I've spent the last week undergoing extensive training for my new job as a grocery cashier, and it has been the standard retail job nonsense- millions of computer modules and that video where the guys throw the fish around. It's an unrelentingly boring experience and frankly, it seems inefficent to me. These people have already paid me for a week's ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I start what promises to be an illustrious and hopefully short lived career as a grocery checker. As far as lackluster retail jobs go, I think it will beat another Christmas serving lattes to rich people, but there is something so particularly bleak and trapped-in-this-shit-town about being a grocery checker. Also, working anywhere in my ( Read more... )