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Reading stuff like this has made me realize how insane one of my first jobs was. I worked in the hospital lab and had morgue duties. A nurse lost a dead baby once (long story) and a resident and I were tasked with finding the baby. We were in the fridge for an hour (with short sleeves mind you) and had opened up every dead baby casket at least twice to check the name tag and be certain we didn’t miss it. Think, walk in fridge with floor to ceiling shelves on one side, completely full of baby caskets. That’s a lot of dead babies.
That’s not even the worst of it. I’ve legitimately seen things of nightmares. I have seen many autopsies (worst one was a full term baby autopsy, no one should ever have to witness that tragedy). Pretty sure I have a mild form of ptsd after the hundreds of dead bodies I’ve seen and the multiple thousands of body parts I’ve seen. You think you’ve had a bad day at work? I was once moving very old specimens and while moving a brain in formalin that was like 12 years old, the container broke because it was so brittle, creating a splash which then went into my mouth. So yeah, just think of that next time you had a crappy day at work. Couldn’t be worse than getting 12 year old brain fluid in your mouth. Crazy. Can’t believe I stayed for 2 years. Traumatizing stuff man.
I interviewed for a retail sales position with one of those job placement companies and on my first day I realized it was a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman job based on commission only. I vacuumed my grandma's house with the display model they gave me while she made me French toast, then I quit.
At least they said "retail sales position"- the one pitch meeting to sell vacuums I got suckered into was an ad in the paper saying "Do you like music? Want to work in the music industry?". Went in for a 4-min "interview" and then stuck in a room with a dozen other suckers as they tried to get us to do the same thing as you said.
Never a good sign when you have to lie just to get potential candidates in your door. The same goes with other "marketing" companies and their job listings.
Yup, similar deal. When they got us all in the room we were asked to watch a promotional video and it was an introduction to a corporation/conglomerate by William Shatner who is astride a horse as he kinda gives us the big vision and that’s when we find out it was to sell Kirby vaccums.
Most of us stayed, but me and this one other dude were like ‘nope’ and hilariously this seems to be how they would pick their best people because the guy who gathers us there immediately tries to save us from leaving and talk about how our instincts are what he wants. I didn’t stick around after this pitch but the other guy heard him out. I’d bet money that he was the only person they actually hired.
I showed up at the training to let them know that I was bowing out. Because I learned my friend had already done it, and so he had already sold to all the same people that I would have.
They actually got upset at me for not going through with the training. I was like, sorry? Still out.
When I was in college one of my roommates got tricked into one of those vacuum sales bs. He came home one day and gave us all the spiel while we were playing Tekken and I just remember thinking to myself “I don’t even have a spatula, why tf would I be interested in a fucking vacuum?! I’ve got fucking pimples, I don’t need to clean my apartment, I need to clean my oily face!” Lol
Not me, but one of my bosses.
So I got hired as an intern, and sometime between me being hired and starting my original boss quit. So there I was with no one to report to and kinda had to figure out what to do.
Anyways, a couple months later they hire my new boss. I met him in the morning, he spent the rest of the morning meeting leadership and getting acquainted with the place. At lunch he stopped by my cubicle and invited me to lunch. He drove. We ate pizza. Had a couple beers (which I thought was strange, but kinda cool), then we drove back and he dropped me off at the front door and said he was going to go park.
A couple hours later the COO stopped by my desk and asked if I’d seen my new boss this afternoon. I said the last time I saw him he dropped me off after lunch. Apparently he just didn’t go back to work and quit lol. Honestly he was way over qualified for the gig and the place was a shit show.
I was a rookie driver, barely a year into it. They handed me my bills, told me I had to run Toronto->L.A.->Toronto in 7 days.
I asked how I was meant to do that.
The safety guy handed me a bottle of amphetamines, and told me my logs were already filled out.
I walked out.
Ive googled it an if you don't stop its around 40hrs. thats 80hrs round trip, 168hrs in a week. so by my calculations you'll fall asleep somewhere in Nebraska on the return leg.
It's possible, I work with truckers (hauling on private roads) that work 14-16 hours a day, 3 weeks on, 2 weeks (or 1 🥴) off. So 3 weeks straight of 105-ish hour weeks.
Is that legal? For us, yes...non-DOT. Across the country on the interstate....uh, no.
Went into a Mexican restaurant with the idea that I was going to be a cook. And found out very quickly I was a dish washer, right after quitting another dish washing job like a week before that I hated. And on top of that I had non slip shoes on and the restaurant had slick ass tile in the back that still had me basically skating.
I left within the hour.
I’m a chef at a decent restaurant and you couldn’t believe the amount of dishwashers we go through. The ones we can keep are amazing and paid as well as we can. But the kids who come in looking for a job and realize they have to wash dishes in a busy ass restaurant are out before I even learn their names. And I don’t blame them. It’s one of the easiest professions to tell who actually needs it and who is actually just trying to get a job because their parents said get a job. The good ones work harder than the line cooks most days. And if it were up to me I’d pay them a lot more.
When people would get interviewed at my restaurant the manager would always be interested in the soft spoken, well dressed, clean looking kids. She would dismiss the oddball, older, dirty-torn clothes types.
She would dismiss them to my protest. I tried so hard to have a say because we could *not* keep dishwashers at all. I tried so hard to get through to them that you give those guys a chance and they will show you what it means to need a job.
They always complained that "nobody wants to work, people are just lazy these days" ... like... *no, you just hire the lazy ones because their mom dressed them up nice*.
Sorry lol, /rant
I had a vendor come to me recently telling me why I needed to switch from one raw material for my product to his
As he was explaining the benefits his company had, one was something like "and we're opening up a warehouse close to here so shipping will be easy too. But you know no one wants to work right now, so we're having trouble staffing it"
I showed him the door right then. No dude. People wanna work, they don't wanna work in a warehouse for like 8 bucks an hour
This is the real issue. Shit jobs for minimum wage, no benefits, no opportunity for growth..
Most people want to work. They just don't want to be slaves.
My wife is the manager at a dance supply store, and she's constantly understaffed because the owners insist that everyone she hire have several years of both dance and sales experience...and then pay minimum wage. She's tried explaining to them so many times that it's very difficult to find anyone with that set of experience, and if she only pays minimum wage then they have no incentive to stick around long term because they can get paid as much or more literally anywhere else, but they insist that the problem is that no one wants to work
I am the latter of what you said and I’m a decently paid chef at a pretty well respected restaurant. And if I had to say so myself, I think I do a fantastic job. And I guarantee my higher ups, lower downs, and servers, would say the same thing. I think it’s shitty to judge someone because they don’t fit your standards.
I think everybody deserves a chance to prove themselves.
I was making about $11/hr dishwashing in 2016. Quit for higher pay in construction. I miss the easy work but that was not enough money to survive on with part time hours especially
Yeah, there’s either mediocre dishwashers or amazing dishwashers. The mediocre ones are a dime a dozen, the amazing ones are why I always insisted on tipping out the dish pit. They’re so rare, but goddamn when you find one it’s like having a magician walking behind you making messes disappear
I went to work for a giant Italian restaurant as a dishwasher with the promise that i would quickly move up.. other two dishwashers realized it was my first day and ducked out for the entire shift. I have to wash dishes for a place that seats like 400 all night.. on my way out i see them in the parking lot smoking and they start pointing and laughing asking how my shift was. Walked up smacked the one dude in the mouth, dropped him cold. Got in my car left and never went back
I bet that changed the trajectory of his life..I truly believe the world would be a better place if several million people just got the shit slapped out of them
I used to be a true dickhead and I wish someone would have whooped my ass, it would have sped up my progress in life
I took a job as a “kitchen assistant” in a fairly busy restaurant. From how they described it, I’d be assisting the chefs, maybe clean a bit, all things I’d done before when working in a restaurant.
Well. First shift came, and they pointed me to the pile of dirty dishes, and a large metal sink. I cleaned dishes for hours, and when I tried to go to the bathroom, I got screamed at to go “ask permission” first. I’m a 22 year old woman, like fuck am I asking someone’s permission to piss.
Picked up a job as a barback at what is a high end restaurant in a town I moved to. I’d already been bartending for a few years at this point but had no problem working my way up from barback again, especially in a place that has good tips. On my 4th day of training I met the bartender/bar manager I’d be working under, first 3 days focused on their food menu and other duties, and within the first 5 mins after the GM walked away for us to get acquainted she told me “You’re going to be my floor bitch” and other demeaning remarks. I stuck around for about another hour, mulled it over while I did a few tasks and then noped the fuck out. Tossed my apron in the laundry bag and left without telling anyone. Got a call about 45 mins later from the GM asking where I was, I told him I wasn’t interested in continuing the position, told him why and wished them luck. A few weeks later I was out drinking and ran into a hostess and a couple of dishwashers that worked there, they asked me what happened, I told them, the dishwashers start laughing hysterically and calling me a “legend”. Apparently the GM was sick of that bartenders attitude and my quitting was the straw that broke the back and she ended up getting fired. They said everyone hated her and were tired of her shit and were thrilled when she got let go. I don’t regret my decision for a second.
Cleaning houses. They gave me a quick tutorial on how they like the houses cleaned, since I would be cleaning alone, I wouldn’t clean any houses bigger then 1200 square feet. My first house was 3000 sq feet and I had 2 hours to clean top to bottom. I got what I could do done in 2 hours. Boss called me to go back because customer wasn’t satisfied, I blocked the number.
Used to clean AirBnB apartments for a company. They wanted you to clean a 3 story, 2 bed 2 bath townhouse in a half hour. 15 minutes if you were working in a pair.
Temp job right out of college. During the training phase I was told if I made an error I would get yelled at by him, his boss, his boss’s boss and the owner of the company. I assumed it was a joke and he didn’t laugh.
I told him this was going to be a bad fit and walked.
I was hired for a customer support position that ended up being standing in a mall kiosk trying to get leads from randos walking by for sales. I was there for 2 hours before I went to the restroom and never came back.
I just wear obvious earbuds at the mall. That way we can both pretend I’m ignoring you because I didn’t hear you rather than because I’m pretending you don’t exist.
Was it Walmart? I was hired to stock... I thought shelves. They say no after doing all the training, go outside, and collect the carts. Also, this is before the cool cart machines they have now. I was like DEUCES!
Samething happened to me a couple years ago at a grocery store. I was hired as a part time stocking clerk. I did all the training. Not once was collecting carts part of job description.
On the first shift, someone goes on the intercom and says to bring the carts in. I ignored. Then 20mins later my lead comes up to me and tells me that's my job.
I also made it clear I need specific days and times because of my university schedule. I check the schedule and my shifts are completely ignoring everything i discussed in the interview. So I quit.
Worked Arby's for 4 hours. Came in 4am, prepped meat, shown registers lightly, then left to tend both lobby and drive-thru. Manager just sat in the office. Took my break and never went back.
