Bad experiences at work

[OI OI OI]

So ya I just came back from work.
I worked for 1.5 hours!
My boss came in and he's like I don't need you any more you can go. Then he left.
So instead of leaving like a good docile worker I went to his office and I was like what does this mean ? You bring me here for an hour and then you tell me to leave ? You just wasted my fucking day. And hes like yesterday you went to smoke a ciggarette during your shift.
So I said that I was exhausted after 8 hours of work and I took a 5 min break to smoke a cigarette. Also I said that my fucking scedule says I have another 7 hours of work and the Quebec laws say that if your boss tells you to leave after an hour of work you have to get paid for three hours. So he said "who cares about the laws" . Then he continued:"your going to call me before you come I dont care when your schedule is I dont want you coming when I dont need you" .
I got so pissed off I almost punched him in the face....
But I kept my cool and I told him that he has no authority to do bullshit like that and that I need him to make a new schedule for me which will be final and that he can't do any more stupid shit.

I m so pissed off right now with this fucking idiot.


So ya list your bad experiences in your workplace so we can consolidate our hatred to capitalism and the bosses!

[Schrödinger's Cat]

If you don't get payed the full three hours, are you going to take it up?

I don't think it takes much to consolidate hate towards bosses. When I was a younger I worked the cash register at Kroger. A girl about 20 years old came up with baby food and a food stamp-esque sticker. The machine wasn't registering that this food could be bought with such a sticker, although clearly it could. I call over one of my managers and ask him what to do. He literally says, "I don't know," and leaves for the night. Needless to say I wasn't going to let the woman pay for her baby's livelihood, so I broke company policy.

[Holden Caulfield]

so I broke company policy.


woo smash the system!

[Pawn Power]

Where I work they over schedule- which mean they schedule more workers on a shift then they need, so when everyone shows up... some are sent home (without a days pay and wasted money for their commute).

[AGITprop]

So ya I just came back from work.
I worked for 1.5 hours!
My boss came in and he's like I don't need you any more you can go. Then he left.
So instead of leaving like a good docile worker I went to his office and I was like what does this mean ? You bring me here for an hour and then you tell me to leave ? You just wasted my fucking day. And hes like yesterday you went to smoke a ciggarette during your shift.
So I said that I was exhausted after 8 hours of work and I took a 5 min break to smoke a cigarette. Also I said that my fucking scedule says I have another 7 hours of work and the Quebec laws say that if your boss tells you to leave after an hour of work you have to get paid for three hours. So he said "who cares about the laws" . Then he continued:"your going to call me before you come I dont care when your schedule is I dont want you coming when I dont need you" .
I got so pissed off I almost punched him in the face....
But I kept my cool and I told him that he has no authority to do bullshit like that and that I need him to make a new schedule for me which will be final and that he can't do any more stupid shit.

I m so pissed off right now with this fucking idiot.


So ya list your bad experiences in your workplace so we can consolidate our hatred to capitalism and the bosses!

Wow, that sucks.
Is he going to make you a new schedule. If he doesn't tell him to fuck off and threaten to make a grievance with the labour commission, and threaten to make all the workers strike :)

I'll help you mobilize. :)

[Sentinel]

My boss on my ship got physical with a storage worker, lifted him against the wall from his shirt. I was a safety officer for the centralised union then, this was before I joined the SAC.
We went up to the bridge with some collegues and told the captain about it, and the boss got a formal warning for it. Afterwards he was overtly friendly to everyone for a while, but got all our names from some fucking rat asslicker of his.

After a while he started harassing us, spying on us with the security cameras and threatening us with stuff, like fireing us for 'mistakes' etc. I doubt he will ever lose his job, as he has contacts high up in the company.

Luckily I've mostly been working on another department on the ship lately, otherwise I would have quit. This whole situation has been rather stressful and caused me feel quite shit at work at times, but I've never regretted that we did the right thing and got that asshole at least that one warning, for what it's worth.

I'll be damned if the managers ever get away with physically abusing workers on my watch.

[Dimentio]

Shit. Are you allowed to have cellphones on the work? In that case, you could document all absue?

[Winter]

Customers...you really learn how stupid some people can really be when you work with the public. Go ahead, call me an elitist... :lol:

[Sentinel]

Are you allowed to have cellphones on the work? In that case, you could document all absue?

