Amen to that. Nothing pisses me off more than an asshole customer who expects me to know every detail about every person and every item in the store. I'm a fucking bagger! If you want to know something, go to the service desk and they will find someone to help you!

And thankfully it doesn't happen too often but when it does, it's irritating. Another thing I hate is screaming, crying kids, or kids that annoy you while you try to do your job, which means running around or asking "mommy can I do this?" or "daddy can I buy that?" Leave the fucking kids at home and get a goddamn babysitter.

Ummm, I think as an employee of the store, you should know where most of the items are, and if not, you should go and ask someone else/cashier.  There are 11 aisles where I work, and it has taken me over a year to know where most of the stuff is.  I would probably know quicker if I shopped for my own groceries, but my mom does that.

Also, at QFC, "baggers" are called courtesy clerks, and we have more tasks than just bagging.  Cleaning bathrooms/doing the garbages/doing crap cleaning jobs around the store/helping old people shop (best time waster ever)/what have you.  I like little kids in the store because people need help out with their groceries (more time wasting) more often with them, and they are usually hilarious, make funny faces, or say just incredibly naive statements.  I always get a good laugh out of them, but maybe that is because I want to have kids in the future and you don't?  Literally, the only way I get through the day is making everything a joke and trying to have fun/smile sincerely at the old lady with the oxygen tank in here cart.

i'm a QA Tester at a company that provides game/software/hardware testing solutions to companies that are too lazy and/or utterly retarded to do it themselves(usually the latter). i don't get paid dick, but it's a really fucking great job. all the rumors that say testing sucks is a total lie. breaking computers and fucking with shit in videogames all day is really as good as anybody could hope for when it comes to menial jobs. this is particularly the case at a third-party tester lab where all rules of standard business etiquette get left at the door.

please gw, think of me as you are flipping burgers

wait i'm confused.  i vaguely understand what you do with game testing, but how do you actually test random WORD PROCESSORS or like printers (i am assuming this is the type of hardware you mean).  do you just run it through a set cycle of tasks repeatedly?

ugh. i'd hate having to test something boring like printers. but i guess the possibility would always be there for doing that.

anyway, you're right in thinking that you just perform a series of tasks repeatedly. when it comes to testing something multi-functional like a piece of hardware, checklists ultimately need to be created that the tester can use to effectively run a manual diagnostic of the performance of the device relative to its intention by the developer. in my case, i've been working exclusively on video cards and their relative device drivers(for a company everyone has heard of). video cards are naturally very complicated as far as this process goes because they have a very broad range of literal functions, so the checklists we get really need to consist of test cases that represent a wide variety of tasks any user of the device may do. so much of this is just dicking around with computer interfaces and running every damn type of media that the videocard is designed to interact with. when you get to this point, it's really just a matter of making sure the thing operates as advertised, so you leave a lot of it up to the eyes of the tester.

from there, this becomes more complicated when you consider that we need to test cards and drivers with systems that are theoretically supposed to represent a wide variety of systems currently on the market. you really need to have a couple dozen testers on projects like this, as the various checklists get completed hundreds and hundreds of times. then you get checklists and general assignments where the client wants to see if the device will operate under some absurd fucking condition that will break the system(this is when everything becomes hilarious).

although i'm probably misspeaking a bit here, because every test cycle is different to some extent, so i'm really only referring to my experiences. but still, the developers know what the object to be tested was designed to do. as testers, you have to make sure that their assumptions are correct, or document it when they're incorrect. it looks like a really complicated process on the outside, but it really isn't once you get into it. you just sit down with the object(be it a game or a printer) and literally do all the things it's supposed to do.

also i am probably a little lucky because i am ACE TESTER HUNDLEY and i get to do all the wacky, bonkers shit we get in from the client. this is neat because the job is not repetitive at all, but the downside is that i don't get to just sit back and fuck around in bioshock for half an hour waiting for something in the game to ruin the day of some dwarf software engineer in india.

