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How We Quit Our First Jobs (Melissa is a Thief!)

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0:00 I looked at my boss and I was like, "Yo, my fault. I up." And he was just like, [Laughter] [Music] >> "Welcome back to another episode of Careful Boys, where we're going to find out how each of us quit our very first job." >> That's a good question. >> Okay. >> What was your first job again? You had so many weird stuff. You were taking care of bees, doing construction, Russian. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think we already talked about this. >> But what was your first first job? >> First first job was construction. >> How did you leave the job? >> You sure it wasn't painting walls in a as a eighth grader for your teacher? Child labor stuff? >> No, that's that's just labor. Like >> one time labor isn't job labor. >> He goes, "No, that's just labor." >> It was construction. That's like the official official con. >> So how how do you quit that job? What do

0:50 you got to do? >> I didn't show up. >> How? >> What? >> I just moved on to a different thing. I just >> Did they call you? They go, "Where the ████ are you?" >> They said, "Yo, what's going on?" I was just like, "I don't know. I'm glad we started with you. >> What the he yell at you or nothing? He didn't get mad. >> He like, "Well, I'm going to hold your check." And I was like, "I don't care." I was like, "I'm not I'm not showing up." >> Why did you want to quit? >> Um >> and and not get your last check, >> dude. To be honest, you know, my mom moved to LA and then I was just by myself, me and my homies, and I was just like, "What the am I doing with my life?" And then it was just like every day I woke up at 5 in the morning. And it was in Sacramento. It was in the summertime. And 6:00 a.m. to 400 p.m. of just pure hard ass labor. And I was just like, I don't want to do this anymore. ████ 18. My

1:42 hands are sore. I'm not going to lie. I was feeling ripped as. But dude, I got the I got the s████████ part. I got the part. I was always grabbing conc two concrete bags and always climbing up the hills and ████ >> Oh, you ripped those ████ >> for like 3 weeks straight. I was doing that. >> You only worked for 3 weeks there? >> Yeah, I was doing like concrete. I had to mix concrete. We had to put the crowbars down. >> Yeah. So, like a two week notice is like 60% of his work. >> And then you also didn't pick up your check. So, you just worked for free. >> Did you say Did you say crowbars? Huh? Did you say put the crowbar? >> Crowbars on the ground when we're doing concrete. >> You mean the rebars? Maybe. >> He only worked there 3 weeks. He doesn't know. >> I should have crowbar. >> I was like, I think you're doing it wrong. >> Yeah, I'm dumb as ████ >> Maybe they hired him. >> I mean, you're not that dumb. >> Yeah, you're right.

2:32 >> Crows. >> But um >> Oh, they're in the cement. >> But but the the the what set it off like to officially quit is um my boss spent like $5,000 on a a mansion pillar. >> So, we got the first pillar up. >> Yeah. But the second pillar was on the ground and my my boss said, "Hey, I need you to grind down the pillar straight as possible to make sure it will be flat, you know, it ████ flat. It's flush." >> Everything I did everything perfect. Boom, boom, boom. And then next you know, there's two straps total. One strap there, one strap there. >> That's two. >> I didn't realize. >> Total >> I didn't I didn't I I didn't realize You missed me. I didn't realize you're supposed to have another guy at the other end of the ████ pillar. So when we buckle him, two guys, it goes it goes

3:22 down gently. >> But I was so exhausted >> cuz before that when I jumped down without a I didn't have boot. >> But I jumped down on the spot a nail a nail went through my foot. >> Whoa. >> Oh ████ >> So my boss was just like, "Oh, it's fine. Just band-aid it up and then go back to work." Yeah, Russians. I'm telling you, they're ████ savages. But look, I I'm already hurting. I'm tired. I'm exhausted. My feet has a hole. And my boss still wanted me. My bos dude, my boss literally came up to me and said, "Oh, just wear a boot next time." And I was like, "Motherfucker, like, should I be going to a hospital?" He's like, "You're fine. You got your tendon shot?" I was like, "Yeah." He's like, "Okay, just >> he's right." >> So, I was just like, "Whatever, dude." And I was so exhausted I unbuckled one strap and I didn't realize the whole pillar just went. >> Oh, no. Oh, it >> was a $5,000 pillar, too. So,

