One Job At A Time

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One Job At a Time
In the eighteen years I have been on this planet there are a few important things I have learned. One of the most important things I have learned is that jobs are not for me, at least not at this point in my life. Many different employers have employed me and I have had a taste of what the job world is all about, but I don’t want any part of it. Every job I have ever had has had people above me who were not always the most intelligent people around.
There is nothing I hate more than unintelligent people telling me what to do. I have worked at a grocery store, a restaurant and a pool, all of which I have had mentally inferior superiors. But of the jobs I have listed, the one place that is the worst to work is a grocery store. The tasks one is asked to do as an employee of a grocery store are unimaginable. I think that being employed, especially to a grocery store, is not a good idea for teenagers because there are usually unintelligent people running them, it infringes on teenage lives, and some aspects of most of the jobs are disgusting.
Bosses are probably the most difficult part of being employed to me. At the grocery store that I work at. I remember being constantly pulled aside and being told that I wasn’t bagging the groceries properly. The strange part was that when my boss would tell me these things, he would always take me to isle seven to scream and yell at me. Why couldn’t he take me into his office where it could be private? Instead he would make a big scene in front of all the old women shopping for those lovely canned foods and completely embarrass me. I never understood that. There was another reason why I knew my boss was not the brightest candle on the cake. I always had to remind him that I only worked on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s, but he could never grasp the concept. For some reason he was convinced that I worked everyday. Two days out of the five days I didn’t work I w...