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“I Don’t Get Paid Enough For This”: 35 People Are Sharing The Moment They Understood They Were Being Exploited
Loving your job and being proud of what you do is something many of us strive for. Just try to imagine how wonderful it must feel to show up to your workplace every day and know your skills and efforts make valuable contributions to your company's success. But unfortunately, even star employees aren’t immune to problems at work. Sometimes, all it takes is one unfortunate moment that takes a complete 180-degree turn and makes people walk away singing, "Screw this! I’m out."
If you can relate, you might find comfort in knowing you’re definitely not the only one. Three users, PM_me_gorillas, BenIrwinG, Deer_is_me, attempted to find out what pushes people to the brink of quitting. They reached out to fellow members of Ask Reddit and wondered about the exact moment they thought, "I don’t get paid enough for this."
Thousands of replies came flying in, and each is more surprising than the previous one. So pull your seat closer, grab a box of popcorn, and take a moment to read about the frustrating things people had to endure at their jobs. And if you’re interested in even more stories where customers and employers shamelessly take the last straw, check out Bored Panda's previous pieces about them right here and here.
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#1
Holding a pair of dying twin boys so they wouldn't die alone.
Their mother hadn't wanted the pregnancy, hadn't even told anyone she was pregnant, so it was a bit of a blessing when she went into preterm labor and delivered them 4 months early.
She was relieved to not have to raise twins on her own and didn't want anything to do with her sons. 22 weeks is too early to live very long, but they were alive long enough to have some consciousness, some awareness and I couldn't bear the thought of them spending their whole short little lives cold and alone. I took them to another room and kept changing their blankets to keep them warm and comfortable until their chests finally stopped moving a couple of hours later. I sang to them "you are my sunshine" and then tucked their little bodies away in the morgue, and clocked out. As an obstetric nurse, I deal with the very best and worst in people. I love my job, but my heart broke that day. All the wonderful happy days at work just barely make up for the days like that one. tl;dr - don't get paid enough to show someone else's kids the only love they'll ever know in their very short lives.
Andrew Pugg 3 years ago
It's controversial but why not terminate the pregnancy. Its like she just discarded those babies in the trash, her job was done and now she can get back to being herself. I am just disgusted with this. Thank you for being compassionate and for the hard work
Little Wonder 3 years ago
Many reasons, she might have been in denial, might not have known how or where to go to get an abortion, might have been too afraid to do so or might have been with someone who refused to allow it (although I note she was "alone"). Abortion is hard to access in some places.
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Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
I'm 45 and did cry. Don't be afraid to shed tears. No shame man, it just means you care.
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Cheesenacho 3 years ago
I couldn’t have stated something nicer…well said.
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Court Jester 3 years ago
Awww, this makes me so sad. They never deserved the cold treatment they would have gotten without you. Thank Goodness you were there to show them such love, no matter how brief.
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#2
I was 19. I enrolled to gain a certification as an EMT. I followed that by busting my a**, sometimes literally, to somehow be qualified to save a person or their entire life's earnings from a fire. I then followed that by sacrificing a year of my life, or ~90/hrs a week between work/school to become a paramedic at age 23. I've been sh*t on, puked on, bled on. I've smelled the previously mentioned, I've smelled brains, which has it's own distinct smell. I've held body parts that have been detached moments before. I've shoved tubes down peoples throats so they may breathe, despite the number of gunshot wounds they received. I've performed CPR on infants. I did this for ~$13/hr. Firefighters, EMTs/Paramedics, and Police are not compensated nearly enough for what they experience.
Chich 3 years ago
The majority of Firefighters (70 -80%) are volunteers. The pay can be quite low but most don't do it for the money.
Sue Wade-Walters 3 years ago
Don't you think it would be good if someone could earn a living wage while saving lives?
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Carol Emory 3 years ago (edited)
Meanwhile the doctors that specialize in cr@p like plastic surgery and oral surgery are getting paid half a million a year or more. There is something wrong when the people that are on the front line of making sure our butts make it to the hospital in an emergency and who risk their own lives to do so get paid so little.
No One 3 years ago
How about sports players and “reality” stars too. Holy c**p, they rake in millions while these people (emt, firefighters etc), barely earn what they deserve.
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John Topper 3 years ago
Most professional firefighters and police at least get a pension or some kind of retirement, and are paid more than us. It still isn't enough, but EMT is the most uncompensated job I've ever seen. It is more dangerous than anything (riding sideways unrestrained in a speeding truck with no safety precautions? That's just another day.) Worse paid (8-15 for basic EMT, 16-26 for paramedic) and more stressful than any job I've ever done. And the benefits are a joke. Worse than every level retail.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
It disgusts me that celebrities earn millions to entertain us but the people who help protect and save our lives are paid pathetically.
jack sprat 3 years ago
I went through EMT training at a Votech school. I was almost done when I found out how much they actually made. I finished and got my certification but didn't actually do anything with it. This was early 90s. They were making about 8 to 9 bucks an hour. Screw that. I made more delivering pizza.
#3
I'm a "helper" for people with mental disabilities.
Have you ever pulled a turd out of a man's a** when he is stuck halfway through his pooping?
Have you ever woken him up to find he has smeared sh*t all over his face like war paint?
Have you ever been jabbed in the eye because you made him eat his vegetables?
Have you ever had to convince someone with paranoid schizophrenia that you were, in fact, real and not a hallucination while they held a knife?
11.50 per hour
Mrs Spigot 3 years ago
Yes and more, working with people with dementia for minimum wage, they're not all sweet confused little old ladies.
snark_fuzz.0r@icloud.com 5 months ago
Mosts of those little old ladies are vicious! All of us taking care of parents in dementia will agree - they are aggressive, foul-mouthed, and will attack you violently if they feel threatened or angry. Care takers need to be paid more than minimum wage!
Load More Replies... LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago (edited)
I don't think I could ever be paid enough. Sounds like some of these people should be in a care home ( a humane one).
TKA 3 years ago
They would still need someone to “help” them there too. This guys was maybe even at a care home.
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Gladys Hayes Southerland 1 year ago (edited)
30 years as case manager & counselor for severe mentally ill. Top pay at top Licensure level at retirement was $19/hr. Held hostage at knifepoint, tossed over à dining room table, threatened multiple times, crawled under porches, up fire escapes, went into incredibly filthy houses, lost 4 to suicide and then frustrated with really stupid paperwork instead of having quality time with patients so they could get better. 150 clients when l had to abruptly retire after a stroke that affected me cognitively. I hated that l didn't even get to say goodbye. Loved my patients, hate bureaucracy
Gladys Hayes Southerland 1 year ago
One time, in the lunchroom with 4-5 co-workers. One said "Ya'll ever wonder how crazy we must be for spending 8+ hours a day listening to all this craziness, five days a week?" Dead silence....
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Falicity Humdinger 3 years ago
I used to experience very similar things working in care, specifically dementia for only £8.70 an hour.
JMC5003 3 years ago (edited)
There's no such thing as "unskilled" labor. It's made up by the wealthy as an excuse to pay starvation wages for work they wouldn't even consider doing themselves. I don't care if someone's digging ditches, it takes skills to do so correctly. Even more so those who care for other humans who are unable to care for themselves. My fantasy is to give anyone who believes in that "unskilled" nonsense a day of working at what they consider to be "unskilled"labor, with no instructions, and let's see how much they then think that labor is "unskilled" at the end of the day.
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Worked retail, worked night fill as assistant manager, assistant day manager thought he was god's gift to women.
During stocktake (when both night and day staff are in store) walked in on said manager trying to force himself on a night fill staff member. Pulled him off her, got punched in the face and chest multiple times. filed a police report.
Was then written up for not 'escalating' the incident to upper management instead of reporting the rapist prick to the police. Flipped them the bird and told them to f*ck off. Was really tempted to deck the dude on the way out, but instead went and filed a second police report for assault (on myself) and got his ass fired by regional management who some how knew nothing about this whole thing until the police called them.
Gave up on retail at that point and went back to university.
David Harris 3 years ago
Good on you for standing up to that scumbag and saving his victim! I hope he gets the same treatment from a large man in prison!!
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
That's a terrible, atrocious management issue. Not normal nor should be expected for any job. No amount of money would make that kind of treatment worth it.
Apachebathmat 3 years ago
Good on you! I work with a pillock who consistently gets reported for improper behaviour to female staff members, he somehow never gets sacked, utter slimeball
Peej Maybe 3 years ago
Retail sucks, in fact I think everyone should be made to do a retail job at some point or another, it might make people more polite to retail staff in general. Working in a games store the first Christmas of the PS1 with Sony being utter douchebags and only supplying limited numbers of the console (sound familiar) yet insisting that their 'dummy boxes' were on shelves prominently displayed. Dummy boxes, no stock. Then having to explain to one angry customer after another that they were just dummy boxes. Just one of a million sucky stories about working in games retail where you will truly meet the most wretched scum on the planet in your daily job.
Jason Marin 3 years ago
I agree. Every time I deal with a rude customer, it makes me wish that they would spend 3 years working retail just so they can finally understand the grief they put us through.
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I was a teacher. A 6th grader hurled a book at my head from behind. I got to have a meeting with the principal and the mother where she screamed at me for 20 minutes because I wrote her daughter up for it. Principal did nothing. 10 years later I design fiber cable routes and make twice the money.
David Harris 3 years ago
Teachers don't make nearly enough money for the insane amount of work and responsibilities that they have and the sickening amount of disrespect they have to endure!
TrickQuestion 3 years ago
Maybe they'll get better respect after they get guns (to also have to deal with school shootings). This is sarcasm just to clarify(which sadly needs to be done these days)
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Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
I've had my students' parents get my personal number and call and yell at me or pressure me to change their kids' grades. I've had parents email and argue with me about their kids' grades because THEY were the ones who wrote the paper and are offended that I marked THEIR ideas low. I've had people tell me almost daily that I'm "not a real American" and am "brainwashing" people because I'm a college prof. Never ask why we're quitting/leaving America in droves. We'll be replaced by corporate, Conservative automatons that carry guns and recite bible verses, because no one believed us when we told you we had value to society.
Madzdad the Bard 3 years ago
This is the #1 complaint from my spouse who is a now former math teacher. Principals always took the parents side because they didn't want to deal with problem students. She quit after 18 years and is now a data scientist. 40hr/wk instead of 80, twice the pay and not parents or administration to deal with. This, even more than pay, is why educators are leaving the profession in the US.
Kitty Jordan 3 years ago
And now we have certain people suggesting that teachers, already underpaid, should be armed and trained to fight against homicidal gunmen. So messed up.
Carol Emory 3 years ago (edited)
Now I've been on the other end of a teacher that teased and bullied my autistic son and then tried to press charges when he lashed out. She was told of his triggers and ignored them anyway. We got called to a meeting in which me, my son's therapist and the teacher were present. I didn't have to say one word as my son's therapist lit into the teacher as to why she would expect anything else but retaliation for her teasing him when that kind of behavior isn't even accepted by the students.
Samantha Tej 3 years ago
When I was growing up, parents held their kids accountable for their actions. If I EVER threw a book at anyone, I’d be dead. Now, kids can literally assault teachers and get away with it. What a time to be alive.
Lin B 3 years ago
My husband was a teacher for 15 years. He quit when a male student, who asked to go to the restroom 3 minutes before the bell and was told no, unzipped his pants and went in the trash can in front of female and male students, and wasn’t suspended because the parents threatened to sue.
Gladys Hayes Southerland 1 year ago
And they wonder why we have a qualified teacher shortage? Bought my older mom a cell phone after she told me a 13 y/o physically threatened to beat her up (she was big enough, too) and my mom had no emergency button or way to get help in her classroom. Mom quit at the end of the school year because the stress of being cursed at, threatened and constant disobedience wasn't worth the $70 a day check for subbing.
N SchleifGuard 2 years ago
I hope you also filed a police report against the girl for assault.
#6
I worked at a gas station in my teens. Lived on my own, needed the money, and there weren't many options in my area for someone my age. Every week I'd clock in a minimum of 50 hours and only ever get paid for 30-38 hrs. They kept saying they'd fix it, it never got fixed. I worked double shifts regularly and got called in every single day off I had scheduled. Every one. I couldn't afford caller ID at the time (this was before it was standard) so on my day off, I had to stop answering the phone because simply telling them I couldn't make it in would result in them calling all. f*cking. day. Then, since I lived so close by, they started sending other employees to my apartment. Most of them felt bad about it, and eventually refused but then the manager and district manager started showing up, pounding at my door, pleading with me, slipping notes under my door, and trying to guilt trip and threaten my job safety. I can't even begin to explain the toll that took on me, physically and mentally. I stopped menstruating (TMI, sorry) and actually started losing my hair. But, I needed the money.
My breaking point was shortly after I'd already quit once. The first time was because I'd requested my birthday off, they approved it, and then the day before told me I'd need to come in. I said no and stood my ground. The manager eventually agreed to figure something else out. Birthday comes around and my phone gets blown up by every on duty employee and one off duty. I finally tell the boss they can leave me alone for the rest of the day or I quit. He replies "Well... we're going to need you to come in still." So I quit. I got rehired the next day after I plugged my phone back in (because quitting didn't stop the calls) by the district manager who begged me to stay and promised to have the store back off when I had a free day.
A few weeks later was Easter. I'd surprisingly been given it off, and was excited to finally get to spend a holiday with my family. That morning I woke up to the phone ringing. And ringing. And ringing. It was 6:30 AM. I am not a morning person. I answered, told them no, and ignored the barrage of calls that continued until I went out the door. About an hour after I got to my Mom's, the calls started there. I'd never given them her number. I refused, asked them not to call there again and hung up. My mom answered and asked them not to call back. My step dad answered and threatened to call the cops for harassment. They wouldn't stop. We had to unplug all the phones for dinner and I was terrified they were going to show up there too. As soon as the phone reconnected, the calls started again. That's when I finally snapped. I answered and told the boss every possible way to go f*ck himself. He eventually hung up on me so I called his a** right back and continued. I didn't just quit, I unhinged. I kept calling until they took their phone off the hook. Then I (kind of) enjoyed the rest of my Easter evening. I've had my share of sh*tty jobs before and since, but nothing that compares to that place.
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago (edited)
That is so illegal from the start in North America. I don't think I would have tolerated this behaviour on the first day they would start with me.
Namea 2 months ago
Illegal but common. Retail businesses routinely break employee laws because they can just pay the fine.
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Indy 3 years ago
Stopping menstruation is not TMI. That is a serious signal on how much your body is stressed.
The Starsong Princess 3 years ago
Well, you were very valuable to them. You worked for far below minimum wage. Say you made $8 an hour for 30 hours. If you were actually working 50 hours and were only being paid for 30, you were actually making only $4.80 per hour. You were a great deal for them! Of course, it was wage theft and you should have quit the first time they shorted your pay and didn’t fix it. But they knew you would work more for $4.80 if they badgered you more. Even when the job market is bad, never accept slave wages!
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Horrible story but I love the fact that she called them back over and over until they too had to take their phone off the hook.
Katrina Wysocki 3 years ago
That’s illegal in the US too. It’s just that fear reigns true in low income jobs like that. They prey on those that are needy and desperate.
YOLANDA MCCORMACK 5 months ago
I had a roommate whose work always called him in on his day off. They would call early in the morning when he was half awake and couldn't think of a good excuse, so he taped a list of excuses to the phone. I had another roommate who would simply say "I can't. I'm already drunk".
#7
Me and 3 others got the sh*t kicked out of us in a small horse stall by 5 emus we were trying to deworm. Not worth $8 an hour.
Tammilee Truitt 3 years ago
I worked with ostriches and emus. Ostriches majestic creatures, emus evil shi*** creatures.
K- THULU 3 years ago
Worked at a fauna park ( Australia), In defence of emus, funniest buggers to work with. Called one of them " foreman" cause whatever i did he was there. When I was fixing fences he'd be trying to eat my staples, pulling the wire down, pecking my a*s whenever I bent down. Even would steal lit cigarettes and run off with them. Try explaining to the owner why there's an emu running around with a lit smoke in his beak!
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Jill Pulcifer 3 years ago
About 20 years ago I was 20 with a 1yr old and flat broke, so I took a second job at a race track cleaning stalls for 4.45 an hour, under the table cash. I got kicked by a horse who was a known kicker and they had just forgotten to put a sign on his stall. Boss called the ambulance against my will, and promised he would pay for it all. He of course did not, so my credit was ruined at age 20 when I couldn't pay the 24k hospital bill. I was fine by the way, but they insisted on an MRI and whatnot, all for 4.45 per hour. So not worth it.
Makajha Banjjjak 3 years ago
How tf that country is still functioning? You have an accident, call ambulance and get 24k usd as a punishment. I just can't comprehend that
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TheEndIsNigh 3 years ago
Worked in animal medicine for years, and it is CRIMINAL what employees were paid vs the work they did. Imagine getting pissed and shat on, bitten, scratched, a**l glanded, vomited on, pressing on a wound and having maggots ooze out, all while trying to treat a patient or save their lives. Everyday, multiple times a day. If you work with large animals, there is also 100% chance that you will have a serious injury in your career. Add to that the 50 Karens who monopolize your time by asking a million questions (which you answer), then call up their uncle's cousin's sister's friend Rhonda to ask advice (while still in the exam room), and then proceeds to tell you that they are going to ignore everything you just told them and "cure" their pet's illness with something Rhonda recommended from Amazon. (PS, Rhonda has not spent one day working with animals and gets all her "knowledge" from Google). People at McDonald's should not be getting paid more than healthcare workers, it's insanity.
Random Anon 3 years ago
So, 4 of you vs 5 emus? Australia lost a war vs them and you want to take them on outnumbered?
Pandaroo 3 years ago
Im aussie but i just crack up hilariously when I remember the emu wars. Search it up.
Load More Replies... Michelle Muirhead 3 years ago
At least Australia has a minimum wage. $20.23 I am so sorry for what I assume is in America. Our fantastic new Prime Minister is submitting a proposal to lift by 5.1%
Ellie McGrath 3 years ago
Wasn’t in their native country then. 20.00 an hour is minimum wage here
#8
When I got texts like these from my boss' boss' boss.
For anyone (men can get harassed too) facing this kind of harassment, don't quit until you have another job secured, especially if you're reporting it to HR. HR departments from different companies talk to each other, and you will not believe how hard it is to find a job when you have develop a reputation as a "trouble-maker", "attention wh*re", "c*cktease", "sl*t", etc. HR is there to protect the company, not you. So no matter how close you think you are to HR, expect some sort of backlash.
The more senior the person is, the more likely they are to have gotten away with this for a looonng time. There's safety in numbers so if you can find other men/women that have faced the same harassment from the same guy (you will), report in a group and make sure everything is documented. S/he could still get away with it, but it'll be harder when there's more evidence. One person can be branded a "sl*t" but multiple people? HR must have awesome hiring policies.
Katarzyna Gratka 3 years ago
It is sad and scary at the same time what they do to US workers. In Poland, even if the company comes from the USA or from another country, I haven't seen HR treat people like that. Apart from single cases when someone is just an a*****e, HR always tries to help, and many situations are definitely solved in favor of the employee. Maybe it is due to labor law?
JayCee 3 years ago
HR is primarily there to protect the company's financial interests, not the employee's personal interests. This means firing a low-level worker when they complain about someone higher up who is making the company more money. A good example is Paula Deen on the Food Network. She was a horrible racist for years and used slurs against employees. Complaints went unrecognized... UNTIL she announced that she had developed diabetes. Then, it didn't mesh well with the brand, so Food Network got rid of her. They kept her until she was no longer a valuable asset, despite the complaints and brown-face/black-face photos. This happens in companies all the time. Sexually harrassing boss brings in huge deals and is kept around, despite complaints, until he messes up financially and causes the company to lose money. Many times, he will only be fired if the company fears a lawsuit from the harassed employees.
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pusheen buttercup 3 years ago
I'm so sorry that they tried to not only do this but ruin your future opportunities. If I had money I'd hire you!!
#9
When the lady at the table I was serving complained because the ice in her glass of ice water had melted and the water was "too watered down for her liking".
Bethany Heller 3 years ago
The real underpaid workers are trees and algae. To think they work for that!
Load More Replies... Chich 3 years ago
I would not last ten minutes. My response would be "Are you a f*****g idiot?"
Monday 3 years ago
I don't know if I would have gotten angry or just burst out laughing...but I do know I'd have been fired.
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Michael Sanders 3 years ago
If that’s all it takes to kill your spirit as a server, yeah move on.
Ansi 3 years ago
ACTUALLY the melted water from the ice cubes tastes diffrent from the other water. Yours truely, every Karen ever. 😉
Mike Price 1 year ago
Well, it would. How often do restaurant ice machines get cleaned?
Load More Replies... LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
How bad was she complaining? Did she just want a top up? Or have less ice in her drink? Did she berate the waiter and make a scene?
TheEndIsNigh 3 years ago (edited)
Right? I kinda wondered this myself, because I actually get the whole "water being too watery" thing. My mum is guilty of this, and what she means is that the ice: liquid ratio is off (her personal preference). For some reason she likes a fuckload of ice in her drinks with a small amount of liquid. Totally strange, but when she asks for a top up of ice, I wouldn't consider that "complaining." Sometimes people can't think of the words to express what they want ( there's a whole BP page dedicated to this) so maybe said the water was too watery, but was really trying to ask for more ice/less liquid. Unless she was rude about it, then yeah, she sucks.
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Leila Orozco Francis 3 years ago
You just can't fix stupid. Some people just live to complain about something.
Gladys Hayes Southerland 1 year ago
This would be funny if it weren't really true. There are birds with more brains!
#10
Right now.. I'm on hour 12 of what is shaping up to be a 16-18 hour day, and I'm fixing the mistakes of someone who gets paid at minimum 40k more than me.
