This is going to be a terrible summer.
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Topic: This is going to be a terrible summer.
Posted By: choopie911
Subject: This is going to be a terrible summer.
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 8:06pm
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So as some of you may know I just started a new job. I'm a swamper (driver helper) for the pepsi distributer here. We drive around and stock pepsi stuff all over town. It's just physical labour so its not bad, and it's $16 an hour, which is really helpful since I'm hoping to go to europe in the fall. Now the bad sides:
I start at 6am, meaning I have to get up at 5am. Even if I go to bed at 10pm, its only 7 hours of sleep. Then my day runs an average of 10 hours. Yes, good money, but long days. Also, I get every other weekend off, meaning I work 12 days in a row before I get 2 days off. Now since I have to get up at 5am, I really only get 1 day of those two to go out late, since I need sleep on sunday before I start again. Now I'm planning to work roughly 12 weeks or so before I leave. That means that this entire summer, I get to be awake past 10pm a grand total of 6 times. Sucks ass. |
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Posted By: notom66866
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 8:22pm
| Aw and I'll bet that next time you'll be complaining that all your money won't fit in your wallet. Come on man $16.00/h to stop pepsi fridges, that sounds ok to me. Oh and you won't be staying up to 10pm very often. I start work at 6am too, an its more like 9pm. You'll see after 2 weeks. |
Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 8:23pm
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I just started my new job today working at a concrete factory. I'm making $16 an hour as well and I also start at 6am working 10 hour days. However, I only work Monday through Thursday and if there is an opening I can take overtime on Fridays and Saturdays. I'm actually pretty excited about it.
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 8:31pm
I'd way prefer that time-wise. I get tons of overtime, but I cant imagine how they could make it mandatory while keeping it legal, while at the same time I cant imagine I could ask for less overtime and keep my job, since it would re-schedule their whole operation. It's worth a try though, I figure if I dont have a choice, I dont have a choice, but I'd love to get an extra day or two off. |
sinisterNorth wrote:Posted By: +DreX+
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 8:38pm
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Damn, I make 8.80 to mow State Parks / State Fields. I work weekends, and get two days off during the week. but get Free entry to the Newport Jazz Festivals and Folk Festivals. Oh, Its a state job, which means Coffee Breaks. The hours are okay, 7AM to 3:30 PM, so If I really feel like making money I could pick up an evening job busing tables or what ever. The best bit is that I get to drive a huge tractor.
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Posted By: Predatorr
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 8:40pm
| I just got a job with a local gym. It's a joke, but then again, it's only 8 an hour. Of course, in August, when I head off to be a college freshman, I'll be getting a job at Circuit City, which I hear has insane hours. But the money... |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 8:43pm
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They don't have 40hr work weeks in canada?
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 8:46pm
They do, and the job posting said 40 hrs a week, some over time and some weekend.... right. |
Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:01pm
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You don't need sleep when you've got unlimited Pepsi. Cram that caffeine.
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Posted By: Tolgak
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 9:43pm
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My valet job: Wake up at 6:30 Get to work at 7:30 Set up equipment. Take 1/2 of the 6-12 cars that we get every day (return 2-4 cars before shift is over) Sit down, talk, listen to music Ride golf cart around the lot every once in a while to make sure nobody parks on the curbs. Pack up stuff. Leave at 5:00 $10/hr net income. Keep tips if I get them. May bring laptops and consoles to work. Also planning to pump iron. Your money > my money. My job > your job. ------------- 
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Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 10:11pm
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My job: Wonder into work between 0730 and 800. Put on a pot of coffee and log into my computer. 0800:1000: Check my web comics and the forum while answering phone calls from people about how their computer is jacked up. 1000-1130: Aquire a gov't vehicle and go and fix the easiest/closest problems. 1130-1300: Lunch/nap time 1300-1530: Wonder around base acting like I am doing work. Must make sure that I am seen driving around like I am doing something important. 1530-1600: Come back to the office, answer the 50 emails I got while I was gone. 1600-1630: Get off work. 4:30PM-whenever: Go drinking. -------------
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Posted By: notXXscared
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 10:12pm
I love my job.. 10 per hour, plus 5-10% of the waiter's tips plus 5% of the bar's tips  . On an average night (6 hours) including pay, I'll walk out with $85-110 bucks. It's mad chill, my boss is the man, and everyone that works there is mad straight. It's definitely not a sit around job and your moving the whole night but it's not physically demanding. Plus we can usually make our own fun with some "stuff" in between waiting on tables lol.My night... 430 arrive at work, chill 500-900 bring out bread/water, do take out, take orders, make salads and whatnot, run food, possibly do a delivery+wait on a house party, wait on restaurant parties, clean tables, makes drinks, ect 9-close (1030-1130 usually) partake in various "activities", eat, help finish up the last few tables, help roll silverware, setup dining room, divide glasses Closing- leave or chill at the bar if nothing's going on that night ------------- 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 10:18pm
| Yeah, I'm not complaining about the money by any means, on an average day I'll make $175+ |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 10:41pm
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My job: Get up at . . . . . . . oh, wait a minute, I'm retired. I get up whenever I feel like it. Do . . . whatever I want, whenever I want. Throw in random meals and internet time. Go to bed whenever. ------------- 
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 10:42pm
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Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 10:45pm
Man, you personify what it is to be a tool. ------------- |
Posted By: benttwig33
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 11:03pm
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Get up at 7:30 be at work for 8.
