Bullshit at Work/Ongoing Venting Thread About Work

[Le Communiste]

Well, I don't see a thread specifically for this, so, here it is. I can guarantee there is some bullshit in everyone's lives from work. Although one shouldn't be specific about their workplace, in the unlikely, unlikely situation that a boss or potential employers is lurking on revleft.

To start off, I am a 16 year old working his first job. I grew up being a very respectable person. Most people agree that I am very polite and good worker. I work in a fast food joint, where it is understandable for the managers to be in a terrible mood once in a while, especially because most of them work 2 jobs. Occasional asinine behavior really wouldn't phase me at all. But I have a manager that is off and on in a bad mood. But normally she will realize that she is and the next time she sees me usually apologizes for her behavior. Then there is her sister, who was born with a birth defect that hinders her ability to talk, so more often than not I have a terrible time communicating with her. That and she hates me for no obvious reason.

But let's start with yesterday.

First off, I was working lobby with another kid. That wasn't really a problem at all. He was doing all the mopping (which in general, I enjoy doing) so I needed to keep myself occupied. That kid working lobby had a friend just walking and talking to him. It was completely obvious that this was happening. While I was working near him, bending over to clean the wall, I was yelled at by the manager with the birth defect to as I quote "Less talking, more cleaning". I haven't said anything for hours, to anyone. I didn't say anything meaningful back to her.

As another note, she uses sarcasm a lot, which irritates me a lot, so I just do exactly what she says. For example, if one of the other managers tell me to do something, and I ask her to confirm what they said, she will say something along the lines of "No he said just stand there and do nothing". So I will.
Probably does not help my case

Now with today. I really have only one story from today. It was that same manager giving me problems. She was working fries today. When I was grabbing fries it is "front to back, left to right" that is always how it is. This particular instance I was grabbing three fry boxes. I grabbed exactly the ones I needed to get. She started screaming at me. Not just yelling, screaming and throwing a fit. Apparently I wasn't doing it correctly. Somehow... So it put me in a pretty bad mood the rest of the night.

[bcbm]

work sucks. all bosses are bastards. figure out the skills to sneak by their wrath while you steal/slack/whatever to fuck them over

[Jimmie Higgins]

Here's just an petty-annecdote (it isn't a major work issue, just a stupid worker-customer interaction... you really don't want me to start on "real" work issues becuase it'd never end - I work in a non-union customer service job:mad:).

I was in such a good mood when I arrived and clocked in and I was helping customers and everything was great... and then this 40ish yuppie came to the front desk with a bottle of wine. "How do you suppose I open this" she said in a strange condesending whishper. "Probably a corkscrew" I said fake-politely and then paused, "would you like a corkscrew?". "Ohhh... that would be super" she said and then when I handed it to her, "Oh you rock! You're so Super.". Barf.

It baffles me to no end that California white professionals have no idea how to interact with humans. You can't say, "Hey, do you have a corkscrew?". Are you quizzing me about how bottles get opened? Really, handing you a corkscrew makes me "rock". Shut your condesending asshole face. And why the whisper... do they think I'm a baby... she was talking to me like she was a pre-school teacher talking to a child. Morons.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

My boss keeps telling me to fasten my pace even though I'm usually one of the first ones done with my work, it's really starting to piss me off.

[Sentinel]

I was in such a good mood when I arrived and clocked in and I was helping customers and everything was great... and then this 40ish yuppie came to the front desk with a bottle of wine. "How do you suppose I open this" she said in a strange condesending whishper. "Probably a corkscrew" I said fake-politely and then paused, "would you like a corkscrew?". "Ohhh... that would be super" she said and then when I handed it to her, "Oh you rock! You're so Super.". Barf.



This reminds me of when back in the day - I'm sure this wouldn't be possible anymore - a co-worker of mine in a ships duty free shop was asked by a customer, who had previously attempted to give the impression they were 'good with wines': is this wine red or white? The collegue replied: you can use as a rule of thumb, that if you can see through the bottle it's white, otherwise red, and walked away.