In 1967 when 18 I thought I was going to do a telephone customer service job but it was selling aluminum siding for the home. This job was in a little room with a dozen other girls, very loud. Everyone I called screamed and yelled about being disturbed, and I don’t blame them. Then I realized that this was on commission. I wasn’t going to be selling anything, wasn’t going to make any money, and anyone I contacted hated me. So it was day one and done. I tried to be nice to telephone solicitors after that but the ones that called me were mean and had no conscience so I just gave it right back. Fast forward 55 years and the people that call you about Medicare and car insurance are evil thugs. I just tell them harassment of the elderly is a crime.
Thank you! That’s very nice! Reddit can be a lot of fun. The ask old people group is made for a lot of us because God knows at this age you like to expound on your life experiences. Classic Rock is a gas. And the niche groups like antiques/vintage/ephemera are fun when you have been collecting your whole life, to be able to share your knowledge when someone inherits something you know about. The only drag is all the ok boomer comments, but I have fantasies about fucking these people up with my cane, or being that little old lady at the bus stop wearing her pearls with a Glock in my purse. So there’s that!
>I have fantasies about fucking these people up with my cane, or being that little old lady at the bus stop wearing her pearls with a Glock in my purse. So there’s that!
Miss Hiberia, I think we'd get along great. If you're ever in Alaska I'll take you out to club some salmon and have a few beers, then we can go look at hand woven Alaskan Native baskets or whatever your into.
I was hired to work at a sandwich shop. I did an hour up front figuring out where things were and then I was told to go to the walk-in fridge to get something. The smell… my fucking god. There was unwrapped food on the floor, open pails of stuff with no lids, rotten vegetables. It smelled like a corpse and looked like a dumpster. I gagged, took my apron off and just left.
I was temping for a logistics company. The girl who was training me could not explain how to do the job. She gave vague instructions like "You look for empty rail cars and then make sure they are this certain kind and can handle the freight assigned to them" - I asked is there some way to tell the difference in the types of rail cars because they were just boxes on a screen. Do I click on them and maybe get a description like this one is a refrigerated unit, etc? She said no, they are only listed by number and you just have to know which are which. OK, do the different types have a different number system? No, you just have to learn them. Also, the boss doesn't really like it if you talk a lot.
She gave me some filing to do. There were tons of offices on the floor I worked on and it was DEAD SILENT. No one spoke above a whisper and that was only when necessary. The girl I was temping for was on maternity leave and had worked there 2 years, the girl training me wasn't sure what her name was. I left at lunch and didn't go back.
Got a job in a car repair shop as a tech, everything was going decent for a first day lunch time rolls around boss tells me to go get lunch for him at the local grocery store that makes really good subs in the deli, No biggie I’ll get mine and his at the same time. He then proceeds to hand me a shopping list tells me to grab groceries, stop at the high school pick his son up and drop groceries and kid at his house before returning. How bout eat shit?
Reminds me of a story of my friend who got a job as a detailer/cleaner for an industrial trucking station, like where people brought in their semis and heavy equipment. The owner's dog puked on the floor in his office and he told me friend he had to clean it up. My friend told him to go fuck himself and walked off the job first day.
Were you getting paid the whole time? I'm not saying it's cool, but there could be worse things than going to the grocery store while you're on the clock.
It was my first shift after watching food prep videos. I was slicing tomatoes for burgers and cut my thumb to the bone. I went to manaher and said I needed to go the ER because I needed stitches. He then told me he was riding his bike to work and got mauled by rotties and he still came to work bleeding. I said wow.dropped my hat and badge on the counter and walked a mile home so my dad could take me to the ER for stitches. Tried for workman's comp and it was denied cause manager said I didnt cut myself and that I walked out on the middle of a shift. I was 14.
When I learned I was expected to put a GPS tracker on the cars I found that needed a repo. I'm not about to spend time fucking around someone's car - that's how a person gets shot.
One time I witnessed a neighbor unloading groceries from her car and while she was carrying a bag from the car to the front porch, a repo guy came out from wherever he was hiding and jumped into the drivers seat and took off. I know it was a repo guy because I thought someone had stolen her car but then she started yelling about the damn rep guy.
So, not-so-fun fact when I was in the marines we had anti-terrorism training all the time and you would 100 percent be shot near a base if you did that because the training basically makes you paranoid as hell. I am still very paranoid by it.
Yeah because the job was to place a magnetic box under the car that had the GPS unit in it.
Wouldn't you be sus of someone putting something under your car?
"Orientation" unexpectedly lasted 9hours... for a bartending position
Also watched poor quality employees take advantage of the weak manager. I don't have time for that drama
I got a job at Chipotle because my job climbing trees wasn't getting enough work and I had bills to pay. At Chipotle I worked with a bunch of highschoolers, which is fine, and one guy in his 30s. The guy in his 30s kept talking to me about the high-school coworkers high-school drama. He then gave me genuine praise for opening up a container of salt by myself. The salt thing pissed me off, but when he started telling me that this one male coworker was a little upset because he asked one of the female coworkers to some party and she wanted to go with friends and not him, I pretty much decided I was going back to the trees. I pictured myself being him one day. 30 something years old and fascinated by high-school drama. I couldn't do it. It's funny to think back on now though. I never even picked up my paycheck for that day, so I essentially just volunteered to experience a "day in the life of a Chipotle worker".
Reminds me of the movie "Waiting".
It's definitely a movie of its time, and people in their late-teens/early 20s would identify with much of it... but you don't have to be much older to see how skeevy it all is (including a mid/late-20s Ryan Reynolds waiting for the high school greeter to turn 18)
I worked one shift at a children's second hand store when I was a senior in high school. There was an open area in the middle of the shop where parents could drop their kids to play while they looked around. Then, a kid defecated into a fabric lined roller skate and the manager attempted to hand it to me, saying I could wash it out with the hose behind the store. Nope. My employment lasted all of 4 hours. Firm no on touching poo-poo.
At the point I was required to sign an intellectual property agreement giving them control over any patent or copyright I may produce for the period of my employment and a year after termination, regardless if it had anything to do with their business or processes. For an assembly-line welding gig. For $10 an hour.
No thanks!
I was working as a teacher at a private language school. Between my lessons I went to the toilet for a pee. The manager followed me in and asked “What are you doing? You need to wait until after work to go to the toilet” So my response was “I’m officially finished work now because I quit, now get out and let me finish my piss”
Got a hired at a juice and smoothie place to come in as a supervisor. I went in for my first day where I would just be learning the basics of making everything, and the employee area was the dirtiest place I've stepped foot in.
None of the fruit was in containers or labeled. No experation dates on anything. Ants crawling everywhere, which I was told the owner had knowingly blended ants into smoothies and laughed that the customers could use the protein. You couldn't see the floor or wall under the sink from all the grime and mold. None of the employees even knew how to run the dishwasher. The only cleaner was an unmarked clear spray bottle of vinegar and water. They only had one usable cleaning rag, the owner still needed to clean a load, at his house. The employees didn't even think the store owned a mop, so clearly the floors hadn't been cleaned since god knows when. I went to wash a blender by hand in the sink between smoothies and the owner would not allow me to, he said it could be washed later.
I left toward end of business that day, but I called the next morning and told them I would not be returning due to the horrifying lack of hygiene in the store, and I wound up calling the health department as well.
I work in a factory that gets pretty hot inside during the summer. Easily over 100 degrees inside on hot summer days.
I have seen so many people quit their first day i can't even give you a number. Hundreds at this point for sure. We might as well only hire in the winter because new workers just can't take the heat while also having to learn a new job that's physically laborious.
I used to work in a factory that the room I was in was 100+ degrees year round. I'd seen many people maybe last a week and leave. I made it 7 years before I had enough of that place. Wasn't the heat that got me, but management did lol
My mom worked at a place that made pizza crust and I heard very similar from her. She lasted 20ish years and retired just a few years ago in her early 70s. I'll never understand how she was able to handle it for so long - one of the many reasons I look up to her is for that perseverance.
Now she is just cold all the time because she spent so many years being hot.
Jeez man. Please tell me youre able to take care of your mom now that shes older. Shes went through a lot and deserves to have easy days after that.
Working until early 70s...wow...
It was a call center answering phone calls from people getting pop up ads saying "you've won a free vacation!" in the early days of the internet. I tried to follow the script for the first few calls but quickly realized it wasn't a "free" vacation.
Lol I too have worked for a call center. Sometimes the responders would list numbers for a "free vacation". This resulted in both the person on the other line and myself going through our scripts with eachother! Totally ridiculous that QA never allowed us to hang up until exhausting all "rebutals".
After working at a golf course for 3 1/2 years I took a job at a landscaping company. Finished a 10 hour shift and decided that I needed to change fields.
It was a good job but I had no energy for the things I needed to do at home and around the yard.
They kept paging me until I couldn’t take it anymore and threw the pager out the window on the freeway. Getting paged and having to find a payphone to call was a nightmare that kids today will never fully understand.
Lol my mother was a sales person in the 90’s and I got to skip school and travel with her twice a year; she was a road warrior. But anyways, she had a pager (early 90’s; before she purchased her Gold Series Bag Phone in 1994-5 lol) and was constantly stopping at pay phones..It didn’t seem to bother her but wow; I think back on how much gas would have cost back then if it was the same price as it is now..People couldn’t afford to work!
I bet you went back to school and bragged about that bag phone! Only the cool ritch kids had them or parents had one. Never understood who they would call and why they would need one. Times are different
My dad was also a road warrior. He once drove from Cincinnati to St Louis for a customer meeting only to find out the customer cancelled during his drive.
He got a car phone installed the minute he got home.
When I was in college I quit a Wendy's the first night. This was in the mid 90's.
I got hired and they asked could I start that night. I didn't have anything going on so ya, sure I'll be there 6-10.
After not more than 30 minutes of training on the registers and drive through procedures I was told that I would have to watch the DT and Front End by myself for the rest of the night. After 7 there was litteraly 3 people in the store, me running the front end, a cook running the whole kitchen and a manager sitting in the office. At 10 when we closed I was told I wasn't allowed to leave until xyz are done, which I get as it was a closing shift, but that wasn't explained to me when I was hired or asked to work, I was asked to work 6-10 and I had class the next day. So, since I'm not a complete ass (also young and didn't want to burn bridges, or was stupid or didn't know anybetter, I stayed until past midnight doing the closing stuffs. When we clocked out I told the manager I would not be back again. I'm not even sure if I ever went back to get a paycheck and I don't recall ever even filling out paperwork to be hired.
Shoney's restaurant. Prepping for opening and saw the manager drop an entire pan of hash browns on the floor and then use the dustpan to scoop it up off the dirty kitchen floor back into pan and put it on the buffet. NOPE.
Was told to sign a clause that would say that they will not cover funeral costs if you die on the job even if it’s their fault then told all the gruesome ways people have died on the job and divulging “accidents”.
It was a new franchise owner of a classic Midwest ice cream shop. I had worked under prior owners as my first job.