Stay in a 100,000 sq ft. warehouse with nothing but one mid sized fan to cool it off(getting that fixed soon). 8-6, average temp of 102*, and we still have plenty of summer heat coming...asnd I have to stand on conrete all day and that crap hurts your feet. It sucks enough just being there...then I have to work on top of that (Warehouse manager for a powersports store) ------------- Sig is WAY too big. |
Posted By: Rambino
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 11:22pm
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Get up, go to office. Check the internets news, talk the phone for a while. Order some boxes I don't really need, just to make PCF work. Lunch for two hours. Yell at some lowly employees about something that wasn't their fault. Play some pool/table tennis in the rec room. Find somebody else to yell at. Send back the boxes I didn't need, order some other boxes I don't need, yell that I need them RIGHT AWAY!!!!!!!1!! Check the interwebz again. Return phone calls, tell them I'll get to it tomorrow. Go home. ------------- [IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/aag8s8.jpg"> |
Posted By: jerseypaint
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 11:33pm
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Work one night a week, Saturday.
Work 4-10pm Get $6/hr + 15% (or more if they feel it earned) from the bar. My work consists of stocking two bars full in the first 2hrs I work. Than just sit around at the bar talking it up with whoever and restocking the bars when they need to. If it gets busy, I can jump in and help do sodas (and maybe do a drink or two on the hush hush). On bad days I walk out with $30 in check and $30-40 in tips. One average days I'll get out with $80 in tips. One a good day, $120-150 in tips. The restaurant is upgrading over the summer and the bartenders tell me I'm going to be making $150 per bar, meaning $300 per night. I have my fingers crossed. ------------- 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 11:35pm
I will grind your morning coffee with my teeth and fold your toilet paper for you if you pay me? |
Posted By: Boss_DJ
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 1:04am
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i sell alcohol and stock it on the shelves
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 1:30am
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Choop..... If you were going to be doing route work, you should have signed on with a beer distributorship. Better pay and you get to know EVERY BARTENDER IN TOWN! That translates to free drinks and other perks (including free schwag from the distributorship). ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: holysmartone
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 2:03am
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I work 12 hours a day in a loud and hot tool and die shop. I work 12 hour days monday through saturday, and an 8 hour day sunday. I get about $12 per hour though, so I am making serious bank. |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 5:02am
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I get to lock doors/set alarms and recieve trucks, on top of my duties I had as a regular stocker. I won't argue with $11/hour and sweet ass insurance.
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Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 10:14am
| After my fishing trip I'm going to start working in a giant freezer throwing boxes around, starting at like 4am or some stupid time. I'm going to do that for a month, then I will have a summer class that goes 4 days a week. Gas will make sure I'm broke by the end of summer anyways, so I will have nothing to show for anything this summer except 4 credits. |
Posted By: Snake6.
