i worked for a sweat shop type CPA firm right out of college... made $18k per year plus straight time OT.... after working ~75 hour weeks for tax season they sat me down and explained how they didn't have any more work........... i thought I was going to do some auditing after tax season....i was hired right before tax season, so i think they had this all planned from the beggining..... i sucked at doing tax returns anyway..... i am a "rounded thousands" type guy....

it was a blessing in disguise...... they were nice enough to find one of their clients who needed someone.... worked there for 14 months then stepped up to a real job.

Now i am the glorious controller of a $70M company....blaaaaaa... dork...

Luckily it allows me to waste more than half my day on idiot boards like this.

 

I was just about to graduate from college and was currently working at circuit city. I had a month to go and I was bragging to people that I was going to quit.

So the manager locked me out of logging into the computer and when i went to talk to him, he said he heard rumors of me qutting. I was thinking, this is pretty stupid, you hear rumors, what, are we in junior high?

So I said, yea, I'm about to graduate from college, so I really don't care (since I never had the nuts ever to be a bastard). So he said there were other people there who could use my hours, and I said, go for it. So I left.

It's so nice that a college degree can make you almost 8x more an hour than working for a bunch of slave drivers.

Wheeee

 

My last job, i worked as an assistant manager for a pizza joint... some kids that worked there didn't like me because i thought the point of a job was to work and not socialize? How could I be so stupid?

So anyhow, they lied to the manager and said I put toilet water in a customers food, so alas i was fired.

 

HOLY SHYT!!!! That sucked!!

Well, I never got fired, I only quit my jobs!! I worked for Quiktrip for a good bit and the pay was really excellent. However it wasn't what I wanted to do though. Then I went to work for a restaurant (Pappadeaux).... basicly I stood there everyday and was BORED to death. So I told the manager it wasn't me and left the job. Now I am going to work in parking cars (Valet).

The job that probably pays the most was and has the best benefits..QuikTrip ($15/hr with dental and so on) As oppose to my ($7/hr with no benefits). Hopefully once I gain enough experience in Valet, I can go work at a dealership being a car porter or something.....

-Alan

 

I was a freshman in college working at a Toys-R-Us as Chrismas help. My job was to unload trucks and put toys out on pallets to be stocked on shelves and put the bigger items in the warehouse. People who bought these items would take a ticket, pay for the item and drive around with the reciept and I would get the large item out of the warehouse and bring it to their car.

The warehouse was metal shelves, three levels and about 2 1/2 stories high. You had to climb a ladder to get to the top and get some of these large items. Childrens car seats that weigh about 3 pounds were on the bottom shelf, and things like those electric cars that you buy for kids so they can drive around the yard were on the top shelf. They weigh a ton and you have to climb 2 stories up a ladder to put these on the shelf, and then go get this anchor when a customer wants it, while balancing on a ladder. Most of the other guys working there would just push the car off the shelf, let it crash to the ground and damage the box and tell the customer "It is our last one and the box is a little dinged up but if it is broken you can bring it back" even if we had 100 more on the shelf. The customer would always take it.

I asked the manager why we could not put the light items on the top shelf and have the heavy items on the bottom so no one would get hurt and he said, "We don't need your input, college boy.

And I said, "It is not my fault you could not get in." I was let go a couple days later. When I was told "This will be your last day" I was unloading a truck full of really hot selling video games that would have sold out immediately. I hid them wayyyyyyy deep in the warehouse where they would not be found until they did a complete inventory and would probably be worthless.

$4.25 an hour does not buy dedication.