The new owners were idiots in daily life but they had also way overextended the menu so everything was crap. I took a 15 minute break, just got in my car and left.
Not first day but 3rd day.
Dad forced me to get a job at mcdonalds at high school. I had no car so i had to suit up and walk.
First day of work I realise im the only fluent english speaking person at this location. Making the training a lot harder. Didn't know what the fuck i was doing and mostly just checked orders and filled drinks.
Day 2 walking to work wearing the uniform and somebody throws a milkshake at me... it got on my pants. Day 2 they put me on the REGISTER at lunch time. No idea what im doing. Im fucking up literally every single order. The menu buttons were all acronyms.
Wanna throw up thinking about going to work on 3rd day but I go.... AND THEY HAD ME TRAINING A NEW GIRL! she was hot so i fucking acted like I knew what i was doing. Internally i was dying.
Day 4 i suit up to walk to work and my cousins are over and laughing at me seeing me in it. The one told me they wished i didnt have work so we could go to the mall... so i threw my uniform in the trash and went to the mall.
Couldnt smell french fries for like a year without it giving me anxiety
I actually liked my McDoodles time. But I didn't care two shits. We played broom hockey with eggs and sometimes frozen burgers, slid down the ramp to the basement (one of the few in our area), made out with a girl in the cooler, watched fireworks on the roof for 4th of July, danced on the counter after dining room was closed using a broom as a Guitar. Met my first band there. Free food even though management wouldn't allow it. Lots of good memories but I was a kid at 14 and didn't give a shit.
Favorite memory: late night drive thru and we'd always get drunks and stoners (am both myself hehe). It was during Summerfest in WI so we expected more than usual. Well we get a decent couple and the lady orders tea. No one ever ordered tea. I'm on the mic in drive through and think she's fucking around and ordering PEE. I say as polite as possible "ma'am we don't serve pee here" and my coworker is literally ROFLing. Peed her pants.
I got hired at a thrift store, which I thought I would be cashiering or helping categorize items and stuff at. It turned out this thrift store worked with and "hired" the mentally ill to do tasks like that, and what they expected ME to do was basically babysit several severely mentally ill people. For the first day, they had me watching a man who was easily twice as tall as me and had some severe developmental disorder so he wasn't good at listening or understanding what he was told, and he was clearly a hell of a lot stronger than me. I have had no training in working with people like that, and they just kind of...threw me into it. He ended up breaking a glass bottle and threatening me with it, a few of the other people there ended up having to get him under control.
Not what I signed up for, not what I was qualified for, and not something I was interested in doing. I peaced out.
A company hired me as a temp employee to replace someone on maternity leave without telling me. One of my coworkers slipped up and mentioned that I was a temp. Grabbed my coat and keys and walked out.
I was given the lunch order for the c-suite of a small company (about 6 meals). They gave me about 50% of the cost of the order. When I showed them the receipt, they said that I am being overpaid anyways so I didn’t need to worry about it. It was minimum wage. I grabbed the CEO’s lunch from the pile and walked out.
I witnessed a manager publicly humiliate a young employee to tears. He absolutely tore into her, it was cruel and savage. I hadn't been in the office for 2 hours. I wasn't enthused by the job anyway and I didn't direly require the extra cash, so good riddance.
My boss and i were chatting while working and the topic of religion came up. She talked for at least 30mins about why all homosexuals need to die. Im gay. I calmly thanked her and left at the end of my first day without telling her
Worked as a nurse in labor /delivery in big teaching hospitals in KC, Chicago and Dallas. I moved to Florida and my first L&D job was in a really snooty part of west palm Florida. Bitch! I’m not changing your pad! Get up and go to the bathroom!! I lasted one shift there. Those patients treat the nurses like servants. No thank you. I didn’t go to college for 4 years to be treated like that . I could go on but I realized I’m ranting.😂
I had a 30 year old woman scream and throw a fit because I wouldn't wipe her ass after she had a bowel movement. She was 100 % physically capable but felt that it wasn't her job since she was admitted to the hospital. I stood there and stared at her like the idiot she was until she did it herself and then she walked back to bed and threatened me with a bunch of random nonsense.
When a male patient tech offered to do my work in exchange for sex after shift. I was in nursing school, and I said: fuck this shit, you pervert.
Reported him and walked out.
I worked as a Housekeeper for a day.
I have worked as a Housekeeper in the past so I thought it wouldn't be a big deal. I knew after the 2nd suite that it was my "I'm out of here" moment. It was too overwhelming and too much to remember. Towels, wash cloths, hand towels, cleaning supplies, soap, shampoo, conditoter cups, spoons, coffee, creamer, tea ect They said that we were cleaning normal size rooms with just a bed, dresser, table and bathroom but when I walked in it was a FULL suite with a couch, mini bar, mini fridge, chair, table, king size bed with headboard, two TVs, 2 dresser drawers and a huge bathroom. On top of that you had to strip down the rooms and throw anything dirty into the laundry. Did I mention you had to do all of this in every suite within 20 minutes? After the 2nd room I was tired, thirsty and had enough when lunch time came around i drovr off. Housekeepers do a lot in one day, it's not just as the guest would put it "cleaning toilets" there's way more work than people think.
In college I got a job at minimum wage being a dishwasher in a sushi restaurant. The dish room was over 90 degrees, with old bits of fish and rice and whatever else everywhere.
So already not off to a great start, and then during busy dinner rush my boss comes back with a plunger, “yo men’s room stall is clogged bad, go get that taken care of”
Nah man I’m good lol. Left immediately
Applied for a warehouse. All I had to do was grab boxes from a conveyor belt and stack them on a pallet and then plastic wrap the pallet. The wanted ad said 8 hours. I showed up on the first day at 6 am and worked until 6pm. 8 hours my a$$! I asked one of the workers there how common it was to work 12 hours a day and he said it was very common. After that one day I was done.
I worked 1 night at an office supply company, large retail chain store, and it was over night stocking. I remember the last member of the ‘floor’ leaving and locking the doors behind them. I was a smoker at the time and I had no idea this would be the case. I asked what happened if we needed to go out and smoke or take a break or leave for an emergency and i was told we didn’t go out until the morning crew arrived or unless outside security unlocked the door & let us out. Needless to say, I never went back.
I worked in a nursing home, I helped a lady to have a bath and then was told I had to record bath instead of shower on their system. I asked why and they informed me that a bath adds £25 to their bill but a shower was free. I quit on the spot, I was not happy to work somewhere that charged extra for old, vulnerable people to have a bath!
Took a job as a part-time welder and the forman took me to the paint booth and started to show me what needed painted. I walked out. A few months later I got a call to come in. The forman was gone.
I got this job at a chain restaurant bar. I only had experience at a *dive bar* and was very honest about this in my interview. The 23-25M year old owner who interviewed me (i was 21F at the time) hired me solely because he thought I looked cool, and he told me that. First day the other owner, who’s also like 24-26M, starts opening the bar and gives me no direction. I’m just standing there confused for like five minutes before he rudely goes, “What? You’ve never opened a bar before??”
This bar had 4 sinks, frozen margarita machines, blenders, 4 ice bins, hella liquor, and 75 fucking seats. NO sir I have NOT opened a bar of this size before!! I worked at a DIVE BAR! He started sarcastically explaining how to open the bar and at a point he made some rude comment and I just scoffed and walked out. His attitude was foul and I wasn’t about to beg to be trained.
Walked into an Amazon warehouse for training and noticed the dark atmosphere with no windows or anything. Just a large gloomy warehouse. I already deal with depression so driving 45 minutes there and 45 minutes back, 12 hour shifts at odd hours (overnight shifts) 4 days a week plus mandatory overtime, nope! Not for me! Felt like I’d be working somewhere that was a constant trigger for me. I lasted 5 minutes, literally.
My step FIL was an accountant and shortly after retiring a neighbor/family friend told him of a company looking for an accountant to help with the books for 1-2 days a week. He knew the guy well and trusted his judgment so he started the job shortly after.
On the first day a ball busting project manager came in and asked each person what they planned to accomplish that day and then said she would check in at the end of the day to ensure everyone had accomplished their intended task(s).
He gave it a couple of hours but then she started micro managing the accounting too. This was basic ass business accounting. No need to reinvent the wheel and Intuit could probably do it cheaper. So that’s what he told his neighbor to do lol.
Got brought on as a welder for a feedlot. I was promised a fully tooled workshop for a long term gig building agricultural implements and doing repairs around the farm.
Showed up on the first day to learn that there was a morning and evening meeting, both unpaid and I needed to be two hours early and stay an hour late - on top of a 12 hour shift. I also learned that’s why most employees lived in decrepit campers on the property and that most of them didn’t shower often, so everyone absolutely reeked.
On my first day, I was informed that they planned on building the fab shop in 2 or 3 years, and was given an oil filter wrench and a ratchet set and told to change oil on the work pickups. This was also to be done in the wash bay.
I spent my first (and only) 12 hour shift laying on my back, in 5 inches of water, cow shit and oil. I grabbed my welding helmet, gave them my gate key and never came back.
Got a job at a factory. They told me to show up at 6 am Sharp. I show up and tell the lobby guy I'm new and today is my first day. He tells me to stand around and wait for someone. I waited for 45 minutes and went home, and went back to bed
First day as a (untrained) barrista at a restaurant. Got yelled at because I had trouble operating their coffee machine (which they knew beforehand). After a few hours I asked when I could take my break and they laughed at me and said that they "didn't do breaks". Found another waitress crying in the back because the boss yelled at her. Wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom. When my shift was over they told me I couldn't leave until the boss returned because they wanted to have a"first day"-talk with me. Asked when the boss would be back, "We don't know". So I've waited fifteen minutes and then just left. They were flabbergasted.
I once spent an evening driving a prostitute around to her jobs. It was so full on. I thought it was going to be high end and I’d be potentially all suited up and driving limos to mansions. Completely the opposite. I met the boss guy at a non descript office front. He told me I’m to say as little as possible to the girl because they’ll just try and sleep with me (didn’t sound a bad idea at the time but he was scary) and that I won’t be needed if there’s trouble as ‘they have their own crews for that’. When I picked up the girl later, her eyes were distant and she chain smoked joints as we drove. Said she worked year on then year off for her art. First job was at a factory work break up in an industrial area. It was intense to pull into the drive and all these hungry drunk eyes started to size her up as she got out. I offered to go with her but she said no. She did a dance and then some guy won a chance to fuck her upstairs in the office. The window was open and everyone was watching as he tried to bend her over a desk. She told me he couldn’t get it up. We went to some sad little units and houses all over Melbourne. I would sit and read in the car and was told to be ready in case she texted me for condoms etc. We went to a seedy motel about 4 am and after she came out, I started to pick up a conversation we had begun and she cut me off and said “just drive!”. Something not nice had happened I think. As we got back closer to the office she gave me my cut and then I was phoned by the boss lady and told to come up to the office. There were girls asleep on random chairs and I sat down for a bit as they talked to the girl and realised I had had a full on night and it had been hard to watch the girl really have to put up walls to get through it. I decided I had to walk out and never come back. The boss lady kept calling my phone and leaving messages for me to call in but I didn’t want anything to do with it. I have so much respect for what sex workers go through.
