other job. Watch the movie Office Space, except that the 6 managers the dude has to change cover sheet of his TPS reports are all petulant child and need their ego stroke. Luckily, the interview for that manufacturer was for a pump test engineer position so plenty of time to spend in the shop.
If I get that position for test engineer, good. If I don’t, then good. I’ve been doing some soul searching. I think I want to go towards the route of law enforcement. Crazy huh? Welp, this was gonna be my tenth year being an engineer. If I stick with it, I would have to wait until all of those fucking worthless baby boomers die off and then we can start moving up real fast. But man fuck if I want to drag myself into another dreadful day in a soul sucking day in a office, wearing stuffy clothes trying to impress other people, another day of fearing of what little perturbance of air might get the oh-so-mighty boss upset, another day of watching the clock so I can hit the gym/dojo/whatever. So far what I’ve done, I’ve been working on getting all my stuff together to get my application through the system. I’ve also been lucky to have acquired a mentor who will make the application process smoother. The application process is loooooooonnnng.
So~orta. Depends on how many hours you put in. Their raises are based on hours worked, which is cool and all, but if you can get into a grocery store with multiple raises a year, it’d work out better because you’d be compensated more and better depending on the company. They are pretty strict too, moreso than a lot of stores.
why are you not trying to get an oil field job? you are in the south, goofy!
The Shaft was garbage, mainly because Naomi was miscast*. she wore a skirt so it was 10/10 movie.
Ring Two was garbage but it had a good bootleg version of The Ring’s OST
21 Grams was coo
King Kong was coo
Mulholland Dr. is one of my favorite movies of all time
Tank Girl was coo
Funny Games was legit
*Naomi Watts’s strength as an actress is vulnerability. i can’t think of an actress that does it better than her. Natalie Portman is also good at it, but she can’t hang.
and since you brought it up, we are having a Naomi Watts Calfturday, where i teach you scrubs about how well she masks powerlevel.
(Please tell me you used “pounded hard” intentionally.)
Hurricanes aside, the West Coast rather wishes it was the East Coast weather-wise then since despite finally getting significant rain this year, we still need way more to get out of this drought.
