High school jobs

[preddy08]

Let hear'em boys......

Started off at New York Burrito when I was 15. The store was always SLOW and we always had wet towel fight across the whole store. Littlerly jumping acorss table, counters, what ever it took. We got so good at it we were breaking skin and drawing blood....ERMAHGERD that chit hurt. In a year and a half I made manager SOME HOW  FREE BURRITOS FOR ALL! Yea, I got fired a year later. 

Hobby Lobby, the best yet! this is a store for old lady crafts and I was a stockmen. Not to fun huh? YEA RIGHT! For some reason they always schuled me to work with a good buddy of mine. BIG MISTAKE! The big stock room in the back was our play grounds. You know those thing that you play catch with that is kinda a paddle/scoop. We would a LAUNCH those across the back room and really get into it. Well one day I launched one for my buddy and he made a great leap to caught it, but he landed on a armwa and destroyed it...lol. We piled it in the back and no one knew about it. That thing cost over 600 bucks! On Firday nights (after closing) we were always put in charge of putting back items that people decided they did'nt want. We always had atleast a full shopping cart full of crap. The majority of the time we would just pick the whole thing up and toss it in the trash compacter, cart and all. It was Friday night. We wanted to party, not work.

[Flynbyu]

I worked at a Walmart, and terrorized the stockroom. Nerf football in the store after hours, etc. Awesome.

I worked at a Food 4 Less store, and the center isles we kept over stock on top of them. Just like "Employee of the Month" We had a hideout. We would wait for old ladies to walk by, and we would drop boxes on the floor so they would make a lot of noise. It was an art flat landing a box of toilet paper.....KA-POW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They would literally almost have a heart attack. It was awesome.

~Brian

[Mad Dog]

I did the grocery store bagger/clerk/stockboy thing for a while, did some retail cashiering too.

Had a job for a while at a gag shop in the local indoor mall, used to take the wireless fart machine and walk around with it in my back pocket in front of the store, then my co workers would push the fart button when I walked past someone...I thought it was hilarious.

[NaturalRaptor]

I normally worked 2 jobs at the same time. Mechanic during the day and farming, ranching, and moving irrigation pipe in the evenings and weekends. Also I would haul hay but I tried to hide from that work when people came asking for help. I bagged groceries and ran the dairy section for a year too, to get on the work program at school.

[Flynbyu]

We used to tape the fart machine speaker under sales guys chairs. When a customer came in and sat down we would hit the button a few times. Hilarious!

~Brian

[Peelz]

the mall pizza place job I mentioned in the other thread was the bomb.  Traded pizza for everything, hats from foot locker, movie tickets, clothes, CD's. Awesome. Traded food and goods like they were stocks.  

Oh, and don't forget detassling! The gayest midwest job I have ever seen. Did that in the summer for 2 years.  

[preddy08]

Two words....



Jiffy Lube

[FoundArealQuad]

Picking weeds and rocks in the field in Iowa from 10-13. Then worked at my Dads running loader for a couple of summers. I then worked at Jackpot Junction Casino in the Kitchen with a bunch of pot heads great time

[throttlesteer]

McDonald's was from age 14-16 during weekends and holidays.  Lots of fun on that one but always too busy to get out of line.  When I would forget my lunch at home I'd eat Sweet N Sour sauce packets straight instead.  Talk about a sugar rush!!

From 16-18 I worked at the local private university as Grounds crew and Maintenance worker.  My grandma was head of HR at the time so I was pretty much golden.  We would get all our painting /etc. done early and watch Jeopardy for the last hour of work (only because it was the only channel the frat houses got).  Sometimes we'd have work-cart drag races down the street and take an hour after lunch and we'd pick everybody up and go to Carl's ice cream shop on company time.  Naps in the afternoon were a regular occurrence.

[BRAD]

Worked for my uncle in his fiberglass business all through highschool.  And worked at a Elementary school Library my senior year

[Krandall]

Pamida - 16-18
Or ShopKo for some of you. This was my first job I got. We had some great managers and even better co-workers. We for the most part didn't have to do anything. I worked in recieving, so had to make sure the trucks when they came in got unloaded as quick as possible, and then we'd sit in back until we got called up front to help someone haul stuff out to their car. The one main memory of the place was.... We were getting ready to close, and there was one person left in the store. some weird lookin dude.. Anywho.. He was over by our duffel bags and luggage area. He had been carrying one with him all around the store. Well.. We finally told him we had to close up he could come back tomorrow. He came up w/ his bag.. Tore the ticket off it and put it on the counter for us to check scan... My boss said.. sir. We need the backpack up here because we have to go through all of them first to make sure there's nothing inside. He said... "there's nothing in there...." sir.... we just need to look. He said. oh forget it. I'll get it tomorrow and went back over to the bag section to put it back for us... well .... convenient for him. There was a fire escape. All of a sudden Fire alarms go off.. He bolts.. Now.. the set up of the area is... outside this fire door. is  a huge hill like.... 50-75' and really steep leading up to the walmart parking lot.. never mowed just big weeds, we run out. don't see him.. BUT........ I see my car, my 2 co-workers cars, and my bosses car... and... what's that one more car in the parking lot..... The guys car.. We sit there and wait for him.. he finally pops up out of the weeds and says he left the bag inside... (he didnt) he took his keys and got in his car attempting to drive off (we'd already called the police) my manager she is a pretty big girl. opened the door jumped, turned off the car and took the keys until the cops came. 

Menards - 18-21

3 years of my life gone to this hell hole This was my most favorite job.. Awesome "perks" and.... my first year there.. I basically became the "don" of the hardware dept.. I was at the point where I knew everyone there.. and had the newbies doing my work. @ menards, it's all huge racking there.. about 4 levels for merchandise. lower 2 are for stock, 3rd is for overstock that didn't fit on the floor, and then the VERRRRY top was for the seasonal decorations (christmas, halloween, ect...) Well.. one of my friends got the crazy idea to take some of the old patio furniture boxes and then the snow fluff from christmas.. put them on the very top and make a fort. It was awesome. We had quite a few mini forts all over the hardware dept. We even snuck a 8" tv up to the main fort. We snacked on beef jerkey and whatever candy came in off palets. It was awesome!

[preddy08]

Funny thing is I can totally see that at menards.

[Peelz]

PAMIDA....hell yeah.    All gone now here.  Shopko in the next town over, used to be a Jack's.

[Colorado700R]

I was a farmhand from 12-15, 16-18 I worked at a furniture store.

[Peelz]

I was a farmhand from 12-15, 16-18 I worked at a furniture store.

Farmhand? How convenient!