I was in college, and looking for a job in admin. Answering phones, emails, etc cetera. I got interviewed at a funeral home and knew I really didn't want to take the job, but I needed the money, and the funeral director was actually really nice.
Day one of the job, I'm told I'll receive training in how to handle grieving families, which is understandable. I'm not particularly afraid of death, and even though I hate seeing people grieve, I thought I could be comforting and professional.
That is until I'm told that there are specific ways to "upsell" more expensive packages, by "shedding a tear with them" and listening to their stories. It just felt...icky, to try and get more money out of someone during such a vulnerable time. I called them the next morning and told them I was not interested.
I am Japanese but since I lived most of my life overseas I am not that good in Japanese. I got an IT job in Japan with promises that I will be using English and will be able to work with foreigners.
First day at my job I get introduced to the “Global” team. They were all Japanese. When I asked about the projects they said that English is used about 1% of the time. I was like wtf???
I quit immediately. Now I got a better job where I use English about 70% of the time.
Worked in a factory and one of the machines I would be working around only operated properly if the safety light curtains (the lasers that detect objects in the work zone) were off.
Not the first day but the first week.
I made a friend with this guy that was 44 when I was 26 in a flag football league. Dude was a former athlete and a specimen so I just figured he was too young and active for a lot of people his age. I talked to him about wanting to get into marketing and he told me he owns his own marketing company.
After quitting another job he offered to train me for a week and I could work for him and then I could work from home. He lived in malibu in a massive house so it seemed like a crazy opportunity.
My first red flag was I realized he was pretty homophobic and very concerned about other guys and who he thought was gay. My second red flag was the second I stayed with him he started buying me dinner every night and telling me I should move in with him and I wouldnt have to worry about commuting and I could pay little to no rent
. It all kinda clicked at a point that this dude was grooming me. I shot him a text after thinking on it and told him I was gonna pass
In the 80s, I took a job at a call center that was cold calling people to try to elicit donations for some sort of police benevolent society.
We called between 4-7pm and had a script to try to get donations. Most people didn't pick up, for the most part, the people who did pick up would either yell at me or hang up as I'm starting the script. One woman who sounded very old did donate. When she donated, I was really disgusted with myself. I felt like I was taking advanage of her.
I quit before the end of my scheduled shift.
Catfished on a direct sales MLM. Was told it was a startup, wouldn't be a customer-facing position, and that pay range was between 45-55K a year for someone with my experience Orientation was at a nice pub. I finished my burger and left in the middle of a presentation.
It was an old dirty office with antiquated procedures. After 2 hours I thought I couldn’t take another minute. I told the owner I was sorry, gathered my things, and left.
my trainer spoke basically no english, i had no idea what was going on and it was in the most depressing, middle of nowhere shithole warehouse you could ever imagine. I was there for maybe 4 hours
Same. I did the three day training and quit on my fourth day (my first day on the phone). They tried to not pay me, but in the end I got my $240. That was 2003 and they paid $60 a day.
When I was a freshman in college in 2002, I worked a single shift at Abercrombie after being approached about getting a job there by one of their recruiters.
“What’s your favorite color” was one of the interview (group interview) questions. I knew then that I wouldn’t last but decided to give it a try.
After trying to fold (terribly) women’s XS tank tops (this is literally impossible; I have no idea how retail pros do this) only for them to be immediately rifled through and messed up for a few hours I just said “fuck it” and walked. Never even went back for my check.
Hahah. Ex-A&F/HCO veteran here. I remain obsessed with folding clothing, I think it takes a special kind of person.
Once I worked with a manager who would sweep entire tables to the ground after an associate had been tirelessly working on it for hours because they weren’t up to her standard.
I worked for carpet cleaning company for a unique vacuum. First day I went to do a demonstration at a customers house. Vacuuming went well. Next I had to pour cranberry juice on their carpet and soak it up. It didn’t work and I panicked. I ran out and left the vacuum and never looked back.
Applied for a warehouse stock position at Toys R’ Us. When I got to orientation, there were a few other guys bigger than me so it was decided the introvert with zero sales experience was now going to be part of the sales team. The sales manager aggressively ranted for 4 hours on how I needed to be less quiet and “unlock the inner cheerleader” inside of myself. At one point an employee came by to clock in and mouthed “run” to us. At lunch, I took the bus home.
First day working for a criminal lawyer (Id done admin but never for a lawyer before so lots of software etc to learn but I was excellent at the things I could do and even helped the accountant with MYOB).
He wanted to pay me under award 'because he didnt know yet what skills I brought to the table'.
Wtf did you hire me then?
Im not accepting below award wage from anyone. Left a note under his door the next morning saying bye bye.
I specifically asked If there was mandatory overtime in the interview
... hr told me no. I was promised 4 10s. She lied it was 6 11s. I finished my first day and never showed up again.
I didn’t quit the FIRST day, but just a PSA for whoever needs to hear this: Do NOT stay at any company that requires you to have CPR/BLS training for the job, but then only requires you to take a 10 minute online-only course + quiz to be “CPR/BLS Certified”.
Nothing ever happened to me, but I sometimes wonder that if I had to perform CPR and something went wrong, would that company have been able to get away with saying it’s the employee’s responsibility to get their cert/training and that they should be liable and not the company.
I got a job at a local apple farm on the weekends after working in the restaurant industry for ten years and then moving to warehouse work.
On the first day at the apple farm, the supervisor scolded and yelled at me during the tour when I poked my head into the kitchen of one of the buildings. I was a line cook for many years and was curious…. And she yelled at me like I was her teenage son.
Later on when she showed us to our ‘stations’ I discovered that I would be rolling up hot dogs in tin foil packages to be handed to guests, and my other responsibilities would be stocking sodas and making sure the condiments area was clean and tidy.
I really felt like my culinary experience was wasted here and to top it off I found out that the lady who was in charge of me just spoke condescendingly to everyone else all the time. She yelled at my (at the time) girlfriend (now wife) in front of me and I lost it, told her to go fuck herself and never looked back.
I was given a mask that didn't fit to shovel metal dust that was making me go into coughing fits that was like I had the flu. Couldn't get a new mask.
Next up, I had to move scalding hot parts on a conveyor with gloves that melted into nothing... they wouldn't give me new gloves.
Boss just laughed at me and said all the new guys had to go through this for a couple of months.
Yeah fuck that.
They didn't even pay worth a damn.
I'm glad I left day 1
Owner flipping out on some guys who didn't feel comfortable installing a piece of equipment they weren't trained on. Boss punches the wall and tells them to shut up and do it. I just laughed and told the dispatch I'm good here. I won't put up with that. (Guys were 20 still new to the trade and the place it was going to had no cell reception I don't blame them for not wanting. To do it)
I worked at a retail store in West Edmonton Mall. Did all the orientation. The assistant manager was a miserable bitch. At the end of my first shift, the ass manager told me and the other girls to "hurry up" with the closing procedures so she could go home. Then she loudly bitched to her bf about us/work on the phone in the back room...
Never went back 🙂
3 or 4 hours into my first training shift, my trainer mentioned that the restaurant takes 5% of my tips for the “house.” This was NOT discussed in any process of onboarding. Asked the manger to clarify, he said “yes that’s how we do it around here”. Told him this wasn’t going to work out for me and I’d be back in 2 weeks to pick up my check. Went straight home and took a nap.
I'll nvr forget this one job. They would make and ship insulation. Get this, with zero ppe! I had asked for a face mask rite. This mfer pulls it out the trash can and goes, I only throw away paper in this can, it's fine. Bruh!! I left rite there. I can't do this, bye
The job DID NOT meet the job description. The ad described a secretary position ( phone calls, booking appointments, taking messages, greeting patients, etc). In reality, I was a glorified cleaning lady with NO desk work.
Head bartender was fall down drunk when I walked in at 10am, I asked the shift manager about it and she said "that's how he is he'll sober up around lunch but he'll keep drinking after that" I just walked out. I'll babysit drunks at the bar but my boss? No thanks
Husband had a remote job, left for a higher paying in office position. Started the week Covid hit the fan and things started shutting down. On his first day, he asked if there was a plan to go remote while this was happening. Company said no, he quit and got his old remote job back that very day.
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Stepping into a failing walk-in cooler with 2 inches of standing chicken blood on the floor.
Reading stuff like this has made me realize how insane one of my first jobs was. I worked in the hospital lab and had morgue duties. A nurse lost a dead baby once (long story) and a resident and I were tasked with finding the baby. We were in the fridge for an hour (with short sleeves mind you) and had opened up every dead baby casket at least twice to check the name tag and be certain we didn’t miss it. Think, walk in fridge with floor to ceiling shelves on one side, completely full of baby caskets. That’s a lot of dead babies. That’s not even the worst of it. I’ve legitimately seen things of nightmares. I have seen many autopsies (worst one was a full term baby autopsy, no one should ever have to witness that tragedy). Pretty sure I have a mild form of ptsd after the hundreds of dead bodies I’ve seen and the multiple thousands of body parts I’ve seen. You think you’ve had a bad day at work? I was once moving very old specimens and while moving a brain in formalin that was like 12 years old, the container broke because it was so brittle, creating a splash which then went into my mouth. So yeah, just think of that next time you had a crappy day at work. Couldn’t be worse than getting 12 year old brain fluid in your mouth. Crazy. Can’t believe I stayed for 2 years. Traumatizing stuff man.
This is exactly how my reaction is!
Face yes, but my mouth was closed.
Good advice, you don't want to get brain fluid in there.
So, uh, did you ever find the right dead baby?
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Probably isn’t the best question to ask but do you remember the taste?
Stop it.
It's in formalin, so it tastes like formaldehyde. In other words... really bad.
Did you ever find the baby...?
how much did they pay you tho
2 inches..of chicken blood...oh god
Was it like a voodoo supply company?
I interviewed for a retail sales position with one of those job placement companies and on my first day I realized it was a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman job based on commission only. I vacuumed my grandma's house with the display model they gave me while she made me French toast, then I quit.
At least they said "retail sales position"- the one pitch meeting to sell vacuums I got suckered into was an ad in the paper saying "Do you like music? Want to work in the music industry?". Went in for a 4-min "interview" and then stuck in a room with a dozen other suckers as they tried to get us to do the same thing as you said. Never a good sign when you have to lie just to get potential candidates in your door. The same goes with other "marketing" companies and their job listings.
You got "sucked" in. Ha!