No we're not. I've been thinking about having a tape recorder hidden in my clothes, however. Or something..

[Red_Dialectics]

No we're not. I've been thinking about having a tape recorder hidden in my clothes, however. Or something..
That's pretty bad when you're considering wearing a wire to work, for your safety. :(

[lombas]

I work for the government this month. I get a national holiday, three obliged payed days off, a holiday bonus and a New Year's bonus. Mobile phones are very allowed, smoking is cool, the atmosphere is great, everyone is relaxed, ... And the weird thing is: we actually do a lot of work. It's like having quality time with so much bonuses and freedoms.

For the past two years during summer vacation, I worded for a month at a shipping company. It was filled with people who hadn't had a vacation in three years, who were all stressed out, who needed a cigarette break, who were running around constantly (ocean freights don't wait until their cargo list is done: the captain expects it to be on his desk on time), ... And the weird thing is: things slowed down. Lot of people hated their job.

[ComradeG1967]

I loaf off the state. Bollocks to work, its a mugs game! I used to help out in a charity shop, but was told that as it was unpaid work my dole would be cut.

[Dust Bunnies]

Wage slavery is always fun. :rolleyes:

[Charles Xavier]

Get the labour board involved as soon as possible.

[Goose]

Where I work they over schedule- which mean they schedule more workers on a shift then they need, so when everyone shows up... some are sent home (without a days pay and wasted money for their commute).

You what? Is that legal where you are?

[Bear MacMillan]

My boss took an hour off my pay because I was "standing around doing nothing" because I had finished all the work he gave me.

What a prick.

[Schrödinger's Cat]

That is definately illegal. If it occurs again find legal assistance.

[Bear MacMillan]

I quit anyways. It was terrible hours and the commute was way too long.

[Celtic Leftist]

My work installed secret cameras and fired a wad of people for the most dubious of misdemeanors in order to cut the wage bill (of the ~10 workers fired, less than that have been brought in a over a course of several months). Obviously this leaves the current workers under a lot more strain- and this was during the busy period- not to mention constantly looking over their shoulder, and those fired wondering how they're going to pay debts.

All personal belongings are to be confiscated for the duration of the shift (rarely adhered to).*

Stop and searches at the end of the shift (will never adhere)*

Doesn't seem too bad, to be fair. My worst experience is an 8 hour shift with constant customers and no breaks.


*You run the risk of being fired if you don't comply.

[rouchambeau]

Needless to say I wasn't going to let the woman pay for her baby's livelihood, so I broke company policy.
It's kinda funny how much a cashier can do this sort of thing. Where I work, you can simply pretend to scan something, bag it up, and out the door it goes. It's a great way to fuck the bosses, give people something they need for free, and occupy yourself by seeing how much you can give away in a shift.

[Schrödinger's Cat]

It's kinda funny how much a cashier can do this sort of thing. Where I work, you can simply pretend to scan something, bag it up, and out the door it goes. It's a great way to fuck the bosses, give people something they need for free, and occupy yourself by seeing how much you can give away in a shift.

Yeah. It's also convenient when someone comes up with an unrecognizable produce item. Instead of shuffling through hundreds of PLUs just to piss off the people in line, put it aside, and "forget that you didn't scan it." In one month you can practically exchange thousands of dollars in small items. Sometimes for kicks a cashier (not me - of course not me!) would get a small order of five or six items and see how much they could pass off as being scanned when it really wasn't. You just can't skip meat, drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol. I swear to god some costumers knew what their cashiers were doing, but all the "respect for property rights" go right out the window when $$ is involved.

Some customers will actually remind you, bless their hearts. But it's more of a concern for your job than anything else.;)

[Os Cangaceiros]

I'm a commercial fisherman, and I've had countless "bad experiences" in the workplace. Deep cuts, broken fingers, and dips in the freezing cold water, amongst other incidents.

Unfortunately, in my line of work, a truly "bad experience" will end up with you either paralyzed for life or in the morgue (assuming that they can find your body).

[Schrödinger's Cat]

I'm a commercial fisherman, and I've had countless "bad experiences" in the workplace. Deep cuts, broken fingers, and dips in the freezing cold water, amongst other incidents.

Unfortunately, in my line of work, a truly "bad experience" will end up with you either paralyzed for life or in the morgue (assuming that they can find your body).