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
This is what happens when companies play favourites and not give raises and promotions to those knowing what they're doing.
JasonK 3 years ago
Unfortunately this is extremely complicated. For example, someone with a college degree will get a management position before those without, despite the reality that those under might be much more capable and intelligent, and with much greater potential.
Lucas 3 years ago (edited)
Should go by ability at that stage, if they have been there long enough and they really are more capable and Intelligent.
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Brian Stanton 3 years ago
Yep, I was that guy 8 years. Their drinking ladies got raises while bullshitting all day. Good old girls club
#11
Used to work as a paramedic/ER Tech. Had a homeless man come in with a narcotics overdose. He was given Narcan to reverse the effects of the drugs. Safe to say he was not happy. He assaulted one of the nurses which led to him being restrained to the bed. He began screaming at everyone that entered the room that he was "gonna kill 'em." After about 10 minutes of this, he scoots to one side of the bed, and sticks his ass in between the railings. He then projectile sh*ts all over the computer, the walls, chair, and floor. There was just so much poo. I, along with others, had to go in there and clean him/some of the room up. Thankfully housekeeping took care of the floor. I literally said, "I don't get paid enough for this sh*t."
Lydia Nijland 3 years ago
And when you think of it - the housekeeping people probably even get paid less :( And are a lot of times looked down upon aswell - thank you for being thankfull
Alethia Nyx 3 years ago
I bet housekeeping don't get paid enough to deal with that either, but they have to.
Little Wonder 3 years ago
Friend of mine is a first responder and says when they administer narcan they get out of the way because 8 times out of 10 the patient is going to take a swing at them for ruining the high.
LandAhoy (she/they) 3 years ago
Narcan sends opiate addicts into severe painful withdrawal. That's why they are angry. And another dose won't work for his hours until the Narcan has worn off, so they are forced to endure what is described as torture. One of the symptoms is diarrhea.
Mary Jeffries 3 years ago
It’s terrible to have to bar an someone who is over sedated with a total knee replacement of big surgery like that. They wake up well but often they are crashed into the full pain of the surgery. Terrible to have to do that. Thankfully they’re getting better and better with non opiate pain management and we have to do that less and less.
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LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago (edited)
I don't think housekeeping gets paid enough. And the Canadian government is trying to decriminalize narcotics...smh
Mobey Drunk 3 years ago
I had the same job, so I completely understand. The saddest thing is that I now make more money delivering pizza than working in EMS.
Angela Philp 3 years ago
Narcan would send the man straight into withdrawal which usually includes pretty intense diarrhea so I imagine it was pretty bad
#12
Witnessed someone's literal 'I don't get paid enough for this sh*t' story. I was at a ShoBiz (Similar to Chuck-e-Cheese, might even be the same place.) for a relatives birthday. All the kids are running about having fun, playing games, etc. Suddenly there is a commotion around the ball pit. Turns out some kid has had a serious diarrhea Hershey-squirt blowout and it is all over in the ball pit. The little plastic balls are all covered with a thin film of booty butter. I'm across the room from the code brown near the counter where you trade in tickets for fake moustaches and laffy taffy and sh*t. The manager tells this teenager he needs to get to the ball pit right away, and is trying to hand him a mop. (Not sure what a mop will do in this situation but I digress.) Anywho, the teen is not having it and loudly says, "Nah bro, that ain't me" and strolls out the door and into the sunset.
Grace Barclay 3 years ago
I'm laughing so hard at this, the best being the teen saying Nah bro, that ain'tme. Still laughing...🤣🤣🤣
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
Hêll Nah! Time to close the ball pit! That sounds like somebody needs a hazmat suit or call the local fire department and ask them to hose it out for them. I wouldn't climb into that pit after someone had a fecal explosion in it, play Marco Polo to locate ground zero.
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Kaitlyn Neal 3 years ago
Can you imagine the next interview this kid went too? Employeer: "I understand you walked out on your last job. What happened?" Kid: "they wanted me to use a mop to clean out the ball pit due to a chocolate waterfall situation."
#13
Worked at a tanning salon in college. Once a week we would deep clean the beds like overhaul clean the bed, the room, pull out the beds and get behind and everything. Well I go to slide the tanning bed out and behind it is a fully soaked, blood red stained maxipad. It was f*cking disgusting. Sad thing is another girl I worked with found used tampons wedge behind another bed. Some Women are f*cking disgusting when it comes to disposing of their lady products.
Mother Of Cats 3 years ago
I have to say some, some and by no means a majority of women are utterly foul. I cleaned in high school and the girls toilets were always way way way worse than the boys. I just don't understand what goes on in peoples heads sometimes.
Elmaur 3 years ago
Once worked at fast food. Men's bathroom had to be unclogged one in a blue moon. Thankfully did not have to clean women's bathroom. Feces spread across the walls and floor, toilet paper everywhere, radiator guard ripped off the mounts. And without fail, once a month, an air freshener set 7 feet up would be ripped out of the wall. And this was a small town location. Would have hated to see a city one.
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Michelle Muirhead 3 years ago
pigs! sorry pigs, they don't deserve being insulted. Trollops!!!
Brian Michael 3 years ago
Try working in a popular club. We used to find tampons stuck to the ceiling. They would dip them in the toilet and fling them to the ceiling. Pads would be stuck to the underside of the toilet or tank. Mens room was pee all over the floor...I would take that over blood any day.
NicNor5560 3 years ago
I just don't understand why for either washrooms. Has people lost their common sense?
Load More Replies... Kaitlyn Neal 3 years ago
Women truly are. Every place I have worked (except my current place) has women that are never taught the respectful.... anything... of women hygiene. I truly feel bad for those women. We had a women soak her panties in blood (heavy flow and no pad...) and so she tried to FLUSH the evidence. Roto Rooter was called... panties where found... evidence was not destroyed 😬 and the amount of these women that throw their tampons town the toilet. On top of the trash or even on the floor!! Hygiene needs to be taught by all!
Neil Mason 2 years ago
i worked in a TESCO (UK store) as in store janitor....Give me a gents loo to clean ANY day used pads stuck to doors/mirrors/toilet cistern..Literal s**t in the sinks, and the always popular red finger painting everywhere (Do I REALLY have to explain this??)
Satya Bain 3 years ago
I've had to clean restrooms in corporate buildings before. Women are nastier than men in there.
AzKhaleesi 3 years ago
My first job was at a tanning salon. Under age, under the table it was awesome. What wasn't awesome was when we'd get a big time sweater. Like a whole lake in the bed I had to clean up. So gross.
Wonderful 3 years ago
I tattooed a lady who's family owned a tanning/nail salon and one day her husband was in the process of watching the cameras of the hallways to pinpoint who was peeing in the trash cans in the tanning rooms. Apparently it has happening at lot lately and they were getting fed up. They had narrowed it down to like 4-6 women who were friends and also crazy rich. They were debating banning the pisser but we're worried that she would get her friends to leave too and that they were big spenders. So they made signs and it stopped. Til the next pisser started. Apparently peeing not in a toilet is popular at tanning salons. Yuk
#14
Had a guy come in with a raging hard on that wouldn't go away. Priapism for those that enjoy science. I had to hold this guys throbbing boner while a resident stabbed it with needles trying to drain it and inject medications to make it go down. After 8 stabs, no luck. Dude went to surgery and was told he will never have an erection again. I was the last person to hold his functional wiener. PSA- if you've had a four hour long stiffy, get to the ER in a jiffy.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
If their rhyme gets someone to the ER in time, it's worth it. That had to be a hard truth to hear and even harder to accept.
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NicNor5560 3 years ago
Priapism is not caused by Viagra, people. Check it out, even a newborn (and if I follow your logic, was given Viagra) can have it. Sickle-cell disease is most likely the culprit, but it could also be trauma, spider bites, CO poisoning, etc.
#15
Cable guy here:
You know that really run down trailer park with hundreds of cats running around unchecked outside? The one that's full of rust bucket trucks with confederate flags painted on the tail gate? When the wind blows you are overwhelmed by the scent of cat urine..... I go into those trailers and dig through piles of garbage/diapers/animal and human s**t all because "my Fox News pixelated once during the debate" only to find the customer had spliced in their own line because they wanted tv in the rest of the trailer. I then have to crawl under the trailer and run a new line to replace the one they f**ked up, all the while being told how I'm a piece of sh*t because Im following company policy that you pay for every room you have tv in. Also here's 2 dead cats and a black widow colony that I carefully avoid, until I am backing out (because you don't have room to turn around under a trailer) and my boot goes into the web. I do all of this just so they can have cable for the 3 months until they get disconnected for not paying the bill and switch to dish.
It was a long day.
Tammilee Truitt 3 years ago
I deliver pizza. When a situation arises I just tell the store they have loose dogs.
PixelShroom 3 years ago
Just a quick note that there are many shitty people that live in places like that but then there are also ones like my uncle, who died when i was 17, that like that because of mental issues keeping him from getting a job and his mother, my grandma) never thought him how to use money. So he never learned how to budget. He also had mobility problems quick kept him from cleaning and stuff like that because he can't bend his neck at all.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
We have some nice trailer parks around me, some are really lovely with gorgeous landscape and the people are wonderful, but there's always that one you just described. It's as if they have a sign up that says stereotypes only
Scott Crowell 3 years ago
Hey what are you doing later? Need a small little favor please.
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Mental health nurse here. I witnessed this but it didn't happen to me. One day on shift I responded to a duress alarm on another ward (1 nurse from each ward responds to duress from any ward). A female patient on a psychiatric intensive care unit had become violent and and could not be deescalated. It was decided that physical restraint and intramuscular medication would be needed to settle her down.
Anyway, as the team of 5 nurses approached her she was standing there with her legs apart and shouting at us. Just as we stepped into her space to initiate the restraint she stuck her fingers into her vagina (she was menstruating at the time) and managed to stick them into the mouth of one of the female nurses doing the restraint. The patient was extremely amused. Nurse vomited after the restraint and had to leave for the day.
That's just one of the really bizarre moments I have experience since working as a mental health nurse.
Michelle Muirhead 3 years ago
Pity they can't use a blow dart contraption like they do in the zoo!
Jonathan Setter 5 months ago
yeah i would def vomit right back in the patients mouth, tit for tat, let them see how funny that is.
#17
When I had to clean poop of a very confused lady who thought I was forcing her to have an abortion. She was kicking and screaming every time anyone came near her with a wash cloth. When we got her her in the shower room to clean her she was was grabbing hand fulls of her own poop screaming "WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BABY".
EDIT: The worst part is when the family comes in the next they and ask how the night went I put on a smile and say "Great, your mother said she couldn't wait to see you today".
Inga Paškevičiūtė 3 years ago
That sucks when you have to lie. Honestly, I would like to know if my mother was acting like this, so we could all help her. :(
Dav Carro-Ripalda 3 years ago
Unless you are legal guardians they cannot provide personal info from patients to any other person, i guess.
