*Nods*

The holding a joint like it's a pistol seems a tad odd other then that. Interesting start of a series

Is he holding it like a pistol... or an extended middle finger?

It's something lit either a cig or a joint

The poor bastard. Why would anyone pay $200 for help to get a minimum-wage job? I mean, a head hunter found me for my current job (so I could only get so much for a starting offer), but it was still a $10K raise over my previous job.

You pay the job service(1) to track down leads, the crappy ones basically find you leads you could have found and interviewed for yourself, but you don't know the job you're going for until you get there.

Notes:

1) Seems unethical to charge the job-hunter, normally the employment agencies are paid by the EMPLOYERS to drum up manpower. If a job agency mentioned me paying them to track down leads, I'd thank them for their time, get up and leave, right in the middle of the interview. If there was any paperwork I needed to fill out before that point, I'd ask to review it one more time before the 'thank you, I'm leaving,' and when reviewing it, i would tear the form up.

That's the way it works for professional services. I'm in IT, and I supported a product for which not many folks had experience. I was scooped by a consulting group when I was laid off in 1994, then again by a employment broker in 2007 (I was still working, but I needed a new job). Neither time did I pay a cent for the service, but both times the employer shelled out a lot. Both times I wound up making a lot more money than I had been, but my potential earnings for the first year were capped by what the employer paid the headhunters.

Anyway, Steve definitely got screwed. I graduated High School in 1975 (the year before he did) and I recall that Minimum Wage was $2.30 when I dropped out of College in 1977, and it hadn't gone up recently. That a gross of $92 per week, which leaves a take-home of about $70 (after taxes). How many months working in the cafeteria would it take him to pay back $200?

Right there with you. I did seven years out of high school working as a clerk at a gas station.

Third shift, by myself, within driving distance of several bars and a college. My pay cap was $9.00 per hour (about $2.50 above minimum wage) and I would often get death threats when I didn't want to sell someone beer late at night.

I did a whole series on the guys I met on the job too actually... its in my gallery, but to spare you from having to hunt it down here's a link to an imgur album if you'd like to take a peek. http://imgur.com/a/LfyL1

Panama City Beach... Ah, I know that city.

i'm sorry your friend passed Karno

I spent the first seven years out of high school unemployed statically. Guy clearly did way better than I did.