Tell Us About Your First Job

blueunicorn6 | 9/6/2015 | blueunicorn6

[blueunicorn6]

In honor of Labor Day, tell us a little bit about your first job.

[bgill]

Private employers can be thieves, too. Learned that lesson at 16. My first job was waitressing at a mom and pop café. Opened it for the early morning coffee drinkers and through the lunch crowd. I had to open but didn’t go on the clock until the customer opening time. Didn’t find out until after that our withholdings and FICA never made it to D.C.. And the jerk skipped out on our last 3 weeks of pay. It should have been shut down six months earlier when the toilet backed up and was never fixed and food was stored on the ground. Literally, on the ground out back.