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‘People Who Quit Their Jobs On The First Day, What Was Your “I’m Outta Here” Moment?’: 30 People Respond
The first day at work basically means little sleep, dressing in your nicest shirt, and pulling off your very best self that often overpromises and underdelivers when looking at it in retrospective. When all eyes are on you and your eyes are trying to figure out what you just got yourself into, the first day comes and goes like it never happened and fast forward to today, you got yourself stuck in one place for almost a decade (yep, my fellow millennials, we’re getting old.)
Unless you just got yourself into big trouble. And we all know very well that some jobs are exactly that. So when someone asked “What was your 'I’m outta here' moment?” on r/AskReddit, people who quit their job on the very first day at work had a lot to say. Take notes, kids, ‘cause you may be thankful for these red flags later in life.
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#1
‘Salesman’ for Kirby vacuums. First sale call was to a single elderly woman who was supporting her son in hospital (they got us in the door by offering a free carpet clean as a demonstration). The supervisor training me pushed and pushed to make the sale until this old woman was in tears. Just as she was about to sign the paperwork I asked if she actually wanted to vacuum and she said it was lovely but she couldn’t afford it. I took the paperwork away from her and said not to worry. Outside I told the supervisor I quit to which he replied I would’ve been fired anyway. No love lost. I hung around for half an hour playing on my phone to make sure the supervisor left because he was a real piece of work.
varwenea 4 years ago
Thank you for recognizing the vulnerability of the old lady and stayed to protect her. She probably didn't even know of your act of kindness.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
A thousand blessings on you for putting principle ahead of profit. Too few people believe in this!
Load More Replies... Rhon 4 years ago
Many many years ago my father got a job as an insurance agent. He spent most of his time "unselling " the insurance policies that the previous agents had sold to vulnerable people. One elder woman with a disabled son had been signed up for every policy that the company sold!
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
I once had to deal with a high-pressure salesman. I finally got so exacerbated that I told him to just f*** off. And yes, I dropped the F-bomb right in his face. I have no regrets, and never will, even if the Dodgers return to Brooklyn.
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Melissa Wong 4 years ago
Started my new job as a telemarketer last week... noticed that neither the big boss nor the office workers were wearing masks.. only their delivery men and some people in the smaller back office had masks. So I'm trying to sell their stupid products on the phone and big boss demands I take "That damn mask off - its useless", he can't hear anyone speak with it and everything to do with covid and the masks are a pile of bullshit. I didn't go back the next day. Now I have a job that pays less but I can do it in the comfort of my own home.
Mystery Egg 4 years ago
My ex brother-in-law sold Kirby vaccums. He did all his and our family's houses (including mattresses lol) then quit.
Heather Greenwald 4 years ago
My brother did the exact same thing for us lol
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#2
On the first day of working at Amazon warehouse the managers broke down to Everyone how a 15 minute break works there. Walking to the break room is 2 1/2 minutes. 10 minutes of actual break and then 2 1/2 minutes to go back to your stations. It took me 2 1/2 minutes to walk to my car and I took a forever break.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Since the Covid started Amazon have become more popular than they were and since then I have heard a lot of bad things in the media about them. I help people into employment but I wouldn't recommend them!
Lisa Shelton 4 years ago
See, I don't get this though. Every job I've ever worked, your break time starts when leave your desk/work area and stops when you get back 15 minutes later. So how is this any different? Why do they want extra time added on?
Rebekah 4 years ago
I've always wondered this too. And the day starts when you are at your desk, not walking in from the parking lot.
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Lindy Mac 4 years ago
Amazon's rules are nuts... the guy is making billions off the backs of people who can't even take a bathroom break without it putting behind in their quota. He needs to spend a month doing the job in the warehouse to learn some compassion. And if he hasn't got any by then...another month might do it. 🤣
Lucky2BAlive 4 years ago
This is NOT the first time I’ve heard about how Bezos allows employees to be treated. And when I explain to people why I avoid it and get a lot of flack over it. But I feel the same way about the precious stone business,. I would rather not wear a gem where fear and poverty are the mainstays. And no I am no better than anyone else in any way. This is just my personal belief structure,
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
I HATE Amazon and haven't ordered a thing from those orcs for many years! Bezos is the very personification of capitalist evil.
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DKS 001 4 years ago
that's how factories work too. You end up not leaving your station for break, and just sitting there during your break with your quickie sandwich you carried in your pocket
Z Alexi 4 years ago
Every office in big cities w/big corps~~where staffer's goal is to land in mgmnt~~eat at their desks [Perhaps work overtime w/o pay]. Some employees are pigs & don't wash their hands b4 or after lunch & leave greasy keyboards/mice & invite roaches. Bosses should inspect their work areas & tell them to become civilized or get out. No one wants to work in a sty...w/colleagues who probably don't bathe or wash their hands after holding their dix in the washrooms, aaack!
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Requiem 4 years ago
uhhh YEAH thats how EVERY business works! Not just amazon, Ive yet to work at a place where the break didnt start until i was sitting down. Oh yeah I get 30 mins in ten hours while you get 15 30 15 in 8 hours
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
That’s true but if it takes that long to leave the factory then maybe the break should be longer.
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Z Alexi 4 years ago
When women get = pay, they can stop abusive employers. [More women are graduating college & grad school.] Until then, guys control the power. W/a name like "miss miss," you should lobby for = pay; women've been fighting for 55+ yrs & pried 19¢/hr. out of male bosses' tight fists [59¢/hr. in 1964]. It'll take another 55 yrs to get the last 21¢ [A PayScale report found that "women still make only 79¢ for each dollar men make in 2019."]. How much do guys still hate women when they have daughters, moms, wives, mistresses, sisters, gr'mas, aunts~~& accept paying them less?! Pigs.
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My very first job was at a little drive in restaurant close to my high school. I showed up to work the first day, the lady said I had to pay her $50 for training. She showed me around the place and said that my pay would be $4.50/hour as a carhop(this was in 2010), and all the tips I made went into a bucket with all the other girls’ tips. At the end of the night, she counted up tips, kept 20% for herself and split the rest up evenly among EVERY employee. Also, part of our job was one day a week we had to spend 4 hours cleaning her house. It seemed super shady.
I literally left after listening to her go over all these rules. My dad was pissed until I explained, and another girl confirmed and my dad agreed I did the right thing.
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Pay her for training, and all the rest? Sounds like she learned from ABC Baking Company.
Tamsin Far 4 years ago (edited)
Wow. Having the staff pay for being shown around - nice idea! If Ferengi women were allowed to do business I would ask for the size of her ears...
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
No way! If anyone stuck around for more than a day, then they must be desperate! To clean her house as well? I would trash it!
JessG 4 years ago
She shouldn't get away with that house cleaning garbage, that's gotta be illegal, why would ANYONE put up with that?! Also, I don't know why anyone would work someplace that pools tips. I earned it, it's mine! Car hopping is something different though, they shouldn't be making less than min. Wage imo
Arran Walker 4 years ago
I worked for a bakery in TX that pooled tips; it was also a shitty place to work. They let me go because I took the necessary time to do things right... like actually cleaning tables.
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Casey McAlister 4 years ago
If you come to a new workplace and the first thing they ask is to pay them - it'd probably a scam. If I wanted to spend money, I'd go to a shopping center, not to work.
Jamma 4 years ago
There is a caveat though, where some employers have you pay for your uniform up front. Wrong or right, it does happen. I was wondering if perhaps uniform costs were included in that $50 but not mentioned. (I'm not saying the OP's job didn't have many red flags, though.)
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JessG 4 years ago
Fun Fact: this is where there filmed the Jack Rabbit Slims scene in Pulp Fiction.
Z Alexi 4 years ago
Not "fun"~~unproofed Comment...You're fwd'g info WORLDWIDE that's time-wasteful, juvenile, standards-free, irrelevant, silly, insulting, adolescent junk...getta life JessG!
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#4
When the microwave in the lunch room was coin activated.
John Dilligaf 4 years ago
you don't. You hook the microwave into a coin operated power supply timer box that gives you X minuets of electricity for however much money. $106 online. coin-opera...830460.jpg 
JennyLaRue 4 years ago
Someone probably spent more on making this coin operated than they would've in electricity in letting employees use it.
Curry on... 4 years ago (edited)
I knew I wouldn't stay at one job too long, because the microwave was filthy. This was a department with PhD types, and apparently, it was not their job.
#5
This is gonna get buried, but walking into an Alzheimer's assisted living facility, and seeing my college philosophy professor (who was an inspiring individual for me and changed how l viewed things), sitting in a chair in the Day Room, drooling on himself. I checked with the Head on Duty, and yeah... It was him.
I avoided him as much as I could for the whole day, but when leaving, I told him that he inspired me and I probably wouldn't ever see him again. He was far gone and asked about his slippers.
I left, sat in my car, had a smoke and cried. I didn't go back and found another job.
Myrtle Yoma 4 years ago
Unpopular opinion: This one doesn’t belong here. If that teacher inspired him so much, he was given the rare opportunity to help the person who helped him. Seeing someone unable to care for themselves is hard, but quitting because seeing the person who inspired you in such a vulnerable state is selfish, in my opinion. Now, if the OP hadn’t made this about the inspirational teacher and simply said the job wasn’t a good fit for them, that’s fine. But quitting because seeing his Professor like that didn’t fit his personal narrative is self serving. That job isn’t for everyone, but that’s about you, not anyone else.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Yeah, my hope is that the student went back not as an employee but to visit his professor. I don't know how likely that is given how much the student was affected but that's my hope anyway.
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Jonathan 4 years ago
You really have to be very strong emotionally to work in this kind of job.
J. Normal 4 years ago
Emotionally strong, and able to detach yourself. And when seeing someone you care about in that situation, any sense of detachment goes out the window.
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Monika Rhodes 4 years ago (edited)
I worked for few months as care taker for elderly but after seeing 1 woman trying to hang herself and I had to cut the rope while someone else held onto her and some other time take overdose- I had enough. (she survived btw)
Debbie 4 years ago
Why do people are so persistant in keeping people alive against their will... (Not meaning you Monika, but the system, as euthanasia isn't allowed in lots of places). Keeping people alive who want to die (like old people with a disease that can only get worse) is like torturing them.
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Even great minds can be destroyed by Alzheimer’s. I consider it the most tragic of all conditions. I’m glad it doesn’t run in my family, but still, the older I get the more I fear it any time I forget something.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
I remember going with my grandmother to visit her best friend—someone I’d known my entire life—and Mrs. Hadley was talking to grandma as if she were her not-present son. It was the last time I saw her and it made me so sad.
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Lj 4 years ago
Alzheimers is not very cruel to the person who has it; they don't know who they are, but they can still be happy. It is cruel to the people that love that sick person though, because they feel they lost him/her (lost the person he was, and their shared history).
Auntriarch 4 years ago
My father is at the stage where he knows he's losing himself. It's cruel to him, and he's not happy. I don't know if I should be looking forward to the point where he doesn't know. I'll let you know later.
Load More Replies... Billy The Kid 4 years ago
That is very sad to see someone like that that was like a peer mentor in that state and feeling useless to do anything. You made the right decision.
#6
I went into orientation for a new job as truck driver. Obviously you know you will be away from home but this was shi*ty.