Load More Replies... Ellie McGrath 3 years ago
When I was in hospital recently one of the student nurses on duty is in my advanced anatomy class at Uni. A special needs patient had yelled all night 2 nights in row keeping us all awake because the hospital wouldn’t change his nurse who he now hated on sight. When she asked why I hadn’t taken up the nursing offer at Uni I said pointing across the hall, “Special needs would be in a laundry sack tied to the balcony until he calmed down. I know my limits and capabilities”. Hats off to those that can nurse because I wouldn’t last a day
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
It can be really tough and definitely not something everyone can do. My brother is special needs and I've seen some employees in the Dr offices that are specifically for special needs, all staff with extra training to handle special needs, at their wits end because of a patient. It's a hard job and even extra training and having the patience of a Saint just isn't enough sometimes. I could never work with special needs
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Kaitlyn Neal 3 years ago
Honestly, I would have told the truth. You never know If that could help them seek better medical care (meds or treatment depending) or a more long term care. But at the same time I'd hate to make someone feel bad so tbh I'd probably say the same thing 😮💨
Lady Goldberry 3 years ago
I work in health and social care and would never, ever lie to patient families like this.
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
What was wrong with her? Was she really pregnant or going through psychosis?
Angela Jester 3 years ago
She was reliving a memory. It breaks my heart,she had to live it more than once
Loretta Hines 3 years ago
I feel sorry for the nurse, the lady, and her family. Nobody wants to have Dementia, or watch some go through it. Let alone the ones who have to look after them, tough job.
#18
I worked as a cook at a restaurant that doubled as a night club after dark. A guy got shot and killed on the front landing one night and the next day they expected me to clean up the f*cking murder scene.
Safy 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure that isn't allowed? Like legally I think they have to call in a biohazard cleaning company. Probably insurance tied to that as well.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 3 years ago
I know this is true in The States, and I'd bet it's true in most developed countries.
Load More Replies... PixelShroom 3 years ago
It's illigal to clean up a crime scene without the o k from the police.
KombatBunni 3 years ago
Uh there are professionals who do that, not employees of the restaurant! I’d be like you don’t pay me anywhere near enough to risk my life for biohazards.
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
The first and second times I actually had the nerve to refuse to do things at my retail job involved being told to clean up blood or semen.
Katrina Wysocki 3 years ago
Nope. There are companies that do that type of clean up. Just nope.
#19
Library. Found a used nappy (diaper) crammed in behind the books in the picture books area. Not the first time I'd found one, but the first one I'd found folded sh*t side out.
Wilko Lunenburg 3 years ago
This thread is getting worse and worse.... I have to stop reading it before I lose all faith in humanity.
Little Wonder 3 years ago
Oh yeah, that happened a few times when I worked in the library. Also someone kept writing on the walls in the toilet in their own (I assume their own) s**t.
Brian Stanton 3 years ago
Ive heard the s**t smeared walls are common than we would imagine
Load More Replies... Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago
I worked in bookstores. I cleaned up dirty diapers, "used" nude magazines, every kind of food or drink. But my favorite was when parents would just let their kids destroy things, leaving heaps of destroyed books all over the floor, and then smile at me and go "Don't worry, the girl will clean it up." They could literally destroy twenty pop-up books, and I had to let them, and then just clean it up after.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Don't they have a 'you break it, you bought it' policy? I can't imagine that happening with the parents assuming they wouldn't have to pay for damage.
Load More Replies... Brian Stanton 3 years ago
Certain parking lots are littered with diapers in the US when there are trash cans right there. People are disgusting 🤢
Katrina Wysocki 3 years ago
Why. Just why. They make little trash bags, like the ones for dog poo, for diapers. There is no reason for any of this.
hi myself, bi weirdo🇺🇦️ 3 years ago
Ew but the ceiling in the picture of the library is cool.
Kaitlyn Neal 3 years ago
I'm just hoping a toddler decided they wanted it off and decided to take it off and streak vs a 'parent' or 'guardian' being this ignorant
#20
I was a rookie wild land fire fighter making ten/eleven bucks an hour, and I seriously questioned why I only got paid that much, particularly that one time that I had to hold two hundred yards of road with nothing but a tool, and two other rookies who were pissing their pants, when a wall of flame hit our line and started throwing spots into the tall grass we were standing in. Luckily a brush truck arrived before we lost most of our facial hair, and we made it out alright.
Joe Buddha 2 years ago
I knew a forest firefighter. One of his favorite war stories was booking it through the woods, leaping over picnic tables, with the fire nipping at his heels. Not a profession I ever wanted.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago (edited)
My stepdad was a volunteer firefighter (CFA) during the Ash Wednesday bushfires in the 80s. It was so bad, he lost mates and was traumatised so he had to quit. He couldn't sit through a whole episode of the recent tv series Fires, a fictionalised version of the Black Summer fires a few years ago he is still so affected. I really don't know how people keep going with work like that.
#21
While working at an adult video store, I discovered a bucket of dehydrated piss in the broom closet. For a moment, I tried to summon a normal reaction of disgust or anger, but I felt nothing but indifference. The piss bucket wasn't what broke my spirit.. it was what made me realize I had no more spirit to break.
Sharon Jackson 2 years ago
The perfect description of depression. I hope you have moved along from this place.
#22
Accidentally Poking myself with a needle that was just used on an hiv positive person
Edit: I did get put on post exposure prophylaxis immediately after.
Ralph Watkins 2 years ago
I walked up on one of my fellow nurses just as she accidentally stuck herself with a needle from an HIV patient. I will never forget the look on her face. It was like she had just received a fatal wound. She was in shock & we rushed to the sink & I started taking care of the needle stick. What she said next stunned me. Don't report it. If people at my church find out they will judge me. What!? I told her that was not a church anybody should attend if they are judging you like that. Helping an AIDS patient & having a simple accident is not an unforgivable sin. What is wrong with these church people? I made sure she reported it. She would be terrified if she didn't. She did not get anything. I had a needle stick years later. Hep-C patient. Hepatitis is easier to get than HIV thru a needle stick. I'm fine.
ebonyruffles 3 years ago
Why is she recapping the needle in the photo? You're not supposed to do that.
#23
When a thick stream of sweat drained out of this girls cell phone case. I had to explain to her that her phone had water damage and that she shouldn't work out with her phone in her bra, all the while trying to be professional and not gag while cleaning the mess. (I sold phones at Sprint).
Fluffy Griffin 2 years ago
It's because women clothing has NO POCKETS! I tend to dress more frumpy just so I can have pockets. Bra pockets are just gross.
Load More Replies... Katrina Wysocki 3 years ago
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Eric Mac Fadden 3 years ago
...just couldn't have access to technology, or society...
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Due to being short staffed at work I was doing the job of 2 people. I agreed to it knowing it would be temporary and it would give me an opportunity to stand out and be noticed by going above and beyond. Temporary turned into 6 months and instead of getting noticed for going the extra mile I was starting to get in trouble for not meeting goals and deadlines. Review times came around and I received a pretty negative review stating that my failure to meet goals and deadlines meant I was going to get a lower than average raise that year. I told them that effective immediately I would resume doing just my job unless I was actually getting paid to do the job of 2 people. I received a halfhearted apology and they soon got someone to fill the void making it a 2 person job again. Still didn't get the raise I think I deserved and to top it all off my attempt to get noticed now got me viewed as a troublemaker and not a team player.
Ralph Watkins 2 years ago
Do you work for the VA? My local VA had a suicide prevention caseworker. Only one. He had a case load that required 4 case workers. He worked like this for years & management did not like that his paperwork was always late. Eventually one of his cases killed himself. He had not done the note yet on his last visit a few days before. The caseworkers was fired on the spot. Now they post 4 job openings to replace him. I knew the social workers who applied for the job. They weren't aware of the VA system. I told them. They were assured that there will be 4 of them hired. Absolutely. As soon as they took the job, management did not hire the other two required for the caseload. Inspections by the OIG did not think that was an issue. No wonder this VA is a revolving door & so many vets kill themselves. Paperwork matters. People don't.
Daniele Stewart 4 months ago
Worked at a bank in a small rural town. The head teller ( only 2 of us) went on sick leave. I had to do her job and mine and was the only teller there for over 6 months. I did her head teller duties as well such as ordering money. Never got a raise just got in trouble because I wasnt good at selling. All my reviews for my teller work were exceeds expections but that didnt matter I couldnt sell ppl credit cards they didnt need. All while doing the job of a teller and head teller at a regular teller salary. The branch ended up being shut down .
Nadine Bamberger 3 years ago
Worked a hot summer weekend as the only qualified nurse on an dementia ward, 16 hrs.each day, couldn't take breaks in case there'd be an emergency. Got yelled at for drinking from my water bottle, quit on the spot.
#25
Happened about two weeks into my job working at a college bar. Was on my hands and knees beneath a urinal, cleaning up the puke that had overflown and fallen to the ground. Surprisingly wasn't until another drunken idiot stood over me and began to piss into the urinal I was cleaning under that I had my "I don't get paid enough for this sh*t" moment. ...he didnt have the greatest aim.
#26
I was working at a gas station on Halloween. Pretty normal night, a bit more beer than usual. And then I see some kid walk by with his collar pulled up, he's walking a little odd. Then he walks back the way he cames which is a little weird. Then I notice his friends walking up. I 'm looking at them and I see one is wearing a mask. Then I see a fire extinguisher in his hands. I start moving to the switch that controls the electric locks but sadly I reached it half a second too late. Two kids hold the doors open and this little sh*t unloads an entire fire extinguisher into the store. Can't see sh*t, the entire store is filled with powdery haze. It took 8 hours to clean up. Eight hours closed for a 24 hour gas station. And it turns out, the whole point was to steal an 18 rack of f*cking keystone. F*cking kids.
Edit: we had them on camera, but the managers decided it wasn't worth pursuing I guess. Nothing came of it. None of them could have been over 17. They had two guys holding the doors open the whole time, so their friend who came in earlier ( and I hadn't been paying attention to) could run out with the beer. The mag locks didn't matter since they had the door open first and kept it that way. And no it isn't that they don't pay me enough to clean, they don't pay me enough to deal with some little dipsh*ts who can plan something as elaborate as that and then take the sh*ttiest beer in the store.
Purple Gerbil 3 years ago
My mum works in a petrol station and they do nothing about shoplifters.
ChariotLee 3 years ago
Same where I work. Corporate has harassed teenaged employees about having a nose piercing more than they're concerned about the druggie walking out with a backpack full of merchandise.
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Benita Valdez 3 years ago
When I had gone to college some a*****e unloaded a fire extinguisher in my dorm late at night. We all had to leave, pile into the cafeteria and wait until hazmat cleaners came to clean it up which took about 6-8 hours. It's just shitty.
Ralph Watkins 2 years ago
My sister managed a convenience store she was out for a while & now they give her a life coach. Brand new college grad. The girl made a mistake of asking my sister what does she struggle with at work. Paperwork or employees. My sister went on a rant about a dead drug addict falling out of the restroom with her panties down around her ankles in front of the slurpy machine. Now school kids are stepping over her to get their drinks. Or the guy who shoved a gun in her face or the old guy who just pumped $100 of gasoline out on to the ground. Now corporate calls & are asking her why she allowed a dead drug addict into the rest room. The poor life coach could not stop crying. Yeah, welcome to my life, my sister told her.
