New job!

"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
08/17/2015 at 12:04 • Filed to: None

Glorious box flares for your time. I finally quit my job at the world’s sketchiest buy-here-pay-here with leasing dealership in existence. I now work at a Chevy dealership as a lube tech with the possibility of becoming an apprentice mechanic and eventually get ASE certified and all that jazz. Usual starting pay is $8 hour or so but they started me at $10 an hour for some reason, which is a nice bump over what I was making in the ghetto. Commute is twice as long but I’m hoping to move into town soon so that should all be good. I just finished peeing in a cup and I start Wednesday. Super excite.

DISCUSSION (26)

JeepJeremy > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
08/17/2015 at 12:06

Congrats!

BeaterGT > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
08/17/2015 at 12:06

Congrats!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
08/17/2015 at 12:08

lube tech

That’s a funny way of saying “it puts the lotion on its skin”.

qbeezy > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
08/17/2015 at 12:08

Congrats and good luck!

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/17/2015 at 12:10

Kinja'd!!!

AM > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
08/17/2015 at 12:14

Wait, wait, wait.. Where do you live that starting pay is $8?

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > AM
08/17/2015 at 12:16

Kansas. Minimum wage here is $7.75

AM > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
08/17/2015 at 12:22

Ah, I assumed by your name that you lived in Canada, my bad. Anyway, that’s about on par with Alberta and British Columbia who are at $10.20/hour ($7.80 USD). Ontario is $11/hour ($8.40 USD) and increasing to $11.25/hour ($8.60 USD) in October. We’re basically the California equivalent for Canada.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
08/17/2015 at 12:24

Congrats man. At least the civic is fuel efficienct

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
08/17/2015 at 12:24

I can handle my own lube, thanks.

CB > AM
08/17/2015 at 12:32

Figures minimum wage is going up just as I leave a minimum wage job.

Sam > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
08/17/2015 at 12:32

Heh. Lube tech.

Congrats, though. There are quite a few websites that would probably hire you to be a lube tech for them. (I’ll stop now)

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Sam
08/17/2015 at 12:43

My girlfriend is plenty satisfied with my services as such.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
08/17/2015 at 12:43

Yes, but, I’m a professional .

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
08/17/2015 at 12:43

I’ve never actually had a tank of mostly-highway driving, so it’ll be interesting to see what I actually get.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > AM
08/17/2015 at 12:44

Nah, my daily driver Honda Civic is a Canadian domestic market car that I call the Angry Canadian. Ben Rolland thinks I should call it Wheelchair Jimmy, though.

AM > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
08/17/2015 at 12:46

Wheelchair Jimmy sounds way cooler.

Your boy, BJR > AM
08/17/2015 at 12:54

Kinja'd!!!

Wheelchair Jimmy is the most gangsta Drake will ever be.

Your boy, BJR > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
08/17/2015 at 12:55

That's because you should.

AM > CB
08/17/2015 at 13:00

I personally think minimum wage should be at least $13-14/hour because really who can live comfortably and save up money making $11/hour when you pay so much tax on it.

Definitely a lot more than it used to be though. When I was 18 back in ‘02, minimum wage was only $6.85 working as a cleaner. These days I have no complaints about how much I make.