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In reply to the discussion: What Was Your 1st Job - Any Stories [View all]hlthe2b
(112,235 posts)2. I posted this earlier in a Floyd D. Turbo Lounge OP, but it probably fits here too All my professional jobs pale
--in comparison to my first week at this job I held in high school...
I'm going to age myself, but among my first jobs was working the catalog department at Sears in a new store/new mall that faced out to a very wooded area beyond the parking lot and was closest (within the store) to the garden/hardware department. Well, among the bizarre occurrences on day 2, was a deer buck that did not see the glass and ran directly through and literally over the counter--just missing me and one other--and then just as quickly jumped back up and outside the now broken glass.
So, day 4 of the same week (with glass taped/boarded over), a big, burly guy goes to the hardware/garden department, grabs a chainsaw on display, and proceeds to run out that same glass door, but not before menacing those of us still vigilantly staffing the catalog counter. Shortly thereafter, the store security and supervisors (whom WE had called) chastised us for not stopping the guy with the chainsaw. Yeah, right... Just like we were going to stop the deer buck.
So, yeah... crank up a chainsaw (or follow the deer buck into and out of the store).
So, day 4 of the same week (with glass taped/boarded over), a big, burly guy goes to the hardware/garden department, grabs a chainsaw on display, and proceeds to run out that same glass door, but not before menacing those of us still vigilantly staffing the catalog counter. Shortly thereafter, the store security and supervisors (whom WE had called) chastised us for not stopping the guy with the chainsaw. Yeah, right... Just like we were going to stop the deer buck.
So, yeah... crank up a chainsaw (or follow the deer buck into and out of the store).
Oh, and that doesn't even include the stories of people taking full advantage of Sears' (then) "no questions asked guarantee" and bringing in 30-year-old mattresses (does it REALLY take 30 years to decide if you like a mattress or not)... and having to process as well as TOUCH (yuck) things like that. Oh my. Better the nut with the chainsaw...
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I posted this earlier in a Floyd D. Turbo Lounge OP, but it probably fits here too All my professional jobs pale
hlthe2b
Nov 14
#2
Saturday receptionist/assistant at the photography studio on the Hueneme SeaBee base.
Attilatheblond
Nov 14
#7
I was a parttime cashier at a Kroger Grocery Store in high school. The only things I really remember from
Vinca
Nov 14
#8
I used to hang out and play at this small neighborhood grocery store when I was a kid
Shambala
Nov 14
#23
Other than cutting grass, I too began in a grocery store-- A&P at 16 years old. I remember the join Union speech.
Silent Type
Nov 14
#31