Where Do You Work? [Archive]

ary incorparated

08-17-2006, 11:30 PM

Im Muscle man Ary i have so much mussles that it hurts or is that just Fat where im breaking my neck over,naah i always wanted to be a bouncer when i was a kid of 14 i won from the 18 year old with arm wresteling without having mustles,i want be a proffesional guitar player im just playing about a half year and im as good as a kirk hammet or dave mustaine those guys are just ripping stealing and riffing eachothers parts while i surpass them hahahaha,nah its in youre blood or it isnt i love doing it without saying im good but if i didnt like it i probably sucked which i dont.

Vyse of Arcadia

08-18-2006, 01:20 AM

Self-employed. I fix computers. For rednecks. Yeah, my job sucks.

But hey, the pay's good.

XMARLTONX

08-18-2006, 02:01 AM

Isn't H & M a womans fashion outlet?

I'm in the army me. Yeh, big guns & shit. Arm wrestaling, have I mentioned arm wrestaling?

Yes they sell mens clothes! Although being one of only 3 male employees in my store is pretty sweet! :p

David J.

08-18-2006, 02:05 AM

Yes they sell mens clothes! Although being one of only 3 male employees in my store is pretty sweet! :p

I'm only one of three males who's major is Human Services at my college! No really. I got an email from one of my professors and I was one of three males listed -- she sent out a chain e-mail so I added two and two.

108 Stars

08-18-2006, 08:44 AM

I´m in a rehabilitation workshop for mentally sick people.
Yeah, right, you could say in a workshop for psychos. We have people who hear voices in their heads ("f**k that guy!", "Kill! Kill! Kill!"), people with fears, people with a hot temper, suicide candidates and people who are just very depressed and disillusioned from life.
Personally I belong to the last category. Not very impressive, I know...:sweat:

But this workshop is just a two year thing, and after that I´m hoping to get an education as graphics designer. I´ve decided to become a comic artist when I was three years old, and that is still my ambition. Maybe I´ll do some artwork for Fengshen Yingwhatever, send it to CMA Death Adder and try to convince him that the game needs my cover, hehehehe...!:fit:

Bouncer at the BK Lounge. Burger King for the idiots.

Wow. Can you eat there for free?

ary incorparated

08-18-2006, 09:04 AM

why does BK need bouncers ive never seen bouncers at junkfood places like MC donalds and its busy there this is new for me.

Kikoskia

08-18-2006, 05:45 PM

Currently, I'm a guest assistant at a cinema and I must tell you.

It stinks.

:)

ary incorparated

08-18-2006, 07:07 PM

Im unemployed im to shy to ask for a job, and im a mechanic/tring to be im doing repairations for a gamesshop.

David J.

08-18-2006, 09:13 PM

Wow. Can you eat there for free?

I get a 50% discount that I can use once a day. One time I closed the store and got like 10 free meals.

Henry Spencer

08-19-2006, 06:04 PM

I am an Administrator (office work), and I enjoy my job, it is the job I was born to work in, my perfect job. :)

Zebbe

08-19-2006, 06:33 PM

At McDonalds in Sweden, the employees get free food, but not THE McDonalds food, i.e. some other food. Wonder why... :confused:

108 Stars

08-20-2006, 07:21 AM

At McDonalds in Sweden, the employees get free food, but not THE McDonalds food, i.e. some other food. Wonder why...

That really IS strange...

David J.

09-19-2006, 08:05 PM

Well... I got a new job at a grocery store.

Obviously

09-19-2006, 09:02 PM

During the summer I work at Knoebels Amusement Resort as Traffic Security/Lost and Found and during school I work at the university library's Audiovisual Center.

Genesis Knight

09-19-2006, 09:55 PM

Staples! (http:\\www.staples.com)

David J.

09-19-2006, 10:22 PM

Good to see you got a job, Nick.

I was going to apply at one... but I needed a job fast, and I didn't know if they where hiring so I skipped them.

xBino

09-19-2006, 11:32 PM

i work at the Gap Corporate

i feel old... :cry:

ThunderForce

09-20-2006, 06:20 AM

I wash dishes and busing tables.

