Employed and happy

**a completely inoffensive name** · 10-14-2012, 09:44

Originally Posted by Fragony

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.

Haha, well, not in this economy. I left because uni started and I didn't think I would have time for 20 hours a week (I don't). Unfortunately, uni will be my full time for a while now so I better do something else to get my resume stand out. That McDonald's job is all I have (everything else is volunteer stuff).

**Martok** · 10-14-2012, 11:44

Congrats, Vuk! I too am working a "meh" job, but I'm still happy to have it after over a year of unemployment, so I know that of which you speak.

**HopAlongBunny** · 10-14-2012, 15:29

Grats!

**Rhyfelwyr** · 10-14-2012, 15:59

Glad to hear things are working out for you Vuk. I left that kind of job recently, it's not as bad as people say it is, as long as you have a half-decent manager.

**Fragony** · 10-14-2012, 18:54

Originally Posted by Rhyfhylwyr

Glad to hear things are working out for you Vuk. I left that kind of job recently, it's not as bad as people say it is, as long as you have a half-decent manager.

Garbage truck wasfun, what does it matter. The job I most enjoyed was a demolition job, really hard work. Throwing away 5 tiles at a time. I prefer doing that over talking smart really.

**Vuk** · 10-14-2012, 19:33

I guess it just depends on the location. When I was going through school I worked at another store of the same chain that was attached to a truckstop/convenience store right at the exit of a freeway. We got insanely busy all the time, but a lot of the people were a lot of fun to work with and we had some good times. (despite a manager from hell)
At my store it is easier in some ways because we have a much nicer manager, but most of the people are very boring and don't talk a lot. The one I work at now is also absurdly slow (though many of the employees consider it fast paced) and much larger than the one I used to work at, so it is pretty boring. Most nights we have three consecutive 0 sale hours. That said though, I am a considerably faster and more accurate worker than most here (mostly due to my experience at the other place), so I may soon be a shift manager.

I am not going to be doing this for the rest of my life (hopefully not much longer), but I am at least grateful I got it. I know too many people who cannot find any employment at all.

**Fragony** · 10-14-2012, 20:20

Working really hard was great fun, everybody took pleasure in doing as much as humanly possible. You are absolutely destroyed at the end of the day but it's pretty fun.

**Rhyfelwyr** · 10-14-2012, 20:22

Originally Posted by Fragony

Garbage truck wasfun, what does it matter. The job I most enjoyed was a demolition job, really hard work. Throwing away 5 tiles at a time. I prefer doing that over talking smart really.

Well I've never had a smart office job so I don't know what it's like, but I imagine I might be the same as yourself, I would prefer something a bit more hands on.

Originally Posted by Vuk

I am not going to be doing this for the rest of my life (hopefully not much longer), but I am at least grateful I got it. I know too many people who cannot find any employment at all.

I don't know whether or not you have any qualifications, but I know a couple of people that didn't have any and managed to do not badly for themselves just by working up the chain at these sorts of places. In fact I only know one guy who actually completed University and has managed to get a better-paying job than these people have by the same age.