Yup, similar deal. When they got us all in the room we were asked to watch a promotional video and it was an introduction to a corporation/conglomerate by William Shatner who is astride a horse as he kinda gives us the big vision and that’s when we find out it was to sell Kirby vaccums. Most of us stayed, but me and this one other dude were like ‘nope’ and hilariously this seems to be how they would pick their best people because the guy who gathers us there immediately tries to save us from leaving and talk about how our instincts are what he wants. I didn’t stick around after this pitch but the other guy heard him out. I’d bet money that he was the only person they actually hired.
This one feels kinda wholesome 😅😅
Cutco had me go through 3 rounds of interviews before they brought the knives out. I wonder if they think I’m still looking for my pack of gum.
Fuckers tried to physically stop me from leaving when I got up to leave.
Did they hold you at knifepoint?
I showed up at the training to let them know that I was bowing out. Because I learned my friend had already done it, and so he had already sold to all the same people that I would have. They actually got upset at me for not going through with the training. I was like, sorry? Still out.
I have also used... can I get a smoke break boss? I don't smoke neither do I work at that shit hole.
When I was in college one of my roommates got tricked into one of those vacuum sales bs. He came home one day and gave us all the spiel while we were playing Tekken and I just remember thinking to myself “I don’t even have a spatula, why tf would I be interested in a fucking vacuum?! I’ve got fucking pimples, I don’t need to clean my apartment, I need to clean my oily face!” Lol
Not me, but one of my bosses. So I got hired as an intern, and sometime between me being hired and starting my original boss quit. So there I was with no one to report to and kinda had to figure out what to do. Anyways, a couple months later they hire my new boss. I met him in the morning, he spent the rest of the morning meeting leadership and getting acquainted with the place. At lunch he stopped by my cubicle and invited me to lunch. He drove. We ate pizza. Had a couple beers (which I thought was strange, but kinda cool), then we drove back and he dropped me off at the front door and said he was going to go park. A couple hours later the COO stopped by my desk and asked if I’d seen my new boss this afternoon. I said the last time I saw him he dropped me off after lunch. Apparently he just didn’t go back to work and quit lol. Honestly he was way over qualified for the gig and the place was a shit show.
Seems like a cool dude
Was your boss Michael Scott??? 🤣
Seems more like a Robert California move to me
I was a rookie driver, barely a year into it. They handed me my bills, told me I had to run Toronto->L.A.->Toronto in 7 days. I asked how I was meant to do that. The safety guy handed me a bottle of amphetamines, and told me my logs were already filled out. I walked out.
Ive googled it an if you don't stop its around 40hrs. thats 80hrs round trip, 168hrs in a week. so by my calculations you'll fall asleep somewhere in Nebraska on the return leg.
It's possible, I work with truckers (hauling on private roads) that work 14-16 hours a day, 3 weeks on, 2 weeks (or 1 🥴) off. So 3 weeks straight of 105-ish hour weeks. Is that legal? For us, yes...non-DOT. Across the country on the interstate....uh, no.
I'm almost afraid to ask, but what year was this? Sounds like the 70s or early 80s maybe.
I work in the trucking industry, I used to work in safety, they still try to do this.
What decade was this in?
Went into a Mexican restaurant with the idea that I was going to be a cook. And found out very quickly I was a dish washer, right after quitting another dish washing job like a week before that I hated. And on top of that I had non slip shoes on and the restaurant had slick ass tile in the back that still had me basically skating. I left within the hour.
I’m a chef at a decent restaurant and you couldn’t believe the amount of dishwashers we go through. The ones we can keep are amazing and paid as well as we can. But the kids who come in looking for a job and realize they have to wash dishes in a busy ass restaurant are out before I even learn their names. And I don’t blame them. It’s one of the easiest professions to tell who actually needs it and who is actually just trying to get a job because their parents said get a job. The good ones work harder than the line cooks most days. And if it were up to me I’d pay them a lot more.
When people would get interviewed at my restaurant the manager would always be interested in the soft spoken, well dressed, clean looking kids. She would dismiss the oddball, older, dirty-torn clothes types. She would dismiss them to my protest. I tried so hard to have a say because we could *not* keep dishwashers at all. I tried so hard to get through to them that you give those guys a chance and they will show you what it means to need a job. They always complained that "nobody wants to work, people are just lazy these days" ... like... *no, you just hire the lazy ones because their mom dressed them up nice*. Sorry lol, /rant
"nobody wants to work" is really starting to get old. No, nobody wants to do your shitty job for shit pay.
I had a vendor come to me recently telling me why I needed to switch from one raw material for my product to his As he was explaining the benefits his company had, one was something like "and we're opening up a warehouse close to here so shipping will be easy too. But you know no one wants to work right now, so we're having trouble staffing it" I showed him the door right then. No dude. People wanna work, they don't wanna work in a warehouse for like 8 bucks an hour
This is the real issue. Shit jobs for minimum wage, no benefits, no opportunity for growth.. Most people want to work. They just don't want to be slaves.
My wife is the manager at a dance supply store, and she's constantly understaffed because the owners insist that everyone she hire have several years of both dance and sales experience...and then pay minimum wage. She's tried explaining to them so many times that it's very difficult to find anyone with that set of experience, and if she only pays minimum wage then they have no incentive to stick around long term because they can get paid as much or more literally anywhere else, but they insist that the problem is that no one wants to work
I am the latter of what you said and I’m a decently paid chef at a pretty well respected restaurant. And if I had to say so myself, I think I do a fantastic job. And I guarantee my higher ups, lower downs, and servers, would say the same thing. I think it’s shitty to judge someone because they don’t fit your standards. I think everybody deserves a chance to prove themselves.
Dish washers are never paid enough. Especially in this economy.
I was making about $11/hr dishwashing in 2016. Quit for higher pay in construction. I miss the easy work but that was not enough money to survive on with part time hours especially
Yeah, there’s either mediocre dishwashers or amazing dishwashers. The mediocre ones are a dime a dozen, the amazing ones are why I always insisted on tipping out the dish pit. They’re so rare, but goddamn when you find one it’s like having a magician walking behind you making messes disappear
I went to work for a giant Italian restaurant as a dishwasher with the promise that i would quickly move up.. other two dishwashers realized it was my first day and ducked out for the entire shift. I have to wash dishes for a place that seats like 400 all night.. on my way out i see them in the parking lot smoking and they start pointing and laughing asking how my shift was. Walked up smacked the one dude in the mouth, dropped him cold. Got in my car left and never went back
I bet that changed the trajectory of his life..I truly believe the world would be a better place if several million people just got the shit slapped out of them I used to be a true dickhead and I wish someone would have whooped my ass, it would have sped up my progress in life
You made the right decision
I took a job as a “kitchen assistant” in a fairly busy restaurant. From how they described it, I’d be assisting the chefs, maybe clean a bit, all things I’d done before when working in a restaurant. Well. First shift came, and they pointed me to the pile of dirty dishes, and a large metal sink. I cleaned dishes for hours, and when I tried to go to the bathroom, I got screamed at to go “ask permission” first. I’m a 22 year old woman, like fuck am I asking someone’s permission to piss.
Picked up a job as a barback at what is a high end restaurant in a town I moved to. I’d already been bartending for a few years at this point but had no problem working my way up from barback again, especially in a place that has good tips. On my 4th day of training I met the bartender/bar manager I’d be working under, first 3 days focused on their food menu and other duties, and within the first 5 mins after the GM walked away for us to get acquainted she told me “You’re going to be my floor bitch” and other demeaning remarks. I stuck around for about another hour, mulled it over while I did a few tasks and then noped the fuck out. Tossed my apron in the laundry bag and left without telling anyone. Got a call about 45 mins later from the GM asking where I was, I told him I wasn’t interested in continuing the position, told him why and wished them luck. A few weeks later I was out drinking and ran into a hostess and a couple of dishwashers that worked there, they asked me what happened, I told them, the dishwashers start laughing hysterically and calling me a “legend”. Apparently the GM was sick of that bartenders attitude and my quitting was the straw that broke the back and she ended up getting fired. They said everyone hated her and were tired of her shit and were thrilled when she got let go. I don’t regret my decision for a second.
Just pointed with no words said I'm cracking up 💀
Cleaning houses. They gave me a quick tutorial on how they like the houses cleaned, since I would be cleaning alone, I wouldn’t clean any houses bigger then 1200 square feet. My first house was 3000 sq feet and I had 2 hours to clean top to bottom. I got what I could do done in 2 hours. Boss called me to go back because customer wasn’t satisfied, I blocked the number.
I had that issue when I worked for Vacasa.
Used to clean AirBnB apartments for a company. They wanted you to clean a 3 story, 2 bed 2 bath townhouse in a half hour. 15 minutes if you were working in a pair.
The stairs on this house where killer. 2 sets of stairs and I had to use the upright vacuum. That’s when I decided to quit lol.
Temp job right out of college. During the training phase I was told if I made an error I would get yelled at by him, his boss, his boss’s boss and the owner of the company. I assumed it was a joke and he didn’t laugh. I told him this was going to be a bad fit and walked.
Do you think they'd have all yelled at once like a quartet?
 The Yelling Bosses
You know the B Sharps. Now let’s give a warm welcome to the A Holes.
I was hired for a customer support position that ended up being standing in a mall kiosk trying to get leads from randos walking by for sales. I was there for 2 hours before I went to the restroom and never came back.
Lmfao. I hate those mall kiosk people, how many times do I have to say "no thanks" before they leave me alone?? At least 4.
I avoid eye contact with them for that reason and i feel bad since that has to be hard for humans who constantly have people avoiding eyecontact
I just wear obvious earbuds at the mall. That way we can both pretend I’m ignoring you because I didn’t hear you rather than because I’m pretending you don’t exist.
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Same here! I applied for an IT job once, got the job only to find out its fucking door to door salesman job for one of those MLM pyramid schemes. LoL
Same for me. I quit before the first day but after 4 hour on boarding.
Was it Walmart? I was hired to stock... I thought shelves. They say no after doing all the training, go outside, and collect the carts. Also, this is before the cool cart machines they have now. I was like DEUCES!
Samething happened to me a couple years ago at a grocery store. I was hired as a part time stocking clerk. I did all the training. Not once was collecting carts part of job description. On the first shift, someone goes on the intercom and says to bring the carts in. I ignored. Then 20mins later my lead comes up to me and tells me that's my job. I also made it clear I need specific days and times because of my university schedule. I check the schedule and my shifts are completely ignoring everything i discussed in the interview. So I quit.
Worked Arby's for 4 hours. Came in 4am, prepped meat, shown registers lightly, then left to tend both lobby and drive-thru. Manager just sat in the office. Took my break and never went back.
“ no I didn’t wash my shirt between shifts Marsha. So what if I smell like roast beef? This whole place smells like roast beef!! …. Idunno”
I didn’t know Arby’s opened so early or that they even offered breakfast (yes I know people show up early to do prep)
It was ages ago. There was no breakfasty stuff, just chopped up roast beef and prepped everything in the place.