#27
I used to be a case manager for adults with severe mental illness. One day I was meeting with a client in her home, she was experiencing auditory hallucinations that directed her to cut herself. She tells me, "the voices are saying to hurt myself." I say, can you ask them to wait until we're done? She then says, "Now they're telling me to hurt you." She then pulls the slowest ever turn of her head to look down at the table beside her (where I then notice three cheap-o box cutters are sitting, which is clearly what she's been using on her arm) and then just as slowly looks back at me, all without saying another word. I asked her for the box cutters, which she handed to me, and quickly ended the session. Nope nope nope nope nope.
Katrina Wysocki 3 years ago
Well at least she handed them to you instead of attacking you with them
Ralph Watkins 2 years ago
We had a psycho 11 year old who was at a group home. Days before another kid slammed his finger int he door & the caseworker just bandaged it. Now he comes in for crisis. Meds take care of his psychosis but not the personality disorder part. I unwrap his finger & it is gangrenous & looks like it's from a mummy. Now the kid goes into a rage & while we were trying to restrain him, he bites off the finger & swallows it. Oh yes, what a lovely child. great. Which one us is going to call his mom & tell her about this? He was one of those kids we called a monster. Nothing worked for him. Many of the other terrible kids were good when they got proper treatment & care.
Gladys Hayes Southerland 1 year ago
I know you have to tell for legal reasons but...how? Very sad for the kid and parents
Load More Replies... Maria 3 years ago
Delay is the first step of the usual process to stop self harming. If you can find the strength to delay it, you can learn to delay it forever.
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Colleen Levac 3 years ago
I’m sorry but the person that posted this was an idiot who shouldn’t have been working with mental ill people. Like seriously should have been getting her help, not telling her to wait until the sessions over to hurt herself.
#28
Was a manager at a McDonald's and I got screamed at by our district supervisor, mid shift, for putting too many ketchup packets in a bag through the drive thru.
F*ck. That.
Sportsgal 3 years ago (edited)
These people act like they pay for the ketchup personally out of their pay checks! Get a grip, manager guy!
Brigita Petrutis 2 weeks ago
To count out a certain number of packets will always take longer than grabbing quickly and dumping into the bag. If efficiency is key, those ketchup packets cost more than the employees' time spent counting, obviously. Meaning, we are worth less than a ketchup packet, when working at McDonalds.
#29
Was flying a jet full of tech people to SXSW. 8 Seats on the plane and they were all full. First thing in the morning, the passengers started having drinks. 2 hours into the flight someone taps me on the shoulder and says "Captain, the toilet isn't working."
It was working just fine, but the tank was "at capacity." We could either land the plane and delay for a while, or they could hold it. Meanwhile, I had to pull on some rubber gloves, grab the knife from the bagel tray, and try to go Super Mario on the airplane's lavatory.
So there I was at 41,000' plunging a toilet with a plastic knife thinking, "I'm too old for this sh*t."
Phred 3 years ago
And they'd freeze on the way down. Even after the Cold War you'd still have to fear an icy BM.
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I worked in popular night club at the time this happened. It was during a PRIDE event and we were slammed--our capacity was 300 and ended up having over 1000 people come in and out of the club in the 5 hours we were open. Somehow, someone was stabbed by the little coat hanger thing that's on the back of the bathroom stall door. This individual managed to bleed profusely all over the bathroom stall, half of our dance floor, and all over at least 30 individuals within the club and no one noticed. I'm not kidding when I say that it looked like a damn crime scene, some serious Law & Order kind of sh*t. And yet somehow no one complained about the blood on themselves, the floor, or the bathroom until we turned the lights on. Cleaning up a sh*tload of semi-dried blood throughout our club after one (if not the) busiest time of the year was wretched. I was exhausted, gagging from the smell of blood, booze, drugs and (most likely) other bodily fluids. After several hours of scrubbing and then getting up a few hours later to work another event, I realized that I hated bar life and needed to get out or double my hourly rate.
#31
I'm a mental health counselor at an eating disorder facility. We had a new patient arrive who previously came from a sober house and was homeless so he brought all his belongings with him, which was around two large suitcases of clothing. He stayed in program for roughly 36 hours than quickly discharged himself without much of an explanation or plan on what to do (he was from across the country). My coworker and I go into strip and remake his bed, after he had already left, and we find BOXES full of purge (like nature valley boxes but costco size) and one suitcase full of purge and a bunch of clothes still soaking wet, full of purge. Also found some of his purge-covered clothes outside the window, which we went to go dispose of. Those had mats all around them and i learned that maggots show up pretty fast when you leave vomit in 90 degree heat. We both look at each other and were like "....this is waaaay above our pay grade."
I wish that was the grossest story. Just the first one that comes to mind.
Pixie 3 years ago
I am quite happy that this story does not include a cat!
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I recently had to climb into a 7ft deep pit that was covered by a grate to remove lead paint from a window. The pit was obviously breeding ground for spiders. There were thousands of them... Thousands..
#33
cleaning diarrhoea off the walls of a bathroom stall 3 times in one night.
(bartender)
Hermien Greeff 3 years ago
They should design bar bathrooms like it is one giant shower. End of the night you remove a big drain lid in the corner, plug in a hose and go to town on the walls, floor, toilets, basins etc. A giant wet room.
#34
I was on a phonecall for 22 hours.
Twenty. Two. Hours.
Long story. I was in a security team that did a lot of hand-holding tech-support kinda stuff because we didn't trust anyone. At some point it was a HUGE mess with me being the only guy and me being abused horribly. Eventually my boss and I managed to get some ground-rules in - no upgrades without telling us 3 days in advance. No calling SterlingPhoenix with no good reason. SterlingPhoenix is allowed to hang up on you if you do not give him anything to do, etc.
Then my boss quit, and we got a new boss who didn't enforce anything and did not have my back.
These people set an implementation for like 10pm, and told ME about it at 4pm. Which is way less than 72 hours. I told them hey, tough luck. And my boss goes "Oh you're helping them or else."
So I worked with them all night, then they paged me back in the next day, and my boss pretty much threatened to have me continue to work with them (and a lot of this was just me being on the phone and them saying I can't hang up "just in case"). Finally got to leave at 2am.
...and yet it took me years after that to actually quit.
#35
I work in a public library. A grown man got mad over a $30 fine (for failing to return DVDs) and proceeded to push books off of shelves and try to knock our display case over. Also, we have a "tampon bandit" that left a lovely used tampon by the sink for us to find.
No you didn't 3 years ago
A librarian once told me that a surprisingly big part of the job is asking grown men to stop wanking in front of public computers.
Tammilee Truitt 3 years ago
Public library is a freaking God send. I'd like to catch somebody doing this sort of thing.
#36
I was a nurses assistant a few years ago. I took one of my many patients to the bathroom like any other day. She said she wasn't feeling well, but who feels good in a nursing home? So I'm watching her try to sh*t, and she turns ghost white and passed out. I yell for help and a nurse and a few other CNA's come to my aid. The lady f*cking died. Sudden cardiac arrest. So now we have to carry her dead body to the bed so we can preform cpr. Now I'm sure that you have heard that people who die void there bowels. Well that is no myth. It's happened to everyone I've watched die and this was no exeption. As soon as we picked her up off the toilet This lady started to do what she died trying to do, sh*t like no tomorrow. At this point we realize that this lady has some serious internal bleeding and C-dif (Clostridium difficile). All you need to know about C-dif is that it makes you sh*t ×100 times more than you normally would, and it smells x100 times worse. So here we are, carrying a dead lady by her arms and legs while she spews a sea of smelly orange sh*t and blood out of her ass and all over the floor. It looked like a scat scene gone wrong. Every inch of the floor covered in blood and rancid feces. Good news is that we were able to revive the lady and she kept on trucking for who nows how long. I made $9.50/hour. Minimum wage in my state is $8:50. F*ck being a CNA.
Raccoon panda 3 years ago
You know, there should be a law saying that when you end up dealing with something especially disgusting, disrespectful, traumatic, dangerous, exhausting, threatening, harassment-like, or full of conflict, that you should immediately get extra pay, a shining letter of recommendation for your next job, and a few days off.
#37
When my assh*le patient pointed his finger at me angrily and said, "Your job is to serve me." No one has ever talked to me that way in my life. How dare someone speak to me that way who is depending upon me to make sure they don't bleed out after their heart catheterization and advocate on their behalf to the physicians.
Henry Shane 3 years ago
Wow did they reay just say no one has ever and how dare they and the threaten not to advocate for then. What a disgusting post, my wife is a nurse and was disgusted by this when I read it to her.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago (edited)
The patient sounds like a nightmare, but the nurse/doctor sounds scary as hêll! This doctor is frightening, believing themselves to be above reproach of their patients, to act as if they're the hand of God in deciding whether or not they deserve to live or die, or whether they pass along valuable information to their physicians. This is horrifying and this person should never work in a public facing position or interact with other people or animals. Edited to add; I might be overthinking this a bit, but I don't think so.
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Rita OBrien 2 weeks ago
"My job is to keep you well. Do you want me to keep you well or do you want to keep yourself well? "
Gladys Hayes Southerland 1 year ago
Caretakers need to be respected more, not taken for granted.
#38
I worked at a well known chain ice cream place. Minimum wage. The drains that consume all of the dairy and fruit from the ice cream scoopers had been clogged for a WEEK before my manager decided to do something about it. There was grey smelly water all over the floor behind the counter. She calls the plumber who shows up like 4 hours late to fix this drain. Well let me tell you friends, he opened up that grate and scraped off the first layer of muck and it was like hell itself had opened up from this drain and had viciously lashed about searching for souls to claim. The plumber immediately sat up, trotted out to the front of our building and vomited profusely for a few minutes while my coworker and I ran to the back room. We called the manager and asked if we could go ahead and close the store for the night so that no unsuspecting customers had to be subjected to this foul decay as they walked in. She refused and also told us it couldn't be that bad and that we needed to stay and serve. We were also not allowed to leave the store to buy medical masks across the street. I sat there. Constantly nauseous. Waiting for time to pass. FOUR. F*CKING. HOURS. Pass and we can finally close down. We get another call, informing us that we are to stay another 2 hours until the manager could get to our store to ensure the plumber did not harm any store property. I left that night with the knowledge that I just subjected myself to a serious health hazard, without safety equipment, for $7.50/hr
Seb Benson 3 years ago
Personally I would have told the manager that if they didn't close, I would contact the Health Department and they would close the store until at least the plumber had finished.
