Wow!

[UrbanCowboy]

Wow 6 People on the forums at once. Sweet.

[rino351]

but 16 is the record

[mattadams]

16 was due to a software problem. LOL. The "actual" record is 9.

[Glass]

9 is cool, im on alot when im at work....Today i just worked on my truck all day, and i think iim gonna get paid for it :lol:

--John

[rino351]

16 was due to a software problem. LOL. The "actual" record is 9.
HA!! I didn't know that! Pretty funny

[dannan_w]

now that is sad, yall get paid to do nothing?!?

[Glass]

I was providing preventive maintenance for tools, jacks, jackstands, the hotsy, flashlights and other things, making sure they worked and such, lubed the jack some, new batteries in the flashlights...i did work too...just not much today. :lol: Makes up for the last few weeks of painting overhead piping above a tank which the bottom to was 25 feet or so below me..lol

--John

[dannan_w]

holy buckets that is real high. but their is a good saying to go with this "a rolling stone gathers no moss". that is my motto all the time in my own yard service. more i work more money i make :wink:

[Glass]

i love jobs where the more you work, the more money you make..I used to do drain cleaning, and id get paid comission on each job...i worked for almost 3 days straight (70 hours) so i was only a few hours off of 3 days before the office told me i couldnt work till i took a shift off. Had a nice check that week though. Now im just in a job where the boring times equal out the bust ass times, and they all pay the same..lol..its not so much fun.

What do you do in the winter? Or is the yard work year round for you?

--John

[dannan_w]

in the winter i sell christmas trees and also do odd jobs. Trying to get a job at sears. nice discounts for employees. Dad has a back hoe and a skil loader so i help with that to.

[crazy rob]

WARNING!!!! Don't get a job at Sears!!!! I worked there about two years ago. IT SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!! Never going back!!!!!

[dannan_w]

what was so bad about it? i might be in the lawn and garden dept. it is only a winter job untill i start my yard servive again in spring.

[mattadams]

hey I rememebr that foosball table from our apartment, LOL.

[dannan_w]

yall got to admit sears has some great tools. 8)

[crazy rob]

Then it would be in the same department I was in. When I worked there, I was given commission on everything I sold, which was ok but getting 1% on a $1000snow blower is great b/c you'd get $10.00 but when you are selling the rest of the time leaf blowers at $50.00, the commission is only $0.50. That is your wage for that day. When paycheck came around and your hourly wage didn't come to minimum wage, you were giving the difference to make minimum wage which is $5.15/hr(if i remember correctly). To make things worse we had to carry around these little notebooks and write down on speical sheets, information about every customer we encountered. We had a quota that we had to fullfill on those speical sheets for every week. And if that wasn't enough we had so called managers running around looking over your shoulder every so often to see how your "sell" is going and then you would get a report on how you were doing.

[dannan_w]

how long ago was that i was going to get about $9.00 an hour

[crazy rob]

Two years ago. I think I heard something about them changing over to something better then what we were getting in means of wages. Thats why I was only there for three months before I had too much of it.

The foosball table which I still have probably wast the best thing I got out of that place.

[dannan_w]

yep thay changed to stright per hour i have bought over 3000 there in the tools alone for my dads new shop

[Glass]

Foosball tables are fun...

--John

[dannan_w]

yep they are i have won $100 with one.

[crazy rob]

I hope for your sake they got rid of those damn notebooks. They were a pain in the @$$.

[dannan_w]

yup they don't have any type of thing like that. al they wanted me to do was look like i knew something and sell as much as i can. did you hear that target is buying them out!!

[mattadams]

You mean K-Mart? The company that went bankrupt but somehow had enough money to buy a national departmetn store chain? Wow, teh wonders of our economy, LOL.

[dannan_w]

yea same thing. I thought it would go the other way. sears doin the buyin. :idea: u think prices will drop?

[Glass]

A company in bankruptcy buying a successful company....what would a bankrupt company want with a successful company? The clientel...people who are sears loyal...and will pay the extra few percent when the k-mart guys raise the srear prices to try n get out of bankruptcy....dont know if thats possible, but thats what id see happening.

--John

[UrbanCowboy]

The whole Sears-Kmart thing was a real-estate thing. It's not about the company itself but rather the locations.