Well, this be the scoop
I'm now starting my second day at the JCPenny warehouse on Scarborough rd. Yesterday was a paid orientation. Today, they'll actually be training me on the equipment i'm going to be driving.
Frankly, this company surprised me. When I applied at the UPS warehouse, they were only gonna pay me $8.50 per hour to bust my back in the back of a truck. Here, i've got the easiest, least physical job in the warehouse, on the bottom rung of the facility's payscale, and they're paying me considerably more than that. Not to mention i'll soon be elligible for a ton of benefits, and a significant discount at any and all JCPenny stores. This is a company that actually cares about its employees as much as it does about its customers; the company will work with you as much as it possibly to make sure you can do your job well and that you like it. They have a huge in-house cafeteria that provides breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Break areas even have TV's to watch the news and major sports games.
I think i'm gonna like it there.
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JC Penny!
a company that actually cares about its employees as much as it does about its customers
Sounds like your paid orientation lasted a bit too long.
Seriously though, I'm very glad for you and I hope that it is really as nice as it sounds. I pray you like it there, and I hope you rake in the cash.
$$$$$$$ 
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A wise man once said, "A joke untold is one not laughed at."
You know how to raspberry, don't you Steve? You just put your tongue out and blow.
Hehe
Yes, me too!
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Gaussian blur fixes everything.
God is leading me along a trail of miracles.
Actually,
It was 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and ridiculously boring. Mostly just stuff about how they absolutely will not tolerate any kind of sexual harrasment or thieving, or how they'll do their best to help you if you have a substance abuse problem.
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And my latest acting coach? I had him tortured, thrown in the dungeon, and... well, let's just say he's in a happier place now.
Dr. Doom
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"Have you seen how much cotton candy he can eat?"
"Yes! 5.1 Pounds. That's why his blood is so good on pancakes!"
Hmm.
Hehe, well that all sounds good... Sad though, of course, that a company would need to do that for its employees when hiring.
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Gaussian blur fixes everything.
God is leading me along a trail of miracles.
Orientation
Back in the old days, orientation involved telling the employee the rules that he would follow if he wanted to keep the job. In my day, that never involved sexual harassment.
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I get up, I walk, I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. - Hillel
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I get up, I walk, I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. - Hillel
trembling in fear
the gnome is more concerned with the fact that someone named crazy j is going to be driving a forklift! it is not good that orientation worries about sexual harassment and substance abuse rather than the rules of a job either, but he's going to be driving a forklift! who will be driving the spoonlift?
It doesn't stop being magic just because you learn how it's done.
Name a shrub after me...something prickly and hard to eradicate.
Spoonlift?
Honestly, I am more concerned with the knifelift. Much more dangerous. And who will oversee their dueling and make sure there is no cheating?
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A wise man once said, "A joke untold is one not laughed at."
You know how to raspberry, don't you Steve? You just put your tongue out and blow.
Well,
It's not so much a 'knifelift' as it is a 'customer service unit'
Well, due to it being holiday season and all, everyone's got slightly longer shifts. So, instead of 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. i'm (temporarily) working 3:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. I didn't spend lot of time doing what I was actually supposed to be doing - there were some miscommunication, and nobody even knew what I was doing - only that I would be there. So I spent most of my time building pallets rather that driving lifts. I hate pallet building with an indescribable passion.
But that's enough of that. It's 2:00 a.m. and i'm bushed, so i'm gonna shower and go to bed.
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And my latest acting coach? I had him tortured, thrown in the dungeon, and... well, let's just say he's in a happier place now.
Dr. Doom
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"Have you seen how much cotton candy he can eat?"
"Yes! 5.1 Pounds. That's why his blood is so good on pancakes!"
Oh owch
At least you're still alive. I know 2:00 in the morning is a dangerous time. As for pallet building, I never stopped to think that they actually needed built. Don't get splinters. And remember. You're getting money for all of this.
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A wise man once said, "A joke untold is one not laughed at."
You know how to raspberry, don't you Steve? You just put your tongue out and blow.
My Job Frustration!
The one time that I actually tried to get a job,so far, it was at schaut's Farm. I was turned down because I was to small/young-looking that I couldn't even run the cashier!!!
But once I am 16, I will try to get a job again. 
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To like pie or not to like pie. That is the question!
The sad fact is that even in high heels, I am still shorter than my friends. ;D
Actually,
I'm constructing a wooden pallet in that section. Ya see, they bring these ridiculously solid plastic pallets over, and then the pallet builders take boxes off the sorting lines and scan them, stack them on the pallets; then the forklift drivers come over, rescan them, put them on the wrapping machine, take them off the wrapping machine, and then take them down to loading.
Normally it's an effecient process, but then we get supervisors who want done the impossible and we get really upset.
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And my latest acting coach? I had him tortured, thrown in the dungeon, and... well, let's just say he's in a happier place now.
Dr. Doom
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"Have you seen how much cotton candy he can eat?"
"Yes! 5.1 Pounds. That's why his blood is so good on pancakes!"
Impossible?
What sorts of impossible?
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A wise man once said, "A joke untold is one not laughed at."
You know how to raspberry, don't you Steve? You just put your tongue out and blow.
Messy job
Honestly, I am more concerned with the knifelift. Much more dangerous. And who will oversee their dueling and make sure there is no cheating?
Quick! Someone get the napkinlift!!
But seriously, J, you're gaining skills that will help you get a job for the rest of your life. Forklift operators can always get work.
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I get up, I walk, I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. - Hillel
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I get up, I walk, I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. - Hillel