Fuck my life i dont understand.

[danyboy27]

Its been 3 year i have been doing this warehouse job, for the last year or so, i used to hate this fucking job, but recently, i got more organised and for some fucking reason, i dont hate it anymore, has a matter of fact, i like it.

for some reason i think its scary.

[Dr Mindbender]

Its been 3 year i have been doing this warehouse job, for the last year or so, i used to hate this fucking job, but recently, i got more organised and for some fucking reason, i dont hate it anymore, has a matter of fact, i like it.

for some reason i think its scary.

Maybe your standards have dropped.

Ive got incredibly high standards ergo i hate my menial call centre job.

[Sasha]

Ive got incredibly high standards ergo i hate my menial call centre job.


i dont think you need any standards to hate an "menial call centre job"
i famously walked out of an temp-agency trying to push me into callcenter work declaring i would start prostituting myself before doing that...

[Dr Mindbender]

i dont think you need any standards to hate an "menial call centre job"
i famously walked out of an temp-agency trying to push me into callcenter work declaring i would start prostituting myself before doing that...

Maybe i should move to Amsterdam.

Here in NI call centres are a given by people who cant get work elsewhere.

We are told it cause English people ''love our accents'' which is bullshit.
Its cause we arent unionised and will trip over ourselves to work for less than our English counterparts.

[Sasha]

well the consequence of that was that i lost my unemployment benefits because of work refusal and had to almost consider actually going into sex-work before landing an shitty menial job in an clothing store for a few months.
so i wouldnt move here just yet.

[danyboy27]

Here in Quebec, call center job are extremely well paid, 17 buck an hours, 40 hours a week, but nobody want this shit job, the only courageous folks willing to do it are immigrants.

its a shit job and i wouldnt do it myself either.

[Dr Mindbender]

Here in Quebec, call center job are extremely well paid, 17 buck an hours, 40 hours a week, but nobody want this shit job, the only courageous folks willing to do it are immigrants.

its a shit job and i wouldnt do it myself either.

Wow that is about double what i earn.

What is the cost of living like in Quebec though? It is probably swings and roundabouts.

[danyboy27]

Wow that is about double what i earn.

What is the cost of living like in Quebec though? It is probably swings and roundabouts.

montreal is expensive, Quebec is okay, small regional cities and town have a verry low cost of living, job is hard to find there tho.

[bcbm]

i work in a sort of call center too, if i nap between calls and stay in a half-awake zombie state the day is bearable

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Its been 3 year i have been doing this warehouse job, for the last year or so, i used to hate this fucking job, but recently, i got more organised and for some fucking reason, i dont hate it anymore, has a matter of fact, i like it.

for some reason i think its scary.

It's always been one of my many dreams to have a job where I want to go to work every morning, and not just because I won't get paid if I don't.

[gendoikari]

Whine whine whine, at least you have a job.

[Tim Finnegan]

Here in NI call centres are a given by people who cant get work elsewhere.

We are told it cause English people ''love our accents'' which is bullshit.
Its cause we arent unionised and will trip over ourselves to work for less than our English counterparts.
Ah, so you get that bullshit too? Nice to know that we're not alone. :laugh:


Whine whine whine, at least you have a job.
It's hardly us that are denying you one, pal. Why be thankful for what we have, when we're on a forum dedicated explicitly to the proposition that we can have the whole world?

(Edit: That said, I'm not getting to pretend that I couldn't be hell of a lot worse off, especially that I've just arranged to keep the real world at arms length for the next few years. :blushing:)

[Jose Gracchus]

I'm lying about my status as a university student to get a job at the university, and I'm a graduate. How fucking sad is that. I feel for you brother.

[La Comédie Noire]

I know what you mean man, I used to hate my job as a short order cook, then I actually started getting organized and now the jobs pretty much stress free, and 40 hours a week ain't bad considering.

I would consider working in food if I weren't so dead set on getting my LPN license.

[Impulse97]

I can relate. I hated my old job at McDonald's. People where always rude, several of my managers were rude and consistently flaunted the same rules they enforced strictly on the crew. Our First Assistant Manager frequently came in either; hungover, drunk or stoned.

