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This thread is to all all here in TL who are already in the labor force, churning out the hours of the day in your cubicle, factory, bakery, foundry, whatever the case may be.
Share your story about things that happen at work, daily routines that get refreshingly broken, that little secret that everyone knows but doesn't talk about, things that irritate you about your fellows and bosses, anything about a day's work.
Here is mine, and it happened very recently.
I work for a small art gallery and one weekend, we had a bus full or patrons (college students) who came for a tour. Naturally, the thing was pre-arranged and the school stuff was advised on the proper conduct and the schedule of the tour. There were three of us staff deployed, and I personally served as the tour guide, with the two others waiting in the wings. As the tour went on, the crowd got smaller and smaller, which is still a natural thing to happen, because people tend to go their own ways. And museum or gallery people are always alert of this things.
Expectedly, one of my fellows came to me with a report, Code Pink (sex in the museum). We are used to such things, as there are always crazy people who will pull a quickie in every odd corner conceivable. Since it was a relatively nice day, we decided to let it slide and instead do a pass by on the location. When we entered the hall on which they were doing it (behind some installations), I stopped to introduce some artwork hoping that the couple would get a heads up and do something about it. A minute passed and still nothing, so we decided to push through as passby. To everyones laughter, there they were leaning by the wall, pretending to read a book, sweat running all over their hands and faces, and pants obviously hastily pulled up.
It was awkward and hilarious at the same time.
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i work at a supermarket deli.
i dont want to talk about it.
but i did like your story and the idea of this topic in general 
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Police officer here.
One of the officers in the department was a secret bomber: i.e. he farts without making a noise, and it really is the nastiest. Since the incident is relatively new, and many of us where new in the department also, it took some weeks, after talking about it during lunch breaks and water cooler conversations, each of us "investigating who it is". We all finally came to a conclusion, a difficult one at that since SHE is a fine fragile little lady who can't seem to do nothing bad. No one approached her about it, and we all just either ignore the incidents or make general remarks about the foul odor. The worst thing is that she seems to be gassy, like it's her physiology. Finally, after a couple of months, while the office cleaner was in the room, he broke into "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ROTTEN SMELL OF A FART" while he was just beside her. He run towards the windows to open it, and all looked awkwardly at her. She smiled and said "sorry about that" and everyone laughed.
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The office bitch freaked out because there was no coffee left (all this after arriving 30 minutes late lol).
She's pretty much useless and is always relying on everyone else to get her work done, but rumor is she slept with her supervisor so he covers for her. I dunno. He's a bit of a loser so it's no surprise that he's become all white knight because she sucked his d.
I don't really gossip so I've been able to stay completely out of the messes she repeatedly makes.
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Fast food kid here. Guy who usually opens is pissed because night shift apparently did a shitty job. Ok, that's bad, but imo nothing we can't handle. Not to this guy. Entire morning he's in the corner fuming. Lunch rolls around and he's the only person in drive-thru and gets frustrated. Like, really frustrated (you'd be surprised, sometimes I think you multitask more than in sc). Eventually he starts flipping out and the GM has to take him in the back. We could hear his yelling all the way in the front.
Apparently he said 'FUCK YOU' to the GM. You can guess where his ass went next.
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I work at Subway and EVERYONE COMES IN ASKING FOR AN 11 INCH HERPDERP
*Edit* There was some controversy around a picture someone took where they literally took out a measuring tape and measured their sandwich where it ended up falling at 11 inches. I was sort of hoping that noone would really read the article on any sites, but, well..
+ Show Spoiler +For the record I actually saw the picture, and the bread looked really doughy and uncooked. Just saying!
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On January 25 2013 13:38 Thienan567 wrote:
Fast food kid here. Guy who usually opens is pissed because night shift apparently did a shitty job. Ok, that's bad, but imo nothing we can't handle. Not to this guy. Entire morning he's in the corner fuming. Lunch rolls around and he's the only person in drive-thru and gets frustrated. Like, really frustrated (you'd be surprised, sometimes I think you multitask more than in sc). Eventually he starts flipping out and the GM has to take him in the back. We could hear his yelling all the way in the front.
Apparently he said 'FUCK YOU' to the GM. You can guess where his ass went next.
Never forget.
But seriously, fuck those night shifters.
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On January 25 2013 13:41 Frumpysnoo wrote:
I work at Subway and EVERYONE COMES IN ASKING FOR AN 11 INCH HERPDERP
I feel bad for Subway workers. It's a weird dynamic, like people are really paying to power trip like a bossy dick for 5 minutes rather than to buy a sandwich.