Same guy was once given a 500 SEK bill and (in a rude tone) asked 'can you split this', whereupon he tore it in two and gave it back. That time he got an infraction though.

This guy is my hero.



It baffles me to no end that California white professionals have no idea how to interact with humans. You can't say, "Hey, do you have a corkscrew?". Are you quizzing me about how bottles get opened? Really, handing you a corkscrew makes me "rock". Shut your condesending asshole face. And why the whisper... do they think I'm a baby... she was talking to me like she was a pre-school teacher talking to a child. Morons.


I always think that after the revolution, when I'm the glorious leader, I'll implement a rule that everyone has to work in customer service for a year or two as part of school. Everyone would learn to understand how to talk to people, that the worker behind the desk isn't personally responsible for rules & policies etc.

Imagine what a difference it would make, not just for service workers but in the way people adress and treat each other in general as well!

[Blake's Baby]

Has this thread been moved? The OP is saying they can't access it any more.

If it has been moved, I think it's a bit unfair that someone who starts a thread then has it taken away from them just because they're new.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

It moved to non-political, can't they access that?

[Rugged Collectivist]

I got in trouble for drinking in front of a customer (Sprite, not whiskey or anything). Apparently we aren't supposed to drink at the register. Would've been nice if someone told me.

What a stupid rule. I have to wait 3 and a half hours to drink something? Why? It's not like I stopped scanning to do it. I did it while the customer was using the PIN pad, they didn't need me.

[Sentinel]

Has this thread been moved? The OP is saying they can't access it any more.

If it has been moved, I think it's a bit unfair that someone who starts a thread then has it taken away from them just because they're new.

It seems like it was moved here from another forum, unsure which one, by a moderator (blake 3:17). The only explanation I can come to think of why JH can't access it would be that Non-poli is only viewable when logged in.

[Os Cangaceiros]

This is a pretty simple thing, but I have to get up early in the morning for work. I work outside and it's always cold in the early morning hours, so I put on a insulated wool jacket to stay warm. But then it starts getting really hot as the day goes on, and since I work in a manual labor occupation it's even worse, I get boiling hot and curse myself for wearing wool. So every day I basically have a choice of freezing my ass off early in the morning, or boiling later in the morning.

[NewLeft]

I hate it when they want 3 interviews...

[Rugged Collectivist]

This is a pretty simple thing, but I have to get up early in the morning for work. I work outside and it's always cold in the early morning hours, so I put on a insulated wool jacket to stay warm. But then it starts getting really hot as the day goes on, and since I work in a manual labor occupation it's even worse, I get boiling hot and curse myself for wearing wool. So every day I basically have a choice of freezing my ass off early in the morning, or boiling later in the morning.

Couldn't you just take the jacket off and lay it down somewhere?

[Os Cangaceiros]

Well yeah, but I wear a rainjacket over it, and the area I work in is usually covered in a lot of blood and slime and such, and I don't like that shit getting on my clothing.

[Decolonize The Left]

I got in trouble for drinking in front of a customer (Sprite, not whiskey or anything). Apparently we aren't supposed to drink at the register. Would've been nice if someone told me.

What a stupid rule. I have to wait 3 and a half hours to drink something? Why? It's not like I stopped scanning to do it. I did it while the customer was using the PIN pad, they didn't need me.

I'm pretty sure that's illegal. You are allowed to drink water on the job. I dunno about sodas or anything, but they can't stop you from drinking water.

[Rugged Collectivist]

I'm pretty sure that's illegal. You are allowed to drink water on the job. I dunno about sodas or anything, but they can't stop you from drinking water.

I do see people at the register with water bottles on occasion but the way she worded it it sounded like she didn't want me to drink anything at all. She did say "be discreet about it". Why the hell anyone would be discreet about taking a drink of water is beyond me.

[Decolonize The Left]

I do see people at the register with water bottles on occasion but the way she worded it it sounded like she didn't want me to drink anything at all. She did say "be discreet about it". Why the hell anyone would be discreet about taking a drink of water is beyond me.

