What life lesson did you learn from your first job?

Nobody works hard. This was a $20/hour blue collar job.

Don't let your coworkers' negativity effect your performance. Just keep doing your thing.

Never confide in a co-worker about your personal life. Never go drinking with your boss' peer in the company. Never make fun of the ugliest woman in the office because the CEO might be fucking her.

Black people are as bad as /pol/ makes them out to be.
Indians, Arabs, and Jews really are cheap.
Hooking up with coworkers is fine too

My first job was like 8 years ago. Was essentially working fast food at a grocery store.

Thing that jumps right out to me is that there are very different kinds of minimum wage jobs. I would have much rather have worked the cash registers than the fast food section (coming home covered in chicken grease).

My first job was at a restaurant and I loved it and made a lot of friends.

Greeks involved in diners never pay taxes.

still in my first job

nothing

Skills like project management, organisation, time management and presenting are the key things that will seperate you from the crowd.

#1 You don't know jack about jack coming out of school

#2 No one will give you a significant raise, so keep job-hopping at reasonable intervals

#3 A great job can appear boring and sucky at first glance

#4 Start working an hour early and leave an hour late for the first year of your employment.

Can't think of anything else right now.

was at my high school's parents association giving books to students or their parents. some of the parents had me fill their checks for them because they couldn't write. i had barely filled checks myself before.
lesson: a lot of people don't have it as good as me and still deserve respect.

1. Women are terribly incompetent leaders
2. If a close coworker is a narcissist, find a different job immediately
3. When socializing, stick to safe topics like sports, tv/movies, and music. Don't discuss personal finances, politics, or religion.

That you shut up even if your manager sucks serious ass. It's quite easy to tell them off but in doing so, YOU lose money and a job. Literally, on my first day, my bitch manager yelled at me for not getting it right. Didn't help that she skipped a ton of steps which I was to know somehow. Apparently, she was having a bad day and what better to relive stress than to pick on the newbie. Anyway, just stay for awhile for the "experience" and then find something better.

fucking this (learned that at my second job tho)

Many people stay in a job that overall leaves them severly dissatisfied because with their specialisation switching jobs would mean less pay for more work. Kind of a sunken cost fallacy, althought it's not objectively a fallacy, it's just trading certain unhappiness with solid finances and a good lifestyle for uncertain happiness and lots of hassle.
Talking about health care here.

That being a wageslave is an absolute shit way to go through life.

>forcing overtime pay

>#4 Start working an hour early and leave an hour late for the first year of your employment.
You're a retard. Nobody should be expected to work for free. Never be late is sound advice, but showing up an hour early is stupid.

> be me
> get job interview; manager is black
> he asks "how are you?"
> I say "WE"
> he looks at me quizzically
> "WUZ...."
> he is now clearly bewildered
> "KANGS!!!!!"

That is correct. I will take tons of shit from a "client" but taking any shit from an "employer" offends my dignity.

>Doing your job twice as fast and better then your co workers makes them hate you for being better then them.
> Kiss ass and pretend you like them. It pays off in the long run.
>only work as hard as they pay you. If you do extra work and favors for others all the time, you'll be loaded with every one else's work and never be promoted. (why pay you more when you do all the work for free. Fucking beta)
>if you can show up to work early to show you are serious. Just wait around till your shift starts. Read a book or something.
Also always have multiple incomes. Even if it's just a little extra. Like ebay resale, dropshipping, draw furry porn for money I dunno whatever you like.

Some mid level managers only care about meeting their bullet points laid out by their boss. As long as your unit is meeting those, they likely won't give a shit how hard you do or don't work.

I don't want to travel for work, ever

Don't be over-productive, no one appreciates that, if you stand out too much, others will bring you down. Know your thing and do your thing, no less, no more, don't let anyone put on you more work than it's included in your responsibilities, if they do, fuck them or fuck this work.

>Never confide in a co-worker about your personal life.

Same here man, I wish I knew about this sooner.

>Never make fun of the ugliest woman in the office because the CEO might be fucking her.

if I only knew sooner

What's wrong with traveling? I love it.

>mileage
>per diem allowances
>free hotels
>get to see the world

I jump at every chance I get to travel overnight because it's usually a good time and the mileage and expense allowances sometimes are as large as my pay for that week.

It gets lonely though I guess and I don't have a GF at home...maybe that's why.

Can make a lot of pancakes with the right tools.

Kek.

Fucking this.

don't fuck your coworkers, especially subordinate.

also, a poorly run business is a very fun place to work temporarily.

