[Jamestown1630]

My first and only foray into the retail business, they had already gone to (relatively primitive) computers. But I always wished I'd had a chance to play on something like this:

[Flaming Conservative]

Can you imagine the carpal tunnel those magnificent beasts caused? Of course, they probably just called it arthritis.

[Responsibility2nd]

In 1986 I moonlighted one Christmas season at JCPenney. It was still pretty primitive with cash register tape and ink ribbons and like 100 different keys on the register. You rang up cash sales one way and credit card sales another.

Then at the end of your shift you had to balance out. And all of that was the easy part. The hard part was dealing with hundreds of customers during the Christmas rush. Never again