Obviously you can't dump water on yourself and swish your head around and shit but you can drink water on shift and you don't have to be 'discreet' in the sense of not drinking. What she wants you to do is work more and drink less - i.e. to drink only as much as necessary to get your work done and to not let it impede you from your work.

[Le Communiste]

Heh, I can see it now.

So today after my shift I was talking to my manager, something along the lines of "what would happen if I talked back to (insert nme here)" then she wanted to know why, and I explained, gave her the two examples from the original post, and then told me she has talked to both the owner and the manager herself about the behavior. She then told me this girl that just started working was considering quitting because of said manager and talked about it with her today

She then suggested talking to the owner myself about the issue, because she hasn't really done anything about it.

Edit: probably be a good idea why I would want to talk back. In my experience, everyone who talks back is left alone by her because she knows she will get talked back too and really doesn't have any power over them. But with me being polite more often than not, i almost never talk back. So I was going to try that road rather than trek the one I am on now

[bcbm]

She did say "be discreet about it". Why the hell anyone would be discreet about taking a drink of water is beyond me.

because it reminds people you are a human being, not a robot

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

I hate it when they want 3 interviews...

I'd kill for an in person interview. I just had my second long ass phone interview with multiple people on the other end, its driving me crazy. Just have me come in goddamnit

[Ele'ill]

don't go to work to work because you have to but because you are going to get paid to sabotage everything that you possibly can

[Rugged Collectivist]

because it reminds people you are a human being, not a robot

You're probably right. A guy I know that works there too claims he got transferred to another department because he was "too friendly" (not sure if that's the exact wording that was used but that's what he said). He basically said that he thinks it's because he talks to the customers too long/too much. I kind of thought that would be a positive thing though. Customers apparently like that shit.

I'm the opposite. I just give my generic greetings at the beginning and nod. I even had to listen to some asshole complain about people on welfare once. I've always been somewhat shy, and I basically am a robot while at work so I don't have to worry about being "too nice".

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

don't go to work to work because you have to but because you are going to get paid to sabotage everything that you possibly can

I treat my current job like a public library at this point. I come in stoned to use the free internet access and try not to draw the attention of the other people there.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

I've mostly done minimum wage casual bar work (although I'm unemployed at the moment) and oh boy, is it ever shitty.

I've been accused of stealing money from the tills, short-changing, over-chaging and under-charging customers, I've encountered customers from awkward to arsey to verbally threatening, I've had shifts arbitrarily cut and arbitrarily lengthened...

aaaaaaargh

[Le Communiste]

I treat my current job like a public library at this point. I come in stoned to use the free internet access and try not to draw the attention of the other people there.

What do you do? Sounds like a great job


I've mostly done minimum wage casual bar work (although I'm unemployed at the moment) and oh boy, is it ever shitty.

I've been accused of stealing money from the tills, short-changing, over-chaging and under-charging customers, I've encountered customers from awkward to arsey to verbally threatening, I've had shifts arbitrarily cut and arbitrarily lengthened...

aaaaaaargh


Bar work always sounded like a fun job. But that must have been terrible.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I have suspicion that all the white guys at my work except for me and the coworker I drive with are racists, everything just makes sense that way.

[Bright Banana Beard]

Fuck this one supervisor, he always tried to get me rooms or go back to check and clean it again when ffs it is clean. I am also apparently in shocked when this supervisor proclaimed himself anarchist, he listened to punk and is an activist on pro-palestine/ generally anti-corporationism. He doesn't know that I am Marxist-Leninist. Also all my coworkers find him really annoying that he gives them high blood pressure.


DUDE, LET'S DO OUR JOB AND STOP BEING A MANAGER'S PET FFS. SOON I WILL BE SHOP STEWARD AND GET YOUR SHIT PULL OUT OF YOUR BRAIN. The rest of the supervisor can't even be compared to him.

