who here has worked at a restaurant?

[Weltall]

Oh, here's a job I can't see ANY value in. Why is it that Wal-Mart actually pays people to just say "hello" when you walk in? Okay, they probably do other stuff, but wow that has to be a moral deflator to those actually doing something like real work in the store when they are getting paid the exact same amount as the guy sitting in a chair paid to talk to people. Weltall, you tell us, what's it like working there? Any particular reason these people actually seem angry when I end up having to walk around for about 5 minutes just to find someone to get a game from the electronics center? It's like, for some of them anyway, actually having to DO their job is a freakin' annoyance.

Sometimes working there and doing my job is a freakin' annoyance.

There are a lot of great things about working in electronics. Your department is the largest and has the most sales, your pay rate is higher than in like jobs in other departments, you're around the sort of stuff you really love, and get to see things before everyone else (I got to play PSP for the first time today... hell yeah!). Sometimes customers idolize you because you can effortlessly explain things to them that are totally alien when they walk in.

However, there are some major downsides too. One is having co-workers who are not knowledgable, and having to cover for them. My most major gripe is customers who are ignorant (which is different from merely lacking knowledge). These are the types of people who will angrily demand to know why we don't carry Zelda on PS2, or why we don't have Disney's Robots on DVD, not at all caring that it's a brand new theatrical release, but they saw it at Best Buy god dammit. Then of course, the ones I hate most are the thieves, and there are a lot.

on topic, my first and only restaurant job was McDonalds. It was my first job, between May and July of 1999. It was by far my least favorite job.