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i once dropped 5 carats worth of 0.01ct stones on carpet.
i was like that jackie chan face, head explosion. took a very, very long time to collect all that i could.
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im going to like this thread
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On January 25 2013 13:57 Mothra wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 13:41 Frumpysnoo wrote:
I work at Subway and EVERYONE COMES IN ASKING FOR AN 11 INCH HERPDERP I feel bad for Subway workers. It's a weird dynamic, like people are really paying to power trip like a bossy dick for 5 minutes rather than to buy a sandwich.
Most people are actually pretty cool, but every so often you get a person that MAN it's hard to smile through clenched teeth lol
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I work at a corner store...
I wish that candies would just be banned...
Seriously, they're the hardest to make a transaction with because people usually buy them in large quantities. Its not rewarding either, each candy is like what? 10 cents. Counting like 15 gumballs, 20 pieces of gun and other shit only costs about five bucks while also taking me like 5 minutes to count, in comparison, I sell a pack of cigs for like 30 bucks here. I can't believe some parents come in here telling their children they can't afford candy, bullllllllllcraaaaaaaaaap
Damn candies, damn you gumballs, damn you small pieces of bubblegum, damn youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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On January 25 2013 14:10 Frumpysnoo wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 13:57 Mothra wrote:On January 25 2013 13:41 Frumpysnoo wrote:
I work at Subway and EVERYONE COMES IN ASKING FOR AN 11 INCH HERPDERP I feel bad for Subway workers. It's a weird dynamic, like people are really paying to power trip like a bossy dick for 5 minutes rather than to buy a sandwich. Most people are actually pretty cool, but every so often you get a person that MAN it's hard to smile through clenched-teeth lol
I think it's important to be especially nice to the people who handle your food (for obvious reasons, e.g. the movie "Waiting"). And I think there are definitely going to be exceptions on both sides of the counter. I frequent Subway, and I swear that half the time I order my sub, the people completely ignore what I ask for and give me whatever the norm is (e.g. I say "not toasted", but they toast it anyway; I say I only want tomatoes, onions, and pickles, but they give me a ton of lettuce).
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I work at Tim Hortons, in the mall by a highschool, it's always busy and the days go by quick which is good. Their is also alot of people that come in daily, alot of elderly, and they always appreciate it when you remember what they get. (Generally its the same thing everyday) During Christmas one of the ladies tipped me 30$, most generous thing thats happened while i've been their. I guess it shows that no matter what job your doing, good service always pays off
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On January 25 2013 14:19 RogerX wrote:
I work at a corner store...
I wish that candies would just be banned...
Seriously, they're the hardest to make a transaction with because people usually buy them in large quantities. Its not rewarding either, each candy is like what? 10 cents. Counting like 15 gumballs, 20 pieces of gun and other shit only costs about five bucks while also taking me like 5 minutes to count, in comparison, I sell a pack of cigs for like 30 bucks here. I can't believe some parents come in here telling their children they can't afford candy, bullllllllllcraaaaaaaaaap
Damn candies, damn you gumballs, damn you small pieces of bubblegum, damn youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
I'm surprised they don't do it per pound or some other weight/ grouping. Fudge shops and other candy shops I frequent do transactions like that, rather than per individual candy.
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On January 25 2013 14:21 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 14:10 Frumpysnoo wrote:On January 25 2013 13:57 Mothra wrote:On January 25 2013 13:41 Frumpysnoo wrote:
I work at Subway and EVERYONE COMES IN ASKING FOR AN 11 INCH HERPDERP I feel bad for Subway workers. It's a weird dynamic, like people are really paying to power trip like a bossy dick for 5 minutes rather than to buy a sandwich. Most people are actually pretty cool, but every so often you get a person that MAN it's hard to smile through clenched-teeth lol I think it's important to be especially nice to the people who handle your food (for obvious reasons, e.g. the movie "Waiting"). And I think there are definitely going to be exceptions on both sides of the counter. I frequent Subway, and I swear that half the time I order my sub, the people completely ignore what I ask for and give me whatever the norm is (e.g. I say "not toasted", but they toast it anyway; I say I only want tomatoes, onions, and pickles, but they give me a ton of lettuce).