Close to getting a job at a gas station nearby. Not ideal, but better than the fast food biz. :lol:

[RHIZOMES]

Seems to me to simply be another case of a worker in a shit job doing the job a certain way to make him/herself feel better about it. There is a surprisingly large sociological literature dedicated to this phenomena.

[Dr Mindbender]

Seems to me to simply be another case of a worker in a shit job doing the job a certain way to make him/herself feel better about it. There is a surprisingly large sociological literature dedicated to this phenomena.
its a profitable cash cow no doubt.

[RHIZOMES]

its a profitable cash cow no doubt.

Well its both obvious, so lots of academics can use it as an easy way to build up their careers, and it seems to go quite a long way (yet not all the way) in answering why workers don't just spontaneously rise up if their jobs and wider lives are so shit.

[praxis1966]

Yeah, Arizona Bay's onto something here. I haven't read them in full, but I am aware of the fact that there are a ton of sociological studies of how people cope with crap jobs; unfortunately most of the ones I'm aware of are from the structural-functionalist school so they're more concerned with describing the problem rather than actually figuring out a way to remedy it.

[rednordman]

I think if you are good at this particular job, than in these tough times, you may be attracted to the security that it brings. I'm feeling exactly the same way with my job as you do with yours right now. By the sound of it we both have shit jobs aswell.

[Tomhet]

Here in Quebec, call center job are extremely well paid, 17 buck an hours, 40 hours a week, but nobody want this shit job, the only courageous folks willing to do it are immigrants.

its a shit job and i wouldnt do it myself either.

I'd take that job in a heartbeat personally, I fucking HATE my gas station job!
full time overnights.. :(

[Dr Mindbender]

Yeah, Arizona Bay's onto something here. I haven't read them in full, but I am aware of the fact that there are a ton of sociological studies of how people cope with crap jobs; unfortunately most of the ones I'm aware of are from the structural-functionalist school so they're more concerned with describing the problem rather than actually figuring out a way to remedy it.

That is the whole modus operandi of capitalism; it is never the production heirarchy that is the problem, always the coping ability of the employee. First worry about maximising profit, to hell with whether or not its driving your employees to the brink of suicide or even if whether or not its the most efficient production methodology. In essence this is why I am a technocrat over a conventional communist. The entire institution of human menial labour and ad nauseaum customer service tasks is as barbaric as it is antiquated.

Even the medical system is in cahoots with the gentry. I had to take 3 months off sick due to depression. My doctor was more inclined to suggest medication before recommending to the social security authorities that i have grounds for incapacity welfare.
:mad:

[Impulse97]

I'd take that job in a heartbeat personally, I fucking HATE my gas station job!
full time overnights.. :(

I'm about to take just such a job, but part-time overnights on the weekends. I hope it isn't that bad...I was hoping it'd be an improvement over my shitty McDonald's job....

[Dr Mindbender]

It would be pretty bad to work at a detroit gas station!
Fdyyps2wmd4

[Tomhet]

I'm about to take just such a job, but part-time overnights on the weekends. I hope it isn't that bad...I was hoping it'd be an improvement over my shitty McDonald's job....

They can be brutal, some customers really test your nerves, IDK what it's like working there where you are, but I get $13.50 an hour, 40 hours a week.
And hell, from monday-thursday I'm completely by myself, it's quite dangerous considering the number of armed robberies in this area...

[Impulse97]

They can be brutal, some customers really test your nerves, IDK what it's like working there where you are, but I get $13.50 an hour, 40 hours a week.
And hell, from monday-thursday I'm completely by myself, it's quite dangerous considering the number of armed robberies in this area...


Yea, we had customers like that at McD's. Nothing is ever good enough, everything that's wrong with the world is your fault. :rolleyes:

I'd only be working like 25 hours a week at $8.25. Not sure about the level of robberies around here. Only ever heard of one subway near us that ever got robbed and the fact that it was multiple times, made it even rarer.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

That is the whole modus operandi of capitalism; it is never the production heirarchy that is the problem, always the coping ability of the employee. First worry about maximising profit, to hell with whether or not its driving your employees to the brink of suicide or even if whether or not its the most efficient production methodology. In essence this is why I am a technocrat over a conventional communist. The entire institution of human menial labour and ad nauseaum customer service tasks is as barbaric as it is antiquated.

