Early Jobs II: The Video Store

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In 1995 I had worked at as being a higher education assistance agency I’d worked at sheets a convenience store. And then I saw this ad in the paper.

Try not to laugh because AI is transcribing this, but I saw this ad in the paper that you can make up to $19,000 as an assistant manager of a video store, so I applied and I got the job.

The first store I was assigned to was Progress Avenue with a woman named Donna.

And I learned how to shrink wrap video cases, rent movies, charge late fees, check the late list, which meant that to call the people that were one two or three days late or send out letters when they were seven days, or go to their house when they were 14 days.

And then I was transferred to Dillsburg, the city where I grew up, to work with a guy named Mike Adkins.

And we were co assistant managers at that video store and they didn’t have anywhere else in Dillsburg to rent movies, so we did a lot of business there.

And then I was transferred to Cedar Cliff.

And then Paxton Square for a guy named Kevin Dady who has since passed away, but there was a lot of competition.

There were Blockbusters and Hollywood Videos out there so we worked a little harder and had better deals.

And then unfortunately, a friend of mine named Todd lost his job in Mechanicsburg so I was asked to take over that store with a guy named Brad Strobel.

And then they gave me a staff but then they took away my assistant manager, a guy by the name of Matt.

They said he was no good but yet they took him away.

And eventually I quit.

And I think I camped for a while before landing at Media Play.

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