4:13 >> Oh, >> I looked at my boss and I was like, "Yo, my fault. I ████ up." And he was just like, "F███, >> that good." >> Holy ████ >> That sounded good. That look good. >> It was just one of those It was just one of those moments cuz it was just me and my boss on that work site and then I was just I was just staring at him like, >> "What's he saying right now?" Yo, what are you saying right now? >> He's telling his coworkers, he's like, "Russians, they just talk loud, bro. Don't worry about that." >> He's just asking if he wants lunch. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> He just he got in his truck and drove off. >> Damn. >> And I was just staring at >> He just drove off like, "Bro, and then you know it was a house, so on the on the main road, you still hear him through the car. ████ ████

5:07 [Music] >> Running reds and ████ And I was like, >> $5,000, dude. >> Damn, >> bro. And then he called me. He called me. He's like, "Hey, just you're done for the day. Just go home." >> Well, yeah. You have a hole in your foot. You should be done for the day. >> I should have been done a long time ago. I wouldn't have made that mistake if I wasn't worried about my ████ butt and ████ You know what I'm saying? Like, ████ That's his fault. But yeah, so that's that's when like the week after that I was just like, I'm done. I'm not even going to show up. He's like, where are you? I'm just like, I don't give a ████ >> He's not cut out for it. >> Yeah. I'm just like, you know what? I should have just stayed at school. That was like literally the moment I was like, I should have stayed at school. >> Wow. So, he helped you? >> Yeah, kind of did. >> He helped you go back to school. >> I didn't go back to school after that, though. >> I just thought I should. >> He's nice shaman of stories, bro. ████ twists. >> That's like my first job. Job.

5:57 >> What about you, Anthony? Which job was your first job? >> Nothing compared to that. >> Which one was your first job though? >> I was a ride operator at Bigfoot Rapids Knottberry Farm. Oh yeah. >> Bigfoot Rapids. >> How do you quit that job? You got to give it two weeks or something. >> Yeah, it was a summer job. So it was like literally like in between. >> So they quit you. >> No. So I put in my two weeks and then I picked up my last paycheck. I said bye to everybody cuz they all liked me and then that was it. >> They didn't go like they wanted you to extend it a little bit more. Oh, keep working or >> Yeah. But that's mainly because like when you get trained, like the first like two weeks of like learning a job is like it's almost like the company's investing in your knowledge and understanding. So when you get trained, >> somebody quits, they got to train another ████ >> high school kid for like 2 weeks. So of course they're going to want to keep you if you're if you're not messing up. >> If you do the regular, just show up on

6:48 time when you're supposed to and don't make big mistakes, like >> it's really not that big a deal, you know? And then plus I'm like I'm I'm good at like memorizing words and stuff and that's all it is. It's all spiels. It's all like you know please keep your hands and arms inside the movie moving aircraft. >> So you were the one on the mic for that. >> Well when you're a ride operator for those there's multiple stations >> so like you get rotated so you're not doing one thing for like 8 hours. So you might be on the turn style and like clicking people in. You might be like safely, you know, getting people in out. You might be on the control towers uh and and just pushing a button that says please remain seated because all the kids think that they could just take their seat belt off and stand up and go crazy in the ride. >> Stupid ass kids. >> And then like the thing is you get two like uh two areas or two buttons for different areas of audio because they think if they pass your tower they don't see you. So they take they don't listen anymore. They take it off and you're

7:38 like I still see you. >> Wow. >> So it's just stuff like that. >> But it was easy. It was honestly, >> was it fun? >> It was Well, it was my first job, so to me, making $6.75 an hour just doing stuff like that, I thought was like, >> well, that's more than you made at the dry cleaners, right? >> Yes. >> His family dry cleaners didn't pay him ████ >> Well, that's not child labor. That's just >> family volunteering. >> Help your daddy. >> E, don't say it like that. >> What up, guys? This episode's brought to you by Honey Love. It's a very, very big women's underwear company and apparently they make some of the most comfiest bras out there. I don't wear it, but this is a real life testimony from one of my home girls that does wear it. Honey Love's bra is soft and super comfortable