Absolutely. There's nothing worse than working with someone that you can hear is being blatantly rude or disregarding a customer. The girl I close with and another guy I work with are super respectful, attentive and we make a ton of tips, but most everyone else I work with what you said can be applied. Kinda sucks =L
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On January 25 2013 14:24 Frumpysnoo wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 14:21 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On January 25 2013 14:10 Frumpysnoo wrote:On January 25 2013 13:57 Mothra wrote:On January 25 2013 13:41 Frumpysnoo wrote:
I work at Subway and EVERYONE COMES IN ASKING FOR AN 11 INCH HERPDERP I feel bad for Subway workers. It's a weird dynamic, like people are really paying to power trip like a bossy dick for 5 minutes rather than to buy a sandwich. Most people are actually pretty cool, but every so often you get a person that MAN it's hard to smile through clenched-teeth lol I think it's important to be especially nice to the people who handle your food (for obvious reasons, e.g. the movie "Waiting"). And I think there are definitely going to be exceptions on both sides of the counter. I frequent Subway, and I swear that half the time I order my sub, the people completely ignore what I ask for and give me whatever the norm is (e.g. I say "not toasted", but they toast it anyway; I say I only want tomatoes, onions, and pickles, but they give me a ton of lettuce). Absolutely. There's nothing worse than working with someone that you can hear is being blatantly rude or disregarding a customer. The girl I close with and another guy I work with are super respectful, attentive and we make a ton of tips, but most everyone else I work with what you said can be applied. Kinda sucks =L
I've never understood how people could even consider treating their customers like shit when its their job to do the opposite, why even work their :/
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Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit.
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On January 25 2013 15:00 sam!zdat wrote:
Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit.
It's not about deserving. It's your job as an employee to treat the customer properly, regardless of how he treats you. Because that is what you are employed to do. If he treats you like trash take it up with a manager instead of fucking up a transaction.
I dunno, that seems like common sense to me. But hey, what do I know.
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I think it's your job to avoid getting fired. Whatever subtle abuse you can heap on well-deserving customers while accomplishing this aim is fair game. gotta steal back those crumbs of jouissance wherever you can.
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On January 25 2013 15:00 sam!zdat wrote:
Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit.
basically.
If you don't share this sentiment you are either way too optimistic and forgiving (I applaud you for that kind of patience), or you haven't worked in the service industry for any meaningful amount of time. People can turn into total douches the second they step into some place where their money is wanted. It's even worse if, like most places, you are required to have a uniform because then they just instantly heap that bullshit attitude directly on you personally because of association.
That said, good moods are infectious in my experience and simply being around somebody with that kind of attitude can be uplifting, whether it's a co-worker, customer, whatever. Every time I help that random person that just seems happy to be getting help it makes my job not suck for a little while.
Unfortunately most people are dicks. 
On January 25 2013 15:10 Qwyn wrote:
It's not about deserving. It's your job as an employee to treat the customer properly, regardless of how he treats you. Because that is what you are employed to do. If he treats you like trash take it up with a manager instead of fucking up a transaction.
I dunno, that seems like common sense to me. But hey, what do I know.
On January 25 2013 15:13 sam!zdat wrote:
I think it's your job to avoid getting fired. Whatever subtle abuse you can heap on well-deserving customers while accomplishing this aim is fair game. gotta steal back those crumbs of jouissance wherever you can.
Your job is to do what your employer wants for a prescribed amount of time, for compensation for said time. I would not be taking shit from anybody directly insulting me and it's generally a bad idea to think management will do anything in your favor over a customer anyway. Probably the best thing you could do is just refuse to help a difficult person rather than extrapolate things
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I hope this thread pans out.
Unfortunately I'm unemployed at the moment (boot camp in 2 weeks), but I worked on an ornamental plant farm until recently. It sounds cool, but really it's just acres of greenhouses with identical bushes in them. We took care of plants and stuff, but due to our lack of wage we really didn't work that hard. I might as well say that the people who take jobs like these often lack intelligence. Yes, I also lack intelligence. I don't have interesting stories about customer interactions, but to pass the time we often bet each other that they couldn't or wouldn't do something. So, instead of boring you with stories about 'I pick things up and put them down!!!', I will just list things that we bet on.
Bet my supervisor that I could convince a coworker that the sky was actually green, and the yellow part of the green couldn't be seen by humans. Successful, made a lot of money on this.
Offered $200 by a coworker that I wouldn't get into a port-a-potty and then roll it down a hill. Again, made some extra money.
Offered money to a coworker to drive one of the big tractors home instead of his car. Lost this one
Was bet by my supervisor (he was an awesome dude by the way) that I couldn't wake up a sleeping coworker and convince him that it was time to leave. I changed every clock I could find, including his watch, but I couldn't move the sun forward. Lost this one too.
Had the obligatory tractor races. Since every road was poorly maintained dirt and gravel, it was a bit like driving over constant speed bumps. And of course, who buckles up these days?
