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[Shoulder Devil]

I put my degree from a four year university to work and got a cashier position at Walgreens!

...which I'd probably be more bummed about if it wasn't for the fact most of the people I work with are cool people, even management. Seriously, I'm hoping I don't ever have to transfer for better pay, because then I'll be sad. And probably opt to stick around with the current store instead.

Basically, the whole thing is like living the Clerks life, without the shitty customers (though we do get the crazy customers, who are fun to share stories about. Like Xena). Basically, we get paid to pal around behind the counter doing almost nothing productive and discussing pop culture. And also occasionally mocking each other. Sometimes both! Like when we all found out one of the photo clerks had never seen Star Wars (any of them).

 

The pay's crap, but I have zero stress from work and I love it.

[kspr]

i want to be charles manson when i grow up. who wants to go eat peyote and play guitar in the desert?

[Donkeymog]

Only if there's crazy drugged up orgy bitches.

[Donkeymog]

I put my degree from a four year university to work and got a cashier position at Walgreens!

...which I'd probably be more bummed about if it wasn't for the fact most of the people I work with are cool people, even management. Seriously, I'm hoping I don't ever have to transfer for better pay, because then I'll be sad. And probably opt to stick around with the current store instead.

Basically, the whole thing is like living the Clerks life, without the shitty customers (though we do get the crazy customers, who are fun to share stories about. Like Xena). Basically, we get paid to pal around behind the counter doing almost nothing productive and discussing pop culture. And also occasionally mocking each other. Sometimes both! Like when we all found out one of the photo clerks had never seen Star Wars (any of them).

 

The pay's crap, but I have zero stress from work and I love it.

 

Any relation to WalMart? That place sucks. I've worked retail, it got me down.

 

Talking of pop culture, ask the photo clerks if they've watched the film One Hour Photo with Robin Williams.

[Monkeydog]

Any relation to WalMart? That place sucks. I've worked retail, it got me down.

Not at all. Walgreens is a completely separate entity, it's also just a pharmacy/retail store.

 

Although my family has had a history with Walgreens and I kind of hate it, but on a completely personal level.

[Shoulder Devil]

I used to work at Walmart before I got the Walgreens job, actually. Not a good sign for management when I take less pride in my work, and more pride in the fact that after a month, I hadn't quit yet. I pretty much became one of the "old timers" by way of most of the people in my department quitting or getting themselves fired within 30 days of me starting there.

[Arutha]

So kind of cool news I got a promotion at Barnes and Noble I am now in lower management but now a full time (35 hour) employee it came with a raise and my vacation time got doubled and along with this development i have turned in my two weeks at my other job. After 5 years of working with Air conditioners im finally quitting its a bit surreal

[Stars]

Congrats on the promotion~ :D

[Hyperlisk]

So kind of cool news I got a promotion at Barnes and Noble I am now in lower management but now a full time (35 hour) employee it came with a raise and my vacation time got doubled and along with this development i have turned in my two weeks at my other job. After 5 years of working with Air conditioners im finally quitting its a bit surreal

Congrats. Hope you enjoy your new position.

[Arutha]

I also hope I enjoy it incidently im not a huge fan of cashiering-the promotion is head cashier- but I wanna be able to take the Merch Manager position next time one opens up wont have to deal with customers as much ill just be in charge of making sure the books and shelves are up to standards

[kspr]

i've got the gate code, and lock combinations to have free reign at a bank owned warehouse this week. we're dumping gaylords of plastic regrind there to try and sell them. i don't know how, but i ^HAVE to have a party there.

 

edit: well, THAT sucked. there was no electricity, and no running water. which meant with no a/c, it was pushing 120 in there. had to unload 26 double stacked pallets, maybe ~3800 lbs per stack, and then drive two damn hours back home with no a/c in the car, again pushing 120. the only upside is that i blew up an out of date fire extinguisher when i was waiting for the truck to show up.

[matrim]

I'm back at the development team.

Better and more challanging then Operations ech, didn't get the pay I requested so I might swap jobs again.