Out on the road 30 days at a time, then only 36 hours, or 1.5 days at home.
You only work 6 out of 7 days. So 4 of those days you just sit at the truck stop unable to move. And not getting paid.
Can't bring a pet of any type.
So I would only be home 18 days a year. On the road for 347 days a year, and unpaid for 52 of them. The no pets rule was the final straw for me. I will not be out 30 days alone with no little friend to keep me sane.
I noped out of there.
J. Normal 4 years ago
I have a badly trained pet rock you can borrow. He attacks anyone that pisses me off.
Edgar Rops 4 years ago
Have they offered a training in forensic countermeasures? Because that sounds like a job for serial killer in the making...
Trulee Stewart 4 years ago
Don't drive OTR if you want a home life. I drove 2yrs for the fun of it. Logged over 200K miles. Had my dog AND cat with me in the truck and made a shitload of money. I had a blast!! Not for everyone for sure. That was 20yrs ago for me and I still get happy thinking about all the cool stuff I did.
Ki Li 4 years ago
So you got paid a fair wage and got to have pets with you? Sounds completely different.
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F. H. 4 years ago
I bet jobs like this are offered in the EU on a daily basis, despite being illegal.
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Worked in a hotel for a day.
No one told me where anything was. Got chewed out for it.
Guests enjoying their meals told me to pay no mind/I was doing a good job and that my boss is a c**t.
I told the manager that I was quitting and wouldn't be doing the next shift.
I arrived the next day, returning a work uniform and my supervisor approached me and yelled at me for being late. I told her I already quit but if i was working, technically I was 5 hours early for my shift.
Absolute nutcases.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
I walked out of a hotel night auditor job when, after being hired and called in to do all the paperwork before starting, the owner told me he was glad to have the position filled, since the previous night auditor had suddenly quit after being raped behind the front desk (W T Actual F?!), so he wouldn’t have to continue to cover the graveyard shift (Again, W T Actual F?!). Then he proceeded to tell me oh by the way, he didn’t think it was necessary to hire security guards, and I would still have to keep the lobby doors open, in case anyone needed to check in overnight! Needless to say, I told him what a callous asshole I thought he was, before walking out and kea ing him to still have to work overnight. But karma caught up to him. After a second rape occurred (FFS, you’d think he would’ve learned after the first one), the whole place was shut down. The building ended up being torn down and the property became a parking lot, so he’s probably parking cars instead of running a hotel now.
JessG 4 years ago
Wow! I share your sentiment, W the actual F?! Did he really say "she suddenly quit"?! Huh? Of course she quit, probably could have a lawsuit too! Just wow. I'm glad karma got him AND that nasty hotel, I'm hoping they got sued
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Billy The Kid 4 years ago
My missus started a job in morrisons. The first day there was no one to greet her. No one to show her how it works. She was left at the till to work out how to work it and to clear the tables while two lazy fks sat in the back room chatting. She walk out that day and never went back. The next day she wanted to take the uniform back, I threw it in the bin!
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
No sense at all, you treat people like that and act like nothing is wrong
Shawn Wright 4 years ago
Had that happen at a Home Depot where I worked. I came down with heat stroke, wasn't cleared to go back yet and had a note. Went in with cutoffs and huge shirt. HR lady said "you need to clock in, youre late". Wasn't even cleared by my doc to go back to work. Quit right there.
#8
I was hired at a chain restaurant to be a hostess. I was so excited because my last job was washing dishes and because of my eczema, I had to quit. It was too painful to do that job. So, I arrived at my new job dressed up to be a hostess and those mfers took me back to the kitchen to do dishes because the dishwasher just quit. I noped out of there real fast!
white_shadow 4 years ago
OMG same, but mine is more like dermatitis, and even touching water can be HELL, if your hand is too afflamed. I feel really bad for her.
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Arran Walker 4 years ago
Be nice if the photos in this collection properly matched the stories. At least half don’t.
Tina Missi 4 years ago
Relatable. I had to quit at a Super Target bakery for the same reason. The soap, scalding water and cleaners for the pans and counters made my eczema unbearable. And the cheap asses wouldn't fix the industrial dishwasher that we could have easily been using.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
They were serious @$$holes to pull that kind of bait-and-switch!
deanna woods 4 years ago
It can hurt the skin of a person with eczema to wash dishes. I know. I have eczema.
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I was a cashier at this cafeteria for a large company in my town. The people that worked at the company would put their tips in a bucket and the people made a lot of money so there was like 10s and 20s. The manager of the cafe wouldn’t let me have any of tips because she said that cashiers couldn’t be trusted so she would ship the tip money to a church in El Paso. I immediately knew that this was a load of bullsh*t and I just never went back. It’s also illegal (I think) to collect money for one thing but do something else with it without disclosing who/what it is for.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
There was a scam going on here in the UK where tips were collected but the managers kept it. This went viral on the news.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
This happened in a restaurant I worked for, in the office so the tips did not affect me. Nothing was done, manager just kept the money.
Load More Replies... Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Yep. But if you was stealing from the company it would've been sacked with a criminal record!
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Either that money was given to charity so the owner could write it off on his taxes, or the “charity” didn’t exist and he pocketed it. My money’s on the second possibility, btw. And yeah, it is illegal.
J. Normal 4 years ago
I have asked wait staff (quietly) about the tipping culture where we were. I had a feeling that the manager had a heavy hand on the tips ( it was a big party and the manager stood with her hand up her *** watching the waitstaff run like crazy. ) We quietly handed each of the staff that worked $50 and told them that was THEIR money, on the receipt we added $1 and requested it ALL go to the manager ( also contacted corporate... but I am a Quiet Karen at times)
John Montgomery 4 years ago
That's not a Karen. A Karen only cares about herself. You're a Diana.
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Brandy Grote 4 years ago
The CASHIER can't be trusted with money? Plus, when tips are PART OF YOUR WAGES, that is actual theft.
Z Alexi 4 years ago
Good one! The TV religious beggars are ALL low-lifes. If you want to contribute to some supernatural Man in the Sky [as Geo Carlin put it], be a fool...but stay off my air w/yr whining & pleading poverty. Obnoxious buffoons. No1 we know trust any religion~~we'd have fewer wars if we all became atheists. Let's do it!
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Gas station. The manager gave me a weird vibe. I made it through the first day but didn't go back.. Found out later he cornered another girl in the back of the store and she had to fight her way out. Trust your gut.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago (edited)
Fkn w**nker. Pour petrol over him and set fire. But then no smoking in the gas station.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Just pouring it on his “angry inch” and setting it on fire would be enough.
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Mazer 4 years ago
OMG, I had a similar experience as a customer. I went in to pay for the gas my sister was pumping, got a really creepy feeling the second I stepped inside, I told my sister never to go back to that gas station...ever!! I kept harping on her all day to avoid that place at all costs, made her promise me. Turns out the manager killed a young girl not long after, freaked my sister out to no end.
JessG 4 years ago
ALWAYS trust your instincts, it's usually right. ( side note: the more you do this, with ALL of your senses, the more you can develop your ESP. You may be rolling your eyes, but it's hundred percent truth :))
Vicky Z 4 years ago
And anyway worst case scenario is that you are wrong! But if you are right you just saved yourself and probably your life!
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deanna woods 4 years ago
Us ladies have to be careful on the job with crazy creeps. The main creeps I have to deal with are some of my delivery customers.
#11
A long time ago, not long after getting my papers as a chef I had an interview at a hotel for a position in the kitchen. The Executive Chef and I chatted in his office for about 20 mins, at the time I remember him coming off as very arrogant which is quite common in this field, I didn't think much of it at the time as the pay was decent and the shift was what I wanted. As I was leaving his office I turned to leave through the dining room (the way I had come in) which was closed at the time it was another hour or so before service started and he says to me "No not that way, go through the kitchen, you're not good enough to go through the dining room." I was so surprised by what he said, I just did what he asked without a word. Later on after I had got home I phoned him up and said that after having a close look I decided that his menu wasn't good enough and that I wouldn't be accepting his offer.
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
There used to be ( and are still), too many arrogant c**t chefs out there - Chef with 37 years before the stove here .....
#12
Applied for a job at my longtime favorite restaurant(celebrated my birthday there every year).
Owner asks me to come in for basically a try out, as I communicated i was looking at other job possibilities. I come in and they just stick me on dishwashing for an hour, no biggie. Then there dishwasher doesnt show up, so the kitchen manager asks me to stay one for their lunch rush, saya I'll get paid for the hours. I do, kitchen staff was nice so I was happy to help out even though i figured i'd be taking a different job. I fill out a time card at the end of the shift and tell the manager I probably wouldnt be back, he understands and thanks me for the help.
Fast forward a couple weeks and he tells me to email the owner after I ask him if i should pick up my measly paycheck. I do, she basically tells me to f**k off over text. Tells me it was "staging" and that she told me i wouldnt be paid, I respond that I understand that but that I stayed an extra 3 hours which I WAS told i'd be paid for. She stops responding, I decide I want to be petty over the 40 bucks so I get the statw labor department involved, dude goes in there and makes her pay me for the hours including the first "staging" hour. Couple weeks later I got my 40 bucks, never went back to that restaurant.
Firstly, "petty" is not how I see it two years later. Im VERY glad I did this and sharing the story with others in my city I learned this practice was very common with local restaurants. Hopefully others learned to stand up for their labor too from my small experience.
Secondly, this restaurant closed down a couple weeks after I got that paycheck. The owner made a long winded complaint on the FB page about how the food culture had "changed" in the city and her restaurant didnt fit in anymore (total bullsh*t, they were ALWAYS popular. Most people theorized the terrible mismanagement and employee abuse had caught up to her).
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
1- its not about pettiness its about principle. 2- if she/he didn't pay up then i would of ordered 40 bucks of goods then just walk out without paying.
Tai Dallen 4 years ago
So... get back by committing a criminal act... got it. Fight crime with crime!
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Alex Luiz 4 years ago
Damn, I wish I had been brave enough to get people involved when the same thing happened to me. I just wrote off an evening of my life, which isn't a big deal, but even 10 years later I feel angry for just allowing them to exploit me. I bet they did it to loads of others, too.
Paradise 4 years ago
I had a similar thing for a local in-home childcare. I quit after day 1, but agreed to sub once or twice more while they hired. Came back once, nope'd out. They tried not paying me until I made a stink. They had strange rules...got mad at me for not knowing no black or brown. I wore a long skirt as required, had to be called aunty so and so. They worshipped fairies. Couldn't call kids by a parent-provoded nickname altbough the teacher did. She got mad at me because I couldn't get an infant to sleep.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Used to work for a company that in the end of the year was cutting from all employees 1 day of annual leave(i work as seasonal so we are not allowed to take these days off, but we are getting them in cash in the end of the season) So the boss was cutting 30 Euros from each employee saving herself approximately 1000 Euros annually! So i decided i will be petty! For 30 Euros! Keep sending emails over and over when noone else did, because ok it was just 30€! After 3 months of constant emails guess who got their 30€ back😉
Jane Alexander 4 years ago
I was asked to wake my bf s roommate for his dishwashing job where my bf worked. After several attempts met with hostility became threatening, I, knowing the need, drove up and washed the damn dishes myself for the entire shift. Never did get paid because owner said she had never hired me. What a bitch! Some time later she bought herself a brand new Mustang while cheating her cooks out of their pay. One of them was going to sugar her gastank. I told him no, you leave it alone. Within a week she had wrapped that 'tang around a tree. See? told ya!
