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Dec. 7th, 2006
First-job meme
Dec. 7th, 2006 07:21 amI wrote this all by myself!
1. What was your first job?
Waitressing at our local ice cream/burger restaurant.
2. How much did you earn?
$2 an hour. (I moved up to $2.15 before I quit!)
3. Quit, or fired?
I quit after a few months. The asshats charged FULL PRICE to employees for food and soda. And no free refills!
4. How old were you?
I was 15
5. Creepiest/scariest customer?
Old Mr. Harmon, who was about seventy years old and who kept insisting he had his own place, should I want to meet him some night after I got off (presumably so he could get off). Yeeeesh.
6. Best customer?
Ummm ... the one, solitary person who EVER left me a tip the entire time I was there. I think it was 52 cents. (I'm still paying on that summer home, 18 years later)
7. Uniform or street clothes?
We could wear our clothes, but had to wear this red apron tied over it.
8. Most valuable lesson you learned there?
Always look like you're busy even when there's nothing to do. And learn to add and subtract in your head, 'cause the register might not work sometimes.
9. Worst, nastiest part of the job?
Emptying the fryer of grease and dumping it out back. In close second place was having to clean the soft-serve machine. Ewwwwwwwwwww.
10. You ever ... "commandeer" something from that workplace?
Yeah - my last soda there!
1. What was your first job?
Waitressing at our local ice cream/burger restaurant.
2. How much did you earn?
$2 an hour. (I moved up to $2.15 before I quit!)
3. Quit, or fired?
I quit after a few months. The asshats charged FULL PRICE to employees for food and soda. And no free refills!
4. How old were you?
I was 15
5. Creepiest/scariest customer?
Old Mr. Harmon, who was about seventy years old and who kept insisting he had his own place, should I want to meet him some night after I got off (presumably so he could get off). Yeeeesh.
6. Best customer?
Ummm ... the one, solitary person who EVER left me a tip the entire time I was there. I think it was 52 cents. (I'm still paying on that summer home, 18 years later)
7. Uniform or street clothes?
We could wear our clothes, but had to wear this red apron tied over it.
8. Most valuable lesson you learned there?
Always look like you're busy even when there's nothing to do. And learn to add and subtract in your head, 'cause the register might not work sometimes.
9. Worst, nastiest part of the job?
Emptying the fryer of grease and dumping it out back. In close second place was having to clean the soft-serve machine. Ewwwwwwwwwww.
10. You ever ... "commandeer" something from that workplace?
Yeah - my last soda there!
Possible job
Dec. 7th, 2006 06:11 pmThere is a possible job as an assistant editor for a publication to which I already contribute. I'm not so worried about my chances of actually being offered a job, as I am about the salary/benefits/relocation expenses I might (not) be offered. (It is in another state, in the Midwest.)