Even the medical system is in cahoots with the gentry. I had to take 3 months off sick due to depression. My doctor was more inclined to suggest medication before recommending to the social security authorities that i have grounds for incapacity welfare.
:mad:
Wait - you can take off of work for depression and can get welfare for it? Where do you live, the UK? Here in the US they'd tell someone to suck it up and get back to work. It's sickening how sociopathic things can be here, where a seriously debilitating illness is considered "*****ing and moaning." Really reflects on the overall state of our system and society ...


Yea, we had customers like that at McD's. Nothing is ever good enough, everything that's wrong with the world is your fault. :rolleyes:

I'd only be working like 25 hours a week at $8.25. Not sure about the level of robberies around here. Only ever heard of one subway near us that ever got robbed and the fact that it was multiple times, made it even rarer.
One customer where I work (small fast-food style place, privately owned not a chain) comes in every Thursday. Makes an order, uses our bathroom, then complains about something in the bathroom. EVERY FUCKING TIME. OH MY GOD. I'm so sick of hearing about menial shit that's wrong with it ... "It's too hot in your bathroom" ... "you're almost out of paper towels, you'll probably run out in an hour or two" ... "your toilet runs unless you jiggle the handle" ... "the floor's wet by the sink, somebody could slip." Now I just ignore her when she talks to me. Then she'll ask for the manager to come out just to ***** to him when I won't listen, but I have to sit there and tell her repeatedly he's busy. EVERY THURSDAY.

Then there are the people that hold up the line when they get their order by pulling everything out of the bags (which takes up pretty much the entire counter, small place) and nitpicking to check if it's okay. Yes, we can read here, so your order is right. Then a few of them have the audacity to expect me to put it BACK in the bag for them after they just took all the shit out. that I'd bagged up for them just before they took it all out. *****, do it yourself!

I hate my job.

[Impulse97]

Wait - you can take off of work for depression and can get welfare for it? Where do you live, the UK? Here in the US they'd tell someone to suck it up and get back to work. It's sickening how sociopathic things can be here, where a seriously debilitating illness is considered "*****ing and moaning." Really reflects on the overall state of our system and society ...

This reminds me of a family friend a few months ago. She works at a special education school near us in the BD section(Behavior issues, not neccesarily handicapped). She was pregnant and needed to take time off for bed rest prior to the birth, to do so she had to use all of her allotted sick time for the year.

Then after babies where born the school said that she had to come back to work or be fired after only four weeks post birth. I do believe federal law stipulates a mandatory minimum of 8 weeks though. When she protested they said they'd like to give her more time, but alas she didn't have any sick time left so she was SOL.

So, she came back to work at the end of the month. The stress of the job, not quite being 100% yet, separation from her infants and getting verbally/physically attacked each day sent her into a very severe case of post partum depression. She ended up in the hospital for two weeks and had to move back in with her folks while she recovered.



Then there are the people that hold up the line when they get their order by pulling everything out of the bags (which takes up pretty much the entire counter, small place) and nitpicking to check if it's okay. Yes, we can read here, so your order is right. Then a few of them have the audacity to expect me to put it BACK in the bag for them after they just took all the shit out. that I'd bagged up for them just before they took it all out. *****, do it yourself!

I hate my job.

We had those at McD's too. It's even worse when they do it in the drive through and you've already got your manager screaming at you for being too slow. I've gt stories galore for that too.

Oh lord, I gotta tell this one....

I walked into work one day and clocked in. I noticed a women with a very smug grin on her face strutting out of the dining room. I didn't think anything of it and went on chatting with my fellow employees.

A minute later however a customer came running out of the women's bathroom screaming. She runs up to the counter and in an almost incomprehensible string of noises tells us how disgusting our restrooms are and how she's never coming back again. She proceeds to storm out and we're left wondering 'wtf is going on?".

Poor Antonio....

Our manger delegated him to be the one to inspect the bathroom. Armed with gloves and a bottle of cleaner he plunged into one hell of a mess. Turns out the smug women who first left, had been angry that we'd messed up her order despite the fact that the previous shift had fixed it and given her coupons for next time.

