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At church I would have a small job and I would change the slides on the screen. But one day I completely zoned out and was like 10 minutes behind! I felt so embarrassed
Started a new job on Monday 13th this month.
Was pressured not to wear a mask when communicating with customers (illegal here) and to ignore several healthcare laws (also illegal, duh) from a boss who denied his employees cigarette breaks while smoking like a chimney at his desk in an open floor office.
I quit within the first day.
Three or so years ago. Kept finding, well, literal turds on the floor in one of the stalls in the ladies room. Large financial organization. Access to the floor was key card controlled. Mostly programmers and project managers. 7x% men so my pool of suspects was limited. Who would do that? Who would do that AND LEAVE IT!
Worked at a primary physician’s office, started out in the med recs dep in the back, was asked several times if u wanted to do front desk since people was coming and going, I finally said yes, did all the front desk duties, answer phones, check in/out patients, did referrals/ authorizations for testing, I’ve seen so many laziness I can’t even count, especially when the supervisor was out of the office , there was the one one it was lunch hour ( supervisor was out of office) I was at check out, I have the phones to answer, the morning patients ready to check out, get their next appointments/ paperwork ect. , the one front person went to lunch, the other one decided she will go to an appointment upstairs, leaving me with someone to cover her( that doesn’t really do anything) so imagine the check out/ check in desk in a rush hour setting, I’m trying to help about 4 people check out while the covering lady ( she had line forming as our pm session was arriving) screaming how do you do this how do you do that, phones was like 6 on a and 1 on hold, as I got both lines done, I answered the phone ( he was on hold for 20 minutes) I apologized for hold ask him how I can help, he said you F N piece of sh*t, he accused me of just leaving me on hold and came back whenever I felt, I had a mental breakdown, told my supervisor about it the day, she was gonna handle it( of course nothing was done, patient was not discharged/ girl that left me to do last minute appointment without anyone’s approval, did not get written up, anxiety came back from being calm for 6 months
Many years ago I worked at a seedy call centre for a short time. I had gotten very sick. High fever, chills, lethargic, chest congestion, stomach pain. I did call in, and even though I sounded like s**t, and explained how sick I was I was told to come in anyways. So I did out of malicious compliance thinking once they saw I wasn't faking they'd send me home. Nope. The other employees felt bad for me. A few people on the phone were disturbed this place made me come to work and told me I should just leave. So, I did. I think that's when I just left and never came back, didn't give 2 weeks, nothing.
I worked for a small typesetting foundry with only about 40-45 employees. One year they had a Christmas party in the work place and no one got around to inviting me.
To make it even worse, when a co-worker saw me after the party, he smiled and said, without a trace of malice in his voice, "That was a nice party, wasn't it?"
He hadn't noticed I wasn't there and that's how I found out about the party.
Actually, that's not the worst thing that ever happened to me at work but the rest would take too long to explain.
I worked closely with a man who rarely bathed or changed his clothes. Eventually our boss told him if came back to work unbathed he'd be fired. He came back without bathing and was fired.
Around 30 years ago, I worked as an office temp for a large Japanese company. We worked out of the Nakatomi Plaza high-rise in Century City, LA. During our end of year/Christmas office party the building was overtaken by armed robbers. All of us were taken hostage. We feared for our lives. One of my coworkers was killed. I didn’t personally know him, it was a big company, but knew he was higher up the corporate ladder than me.
At this stage LAPD we’re aware of the situation and had started negotiations with the robbers. They didn’t appear to be going well. It was only after hours had passed and another person had been killed, this time one of the robbers, that we knew something was amiss. Once the ordeal was over I found out that the husband of one of the Big-Wigs at the company had been thwarting/disarming the robbers by himself. Fortunately he was a New York policemen in LA for Christmas. He was primarily the reason the rest of us made it out alive and the robbers were caught. I forgot his name, John/James McCain/Lane, or something like that.
I worked in a nursing home when in high school. We had an old lady that had gangrene on her foot and it was literally eating it away. The nurse on duty made ME change the dressing and clean the foot. The stench was unbelievable but what was worse was the pain for this poor woman. As I was removing the old bandages there was one that was sticking so I was gently tugging at it until I realized that this wasn't not a bandage. I swear it looked like one. Turned out that it was her actual heel. I exited the room and told the nurse that she'd have to finish and to never ask me to do it again. It's what made me decide that nursing was not for me.
I worked in a nursing home when in high school. We had an old lady that had gangrene on her foot and it was literally eating it away. The nurse on duty made ME change the dressing and clean the foot. The stench was unbelievable but what was worse was the pain for this poor woman. As I was removing the old bandages there was one that was sticking so I was gently tugging at it until I realized that this wasn't not a bandage. I swear it looked like one. Turned out that it was her actual heel. I exited the room and told the nurse that she'd have to finish and to never ask me to do it again. It's what made me decide that nursing was not for me.