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
This is why the other people should report their employers. It works.
#13
I technically quit before my first day. I got hired at a well known gift store. I was hired with the understanding that I would work Saturdays, Sundays , and a grand total of 8 hours a week (so two 4 hour shifts). Also at minimum wage. Not a problem with me, done that before, I would just pick up a part time job for rest of the week. Nope, apparently that wasn't allowed. The manager thought that was a horrible thing and "disrespectful" to her. I should only work for them and only them and I should have better control over my money if I can't survive on $64 a week before taxes..... Yeah, didn't show up cause f**k that noise. She called pissed off that I wouldn't show up to such a opportunity.
Debbie Burton 4 years ago
Sounds like a job at an Ice Cream parlor that I applied for many years ago. At the end of the interview he said I had the job so I asked when I could start. He said I was only a fill in if anyone called in sick but he didnt want me to get another part time job in case he needed me every day of the week :O hahahahahahaha..... stupid idea
DKS 001 4 years ago
What? You can't live off $260a month before taxes? The shame! (I wouldn't have worked there either)
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Minimum wage is disrespectful so it’s only appropriate for her employees to be disrespectful back. Even Steven.
Banana 4 years ago
I taught aerobics for a gym (let's say a gym brand where a lot of "virgins" worked out), where we were made to sign a contract that we would not teach at other competitor gyms. We were contractors, NOT, permanent employees. Most of the instructors relied on teaching as a living. Luckily after many years of fighting, this rule changed. Freaking corporate bastards!!!
Lindy Mac 4 years ago
The manager should have no say on what you do after your shift. How would she even know?
Paradise 4 years ago
Only if it is a competitive business. Or, perhaps, of it is a frowned upon business, like seen as inappropriate in comparison. But not in general.
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They hired me to work full time. I had interviewed to work full time. I was trying to quit a horrible job, and this job was on the other end of town. I needed enough money for the bus pass, and to make up the difference and more of quitting my old job. They hired me and showed me my schedule. I showed up for my first day, things are going good, then my manager called me in, sat me down, and explained that they'd have to cut me down to 15 hours a week because they'd hired too many f**king people. I explained, painfully, that I had to take a bus an hour each way and wouldn't be able to pay rent or food after that. He said I could always hold out and hope people quit. I told him he could start with me, took off my apron and stormed out in tears.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Sounds like a bait and switch. He never intended for any new hires to be full time, so he could get out of paying benefits.
Monika Rhodes 4 years ago
How do you even mismanage hiring people. Maybe he should be fired...
kath morgan 4 years ago
The call centre I worked for regularly hired too many people because they knew they treated us so badly most of them would quit soon anyway. Right after a hire, you’d have 20 people in the break room waiting for a desk. Never took long for enough people to quit to work them in...
DKS 001 4 years ago
I had an interview for a janitor job. Was told 8 hrs a night. First night, it was only 3 hrs. For the next week, same thing. I asked to be able to go to another building when finished to make up the difference. No one can survive on 3 hrs a night
Jaybird3939 4 years ago
They pull crap like that, then when they need help for getting their restaurant back up and running, they whine, refusing to pay a living wage because it would hurt their most precious: Money+
#15
It was a waitress gig for a local restaurant. I finished my first day, then was told that training would continue for six weeks. While I was in training, all of the tips I got had to be given to my trainer. I was being paid less than $2 an hour.
I called the next day and said it wasn't gonna work out.
JessG 4 years ago
Something is wrong here. First of all, yes, it's common practice for your trainer to take the tips unfortunately ( yeah that's pretty crappy, BUT if your trainer is an actual nice person, they share). however, during training, it is the LAW that you be paid at least minimum wage if you aren't collecting tips. Report them, and sue for wages. Second, what restaurant anywhere has training for SIX WEEKS?!?! At the most, three weeks. That's excessive.
Niffler_13 4 years ago (edited)
In the US, if you are under 20 years of age, a business does not have to pay minimum wage for the first 90 days of employment, however they cannot pay you less than $4.50 an hour.
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Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
"Alternate minimum wage"... ie. legalized slavery in the USA.
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Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
@Amy Pattie, because emigration is never easy, and many of us do consider leaving. But we have attachments, and travel in the USA is expensive. It becomes a lot easier when what you have to gain outweighs what you have to lose.
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Calypso poet 4 years ago
That is illegal and just wrong. We trained our bartenders and waitresses for 3 days, just over minimum wage, no tips. But if it was really busy and the person was doing a great job we would tip them out.
CincyReds 4 years ago
That is absolutely not right. During training you are to be paid minimum wage, and normally the trainers are too, since they probably have a reduced section to help train, and make sure you under stand everything. and Six weeks of training? What the hell. I know when I trained people, and they were on the last training shift, where they do everything for the table, and I just watch, we always split the tips, I thought that was far. Sometime I would give them the whole tip.
Marsha Brown 4 years ago
Illegal! If it was recent enough, report them to your state's labor relations board. Even if it wasn't recently, report them anyway; more than likely that they're still doing this.
Arran Walker 4 years ago
Yep. Probably some house specialty wherever the photo is really from. Probably also means there’s some spicy kick to the drink.
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#16
I was a waitress, the only waitress, at a just opened diner. The boss didn't have me sign any paperwork. Everything was under the table. But that wasn't what made me quit at the end of the night. In order to get me where he wanted me to go, he would pinch my skirt at my upper thigh, not quite the butt but very close, and pull me around like it was a leash. Needed me in the kitchen? Rather than call me. He would come out, pinch my skirt and pull to the kitchen. Needed me at the cash machine? Again, come over to where ever I was, didn't matter if I was serving a customer, and would grab my skirt to pull me. That act in itself, made some customers uncomfortable. Mind you, one couple left an almost 50% tip in the end. But I think it was more out of pity and embarrassment on my behalf. I was supposed to come in the next day but I called that night and said the job wasn't for me. I came in a couple days later to turn in my apron and he just took a wad of cash out of his pocket and paid me then and there. God, he was creepy. I think it was a smart move to quit.
KombatBunni 4 years ago
Anyone pinch me like that would soon be with broken fingers. That’s awful
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Surely that is sexual harassment or something illegal? How do they get away with these things?
Sarah 4 years ago
It meets the legal definition of assault and battery, yes.
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Jessica Otto 4 years ago
When I was a CNA years ago I had a resident at one nursing home that consistently got handsy with the women. The first time he grabbed my backside I asked him "What the hell do you think you're doing? Take them off before I break them off!" and he never tried it again with me...he didn't need to know that I couldn't and WOULDN'T actually do that to him, but he got the message
Arran Walker 4 years ago
That shows he was more with-it than he seemed, and that he used the pretense of dementia as an excuse to grab women.
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Arran Walker 4 years ago
I wouldn’t have lasted the first shift if anyone grabbed my clothes and tugged me around the place.
#17
Went into an Italian restaurant for my first day of work and I got 3 red flags on the very first day.
1- The manager said he had lots of hours for me and getting shifts would be no problem. Every single other employee told me that they were struggling for hours and that they had no idea why they hired me.
2- Everyone said the manager was an assh*le. Even the customers.
3- It was my first day there, and I actually had to teach the woman training me how to do one or two things.
#18
Had an orientation for an alarm company. Next day manager calls and says don't worry about going into the office and to meet at "Planet Hollywood" they like to get to know the employees better over lunch.
Next day I go into the office and another employee whom I had not met says "You must be "Scandal929." I was like "ha"?
They responded "Light skinned, pretty boy” is how the manager described me.
In same conversation I found out no one else had ever been invited for a "get to know you" lunch.
I'm out!
Z Alexi 4 years ago
Yeah, women have tolerated such pouncing for centuries...breeds lotsa male-hatred.
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L - E - Y ($till beebull) 4 years ago
Light skinned pretty boy??? What the hell is this crap 💩
Ryan Kennedy 4 years ago
The accompanying stock photo pops up a lot. They are packed in so tightly and there's zero privacy--you can't even scratch your balls without being seen. It's dark and depression, but yet too bright.
Z Alexi 4 years ago
Hires only guys? Nothing on desk except water & yellow ball. Assembly-line work...makes people serial killers.
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Arran Walker 4 years ago
Doesn’t count as sex trafficking, but it was definitely the lead-in to repeated sexual harassment if he had kept working there.
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#19
Not my first day, but my second. Fellow coworker touched me and I said "please don't touch me, it makes me uncomfortable" and he proceeded to step closer and said to our manager "hey, Joey, touch her she doesn't like it" Managers eyes got so big and he told the idiot that he could be fired and sued for sexual harassment. I didn't go back. It was my first job, I was 15.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago (edited)
Elbow to the face. BAM!!! To say that to the manager too he must of been a right muppet!
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago (edited)
On the one hand, good that the manager told him to quit doing it. On the other hand, the reasoning should not have been "we could get sued" it should have been "stop disrespecting my employees". By relegating things like this to legal issues instead of a human issues, it continues the casual sexism/racism/etc..
Z Alexi 4 years ago
Color Daniel astute. He's either smart, learned his lesson, has a darling g.f. w/dignity/self-esteem or grew up w/sisters who taught him to respect them. Doesn't matter the history~~the result is appreciated by every chick, chickadee, even skank. His mom did a good job. [Too often, moms raise pigs; shameful.]
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Gwen Parker 4 years ago
No, I'm sorry. That manager should have fired that employee on the spot. Guaranteed that wasn't the first time he'd done that, and pretty safe bet that he'd do it again in the future.
JJ Buddhabrot 4 years ago
Is it common for women and girls to be harassed without them reporting this to the police? Wow
Harry Lui 4 years ago (edited)
Very common. Ask your female relatives and your female friends.
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I met a landscaping crew at a 50 acre cemetery at 8:00am. The pay was just $5/hr cash (in 2001), but my hours at Pizza Hut had been cut and I wanted to make a little money before going off to college. After 3 hours straight of weedeating I couldn’t feel my hands. I was filthy and hot af. It was miserable. I was 18 and headed to a prestigious school in 2 months, the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze, as they say. At lunch I told the guy “Hey man, I’m just gonna go home and I’m not coming back.” And he had a totally awesome response “No problem, I wouldn’t want to do this sh*t at your age either, I’ll pay you for the time you worked and drop it off at your house.” $20 showed up about a week later. I hope life is going good Mr. Sterly. $5/hr was still not very much in 2001. It’s probably like $7.50/hr now.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
At least he had the decency to address you properly but in your shoes i would be dying to get out of there too. Sounded like a dead end job.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
There is a rather prestigious and high-class landscaping company near me which serves very rich clients. I've noticed a theme, people go work there for 3 or 4 years until they've met the players and learned 'everything' then they get their own truck and start their own business. It's surprisingly lucrative.
