manny, When were you a bank teller. I was a teller making $11 an hour seven years ago, but I got $2 an hour extra because I was a floater. Still higher than $6.25. I've known people who quit UPS the same day but they were pretty lazy. I had to unload trucks working in the back at Circuit City and that was no fun be we only had to do it twice a week.
One year during college summer break I worked for a temp service. I had to do mostly factory work. One day my job was to sit and watch jars go by in a Jif peanut butter factory to make sure they were not cracked or had anything in them. Fat chance. Between the nauseating smell of warm peanut butter and the noise of the jars clanging against each other it was all I could do to not pass out.
My son got hired as a teller for the summer last year at $12.00/hour with no previous banking experience. He's still working on his degree.
I was a 'floater' as well. I hated it because everyone dumped all their work on you. There was a branch that was less than a mile from my apartment that needed a floater every week but they NEVER sent me there. They always sent me to New Caney (where we were robbed), Conroe, or the Astrodome. I was also a Head Hunter....er, 'Executive Recruiter' for a while. We had to log 5 hours of phone time before we were allowed to go home for the day. The time doesn't count if you're just leaving messages all day long, you have to actually be talking to people for 5 hours. I hated cold calling... In high school, I delivered pizza for some hole in the wall joint in Lakewood Forest. The owner pulled a knife on me when I dropped a pizza.
Ooh, I tried that about 5 years ago. I was desperate for a job and always liked cars, but I lasted 3 days as well. bobrek, I know in middle Tennessee, banks like Suntrust and Union Planters would hire part-time people to be tellers and pay them a lot better than someone who was full-time (I don't know if they went as high as 12 bucks an hour but I think they would go to 10). However, the full-time people are still getting paid pretty low (but probably higher than 6.75 per hour) - probably about $8 per hour. I guess it depends on where you live. Someone in New York is probably making more as a bank teller than someone in middle Tennessee.
Wow. My worst job was my first college internship, as a data entry clerk. Sitting at a computer for 8 hours, listening to 610 AM, while typing in data into an Excel worksheet nonstop. The fact that a monkey could do my job made it all the less fulfilling.
Hey, the listening to 610AM is what kept me from offing myself, just to break the sheer monotony of the day!!!! But, to be honest, this was back when I considered myself to be a clone. Oh the days of being young and stupid.
During my Sophomore and part of my Junior year at UT-Austin, I worked as a research subject for a hearing test company. Every day, you sat in a booth, wore headphones, and let the researchers know with which ear you were hearing the tone. I used to smoke a joint the size of a medium kosher salami each day before work just to handle it.
So, THAT'S how a finger got into my jar of peanut butter one time. You owe my parents about 10 grand in therapy bills. Cutco knives kick serious ass, but they're expensive. I did the presentations OK, but I could never find people that could afford the knives. I sold a pair of shears (about $75), a paring knife to my parents, and I sold my girlfriend's mom (now my mother in law) a vegetable peeler for $26 that my wife took with her when she moved out...I still use the demo set that I got from that job
Dude, I did that my sophomore year too! I went ALL the freakin' time, just to make enough money to buy beer for the weekend.
There must literally be thousands of Texas-Exes who did that gig during school. The place was on Nueces I believe back when I did it. Trippy.
Telephone soliciting. I lasted an hour and a half. I went on break with another guy hired at the same time, ended up in at the pub and never went back. Not even to collect what meager pay i was owed.