Not fun and I get $6.75 a hour. :(

Genesis Knight

09-20-2006, 10:00 AM

Good to see you got a job, Nick.

Yeah, the rush of money is sort of intoxicating - wish I'd gotten one earlier.

Drixxel

09-20-2006, 11:57 AM

Right now I'm working as a teacher assistant and lab demonstrator for a business computers class. An extremely convenient job, really, as it's all done through the college I'm attending.

David J.

10-22-2006, 09:25 PM

I am in the Frozen/Dairy section of the Grocery Department at Price Chopper, and I can tell you that although the Frozen section sounds easier at first... it is much harder because there is so much more to stock and front, no rotating tho. It is colder too. The Dairy has less stock, rotating which isn't that hard but can be annoying, but there is so much more to do so you are always busy, instead of trying to look busy.

Thankfully I'm going to be in Dairy from here on out. :)

Roperious

10-23-2006, 12:16 AM

I work at Futureshop, good job, better discount :D

Its way cooler than best buy or staples

Flash1087

10-23-2006, 03:01 AM

I work at EB Games #4082 in Birchwood Mall, Fort Gratiot, MI. It's as much fun as it sounds...well, except during the holidays. Been there for about two years.

David J.

10-23-2006, 08:48 PM

I was going to apply at a EB games a couple years back... but I heard the hours are non existant, and despise most of the workers -- that try to sell you a cleaning kit, reserving games, and buying used over new. I mean that in the nicest way possiable.

I actually wouldn't want to work in a gaming store. I like my new job, but I am still making minimum wage, but I am well respected for only being there a month, so I guess wages may follow.

Joe Redifer

10-23-2006, 08:56 PM

A friend of mine was hired at EB and they gave him only a couple 1 hour per shifts per week to start with! Needless to say he quit fast. I don't know why they would even bother hiring anyone just to give them 1 hour shifts. He's a good guy so I don't think they did it just to get rid of him, unless the managers were shady and thought that they would be brought to justice by an honest guy working there.

At the same EB this took place at (a few years ago) I now see the same lesbian chick in there every single time.

Oh, by the way, I work for Montano Solaria. We do advertising stuff mostly for local clients (websites, graphic design, video, etc). We also shoot commercials from time to time.

tAK

10-23-2006, 09:19 PM

i work IT support for a school..

nuff said really.. im on a traineeship, and i work 8 til 4 five days a week.. its drained my interest in computers really.. i work with them all day, and when i get home my once prized gaming rig is neglected.. thats why im resurecting my SEGA.. its about as far away from a computer as i can get whilst still enjoying gaming entertainment that worthy.

David J.

10-23-2006, 09:32 PM

Internships are a bitch.

I was intrested in social work, and where I intern... I'm just really giving people food, which feeds them for today, but not teaching them how to get food, thus feeding them for a lifetime. The agency where I work at just, well grins and bears at all of the clients (who always come back.) That and tries to be friendly. There's 10+ people waiting for food, and your talking to them about shit that isn't important, which really ties us up. Sometimes you need tough love, not kindness.

That and I am becoming very disenchanted with how social problems are being solved. The whole agency is a joke.

Today, I had to deal with an insane homeless guy -- the police where almost called because he wouldn't leave, and the department of social services just let him go with out seeing if he's sane - he really wasn't. He went on about the worlds greatest leaders, thought he was the second coming of nostradamus, while he was looking for a place to stay. I gave him some food and he ran off, and when I found him, he was all pissed off and I thought he was going to kill me. No security whatsoever.

tAK

10-24-2006, 04:22 AM

man... worst i have to deal with on the job is obnoxious kids.

but lets face it, your probably not the only one thinking that.. but the department your working for is most likely under-staffed.. ive seen it in places all the time.

not enough people to get the job done, means slapping a bandaid on everything and hoping it fixes itself...

VinnyT

10-24-2006, 11:12 AM

I'm currently waiting for a call from RadioShack. I'm starting to think it's useless though. Also my buddy's trying to get me a warehouse job.

sneth

10-25-2006, 06:01 PM

Molecular Geneticist
Orion Genomics (www.oriongenomics.com)

been here about 3 yrs. still chuggin away at research. It's exciting to be around some of the unknown territory in science.