[#FF0000]

They don't train temps at my shitty warehouse. Then management gets upset when temps fuck a thing up and threaten us with "points" or termination if we fuck up again. Permanent employees watch a manager demonstrate a job for forty hours before being left on their own. Temps watch a lead demonstrate for five minutes.

One of the things we have to watch for is what button we press when something goes wrong and one of the warehouse robots brings us a pod with no boxes on it. We have the choice of pressing "Quality Control", or "Missing Box". Most people would naturally choose the latter. And so of course, most people would end up terminated or in trouble for failing to intuit what the machine spirits expected of them, because we never touch the "Missing Box" button.

But they don't tell us things like that. They just let it happen and then threaten us when we make these mistakes.

Even if they did tell us, it's likely the procedure would change, because the command confusion in management is just that bad. If we're shown how to do something "the right way" one day, there's a chance it'll be "the wrong way" the next. There's a word for this kind of thing, I think, but I can't think of it right now. To put it mildly, it's extremely stressful for people who need this job, and have to worry about whether they're supposed to audit all of the orders that come through, or just the ones that are labeled, or whether they're supposed to log in to their work stations with their own names, or as "FINISH(station number)".

There's a silver lining here, though. All of this means playing dumb is really, really easy as long as you don't make the same mistake twice. Also, when management is fucking up that bad, you can also bet that they're not doing anything to keep track of where people are, which means I get to spend a lot of time taking long walks to the bathroom on the other side of the warehouse, or skipping out on my assigned station in Finishing to work at the Picking station I like.

Despite my best efforts I have a good reputation at the shitty warehouse and I may be getting hired there on a permanent basis.

[Zukunftsmusik]

a friend of mine had a boss once whom he hated so much that at his last day, he let his friends buy whole boxes of beer (10+ bottles, I think) for the price of one bottle

[Ele'ill]

there's a lot of shrink at this warehouse dunno why though

[Os Cangaceiros]

One of the dude's who works for the cannery that picks up fish around here is always talkin' shit. He's an old dude in his late 50's/early 60's, with a big gray beard and a crazy cackle, and he's always saying stuff like (after throwing me a line to tie unto) "C'mon, pull it like you gotta pair!" *cackle* (or when I'm shoveling ice) "Shovel shovel shovel! We ain't got all day!" *cackle*

Or one time I saw him punch a big bag of fish that was being hoisted unto the deck, after which he proudly proclaimed "TWO FLIES FUCKIN'...I GOT 'EM BOTH!"

He's been in the industry for, like, 200 years though so I mostly don't fire back at him...he was telling me about his work in the gillnet industry a while back and I was sorely tempted to say "oh yeah you were a gillnetter huh, when was that back during the civil war."

[Ele'ill]

coordinated work place slow down














some wily shit going on

[Astarte]

My boss keeps telling me to fasten my pace even though I'm usually one of the first ones done with my work, it's really starting to piss me off.

They realize you are a "good worker" so they try to push you harder to get more out of you, whereas on the other workers they don't even bother because they seem non-responsive. I've had a couple of bosses who use to get me angry on purpose because they knew I would work faster to blow off steam ... it worked until I quit the jobs.

[Le Communiste]

Ooh another story.

Tonight the nicest manager yelled at me, for what I see as bullshit reasons.
I walked back to dump some extra drinks out, ehile i was there i chatted with a friend for like a minute about work and how we hate it. nothing that unusual for anytime. (everyonr on grill dicks around all night when this combination of managers are there anyways) He yelled at me to sweep and mop. Which is one of the things I have to do before I go anyways, and besides I had done it twice in the last hour, I don't think it needed to be done again. And to stock sauces, which again, something that I would do before i go. Then he stormed out for a cigarette.


Now this was after a 300 second order from the till just deleting shit for no goddamned reason whatsoever. So I messed up the order like 6 times before I decided to fuck it and just stopped at what I had, and then have someone else get him the rest of the shit free. (But not after encouraging bullshit from the rest of the crew and managers) So I was just stressed and slowed down the rest of the night.