Load More Replies... Myrtle Yoma 4 years ago
$5 for that kind of work is shitty. His mention of going to a prestigious school made it sound like he thought this job was beneath him. Not everyone has the privilege to walk away from something like that. The landscaping industry, and industries like it exploit immigrants with no working papers or rights, for this kind of job. Those who say people from other countries are stealing American jobs would never work in the conditions these people work in. I think the industry needs to change, but that will require the advocacy of American citizens who don’t run the risk of being deported to actually stand up and demand it. It will probably require people without their livelihood dependent on these jobs to work them long enough to build a case that can actually result in change. I worked on a flower farm for 9.00/ hour in 2013 in one of the wealthiest, most expensive places to live in the US. The work was backbreaking. I had the privilege to quit when I got pregnant, my coworkers didn’t
Jods 4 years ago
Same in the UK. Constantly moan about Europeans taking their jobs. Yet most of these workers are seasonal veg and fruit pickers, living on site in temporary crap accommodation and paid a pittance and the ones moaning are quite happy to claim benefits. If it wasn’t for these migrant workers we wouldn’t be eating fruit or veg.
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John C 4 years ago
Makes me stop, think, and appreciate the poor bastards that operate a weed eater for 10-12 hours a day.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Calling them poor bastards doesn’t seem necessary
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OK, drumpf cult. THIS is the kind of job undocumented workers are doing. Would YOU do this, and for $5/hour? Still upset that they’re taking all our jobs away from us? Yeah, I know I’ll be hearing your heads exploding right after I post this comment.
Jods 4 years ago
My great uncle worked as a grave digger and maintained all the village’s graveyards - five in total. He didn’t have a mechanical digger or electrical implements. He used a spade to dig the graves and good old fashioned gardening tools. He got paid whatever the vicars of the church and chapels could afford sometimes topped up by the family of the deceased with gifts such as homemade pies, jams, etc. I don’t recall him complaining once at his lot. He dug his final grave in the early 90s close to his 80th birthday. Obviously LiquidDreamtime thought such work was not for the likes of him just because he was going to go to a prestigious school.
Arran Walker 4 years ago
But he was also working at a Pizza Hut, so he wasn’t really THAT arrogant. 😂
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Thomas Biorogue 4 years ago (edited)
Wow. This dude. Well, I guess labor just isn't for some people. At 15 yrs old I was hauling hay for school clothes money. 12-15 hr days for $35/day. I worked all summer like that. In the Texas heat. This was in the 80s so that was close to minimum wage, which was $3.35/hr, but this was cash money so probably a little more. I also hoed cotton for a little while in fields that you couldn't see to the other side they were so long. But I get it, hard work isn't for everybody.
#21
I interviewed for a “professional marketing assistant” and got the job straight away. I was under the impression that I would be an assistant to the man I was interviewed by. When I showed up for my first day, the same waiting room I was in the previous day was FULL of people. I quickly learned that we were all hired, and that I would be a door to door salesperson selling some pretty useless s**t.
I spent my entire day inside a Starbucks applying for other jobs and went home, got paid, but never went back.
J. Normal 4 years ago
That was my 2nd job - I was a Fuller Brush sales woman... LOL. I loved the product, but it was too much labor for not enough pay... and I realized it would be worse in winter. But It was good experience for a summer job.
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Eric Forster 4 years ago
In 1985 I went to a job interview for a position in a "rock and roll environment." It was selling steak knives door to door.
స్టీఫెన్ ఆండ్రూ 4 years ago (edited)
This is rather typical... they suck in a lot of hard-working international students in this way. They work hard and end up not even making minimum wage. It's highly illegal, of course.
Debbie Burton 4 years ago
I did that once.... 3 days of trying to sell saucepans... and then left
Ryan Kennedy 4 years ago
Boredpanda is a pretty international site, but this thread is all American wage slavery. Sigh.
Monika Nagyova 4 years ago
Might have to do with the fact that things like these don't happen often in most countries.
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#22
Fast food chain: I was 17.
I found out during training that the place had been robbed 3 times in the past month and 1 employee was seriously injured.
Not worth the $5/hr.
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Unless it was Fatburger, please do not use Fatburger in the photo. It is a sacred institution. Fat Fries Forever! Extra extra crisp!
Lindy Mac 4 years ago
Agreed... a generic photo should be used if it wasn't them. Not cool to do that .
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Sista of the moon 4 years ago
He was 17. This must have been a long while ago.
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I answered an ad for a baby sitting job. I was already working on a casual basis but it was sporadic so I thought some after hours baby sitting would be welcome extra cash. The couple were both in the military and proceeded to tell me that I would be staying in the spare room and looking after their 6 mth old child around the clock as well as doing the housework. I would have one day off every two weeks. They said it is cash in hand so I could sign onto the dole (unemployment benifit) to make up the rest of the money. I left on the spot. They wanted a live in housemaid and nanny not a baby sitter and they were not able to pay for one. Why they thought it was up to me to illegally collect the dole to subsidise them I don't know.
Robert Thompson 4 years ago
They want the state to pay your check? Nope. That is like Wal*Mart wanting their crew to get Medical/medicare.
#24
Started a new job unloading shipping containers and was told they had to be empty by midday, this was imperative because a new one was going to arrive in the early afternoon
It was a two man job if we both worked our asses off to get it done
Boss says 'uh also your offsider is off work today, you will need to get this cleared'
I just walked out.
#25
I got a job at a Build A Bear knockoff at the end of a mall that wasn't very busy. My interview with the owners was interesting. They were an older couple who said that they had wanted to open a Chick Fil A, but you need about a million dollars to do that. My first day, one other girl was working, and she didn't really talk to me. I had basically no training and she disappeared into the back. I was standing at the register area, which was underneath a giant storybook mushroom. A mother and her young son walk in and start to look at the bear skin options. I greeted them and left them to look around. They ended up leaving after a couple minutes and my coworker reappeared from the back with the cordless phone and handed it to me. It was my boss. He told me that when a customer walks in, he wants me to come out from under the mushroom to them ("come OUT! from the mushroom!"). After he finished speaking to me, I hung up and went to my coworker and asked about the phone call. She said the place has cameras set up and the owners watch them from their house and call in a lot. I did not come back to work after that day.
Phil Boswell 4 years ago
If they have the time to be watching you on camera, they have time to train you properly…
Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago
I worked in a doctor's office briefly. The owner's wife had cameras set up everywhere and would watch them on her iPhone. Weird memos started to come out such as, "do not sit at your desk with your head in your hands (me)." "Sneaking food into a coffee cup is not allowed (me)." You get the picture.
Arran Walker 4 years ago (edited)
Be kind of funny if the cameras are installed in bears that are only for display. Considering the type of company it is, that’s probably the case. Cameras hidden inside teddy bears, just like hidden nanny cams.... I mean it’s disturbing AF, and I wouldn’t work there any longer, either.
Hetal Vyas 4 years ago
I worked for a builders merchants and the manager had access to all the dash cams in the lorries, if he called the driver and said they were stuck in traffic, he would check the cameras to check. Also he had a web cam in the office and could watch from home!
JessG 4 years ago
Right but, they didn't train her and left her on the floor alone. Her coming out from the mushroom should be the least of their worries.
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It was a petrol station and the manager wanted me to work for free until I had learned their computer systems to what he deemed a satisfactory extent. I agreed to do it, because I needed a job, and he brought me in at 7am on my first day, however he was not present to go through the training with me, so I was just standing around kind of helping out on the forecourt but not really knowing what I should be doing. Not learning anything. After about an hour and a half without the manager showing up or anyone training me on anything, I decided that I wasn't going to continue to be taken advantage of and told the cashier to pass on the message to the manager that I had quit.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
I think that was the plan. You go in do a bit of work for free then leave. How many other people has he done this to?
Sky Render 4 years ago
I propose we dub this sort of tactic "microslavery". Because that's exactly what it is: you're basically press-ganged into working for free for a short period of time.
Jessica Otto 4 years ago
I worked for a gas station chain in the US called Casey's. What I noticed, at least where I was, is that they don't believe in giving you enough training. I got so mad at the region supervisor on a new employee's behalf I noped out of there. To them we are just numbers, but with the way things have been since covid they're desperate for employees and can't seem to figure out why. Sorry Casey's, we're starting to realize we're worth more than you give us credit for
Julie 4 years ago
Yeah this happened to me too. I was hired and when I showed up to my shift the boss said that I would not be paid for the first three days (8hr shifts). I stayed and worked the 8 hours but called and told him I would not return, in fact I was gobsmacked that he would ask people to do that.
Arran Walker 4 years ago
He probably gets a single shift or two out of lots of people this way. They quit. He never pays them. Gets a lot of free labor that way. Like someone called it higher up, it’s “microslavery”.
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I am all for working for education. But the education needs to be delivered.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I'm not cause people really take advantage of it! There was a time in my country when all phone/internet companies were hiring only trainees!! For many weeks unpaid cause they were "training" "them and then bye bye! Seriously they weren't paying anyone and having their job done! So no thanks! There is no actual education at work without having to work as well
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#27
Not me but I was training a new lifeguard. After our shift was mandatory staff training for our entire crew, where we practice rescues. Once she found out we actually had to practice and go in the water, she just...walked out. Not really sure what kind of job she thought she had signed up for.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Evidently she just thought she’d sit on the lifeguard stand and get paid for sunbathing, not rescuing people who were drowning.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Maybe she was expecting the pool to be empty or the water was not going to be wet.
Kelli from Fitness Blender 4 years ago
OK, actually water is not technically wet.
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Annamagelic 4 years ago
I was a lifeguard for 8 summers, 4 of them in a supervisory role. The vast majority of guards I worked with took the job seriously and did a great job. Every now and then though, someone would show up under the mistaken impression that being a lifeguard meant getting paid to lounge by the pool and work on their tan.
John C 4 years ago
More importantly, why is HALF the water green? Pool dude is new too - didn't realize there were two systems to chlorinate maybe?
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Lisa Shelton 4 years ago
She probably grew up on shows where the lifeguard just sits in the little chair and blows a whistle all day.
Sarah Grape 4 years ago
as a fellow lifeguard, i would not have even applied anywhere had in-service training not been a thing, i wouldn't remember anything from the class and people would die
#28
Young and naïve right out of college took a “marketing” job. My interview was great, nothing shady seemed to be going on and no immediate red flags. After 4 hours of training, my first day consisted of going door to door in a suburban town trying to sell cable to older people. We were told to dress for business, so I’m hiking around for miles in my best skirt, suit jacket and heels. Hours were from “9-5” but we didn’t get back to the business until well after 10pm. Not to mention, the person I was shadowing was able to make a sale to an older gentleman who seemed to have memory issues. I noped the f**k right out of there.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago (edited)
Damn right. Good for you! Its amazing if people break company rules they are punished. If the company breaks the rules you don't even get an apology.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
“Marketing” jobs seem to be one of the most misrepresented in job ads. A lot of them end up being either door to door sales or working in the brand’s kiosk in a mall or Walmart fir minimum wage, or is just a cover for a pyramid scheme. Anything EXCEPT actual marketing that you go to college to get a degree in.
Monika Rhodes 4 years ago
I feel like this should be criminal. Taking advantage of elderly people. Disgusting.
#29
It was my first day at five guys, it was around 10:30 PM and they told me it was time to clock out, despite not having finished closing. I then worked until almost midnight. I did not return.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
It’s called time theft, and many employers have ended up having to reimburse their employees for every unpaid second—-all the way back to the first time it happened, no matter how long ago it was.