To keep this thread productive, how would you improve on your work? Unless the world becomes strictly vegetarian, it's a necessary part of sustaining wants. We may as well talk about ways to improve working conditions.

[Os Cangaceiros]

With my job, it mostly hinges on the employer. I myself am self-employed (sort of), but I, like most people, started out as a worker in the employ of a captain.

If you have a captain who knows what he's doing, and has survived the business fairly well, you don't have much to worry about at all, other than possibly your own stupidity, if you're inexperienced.

If you have a bad captain, though...that may cost you your life. A friend of mine worked on a boat where the captain overloaded his vessel with cod pots before leaving port, and later that night the boat rolled on anchor because of it (all hands lost). :(

[chimx]

I'm a commercial fisherman, and I've had countless "bad experiences" in the workplace. Deep cuts, broken fingers, and dips in the freezing cold water, amongst other incidents.

Unfortunately, in my line of work, a truly "bad experience" will end up with you either paralyzed for life or in the morgue (assuming that they can find your body).

Fishing is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. In the US it is outranked only by loggers I believe.

As a commercial roofer (also in the top 10 most dangerous jobs) I've seen and heard of plenty of accidents. Worse that happened at my job was a coworker falling off a 3 story building. He survived with only a few broken bones, but ended up dying a few months later due to something unrelated.

I've also seen my fair share of horrible burns. When you seen commercial roofers mopping hot tar on roofs, the material they are working with is usually around 500 degrees. Other systems such as Hydrotech waterproofing is at a slightly less toasty 400 degrees, but the mixed in rubberized material makes it retain its heat significantly longer, which actually burns you worse. I've had hot tar spilt on me before, and trust me when I say it ain't pleasant.

The guy I work with now who has been roofing for a few decades will tell me stories every now and then of people he has seen get burnt bad. One in particular stands out... a mop cart bucket some how spilt all down his back and the man went into panic mode, just running all over the place. My buddy had to pick up a clean mop and smack him across the face just to stop him from running off the side of the building.

Some of these accidents are caused simply by human stupidity... I can attest to that personally, but many times it is a matter of employers pushing for greater productivity. Though safety standards are in place to protect workers, when production falls to a level that is unacceptable to an employer, those safety standards will be the first things to be ignored by the employees themselves. There needs to be greater regulation of safety in the rate of production in my opinion, something that would be very difficult to do in anything short of a socialist economy.

[SEKT]

I worked in a factory for levi's in méxico. One day we worked extra hours, it was a saturday, our rooster was from monday to saturday (we only had one day to rest), but what happened was that we worked two shifts and in the following payment week we didn't receive our extra payment and also they discounted us the day! It was my first experience on class struggle and class councioussness (i wasn't marxist by that date). All the people from the production line went into strike (only took 1 hour). All together and nobody moved. What happened was that they paid us the extra time and a "compensation" for the inconvienance. Also i learned that only a single act doesn't take you to revolution. But something I really learned from workers (and myself as one of them) is that it is a real bound among us, something that for example in these days in which i´m working in the service sector, people only try to suck his or hers boss dick and in that way escalate in the company. From the current experience i´m learning about the effects of alienation over a human, my preliminar conclusion is that it turn you into a piece of matter, useful for any porpuse and without self-iniciative. I´m trying to understand the roots of the problem but i´m still in the process.:mellow:

[chimx]

I worked in a factory for levi's in méxico. One day we worked extra hours, it was a saturday, our rooster was from monday to saturday (we only had one day to rest), but what happened was that we worked two shifts and in the following payment week we didn't receive our extra payment and also they discounted us the day! It was my first experience on class struggle and class councioussness (i wasn't marxist by that date). All the people from the production line went into strike (only took 1 hour). All together and nobody moved. What happened was that they paid us the extra time and a "compensation" for the inconvienance. Also i learned that only a single act doesn't take you to revolution. But something I really learned from workers (and myself as one of them) is that it is a real bound among us, something that for example in these days in which i´m working in the service sector, people only try to suck his or hers boss dick and in that way escalate in the company. From the current experience i´m learning about the effects of alienation over a human, my preliminar conclusion is that it turn you into a piece of matter, useful for any porpuse and without self-iniciative. I´m trying to understand the roots of the problem but i´m still in the process.:mellow:

Hey man, thanks for sharing. I hope you stick around and tell us more about your experience. :thumbup: