Vermont - I cooked potato chips in the heat of the summer standing over a vat of boiling oil with a rake.
Who is Matt (Champs Chips)
Tennessee - I was what is called a Sacker.
Who is David (Big Star Grocery)
New York - I was a Bio Lab Tech
Who is Taryn (Manhattan College)
Colorado - I raised livestock including my own graduation celebration pig (named him dinner even as I fattened him up).
Who is Jeremy (Farmer)
Arizona - I was the West Coast Salesman of the quarter in 1977 for “Dept 10” meaning all non-shoe items. In other words, I was the King of Underwear Sales. J
Who is Perry (Salesman, Kinney shoes)
Miami - The only role I didn’t have was Cook and Manager during my year and half working there. Best time to work was the late shift, there were a bunch of weird party goes with heavy appetites at 4am.
Who is Jermaine (Dennys)
Stuart FL, I was a bookkeeper for a grocery store.
Who is Dana (Winn Dixie)
Michigan - I always love it when customers didn’t answer the door when they really appeared to be home to avoid paying me….
Who is Tom (Paper route)
Detroit - I was a Police Cadet
Who is LaShawn (Detroit PD)
Idaho - All male employees were required to respond to an emergency call over the pager. I once tackled a person trying to run out the door with a TV.
Who is Bill (Stock boy, Kmart)
Bentwaters, England - I cleaned tables, cleaned bathrooms and took out trash.
Who is Clinton (Burger King)
Tampa - I was Chief Salad Engineer.
Who is Marcus (Chief Charlies Salad Bar)
Illinois - In about 2 years on that route I got one tip. A little old lady gave me $5 in a Christmas card when I delivered her paper in a blizzard.
When I got home I found I’d lost it from my coat pocket. I tried retracing my steps, but it was snowing hard and getting dark, and I never found it.
Who is Mel (Paper route)
Hudson - I wore a black and white striped shirt and got yelled at by young kids parents just for making BAD calls against their child.
Who is Zach (Referee)
St Petersburg - We used to have people steal shoes all the time; they're replace the new shoes with their old nasty shoes in the boxes. We had this one guy come up and give his us his dirty shoes in a box for new shoes then run out of the store.
Who is Erica (Rack Room Shoes, Sales)
St Petersburg - I was accosted by kids who knew I was not Chuck E. They ripped my vest off and exposed my inner red uniform. I had to be rescued by my coworkers due to the fact I was not to talk, or react to the kids.
Who is Mike (Chuck E Cheese)
Michigan - The owner of this franchise knew Muhammad Ali; I met him once while at work.
Who is Tim (McDonalds)
Cape Canaveral - I assisted with the maintaining and patching satellite ingest software for the GOES-7 weather satellite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES_7 ).
Who is Lia (NOAA)
Tampa - I had to quit because I got tired of taking care of other peoples $#!+. Literally.....
Who is Paul (Cleaning Crew/Golden Pyramid)
Massachusetts - When walking in the plating room the plater just dumped hydrochloric acid in the tank, the place was so old and didn’t have good ventilation, I almost passed out.
Who is Bob (The Jewelry Factory, Soldering tech)
North Miami Beach - I told the owner that the tomato sauce was rancid but he said “it’s good, fresh!”
Who is Alan (Cozzoli's Pizzaria)
Springfield OH -
I was stopped by a table to tell me “We have one too many glasses of ice water for the number of people seated at our table.”
I replied “Oh, I’ll take care of that for you.” With a smile. I proceeded to pick up the extra glass of ice water and drank it down while standing at the table since it looked so refreshing. And then walked off with the empty glass.
Who is Don (O'Brian's Tavern) Bus Boy
Carrolwood FL, (Blind Assembly) I found a large sack of Jamaica's finest in the parking lot which belonged to the owners son.
Who is Jeff, Levson Blinds
Treasure Island FL, I was an aspiring Beach Bum... Well, a houseman working for a hotel.
Who is Dave (Howard Johnson's)
Detroit - This job was in the hood in Detroit, we had a fenced parking lot for our cars. Visitors used to park in the front of the building and I heard of a couple people getting their cars stolen while they visited in Broad Day light. This was in the late 70’s.
Who is Doug (Bendix, Shipping clerk)