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9:19 sponsoring this video. And if you want some Honey Love products for either yourself or if you're buying it for your lady friend, go in the description below and hit that link. also cool during that time is that you get to go uh you know into the back lot area of where all the employees are and then the cafeteria for employees like you get the whole like the Bigfoot burgers. I don't know if you guys remember in Knberry Farm like just a a burger joint where they obviously overpric you know all their food in the amusement park but when you go to the back for $125 you can get a burger and a giant iced tea. >> I used to give Hey, I used to be there. I did a show out there and then the cafeteria is fine. It's a big ass cafeteria. It's a cafeteria that's not open to the public, >> just for employees. So, it's mad cheap. You just scan your employee card and it's like a$125. >> So, to me, I was like, "This is awesome." All they looked forward to is getting my giant iced tea every day. >> Did everyone like hang out? Kind of like

10:10 restaurant vibes where everyone's really like fun with each other like is it kind of like that? >> Like waiting. >> You just find your group. >> Yeah. >> For me, >> there's always if if you're assigned to a ride like those are the people and so those are Yeah. So those are also the people that you might be like, "Hey, like I can't make it this day. Can you like take this shift?" type stuff. So you do kind of like find people, but I think for me when you're in your first job, everything's a big deal. >> And you know, you get taught like you need to you need to be you can't be on time. You have to be early. You have to be really kind to your managers and stuff like that. You need to make sure that you're always like look dressed, tucked shirt in, like but all these things, you know, and I just feel like I I took it super serious. So because because school started again, you couldn't stay past summer? >> Yeah, that was it. Just summer job >> only for one summer. >> One summer. Damn. >> The following summer, I was a sales associate on the floor of Big Five Sporting Goods. And that's when I was

11:01 like, dude, >> there's a system here. And I stole hell of ████ >> That's my dog. >> Oh my god. >> That's my dog. >> Not it boy. >> Why do you guys love stealing ████ all the time? >> We want to see if you get away with it. You know, we're just we're learning innocently and testing boundaries until you realize when you get caught, you're like, "Oh, this is wrong." >> Would you steal fishing rods? >> No, that's too crazy. >> Big out of your shirt. >> I'll steal things like you. Can I try this out? >> Pocket knives, binoculars, >> walk out with it. >> I was a I was a boy scout, so I wanted boy scout supplies, which there there's a lot of stuff in there. >> That's right. >> And so I was like, "Yo, dude, like I'm going to come with this sick pocketk knife to camp." >> Which one did you get? Like a ████ Gerber or some ████ Yeah, just anything that was that was just like I thought it was cool and I could put it in my pocket. >> Oh, you stole it like classic steel or you did some tricky thing on the inventory.

11:51 >> Oh yeah, >> bro. It wasn't that tricky at all because there it wasn't about like doing inventory and writing things down. It would literally just be like [Laughter] >> like bro, I remember being like, "Yo, dude, like uh the buddies are going to play like a baseball game or a softball game like next week or something like that." And I was like, "Huh, any gear, right?" And I was like, "Well, what do I wear?" And I was like, "Oh, you they had those colored baseball tees, you know, and I was like, "How do I get this out?" >> So, I remember like taking one, going to the bathroom, taking off my like dress shirt cuz like Big Five sales associates for some reason wear dress shirts. Check it out. >> Put that shirt on, put my dress shirt back on. Thought I was like, I got this. And I would just walk out like >> a secret baseball hero. >> Yeah, but didn't they see you take it to the bathroom? >> You go into inventory to the back room. So, like the stock area. She just like walked back there. >> Were all the other employees also doing

12:41 weird things like that? >> I know some did. >> I bet they all >> you guys weren't open about talking about it. >> Yeah. How do you know when it's safe to talk about? >> Some of the DJ ones. You would just you would catch a vibe on the DJ ones. The guys who would the the the black guys would like show up. >> Anthony show up late. >> Oh my god. >> What? They would just show up late. >> He's like they were black. What do you want me to do? >> They'd be like, "Dude, my bad. I was late, right?" And I'll be like, "It's all good, dude. Like I was covering for you." And he's like clearly smells like weed and stuff like that. So, you're just kind and then and then I'll be like and then you know you just catch a vibe. You like throw like test lines. You just be like, "Yo, dude, man. I sick, dude. I'm joking, but I'm I'm going to walk out with that." And then he'd be like, "Dude, I walked out with a trampoline the other day." >> I was like, "What?" And he'd be like, "Dude, >> that's ████ crazy, dog."