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
Yeah but it's hard to prove and a pain in the ass to go through the long process. This is common in a lot of restaurants. You're full time but your hours are from 3pm to 11pm which is closing. No overtime allowed but you can't begin cleaning until the doors are.closed.
Load More Replies... Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
If I'm clocking out it means I'm walking out. No exceptions. If you work in the service industry, then stand up for your rights. OSHA and the DOL have your back, you just need to be willing to go through that 'hassle' (it's not that bad if you have a real case, such as time theft, tip theft, not being given proper breaks, health and safety violations, etc)
Todd Hunter 4 years ago
The industry hires young and inexperienced because they know the workers rarely stand up for their rights. It's a shame, I've quit food service jobs that tried to get me to work off clock.
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Vasana Phong 4 years ago
Shady, basically you clock out so they don’t pay you, yet alone if it roles over to overtime
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
I will never understand how people think they can get away with that kind of s**t. If I've clocked out, I'm done working. Sure, I'll go around and turn off lights & make sure all the doors/windows are locked, but anything more involved or taking more than 5 minutes & I'm clocking back in.
Viki Banaszak 4 years ago
Yes, that way they can work you extra hours and not pay you for overtime.
#30
Took a summer job at a textile plant and the trainer said, "Forget about taking a break if you want to stay caught up."
Billy The Kid 4 years ago (edited)
" I will be sending you a TEXT I'LL be leaving so forget about paying me if i'm not here. BYE"
Thomas Biorogue 4 years ago
I worked for Crane Plumbing making toilets. I was a caster, so I had a row of about 40 toilets that I had to pour the molds, shape the toilets, punch all the holes in them etc. Anyway, you have to stay on top of your stuff. If "slip" sits too long in the mold, it's no good, not long enough and is runny. You're just constantly running. There were no breaks or lunch. You took a break when you were finished with your work for the day.
#31
Restaurant line chef. Worked a 12 hour shift, was given 2 breaks of about 10-15 min each. Burned my hand numerous times because they gave me plates that came right from the oven and never said a word. End of the shift I told the head chef I was done. He called me soft and Said I was the third person to quit on him after a day. I said “maybe it’s the way you treat people”.
John C 4 years ago
I have just enough experience in food service to know that two 10min breaks in a 12hr shift might be better than average, and yes you're expected to handle hot plates. No doubt there's endless other details that collectively add up though, and losing 2 people previously does say a lot. Hope you found something that works for ya!
Niffler_13 4 years ago
The 2 breaks thing is common in a lot of businesses. At 3 of my 4 retail jobs we got two 15 minute breaks instead of one 30 minute break
Z Alexi 4 years ago
Damn right~~"lotsa businesses." It's ok if it's a struggling mom 'n' pop shop whose customers were bagged by supermkts or giant drugstores. But if it's a Fortune 5,000 [!] company, tell the boss(es) to "Take This Job & Shove It~~U Don't Need a Plane AND a Yacht!"
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Day 2 I quit. I got hired at a restaurant in New Jersey as a server but on the first day they had me working as a bus person ( the server's assistant) and I was not completely happy but it was a job and I needed it Second day, same thing. That day was September 11, 2001. I remember standing there looking at the TV in the bar area in complete horror and asked if I could leave to see if my family and friends were ok. They said no. I walked out the door and never went back.
Z Alexi 4 years ago
How often have we disagreed with our boss~~even when we had facts that we were right...or we were certain that boss' decision was immoral or illegal & lacked principles or ethics? But we failed to escape? If your boss doesn't care if your family's dead by U.S.' biggest terror attack, you were smart to run. Run, RUN.
#33
Worked at McDonald’s years ago in their Assistant Manager training program. Had gotten hired right out of the Army. First day I met with the Store Manager where I’d be working and training and noted that she spent majority of the time doing entry level work and then working OT to do store manager work. She told me this was pretty common because of the type of people they’d hire. Her “office” was a counter and she told me she had bought a chair but corporate made her remove it. She was really nice, worked her ass off and was intelligent and told me she’d been at McDonald’s for 10 years. I imagined working my ass off only to be told I couldn’t have a chair and decided that night I wasn’t going to work for a company like that.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago (edited)
Thats CRAPdonalds for you. In any job when you work too hard managers expect it all the time without recognition but if you slow down then that is when they notice.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
First, I think managers should spend some time doing the actual work, so they can truly understand what they ask employees to do. Second, she should’ve been trained in hiring—-and the company should’ve allowed her to offer better pay, since she was only getting what the company was paying for—-so she could get better people and not have to essentially be a one person operation.
Z Alexi 4 years ago
Most mgrs did the job before they got promoted to mgrs~~so they know "the actual work." Never mind majoring in biz, you sound like you read neither a biz book nor a 1-column biz article. 3 "shoulds" in a 2-sentence comment. You must own many companies...were you "trained in hiring"? At Wharton? As for "better pay," how many P&L Statements & Balance Sheets have you written/calculated?
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My S/O worked at Subway for one day. They had just started training him when he walked into the back, looked up, and saw a dozen or so knives hanging from the ceiling. As his trainer was explaining the hilarious game they played of making the knives stick in the ceiling tiles, another employee walked through the doorway and “WOOSH” - a knife fell down and pierced straight through the bill of their hat.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
WOAAAA. Started training him but never finished! Lucky it didn't slice the nose or worse still land in the skull.
Z Alexi 4 years ago
Instead of just getting taller, boys need to grow up. How does anyone not know knives are sharp & you don't leave them dangling above you? Your Subway boss sounds like s/he's in possession of a double-digit I.Q. Work is for producing results [to make a profit] or performing a service~~not playing games.
DKS 001 4 years ago
um ... I'd be on the phone calling for health inspection to show up without being announced
#35
My first day working at EB games. I was super excited to be there! The first half of my shift was basically "tidy up the shelves" It was a high traffic location so the shelves ALWAYS need tidying. After 5 hours of following kids around and putting things away I go on break. When I come back my Manager is standing in his strangely empty store absolutely aghast. Staring at a HUGE steaming pile of sh*t on the carpeted floor. Apparently a homeless person had walked in. Without saying a single word he Dropped trou and emptied his bowls. My boss at me and says. "Oh good, you're back. Just in time. Clean that up, I'm going for lunch." I laughed at him and told him you can't be serious. I'm not going near that. He responds with. "it's your job, I'm taking a break. I want it gone before I get back." I told he's going to have to deal with it on his own because I Don't need this job that bad. So I quit. I grabbed my coat and went home. 1 week later the district manager calls me up to apologize and offer me my job back.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
FFS, that’s biological waste! The manager should’ve closed the store, made sure you got paid for a full shift, then called in professionals to properly clean it. No wonder the district manager was so apologetic.
John Dilligaf 4 years ago
just for the record human feces is a biohazard because it can contain infectious diseases like Hepatitis A and E, Cholera, E Coli, etc. If it contains blood, then it becomes classified as medical waste and cannot be thrown away in the regular trash.
#36
I applied to be a seasonal package handler at ups years ago. I go in for the orientation thing and I'm immediately put off by the manager(?) Who just seemed really rude to begin with. The other 40 people and I were about 30 minutes into it when someone SNEEZED and the manager went off "that is the kind of f**king bullsh*t im talking about.." I stood up before it seemed like she was finished and just said"not for me" and I walked out. I was surprised when I got in the car and about half of the remaining people walked out too.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
UPS? sounds more like the fkn army. Glad most of them followed suit. Good for you.
Tracy Wallick 4 years ago
Even the Army doesn't s**t on you for sneezing.
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Restaurant. Swept under my station when we were closing. Giant brown pile came out with broom from under low-boy fridge. Pile began to scatter. It was hundreds of roaches. Never returned
VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 4 years ago
I would have screamed. Cockroaches are evil flying death bugs. I can barely deal with one.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
WOOAAA Fk that s**t. The day I see a single roach in my house is the day im out of there and leaving everything behind!
#38
I had a job for one day selling home security equipment door to door. The whole idea was basically to make it seem like you're doing them a service and then lock the customer into 5 year contracts. My supervisor and I were in this one home of a family that hardly some English. The father said they had been struggling with finances but my supervisor kept pushing it on them, and the customer seemed like he didn't fully understand what was going on. I couldn't in good conscience take these people that were already struggling and put them in a worse position.
Hilary Mol 4 years ago
Good on you for maintaining your composure and listening to your conscience!
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
There are people out there that don't give a damn about others as long as they are alright. When people like that knock on my door i just say no thanks and shut the door. Best way.
#39
My very first job was at a buffet restaurant that was popular with senior citizens and known for their desserts. I was asked to get another coconut cream pie from the back and as I was getting it out of the fridge, another employee bumped into me and I dropped it on the floor, pie side down. This employee’s (someone who’d worked there for years) solution was to just scrape off all the whipped topping and replace it. I was horrified they served pie that had been on the extremely dirty floor and never went back.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Hope you made sure they stayed well known for their desserts—-just in a VERY different way.
#40
Got what was supposed to be a prestigious political internship that came with a security clearance and everything. Found out at orientation that the “part time” internship was really 40-60 hours, unpaid and that no intern had gone on to work with the organization and weren’t really given a leg up for other federal posts. We were supposed to facilitate meetings with heads of state, coordinate conferences and assist the actual employees with composing published research papers for which we would not be credited. They were definitely drinking their own koolaid so I bounced right on out of there.
Anna McHugh 4 years ago
Well done. That is BS and those kinds of jobs, especially where you're 'assisting' research, are total f@#$ing scams, and the person who gets their name on the paper is the scammer.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
And that explains the "big press conference” at the “Four Seasons” as announced by the tangerine turd. I bet he would have been there personally if he had known it was next to a sex shop.
Lindy Mac 4 years ago
I wonder if an unpaid intern booked that location ....on purpose🤔
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part time? 40 - 60 hrs is more than full time! Unpaid and no credit for what you do? Up yours fkrs!
Z Alexi 4 years ago
Interns [except the medical kind] in U.S. are all unpaid. [Activists are trying to get that changed...some now pay bus fare & lunch~~one small step...] But most are not asked to become authors or do research. P.S. "Prestigious" & "political" don't belong in same sentence.
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Got a job as a cashier at a grocery store in FL, which I had just moved to from out of state a few days before. Was specifically told that I wouldn’t have to bag, stock shelves, etc. First day it gets slow, manager asks me to collect carts. Ok. Remember being told I wouldn’t have to do carts, but I wanted to show initiative. I get outside and it’s raining sideways. Like monsooning sideways. I’d never seen it rain that hard in my life. I walk back inside and ask if I can wait until the rain lets up, so I don’t freeze to death when I come back inside and work another 6 hours in the air conditioning. Was told if I didn’t collect carts immediately I would be fired. I dropped my smock and walked out the door, never to return again.
#42
Hired me as a cashier, told me I'd be training for it and only working registers. Had me cleaning toilets and cart collecting in a thunder storm, with basically no heads up. Just handed them my badge and walked out.
