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[STICKIED] Community Question Post #37 - JOB VIRGINITY

Jun 12, 2015 12:58

Each week we post a new question for the members of the community to answer! As usual, if you have a question you'd like to see answered by the community, leave it in a comment on this post.

theidolhands asks: What were the co-workers and boss(es) at your first job like?

What lessons did you learn about the workplace?

Did it differ from what you thought ( Read more... )

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zelda_dragon June 12 2015, 20:21:28 UTC

I worked a that fabric store where you wear a green apron. At the time, my best friend the girl I had a super-duper crush on from school both worked there, too. Only good things about the place! My other coworkers were mostly older or middle aged women who looked down on the rest of us for various reasons. Two or three of them are still there (this was, crap, ten years ago?), and one lady is actually the reason I still won't sign up for sewing classes, haha. I wasn't nearly as thick-skinned then as I am now, and this sewing lady threw me under the bus for her mistakes so many times crying in the bathroom was a weekly thing ( ... )

theidolhands June 13 2015, 00:44:58 UTC

It also helped prepare me for the "real world" where everything isn't sunshine and rainbows.

Yup, the real world does not have to give one fuck about you, and "fairness" is a fairy tale in too many situations. Human faults abound.

mikadosok June 12 2015, 20:25:26 UTC

I worked as stocker in a toy store. My mom was my boss, (she was cashier) so it was...interesting, to say the least. It was fun, saw all KINDS of wondrous toys, that, of course, couldn't get. Well...ok, so I was 16.

Before that, I'd worked on relatives farms. Grandma wanted me to know where my food came from, we had relatives with a working farm (great fun, horses to ride) sheep run (rams don't take kindly to being ridden, ewes don't seem to care, did you know they cut off the tails of lambs?) chicken ranch...yeah, shades of Dolly Parton, a few decades before..., a cow farm, only a few cows, learned to milk, raw milk straight from the cow, delish, and a hog farm...I still have nightmares.

My food comes from Walmart.

No wonder you're good with animals! theidolhands June 13 2015, 00:48:44 UTC

did you know they cut off the tails of lambs? -- I didn't! But..if I think about it, I guess sheep do have short little tails and lambs don't, huh?

I remember the day I found out that horses had bones in their tails, so the professional ones are losing part of their spine when they are neatly "doxed". Still, it must've nearly seemed placid to work in a toy store after that.

Were there farm cats? I recently watched BBC production about farm cats vs suburban cats.

Re: No wonder you're good with animals! blueeowyn June 23 2015, 18:16:27 UTC

Fortunately, some states are outlawing the docking of a horse's tail. Sheep it becomes necessary (esp. for the wool sheep) because the tail can become adhered to the animal over time ... esp. if the animal gets loose stools.

Several dog breeds have their tails docked and ears surgically 'fixed' into a certain look. At least with the horses, there is some logic (trying to avoid getting the tail tangled in the lines ... though there are ways to do that without docking the tail).

Some short tails on adults and long on the young are just how the critter grows. Giant Panda cubs have huge tails for their size but the tail doesn't grow much after the cub is a few months old but the rest of the bear does.

firebomber June 13 2015, 02:07:16 UTC

For a lot of kids I grew up with, their first summer job was detassling corn. My mom would always come home and say, "Yeah, so-and-so passed out at the farm today and we saw them at the doctor's office." I'm thankful I was not forced to work long hours in the heat doing that.

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firebomber June 13 2015, 02:16:08 UTC

My first "real" job was at the dining hall in university. (I had worked computer camp a few summers in high school, and had a brief one-day stint driving a golf cart during the university's alumni weekend that unfortunately ended when I got heatstroke ( ... )

cptlbryant June 13 2015, 07:20:04 UTC

My first job was as a cashier at a local Wal-Mart type store. It was the summer after I graduated from high school and right before I began college ( ... )

theidolhands June 13 2015, 09:41:24 UTC

This is a good answer. Thank you!

awkward_as_heck June 13 2015, 09:58:36 UTC

I worked as a stockist at a clothing concession. Looking back it wasn't too bad. Learned a lot about stores and how they worked, Mum loved the Friends and Family discount. Got a lot of good experience. The Bosses were wound a little weird- Didn't like us accessing the stockroom too much despite the fact that we regularly needed to get in there. The other staff were nice, plenty of people my age who were sensible. Pretty good all round. I was pretty sad to leave.