I have only had one job so far, but I disliked it so much that I don't want to go back to it. I worked at my High School as part of the canteen during basketball games. At first it was me, 2 other students, and a teacher and within less than a year it was cut down to just me and the teacher because one of the other students wanted to join the school's baseball team and the other either stopped because he didn't want to or because his parents forced him to stop because his grades were terrible. I had make popcorn, coffee, nachos, and get drinks. I had 2 big issues that made me ultimately decide to stop working. The first were the customers because oh my lawdy they were dumb. I hate to say that, but it's so true. There were vending machines that we kept off limits during basketball games because the canteen area does not get money from them and if you tried to use them and they would take your money because they were on a timer (At certain hours of the day, you can use the vending machines, but any point after those hours you can't get anything from them and they would just take your money and this was because kids would skip class and try to get something from them or get something from them when they weren't supposed to during school so they were used to stop those kids.) and we even put a signs up that said "Don't use this machine. Go to the canteen." and people or someone's kid (Mostly the kids) would try to tear these signs down and try to get something from the vending machines and I would have to walk out, tape them back up, put new tape on them if the tape was no good, make a new sign if it was ripped to pieces, and blah blah blah. Besides that, customers would try to order something that we did not have even though it was clear that we did not have something. For example, if we didn't have any candy, we would either put up on the signs that we were out of candy, put a box up there that said we were out of candy, or just cover up candy on the sign to show that we didn't have any candy, and some people would look at these signs and go "I would like some candy." and the teacher would sum up my exact words with "Can't you see the signs says we're out of candy" or "Can't you take a hint that we're out of candy.". As for the drinks, we always had plenty of stock of them, but we still those customers who can't read or were to lazy to turn their head slightly to the right and look at the drinks to see what we had and what we were out of (Unless you were a little kid and couldn't see what was over the counter, we treated people as ding dang dummy dumbs if they asked what we had or order something that we didn't have. If it was not shown through the glass, that mean't the drink was out, plain and simple, and if something we stuck we got un-stuck before anybody else would order it.). Then of course there's the customers who were just a pain to deal with. I actually remembered that were was a lady, her son wanted a BBQ burger, we sold her one, they sat down, her son took a bite, didn't like it, and so she came back and told us (Not ask) to take the burger back. What the actual serious f***? It was not a restaurant and it was not plate food, your son took a bite using only his mouth, we're not going to take back a nasty burger with your son's nasty saliva and germs on it and keep it or resell it, it's nasty and we would get sued for violating health policies. I think she also asked for a refund which for obvious reasons we can't do (Unless something was expired, you don't get a refund.). And just like b****h she was, she threw it away in the trash and in a b****hy way (Good food gone to waste. That burger, that big, juicy, greasy, disgusting burger dipped in BBQ sauce could've been given to a starving kid, but no you decide to waste it by throwing it away.) and ordered something else. Besides the customers, my other big issue is that I have flat feet and I can't stand up for long periods of time which that job requires, it was 6-7 hours a day, and at no point could I ever take a small break or rest and sit down because I had to restock the nachos and the popcorn, if there was no customers after that then I could take a small break, which never happened because there was always someone who wanted something. Each night, I would leave and I would be limping and would continue to limp for the next few days or even a week or two if I had to work 2 or 3 days in a row. And the pay was not worth it at all for me to stay there (I was paid less and less as time went on. I was paid once a month and my first check was more than $300 and it slowly dwindled down to less than $100. Even during my busiest month, I was paid less than most of the other months.) so I quit after 2 school years of working there (It would've been better for me anyway to quit because the next 2 school years, I needed to study more often and get homework done, which I couldn't do working at that canteen, not with how late I left every night and I couldn't study or do homework while I was working there because I literally had no time to do so.). Not to mention that I had to work on weekends and Holidays, which I hated because after a week of school the last thing I want to do is go back to that school and work, plus I had to work even longer during those days.