Upon, entering the restroom our unknowing hero stumbled across one of the most disgusting things this side of capitalism.

The women had gotten her revenge, by taking a shit in her hand and smearing it all over the walls, mirror and floor. As well as using it to write some rather colorful insults about McD's. She pissed all over the floor and sink, stuffed shit up the faucet and clogged the drain with it. She clogged all the toilets with paper and TP'd the room with what she couldn't stuff down the toilet. She also shoved a handful of her crap up each hand dryer and turned them on so it baked it.

It took that poor man three and a half hours to clean it all up. Our manager felt so bad for him he gave him the rest of the day off and the next day, paid vacation.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

This reminds me of a family friend a few months ago. She works at a special education school near us in the BD section(Behavior issues, not neccesarily handicapped). She was pregnant and needed to take time off for bed rest prior to the birth, to do so she had to use all of her allotted sick time for the year.

Then after babies where born the school said that she had to come back to work or be fired after only four weeks post birth. I do believe federal law stipulates a mandatory minimum of 8 weeks though. When she protested they said they'd like to give her more time, but alas she didn't have any sick time left so she was SOL.

So, she came back to work at the end of the month. The stress of the job, not quite being 100% yet, separation from her infants and getting verbally/physically attacked each day sent her into a very severe case of post partum depression. She ended up in the hospital for two weeks and had to move back in with her folks while she recovered.




We had those at McD's too. It's even worse when they do it in the drive through and you've already got your manager screaming at you for being too slow. I've gt stories galore for that too.

Oh lord, I gotta tell this one....

I walked into work one day and clocked in. I noticed a women with a very smug grin on her face strutting out of the dining room. I didn't think anything of it and went on chatting with my fellow employees.

A minute later however a customer came running out of the women's bathroom screaming. She runs up to the counter and in an almost incomprehensible string of noises tells us how disgusting our restrooms are and how she's never coming back again. She proceeds to storm out and we're left wondering 'wtf is going on?".

Poor Antonio....

Our manger delegated him to be the one to inspect the bathroom. Armed with gloves and a bottle of cleaner he plunged into one hell of a mess. Turns out the smug women who first left, had been angry that we'd messed up her order despite the fact that the previous shift had fixed it and given her coupons for next time.

Upon, entering the restroom our unknowing hero stumbled across one of the most disgusting things this side of capitalism.

The women had gotten her revenge, by taking a shit in her hand and smearing it all over the walls, mirror and floor. As well as using it to write some rather colorful insults about McD's. She pissed all over the floor and sink, stuffed shit up the faucet and clogged the drain with it. She clogged all the toilets with paper and TP'd the room with what she couldn't stuff down the toilet. She also shoved a handful of her crap up each hand dryer and turned them on so it baked it.

It took that poor man three and a half hours to clean it all up. Our manager felt so bad for him he gave him the rest of the day off and the next day, paid vacation.
Holy shit, that disgusting *****

[praxis1966]

Holy shit, that disgusting *****

As disgusting as this person's actions may have been, CanisLupus, there's never any call for the use of sex specific pejoratives. Considering this and your previous post containing repeated use of the word "*****," I'm issuing an infraction for prejudiced language.

Also, since you're relatively new here, you should be made aware that we're in the midst of a 30 day cleanup period of both sexism and trolling. What this means is that your next offense of this nature will result in a banning.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

As disgusting as this person's actions may have been, CanisLupus, there's never any call for the use of sex specific pejoratives. Considering this and your previous post containing repeated use of the word "*****," I'm issuing an infraction for prejudiced language.

Also, since you're relatively new here, you should be made aware that we're in the midst of a 30 day cleanup period of both sexism and trolling. What this means is that your next offense of this nature will result in a banning.
In my previous post, I used it in reference to both a male (habitual nitpicker) and female (bathroom complainer) customer who'd annoyed me. Where I live, it's more often used as a gender-neutral term for someone who whines or is annoying. I'm sure you understand that slang varies by region, although I should have realized that could be taken the wrong way.

I do apologize for any misunderstanding, If you read my previous posts you'll find I'm quite the opposite of a troll.