I fucked my subordinate and it was fucking great. To this day some of the best sex I ever had

>coming home from work to an empty hotel room 6 months a year
>living out of a suitcase
>get sick of going out to eat about 3 months in
>nothing to do in the middle of the country
>never get to see friends/family/gf
>get sick of coworkers after about 3 days of being with them
>hotel breakfast sucks
>feel like a whore

I could go on and on its not all its cracked up to be, there's no way per diem, airline, hotel, and rental car points are worth being treated like a whore

You do kind of get those feelings.

Like I said maybe it's because I don't have a GF, so coming home to an empty hotel room is almost the same as coming home to an empty apartment. And I only travel one or two weeks out of a month, I definately wouldn't want to go six months like you described. Also I'm always alone so I don't have to worry about coworkers.

Still, for an unattached single male I think the perks are worth it. The money adds up fast if you can resist the temptation of getting hammered every night at the bar out of depression and loneliness.

That I'm not a quq and shouldn't have to work for anyone else.

>never trust or rely on your employer beyond the absolute necessity
>nothing that is not written down means anything
>never admit any faults (even innocent ones) unless it's true and you're forced
>always have two month's pay in case you need to drop everything and change jobs immediately
>everyone, and I mean EVERYONE who talks to you, regardless of how nice/cool/benevolent they seem, have a non-trivial agenda
>there's a reason why NCOs are sent to command another unit when they're being promoted to COs
>people don't like winners (related to above)
>change jobs every 2-4 years if you're looking to double up your salary within the decade
>always keep looking for a better deal

If you're looking to make a career, you need to go beyond the basics. In that context, I'd say that's horrible advice.

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This, but with the special addition of never, EVER, working for a woman

I can't stand being around negative people

all very true user. Especially the agenda part which leads me into:
>keep your fucking mouth shut, you are there to work not make friends, all networking you do isn't making friendship it is an exchange of benefits disguised by superficial relationship

Anyway, quit my first cuck job and have learnt a lot, but my other advice is.
>nobody is forcing you to work there
if you find yourself bitching and moaning about the job and its non-trivial things that are slowly eroding your soul and being then just fucking call it quits, it doesn't have to be tomorrow but call it quits in your mind, prepare the next step so you don't fall flat on your face and pull the trigger. You don't owe your workplace shit if they are making you feel miserable.

I will never be treated the same way a white person will, even if they're poorer or dumber than I am

Being popular is more important than being productive.

Tfw did this with no negative repercussions

I will however, not ever do it again

This

Smiling and being friendly can take you farther than most people think

Become self-employed or I will be miserable for the rest of my life.

My first job was delivering newspapers.

Carry your own weight, nobody really wants to help you.

Help others when they ask for it(and it's not unreasonable of course), and be genuinely nice about it.

whenever a new manager/owner comes along i better find another job and quit because it would only be a matter of time that the new boss is going to want to get rid of all the old people in order to bring in his/her own

>#4 Start working an hour early and leave an hour late for the first year of your employment.

I'll counter this. Any time you're at work and your supervisor isn't there, it's assume you're screwing around/not there. Even if someone rats you out and says you leave right after he does, it doesn't matter because that's what's assumed anyway.

this

so true. at my first job which was a car dealership i worked in the service dept as a tech/mechanic. when i needed help diagnosing a car not much people wanted to help me out. one guy said "its not my job to help you" another said "i dont know so i cant help you" and the guy who was in charge of helping others out was too busy hanging out when i needed him and he was pissed on how i always need help to get the job done right. i hate how people who already have experience forget where they came from, they started at the bottom too not knowing anything. the boss just put me doing easy things so i wouldnt have to bother anybody for help and i never got the chance to do real work at the job only gravy work i got (oil changes, tires, state inspections).

>Never make fun of the ugliest woman in the office because the CEO might be fucking her.

why would you do such a thing to begin with? making fun of another person.

>Start working an hour early and leave an hour late for the first year of your employment.

baka why would you work for free? bosses dont give a fuck, if you did that they would expect more from you for free

hope you lost your job fag and they give you a bad reference. its not a nice feeling having people talk shit about you especially at a job. i'v been through that. that was the last push i needed to quit my old job apart from new managers running the place like shit. i was the youngest guy there so older guys saw in me what they werent at my age

I learned that the whole "start low and work your way up in the company" thing is mostly a meme. The hardest thing for a company is to find competent and dependable workers to fill those shit positions. If you're retarded enough to actually try and work hard, you'll just get worked to the bone indefinitely because that's what they need. In some rare cases, you may get lucky and be the most qualified for an immediate hire to a slightly better position if no one else is available. This is really the only time this meme comes true, but it's based on luck. There are probably some outliers with family owned businesses etc...but for the most part you will never move beyond these entry level positions.

