Today was my third day working at a grocery store and I had to push carts back into the store from the parking lot in driving rain and lightning striking nearby.... i'm calling them tommorrow and asking them...

Yeah...wear some gloves....

Quote: Originally Posted by xXxJrodxXx Today was my third day working at a grocery store and I had to push carts back into the store from the parking lot in driving rain and lightning striking nearby.... i'm calling them tommorrow and asking them...

Get use to it, its called work. If you can't handle it, you shouldn't be working there. I worked for a grocery store for 3 years to earn money for college. During that time, part of my job was to push the carts to the customer's cars and to bring the cart back to the store in all sorts of weather. If the tornado sirens go off, i recommend staying inside.

I worked at Target last summer.

I was a cartboy. HORRIBLE job, especially in mid summer. The best part is blocking off the whole main parking lot drag trying to push a row of 20 carts into a door the size of about a Geo Metro. Shouldn't be hard, right? Problem being, carts don't have power steering.

I didn't like it, especially during the rain, but I didn't quit because I needed to save to pay off a car.

I mean, they paid alright...retail just isn't my thing.

Quote: Originally Posted by HappyCamper I worked at Target last summer. I was a cartboy. HORRIBLE job, especially in mid summer. The best part is blocking off the whole main parking lot drag trying to push a row of 20 carts into a door the size of about a Geo Metro. Shouldn't be hard, right? Problem being, carts don't have power steering. I didn't like it, especially during the rain, but I didn't quit because I needed to save to pay off a car. I mean, they paid alright...retail just isn't my thing.

What...........are you a wuss???........just do it..........

Quote: Originally Posted by xXxJrodxXx Today was my third day working at a grocery store and I had to push carts back into the store from the parking lot in driving rain and lightning striking nearby.... i'm calling them tommorrow and asking them...

Only if you are working around something that could explode. Otherwise, it's called "conditions of employment".

Rob

Quote: Originally Posted by Highperf15 What...........are you a wuss???........just do it..........

No, actually. I was 17, just graduated high school and didn't realize that I wasn't allowed to have two jobs by the state of Indiana.

I'm no wuss, just working 60 hours a week was a little excessive for being 17. I went back to working full time as a cook, eventually a delivery driver and now a member of Management at Pizza Hut.

I'm making far more money now than I ever would have been at Target. I wasn't 'brand' enough anyway.

I was a shelf filler/ till operator for a year and 9 months at Tescos (basically grocery store big style). It not so much the toughness of the job - the tasks I performed on any scale were easy - operating the till isnt difficult, and filling shelve is easy so long as you put things in the right place. Aside from the obvious health and saftey along with customer service, the job doesnt seem to hard for the pay to the beginner...until you hit 3 months in.

At that point you relaise just how repetitive the job is...and how much the mangers actually do - nothing. At the end of the time I was there, I had reduced my hours (following my knee operation) and kept them at al ow level becuase by the time I'd finish a shift more than 5 hours long, I'd be asleep form bordem. Jobs like that are mentally crushing. Theres no real initiative to boost moral levels save for the horrible propaganda posters slapped up everywhere in the staff canteen, and as I say...the managers are lazy, rude and really couldnt give 10 flying fux0rs.

Quote: Originally Posted by HappyCamper No, actually. I was 17, just graduated high school and didn't realize that I wasn't allowed to have two jobs by the state of Indiana. I'm no wuss, just working 60 hours a week was a little excessive for being 17. I went back to working full time as a cook, eventually a delivery driver and now a member of Management at Pizza Hut. I'm making far more money now than I ever would have been at Target. I wasn't 'brand' enough anyway.

I was just messin with yah...........

I had this job (only for about 3 months) in a production machine shop in Michigan.........I was put on this HUGE mill that put on the finish faces for Detroit Diesel bellhousings.............The mill would hold 8 housings and slowing spin (continuously)........as a finished bellhousing came into view, I'd remove it, place it on a pallet.......and lock in an unfinished piece in it's place.........I was doing over 300 housings a shift...............and each one weighed 100 pounds.........

