do u remember ur first day on ur very first job?

Question

any fun stories?

Answer 1

Yes, I started at a tax firm with only a high school accounting course under my belt. My boss had no expectations for me, we agreed on errand boy w/growth potential:)...a year later and I now have some of the most important responsibilities in the office.

Answer 2

Yes, it was in November of 1999. I was 15 and my job was bagging groceries at my local grocery store. The shift was from 4-7PM.

I was actually worn out and a little depressed. The job wasn't what I thought it would be.

I made $5.40 an hour back then. Left the company in 2003 making $9 and of course moved on to other things in store operations. Life was so carefree back at 15.

Now in a year or so will be the first day at my first "real job" ha ha ha.

Answer 3

Sure. I will never be able to forget it...or live it down.

Back in '65 (that's 1965, not 1865 , young'ns!) I acquired my learner's permit for driving. After years of hanging around Dad's shop, I was finally legal to drive the rigs! wooohooo!

Dad set everything up. It was a large property, several acres. After a rundown of the gears and other safety stuff, I was off! I dumped the clutch quite a few times, which entertained Dad and the crew. I made it around the area without running over anyone or anything, so Dad had another test for me: towing!

Wow! I was walkin' in tall cotton! Seventy-five percent of the job involved towing to places all over the southwest, with stage lighting and sound equipment for television, theater, concerts and various commercial and private events. And after an hour, I was ready?!

So, I hang around, maybe struttin' a little, as Dad and Spike (a truck driver from the days trucks had chiseled granite wheels) rigged up a little device for me to use as a practice tow. Before long, I was behind the steering wheel using all my signals, watching my turns and keeping an eye open for traffic (which could have been anything from Dad to chickens). I practiced all the maneuvers I could think of. Hours later, after 'work,' I asked how it went and was told I could come back tomorrow and practice in another area of the shop. FAR OUT! Groovy!

So, now I'm working every day, always under the watchful and smiling eyes of Dad and old Spike. They always looked like they had an inside joke that was beyond me, so I really didn't think much about their laughing at my serious approach to this business of driving. Besides, Dad had been an entertainer for 40-odd years and had a great sense of humor.

After a few months of this, I asked Dad if I was ready for the road. He congratulated me ... I had been absolutely wonderful at ........clearing weeds.

The 'tow dummy' was a shop-made gizmo designed to buzz-cut the stupid weeds.

I was promoted to groundskeeper.

Sigh...

Well, Dad passed away last year but his lessons live on. I have six grandkids now and three of them are almost old enough for driving lessons....mwahh haha !

Answer 4

Yes I do, my first job was as a waitress. After two weeks I seriously wanted to quit. I was so miserable. I dreaded going to work, but needed the money and since I was a student with no experience, I kept the job. I ended up working there for over five years, and liked it very much.

Answer 5

Actually, I remember my first day on my first job. I was all dressed up and then I find out that the hiring manager expected me to work that same very day (because that is the day that she interviewed me). It wasn't supposed to be my first day but it became one...and on top of that she wanted me to help her with a shipment they had just receive in the warehouse...in the middle of the summer. Let's just say that it is not fun to be lifting heavy boxes and moving them around when you are dressed up.

Answer 6

I worked for JC Penny and I was late cause one of my friends was starting the same day and we rode together and she woke up late.
Then I was ringing people up and gave them extra discounts cause I didn't realize that the 30% sale price already came off at the register.....it was a pretty crazy day....but now 10 years later, I am still in retail as an assistant store manager (not at JCP)

Answer 7

i hate it. everyone is looking at me like i am from outer space and had just landed in their office room. i am so tensed that i forgot to zip up and i only notice that when i am already talking to customers and one of them notice it. it is so embarrassing. just before i call it a day i got some coffee and accidentally, i pour it over my boss shirt when i bumped on him. its really one roller coaster ride. whew. but i survived it and months later i just laughed it off.

Answer 8

Yes and it was horrible, I quit the very same day. I was extrememly slow on cash and I couldn't multi-task. (I worked in a donut shop.)

Answer 9

No, I don't.