auto parts store. bor-ing. lasted about 2 weeks because i didn't remember what the prices were for ANYTHING (mom and pop store) and was making them up. "that's small it's a dollar!" turns out, i'm not that good as guessing the prices of car parts

"That's small it's a dollar"

Dippin Dots in the mall. My boss was a b*tch!

dairy queen and dippin dots describe your uniforms and how you greeted people, please! this is killing me

Val!!!!!!
I helped with this old lady (kind of like home health care) she was the richest lady in our town and I met her through one of my moms friends at the court house. She loved me to pieces cause I would do things like fix her hair, put mary kaye makeup on her and even floss her teeth for her!!! I did that on and off for years and when I had other jobs I'd go do things for her afterwards, so I was 2yaab chick mon!

aww, how sweet are you! yeah, that's a great first job. i bet she really appreciated you.

she did, or at least she made me feel like she did! The other guy, mr.driggers (another rich ole fart) got pretty jealous and I guess thought maybe she would leave me something in her will (she was dying) and so he told her he was going to fire me and she was so devastated and cried! He is a stupid jerk for that! She died a couple of months later..

Kmart. Wow..and it sucked but it was quite a learning experience,

That's so sad, Jamers!!

I was a receptionist in my uncle's accounting firm. I applied for a dancing job in Don Ho's hula hut and was hired but my Mom balked at the metallic bra/hula skirt combos and the fact that she had to sign some weird waiver with the labor department allowing a very young minor to work in a place where alcohol was served. Soooo, she had my uncle hire me.

jenn!!!! I bet your mom was trippin over that! Hula dancers are awesome! It's like they have extra joints or whatever in their hips and back. Hmmm that would be a pretty good exercise I would think!!!

My first job was at a pet grooming salon when I was 15. I started off bathing & drying the animals, and eventually worked my way up to clipping them. I kept that job for 5 years so I obviously loved it.

At a ski hill as the cashier for the cafeteria when I was 13
I only worked there on weekends and holidays but I loved it!
My boyfriend of the time had parents who were the managers there and they loved me

I had a paper route, does that count? After that it was working as a hostess at Shoney's and then a day camp counselor at the YMCA.

I was a customer service adviser at Topshop, which is just a nice way of saying sale assistant. Some days I hated it, some I didn't (mainly pay day and buying clothes with 30% discount on uniform) - I think I wrote my letter of resignation 5 times!

Joyce Leslie, which is a chain of cheap, cheesy clothing stores that's big in the PA/NJ/DE area. The store manager was such a RAGING B*TCH, she'd seriously scream at you on the floor in front of all the customers if you had a hanger facing the wrong way. And I mean, SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAMMMMM!

I wanted to quit but my mom wouldn't let me so I just stopped going. She'd drop me off at the mall and I'd loiter for a few hours. After a couple days of that, they fired me and then I got a job at a perfume store, which was much better. Except for all the perfume.

A movie theater.

Twinks...yes, that counts! I forgot about that! I had a paper route when I was 11 or so too.
Val....our uniform consisted of red cotton tees with Dairy Queen logos on them and khaki pants. I remember coming home and having a hard shell on my shirt from the blizzard machine shrapnel (sp? who's that)

I had a paper route. Then I worked at Merry-Go-Round. IOU sweatshirts anyone?

OH
MY
GOD!!!!
Merry Go Round and IOU shirts!!!! I think Whip might have worked there, too.
I LOVED LOVED LOVED Wet Seal, Gap, Limited and Limited Express (now known simply as Express). Oh and Contempo Casuals! Rave was for the slutty girls back in the day where I was from

I was very tomboyish in high school and my manager's had a "conversation" with me about the way I dressed. I didn't have any "girly" shoes so I went out and bought these super cheap 6 inch platforms - which my perverted managers loved, but which tore my feet up...Good Times...

Rave was a slutty girls shop in Kentuckiana too.

Did you all have a 3-5-7 store back when?

Yes, I remember that store twinsey! Although I was usually a 9 (except for my sophomore year when I was a 7) so I didn't venture in there.
super cheap 6 inch platforms! Yikers!

Schlotski's - I don't know if it's nationwide - It's a sandwhich shop. It was aweome because there was a Subway across the street so we got practically no business except our friends. That job rocked so hard. My manager was just a couple years ahead of my in highschool and my co-workers were all super chill.

Schlotsky's I would much rather have that place than Subway....although I am happy for you that you guys weren't busy Those were the best times, however, usually my tyrant bosses would usually find some bullsh*t work for us to do. God forbid they didn't get their 4.25 worth.

I was a waitress in my parents' diner. It was not a bad job because it was like the local hang out for high school kids - so I would at least get to socialize while I worked on a Friday or Saturday night.

I still help out when they are in a bind and need an extra set of hands. It is truly a mom and pop shop. It is my parents and one waitress who has literally worked there for over 60 years!

We don't even know how old she is anymore because she refuses to tell anyone. She has worked there since she was 12 years old! It was her uncles joint before my parents bought it and one of teh conditions of the sale was that my parents would keep his niece as an employee! that was over 30 years ago!