John C 4 years ago
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but showing your employer that you're the person that will do what needs to be done is a good thing. Yes it probably means you'll get awful assignments and possibly taken advantage of at first, but my style is to hold out for a while and see if that gets noticed, and that approach has paid off big time in my career. "Hard word shows the character of people. Some people turn up their noses, some people turn up their sleeves, and some people don't turn up at all."
Monika Nagyova 4 years ago
Yes, you are old fashioned. If someone hires you for something, there is a verbal agreement on the kind of job you are going to be doing. How can you trust an employer that lies from get go? Would you do that to someone? Or maybe, the managers should lead by example and work alongside the new hire to show 'we all chip in'
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Second day actually but the person who was training me at a McDonald's during the summer in college was so inconsistent and would like forget about me...second day she asked me what time it is, I pointed out the wall clock and said the time. She goes "Oh, I can't read them fancy clocks." Made me sad more than anything, I grew up in a very rural-poor area... but also I realized that she wasn't having an "off day" with her sh**ty training and would be my supervisor. Didn't go back my third day.
J. Normal 4 years ago
It is not poor vs rich... It is lack of education and general knowledge. A rather wealthy suburb of Chicago, Illinois usa Replaced all of the schools clocks because " the kids could not read them". This was in the 1990's ( I was furious BTW) My little "darling" could read the time to the second... and when he asked for the time... he wanted the real time... 6:54 not the lazy 6:55... LOL
#44
I had a week long labor job. I was told I would be carrying decking lumber up a few stairs. What they didn’t say was that the lumber was 6x6 treated lumber so each load we were carrying was 150 lbs. And those couple of steps were 88 up from a lakeside property. I managed to survive 8 hours but there was no way possible I could carry a few more tons of lumber up those stairs. I had to go to physio after to fix my knees
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Im sure that is against health and safety regulations. Hope they paid for the physio.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
It is, and they wouldn't have. US laws protecting labor are a joke. ---- US citizen
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J. Normal 4 years ago
I do not get it... why would they not make a system to Pull the lumber on a dolly or something? It is great that you had a "job"... but fck you are not a machine that can be mistreated... oh wait ... most of the times only living breathing people/ animals are mistreated by these jerks ( machines cost money).
#45
It was a sandwich shop in college. I got the flu before my first day, told them I was sick, they said come in anyway it's just training. Then they had me making sandwiches, no gloves, runny nose, coughing and everything. I left in under an hour and didn't eat there again.
JessG 4 years ago
Unfortunately, there's no being sick in the restaurant biz. They never believe you first of all, they threaten you if you don't come in, and if they DO let you stay home then you have to get a Dr.s not if you're sick more than two days. So just so everyone knows, restaurant employees work sick all. The. Time
J. Normal 4 years ago
Before the pandemic... it was common for a company to demand you come in sick. If you are not sick enough to go to the Dr... come to work... if your healthy enough to leave the house and go to the dr... come to work. Been fired for that.
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#46
Ended up being a scam to try and get free labor. I went for a job interview as a security guard, a man and a woman asked me my name, asked me how strong I was then hired me and asked me to start immediately. That started alarm bells ringing, 2 questions in a interview and I am employed and working with no discussion about anything else. They took me down to their warehouse (office interview was above it) and told me to start moving boxes from a shelf into a truck. I said hang on, the job is security not manual labor and then they started getting really sh*tty with me and saying if you want the job then you need to do this as part of it. I was like yeah nah I am out and walked out, total scam, there was no job and it really pissed me off because I could've gone to another interview at that time but choose to go there instead.
#47
No ac in the delivery truck in West Texas...
lara 4 years ago
I'm not "criticizing" you for quitting over no AC in the truck, but honey, I didn't have AC in the house OR my car in East Texas until I was married and we moved into another apartment. And East Texas is known for humidity. 90% sometimes, in the summer. I drove a Volkswagen no AC, for twelve years after I got married. If you ever have to do that again, carry a wet "hand towel" and drape it over your neck, you will be surprised how it keeps you cool
#48
I didn’t quit, but it was an interview many years ago. The position was for an admin assistant. I got to the place and it was in the back of a strip mall kind of, just a small parking lot and a forest. I go in to interview and the guy tells me it is in fact not an admin position but an alarm system cold calling position. I immediately knew he was wasting my time and his but finished it out. He told me there would be a lot of evenings just him and I working. Ummm I don’t think so. He also said that he loves to reward his team for good sales and always takes them to Mexico. I walked out and told my husband (bf at the time) there was no way I was taking that. I got a call for a second interview but never picked up the phone. So sketch.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Fkn creep. If it was my partner I would be down there and given him a smack.
#49
I was hired as a cook in a country club in Miami Florida back in 2002, it was the grossest kitchen I have worked in in the US, I have been through worse in the US and around the world. Most of the food in the coolers was rotting, there were ants on the cutting board they had me work at, the guy training me picked up a towel off of the floor to push the ants out of the way so I could work. Many of the food that should have been refrigerated was left out. The walk in freezer door would not close because there was so much ice build up. I felt like I was going to vomit the whole time I was there. I made it through the day then did not come back for my 2nd day, the chef called me and I told him that I would not come back, he threaten to call the culinary school I went to and tell them I walked out on him, I told him that was fine and called the health department and reported their practices, they called me a year later to follow on the claim and had time to go check it out(what a joke.) I stand by my choice to quit with no notice and reporting them.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
You probably saved their diners a lot of medical bills, and maybe even a couple lives, by calling the Health Department on them.
Tanya MacLeod 4 years ago
Bet it was one of trump’s. Apparently his places all have those issues.
#50
A 3 hour presentation and you need to commit $100 to start your “life changing” journey to make money and be your own boss. No thank you!
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Always be wary of any job that requires you to pay money to get started working there, even if it’s for uniforms. If they can’t provide that, and ask someone who hasn’t even gotten a paycheck yet to put money up front, then you are guaranteed to either not make any money there (commission), or do way too much for the tiny amount they’ll pay you—-after they deduct any other charges they can come up with out of it.
#51
Got a job at a saw/lumber mill. My first shift started at midnight. My boss met me at the entrance, lead me through the mill and out a back door. He told me stand next to this little opening in the wall, and when a piece of wood comes out, place it neatly in the stack on this big pallet. He left. Pieces of wood (1” x 2” x 10 feet) started shooting out every few seconds. It was all I could do to keep up. It started to rain, then poured. A fork truck driver went past and I ask him to tell my boss that I needed a rain coat. He just laughed. I stayed about an hour then just walked around the building and out the front gate.
#52
Doug's wife came in at 11am to do the "books". Set her giant 7-11 soda pop down in the work area. Computer repair area. I picked it up and moved it to the desk she was using. Just went off like a deranged demon. I felt so sorry for Doug. At that time in that area I was a sought after tech. Started at competitor at 2pm.
#53
Answered an ad in the paper (this was the mid 90s) what seemed to be an office job making sales calls when I was in college. Did a phone interview and was called back for an in person interview. When I go to the interview I'm led into a room with about 50 other people and a small stage at the front of the room. We're all somewhat confused as to what is going on. Finally a guy gets on the stage and informs us that we've been selected for the opportunity to sell Cutco. Me and 2/3rds of the rest stood up and walked out.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
I don't even need to read the article and I can say "Yes. Yes, it is."
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#54
I got an entry level job as an “arborist” at a local tree management service. I was early 20s, fresh out of college, love trees. So I was pumped to learn more about trees and learn how to trim / cut them down, etc. My first day I was put on a crew with two other dudes who were supposed to be my trainers. These two were pretty much knuckleheads. We only had the front seat of our truck to sit in as we drove to the jobs, and I has to sit in between the both of the. They were laughing and playing jokes, and f**king around the whole day. So we get to an orchard where we were supposed to trim a few trees, and it just so happened that in one of the trees is a massive hornets nest. The lead guy I was with thought it would be funny to vigorously shake the branch that the nest was hanging from. As you can imagine he was immediately attacked by hornets and started running towards the truck. However me and the other guy were between the lead guy and the truck, and once we saw the swarm, we bolted. I remember running through the orchard and thinking, “this is too bad. I quit.”
lara 4 years ago
My arborist is an artist. I would NEVER allow anyone but him to touch my trees. Someone who employs thugs like that should have their license revoked. He charges a lot, BUT my trees are worth all the money he charges. He is worth his weight in gold. He sends out a three man crew, they work all day and when they get through it is clean and totally "unnoticeable" that they have trimmed the trees. But they have, because they haul off almost a truck load of limbs and debris.
#55
My first internship was at a brazilian teen detention center (it's akin to a prison, but Brazilian law has some distinctions between crimes committed while as an adult or as a teenager - teens go through socio-educational measures). I was walking through a courtyard with my supervisor when some doctors came running flailing their arms and screaming while officers came running from the opposite direction. I get pulled by my supervisor who just tells me to run back to our office. These teens as young as 12 had escaped their block. A few minutes later an officer comes knocking on the doors of the offices and yelling for everyone to run outside because a fire had broken out. Some of the teens had set mattresses on fire in their cells. I didn't really nope out. My teacher did (she hadn't even been there that day). So i was forced by the university to choose another place to intern at. Oh well.
#56
When I burned my hands all night on the too hot plates as a food runner. They wouldn't let me use towels to carry them and said I just had to get used to it. Nope.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
That’s such risky behavior, and a lawsuit just waiting to happen. Hope you at least reported them to OSHA.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago (edited)
Why not allowed to use towels? what is the problem with these sort of people? Thumbs up getting out.
JessG 4 years ago
Some places find it unsanitary, but then they usually let you use a rubber pot holder.
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First day at burger King, I had to clean the men's bathroom, I go in there and there was poop everywhere, next to the toilet, on the ceiling, the walls and even the sink. I quickly walked out the bathroom, didn't even clock out, and just left the store and went home. I wasn't going to to clean that,was awful
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
My question is how the f**k they manage to get their s**t on the walls and ceiling. Are they f*****g baboons throwing their s**t around the room? Can’t really blame it on a very small child who may have been in there, as they’re only 3 feet tall and can’t throw very far. So this was on purpose. How does that idea even cross someone’s mind? And ffs, I hope they washed their shitty hands afterward! (Pardon the language; I’m legitimately shocked right now.)
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lara 4 years ago
A local Japanese restaurant put a hand washing station in the hall. They had closed the restrooms, except for staff because of the very same problem. You had to allow anyone to use the restrooms and they would pull that kind of crap all the time. So, there were two hand washing stations in the hall, with water, soap and towels. If you had to go to the bathroom they had an agreement with the dojo next door to let people use the restroom. No biggie, but NO ONE EVER messed up THEIR bathrooms.
#58
Not the first day - but the first week. Took a job at a coffee stand in a mall. Had worked at coffee places before, and this one was super high traffic which boded well for tips. At the end of my third shift person who closed the till had come up short, and was like oh damn, guess the two of us will be docked from our tips. I was like, uhhh absolutely not, that’s not how that works. Owner/manager comes over and says the same and I was like pretty sure that’s illegal. She insisted, so I was like ok well it’s for sure illegal, and I’m not coming back. She got very flustered and upset and started talking about how’s she’s a business owner and people should be more responsible. It was like ten bucks short, and I didn’t have the patience for a predatory manager.
Lindy Mac 4 years ago
Billy... not if it's just once. But the $10 went somewhere and if it happens over and over... no one wants their wages or tips dinged because someone has sticky fingers.