I had everything I needed besides the sweeping/mopping done, so I was just taking it easy. But no, the nicest guy has to scream at me. Just fucking bullshit on what usually is a good night.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

They realize you are a "good worker" so they try to push you harder to get more out of you, whereas on the other workers they don't even bother because they seem non-responsive. I've had a couple of bosses who use to get me angry on purpose because they knew I would work faster to blow off steam ... it worked until I quit the jobs.

The thing is I don't work faster though because I'm already working as fast as possible. I know that's what they're trying to do too, I can't stand it. They've been doing it more lately too. The way my job is there are teams of about 13 all over Northern California and I guess my team is the best and were being promoted sort of as a team(prestige wise, no actual money raises, just more work) which means we have all these corporate managers coming in and watching our every move.

[Astarte]

The thing is I don't work faster though because I'm already working as fast as possible. I know that's what they're trying to do too, I can't stand it. They've been doing it more lately too. The way my job is there are teams of about 13 all over Northern California and I guess my team is the best and were being promoted sort of as a team(prestige wise, no actual money raises, just more work) which means we have all these corporate managers coming in and watching our every move.

I worked under a similar kind of circumstance once. The store I was in was in the District Manager's hometown, so he was in all the time, thus the store might as well have been operating at sweat shop levels of labor intensity - the culture and the corporate bureaucracy and even lower management of the supermarket chain (its a large one - owned by a Dutch multinational) I worked for thought/think there is no limit to the amount of relative surplus value that can be extracted from the labor of workers and had no qualms with using all kinds of shitty tactics to coerce workers into working faster and even through their lunches and for unwanted overtime. Essentially, when I quit it was more a case of constructive discharge than anything, but try A. spending the money on a lawyer and B. proving that in court - it is nearly impossible and too expensive to be even considered an option.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

The "trainer"(he doesn't actually train you, he watches you and writes up a bad report on you if you're doing something wrong. Doesn't say what you're doing wrong and you won't find out about the reports unless you get enough to have your neck on the chopping block) went around and videotaped us as we worked, so annoying and I don't even know if that's legal.

[Ele'ill]

The "trainer"(he doesn't actually train you, he watches you and writes up a bad report on you if you're doing something wrong. Doesn't say what you're doing wrong and you won't find out about the reports unless you get enough to have your neck on the chopping block) went around and videotaped us as we worked, so annoying and I don't even know if that's legal.

fuck that, I would immediately start talking to everyone (workers, and this is just me and what I would do because I can't help myself sometimes) about the validity of them video taping instead of (use HR speak) 'coaching' in regards to productivity and flow in the work place. Yeah I know none of which are legitimate things but there are probably folks who are more pissed off than you are they're just waiting for a base of solidarity in order to act

[Ele'ill]

How much I don't care about productivity at work - My HIT sprint workout is an hour or two before work. Fuck work.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

fuck that, I would immediately start talking to everyone (workers, and this is just me and what I would do because I can't help myself sometimes) about the validity of them video taping instead of (use HR speak) 'coaching' in regards to productivity and flow in the work place. Yeah I know none of which are legitimate things but there are probably folks who are more pissed off than you are they're just waiting for a base of solidarity in order to act

Yeah that's what I did, on break we all hang out and everybody was pissed when I brought it up, people started getting confrontational with the manager.

[baronci]

i work at a department store and they constantly hound us about getting people to sign up for the dumb store membership card. they don't tell the exact reasons for why they want people to get them so badly, since it's because they want to trick ignorant shoppers into thinking they'll save money when the company just gets to charge them with huge interest rates when they don't pay their bill. it's awful, I feel terrible asking people to do it when I know what'll probably happen to them.

[Paul Pott]

So I work at a pawn shop. When someone's pawn is so many months overdue we send them a notice in the mail. Everyone who gets a notice is due on the same day, and when that day passes without full interest payment or pickup, their things become ours, like it specifies in the contract they sign.