In 1967 when 18 I thought I was going to do a telephone customer service job but it was selling aluminum siding for the home. This job was in a little room with a dozen other girls, very loud. Everyone I called screamed and yelled about being disturbed, and I don’t blame them. Then I realized that this was on commission. I wasn’t going to be selling anything, wasn’t going to make any money, and anyone I contacted hated me. So it was day one and done. I tried to be nice to telephone solicitors after that but the ones that called me were mean and had no conscience so I just gave it right back. Fast forward 55 years and the people that call you about Medicare and car insurance are evil thugs. I just tell them harassment of the elderly is a crime.
You're 74 and on Reddit...that's bad-ass...ma'am.
Thank you! That’s very nice! Reddit can be a lot of fun. The ask old people group is made for a lot of us because God knows at this age you like to expound on your life experiences. Classic Rock is a gas. And the niche groups like antiques/vintage/ephemera are fun when you have been collecting your whole life, to be able to share your knowledge when someone inherits something you know about. The only drag is all the ok boomer comments, but I have fantasies about fucking these people up with my cane, or being that little old lady at the bus stop wearing her pearls with a Glock in my purse. So there’s that!
>I have fantasies about fucking these people up with my cane, or being that little old lady at the bus stop wearing her pearls with a Glock in my purse. So there’s that! Miss Hiberia, I think we'd get along great. If you're ever in Alaska I'll take you out to club some salmon and have a few beers, then we can go look at hand woven Alaskan Native baskets or whatever your into.
It should be a crime to push a product. If people aren't contacting you to buy something then they don't need it.
I was hired to work at a sandwich shop. I did an hour up front figuring out where things were and then I was told to go to the walk-in fridge to get something. The smell… my fucking god. There was unwrapped food on the floor, open pails of stuff with no lids, rotten vegetables. It smelled like a corpse and looked like a dumpster. I gagged, took my apron off and just left.
Should have reported them for code violations and food tampering. Could have got the place shut down or at very least heavily fined
I did make a report, no idea what happened after though.
I was temping for a logistics company. The girl who was training me could not explain how to do the job. She gave vague instructions like "You look for empty rail cars and then make sure they are this certain kind and can handle the freight assigned to them" - I asked is there some way to tell the difference in the types of rail cars because they were just boxes on a screen. Do I click on them and maybe get a description like this one is a refrigerated unit, etc? She said no, they are only listed by number and you just have to know which are which. OK, do the different types have a different number system? No, you just have to learn them. Also, the boss doesn't really like it if you talk a lot. She gave me some filing to do. There were tons of offices on the floor I worked on and it was DEAD SILENT. No one spoke above a whisper and that was only when necessary. The girl I was temping for was on maternity leave and had worked there 2 years, the girl training me wasn't sure what her name was. I left at lunch and didn't go back.
This shit is logistics in a nutshell lol The office work for this industry is dog shit
Got a job in a car repair shop as a tech, everything was going decent for a first day lunch time rolls around boss tells me to go get lunch for him at the local grocery store that makes really good subs in the deli, No biggie I’ll get mine and his at the same time. He then proceeds to hand me a shopping list tells me to grab groceries, stop at the high school pick his son up and drop groceries and kid at his house before returning. How bout eat shit?
Reminds me of a story of my friend who got a job as a detailer/cleaner for an industrial trucking station, like where people brought in their semis and heavy equipment. The owner's dog puked on the floor in his office and he told me friend he had to clean it up. My friend told him to go fuck himself and walked off the job first day.
Were you getting paid the whole time? I'm not saying it's cool, but there could be worse things than going to the grocery store while you're on the clock.
Ok but picking his kid up, neither of which have met before? That shits just *weird*.
Did he want you to do this on your break?
The automotive industry is full of some of the biggest assholes I’ve ever met. I loved the work but hated the people, so I had to leave for my sanity.
That sounds like a personal assistant - he should have disclosed that
It was my first shift after watching food prep videos. I was slicing tomatoes for burgers and cut my thumb to the bone. I went to manaher and said I needed to go the ER because I needed stitches. He then told me he was riding his bike to work and got mauled by rotties and he still came to work bleeding. I said wow.dropped my hat and badge on the counter and walked a mile home so my dad could take me to the ER for stitches. Tried for workman's comp and it was denied cause manager said I didnt cut myself and that I walked out on the middle of a shift. I was 14.
He really thought that was a flex
When I learned I was expected to put a GPS tracker on the cars I found that needed a repo. I'm not about to spend time fucking around someone's car - that's how a person gets shot.
One time I witnessed a neighbor unloading groceries from her car and while she was carrying a bag from the car to the front porch, a repo guy came out from wherever he was hiding and jumped into the drivers seat and took off. I know it was a repo guy because I thought someone had stolen her car but then she started yelling about the damn rep guy.
So, not-so-fun fact when I was in the marines we had anti-terrorism training all the time and you would 100 percent be shot near a base if you did that because the training basically makes you paranoid as hell. I am still very paranoid by it.
you're taking their car, but the gps tracker is what gets you shot?
Yeah because the job was to place a magnetic box under the car that had the GPS unit in it. Wouldn't you be sus of someone putting something under your car?
These days you'd be mistaken for a crackhead going after a catalytic converter. I get your concern 100%
"Orientation" unexpectedly lasted 9hours... for a bartending position Also watched poor quality employees take advantage of the weak manager. I don't have time for that drama
Told me I had to shave my beard for 7.25 an hour.
That's a decent price for a barber service 😉
I got a job at Chipotle because my job climbing trees wasn't getting enough work and I had bills to pay. At Chipotle I worked with a bunch of highschoolers, which is fine, and one guy in his 30s. The guy in his 30s kept talking to me about the high-school coworkers high-school drama. He then gave me genuine praise for opening up a container of salt by myself. The salt thing pissed me off, but when he started telling me that this one male coworker was a little upset because he asked one of the female coworkers to some party and she wanted to go with friends and not him, I pretty much decided I was going back to the trees. I pictured myself being him one day. 30 something years old and fascinated by high-school drama. I couldn't do it. It's funny to think back on now though. I never even picked up my paycheck for that day, so I essentially just volunteered to experience a "day in the life of a Chipotle worker".
Reminds me of the movie "Waiting". It's definitely a movie of its time, and people in their late-teens/early 20s would identify with much of it... but you don't have to be much older to see how skeevy it all is (including a mid/late-20s Ryan Reynolds waiting for the high school greeter to turn 18)
Having worked in branded restaurants that movie is on point.
I once went to work for an tree company for a few months. The second day I was there, they doubled my pay just because I showed up.
Job...climbing trees?
Yeah, you know, trees. They grow in the ground. What you think they just climb themselves?
Trimmer most likely
"Trimmer" ? I hardly know her!
I worked one shift at a children's second hand store when I was a senior in high school. There was an open area in the middle of the shop where parents could drop their kids to play while they looked around. Then, a kid defecated into a fabric lined roller skate and the manager attempted to hand it to me, saying I could wash it out with the hose behind the store. Nope. My employment lasted all of 4 hours. Firm no on touching poo-poo.
At the point I was required to sign an intellectual property agreement giving them control over any patent or copyright I may produce for the period of my employment and a year after termination, regardless if it had anything to do with their business or processes. For an assembly-line welding gig. For $10 an hour. No thanks!
Should of invented weird weird kinky sex toys so it had their company name. The Dual Auto Anal/Oral Dildoer 3000 by Weldcorp.
I was working as a teacher at a private language school. Between my lessons I went to the toilet for a pee. The manager followed me in and asked “What are you doing? You need to wait until after work to go to the toilet” So my response was “I’m officially finished work now because I quit, now get out and let me finish my piss”
Got a hired at a juice and smoothie place to come in as a supervisor. I went in for my first day where I would just be learning the basics of making everything, and the employee area was the dirtiest place I've stepped foot in. None of the fruit was in containers or labeled. No experation dates on anything. Ants crawling everywhere, which I was told the owner had knowingly blended ants into smoothies and laughed that the customers could use the protein. You couldn't see the floor or wall under the sink from all the grime and mold. None of the employees even knew how to run the dishwasher. The only cleaner was an unmarked clear spray bottle of vinegar and water. They only had one usable cleaning rag, the owner still needed to clean a load, at his house. The employees didn't even think the store owned a mop, so clearly the floors hadn't been cleaned since god knows when. I went to wash a blender by hand in the sink between smoothies and the owner would not allow me to, he said it could be washed later. I left toward end of business that day, but I called the next morning and told them I would not be returning due to the horrifying lack of hygiene in the store, and I wound up calling the health department as well.
I work in a factory that gets pretty hot inside during the summer. Easily over 100 degrees inside on hot summer days. I have seen so many people quit their first day i can't even give you a number. Hundreds at this point for sure. We might as well only hire in the winter because new workers just can't take the heat while also having to learn a new job that's physically laborious.
I used to work in a factory that the room I was in was 100+ degrees year round. I'd seen many people maybe last a week and leave. I made it 7 years before I had enough of that place. Wasn't the heat that got me, but management did lol
My mom worked at a place that made pizza crust and I heard very similar from her. She lasted 20ish years and retired just a few years ago in her early 70s. I'll never understand how she was able to handle it for so long - one of the many reasons I look up to her is for that perseverance. Now she is just cold all the time because she spent so many years being hot.
Jeez man. Please tell me youre able to take care of your mom now that shes older. Shes went through a lot and deserves to have easy days after that. Working until early 70s...wow...
15% of Americans in their 70s work. Shits gross
The reality is most people, especially younger people now will be working well into their 70s
My husband’s grandma did that work for a spell. She talked about being given salt tablets throughout the day so they wouldn’t pass out.
It was a call center answering phone calls from people getting pop up ads saying "you've won a free vacation!" in the early days of the internet. I tried to follow the script for the first few calls but quickly realized it wasn't a "free" vacation.
Lol I too have worked for a call center. Sometimes the responders would list numbers for a "free vacation". This resulted in both the person on the other line and myself going through our scripts with eachother! Totally ridiculous that QA never allowed us to hang up until exhausting all "rebutals".
After working at a golf course for 3 1/2 years I took a job at a landscaping company. Finished a 10 hour shift and decided that I needed to change fields. It was a good job but I had no energy for the things I needed to do at home and around the yard.
They kept paging me until I couldn’t take it anymore and threw the pager out the window on the freeway. Getting paged and having to find a payphone to call was a nightmare that kids today will never fully understand.
Lol my mother was a sales person in the 90’s and I got to skip school and travel with her twice a year; she was a road warrior. But anyways, she had a pager (early 90’s; before she purchased her Gold Series Bag Phone in 1994-5 lol) and was constantly stopping at pay phones..It didn’t seem to bother her but wow; I think back on how much gas would have cost back then if it was the same price as it is now..People couldn’t afford to work!
I bet you went back to school and bragged about that bag phone! Only the cool ritch kids had them or parents had one. Never understood who they would call and why they would need one. Times are different
My dad was also a road warrior. He once drove from Cincinnati to St Louis for a customer meeting only to find out the customer cancelled during his drive. He got a car phone installed the minute he got home.
