Originally Posted by Rose_P
My first summer job was working in a Hallmark card factory. I thought it would be a lot more fun than it was. It certainly made me appreciate a chance to get an education. It was in a dusty wooden building with loud machinery, and a few of the experienced workers were less than friendly to the summer help because we tended to slow things down. They needed the bonuses that they could get for speedy production. I felt bad for them, but don't think they made things any better for themselves by making young people feel bad. I didn't see anyone who wasn't trying hard.
By the way, we were amazed while vacationing in Oregon a few years ago that they did not allow motorists to pump their own gas. Apparently it's against the law (or was at the time). Of course, they were not rushing around washing windows and checking tires and oil as they did when I was a kid, back when gas at the local Fina was 19 cents a gallon. (Does that ever make me feel old!)
LOL My DH and I ran a Fina in 75. Don't remember what gas was then. It was a truck stop and I had to climb up on those diesels and find the dipstick! LOL I did the books mostly as I had a new baby and a 2 yr old but I did pump gas at times when needed. And I did that oil and battery checks and washed windows as a kid in my dad's service station.
Dad had a hand crank cash register. and a hand operated calculator. We did take credit cards but you had to take a metal tray out to the car and have the customer sign the paper that scrolled across the paper tray. Then you gave them a copy and kept a copy to send to the company to get your money.
Oil cans were opened with a metal oil can opener that you stabbed into the can and then pushed the other end of the opener down onto the can creating a spout. NO plastic bottles with screw off lids.