#39
Was 16 years old working at a movie theater. As an usher (person who cleans up after movies) I had to do perimeter checks around the building to make sure no homeless people were sleeping in the alcoves where the movies let out to. On one such occasion I discovered about 10 hypodermic needles laying on the ground. Since I was 16, I wasn't permitted to pick up sh*t like that, so I radio'd back to my manager and told her that. Her response was essentially "ugh, I mean if you really don't think you should do it I guess I can come clean it up." Seeing as I didn't want to slide further down her sh*t list, I begrudgingly picked up all the needles and stuck them in a trash bag. When I got back I asked her where I should put this garbage (seeing as it's pretty hazardous) and she pointed to the trash where the customers threw their garbage away. That's one of about a thousand stories I have from that piece of sh*t dump. Horrible, rotten managers.
PCW10101 3 years ago
That is utterly deplorable behaviour. The very danger to so many people involved in waste disposal is unforgiveable. I would have reported the so called Manager.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
It's so sad for the teen to be pressured like that and to not have a better disposal system for all the sharps that seem to be a common problem. I'm sure management could get one from a pharmacy, if they cared. I'm sure Osha would be interested in their collection, storage, and disposal of biohazards. And sending a teenager to go roust the homeless people from the building at night is insanity. That's just asking for someone to get hurt by startling people in the dark. Management there seems caustic to their own overall business.
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I was a nurse in an ICU, and a guy came in in alcohol withdrawal. Now, I'm not a delicate little flower, and had taken care of patients like this many times before, but this was the worst ever. He peed in a urinal and threw it at me. Then he tried to punch me, which bought him a visit from security and leather restraints. Then he kicked me in the abdomen while I was trying to draw some blood. Then I unrestrained him, with 2 other co-workers to help him get on the bed pan to have a bowel movement, and when he went to wipe himself, he grabbed some sh*t and threw it at us. And he spit at us. Not to mention the names that we were called, but I don't care if someone calls me a b*tch. After he came out of DTs, he was actually a really funny guy and was so so so completely embarrassed about what happened. But I realized during that shift, that getting paid ~$23/hr as an RN was not enough pay for having human excretions thrown at me or physical assault.
Michelle Muirhead 3 years ago
Nurses like Correctional Officers & Police Officers face the worst type of people.
PCW10101 3 years ago
or people at their worst, lowest point. Still - never, ever paid enough.
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abby smink 3 years ago
I hope this is many, many years ago, because 23 an hour for a critical care nurse is criminal.
#41
When I was working at Wal-Mart the price of cabbage went up a few cents and some old lady in a rascal scooter was yelling at me about it and telling me how much less cabbage cost during the war and trying to hit me with her cane.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 3 years ago
I never understood people who yells at cashiers, the lowest paid employee of any store, Who would be facing back 6 feet under the ground if corporation was a totem pole. Like, karen we don't have power to decide prices and we can't do anything about it. Yelling at cashiers is not getting anything done. If you really want to yell go yell at CEOs and Managers.
#42
While I was still in training as an EMT I got a call for a cardiac arrest. When we arrived there was a very green looking police officer sitting on the porch who had been called for a welfare check. He started to tell us that we didn't want to go in there, but it was too late, one of the paramedics had already opened the door. As soon as the door was opened the smell hit us. Inside was the body of the man that lived there and he had clearly been dead for quite some time. He had melted partially into the couch he was laying on and what remained of his skin was dark gray. You could also clearly see the bones in his hands. He looked like a horror movie prop and i have never smelled anything else like it. His neighbors said that they hadn't seen him since January and it was April. Luckily my service doesn't transport bodies, once we have verified that someone is without a doubt 100% dead we alert the appropriate authorities and wait for them to arrive and take over. One thing we always have to do on these calls is attach limb leads and run a quick ECG for any sign of life. We have to do it even when it seems ridiculous. I am still not 100% sure if that is an actual rule or if they were f*cking with me, because as soon as i finished my certification i got a job somewhere where contact with corpses is unlikely. So as the trainee of course I had to do it. I am not sure if you have ever tried to put stickers on a rotten corpse, but they do not want to stay in place at all. That is the only call that has ever made me vomit.
Anikulapo 3 years ago
They were 100% €&€ing with you. Definitive indicators of death: 1. Decomposition 2. Obvious rigor mortis 3. Obvious pooling (hypostasis) 4. Incineration 5. Decapitation 6. Injuries totally incompatible with life 7. Unwitnessed traumatic cardiac arrest following blunt trauma
Kaz 3 years ago
My Dad was a medic in the British Army. He was called to an incident in a tank where someone inside had somehow detonated a grenade. My Dad after having to view the scene close up had to get his commanding officer to verify death. Dad was asked "are you sure he's dead?" My Dad replied yes, CO asked how he was so sure, My Dad replied "he's got no head sir". This would have been sometime in the 60s.
#43
Helping the coroner move a decomp on a hot August day. (Police officer).
Cactus McCoy 3 years ago
Oh fugg yeah. I worked in a morgue years ago and handled those corpses afterwards, as the coroner had his examination room in our hospitals. Cleaning shifts could be great.
#44
911 dispatcher. So many moments. But one drunk f*cker yelling at me about the power being out. The sheriffs office is not your utilities provider, you cuntsalad.
𝖊𝖆 3 years ago
Ugh. This reminds me of my IT helpdesk days. Countless calls from people saying their computer wouldn’t switch on, you go through the usual, is it plugged in etc, and then they say no cos the power is out, and then you have to explain why a desktop won’t work if there is no electricity! And when someone is using a laptop during a power cut and wants to know why they have no internet 🤦🏼♀️
#45
When a developmentally disabled, autistic, profoundly mentally retarded kid around 20 years old starts brutalizing himself terribly. Ramming his head and body against a brick mantle repeatedly. Screaming, thrashing and banging against the wall for 10 minutes at a time. Management has no idea what to do. Neither does staff. The ER got tired of admitting him three crises ago. But you're left to deal with him for 4 -12 hrs at a time for roughly minimum wage.
David Harris 3 years ago
That's messed up. Sorry you have to deal with that. The patient belongs in a secure, padded cell or similar.
Griffin McKinley 3 years ago
Yes, put the 20 year old with no idea what the hell they are doing, with autism, developmental problems, and of whom is actually r******d in JAIL that sure would help. He needs help, not something to stop him from hurting himself
Load More Replies... 𝖊𝖆 3 years ago (edited)
In the UK there was an incident where a person alleged a police officer had punched them repeatedly in the head, caused some severe injuries, description of them was very tall and wide, solidly built. The attending officers’ body worn video is reviewed as part of the complaint, and all their statements taken etc. Turns out when the person was arrested for (I think drunk and disorderly and then re-arrested for assault on an emergency worker), there was a moment when the person was handcuffed and standing by the police car, when they start violently head butting the car causing injuries for no seemingly apparent reason. The person was so drunk, they couldn’t remember hurting themselves and thought a police car was a police officer! Nothing surprises me any more about drunk people.
Mali Holdaway 3 years ago
You should have stopped at developmentally disabled . . . "R******d" is an outdated and insensitive term that has been phased out!!!!
#46
Used to work retail security, got threatened by a junkie with a dirty needle over a Friends box set...
That was my last day.
Seb Benson 3 years ago
I like Friends as much as the next person, but that "junkie" needs to calm down. Glad OP got through that situation unscathed (or I least I hope OP did).
#47
I have been showered in concentratred dental waste. When you go to the dentist, that bowl you spit in and the suction tube they clear your mouth with are part of a special piping system. Imagine pipes full of blood, spit, gum tissue, gingivitis, tooth plaque, rotting bits of god knows that that thing from your teeth was ect.... then imagine a dead end in that piping system full of that nasty goo where the already foul substance has been fermenting for years. I was working on the dental waste collection system at a dental school and was on a ladder in a very tight spot when a 4" line dropped and I got a 30 second money shot right to the face. When it was soaked, completely covered from head to toe in blood, spit, mucus and anything else somebody could cough up or spit out.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
That's the kind of rancid shît idk that I'd ever feel like I could wash off.
#48
I was working in a law firm and my responsibilities piled up and piled up. I sent repeated emails to my boss to let her know that even though I was working 2-3 hours of unpaid overtime every day I still wasn't getting through all my work. She did not respond to any of these emails, I continued to drown in my work. After I was off sick for half a day I was called in for a disciplinary hearing and given a written warning because my work wasn't all up to date. I left about 2 months later when I found a new job, she hired 3 people to replace me.
#49
Standing in a freezer, scooping ice cream into hundreds of martini glasses (the banquets were usually around 500-900) with nothing but a couple pairs of flimsy disposable gloves on. Only to have the pastry chef say the balls weren't round enough and to do it all f*cking again. I was pisssd.
#50
So many times as a cashier at Toys R Us... Some of the customers would go apesh*t that I couldn't honor the 4-month-expired sales tag they found crumpled on the floor near some item and scream at me for being incompetent. I literally had no ability to apply the sale discount after the expiration date; it required a manager to override. They also got mad if something was priced higher than it was at a different store, because apparently that was my fault too.
#51
During summers, I work at an accelerated summer school program designed to either help kids retain what they just learned, get a preview of their next math class, or complete their next math class to move ahead to the next one during the school year. Because I was the one who was charged with sending the transcripts to the schools after the program was completed, I had to deal with all the parents insisting that their child who failed every single test just happened to have a bad day every time a test was given and that they had learned enough to go to the next class. I had to call in my boss sometimes because they would just start yelling at me when things didn't go their way.
#52
As a teen I was working with the youth group from my church to help raise money for a trip. This guy had us over to his farm to do some work; fair enough. We get there and he has us clean out his chicken coops. Most of the rooms were at least six inches deep in poop, while the average was probably closer to 10 inches, and some of the corners got up to about a foot and a half. Buried in this poop were dead chickens, as well as several dead cats that had 'gone missing.' It was a terrible, much more death-filled morning than I was anticipating. There were probably 7 or 8 of us there for half a day, and while I don't know the number, the guy probably didn't pay us more than $100, so like $3 an hour per person.
Dav Carro-Ripalda 3 years ago
And that is why you have to negotiate before elven lifting the shovel
#53
I manage a supermarket. I was working one night and a customer comes running in saying that there was a brawl outside. I pulled out my phone and rang the police as I walked outside to assess the situation. I see half a dozen local ferals throwing punches. I start to tell the police what's happening while keeping a safe distance. Then one of the brawlers pulled out a bow and arrow. My thoughts; F*ck this sh*t, I'm out.
#54
Was earning minimum wage for working in a claims call centre for a health insurance company. I was called regarding a query on a claim where the person owed a certain amount of money to a psychiatric hospital for overstaying in the facility when he capped out the amount his insurance allowed. He was not happy about this. He proceeded to berate and belittle me for 45 minutes, then put his wife on the phone who told me in horrific detail how he tried to kill himself and why he needed to stay in the facility. It was gory, it was gruesome, and I still think about what she told me sometimes. At the end of the phone call I went and locked myself in the bathroom and cried. It was then I decided that job was no longer worth it especially on the money I was on. I stuck it out for a bit longer and then moved abroad. Best decision I ever made.
#55
Little girl squatted down and pissed in the middle of the store. To make it better, her parents carried her out of the store while she was still peeing leaving a trail of piss through the store.