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 10:48am
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Fixed. ------------- 
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 10:57am
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My day 8:00 Get to work 8:05-12:00 Finish up any programs from yesterday/surf the internets/read up on documentation/sit around and wait for my boss to give me something to do 12:00-1:00 lunch 1:05-5:00 Pretty much the same as before 5:00-8:30 go home/ Nap/dinner/?? 8:30-?? am Drankin -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 11:52am
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Well, I am currently unemployed, so my day goes something like this. 7:00-7:30 Wake up and get dressed for the day 8:00-10:00 Summer school! 10:00-6:00 Look for job/go to job interviews/hang out with friends/do whatever I want to. 6:00-10:00 Pretty much the same situation just during the night. ------------- <Sig violation, Section 1> |
Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 12:01pm
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Summer will go like this. 6:45 AM - Wake - Get Dressed 7:00 AM - Eat Breakfast 7:10 AM - Take my dog for a walk 7:40 AM - Take my sisters dog for a walk (Christ forbid she take care of her own animal) 8:15 AM - Take Shower - Get Dressed 8:30 AM- Feed Dogs Breakfast 8:45 AM - Work on web design class (ends last week of June) After 11:00 AM I am free to do whatever until I have to go to work. ------------- 
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Posted By: Snipa69
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 1:33pm
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I wouldn't do that if I were you. They just fired for chapter 11 bankruptcy and have already gone through two major lay-offs. That company is going down the tubes FAST. ------------- http://imageshack.us - [IMG - http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/857/sig9ac6cs1mj.jpg - |
Posted By: notXXscared
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 3:04pm
Oh no, an anti social home school nerd called me a tool over the internet. Go take some more pictures of yourself and get back to me when you see a real pair of boobs, tool. -------------
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Posted By: Tical2.0
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 3:14pm
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Mad chill mad cool mad mad mad mad mad chill chill chill cool cool cool. ------------- 
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 3:45pm
So THATS what irony smells like. .....huh. My summer job will be interesting: In at 5am. Wander around the building with the rest of the early morning custodial crew checking out the progress of the previous day's construction. 6am: work on some menial tasks for an hour. 7am: Coffee break, wait for the rest of the crew to come in. 7:30: begin real work. For me it'll consist of networking computers, moving equipment, cleaning rooms, or any number of assorted jobs that will crop up. 10:00am: Coffee break. Work until noon, then its lunch time. Leave at 1:30pm since I was in at 5. It won't suck too bad. I'll sacrifice an early morning for the clear afternoon. I could do 7-3:30, but its nice to be home by 2. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Tical2.0
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 3:46pm
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Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 4:04pm
| How many Pepsi machines do you have to fill up in a town? It can't imagine it would be more than a few hundred, I bet you will have quite a bit of down time. |
Posted By: Tical2.0
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 4:06pm
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Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 4:07pm
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I would actually want that job....I have sent my resume in to over 8 different places so far and still I have no job...the only one I had an interview for was one to put fliers on peoples doors...but that will be a last resort type of job. Someone hire me :( ------------- [IMG]http://i27.tinypic.com/1538fbc.jpg"> Squeeze Box ☣ |
Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 4:12pm
True, didn't think about that. It could be worse though. At least you don't have to see all the same clients everyday. Hopefully your partner (or whatever you call him/her) is cool. |
Posted By: Tical2.0
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 4:13pm
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Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 4:17pm
| i wouldn't mind getting a job with a distributor or something...instead i'm trying to get a job at the local grocery as a deli counter worker...i'm going to try and get a job at nights though as a bar back so hopefully i'll make a lot of cash this summer. |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 5:27pm
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Posted By: xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 6:14pm
I lol'd. ------------- <Sig violation, Section 1> |
Posted By: xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 6:19pm
I wish I could work at the deli counters around here, because they are the jobs that pay the best. Unfortunately they have a lot of age restrictions so there will be no working there for me. ------------- <Sig violation, Section 1> |
Posted By: paintball437085
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 6:21pm
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Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 8:35pm
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Yeah, the next, oh about 6 weeks and probably more, i will be at home doing very little with a broken ankle. So, im going to TRY to wake up at 10:00am every morning( Id rather be working most of the time... ------------- 
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), knock out 2 summer reading books with written notes, and read the Economic Naturalist and write a 10 page paper on it and create my own unique question for life... All before/in the first week of July so I can have some of my summer. And I will hopefully be working quite a bit after my ankle heals in July so I can make up for some lost time and buy a newer SUV in the fall/winter.Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 28 May 2008 at 8:54pm
When we're not at the warehouse, we don't have any downtime except for the time it takes to drive from place to place. We go to the warehouse pretty much just to re-fill the truck when it needs it, or pick up a big order to drop it off. Since I'm not in a very big town, we go to a lot of places every day, and some once a week, once a month, etc, depending on how busy they are. We have to do all the vending machines, as well as re-stock drug stores, grocery stores, gas stations, convenience stores, offices, etc. There IS another truck though, so it's divided up between us.
We DO have our own brewery, but it's a hot target for jobs for pretty much everyone over 19, under 30, so there's pretty much never an opening, and when there is, someone who knows someone, who knows someone usually finds out first. |