Well at my store, the max for a cashier is $17.34 or something like that, while deli is around $14 (but I am only going to be working there until I go to college).  For a courtesy clerk, I have to pay $22.50 per month in union dues, which is barely anything.  But, I do get to basically write my own schedule, and I could get dental and health benefits if I wanted (I am under my dad's plan though, so I don't).  I'll probably be an intern at Microsoft next year also, but I am not sure if I get payed; could anyone clarify exactly what an intern actually is?

wow thats a pretty sweet deal for a grocery store gig shitttt! kroger is unionized and they cut like 10% of your pay right off the bat and you only make minimum wage in most positions heh

however, today my boss called me up to his office and told me to help the secretary stuff 300 letters into 300 envelopes and put them all through the stamper/envelope licker machine

You have an envelope licker machine???  When I was working in the Computer Science department at my college I had to seal those babies manually!

I work for Weatherford Partnership Canada now, I used to work for McDonalds however my wages were 27k per year with NO vacations, NO days off, and NO real help and I was an assistant manager.

I worked 6 or 7 days a week from a range of 8 - 16 hours per day (so on average I made less than our lowest paid employee over the age of 15 in the store.... thats less than 8$ an hour in a city where the lowest legal wages is 8$ and hour)

I hated it for the fact we were constantly understaffed with a store manager that didn't have enough supplies to last us until the next shipment (once I started doing the orders we at least had extra of what we always ran out of). Employees started to hate the management but did like my style where I did help them (as we are required when low staffed) unlike every other manager but the one who trained me. I even did all this when for 7 weeks I was recovering from a broken wrist (which sucked since it was a injury I occured at work).

One word of advice, only work for them if you get a really fucking good deal.

Another thing I hate is screaming, crying kids, or kids that annoy you while you try to do your job, which means running around or asking "mommy can I do this?" or "daddy can I buy that?" Leave the fucking kids at home and get a goddamn babysitter.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that...  One of the reasons I hate kids.  Another thing I hate that relates to this is when kids sneak candy or other impulse items on the belt, and the parents yell at me for ringing it up.

My job is to ring up your items, and bag them.  Not to disciple your horrible fuck spawn...

And I will leave you with this quote:  "It only takes one prick to ruin a party"

EDIT:
Also, the majority of the Cashiers where I work, don't know where anything is.  However we can point them in the right direction if they can read.  And if they could they could crane their necks up a bit and see "Electronics", "Automotive", "Sporting Goods", "Chemical and Paper Goods", "Health and Beauty(HBA)", and "Pets".  Then when they get there, there are even more signs to where aisle-specific stuff is.  For example: In HBA: Body Care, Hair Care, Oral Care, Planned Parenting(Yes, we have an entire aisle dedicated to condoms and lube, etc.) , and whatever else.

I can point those out, but to tell them.  Go to Aisle 13, on the middle shelf on the third rack..., I can't do that.  The bad thing is people for whatever reason seem to get pissed when you say: "The toothpaste your looking for is in HBA (*I point and tell them where HBA is) and in the aisle(s) marked under Oral Care"

EDIT2:  I like to bitch

I am a member of the college work crew.

the work isn't too hard (moving furniture, painting, plaster work) but i am in close proximity with about 14 other people, almost all of whom do not like me (i have only one friend on the job) and i have to live on campus, which sucks, because the only other people around are the aforementioned folks who really do not like me very much at all! it's free housing, which is nice in theory, but they tax us on the stipend, so we still get charged. they promised us overtime when we applied but we've been denied it up until next week, the second to last one. when i get off work, i pretty much can't do anything but sit in my room and do stuff on campus (which i never do since this campus is BORING AS SHIT) since i do not own a car.

good parts : we barely do any work when we're not painting and i get to take off time whenever the hell i feel like it... but i don't get paid for it.

more bad parts : supervisor is a fucking bitch. other supervisors never show up.

man thank god this job is over in two weeks because i really don't think i could take any more of this.