I totally prefer Schlotsky's also! But since we were near the high school, kids usually went for the cheaper Subway.

I worked at the museum shop at Mt. Vernon Estate & Gardens. Besides the museum shop we also ran the front 'shop' and the one down by the water, which are each run by one person.. so that was sweet. But no air conditioning and sitting in that shiz in the middle of a HOT AZZ summer in Virginia in long pants, bees buzzing everywhere, no going to the bathroom or getting a cold drink until someone comes to relieve you.. NOT COOL!!

There were a lot of really cool things about the job though

And my boss was a super b*tch as well.

We had a 3-5-7, too, but a lot of girls in Hawaii are so tiny that they really should have called that shop the 0-1-3 store, because that's about all they carried.

I LOVE Schlotzky's! LOVE IT! OMG. Smoked turkey sandwich...

All this talk of Schlotzky's makes me hankering for one of their sammiches
JJ...don't your parents own some kind of burger joint? Or am I thinking of someone else? That is really cute about the waitress who was worked there for like 30 years

I baby sat for YEARS & then I got a job as a back waiter/ server's assisstant at this awesome little bohemian resturant & I worked there a few years. I was 15ish at the time & all the servers were in their 20s & partying it up. I see some of them out from time to time & they still remember me!

Me too! I was trying to figure dinner out tonight since we won't be home until after karate, and I think we'll get us some Schlotzky's!!

Mine was in the mall at an upscale (kind of gift) shop. Basically, where people bought Hummels, Swarovski (sp) crystal, etc. And during Christmas they would turn the entire upstairs in Christmas land...I think that's where my hate for tree decorating and taking down trees started.

'I think that's where my hate for tree decorating and taking down trees started'

Mt Vernon was where my hate for seeds started. If anyone has ever been to Mt Vernon or plans to go in the future.. If you notice all of the millions upon millions upon millions of tiny packets of flower seeds they sell.. They are all packaged by hand by the lucky employees

hate for seeds????

Bwahahahahahah that was just torture One time I was upstairs in one of the sectioned off rooms with a co-worker and we had like.. Oh God.. just freakin millions of seeds in bowls. We were packaging them up and getting hyperactive laughing about stupid shiz and she (Diana) ended up knocking the table over.. so the damn seeds when flying everywhere and mixed together. we tried for so long to sort them out on the floor and clean them up but it just wasn't going to happen AND even though I was pretty sure we were dead meat I laughed my freakin azz off for a looooooong time

Hey Karma, I hate seeds too

Dairy Queen was my first job!

i worked at m and m sandwich shop which was a very very well known place.. my boss used to say it took caroline to make a hoagie and everyone else to clean up after her

I worked at Fred Meyer in Playland when I was 18. Basically I was a babysitter at a nicer version of Target. There were two positions opened when I applied- Playland or maintenance. Since there was no maintenance guy I got to clean up at least one pants peeing per week. To this day I can't stand Bambi or those stupid Land Before Time movies, and thankfully I can no longer recite every single word from Cinderella or The Iron Giant.

Suuuure, THAT'S why you hate seeds, Karma. I toooootally believe that.

OMG Playland at Fred Meyer is so freaking awesome! Why oh why don't any stores here have that!?!?!?

Because actually getting the parents to obey the one hour rule is damn near impossible, not to mention having them actually show up to take their kids to the bathroom when you page them. I always felt so sorry for the kids who peed themselves. But I wasn't allowed to leave the play room no matter what, and even if I did I'd look like a giant perv taking someone else's kid to the bathroom.

Holy cow, sticky!

One hour!? Oh, that's crazy. Who could finish in an hour!? But that's really sad that they didn't come help their kids go to the bathroom.

Actually, I don't know if I'd use a Playplace kind of thing. They might prefer to play than shop. But, they aren't so bad to grocery shop with. They just want to converse the entire time. I have no idea where they got the chatty cathy gene... Anyhow, it's really hard to focus with an ongoing litany of Power Ranger and fashion tidbits from the munchkins.

There was a 5-7-9 shop at the mall in Orange Park Fl. and me and my sisters use to say 'why won't they make a 0-1-3 shop instead?' That would have been so nice for us cause it was always so hard to find our size unless we bought the Bongo's which was the it thing for awhile back in na day!

Mine was at Foleys in the kitchen department during Christmas break. I had no clue about small appliance or dishes, but they kept me after the holiday season was over.

We had 5-7-9 in Texas. I guess they thought we were fat I actually worked there for about 2 months. I bought a red midriff bearing dress. It was a skirt with straps attached to the top half. 2 in the front and 2 in the back. Classy I would sneak it out to wear it

I though 3-5-7 was made up for Mean Girls! We don;t have anything like that here, we JUST got Charlotte Russe!

Lisa!! I think I may have had something like that at one time
We had a Rave too and most of the hooker girls shopped there and you know...I went in and looked around, there were a few tops actually cute enough to buy so I did. But I promise I was not a slutty girl in fact way back in the old days I was the only virgin among all of my friends!!!!!

I love Charlotte Russe sasha! There's one at the Avenue's it's been there for yeeeeaaaaaaaaars!