Elusive

10-25-2006, 06:25 PM

Thanks to just completing an Advanced Modern Apprenticeship course, I now work full-time for an industrial services company named Jefco, who do pretty much anything from high-pressure water jetting, to hauliage, to heavy-duty cleaning. The work itself isn't bad - on the admin side of things it's mainly paperwork and problem-solving (oh crap company x needs a vacuum tanker by Tuesday but it's out on an oil refinery till Thursday get tanker y over from the power station until then phew), but I'm in the process of taking training courses to do more manual stuff like working with breathing apparatus, holewatching, and so on. That's where the real money is ;)
I guess the only real downside I've noticed so far is the people I work with - the Sun-reading guys in my office are pretty much convinced the UK will suffer some kind of religious civil war within the next decade (:roll:), and manual labourers pretty much speak for themselves. All in all, it's a pretty cool place to work, though.

Flash1087

10-26-2006, 02:40 AM

It's seriously called Jefco? Is it pronounced like 'jeff-ko'?

Elusive

10-26-2006, 03:38 PM

It's seriously called Jefco? Is it pronounced like 'jeff-ko'?

Yup. Jef as in short for Geoffrey, Co as in short for Company - formerly a private business that 'went corporate' after being bought out a few years back. I'm lucky in that I joined at a good time - oil refineries and other industries go into shutdown around this time of year, meaning they run on minimum capacity for a few months so maintanence companies can get into major areas and do whatever needs to be done.

VinnyT

11-02-2006, 12:21 PM

UPDATE: Just got a call from my new boss. I'm offcialy property of Radio Shack on Monday.

Mr Smith

11-02-2006, 02:01 PM

I guess the only real downside I've noticed so far is the people I work with - the Sun-reading guys in my office are pretty much convinced the UK will suffer some kind of religious civil war within the next decade (:roll:), and manual labourers pretty much speak for themselves. All in all, it's a pretty cool place to work, though.

People actually read the Sun? I thought it was designed for lining rabbit hutches.
At least they don't read the Daily Express as that borders upon Nazi propaganda.

Flash1087

11-03-2006, 02:52 AM

Yup. Jef as in short for Geoffrey, Co as in short for Company - formerly a private business that 'went corporate' after being bought out a few years back. I'm lucky in that I joined at a good time - oil refineries and other industries go into shutdown around this time of year, meaning they run on minimum capacity for a few months so maintanence companies can get into major areas and do whatever needs to be done.

haha, cool. That's just a fun word.

Jefco. Jefco. Jefco. Verytex.

UPDATE: Just got a call from my new boss. I'm offcialy property of Radio Shack on Monday.

Hey, congrats! tell us how your first few days go.

Rastan

11-04-2006, 08:37 PM

This is an interesting thread. ......(sarcasm or earnest? hmmmm....) Anyhow, I'm a chef by trade. My father served thousands of enlisted men during the "big one"...WWII. And his father before that, except that one was called the "Great War" . Anyhow, seems that the preparing and enjoyment of food is in my veins, so...
I work for a family that does catering and operates a small cafe. They pretty much let me run the show, putting all their trust in me to develop different dishes and the like. All I need to do is say "Sharon...I need three cases of feta and one pound of lamb...oh....and two jars of hoisin sauce..." ...And its there for me. Really cool folks. I could see myself taking over the business one day.
Anyhow, I have rambled enough...I'm sure a simple "cook/chef" would have done. lol

-JD

Rastan

11-04-2006, 08:43 PM

......Oh and Mr. Smith....people sure DO read the Sun! We have a similar rag here in the US called "The Weekly World News". I really dig it actually. I mean, where ELSE could you find out about the three-way love affair between Brad Pitt, BigFoot, and a manatee? ...Or that rednecks in the Florida swamps have caught Bin Laden??

And to the Radio Shack guy...yes....congrats! Retail can be a merciless whore, but hey, it pays the bills. (I hope anyhow...at least some of 'em.)
:)

-JD