I had a temp job when I was back home for summer break from college. They'd send me to different offices and I hated every job and wanted to quit every assignment after the first day. Most were just standing for 7.5 hours in mail rooms sorting envelopes.
The agency was in Harlem and the guy who ran it liked me because he knew my pops plus I was professional and not on some hood shyt so he gave me a special assignment.
I go to the place and it's in a small building that seemed empty. It looked like a storage facility. The brother I was training with met me outside and said he was taking vacation so I was his stand in as it's a one man job. Also swore it was the easiest job ever. They all said that
We get to the office and there's an alarm to get in. He shows me how to turn it off and on and we go in. There's nothing but a room with some shelves and random IBM computer parts
. It's not even hard drives or peripherals but tiny pieces like chips and things I've never seen. To the side there's a small office with just a couch, chair, desk, and fax machine
The job is this; a fax comes through and you look at a code on it. You see a "B" that means you can ignore the fax because that part isn't in stock. Anything else you get the part off the shelf, put it in an envelope, and the UPS man stops buy between 4-4:30 to collect.
That's it. That's the whole job. He tells me on most days you only get 6-8 faxes. On a busy day 12 but mind you only half will get shipped. You don't see or speak to another person until UPS shows up. I did that for a few days and was losing my mind since you're just watching the clock. It was literally like 20 minutes of actual work.
This is before the smart phone era so there's nothing to entertain you. It was like solitary confinement.
After the two weeks were up I got my check and they paid like $20+ and hour which was damn near triple of the other gigs
. I got back to the other jobs and realized how much I missed just working dolo. Told the agency boss I needed that other gig back. He reached out to the brother who works there and he put in some more vacation time just to look out for me
Turns out he had been working that job for years, was making $40 an hour and actually bought a house in DC but commuted to NY everyday. I asked him why he'd go through the trouble and he said it's because it's the easiest job in the world
Those next two weeks I brought in books to read, magazines, comics, and got a Gameboy to kill the time. I never had a better job after that. Zero stress mental or physical. Wish I kept in touch with dude because he said he could put me on when I was done with school.
. It was a state call center job too so really ain’t wanna do it but they got back so decided to try it. After that day of confusing lessons I said fukk THIS shyt & sent email to the supervisor of the building I got appointed to, dropped my computer off and ghosted the trainers and classmates without giving them notice. Like I said only let the supervisor know this wouldn’t work out. I ain’t wanna be the nikka fukking up benefits and livelihood because the way I was being taught the shyt virtually wasnt clicking anymore.
yunderstand me breh
. Didn't show up the third day and had my manager calling my phone crying "where JadeB at!?
".
it was internal position but you got me fukked up talking about learn two new programs, coding and keep 6 figure schedules on point for 11 hours straight a day with only a 3 dollar increase in pay and I already recoup that cause I get tips lmao