this one guy at my old job worked his way up in the company by kissing the bosses ass

This is what lions do in nature

internships are worthless

how? you can get to know people and if they like you you can get a job after the intern is over. at my old highschool there were internships, some guys got jobs being mechanics for the police cars. after the intern was over so was their job. but they were told to go to a vocational school get the degree and they were able to come back. sense they already knew people and must have gave a good impression they were pulled back in. usually a job like a police car mechanic is hard to get and its years of waiting to called from a list

work hard shut up
work harder when boss is around
crack funnies with boss
also be generally amiable and polite
slack off when it cant get blamed on you

>hope you lost your job fag
He didn't know you were taking anal from the boss.
I had to tell him.

This

How you hold the beer mug with your colleagues is much more important than hard work

Nice thread OP, we should have more of this.

Never follow the crowd. Establish your interests and goals from it, and then jealously defend it. If you go with the flow, you'll end up being mediocre for the rest of your life.

I hold it casually inside the handle near the top, with my fingers. Is this right?

to speak up for myself

grip, angle and confidence in flourish also matters

>#4 Start working an hour early and leave an hour late for the first year of your employment.
get the fuck off the clock brad

>no per diem
damn

Train yourself to be a hypocrite. Social engineering is my only known skill to up your employers perception of you

Doubling down on this.

If something needs to be done, you'd better do it yourself, now. Because otherwise it ain't happening, or someone else will fuck it up.

i dont want to work with computers

They are worthless if:

a) The company deliberately uses you as a coffee-boy and acts like cunts.

b) You don't use your internship to build relations and show drive/competence.

He said there is no way per diem, etc is worth it.

oooohhhh lordy this

the boss also told me to not get stuck anywhere and live a life while you still can so i moved to the city and yadda yadda

oops

>>change jobs every 2-4 years if you're looking to double up your salary within the decade
you nailed it m8

Two things

>never do repetitive work
>if you do varied work, make sure the organization behind the job isn't a complete anarchy

owning a shop
find out that those mobile games full of micro transaction is actually quite realistic because in that games when you are run out of money/resource you are virtually out of moves and have to wait, just like running business in real life.

>inb4 credit card/loan
my people don't do that

Always approach a situation from a position of power.

If you live in the EU and your company's full time contract is for "40 hours a week" don't sign it. If it is for "39 hours a week" it's fine. EU directive on allowable work hours means they can't rota you in for a 50+ hour week without your explicit permission unless you signed it in your contract.

Performance management is code for 'I care about numbers and bonuses not actual performance, sustainability or staff quality'.

Minimum wage gets minimum effort.

Build your team well, but not so well that other departments may steal your staff before you move on.

Always have your employer need you more than you need your employer.

>your first job
most of you disregarded this and just gave a bunch of your favorite job advice

>Never confide in a co-worker about your personal life
care to explain what so bad about it? i think unless you got really bad history and have someone really mad at you it's quite safe

>Always have your employer need you more than you need your employer.

gee easier said than done user

This

Retard who was a loser in highschool detected

Hmmmn. Depends on the job/field I guess.

It's a miracle the world even functions at all. Most people have no idea what they're doing. Everybody is faking it. Nobody knows how anything works. Most technology is outdated and held together with duct tape. The 10% of people who know what they're doing are carrying the other 90%. The deadweight could drop out of the workforce tomorrow and everything would still work, but we decided that everyone needs an "income" so we created busywork for them. You will never use education or theory to solve problems, just trial & error. People only care about what works and hate change.

This nigga knows.

If you work somewhere permanently, never go beyond performance you are actually paid for.
If everyones performance is okay, but there is a issue somewhere, its literally a Health and Safety issue, not your personal drama.

the lesson from the first job was like: you better study hard to avoid physicall work in future. I took it to my mind - one of the best students on year with the highest scholarship.

This guy knows.

I work in the IT of a major bank and it's mind boggling that, from the outside, things seem to work so well.

From the inside you realize how much of a clusterfuck everything is.

There are dozens of systems that contain the same redundant informations, and none of them are ever synchronized with each other.
You end up with a customer having 5 different addresses across the whole network and shit like that.

I'd guess over 70% of the code I write is error handling code needed to handle all the inconsistencies between the various systems.

It's crazy.

>you better study hard to avoid physicall work in future.
That do not tell us anything useful. Why did you learn that?

1. Supermarkets are bitchy places to work
2. Banging girls at work is easy
3. Watching men go through mid-life crises is funny
4. Some people above will try to find literally anything to shit on you about.