My first job was working at a dollar store.
I have to say that it was an excellent starting job.
It taught me the importance of hard work, the concept of nepotism, and that it was a good idea to pretend to be a smoker so that you get the extra breaks. I’m only half-joking. Anyway, my hours were all over the place, but I was just grateful I was getting them, because I was saving up to buy a used vehicle. There were two things that never seemed to work in this dollar store. The bathrooms and the air conditioner. Customers complained about both of these. It really wasn’t good for business for the air conditioner to be so faulty. People realized very quickly that it was in their best interest to get in and out of the store as quickly as possible so they bought less things. That’s why it was quite stressful when the lines started building up. People would get more rude and impatient because they were hot and sweating. Then, it definitely didn’t help that we almost constantly had to tell them that the bathrooms were out of order! Many of them thought that we just didn’t want anyone to use them but ourselves. So what was the reason that both the air conditioner and the bathrooms were constantly on the fritz? It was because the dollar store owner insisted that he could fix them on his own and didn’t want to spend money on professional repairs! What a cheapskate!