About half of those people don't show and we're stuck with shit we probably can't sell. Some of them show up later and demand their stuff. My job in that circumstance is to basically be like sorry ur s.o.l. buh bye.

1/4 call the day before and plead for another week or something because they haven't got paid, they had an unexpected expense, their car is broken down, or they're too far away. I seem to get all of these calls. 1/8 come in and scream about how we didn't give enough time, we can't do this, etc. etc. again, sorry buh bye. We're following state law.

1/8 of the notices catch up their interest or redeem their pawn on time. Well all of that is probably an exaggeration but you get the point.

Just recently some guy accused us of wanting to keep his gun. He called the cops, and they showed him the door.

I mean it's like, you didn't pay by the date on the postcard, what's so hard to understand about that. But people get so upset when they lose their family heirlooms or whatever they were desperate enough to pawn.

Anyway, things are getting pretty bad. Notices are a growing number of our active pawns, and sales are pretty much non-existent. Money walks out the door, but less and less is walking in. The manager even said recently he's considering stopping all loans until further notice. Wow.

[Red Banana]

So I get done scanning and bagging this lady's 3-cart-full load of groceries and I ask her for her savings card. She tells me "I just punched my phone number in, did it go through?", it didn't. I tell her "No, but don't worry about it, I have one", then scanned my card.

That's when the shit hit the fan.

When we were trained, we were told, encouraged, to get our own savings cards so we can scan them quickly if someone doesn't have theirs or can't remember their phone number, take note of that.

Anyway, I scan my card and she starts looking at me like I just swung a sledgehammer into her fat little kids head. "Now my coupons won't work!" she yells (we have coupons that will only work after scanning your savings card). She mistakenly thought that those coupons were only for her card, so I had to explain to, nay, convince her that the cards are all the same and her coupons will still work. I scan the coupons, they take off and she crawls back into her little shell. She pays, I giver her the receipt and coupons then move onto the next customer, but it's not done there.

A few minutes later I see her screaming at the customer service desk saying she didn't get her week 2 gas savings coupon. My manager walks over, goes into my trashbag, pulls one out that was just sitting there, scolds me for throwing her coupons away and gives it to her. Almost simultaneously she finds her gas savings coupon that I originally gave her (who would think to check their coupons before throwing a fit in the grocery store, right?), but that's not enough.

Then she goes on and on, aggressively arguing with the managers that "No! It won't work for me because he used his card!". I guess she just wasn't paying attention when I demonstrated to her earlier that the coupons weren't card-specific. The managers finally convince her that it will work and she strolls out of the store, having accomplished nothing but spending an extra half an hour making a fool of herself at the grocery store.

My manager then comes up to me as I'm dealing with a customer and says "You shouldn't be scanning your personal card for customers. This is your warning, next time your fired.", turns out scanning your personal card is against company policy, something that would have been really good to know when we were being encouraged by management to get our own cards for that very purpose.

Then to top off the night after about 20 minutes of not having a single customer, at 9:55 (I got off, or at least was supposed to get off at 10:00) 3 people come into my line with huge loads of groceries and of course none of them know how to put the groceries on the belt (separate the meats, produce, boxes, cold items, etc for those of you who don't know, at least if you want things to go quicker and not have a shit ton of bags). Meanwhile the only other cashier on the clock has her light off while she's chatting up the managers, so I get to take every customer, yay. Once I'm done with the customers I get to perform the meticulous process of cleaning every inch of my workstation and end up clocking out 16 minutes late. Clocking out late is very frowned upon where I work.

Fuck work, fuck the managers, and most of all, fuck the customers.

[Le Communiste]

So yeah, I just asked for a week off two days after the deadline for the 22nd. Before I even went and asked for the time off, I nervously walked up and down the stairs for 4 times before I actually walked to the office. Apparently I came off as an ass when I very nervously tried to keep a straight face. I ended up acting very cocky about bringing up the fact I tried to talk while I was on shift, which is what I usually do to talk to the managers about that shit.

