So I got this new job...
June 20th 2007 21:37
And it is the worst....Last week I went to get my laptop repaired at this little storefront in the hood, I'm talking a twenty minute bus ride, so this place is in the deep hood. I should've thought twice, right, well I didn't and now I am dealing with the consequences. Well the little guy in the store decided to tell me that he was looking for someone to keep an eye on his other storefront on the westside of Detroit. He sounded as if he was a nice enough guy and when I told him about the my search, ofcourse he offered me the position. I accepted, and immediately should have thought twice. There I was. Jobless, now employed, in a job that, I just found out...pays less than $2.50 an hour! What in the? Enslaved by my own people, the irony. But, blog readers, I decided to show up on Monday morning, becuase I gave my word and I am a really nice person, not to mention the fact that SPRINT threatened to cut my phone off at the end of this week.
So DAY ONE right...
I get to the store and I think that there is going to be someone there to train me because I know absolutely nothing (I mean NADA!) about video games or video game systems. But there is no one, but the ants, but that is another subject. I stayed for the entirety of the day...10am to 7pm ...klutzing my way through answering questions...looking up crap to find pricing information. But the weirdest thing that happened the entire Monday was that when I told the guy I wanted to go to lunch...he was upset, he asked how long I was going to be gone and tried to ask for me to return to the store before an hour was up....in a 9 hour day, returning to work after lunch in 45-minutes or less is unheard of, especially when you MAKING LESS THAN $2.50 PER HOUR (obviously this angered me).
DAY TWO
So I get to work a little let, around 10:30am...and I had a hard time opening the front door, so I was even more late. On this particular day I went directly to work, I organized, cleaned, inventoried and re-organized. I even made a list of prices from other stores. I also put ads on craigslist.org and stuff so that more people would know about the store...and it actually brought in a customer who spent like $50 on Nintendo games. I was happy with my progress thus far. Until I called and told the owner guy what I had done, he ran off an entire list of things, like dig the dresser out of the basement, clean it, stock it and place it somewhere behind the stores two inch bullet proof glass window. Hard labor, keep in mind that I have a degree from the University of Michigan and all that I've done is life a cabinet out of a basement. And the thing is he keeps an eye on me all the way from his eastside store with these two mini cameras that are strategically placed in the store...keep in mind that nothing else is strategically placed, there is about a quarter inch of dust on every darn surface save, the damn cameras.
I am quiting on Thursday...
I get to the store and I think that there is going to be someone there to train me because I know absolutely nothing (I mean NADA!) about video games or video game systems. But there is no one, but the ants, but that is another subject. I stayed for the entirety of the day...10am to 7pm ...klutzing my way through answering questions...looking up crap to find pricing information. But the weirdest thing that happened the entire Monday was that when I told the guy I wanted to go to lunch...he was upset, he asked how long I was going to be gone and tried to ask for me to return to the store before an hour was up....in a 9 hour day, returning to work after lunch in 45-minutes or less is unheard of, especially when you MAKING LESS THAN $2.50 PER HOUR (obviously this angered me).
So I get to work a little let, around 10:30am...and I had a hard time opening the front door, so I was even more late. On this particular day I went directly to work, I organized, cleaned, inventoried and re-organized. I even made a list of prices from other stores. I also put ads on craigslist.org and stuff so that more people would know about the store...and it actually brought in a customer who spent like $50 on Nintendo games. I was happy with my progress thus far. Until I called and told the owner guy what I had done, he ran off an entire list of things, like dig the dresser out of the basement, clean it, stock it and place it somewhere behind the stores two inch bullet proof glass window. Hard labor, keep in mind that I have a degree from the University of Michigan and all that I've done is life a cabinet out of a basement. And the thing is he keeps an eye on me all the way from his eastside store with these two mini cameras that are strategically placed in the store...keep in mind that nothing else is strategically placed, there is about a quarter inch of dust on every darn surface save, the damn cameras.
I am quiting on Thursday...
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Comment by Tracy
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Comment by Damo
Show up clock on and leave.
$2,50 ph would not even pay for the trainride in.
It is also illegal in Australia to pay less than the award which is $14ph. This is based upon the poverty level.
Comment by David