Quote: Originally Posted by nev_payne staff canteen

I'm sorry, but for some reason that phrase just seems funny to me.
I had a friend that worked at the Jewel (big grocery chain) and even those of us who were unemployed made fun of his employer. They had terrible incentives and pay, "we are slaves" sums it up nicely.

Quote: Originally Posted by nev_payne I was a shelf filler/ till operator for a year and 9 months at Tescos (basically grocery store big style). It not so much the toughness of the job - the tasks I performed on any scale were easy - operating the till isnt difficult, and filling shelve is easy so long as you put things in the right place. Aside from the obvious health and saftey along with customer service, the job doesnt seem to hard for the pay to the beginner...until you hit 3 months in. At that point you relaise just how repetitive the job is...and how much the mangers actually do - nothing. At the end of the time I was there, I had reduced my hours (following my knee operation) and kept them at al ow level becuase by the time I'd finish a shift more than 5 hours long, I'd be asleep form bordem. Jobs like that are mentally crushing. Theres no real initiative to boost moral levels save for the horrible propaganda posters slapped up everywhere in the staff canteen, and as I say...the managers are lazy, rude and really couldnt give 10 flying fux0rs.

yeah, when i was in europe i went to a tesco in scotland and i like how the buggies had all wheel steering = ) i called it Testico lol

Quote: Originally Posted by xXxJrodxXx Today was my third day working at a grocery store and I had to push carts back into the store from the parking lot in driving rain and lightning striking nearby.... i'm calling them tommorrow and asking them...

Pffft thats nothing. I work on the beach and whenever theres lightning we hafta drive down the beach on a off road vehicle with metal seats and a metal body. Not only that but its raining and then we hafta change garbage cans up and down the beach.

CP's sounds the worst to me

Quote: Originally Posted by Michigan PC CP's sounds the worst to me

dude are you dumb or something? how many post did you make today? like 40-50? AND EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM WAS SPAMMING THE THREAD!!! dont post if you dont have at least one intelligent post for evey 50 you make. Dumbass....

Quote: Originally Posted by LwrS10 dude are you dumb or something? how many post did you make today? like 40-50? AND EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM WAS SPAMMING THE THREAD!!! dont post if you dont have at least one intelligent post for evey 50 you make. Dumbass....

DOH! LwrS10 you have hit the nail on the head with that post.

Bah!

When I was tripping dericks in the oil field I would be in a 120' high metal derick (with a few hundred tons of pipe stood inside it) smack dab in the middle of the gulf (Read: The top of the rig 9' above my head is THE HIGHEST POINT FOR MILES) in the middle of a gulf storm.

Sure, there is a lightning rod up there, but seeing as how everything else on the rig was broke it got kinda hard to "keep the faith"

If you don't know Jesus, spend 12 hours in that tower during a thunder storm. You will find him.

Quote: Originally Posted by xXxJrodxXx Today was my third day working at a grocery store and I had to push carts back into the store from the parking lot in driving rain and lightning striking nearby.... i'm calling them tommorrow and asking them...

you gotta be ****ting me right? cmon man hopefuly your balls have dropped by now, pushing carts at a grocery store is probably the easiest job you will ever have.

Suck it up.

I work on F15's, which have highly carcinogenic chemicals such as JP8 fuel, 7808 aircraft oil, and hydraulic fluid. It's real fun having to leak check an IDG, while having burning hot oil and hydraulic fluid falling into your eyes, hair, ears, and yes even my mouth. It doesn't taste good at all**. I suck it up though. I'm proud of what I do!.








**(no don't think like that your perverts!!!).

PS, try getting a different job or something. Companies like Taco Bell hire people at like $7.50 an hour and such. Heck, you could even find a call center job! I worked for a grocery delivery service for a year (before I joined the AF), and I got paid $10 an hour.