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Got a job at safeway as a deli clerk. Get to my work and no one is there to train me, try to clock in and it says im not in the system, and then i just walk into the deli and they spend 15 minutes telling me random things and say ok go use the meat cutter and by yourself do all the customers. At my interview to be a bagger, she said that the option was to do food service or clean toilets and do annoying jobs. So i chose that and it was one of the worst days of my life. Going to college for comp sci and my parents want me to have a job for "experience" although i dont think food service does much toward comp sci resumes. Should i stick it out with my minimum wage depressing and job thats really just not for me or should i just quit and focus on studies/maybe work on campus? Also i would feel weird quitting after one day. Not sure what i am asking but any tips i guess.

If you could get a job on campus, I would find it preferable to the crap place where you work now.

How are you with funds when you don't have a job? If you're able to manage, why not just focus on studying?

Getting employment experience is good--but it's not worth it quite a bit of the time to get a crappy job.

Why not seek out a clerical-type job. They're usually much better than retail/fast food/supermarket. Costco is not bad, though.

HOLY CRAP! This is an OSHA violation. OSHA is the Federal office of Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

I'm a chef instructor. Safeway can't put you to work as a deli clerk using a meat cutter with no instruction. There are so many things wrong with this ... you're probably not ServSafe certified (national food safety and sanitation) ... do you even have a food handler's card? And they're putting you to work on a potentially dangerous machine without ANY training whatsoever?

Can the Safeway Manager say, "liability"? I mean geez ... there are so many potential violations here that I don't even know where to start.

WHO told you to work at the meat cutter without any guidance or instruction? Does the manager know that this happened? Do your coworkers in the deli realize that you have no training? Did you speak up for yourself?

All they told me was heres how you do it showed me the mechanics and said okay go, then after about an hour doing it with another person they let me go on my own. Problem is it was a Sunday and I was really slow at it. Im not worried about it lol I quit after 1 day tho.

Cleaning toilets isn't a bad job. Many years ago I worked at a factory and got hurt with a repetitive injury. I had to be a janitor for awhile until my injury healed (spoiler- it never did!). Anyway, that was a fantastic job! Literally the only gross thing was the toilets and those weren't too bad. You'd usually only have one that had any...human matter on it and then it was just a bit. You'd just use the toilet brush to clean them, so your face and hands weren't close. And you had gloves. It stopped being gross by the second day. The rest was sweeping and wiping off surfaces and doors. No one gave a crap what you did, or hurried you. You could have headphones in and do things at your own pace.

Seriously, take another look at some of those other options. I would think janitor work would be aspie friendly, low stress.