 

but it pays $28 / hour (calculated based on monthly paycheck)

 

for $8.50 I would fire myself

 

you have more talent then an 8.50 job

[Stars]

I currently make $7.75/hour...
But once I finally have an x-ray job, that should start at around $14.00/hour. Then I can start learning more modalities and go up from there. Or, someone suggested I look into a job dealing with x-ray equipment. Apparently those people make big bucks.

[kspr]

the comission on one of those has to be ridiculous

[Stars]

We had a guy over to repair our film reader on Monday. At one point he asked me to hold the motherboard for him while he was putting something back together. Then, after I already had it in my hands, he's like, "By the way, that motherboard costs $2,000, so don't drop it~"

[kspr]

i gotta go back to planet bullshit today to unload another truck, without help this time. 

[kspr]

reason#42 why truck drivers are shitty people: we had a trailer of plastic dropped off at planet bullshit. the driver left the traier door open, and put the lip ofthe dock down. but it didnt occur to him in all this that the truck was too low, and the angle of the lip would cause a stacked pallet to flip off. he just looked at it, seemslegit.jpg, and drove off like a moron. i drove 2 hours down here to have terrible fried chicken and leave.

[Shoulder Devil]

Gooood today was an exception to the rule.

We had a customer who came in and decided I needed a political rant. Even the guy in photo was just glancing at me, waiting to see if I'd actually engage him. And the manager ollie'd out early, because he wanted nothing to do with that shit. He'd already had to put up with two meth heads (thankfully, I didn't. Score!).

Because man this dude was saying a lot of stupidly ignorant shit. He also assumed our shift manager was Mexican, just because he had darker skin (spoiler: He's Native American). But since he never asked me for my opinion, I basically just let him keep talking. If he had asked, management would have probably had to be called over >_>

Among the highlights:

"Everybody's cutting people back to 20 hours because of Obama. You probably don't even get that, do you?"
"Actually I'm always over 30 hours, every week." (which counts as full time in Arizona, btw)

"Oh, you must be the manager then!"
"...no, I'm just a service clerk. I just show up every day. They're really good about giving us full hours so long as we put in the effort."
(It's true! I get a consistent 36 hours a week or better. The reason it's rarely a solid 40 is because they like having the option to ask us to stay late to help out when it's needed, without having to pay us overtime. Because Corporate gets pissed if they do. The only positions I've seen with a steady 40 every week are salaried positions).

"80% of the jobs created in the past four years have been part time, because then they don't have to pay health insurance 'cuz of Obamacare!"
(reality: Part time / temp work has been HUGELY prevalent in the job market since the 80s, especially among larger employers. It lets the company squeeze out more profits, because they don't have to pay you as much or give you as many benefits. Two part-timers or two temps tend to cost them less than a single full-time worker once the extras are taken into account. Also, I'm eligible for Walgreens' health insurance come October, plus their dental plan)
 

"You all voted for Obama, and you screwed yourselves because of it!"
(nobody told him who we voted for, I don't even know the politics of anyone I work with)

He was also agitated I didn't acknowledge him as a border patrol agent, despite the fact the only thing that MIGHT have done that much was the fact he was wearing a baseball cap that said "border patrol." There was no uniform, no badge, no anything. Just the fucking cap.

All I can say is that I'm REALLY grateful he never once asked for my opinion. Because once you ask for honesty, I'm obligated to give it. And in this nutjob's case, management would have probably had to get involved, because I'd have had zero qualms about putting him in his place.

[Phalanxman]

I'm hedging on giving your post a one-up or not. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. One-upped.

[Vicious Parker]

"80% of the jobs created in the past four years have been part time, because then they don't have to pay health insurance 'cuz of Obamacare!"

(reality: Part time / temp work has been HUGELY prevalent in the job market since the 80s, especially among larger employers. It lets the company squeeze out more profits, because they don't have to pay you as much or give you as many benefits. Two part-timers or two temps tend to cost them less than a single full-time worker once the extras are taken into account. Also, I'm eligible for Walgreens' health insurance come October, plus their dental plan)

 

This is one of my favorite things, because you're right, the corporations are 100% responsible for the number of part time vs full time jobs. President Obama isn't. Former president Bush isn't. Just the corporations.