13:31 >> I just told him I was like helping a lady, you know, with a return or something like that. ████ >> And then would just like walk out with certain things. >> What kind of car is that? That's a big trunk. >> Yeah. What the hell? >> You were like 17, 16 >> by this one. Like 18. >> Okay. >> Because this is the year after. So this is going into college. >> Boy, don't damn, bro. >> How did you quit big five? >> Same thing. It was just for the summer cuz then I went to college. >> Oh. >> And I was like, I'm only going to when I when I applied to take the job, >> they were like, uh, is is this like a summer job? Cuz you know, we're all kids and stuff like that. It's like, "Yeah, I'm I'm planning on going to college in the fall, so I can only be here for this point of time, but I walk here. I like live in that neighborhood over there." So, it's like to to them, they think that's like an easier convenient thing. >> I see. >> Was Was Cheesecake Factory your first job? >> Yeah, I was. >> You were there how many years? >> Steal no cheesecake? >> Nine. >> Come on. What kind of ████ you

14:22 >> 9 years? >> Nine years. >> You never took the the Diane salad and all that ████ You never stole your own food on the way. >> Steal a salad. >> It's kind of fire there. Or the pasta da Vinci. doing steak. >> She's like, "There she is again walking out with the steak." Dian. >> Oh no. Well, sometimes they would take like silverware like it was college, you know? So for >> silverware >> cuz like you know if you're short on forks at night >> some heavy ass silverware. >> Yeah. You're not talking about the to-go ones. You're talking about the pink ones. >> You should go to jail you slime ball. >> We found our vice. Dude, >> I took a peppermill one time cuz they're nice peppermills, you know. >> Wow. See chicks ████ ████ up, dude. That's actually really ████ >> You took a peppermint out of your pants and just like walk out. >> Yeah. I mean, I'm ████ new chicks are shaving. >> The items you're taking are so like Where's the pepperm?

15:12 >> It's like not even >> They always went missing. They always had to order them anyway >> cuz everyone's stealing them. >> You kept stealing them. >> Did you steal any stools? >> Hey Ryan, do you remember ever getting a pepperm gave you She gifted you a peppermill one year. >> How do you quit? Uh, how do you quit after nine years at Cheesecake Factory? >> That's so easy. You just put in your two weeks like a >> Nobody tries to >> Don't people go Oh, man. >> You're like a You're like a pillar, a foundation of the staff there. >> They're not doing like a surprise. Here's a cheesecake with a candle in it, a balloon. >> Nobody Nobody's like, "Give me an hour to talk you out of it or something." >> No, it's the restaurant industry is so It's like a >> revolving door. >> Yeah, swing swinging door. >> Yeah, I think revolving door >> revolving door. That's what it is. So it's not uncommon to leave. So no,

16:02 >> it was easy for you. 9 years. >> It was easy. >> You could have retired nine more years. >> Retired. Could have got a pension for 18 years. >> Retired broke. >> ████ >> What made you stay at Cheesecake for 9 years? >> Steak Dian. >> Comfortable. >> Pretty st. >> Well, I worked through college and then I took a little longer in college. I took some breaks, went to travel. Um, yeah, I did a lot in that in those nine years. And then I finally got like a real job. >> Did you do college for 9 years? >> No, but I took breaks in between those nine years. >> Yeah, but it took me a long time to finish college. >> I took two breaks. >> Wait, so when you started college and then when you ended college, what years were there? >> Remember the remember? >> I don't think I know my numbers. I don't know.

16:52 >> 2000 and 2009. It was before the iPod touch >> when you started >> between the mini and the iPod touch. There was three presidents between them. >> How many iPhones came out? >> iPhones weren't out yet. No, they were. They were there. >> ████ >> Yeah. >> That's crazy. >> That's awesome. >> I know. >> So, uh, we've concluded that everyone has stolen from their job. >> Everybody did, dude. >> Everyone. >> Everybody. >> We We'll hear from Nick's uh uh Johnny Rocket story next. French fries a bit.

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