Today was my first day of my first job.

[evilbutterfly]

Long story short: My legs are sore. =(

Basically, I work in the dining hall (at NCSU, where I will return for college in about a month) and do lots of jobs. They'll be rotating me around, but today I was a "linebacker", meaning I had to replace empty food trays with full ones and take the empty/dirty ones to the washing area. This involved a lot more standing and running than I'm used to. Hence the sore legs. =\

I go back tomorrow for the same shift. At least I'll know what I'm doing more than today, but I hate working already. -___-

[B0NK]

once you get a paycheck, you wont hate it as much

[IAAW]

Man, that type of job would just tear me up, as, seeing as my ankles aren't "properly developed", they would hurt more from standing and running around, and that, sirs, is why I have to wear ankle braces whenever I run around outside and stuff. Meh.

[Afrobean]

you slut

how dare you find a job

Seriously, the only places I'm qualified to work at are the types of places where you can only get a job if you know someone... and I don't know anyone at all... not a single person.

[iggymatrixcounter]

Originally Posted by Afrobean

Seriously, the only places I'm qualified to work at are the types of places where you can only get a job if you know someone... and I don't know anyone at all... not a single person.

Yea right didn't someone try to get you a job a Vector selling knives? Admit it you're just lazy afro, you could get a job, you just don't want one XD.

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

Nice, welcome to the working world. How long is your shift?

Anyways, that doesn't seem too hard. I work at FedEx (Ground) as a package handler. Thats a long version for a tossologist aka someone who is wise in the are of tossing boxes. Basically I move boxes for 4 hours a day. My shift does about 20,000 packages and we have about 8-10 people each day. So I average about a 1,000 boxes an hour. It gets pretty tedious after a while. /ranting about my job

[iggymatrixcounter]

Originally Posted by PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR

I work at FedEx (Ground) as a package handler. Basically I move boxes for 4 hours a day. My shift does about 20,000 packages and we have about 8-10 people each day. So I average about a 1,000 boxes an hour.

You get commission on that or is it an hourly wage?

[evilbutterfly]

I worked 3:30-7:30. Once school starts and we're on a normal schedule I'll work till 8:30, prolly, but for now it's just ~4 hours a day. I'm gonna hate once school starts. I have a class that starts at 8:05, and 2 of my classes are on the other campus, so I'll have to either walk 15-20 minutes to the campus or take a shuttle, and I'm not so good at public transportation and bus routes, so I'll prolly mess it up for the first week or two, but going there and back 2 times a day will suck regardless of whether I manage to do it right or not.

Plus working the dinner rush 5 days a week. I'm gonna be sooooooo tired all the time. -_____-

[lord_carbo]

4 hours a day of labor isn't much. I did 5 a day on a mission trip before (sorting food, moving boxes, ect.), except I wasn't payed. My only payment were the pastries that they were going to throw out because they were getting old, but suprisingly the pastries were pretty fresh.

Manual labor sucks, though, I feel your pain. The paycheck makes things kind-of worth it.

[TIMEDISORT]

I need a job XD

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

Originally Posted by iggymatrixcounter

You get commission on that or is it an hourly wage?

Hourly wage . If they paid by commission, I'd probably be making twice what I am now because I work pretty hard and almost nonstop. But its FedEx, they ain't gonna change **** for a while. I did just get a raise though, well, my plant did, but it helped (+$.5 ftw)

[Squeek]

And you wonder why I was so pissed at working at Costco for double what you work, doing twice the amount of work you do.

Sheesh. It's not easy doing manual labor people. That's why nobody wants those jobs.

~Squeek

[emptiness]

Originally Posted by PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR

Hourly wage . If they paid by commission, I'd probably be making twice what I am now because I work pretty hard and almost nonstop. But its FedEx, they ain't gonna change **** for a while. I did just get a raise though, well, my plant did, but it helped (+$.5 ftw)

thats exactly why they don't do commission...it's always busy

[SuperCyborg33]

i work at a mofo'n dairy queen. I can make the most kickass cones known to man.

[GuidoHunter]

Noah, my friend's worked at his old dorm's cafeteria for about three years now and even got his friend a job there. It's apparently not terrible work, and he's made his way up the ranks there, so he doesn't do much manual labor anymore.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[whorlichan]

You weenies. A little moving of trays is NOTHING compared to running around with stretchers covered in hundreds of pounds of seizuring dog that is drooling and dying all over you.

That said, I did spend quite a bit of last week's shifts sitting at a desk doing paperwork, but this week was INSANE and I don't think I sat down for more than 5-10 minutes each night. End result is my legs are so sore that they're threatening to mutiny.

[emccky]

I drive a delivery car for 3 hours a day. I do no walking at all. I love my job.

[XXXsmittyXXX]

Try cooking seafood for 6 hours a day...It gets old although i make 450 a week.

[uhcougars2006]

I work at a bowling alley, AMF Bowling Lanes. I love Monday nights because I get to watch drunks bowl and make an ass of themselves and I piss off a lot of people during Xtreme Bowling because they hit the damn rake. F*cken dumbasses!

[jewpinthethird]

*Six months of frustration being vented*

I got paid to browse the internet, chat on AIM, post on FFR, read books, do my homework, steal food and coffee, and watch TV. I worked a College Bookstore, so I also had to deal with idiots possing as "college students" and the whole thing gave me a distaste for mankind in general. It wasn't a bad job, but the store was managed so horribly that it was just like mucking around in sh*t for 6 hours a day listening to people complain about things I had no control over. I also had to unpack boxes of text books and put them on the shelves, which wouldnt have bothered me that much had people actually purchased them. With in a month or so, the same books that I had to unpack, I had to pack up again and send back to the text book companies.

But I prefered the manual labor of the job. At least f*cking boxes don't complain about obvious sh*t.

Customer: "Gee, you dont have anything in stock."
Me: (Oh? Really? Yeah, thanks for pointing that out since that I dont have f*cking eyes.) "Yeah, I know"
Customer #2: "Whoa, you guys really dont have anything."
Me: (Whoa, no sh*t? Here's your Ph.D genius.) "<no response>."

I heard this EVERYDAY for at good 4 months. When we did have stock in, we didnt have the candy they wanted or something.

Customer: "Oh, it smells too strongly of Pine-Sol."
Me: "Yeah, that's because I'm mopping."
Customer #2: "But the smell is so stroooooong."
Me: (SHUT THE F*CK UP. DO YOU NOT REALIZE YOU CAN LEAVE ANYTIME? YOUR FEET AREN'T CEMENTED TO THE ****ING FLOOR.) "Yeah, I know."
Customer #3: "I could smell it from the hallway."

Customer: "Do you have such and such a book?"
Me: "If it isn't on the shelf, then we dont have it."
Customer: "You dont have any books in the back or something?"
Me: "No, if it isnt on the shelf, then we dont have it in stock."
Customer: "Well, then can you tell me the price/ISBN of the book?"
Me: "It's all located on the shelf tag. The tags are arranged alphabetically by course number."
Customer: "Where is that?"
Me: "On the shelf."
Customer: "Which is....?"
Me: (Come on guy, I know you have f*cking eyes. The shelves with the f*cking books on them.) <Usually I just give up, grab a hold of their hand and walk them over to where the tag they are look for is.>