At my job knowing someone isn't a requirement, but it sure helps. I personally recruited about five of my friends to work at my store, and my boss hired every one of them. None of them work there anymore though. =(

Anyways, I work at CVS/pharmacy. Been there for six years as of this month, was a lowly grunt till a couple weeks ago. Now I'm a half-trained photo tech, woo. In fact, my first shift to actually run the photo lab is tomorrow night. I'm a bit nervous about that, as I don't have much experience with the G3 and G4 kiosks, and I only did closing procedures once so far. I'm going to ask my coworker if she can jot down a list of things I need to make sure are done, cause our checklist doesn't cover everything. I won't be entirely by myself though, as the shift supervisor is also a trained tech. Yes, it's intentional. Technically I'm still training so they're not just dumping me in there and leaving me to it. That would suck.

When I'm not in the lab, I'm generally working the floor. I've long since earned the seniority to get off the damned register, so now I only function as a backup unless someone calls out or something. I face to make the store look nice and handle most of the day-to-day maintenance, putting unwanted product back, vacuuming, that sort of thing. At the end of the day it's still retail though, and I really don't like it. I'm keeping an eye out for another job, especially something that'll pay better cause I make crapola.

~DragonHeart~