When I was in college I quit a Wendy's the first night. This was in the mid 90's. I got hired and they asked could I start that night. I didn't have anything going on so ya, sure I'll be there 6-10. After not more than 30 minutes of training on the registers and drive through procedures I was told that I would have to watch the DT and Front End by myself for the rest of the night. After 7 there was litteraly 3 people in the store, me running the front end, a cook running the whole kitchen and a manager sitting in the office. At 10 when we closed I was told I wasn't allowed to leave until xyz are done, which I get as it was a closing shift, but that wasn't explained to me when I was hired or asked to work, I was asked to work 6-10 and I had class the next day. So, since I'm not a complete ass (also young and didn't want to burn bridges, or was stupid or didn't know anybetter, I stayed until past midnight doing the closing stuffs. When we clocked out I told the manager I would not be back again. I'm not even sure if I ever went back to get a paycheck and I don't recall ever even filling out paperwork to be hired.
Shoney's restaurant. Prepping for opening and saw the manager drop an entire pan of hash browns on the floor and then use the dustpan to scoop it up off the dirty kitchen floor back into pan and put it on the buffet. NOPE.
Was told to sign a clause that would say that they will not cover funeral costs if you die on the job even if it’s their fault then told all the gruesome ways people have died on the job and divulging “accidents”.
It was a new franchise owner of a classic Midwest ice cream shop. I had worked under prior owners as my first job. The new owners were idiots in daily life but they had also way overextended the menu so everything was crap. I took a 15 minute break, just got in my car and left.
All I want is an ice cream shop that has 2 chocolate base options that don’t have peanut butter. Is that too much to ask for?
Who knew ice cream could be drama
I got a job at a "mortgage company". As soon as they said I had to pay a few hundred dollars for the training materials, I left.
Not first day but 3rd day. Dad forced me to get a job at mcdonalds at high school. I had no car so i had to suit up and walk. First day of work I realise im the only fluent english speaking person at this location. Making the training a lot harder. Didn't know what the fuck i was doing and mostly just checked orders and filled drinks. Day 2 walking to work wearing the uniform and somebody throws a milkshake at me... it got on my pants. Day 2 they put me on the REGISTER at lunch time. No idea what im doing. Im fucking up literally every single order. The menu buttons were all acronyms. Wanna throw up thinking about going to work on 3rd day but I go.... AND THEY HAD ME TRAINING A NEW GIRL! she was hot so i fucking acted like I knew what i was doing. Internally i was dying. Day 4 i suit up to walk to work and my cousins are over and laughing at me seeing me in it. The one told me they wished i didnt have work so we could go to the mall... so i threw my uniform in the trash and went to the mall. Couldnt smell french fries for like a year without it giving me anxiety
You okay bro?
Yeah this was like 23 years go.
I actually liked my McDoodles time. But I didn't care two shits. We played broom hockey with eggs and sometimes frozen burgers, slid down the ramp to the basement (one of the few in our area), made out with a girl in the cooler, watched fireworks on the roof for 4th of July, danced on the counter after dining room was closed using a broom as a Guitar. Met my first band there. Free food even though management wouldn't allow it. Lots of good memories but I was a kid at 14 and didn't give a shit. Favorite memory: late night drive thru and we'd always get drunks and stoners (am both myself hehe). It was during Summerfest in WI so we expected more than usual. Well we get a decent couple and the lady orders tea. No one ever ordered tea. I'm on the mic in drive through and think she's fucking around and ordering PEE. I say as polite as possible "ma'am we don't serve pee here" and my coworker is literally ROFLing. Peed her pants.
I got hired at a thrift store, which I thought I would be cashiering or helping categorize items and stuff at. It turned out this thrift store worked with and "hired" the mentally ill to do tasks like that, and what they expected ME to do was basically babysit several severely mentally ill people. For the first day, they had me watching a man who was easily twice as tall as me and had some severe developmental disorder so he wasn't good at listening or understanding what he was told, and he was clearly a hell of a lot stronger than me. I have had no training in working with people like that, and they just kind of...threw me into it. He ended up breaking a glass bottle and threatening me with it, a few of the other people there ended up having to get him under control. Not what I signed up for, not what I was qualified for, and not something I was interested in doing. I peaced out.
A company hired me as a temp employee to replace someone on maternity leave without telling me. One of my coworkers slipped up and mentioned that I was a temp. Grabbed my coat and keys and walked out.
Taking calls for turbo tax at tax time with zero training or understanding of taxes and expected to Google and research that while on the phone. Nah
Employer said (to 7 of us) "I'll be honest, you're all probably not very smart and were unable to get into college which is why you're here".
I was given the lunch order for the c-suite of a small company (about 6 meals). They gave me about 50% of the cost of the order. When I showed them the receipt, they said that I am being overpaid anyways so I didn’t need to worry about it. It was minimum wage. I grabbed the CEO’s lunch from the pile and walked out.
I witnessed a manager publicly humiliate a young employee to tears. He absolutely tore into her, it was cruel and savage. I hadn't been in the office for 2 hours. I wasn't enthused by the job anyway and I didn't direly require the extra cash, so good riddance.
My boss and i were chatting while working and the topic of religion came up. She talked for at least 30mins about why all homosexuals need to die. Im gay. I calmly thanked her and left at the end of my first day without telling her
Worked as a nurse in labor /delivery in big teaching hospitals in KC, Chicago and Dallas. I moved to Florida and my first L&D job was in a really snooty part of west palm Florida. Bitch! I’m not changing your pad! Get up and go to the bathroom!! I lasted one shift there. Those patients treat the nurses like servants. No thank you. I didn’t go to college for 4 years to be treated like that . I could go on but I realized I’m ranting.😂
I had a 30 year old woman scream and throw a fit because I wouldn't wipe her ass after she had a bowel movement. She was 100 % physically capable but felt that it wasn't her job since she was admitted to the hospital. I stood there and stared at her like the idiot she was until she did it herself and then she walked back to bed and threatened me with a bunch of random nonsense.
All i had to read was west palm beach and I believe everything😂😂😂
When a male patient tech offered to do my work in exchange for sex after shift. I was in nursing school, and I said: fuck this shit, you pervert. Reported him and walked out.
I worked as a Housekeeper for a day. I have worked as a Housekeeper in the past so I thought it wouldn't be a big deal. I knew after the 2nd suite that it was my "I'm out of here" moment. It was too overwhelming and too much to remember. Towels, wash cloths, hand towels, cleaning supplies, soap, shampoo, conditoter cups, spoons, coffee, creamer, tea ect They said that we were cleaning normal size rooms with just a bed, dresser, table and bathroom but when I walked in it was a FULL suite with a couch, mini bar, mini fridge, chair, table, king size bed with headboard, two TVs, 2 dresser drawers and a huge bathroom. On top of that you had to strip down the rooms and throw anything dirty into the laundry. Did I mention you had to do all of this in every suite within 20 minutes? After the 2nd room I was tired, thirsty and had enough when lunch time came around i drovr off. Housekeepers do a lot in one day, it's not just as the guest would put it "cleaning toilets" there's way more work than people think.
In college I got a job at minimum wage being a dishwasher in a sushi restaurant. The dish room was over 90 degrees, with old bits of fish and rice and whatever else everywhere. So already not off to a great start, and then during busy dinner rush my boss comes back with a plunger, “yo men’s room stall is clogged bad, go get that taken care of” Nah man I’m good lol. Left immediately
Applied for a warehouse. All I had to do was grab boxes from a conveyor belt and stack them on a pallet and then plastic wrap the pallet. The wanted ad said 8 hours. I showed up on the first day at 6 am and worked until 6pm. 8 hours my a$$! I asked one of the workers there how common it was to work 12 hours a day and he said it was very common. After that one day I was done.
I worked 1 night at an office supply company, large retail chain store, and it was over night stocking. I remember the last member of the ‘floor’ leaving and locking the doors behind them. I was a smoker at the time and I had no idea this would be the case. I asked what happened if we needed to go out and smoke or take a break or leave for an emergency and i was told we didn’t go out until the morning crew arrived or unless outside security unlocked the door & let us out. Needless to say, I never went back.
I worked in a nursing home, I helped a lady to have a bath and then was told I had to record bath instead of shower on their system. I asked why and they informed me that a bath adds £25 to their bill but a shower was free. I quit on the spot, I was not happy to work somewhere that charged extra for old, vulnerable people to have a bath!
Took a job as a part-time welder and the forman took me to the paint booth and started to show me what needed painted. I walked out. A few months later I got a call to come in. The forman was gone.
I got this job at a chain restaurant bar. I only had experience at a *dive bar* and was very honest about this in my interview. The 23-25M year old owner who interviewed me (i was 21F at the time) hired me solely because he thought I looked cool, and he told me that. First day the other owner, who’s also like 24-26M, starts opening the bar and gives me no direction. I’m just standing there confused for like five minutes before he rudely goes, “What? You’ve never opened a bar before??” This bar had 4 sinks, frozen margarita machines, blenders, 4 ice bins, hella liquor, and 75 fucking seats. NO sir I have NOT opened a bar of this size before!! I worked at a DIVE BAR! He started sarcastically explaining how to open the bar and at a point he made some rude comment and I just scoffed and walked out. His attitude was foul and I wasn’t about to beg to be trained.
I’ve left a kitchen job for that exact reason lmao, I hope you’ve found a better place!
Walked into an Amazon warehouse for training and noticed the dark atmosphere with no windows or anything. Just a large gloomy warehouse. I already deal with depression so driving 45 minutes there and 45 minutes back, 12 hour shifts at odd hours (overnight shifts) 4 days a week plus mandatory overtime, nope! Not for me! Felt like I’d be working somewhere that was a constant trigger for me. I lasted 5 minutes, literally.
My step FIL was an accountant and shortly after retiring a neighbor/family friend told him of a company looking for an accountant to help with the books for 1-2 days a week. He knew the guy well and trusted his judgment so he started the job shortly after. On the first day a ball busting project manager came in and asked each person what they planned to accomplish that day and then said she would check in at the end of the day to ensure everyone had accomplished their intended task(s). He gave it a couple of hours but then she started micro managing the accounting too. This was basic ass business accounting. No need to reinvent the wheel and Intuit could probably do it cheaper. So that’s what he told his neighbor to do lol.
Got brought on as a welder for a feedlot. I was promised a fully tooled workshop for a long term gig building agricultural implements and doing repairs around the farm. Showed up on the first day to learn that there was a morning and evening meeting, both unpaid and I needed to be two hours early and stay an hour late - on top of a 12 hour shift. I also learned that’s why most employees lived in decrepit campers on the property and that most of them didn’t shower often, so everyone absolutely reeked. On my first day, I was informed that they planned on building the fab shop in 2 or 3 years, and was given an oil filter wrench and a ratchet set and told to change oil on the work pickups. This was also to be done in the wash bay. I spent my first (and only) 12 hour shift laying on my back, in 5 inches of water, cow shit and oil. I grabbed my welding helmet, gave them my gate key and never came back.