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I wasn’t the person but I was training a new guy at a movie theater. A customer asked for extra butter. She was nice and normal. Not a mean or rude customer. The kind I would pay to handle all day long. He puts the popcorn tub down, says I’m going to the bathroom, takes off his apron and walks out the front door and never came back.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
WOW. Something must of happened before that surely. If someone cant handle giving extra butter then he wouldn't of been a good worker. BYE
#60
I noped out of an interview one time. Thanked them at the end and said it wasn't for me. Those interviewing, management level folks, started arguing with each other in front of me during the interview. I figured, if this is the vibe at the management level then I sure as hell don't want to be your employee.
#61
Wasn't exactly the first day but I didn't show up after the second shift. It was a rather popular cafe chain in my country. I was hired to work in the kitchen as a cook along with another, senior cook. Let's put aside the fact that I had zero cooking knowledge whatsoever, the senior cook was leaving the kitchen every five minutes to smoke. So there I am, alone in the kitchen, orders are printing FAST, and I'm standing there not sure what to do first, and the waitress comes over yelling at me to cook sh*t I don't have any business cooking, definitely not on my own. Later on the senior cook told me they had at least two rats running around the kitchen. Showed me they pooped on a plate. I never came back and I'm glad the place got shutdown.
#62
Warehouse job, putting stickers on file folders or some such garbage. Seemed pointless and the floor was just a mass of these same stickers, so they were either falling off constantly or people were shirking work by emptying their quota onto the floor. Went to ask the boss a question, found him asleep in an empty office. He’d taken off a sock and had draped it over his eyes to block out the light. On my way out the door, the other girl who had started that day said “please come back, don’t leave me alone here.” I couldn’t stop laughing.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
To the girl " here's how to solve your problem, do what im doing and just leave"
#64
Had two interviews to work housekeeping at a hospital. Got a call the night of the second interview at around midnight from the guy saying, 'I was just so excited I wanted to call and tell you I'm gonna call you to offer you the job tomorrow.' Should have taken that as the first red flag, but I needed the job. I go in for my first day of training and he has printouts of my Facebook wall and my boyfriends. He started asking me how long we had been together and made it clear he knew everything, so not to lie to him. It was so uncomfortable. After my first session of training, we break for lunch, and he sits with me in the cafeteria asking how it's been going so far, etc. Then, tells me he expects to see me at his church Sunday. I haven't gone to church in like 10 years at this point.
Lindy Mac 4 years ago
Maybe this story was before phones had DO NOT DISTURB options.🤣
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That’s an incredible invasion of privacy! Report him to the authorities (hospital administration, the police, whoever you can) NOW! (Part of the reason I don’t have a huge internet presence, and what is on there is pretty bland, like mostly pictures of my cats on Facebook—-before I closed my account.)
Lindy Mac 4 years ago
You are a wise person to close the FB acct. Once privacy is gone you can't get it back. I closed mine too... there was nothing on it of mine but every friend and all their friends were offered up for contact. WHO needs that? I had one teacher friend.... her students were offered up by Facebook... FB is a perverts delight.
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Sushi restaurant who was being run by a 18 year old entitled son. The other employees were hard working Hispanics in the kitchen and old asian ladies. Since I was close to his age(21 at this time) he immediately decided it be cool for him to confide in me. Right from the beginning of the lunch run he is cussing out the Hispanic cooks in the kitchen for food that is taking a minute too long as well as yelling at the small asian ladies scrambling around trying to do their best. I knew this kid didn't have what it takes to be a manager or to be even a decent human being. Instead of taking my apron home with me, I put the apron in a locker and never came back.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Parents who own businesses often fail to show their kids the ropes, have them work up from the bottom, and/or go to college to learn how to properly run a business. Sometimes it’s a matter of choosing the eldest—-often eldest male—-child who is a totally clueless fuckup, and passing over a younger, or female, child who is more suited to running it. Other times they let all the kids have a portion, even if they were always fighting when they were growing up, and proceed to create such an incredibly toxic atmosphere that everyone quits. Once mom and dad retire and pass the keys to the healthy, profitable business, their unqualified kid(s), either the parents end up forced to come out of retirement (then hire management by interview instead of birth), or the business gets totally run into the ground and has to close down—- and not long after the kids took over. Even if the parents had it running beautifully for decades.
#66
I was hired to be a waitress, which has a lower hourly wage due to tips. The entire shift they had me wash dishes in the sink, but paid me waitress wages. A few months later the restaurant was investigated for a number of fraud activity.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
Sounds like this restaurant is..........all washed up.
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Electronics store. My first day we had to attend a class where they teach people how to upsell folks. Basically walked you through ignoring what they ask you for and using their ignorance of the equipment against them. I thought that was really scuzzy. Then they went on to tell us about a commission style bonus program that basically forced employees to upsell everyone. When we took the break for lunch that first day I peaced out and went home. Never got paid for those four hours, but I never regretted bouncing on that.
#68
Told me on day 1 I’d be making 10$ an hour instead of 13, only one other employee working there and he was about 40-50. He said Hi then asked if he could get $5 for a pack of cigarettes. Then I was told I would be making deliveries with my own car, when I was working the kitchen, and I’d have to work open-close every day, and was openly told I’d have no chance of a raise Becuase the store didn’t make enough money. Boss lady turned around and I noped right out of there faster than a pig in a slaughterhouse.
#69
Didn’t get a lunch break. Nothing comes between a guy and his food *except my old boss, evidently
#70
Dishwasher at a restaurant chain. Imagine being extremely overworked, undervalued, no breaks, constantly moving, dishes came so quick the main guy was hardly washing and plates went out with old dried food, slippery floors, dirty ass water, everyone being angry. Noped out of there
#71
I worked on as a cashier on a parking lot of a big shopping mall. I got a orientation of 2 hours and then my boss let me alone, the first customer wanted to pay me $300 with $20.000 (Chilean pesos) and got mad cuz i didn't had change, the next one asked something similar and the next and the next. When my boss came back i just quit
#72
A smoothie joint when I was 17. I agreed to a pay of $10 per hour. I walked in the first day and my boss goes, “About your pay... instead of $10 per hour, it’s going to be $8.50 per hour. Sorry.” I was the only one working my whole first shift. My coworkers sat in the back while I did literally everything and suffered through three rush hours... completely untrained because according to my boss - “my coworkers would train me.” I was graduating high school and community college the week after I started and told my boss in advance (before he even offered me the job) that I would need that week off due to final exams and the graduation ceremony, but that I could work whenever needed after that week. On my first day, he released the schedule for the next week and what do you know, I’m scheduled to work double shifts every day the whole next week. I worked the minimum I could (3 shifts) and never went back. I never got paid.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
crap about the pay and as for the co-workers sitting in the back, i would of sneaked out while they weren't looking and caused mayhem for them.
#73
Fast food. Manager was literally whining at people, yelled at me for questioning him demanding I stand in a puddle and plug in a frayed extension cord, and 3 of the 4 people in the kitchen told me they were quitting next week
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
How about if i throw a bucket of water at you and tell you to hold a frayed wire? Hope they did and fkd him up.
#74
It was a small independent insurance agency in 2006. My first day there the owner (a true fossil) said email and fax were strictly forbidden as he only ‘believed in’ communication in person, by phone, or through mail. Left for lunch and never went back. I couldn’t imagine the inefficiency I’d have dealt with had I stayed. They ultimately closed their doors so it was definitely the right decision.
#75
I took a job at a lock down residential treatment center as I was desperate for a job. The interviewer said most of the kids were court ordered, and were a step away from juvie. The interview didn’t go well so I was honestly surprised when they called me offer me the job. The morning of training was going over all of the state and federal laws that governed the place, like resident rights and staff to resident ratios and the like. The afternoon was a tour of the facility where it became readily apparent that exact none of the laws we’d just covered were being followed. I left at the end of the day and never came back. I had a feeling something bad was going to happen at that place. A few months later they got shut down after a riot that results in several serious injuries to both residents and staff. Glad I wasn’t around for that.
Leodavinci 4 years ago
This kind of stuff is not rare in social services fields. Lots of government regulations and mandates, not enough government money for anything, government oversight that hinders way more than helps, and high turnover from worker and supervisior burnout from job stress. Then there's special interests whose involvement is really about improving their bottom line by providing the government with "solutions" to non-existent problems. Ex: Electronic Visit Verification or EVV for short. It's caused some social workers to leave and parents to pull disabled family members from programs. It's Orwellian. Federal government mandated (via a last minute addition to the CURES Act after intense lobbying) but without funding. It was left to the individual States... who simply required service providers to foot the bill.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
A lot of companies have to bang on about the policies but a lot of them are never followed through. Good for you getting out.
#76
When at the daily meeting a manger said if they found out who put a paper bag with human excrement in a employees locker....
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
LOL! Shame it wasn't in the managers desk draw. Well my managers anyway
#77
Two times. Once I applied for and got a telemarketing job. I didn’t know what it entailed. After an hour I knew it was a terrible fit...auto dialing people during their dinners, trying to sell them stuff they didn’t want, reading a horrible script while sitting in a soulless grey cubicle. I got up, went to the manager, apologized and said it wasn’t a good fit for me. He seemed understanding. Another time I attended a “make easy money at this job” seminar and it turns out it was selling knives door to door. Idk if I technically “quit” or just noped out at the end of it.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Are you the one who keeps sending comments on Bored Panda - I made x amount of money in a day. Click on this link.... LOL
#78
The job listing said good pay but was very vague about what i would actually be doing. the interview was the same. On morning the first day we were told to practice this script on selling solar panels. Then at around 10:30, we were broken into groups of 4 and we drove 2 hours out to country Victoria (Australia) to rural towns where we would go door-to-door trying to sell solar panels. Side note, the driver of the car was on his phone, watching netflix whilst DRIVING. Got home at 6pm, rang up the bloke, quit immediately, told him not to worry about paying me for that day of work.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
from netflix to car flips? No way. Drop me off here i will walk back.
#79
I thought I was in shape so took a second job loading trucks at FedEx. Boxes come at you so fast, it’s hot, some are heavy af. Never came back after one shift.
#80
Was hired as a server sure no problem. Got there they were like nope you’re doing dishes. After 8 hours of dishes I went home. I’m not a dishwasher and I was told I’d be serving. Never went back never got paid. Didn’t care the couple running it were a bunch of jerks anyway.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Not the smartest person. Why work 8 hours for free when you can walk out in under 2 minutes?
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
Let me give you a brief description between a server and a dishwasher.....
#81
I took a part-time job at Bath & Body Works during the holidays years ago. I made it through the videos and tried one shift. The store was freezing for some reason and the manager kept berating me for having my arms crossed. She also didn’t like my posture
#82
I showed up. Was 15 minutes into Orientation and Paperwork. Regional Corporate came in and sacked everyone (sans me..I was still the new hire). The Regional came up to me and said this never happens, we'd love for you to stay. 2 hours later the Regional has to leave for another location. The trainee from another branch that had come to run the branch I was at says...they're about to sack everyone there too. I was like ok...this isn't for me at all and left. The Regiona
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Yeah I think the story ends with : "The Regional Manager later called me to hire me again."
