summer job

I once quit a job without giving two weeks’ notice. I quit after my lunch break. The boss wasn’t surprised at all. I think she even wondered why it took so long like it was a bet amongst the bosses. Each day that went by with me still on the line was another nickel in the jar. I worked at a trophy factory in Tampa and made the medals people wear around their necks after winning track meets and whatnot. For some reason we made lots of medals for the PBA – “The Police Benevolent Association” and I thought that if I ever got pulled over I could use this as a conversation starter. I was on an assembly line and would be given scalding hot medals from out of the mold and was to sand down the edges on a steel-brush sander until they were smooth and round. Like when Christmas cookies come out with bits that are cooked under the Santa mold. My job was to remove those bits with spinning bristles of steel. These were very hot […]