I don't have any job

I work at the local QFC (Kroger owned grocery store) for $9.82 an hour (minimum wage over here is $8.07, and the union automatically has all the courtesy clerks at 9.82 or something, very good, but the only other store benefits we get are 10% off of KROGER [ie ][/ie].  The job is terrible sometimes, and there are about one million old people who come into the store everyday.  I mean like, some are mentally insane, but most of them walk at around 1mph because they are too fat or they are just so old and unfit that they can barely move their legs.

Worst thing I ever had to do was clean up a spill of six dropped wine bottles, took me about an hour and that smell.... it was really unbearable.  Or it could be the time when there was a huge backlog in the men's toilet.  That didn't end well.  Or on Christmas Eve when everyone and their mothers came to the store to buy $500 orders in which they probably threw away half of it.

I also live on a pretty rich island of around 25,000 people, so there are some pretty terrible people, but there are also a majority of nice people and the other employees I work with are cool.  I am probably going to apply for a deli or cashier position (probably deli) when I turn 18 in December, but until then...

$9.82 is pretty darn good for a grocery store! Man, I wouldn't mind working there for that much until I can "move up."

$9.82 is pretty darn good for a grocery store! Man, I wouldn't mind working there for that much until I can "move up."

In America it is relatively rare that a grocery store is part of the grocer's union but all union grocery stores are swell places to work at.  Within a few years of starting you'll be making up to $20 per hour (minimum wage is $7 I think?) with various reasonably good benefits and the flexibility that working at a grocery store provides.  Otherwise they all pay minimum wage and the employees are noticeably less happy and helpful. 

$20/h in a grocery store!? Holy hell, man... I want to be an American!

$20/h in a grocery store!? Holy hell, man... I want to be an American!

Like I said, not many grocery stores are union (guess why  )!

EDIT: Why is there no wink emoticon

EDIT 2: Also outside of unions and educated professional jobs, wages in America generally are really really terrible.  Also unions are shrinking and professionals are getting laid off constantly and it really sucks

well i work as a waiter at the restaurant of a country club which has its ups and downs depending on the day.

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

ugh. if i had a job that required me to do the SAME EXACT THING THOUSANDS OF TIMES OVER AND OVER with little time to converse with other people or even THINK or be challenged in the slightest, i would probably kill myself

THIS

yeah but then how much of that $20/h goes towards paying the union dues heheh

yeah but then how much of that $20/h goes towards paying the union dues heheh

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?

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?

a person who works as an apprentice or trainee in an occupation or profession to gain practical experience, and sometimes also to satisfy legal or other requirements for being licensed or accepted professionally.

also you probably won't get paid, you may get a stipend though (small allowance to help with living expenses)

I've had 3 jobs so far, and all were menial and had there own flavor of SUCK.

McDonalds:  I worked here for 5 years and when I finally quit I was only making $7.60 an hour (in High School this is good money), but look at minimum wage.  $6.85...  Yeah, before minimum wage went up, I was making $5.85 (which was 70 cents over minimum) and when it increased, I was bumped up to $6.95(I had 4 years under my belt already).  And the fucking new hires would sometimes start at $7 or more. 
  --  The suck:  Customers are my biggest gripe at this place.  Being a McDonalds employee means people think you have the mental capacity on a monkey with down syndrome.  And with the slightest mistake they'll think it's the end of the world ad try to get you fired.  Also people are assholes in the bathrooms, they leave used condoms on the floor (why would you have sex in a McD's Bathroom anyways?), and the worse mess I cleaned us was when a woman took a used pad and stuck it to the stall's wall.  I had to use a putty knife to get it off, and menstrual blood does not smell pleasant...

 -- The Good:  Apart from the store supervisor, no one who works there is a douche.  Despite everything above, I do miss working there, but thats only because of the friends I made when I worked there.   It's also easy to learn anything.  Being corporate owned they need to show instructions for everything.  A 30 minute break for any shift over 6 hours.  Plus up to 5 free items/day when you work.

Public Owned Fast Food:  I worked here for a remarkable 6 weeks, and made minimum wage ($6.85).  I was a job I needed while my last job was submerged (There was a huge flood about a year ago, and the McD's had 10 inches of water inside).

  -- The Suck:  Being a new hire I didn't know where anything was, and I had to ask about everything.  No instructions posted anywhere.  It was also minimum wage.  Oh, and No "breaks" (there weren't official breaks, but we were allowed to sit down and get something to eat/drink when we weren't busy)
  -- The Good:  Being owned by a resident of the town, the customers treated me like...  well a person.

Wal-Mart:  My current job, in which I am a cashier and make $9.10 an hour, except on Sundays, I make $10.10.

  -- The suck:  People are asses.  They expect you to know the price of all 1,000,000 items in the store and will get pissy when you call for a price check.  They also expect you to know the best competing prices on everything, and when you say "I don't know of a price" or "I haven't had time to look at the prices"  They'll get pissy.  I've also been called slow by a customer who I had rung up enough to fill 6 bags, plus about 80% of the items on the belt, and she wouldn't take the bags off of the turnstile (customers are supposed to do it now).  When I got done I showed her my Items per hour(IPH) asked her if she though that 950 IPH was slow.  Also you get people who are on government assistance (WIC and Food Stamps) who don't A: Speak English, or B: Don't understand why you can't buy Beer, a Car Battery, and Toilet paper on Food Stamps...
(Note:  See First of the month, Easter, Black Friday, and Christmas Eve for more reasons...)

  -- The Good:  Relatively easy work, and MOST customers treat you decently.  You get to know others in your department (Cashiers), and you learn to joke around when you get a chance, and it is pretty fun when that happens.  I get 3 breaks for any shift 6 hours or more.  Two 15 minute breaks, and a 30 minute break (6-7 hour shift), or an hour break (7:30-9+ hour shift)

Overall, any job that you have to serve the public sucks because you have to serve the public, and theres always those people whose job it is to make your day worse...