#56
When I politely asked a patient to sit up to safely take their pills and was met with a "how about you shut the f*ck up and quit your b*tching." (I informed them to put their light on when they were ready to treat me like a human being and we could try again). Being told "well maybe they're not really dead" after informing the family the patient has expired. Being asked to "put lotion" on a 600+ pound hep c positive patients scrotum (he made this request hourly). Having to explain to a 30 something year old brittle diabetic with an obvious history of substance abuse that eating 3 Mars Bars and injecting Lantus intravenously was not an effective way to manage his diabetes. The list goes on.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago (edited)
I'm certain I'd have to reject the request for lotion on the scrōtûm. Unless it was a written doctor's order it's not happening. Edited to adjust the word scrōtûm after it was censored.
#57
I was working security at a Quinceañera with another supervisor. We had kicked a handful of people out of the event throughout the evening for trying to start fights, drinking in the parking lot after being told not to, and distributing alcohol to kids. Eventually the event was shut down. My boss and another supervisor showed up to help. 20 minutes later we were all standing out in front waiting for the last of the patrons to exit the building when two cars pull in and a bunch of guys get out demanding to be let in. One of these guys had been kicked out earlier for starting a fight. My boss tells them to get off the property and they respond by pulling out pistols and saying they're going in. I remember standing there looking at these 5 gangbangers with guns and then looking at my boss and coworkers as they withdraw their guns and thinking, "Sh*t, all I've got is a flashlight." TL;DR: Was in standoff, everyone had guns but me.
TheEndIsNigh 3 years ago
Well...I went to my first Quinceañera in Mexico. Pretty much this exact thing happened. I was told " It ain't a Quinceañera till someone gets shot or stabbed." 😳
Namea 2 months ago
I've been to a ton and they were all sweet events with wonderful food and family moments.
Load More Replies... Bender Bending Rodríguez 3 years ago
Let's play guess the country but since we already know which country without speaking. You are only allowed to reply with incorrect country and why this wouldn't happen there.
#58
used to be a conductor on a wine train and there were always white divorcees going out with their girl friends whod get a little too drunk and get beligerent. One night they tried to assault a sikh man "for doing 9/11" and i had to intervene to keep these 5 drunk women from killing this man.
#59
Accountant here. When my mate who works in IT as web developer works less hours and gets paid more than me doing something he enjoys. He told me he was playing counter strike with his manager to wind down on Friday afternoon. I am working till 8 pm everyday and comes in on weekends. I love my life choices.
#60
My last job seemed too good to be true. It was. I was paid $50 a day (and allowed a room in a sh*tty, sh*tty run down house that I shared with 6 other people and also doubled as the guest reception area) to run the stables attached to a very popular resort. I started at 7am and didn't come in until after 10pm. I spent 4 hours in the morning feeding 18 horses, and then calves, pigs, chickens, 40 sled dogs, goats, llamas, emus, you name it. After completing this dirty and physically taxing work I then had to put on a smiley face and deal with idiotic, rude, unsafe tourists trying to ride horses and taking whiny kids on pony rides. I lasted 8 long months. It is the only time I have ever not given notice and just left. I stopped getting regular pay checks and just collected what I was owed and left without a word. No regrets.
#61
Age 16, babysitting (for lack of a better word) a 12 year old girl from 5pm till around 3am. She spent 8 of those 10 hours trying to kiss/cuddle me. Yeah no.
Heather Lambie 3 years ago
Sad. Wonder what went on in her world to make her do sexual at such a young age.
Seb Benson 3 years ago
That's scary in all three tenses... 1) Past - what have/haven't the parents taught the child about boundaries and appropriate/inappropriate behaviour... 2) Present - this situation sounds truly awful... and 3) Future - Is this a sign of future behavioural patterns for this child into adulthood.
#62
I had to stand there while some lady told me I was incompetent for not being able to make her steak sandwich medium rare.
I was working at Subway.
#63
I worked at a private school 3 years ago, but was in no way glamorous. It was in, essentially a steal warehouse with A/C. I got paid minimum wage with zero overtime. despite working around 40-55 hours a week I got zero healthcare or benefits. Also the snacks provided by the school were limited to off-off brand goldfish and pretzels, which the children hated after the second week of school, so I often had to buy and bring in snacks with zero reimbursement. The moment where I had enough was more a series of moment over two months. A new boy came to school that was having just the hardest time with school mates, teachers and pre/post school caretakers alike. I've had training from previous jobs about looking for signs of autism and suggested the parents get him tested. They were skeptical but the next week came in saying, he was indeed on the spectrum and is just below high functioning. I was there with the principal when he said that is was no big deal and that the school can handle it. It was a big deal, the school could not handle it, not one staff member had the training on how to handle him. The boy deserved better than the be shucked off by frustrated teachers who thought he merely didn't understand the rules because he went to a public school. A few staff members who knew better and I demanded the school give training to essential personnel for everyone's sake. He agreed. That next Saturday half the school staff came in only to be sat down have the school "nurse" half heartedly read a pamphlet about what autism is and then administer a test, during which she told us the answers. The second she started saying "the answer to number one is A" I got up and quit. I feel awful about abandoning this kid whenever I think about it. He probably is still in that school, his parents told me they were running out of choices. I hope he's doing ok, I hope whoever they got to replace me was previously trained, I hope I didn't make the wrong choice.
Jason Marin 3 years ago
The wrong choice was having the nurse reading from a pamphlet. The right choice would have been to bring in a professional care giver to explain everything and what needs to be done.
#64
Working at a private school, teaching a prek / k class with no benefits, no prep time, coming in on evenings and weekends to catch up on work, not being given the full set of training manuals (for their special technique I needed to follow and wasn't well versed in), dealing with entitled parents who actually used the phrases "I pay good money." "I pay your salary." and "I am the customer." and a clueless, powerless, incompetent administration who had no actual power over the running of the school and who didn't understand why I'd want to call social services when a child disclosed abuse. All this for less than half of what the public school teachers make in my city. I definitely didn't get paid enough for that sh*t
Mali Holdaway 3 years ago
They wouldn't LET u call CPS . . . I, dont know where u live but In the USA it is MANDATORY, for anybody working with minors to report if they even suspect abuse much less if it is reported to them. That is just so irresponsible of them!!!!
#65
When I was 17, working at the local skating rink after their "skate and dance" where all the middle school prostitots and freshman/sophomore high school boys would grind on each other to bad late 90s/2000s hip hop. One night in particular was really bad, I needed a garden hose for a few of these kids who were going above and beyond grinding. After dealing with that all night, I had to clean the bathrooms. In the boys bathroom, a used rubber floating in the toilet. After an event that was 17 and under only. So that's great, not sure where that occurred, but first thing tomorrow (Saturday) there's going to be a gaggle of small children all over the building for pubic skate and birthday parties, so that's gross. In the girls bathroom though... Some soul sucking evil teenaged b*tch, possibly b*tches, had smeared menstrual blood all over the stall doors and mirrors, and flung a tampon against the wall so it stuck. I went to my manager who was a 300+lb nasty swamp beast who hated me, to tell her about how bad it was and that I want cleaning it, and she told me it was my damn job to clean it up. I quit. So yeah, they literally didn't pay me enough for that sh*t, and I went and found a real job the next week
#66
When I got called in for the fifth day off in a row. The manager had no clue how to make a schedule and literally every day off I had, I got a call asking me to come in. I was really broke and didn't know how to say no to people so I worked like 3 weeks with no days off. Sometimes they called me at 1:30 asking me to come in at 3, when they knew for a fact I had an hour commute. After that I started turning off my phone on days off.
#67
After knowingly serving customers mouldy buns and overcooked meat for their $15 burgers (under my managers strict instruction) and then having to deal with their complaints. Then getting berated by my manager in front of said customers, "to make the company look professional." Walked out in peak hour, f*ck that. Haha if you live in Australia you've eaten here. Stop. For your own good.
River Daski 3 years ago
i clicked through to reddit. comment is 8 years old and the person who guessed correctly deleted their post. so, unfortunately no name, and hopefully the place is better by now
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Work in retail part time. I work on the sales floor and some lady pissed all over herself and a bunch of clothes and left them on the floor in the fitting room. I didn't notice anything until I walked in there and got a whiff of one of the most rancid stenches that grazed my nostrils. Anyway, we have dedicated cleaning staff that we contract out, but the lady I contacted came in, walked into the room, and started freaking the f*ck out and left. So I ended up contacting a manager on hand and with her help cleaned the sh*t up... all for sh*tty retail minimum wage.
Dav Carro-Ripalda 3 years ago
So you phone the specialized cleaning company and complaint about the other worker.
#69
A few: Security Officer: I got into a fist fight with a truck driver because I took too long to make a copy of his paperwork so that he could leave. Copier was inside the building across the plant. This wasn't the only time, but this was the one where I was legit helping the guy. Butcher shop: I had a co-worker start acting like freaking G.I. Joe while we were trying to close the department. Rolling between aisles and making actions and audible noises like he was mowing people down with an LMG. He didn't do anything and we got out 50 mins late because I had to go back and do all of his stuff. Roofing: at $10 an hour... pretty much everything. Pest extermination: When your co-worker kicks the hive of yellow jackets and neither of you are licensed to use the kill powder, so your squirrel job just turned into calling the boss to get him to take care of the yj problem... every few days. Inbound call center (they call us for help): Being told I'm worthless and useless and how much better his son is than I am because I wouldn't pay for a 300 mile taxi ride for his retarded kid that was drunk driving. Wasn't even my department and it was my supervisor that actually transferred the douche to me while I was telling him that he needed to talk to the correct department.
#70
About 10 years ago I spent a summer moving from temp job to temp job while on summer break from Uni. One of the jobs was in a cereal factory where they made cornflakes for supermarket own brands. When I arrived after being sent by the job agency they struggled to find me anything to do, but as the factory was on a "cleaning day" I was given a screwdriver and a hammer and told to hack away at the cereal build up in a big ass pipe that I could only get to through a 10cm x 10cm access flap. It was hot as hell in there because all the extractors were turned off due to the cleaning and to top it off there was a leaky water pipe above me that periodically dripped searing hot water onto my shoulder. I still have a scar from where it burnt me. Anyway, after about an hour i'd had enough and decided that being paid minimum wage minus the agency's cut wasn't worth it. Literally walked straight out, got in the car and bailed without saying a word to anyone.