So yeah after all is said and done I felt extreme anxiety from that and just carried on with the day feeling like shit

[Ele'ill]

watching other people give in to illegal pressure and empty threats and break down is terrible, rolling with those same people through sabotage and organizing later on is a life long memory

[Jimmie Higgins]

Fuck work, fuck the managers, and most of all, fuck the customers.I'd put that in the reverse order, myself but otherwise, yeeeees! Customers don't know it, but they are the factory line, the widget we have to hammer over and over and over all day and have no control over. Except the fucked thing is to us they are widgets, one more obsticle, one more little speed-up, but to them they are special humans (which they are, even if I don't always feel it towards them). In other jobs, when you rush through something or cut some corners, the paperwork or extra dirt doesn't complain about how rude you were or go to your manager and NARC on you.

[Ele'ill]

have any of you tried playing upset customers against management and the company you work for, it is a lot of fun and can be used in creative ways

[Le Communiste]

That actually sounds like fun

[A Revolutionary Tool]

We have a snitch at my work, it fucking stupid. Me, my coworker, and my manager would smoke weed during our breaks, our coworker had weed every single day. He gets pissed at somebody at work that didn't smoke at all and he freaked out and left work. Now he's trying to throw us under the bus for no reason. Like we're all cool then he fucking rats to our HR department so we have to have corporate people come in and like question us or something, I'm a little nervous right now.

[Lobotomy]

I fucking hate my bosses.

a few weeks ago they fired one of our coworkers for a totally bullshit reason. we're a team of caregivers for people with developmental disabilities. so one day the mother of a client arrives to the house to pick up her daughter to take her to some event. when she arrives, her daughter is still in her pjs and isn't ready because my coworker didn't read the note about it and did not prepare her. I mean yeah she fucked up but honestly anyone could have done it. it's not like the client was in danger or anything. but the mom completely loses her shit at my coworker, calls our bosses and complains, and asks to have her fired. my jerkoff bosses actually appease her. here's the real kicker: the coworker in question only had one week left at the job anyway. she had given her 30 days notice prior to this. so they pull this shit basically just to prove a point, and suddenly tell us that we have to cover all of her shifts (40 hours worth) that week. if we don't cover her shifts we'll be fired. one of my coworkers was forced to come to work even though she was puking. and they STILL haven't hired a replacement, so we've all been stuck working 50 hours weeks. week after week after week. it has made us all feel so scared and expendable. we feel like we won't be allowed to make mistakes from here on out. any time we ask our bosses when we are getting another team member, they say that they are dealing with more pressing matters and that they are confident that we can handle it for now. at our last meeting our boss said that she is "comfortable with the way things are." yeah you're really fucking comfortable there aren't you? today I was informed that on saturday I'm going to be stuck working a fucking 14 hour shift. I had plans to see my partner, who I rarely get to spend time with, but I guess that's not fucking happening anymore. and my boss actively avoided telling me that. she called my coworker and told her, and my coworker told her that my boss should probably be the one to tell me, but she was like no I think you can handle it.

the whole thing makes me so fucking angry to think about. the worst part is that I have to continue to kiss their asses because I've already invested so much in this job and I need to know that they are going to give me a good recommendation to future employers. I sure would like to march in there and quit while giving them a piece of my mind but then I would be labeled as an insubordinate and probably never get another job ever. even if me and my coworkers were to join forces they would just fire us all because there are so many other people who are desperate for a job and they could replace us like that. I just feel so small and powerless. we give and we give and we give and all we get is scraps from the table.

[Le Communiste]

We have a snitch at my work, it fucking stupid. Me, my coworker, and my manager would smoke weed during our breaks, our coworker had weed every single day. He gets pissed at somebody at work that didn't smoke at all and he freaked out and left work. Now he's trying to throw us under the bus for no reason. Like we're all cool then he fucking rats to our HR department so we have to have corporate people come in and like question us or something, I'm a little nervous right now.

