I've been riding (and grooming!) horses for 9 years..so I feel pretty confident in my ability. I get there this morning at 8 am, and they ask me if i know how to groom, i say yes, so they hand me a brush and a curry comb (a curry comb is a round brush that digs all the deep down dirt out of the horses hair.) and I go to work. I was doing my job, when one of the lady comes over and starts yelling at me..."YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO CURRY IN CIRCLES! JUST IN A STRAIGHT LINE!" (which, by the way, is wrong.) she then proceeded to tell me I was just being cocky because I had done this before.

now, I also noticed about 75% of the horses there had open sores on their back (due to dirt rubbing under the saddle) which means, they aren't grooming right. also, all of these horses were so tighytly packed together in this barn you couldnt fit between them to groom. it was just awful the way they treated these animals.

the rest of the day I was treated like an idiot and talked down to and made to shovel poop.

AUGH! my last 3 jobs have all been awful like this.

I worked in a Lisa Frank store, which wasn't so bad except that I was considered the boss for 3 months, yet they would not officially hire me as the boss because of my age. So they paid me a "keyholder" wage, yet paid no one either the manager or asst. manager wage, therefore I got screwed in the whole pay area thing. Suckage.

(although we did HAVE a boss... just one day when I arrived and she was supposed to be opening, she had not... showed up. I called her house and no one answered. She never showed up again. that was a bit weird)

Also, I managed an Afterthoughts, which was actually a good job (and I was surprisingly a very good manager hehe). *BUT* the suckiest thing was when these prissy moms would bring in their newborns and want you to pierce their ears because they would shreik and cry and make you feel really guilty.

first job: Walgreens (cashier) - very laid-back. all I had to do was ring peoples stuff up when they were done shopping. and if I closed I had to sweep the floor. so easy. got paid $7/hr with a .50 raise after like 3 months.

second job: Sam's Club (cart boy) - I just pushed carts from the parking lot back up to the front of the store. very easy except in the summer because it gets so hot and humid here (outside Nashville) that it became really tiring in June and July. I didn't have to deal with customers though because I worked outside. I couldn't work inside as a cashier because I was 17 and no one under 18 could operate machinery. yeah...a cash register was considered 'machinery.' started at $8/hr and ended at like $8.35

third job: Media Play (movies) - I worked in the movie/DVD section of Media Play. inside all the time, just got to hang out and look at movies. had to help customers, but it was pretty easy. except I started having to meet daily and weekly quotas on selling stupid shit like a DVD holder. if a customer got pissed at me, I'd just direct them to a manager and walk off. if they insisted on talking to me I just would tell them that there is absolutely no chance that i could get the movie they wanted and walk away. I caught like 5 or 6 people stealing there; they always stole either porn or anime, it was weird. only got paid $6.50 this job.