When I was 18, I showed up for a job that was advertised as "warehouse work". I showed up expecting to do that, and they tell me I'm going to work with some dorky looking faggot (think the used car salesman in True lies, but with a pony tail). Leads me to his car and we leave town in his pinto looking car that had no AC, and it was over 100 degrees that day. We arrive in some little town and pull into the parking lot of a bar. He pops his trunk and has all kind of random shit (dolls, figurines, cheap chinese toys....shit that didnt sell at discount stores and was bought in bulk). He tells me "I'm going to show you how to make $100 a day" (when minimum wage was around $40 per day...and his car was a piece of shit).
He walks into the bar holding this shit, does this awkward smile, head nod and says to the people working there "hey, oh, hahaha. Would you like to buy (whatever he was holding in his hands)". No. He goes to the next employee and tries the same shit. No. Third employee says yes. He took me to town after town all day doing the same shit and I was stuck with him. Before cell phones, I had no idea where I was and had to wait until the end of the day. We get back to the "warehouse" and he asks me to come back the next day. I say fuck no and leave.
About 4 or 5 years later, I was living over 1,000 miles away and had worked in a legit warehouse for a couple of years. I was looking for a raise and saw an ad for warehousing so went for an interview. The guy interviewed me and showed me around the warehouse, there were pallets of shit being moved around, seemed normal. Said that my starting pay would be "about" $15 an hour (I didnt know then what a key word "about" was). They asked me to start on Saturday.
I came in and there were about a dozen or so other people in the waiting area with me. The guy who "hired" me came in the room and counted us (why didn't he know how many were there?). He said "Ok, I don't normally do this, but follow me". Led us into a room and then turned in the lights. There were about 100 people smiling at us in silence. He started telling us which group to go work with. I follow my group through the warehouse, out the back door into the parking lot. The guy tells us to get into a shitty looking Chevette. He starts driving and says "I'm going to show you a neat way to make $100 / day". I ask him to pull over because I'm going to be sick. He pulls over, I get out without saying anything and walk away.
sounds like the assholes that drive around Florida selling "steaks". I sat through 5 minutes of that orientation and walked out.
It boggles the mind when you look at for it is: someone decides that they are going to drive around and try to sell something to people that is easily available to get on demand in any number of stores that are close to them. I would never buy steak out of someone's car, God only knows how long it has been in there, and where it was before their car, and if it is even beef for that matter.
At least you weren't raped, right?
Of course not, these were the kind of men who got beat up by girls in school.
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