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#83
Lost my job as a waitress when the pandemic hit, so I took a role in horse breeding. I'd ridden horses in high school, so sounds like a fun job, right? Ugh, nope. Quit the first day. I'll live under a bridge if I have to, but I'm not spending 50 hours a week surrounded by insanely horny 1000-pound beasts in a breeding stall and cleaning up after them
Myrtle Yoma 4 years ago
But....she knew she was being hired to work as a horse breeder?? Working with horses requires you to literally shovel s**t. Maybe her parents paid other people to do it for them while she got to ride the pretty horses.
Stephanie Did It 4 years ago
I don't think it the manure that bothered her as much as ... other stuff
Load More Replies... lara 4 years ago
Generally you are not supposed to clean the stalls when the horses are in them. In fact I cannot think of a single time you would clean breeding stalls with a stallion in them. Now as to having a mare in heat, no not that either. Whoever was running that ranch was putting you in danger and he or she could have been shut down NOT to mention the danger to the horses.
What do you think ?
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
To the young folk here in the USA: know that you have rights as an employee, no matter your age or the job. The Department of Labor (DOL) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are there to protect you, and in most cases they will if there's a legitimate concern. DO NOT let the employer decide what's legitimate, contact OSHA or the DOL and ask them when you experience a problem. If your employer is pooling and splitting tips, unfortunately this is legal in many places, but double check. If your employer is taking a cut of the tips for themselves, or outright taking the tips, this is ILLEGAL in all areas (to the best of my knowledge). If you're paid Alternate Minimum Wage, and your tips do not make up the difference to get you to full minimum wage, then your employer is legally REQUIRED to make up the difference. If your employer expects you to do work off the clock, this is ILLEGAL. DEFEND YOURSELVES, BECAUSE IT HELPS EVERYONE
Jess-a-men 4 years ago
A few years ago, I got a side job restocking the shelves at a large grocery store nearby. About two weeks in, my boss informed me that a different store was low on employees and asked if I'd mind helping out over there. Sure, no problem. So we made a schedule for me: I'd work at the other store from 10 to 2, then return to my regular one and stay there till 11. I agreed and turned at on the other store at 10 o'clock. I worked until about 1:30, then informed the guy in charge that I'd have to leave soon. Since there was still a lot of work to do, he decided to call my boss and asked if I could stay a little longer. Sure enough, he comes back and informs me that I can stay in the other store and work there until 11. I did, and after my work was over, I fetched my stuff, looked at my phone... and found a bunch of angry messages from my boss. There hadn't been a phone call. The guy literally pretended to call my boss and lied to me so I'd finish his work for him.
Crochet lady 4 years ago
I didn't quit but took my complaint to my union. I was 22 and working for the Dept. of Labor in DC and was a data entry clerk. Our office had those low cubicles, just a computer on your desk, not even a phone, one phone was in the middle of the room for us all to share. Bosses decided that Nate was abusing the phone to call his girlfriend so put a lock on it where you had to ask for a key to use it. This felt juvenile and disrespectful. Took it to the union and that and many other abusive behaviors (timing our bathroom usage) were stopped. Bosses didn't like me after that, what did I care? I was 22 and didn't give a f.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
I enjoyed this one. Well done to all those that walked out and well done for sharing your experiences. I'm sure this has inspired others that are in their s***ty little jobs. Some managers bang on as though it is the only company in the world and that you should be grateful for it. Remember this - Your sanity is more important than money!
Adam Hart-Dyke 4 years ago (edited)
Took a job in a soap factory. Was told to wait in the "lunch room" which was an old storage cupboard with one table and one chair. Went out onto the factory floor and the first thing I saw was a fork-lift truck wheel spinning in the two inches of soap that covered the floor. Worked for a couple of hours and then needed the bathroom. The bathroom door was buried behind a giant pile of boxes that I had to move to get in. There was no soap in the bathroom of a soap factory. When my first break came I called another temp agency and took the first job they offered me. Then I walked up to my supervisor and told him I quit. He shouted abuse at me as I walked out. When I got home my agency rep for that job was on the phone screaming blue murder at me because the supervisor had fired all the other temps after I walked out. Said he was going to blacklist me and I'd never get another agency job. The next day he called me back to apologise after doing a surprise inspection at the factory.
Sasy 4 years ago (edited)
It was the first day on the job after training. It was door to door subscription sales (not the type of sales/retail I had ever done before ) but I was in that weird age bracket of too young for this position too old for that, so took anything I could get. Day one knocked on a door and a young lady with Down Syndrome came to the screen door (it was summer the main door was open) she said hi to me, and I said hi back but in seconds her parents (elderly, so I have no real knowledge of the ladies exact age) came to the door yanked her away and slammed the door. I would not have speeled her, I was just returning her own greeting at that point. However on walking away I hear her being yelled at by her parents, and my heart broke, the idea that I had caused such a thing to happen because of a dumb job was a huge no, I called the supervisor that drove us out to locations and said I quit, he tried so hard to get me to stay as I had so much sales experience but I would never forget that feeling
Yegramma 4 years ago
I accepted a job as Manager at fast fashion store. The first day, the district manager and the company's ceo were introducing me to the store and staff, some of whom were lgbtq+, and during the course of the day started using slurs against gay men. I left and didn't return, wrote and let them know why. I was disgusted.
De Gueb 4 years ago
Back on the 90s I got a job at a TV VCR repair shop. A friend recommended me and I spoke with the owner, a woman over the phone. When I turned up the first day, the women, in her 40s, was dressed like a wh***. Short skirt, a tight blouse that hid nothing. She was quite podgy so all of her was everyway. Anyway after the initial shock I got stuck in with the TVs. An hour in she came a sat next to me and asked me to explain what I was doing leaning over, touching me on the leg as she spoke. She explained that she had just got devorced because her husband, who used to fix the TVs had left her for a younger woman. By this time I could clearly see she was not wearing underwear, she also made it very clear that she was part of the benefits of the job. In the end I felt sorry for her, she obviously had very low self esteem after her husband left her and had no idea how to run the business.
Carole Reid 4 years ago
I am nearly 80 and have had a lot of jobs over the years. This article shows that some things never change.
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
To the young folk here in the USA: know that you have rights as an employee, no matter your age or the job. The Department of Labor (DOL) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are there to protect you, and in most cases they will if there's a legitimate concern. DO NOT let the employer decide what's legitimate, contact OSHA or the DOL and ask them when you experience a problem. If your employer is pooling and splitting tips, unfortunately this is legal in many places, but double check. If your employer is taking a cut of the tips for themselves, or outright taking the tips, this is ILLEGAL in all areas (to the best of my knowledge). If you're paid Alternate Minimum Wage, and your tips do not make up the difference to get you to full minimum wage, then your employer is legally REQUIRED to make up the difference. If your employer expects you to do work off the clock, this is ILLEGAL. DEFEND YOURSELVES, BECAUSE IT HELPS EVERYONE
Jess-a-men 4 years ago
A few years ago, I got a side job restocking the shelves at a large grocery store nearby. About two weeks in, my boss informed me that a different store was low on employees and asked if I'd mind helping out over there. Sure, no problem. So we made a schedule for me: I'd work at the other store from 10 to 2, then return to my regular one and stay there till 11. I agreed and turned at on the other store at 10 o'clock. I worked until about 1:30, then informed the guy in charge that I'd have to leave soon. Since there was still a lot of work to do, he decided to call my boss and asked if I could stay a little longer. Sure enough, he comes back and informs me that I can stay in the other store and work there until 11. I did, and after my work was over, I fetched my stuff, looked at my phone... and found a bunch of angry messages from my boss. There hadn't been a phone call. The guy literally pretended to call my boss and lied to me so I'd finish his work for him.
Crochet lady 4 years ago
I didn't quit but took my complaint to my union. I was 22 and working for the Dept. of Labor in DC and was a data entry clerk. Our office had those low cubicles, just a computer on your desk, not even a phone, one phone was in the middle of the room for us all to share. Bosses decided that Nate was abusing the phone to call his girlfriend so put a lock on it where you had to ask for a key to use it. This felt juvenile and disrespectful. Took it to the union and that and many other abusive behaviors (timing our bathroom usage) were stopped. Bosses didn't like me after that, what did I care? I was 22 and didn't give a f.
Billy The Kid 4 years ago
I enjoyed this one. Well done to all those that walked out and well done for sharing your experiences. I'm sure this has inspired others that are in their s***ty little jobs. Some managers bang on as though it is the only company in the world and that you should be grateful for it. Remember this - Your sanity is more important than money!
Adam Hart-Dyke 4 years ago (edited)
Took a job in a soap factory. Was told to wait in the "lunch room" which was an old storage cupboard with one table and one chair. Went out onto the factory floor and the first thing I saw was a fork-lift truck wheel spinning in the two inches of soap that covered the floor. Worked for a couple of hours and then needed the bathroom. The bathroom door was buried behind a giant pile of boxes that I had to move to get in. There was no soap in the bathroom of a soap factory. When my first break came I called another temp agency and took the first job they offered me. Then I walked up to my supervisor and told him I quit. He shouted abuse at me as I walked out. When I got home my agency rep for that job was on the phone screaming blue murder at me because the supervisor had fired all the other temps after I walked out. Said he was going to blacklist me and I'd never get another agency job. The next day he called me back to apologise after doing a surprise inspection at the factory.
Sasy 4 years ago (edited)
It was the first day on the job after training. It was door to door subscription sales (not the type of sales/retail I had ever done before ) but I was in that weird age bracket of too young for this position too old for that, so took anything I could get. Day one knocked on a door and a young lady with Down Syndrome came to the screen door (it was summer the main door was open) she said hi to me, and I said hi back but in seconds her parents (elderly, so I have no real knowledge of the ladies exact age) came to the door yanked her away and slammed the door. I would not have speeled her, I was just returning her own greeting at that point. However on walking away I hear her being yelled at by her parents, and my heart broke, the idea that I had caused such a thing to happen because of a dumb job was a huge no, I called the supervisor that drove us out to locations and said I quit, he tried so hard to get me to stay as I had so much sales experience but I would never forget that feeling
Yegramma 4 years ago
I accepted a job as Manager at fast fashion store. The first day, the district manager and the company's ceo were introducing me to the store and staff, some of whom were lgbtq+, and during the course of the day started using slurs against gay men. I left and didn't return, wrote and let them know why. I was disgusted.
De Gueb 4 years ago
Back on the 90s I got a job at a TV VCR repair shop. A friend recommended me and I spoke with the owner, a woman over the phone. When I turned up the first day, the women, in her 40s, was dressed like a wh***. Short skirt, a tight blouse that hid nothing. She was quite podgy so all of her was everyway. Anyway after the initial shock I got stuck in with the TVs. An hour in she came a sat next to me and asked me to explain what I was doing leaning over, touching me on the leg as she spoke. She explained that she had just got devorced because her husband, who used to fix the TVs had left her for a younger woman. By this time I could clearly see she was not wearing underwear, she also made it very clear that she was part of the benefits of the job. In the end I felt sorry for her, she obviously had very low self esteem after her husband left her and had no idea how to run the business.
Carole Reid 4 years ago
I am nearly 80 and have had a lot of jobs over the years. This article shows that some things never change.
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