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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up like you and am now closer to UMC. I will consider it a failure if my child does not have at least one retail type job. I think they are essential to engaging in society. [/quote]

PP.  I worked a retail job (department store clerk) as my first job.  I made very little over a summer.

I learned:

Employee discounts help your employer make back the pittance they pay you.

Favoritism/nepotism gets other people hours when schedules get cut.

People who say they will write a thank you for outstanding service actually don't.

You will be expected to look happy when you are not even if no customers are around.

Managers have unreasonable demands and may even throw things at you.

People steal and tag switch and by policy you must allow them to do it.  You can report after but nothing will be done.

The customer satisfaction survey will be on the transaction that somehow went wrong.  Mine was on the one where I was at the cash register during a crowded sale and either I or my bagger did not find and remove the theft prevention tag.  That was my only transaction survey in 3 months.

You should definitely get motivated to get a better job that pays good money.

Of these, I'm not sure any of these lessons made me better off except the already logical lesson not to take a dumb job for bad pay.

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