Sounds tough, try stinger, if anything when it comes back negative, they may just ignore the fact you where there

[bcbm]

got fired from one of my jobs because the owner 'overheard' me say something i didn't say about 'killing time.' of course, he didn't have the nerve to talk to me, he had a meeting with two of my other bosses and made one of them do it instead.

really needed a cut in my income right now, yay.

[Ele'ill]

Over the last decade or so I have mastered blatant insubordination like when the gsm goes on vacation after giving his boss minions the go ahead to fire me but they can't do it because I've covered my bases/they can't read my poker face as I am actively undermining everything they do and causing as much slow down and mayhem as possible.



recent gsm has come back to the warehouse 3 times and been surprised/distraught to see me still there

[LOLseph Stalin]

This example is a few years old, but I really feel like I need to rant about it because of how bullshit it is. Anyway, in the last job I worked at I was only there for about a couple months. As a noob they had me just cooking fries. This went well for awhile, but then after about a couple months the boss announced I wasn't helpful to them so that they were getting rid of me. I was thinking to myself how BS it was since I'm obviously not going to be useful if they don't teach me how to do anything else at the job. They outright wouldn't teach me when I was there either. Damn hypocrites.

[Rugged Collectivist]

Words

I feel your pain. I'm a cashier at a grocery store and I fucking hate it. My head actually hurts right now because I know that I have to go in tomorrow and I can feel the time slowly ticking away before I have to face the inevitable.

I should have never taken that job but I was desperate for work and I had no idea what I was in for. Every moment I spend in that store is agony. I've seriously contemplated suicide just to get out of it. I've been suicidal for a really long time but I haven't given it this much thought in years. I hate it. If I were in charge of hell, I would punish everyone by making them a cashier at a grocery store.

The worst part is I feel like I can't escape it. I cherish my free time so much that I can never muster the will or energy to go look for a new job, because "fuck it, it took me forever to find this one, why should I waste my precious off days chasing something I'll never catch" but when I go back in I think "this is unbearable, I need to find a new job".

I would do anything as long as they keep me away from the customers. I would rather clean human shit off the floors and walls of a bathroom than be a cashier.

Every time I walk through those doors I hope to god that they'll tell me I'm fired, but we're unionized so I think my chances are somewhat slim, even though I am genuinely pretty bad at my job. I heard someone got fired for having a nervous breakdown, and frankly I think that's an understandable reaction to this shitty, shitty job. I start college in the fall, and the company said they hired me because of my availability so maybe that will do it. Though I'm told it's unlikely.

I know this might sound grating to people who are unemployed and would happily take any job, or people with much bigger problems, for that I apologize, but every poorly written word of the above is true, and I figured this was the the thread for it.

[#FF0000]

15 temps fired this week.

[Le Communiste]

Apparently asking for time off is frowned appon. I have asked for 3 weeks plus 2 days off total, when, fuck you guys. The first was something I do every year, and I gave you advance to that. The second week was for mayo, which I didn't fucking choose to do, it's not my fault my doctor here is a fucking clot, and the third is to visit my uncle, who I never, never, fucking see, yes I have it after the few days after the deadline, I'm a goddamned minor. I should be able to do shit like that. So I asked for the 9th off for my dads retirement party, which was all fine and dandy, then there was the 1st, which is when I have tickets for Jeff Dunham. They then decided to say to me "what about other people, don't they get time off too? Sometimes you have to miss something every once in a while" then while I was leaving, the scheduling manager decided to track me down, saying "I'm starting to not believe your taking all this time off for family reasons, you walked out to find the time, then walked back in." We'll of fucking course I'm gonna, I opened it in my browser before I came to work. It was still loaded. The other thing is all of my goddamned time off, I have had to have special permission because it went over the three maximum a day. You should be saying the same shit to everyone else. Not give me shit for things I need to do. I mean ffs.

Sorry about this train wreck for a post. I'm so goddamned tired and pissed off about this. Although i can't wait for two a days during football, I wonder how pissed the will be then :)