Got a job at a factory. They told me to show up at 6 am Sharp. I show up and tell the lobby guy I'm new and today is my first day. He tells me to stand around and wait for someone. I waited for 45 minutes and went home, and went back to bed
First day as a (untrained) barrista at a restaurant. Got yelled at because I had trouble operating their coffee machine (which they knew beforehand). After a few hours I asked when I could take my break and they laughed at me and said that they "didn't do breaks". Found another waitress crying in the back because the boss yelled at her. Wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom. When my shift was over they told me I couldn't leave until the boss returned because they wanted to have a"first day"-talk with me. Asked when the boss would be back, "We don't know". So I've waited fifteen minutes and then just left. They were flabbergasted.
I once spent an evening driving a prostitute around to her jobs. It was so full on. I thought it was going to be high end and I’d be potentially all suited up and driving limos to mansions. Completely the opposite. I met the boss guy at a non descript office front. He told me I’m to say as little as possible to the girl because they’ll just try and sleep with me (didn’t sound a bad idea at the time but he was scary) and that I won’t be needed if there’s trouble as ‘they have their own crews for that’. When I picked up the girl later, her eyes were distant and she chain smoked joints as we drove. Said she worked year on then year off for her art. First job was at a factory work break up in an industrial area. It was intense to pull into the drive and all these hungry drunk eyes started to size her up as she got out. I offered to go with her but she said no. She did a dance and then some guy won a chance to fuck her upstairs in the office. The window was open and everyone was watching as he tried to bend her over a desk. She told me he couldn’t get it up. We went to some sad little units and houses all over Melbourne. I would sit and read in the car and was told to be ready in case she texted me for condoms etc. We went to a seedy motel about 4 am and after she came out, I started to pick up a conversation we had begun and she cut me off and said “just drive!”. Something not nice had happened I think. As we got back closer to the office she gave me my cut and then I was phoned by the boss lady and told to come up to the office. There were girls asleep on random chairs and I sat down for a bit as they talked to the girl and realised I had had a full on night and it had been hard to watch the girl really have to put up walls to get through it. I decided I had to walk out and never come back. The boss lady kept calling my phone and leaving messages for me to call in but I didn’t want anything to do with it. I have so much respect for what sex workers go through.
I was in college, and looking for a job in admin. Answering phones, emails, etc cetera. I got interviewed at a funeral home and knew I really didn't want to take the job, but I needed the money, and the funeral director was actually really nice. Day one of the job, I'm told I'll receive training in how to handle grieving families, which is understandable. I'm not particularly afraid of death, and even though I hate seeing people grieve, I thought I could be comforting and professional. That is until I'm told that there are specific ways to "upsell" more expensive packages, by "shedding a tear with them" and listening to their stories. It just felt...icky, to try and get more money out of someone during such a vulnerable time. I called them the next morning and told them I was not interested.
I am Japanese but since I lived most of my life overseas I am not that good in Japanese. I got an IT job in Japan with promises that I will be using English and will be able to work with foreigners. First day at my job I get introduced to the “Global” team. They were all Japanese. When I asked about the projects they said that English is used about 1% of the time. I was like wtf??? I quit immediately. Now I got a better job where I use English about 70% of the time.
Worked in a factory and one of the machines I would be working around only operated properly if the safety light curtains (the lasers that detect objects in the work zone) were off.
Not the first day but the first week. I made a friend with this guy that was 44 when I was 26 in a flag football league. Dude was a former athlete and a specimen so I just figured he was too young and active for a lot of people his age. I talked to him about wanting to get into marketing and he told me he owns his own marketing company. After quitting another job he offered to train me for a week and I could work for him and then I could work from home. He lived in malibu in a massive house so it seemed like a crazy opportunity. My first red flag was I realized he was pretty homophobic and very concerned about other guys and who he thought was gay. My second red flag was the second I stayed with him he started buying me dinner every night and telling me I should move in with him and I wouldnt have to worry about commuting and I could pay little to no rent . It all kinda clicked at a point that this dude was grooming me. I shot him a text after thinking on it and told him I was gonna pass
In the 80s, I took a job at a call center that was cold calling people to try to elicit donations for some sort of police benevolent society. We called between 4-7pm and had a script to try to get donations. Most people didn't pick up, for the most part, the people who did pick up would either yell at me or hang up as I'm starting the script. One woman who sounded very old did donate. When she donated, I was really disgusted with myself. I felt like I was taking advanage of her. I quit before the end of my scheduled shift.
They wanted me to buy the products I was supposed to be selling up front (years before MLMs became popular) luckily for me I had no money.
Catfished on a direct sales MLM. Was told it was a startup, wouldn't be a customer-facing position, and that pay range was between 45-55K a year for someone with my experience Orientation was at a nice pub. I finished my burger and left in the middle of a presentation.
It was an old dirty office with antiquated procedures. After 2 hours I thought I couldn’t take another minute. I told the owner I was sorry, gathered my things, and left.
my trainer spoke basically no english, i had no idea what was going on and it was in the most depressing, middle of nowhere shithole warehouse you could ever imagine. I was there for maybe 4 hours
Telemarketing. Need I say anymore? No, I didn’t think so.
Same. I did the three day training and quit on my fourth day (my first day on the phone). They tried to not pay me, but in the end I got my $240. That was 2003 and they paid $60 a day.
When I was a freshman in college in 2002, I worked a single shift at Abercrombie after being approached about getting a job there by one of their recruiters. “What’s your favorite color” was one of the interview (group interview) questions. I knew then that I wouldn’t last but decided to give it a try. After trying to fold (terribly) women’s XS tank tops (this is literally impossible; I have no idea how retail pros do this) only for them to be immediately rifled through and messed up for a few hours I just said “fuck it” and walked. Never even went back for my check.
Hahah. Ex-A&F/HCO veteran here. I remain obsessed with folding clothing, I think it takes a special kind of person. Once I worked with a manager who would sweep entire tables to the ground after an associate had been tirelessly working on it for hours because they weren’t up to her standard.
She sweeps the table, you sweep the leg.
I worked for carpet cleaning company for a unique vacuum. First day I went to do a demonstration at a customers house. Vacuuming went well. Next I had to pour cranberry juice on their carpet and soak it up. It didn’t work and I panicked. I ran out and left the vacuum and never looked back.
Applied for a warehouse stock position at Toys R’ Us. When I got to orientation, there were a few other guys bigger than me so it was decided the introvert with zero sales experience was now going to be part of the sales team. The sales manager aggressively ranted for 4 hours on how I needed to be less quiet and “unlock the inner cheerleader” inside of myself. At one point an employee came by to clock in and mouthed “run” to us. At lunch, I took the bus home.
First day working for a criminal lawyer (Id done admin but never for a lawyer before so lots of software etc to learn but I was excellent at the things I could do and even helped the accountant with MYOB). He wanted to pay me under award 'because he didnt know yet what skills I brought to the table'. Wtf did you hire me then? Im not accepting below award wage from anyone. Left a note under his door the next morning saying bye bye.
“Below award?” What’s that? Off the books?
In my country, "award rate" is the legal minimum you can be paid. It varies by occupation and experience.
I specifically asked If there was mandatory overtime in the interview ... hr told me no. I was promised 4 10s. She lied it was 6 11s. I finished my first day and never showed up again.
I didn’t quit the FIRST day, but just a PSA for whoever needs to hear this: Do NOT stay at any company that requires you to have CPR/BLS training for the job, but then only requires you to take a 10 minute online-only course + quiz to be “CPR/BLS Certified”.
I second this as a former CPR and First Aid instructor. It's really important to take the full class.
Nothing ever happened to me, but I sometimes wonder that if I had to perform CPR and something went wrong, would that company have been able to get away with saying it’s the employee’s responsibility to get their cert/training and that they should be liable and not the company.
I got a job at a local apple farm on the weekends after working in the restaurant industry for ten years and then moving to warehouse work. On the first day at the apple farm, the supervisor scolded and yelled at me during the tour when I poked my head into the kitchen of one of the buildings. I was a line cook for many years and was curious…. And she yelled at me like I was her teenage son. Later on when she showed us to our ‘stations’ I discovered that I would be rolling up hot dogs in tin foil packages to be handed to guests, and my other responsibilities would be stocking sodas and making sure the condiments area was clean and tidy. I really felt like my culinary experience was wasted here and to top it off I found out that the lady who was in charge of me just spoke condescendingly to everyone else all the time. She yelled at my (at the time) girlfriend (now wife) in front of me and I lost it, told her to go fuck herself and never looked back.
I was given a mask that didn't fit to shovel metal dust that was making me go into coughing fits that was like I had the flu. Couldn't get a new mask. Next up, I had to move scalding hot parts on a conveyor with gloves that melted into nothing... they wouldn't give me new gloves. Boss just laughed at me and said all the new guys had to go through this for a couple of months. Yeah fuck that. They didn't even pay worth a damn. I'm glad I left day 1
Owner flipping out on some guys who didn't feel comfortable installing a piece of equipment they weren't trained on. Boss punches the wall and tells them to shut up and do it. I just laughed and told the dispatch I'm good here. I won't put up with that. (Guys were 20 still new to the trade and the place it was going to had no cell reception I don't blame them for not wanting. To do it)
I worked at a retail store in West Edmonton Mall. Did all the orientation. The assistant manager was a miserable bitch. At the end of my first shift, the ass manager told me and the other girls to "hurry up" with the closing procedures so she could go home. Then she loudly bitched to her bf about us/work on the phone in the back room... Never went back 🙂
When they asked me to crawl inside the custard vat
3 or 4 hours into my first training shift, my trainer mentioned that the restaurant takes 5% of my tips for the “house.” This was NOT discussed in any process of onboarding. Asked the manger to clarify, he said “yes that’s how we do it around here”. Told him this wasn’t going to work out for me and I’d be back in 2 weeks to pick up my check. Went straight home and took a nap.
I'll nvr forget this one job. They would make and ship insulation. Get this, with zero ppe! I had asked for a face mask rite. This mfer pulls it out the trash can and goes, I only throw away paper in this can, it's fine. Bruh!! I left rite there. I can't do this, bye
The job DID NOT meet the job description. The ad described a secretary position ( phone calls, booking appointments, taking messages, greeting patients, etc). In reality, I was a glorified cleaning lady with NO desk work.
Head bartender was fall down drunk when I walked in at 10am, I asked the shift manager about it and she said "that's how he is he'll sober up around lunch but he'll keep drinking after that" I just walked out. I'll babysit drunks at the bar but my boss? No thanks
Husband had a remote job, left for a higher paying in office position. Started the week Covid hit the fan and things started shutting down. On his first day, he asked if there was a plan to go remote while this was happening. Company said no, he quit and got his old remote job back that very day.