Employed and happy

**Vuk** · 10-14-2012, 03:53

Just started my second week of work. :) Feels nice to have a job again! lol I've been having to be popping two Aleve before work and two after in order to take the standing on my ankle, but I can still do it.
Now it is only working at a fast food place, so it is hardly fantastic, but it is something, which is more than I have been able to say for a while. I think I just had to get rid of the limp. As soon as I learned to walk without it, I got hired. We lost a shift manager, and even though I have only been here a week, my boss is literally so impressed by my work that she wants to train me. Not bad considering that I am still learning the basics and she has people who have been working there for years. It is still a crap job, but not as crappy as it could be. If I can put down that I am currently a shift manager, hopefully that will help me find better work elsewhere.
Yeah, so crap's finally looking up. Hopefully when we have a regime change this Nov, finding a better job will be easier.

**Fragony** · 10-14-2012, 04:22

You are living the dream well done

**Vuk** · 10-14-2012, 06:00

Originally Posted by Fragony

You are living the dream well done

lol Frags, I know it is sucky, but it is a start. Once I can write on apps that I am a manager at a store, I will be able to get better work. As the economy improves (keeping fingers crossed that the election goes the way I want it to) I may finally be able to do something with my degree.

**Fragony** · 10-14-2012, 07:32

Originally Posted by Vuk

lol Frags, I know it is sucky, but it is a start. Once I can write on apps that I am a manager at a store, I will be able to get better work. As the economy improves (keeping fingers crossed that the election goes the way I want it to) I may finally be able to do something with my degree.

Just get me my damn meal, and I want fries with that

**a completely inoffensive name** · 10-14-2012, 08:09

I worked at a McDonalds for a little over two months this past summer. It's only a crap job if you let it be a crap job. Have fun with the coworkers when you can, joke around when there is no rush. I doubt your particular location was busier than mine, located at the off/on ramp of the only major freeway in and out of my town.

**Fragony** · 10-14-2012, 08:46

Originally Posted by a completely inoffensive name

I worked at a McDonalds for a little over two months this past summer. It's only a crap job if you let it be a crap job. Have fun with the coworkers when you can, joke around when there is no rush. I doubt your particular location was busier than mine, located at the off/on ramp of the only major freeway in and out of my town.

It's everyonyone's duty to be fired once, my brother did a fine job. Some old lady plus kids wanted something nice and he politelily send her off somewhere else. That is how you get to enjoy being fired, being fired like a boss.

**Yoyoma1910** · 10-21-2012, 17:11

I worked at a burger king for the summer after high school, let me think if I have any stories...

... OMG. The horror and tragedies of life. Why must you resurrect such memories.

**Fragony** · 10-22-2012, 08:51

Originally Posted by Yoyoma1910

I worked at a burger king for the summer after high school, let me think if I have any stories...

... OMG. The horror and tragedies of life. Why must you resurrect such memories.

I never worked at a fast-food store but my brother did, he got fired in style. Some old lady with grandchildren asked for something nice and he told her she could better go somewhere else, manager was standing behind him and he was layed of. The same manager who was impressed with his mathematic skills when baking burgers, I don't understand that either but by that time my brother was designing the screws (propellors what's it in english) of the Queen-Mary (yes he's smart I am the pretty one)

**Vuk** · 10-24-2012, 19:37

Originally Posted by Fragony

I never worked at a fast-food store but my brother did, he got fired in style. Some old lady with grandchildren asked for something nice and he told her she could better go somewhere else, manager was standing behind him and he was layed of. The same manager who was impressed with his mathematic skills when baking burgers, I don't understand that either but by that time my brother was designing the screws (propellors what's it in english) of the Queen-Mary (yes he's smart I am the pretty one)

Now, now Frags, I don't think anyone could accuse you of being pretty. :P

**Lemur** · 10-30-2012, 15:17

Congratulations! Job > no job.

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

[A]t least you are not living off of the government as so many Americans are these days.

You just couldn't help yourself, could you?

And here I thought the Frontroom was a No Ayn Rand Zone.

**Papewaio** · 10-30-2012, 21:25

Congrats on the job Vuk.

One of the jobs I used to do in the summer holidays in Perth was pouring lead in a giant tin shed/warehouse. These were for power lines where the ceramic insulators screw on. Lead is soft enough that it doesn't shatter the ceramics. Anyhow by the end of the day doing this my jeans would be black with tar and I would finish up at 4pm walk out into the summer afternoon and put on a jumper as the heat differential was huge going from the foundry to outside.

Btw Perth in summer is 37 C or 100 F :)