#71
I worked at a deli near my house. Got paid 6.50 per hour because it was owned by a church, non profit. Not too busy of a place, in a not so busy town. Except for when said town throws its annual festival. It's the busiest weekend of the year for nearly every business on every street. Me and three other people are working frantically to keep this little sandwich machine pumping all while the place is slammed to the hilt with people... God, the people. Just so many assh*les wanting so many different things: food, bathroom, directions, etc. In the midst of the chaos somebody drops their basket of chips on the floor, what. the. f*ck... So naturally I go to grab the vacuum from the maintenance closet. I make my way thru the crowd toward the back of the deli, which is where the closet and bathroom are located. The line for the bathroom stretched all the way to the front door. Bummer I guess because I didn't give a f*ck. I open the closet turn on the light and take a good a hard look at the vacuum cleaner in front of me. Apparently..... some drunk assh*le couldn't wait in line, saw the maintenance closet thinking it was another bathroom, went in, noticed it wasn't a bathroom but decided it was too late, dropped trow, and just left the creamiest most explosive sh*t splattered diarrhea I've ever seen all over the vacuum cleaner I needed so desperately to clean the floor that belonged to the deli that only pays me 6 and a half american f*cking greenbacks per hour. I immediately went home and smoked some weed, cuz I literally did not get paid enough for that sh*t.
#72
High school, worked in movie theater. Old, homeless man would always come poop on our lobby bench. Yours truly was the lucky winner, nearly every time. Goddamn oldass pooper.
#73
I work as a property manager at a university's research preserve of 1600 acres. I recently accidentally cut a hornets nest in half. I got lit up.
#74
After telling an SVP for a year that if they implemented X vendor software and it grew beyond Y size there was nothing the vendor could do to help them and that the only way I could fix it was to rewrite the vendor code, which I was under strict orders from the same SVP not to ever do again. Sure enough they exponentially surpass Y and the whole thing crashes and the SVP calls an emergency meeting, "Yes, yes, I know you told us this would happen, but that's in the past, we need you to fix it NOW...."
#75
I was hosting at a restaurant on a busy day and the wait to get a table was about 25-30 minutes. This woman comes in and demands a table I then ask her name to put her on my list. When I tell her it's going to be 25-30 minutes she loses her sh*t and throws the buzzer at me.
#76
A lady walked into my shop during a sale and the first words out of her mouth were "I am going to spend thousands of dollars here or somewhere else, you will give me a discount." That was when I knew things would go bad. TL;DR She claimed to be a bigshot CEO, bought 1k worth of stuff, tried to illegally get us to waive her sales tax then threw a fit and took a $50 item without paying. Turned out she was some bigshot CEO..... Or the 6' something guy who started getting a bit threatening after we refused to let him use one of our floor models for the day...he started getting upset claiming to have bought a house in [rich neighborhood] for cash in hand, then started to raise his voice, get in my face and ask if we knew we were losing a sale...luckily my manager intervened and sent him out. So basically whenever people think they own others around them because they have money. There are plenty of rich people who aren't assh*les that think everyone they think is below them.
Raccoon panda 3 years ago
There should be a mandatory test to see if someone’s an a-hole, and only the a-holes have to pay taxes in this country.
#77
I used to work at a place that hosted children's parties occasionally. So, any time I had to scrub regurgitated cake and pizza out of the carpet. Or the one time I had to scrub literal sh*t off of a chair.
#78
I drive a tow truck for AAA. Changing tires on major highways is always a blast. But the real fun is having to lay down on those highways while it's pouring down rain to hook cars up. But i think the absolute worst is getting into some people's vehicles. I had a guy tonight who apparently was a horder. The car was PACKED with bags of stuff. The drivers seat was the only thing that was kind of clear. The seat also had stains on it which I'm pretty sure were urine. And the smell, oh god the smell. It's smelled like human waste mixed with garbage that had been left in the sun with a hint of dog food. I nearly vomited. The worst part was I took this car to a shop and the guy drove with me in my truck. I couldn't get the smell out for the rest of the night. I honestly feel bad for whoever has to work on that car tomorrow.
#79
Yesterday I had to explain to a coworker that makes almost $10k a year more than me that what she thought was a list of calendar dates was in fact a list of group identification numbers, as clearly noted on the screen she was on. That's right, had to explain to a woman in her 40s that a calendar date needs a month, a date, and a year, and what they look like printed
#80
Literally getting yelled at for not staying late. I don't get paid to stay late. My bosses are a married couple and think it's OK to lose their sh*t at me. If I didn't really need money right now, I'd quit
HeatherDPanda 3 years ago
So sorry for this. My husband and I own a business and would never act like that!
#81
When an 8 year old lied to his mother and had her call the school to complain, and then to my face the next day said "I'm going to get you fired" all because he got tagged in the game we were playing. Thank you, Matthew.
#82
I was working at a farmer's market selling apple juice, and this tiny kid was just picking up the testers one by one and throwing them on the floor without drinking them whilst staring me down. I just let him...
#83
Cleaning mold from the drains under the bread in the bakery. It was exhausting I was paid minimum wage and my boss didn't care there was mold growing under the fkin bread. I put in my 2 weeks the next day. Grocery stores suck
WoodenLion 3 years ago
used to get called sometime to fix some electrical ; pull that fryer away from the wall and you're gonna' smell like that all day
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I work at a gym. I am only a Front Desk receptionist. I am a part-timer (also currently in college) getting paid minimum wage. I have been working at my location the longest out of all the other front desk people, so I often (especially on Sundays) open the gym and am there for 6 hours alone without any other employees since that's our slowest day of the week. I come in and open as usual one and a lady comes up to me about 30 min later. Someone had pooped in the shower in the ladies locker room and proceeded to try to waffle stomp it down. I was the one that had to clean it. Save my soul.
#85
I'm an officer in the Army. I once had a young private come to me and confess that he was arrested at the weekend for being drunk and stealing a bicycle. Obviously he had to be disciplined but I decided to go easy since he seemed genuinely repentant, and had asked me to help him write an apology letter. He returned to me with a draft copy of his letter. It had only two words scrawled on it, neither spelled correctly. "im sory"
Lady Goldberry 3 years ago (edited)
Poor lad. I mean, he shouldn't have stolen the bike obvs. But still.
#86
This happened during one of my internships at a veterinary hospital, no pay. I was helping restrain a dog when she got away from us. She had diarrhea and she decided to run around the hospital while exploding out her back end. Guess who had to clean that up?
What do you think ?
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago (edited)
Mine was when some old lady stayed behind to scream at me for daring to need a bathroom break during the Christmas rush. She didn't care that I'd been standing for over 4 hours without a break and just needed to pee. (She never thought that I'd been working two jobs full time without a day off for over two years, either.) She was FURIOUS that I closed my register when it was her turn. Never mind that she was immediately helped by the next register, and was done by the time I got back from my 90-second dash back and forth, she was in SUCH a hurry that she had time to... stand and wait for me to get back to yell at me for leaving when it was HER turn. Usually, I would've been apologetic, but this time, I just went "Ma'am, we're allowed to use the bathroom," and turned my back on her.
James Tartaglione 3 years ago
mine is funny (i hope). used to work at a print shop. ran some stuff on gray cover stock for a lawyer. she was not happy as, and i quote, "that is not gray. that is dark white". i responded with "actually it looks more like a light black"
Isabelle Lamarque 3 years ago
Mine was when my boss was almost bullied into quitting because she was sick for too long. (she had her uterus removed after a severe illness) I was close to her and visited her frequently. No one ever asked her how she was doing or had any compassion. I fell ill a week before her and my colleague was promoted to her job (temporarily we assume) I'm battling a chronic muscle disease and don't know if I'll be able to go back as I'm an IT technician and working on servers is pretty physical often. My colleague/boss told me to stay sick for as long as I can 'cus the moment I return they will fire me. I'm in IT and do not have a wage according to my sector. Tbh I won't be sad when they fire me..
beckhansen13 2 years ago
So many stories about mental health workers smh. I’m a social worker working in adult mental health for about 15 years now. I’ve been spit on, threatened with a knife, called many names, seen a lot of self harm and suicide attempts, heard many horrible stories. I witnessed a patient jump out of a third story window. I handled the crisis, but afterwards had a catatonic stress response myself and had to go inpatient. The company was not supportive, and I ended up being forced out. Mental health workers/social workers/paramedics/etc. NEED to unionize. It’s unbelievable the daily working conditions we face to take care of others, often at the expense of our own mental and physical health.
Ellen Ranks 3 years ago
Oh damn BP censorship. insert ra where the ** are.
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Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
How can intelligent humans behave like such utter filthy trash? A lot of these twatbaskets would make excellent poster children for Planned Parenthood.
Jdawg 3 years ago
I’ve had #23 happen. My boss also told us not to accept bra or sock money. I’ve had a phone that was soaked in cat p**s and they were mad I couldn’t fix it. I never really believed the whole ‘your phone screen has more germs than a toilet seat’ until I started working there. But not just the screen. The case and back and ports too. Nasty
Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago (edited)
Mine was when some old lady stayed behind to scream at me for daring to need a bathroom break during the Christmas rush. She didn't care that I'd been standing for over 4 hours without a break and just needed to pee. (She never thought that I'd been working two jobs full time without a day off for over two years, either.) She was FURIOUS that I closed my register when it was her turn. Never mind that she was immediately helped by the next register, and was done by the time I got back from my 90-second dash back and forth, she was in SUCH a hurry that she had time to... stand and wait for me to get back to yell at me for leaving when it was HER turn. Usually, I would've been apologetic, but this time, I just went "Ma'am, we're allowed to use the bathroom," and turned my back on her.
James Tartaglione 3 years ago
mine is funny (i hope). used to work at a print shop. ran some stuff on gray cover stock for a lawyer. she was not happy as, and i quote, "that is not gray. that is dark white". i responded with "actually it looks more like a light black"
Isabelle Lamarque 3 years ago
Mine was when my boss was almost bullied into quitting because she was sick for too long. (she had her uterus removed after a severe illness) I was close to her and visited her frequently. No one ever asked her how she was doing or had any compassion. I fell ill a week before her and my colleague was promoted to her job (temporarily we assume) I'm battling a chronic muscle disease and don't know if I'll be able to go back as I'm an IT technician and working on servers is pretty physical often. My colleague/boss told me to stay sick for as long as I can 'cus the moment I return they will fire me. I'm in IT and do not have a wage according to my sector. Tbh I won't be sad when they fire me..
beckhansen13 2 years ago
So many stories about mental health workers smh. I’m a social worker working in adult mental health for about 15 years now. I’ve been spit on, threatened with a knife, called many names, seen a lot of self harm and suicide attempts, heard many horrible stories. I witnessed a patient jump out of a third story window. I handled the crisis, but afterwards had a catatonic stress response myself and had to go inpatient. The company was not supportive, and I ended up being forced out. Mental health workers/social workers/paramedics/etc. NEED to unionize. It’s unbelievable the daily working conditions we face to take care of others, often at the expense of our own mental and physical health.
Ellen Ranks 3 years ago
Oh damn BP censorship. insert ra where the ** are.
Load More Replies... Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
How can intelligent humans behave like such utter filthy trash? A lot of these twatbaskets would make excellent poster children for Planned Parenthood.
Jdawg 3 years ago
I’ve had #23 happen. My boss also told us not to accept bra or sock money. I’ve had a phone that was soaked in cat p**s and they were mad I couldn’t fix it. I never really believed the whole ‘your phone screen has more germs than a toilet seat’ until I started working there. But not just the screen. The case and back and ports too. Nasty
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