So this happened when I was working in the mailroom for a big real state firm. I was 22 years old. I worked in retail and hospitality ( waiter), but this was my first “real job”. I come from a lower middle class family. There was never any money for continuing my education so I bounced around shity job after shity job to help fund my associates degree.
The mail room had four full time employees including me. The building we worked in had four floors and we were in the basement. Each one of us had our own floor that we were in charge of. I had the top floor, this department basically dealt with rentals. Listing available apartments, collecting rent, showing apartments. The busiest time for me was the end of the month when all the fucking rent came in ( this was 06-07, digital payment was not what it is today). Anyways, I had to individually place all the rent checks in these file folders, then give the files to the manger. She would always make me sit at her desk and read the checks out loud to her as she entered them into her computer… It was a long process.