So, we water the plants with a pvc pipe system and a bunch of sprinkler heads in the greenhouses. They are turned on with valves on the north side of each greenhouse. So, when the owner of the company and his retinue of very official looking people trundle through them on their monthly inspection of our progress, of course someone has to bet someone else to turn the water on in the house they're in. I never actually found out how that ended because as soon as that bet was thrown out, I hurriedly left to find something to do very far away.
I hope this thread is still alive when I escape - uh, complete boot camp.
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I work in the games industry... I work from 10am - 10pm on a lucky day. Shipping a product soon? 10am - 1am for weeks.
I have a love-hate relationship with the games industry. I just got home from work (11pm) and am watching streams to relax.
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On January 25 2013 16:23 soulglider009 wrote:
I work in the games industry... I work from 10am - 10pm on a lucky day. Shipping a product soon? 10am - 1am for weeks.
I have a love-hate relationship with the games industry. I just got home from work (11pm) and am watching streams to relax.
what is the "games industry?" specifically..?
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Mid-Core Mobile Gaming (right now, but I was working in PC Downloadable previously). Production + Publishing.
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Im an intern at a neuropsychology lab, we do experiments on rats brains, and to me they delegate the job of doing brain surgery on the poor ratsys.
It isnt bad at all, except that for a few months we had a visiting PHD from Colombia who wanted me (specifically me) to assist him, and to do so I had to follow his procedures to the letter.
Well in colombia they dont have as much infrastructure as in Brazil, so instead of choking the rats to death on chloroformium gas chambers, he wanted me to inject them with a cocktail of Ketamine and Xylazine, and so I did dozens of times, but one of these days, when the lab was completely full (almost everyone involved in the experiments was in attendance, including the lab director and etc...) I was doing it like I normally do, stabbed the rat successfully and then I clumsily stabbed myself with the needle at my belly like 2 seconds after I removed it from the rats belly.
I got completely paranoid and started asking for help, felt my belly go numb, in the end absolutely nothing happened and the numbness went away in a few minutes as the colombian teacher told me stories of him causing extreme mayhem to himself by accident during experiments, I made a fool of myself for no reason and people still mock me to this day regarding the incident... well at least I still got the job and we had some good laughs about it.
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I churn out my hours administering chemical treatment for commercial and industrial water systems. One particular example happened at a big network center for a top-5 cable network. Amongst the many huge satellite dishes on the roof, it was clear they were doing a lot of construction. The building engineer told me everything was going on fine. In the course of my work, I triggered the system to release water down the drain. Turns out, the drain that was newly installed was not functioning, and water overflowed a small room's flood wall and down the electrical closet. It took many hours of my time pinning it on the construction guy for the property manager and building engineer, though I had found the problem by mistake.
A certain million viewer+ cable network host was peppering us all with phone calls wondering why his TV studio was leaking water from the ceiling. Oops!
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On January 25 2013 15:10 Qwyn wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 15:00 sam!zdat wrote:
Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit. It's not about deserving. It's your job as an employee to treat the customer properly, regardless of how he treats you. Because that is what you are employed to do. If he treats you like trash take it up with a manager instead of fucking up a transaction. I dunno, that seems like common sense to me. But hey, what do I know.
well personally i don't give a flying fuck if it's my job to treat a customer with respect. i would say that nearly every other minimum wage employee would agree with me that nearly every job like that is about spending as little time there as possible, getting your paycheck, and getting the hell out. (hence the reason i would see every cashier steal candy/gum/chips etc. at the grocery store because nobody ever got caught and nobody gives a shit about the business)
that being said, i definitely think it's a good thing to act politely and treat people (customers and coworkers) with respect. I really don't care about the business at all, i care about myself. being nice to other people though, surprisingly, leads to other people being nice to you. even despite the asshole customers there's still a reason to be generally pleasant. smiling at work was one of the best things i ever did for myself. honestly. people not only smile when they feel happy, but they also feel happy when they smile, so by forcing myself to smile all day at work i actually had a MUCH better time. As well, of the half dozen entry level jobs i've worked i've noticed that the only thing that makes the job any good is who you work with. sure, some people prefer a job that keeps them busy to one that makes them bored, or one dealing with customers rather than not, but really it all comes down to whether or not you enjoy the company of the people you work with and if the place is properly managed or not.
/rant
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On January 25 2013 17:26 StayPhrosty wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 15:10 Qwyn wrote:On January 25 2013 15:00 sam!zdat wrote:
Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit. It's not about deserving. It's your job as an employee to treat the customer properly, regardless of how he treats you. Because that is what you are employed to do. If he treats you like trash take it up with a manager instead of fucking up a transaction. I dunno, that seems like common sense to me. But hey, what do I know. well personally i don't give a flying fuck if it's my job to treat a customer with respect. i would say that nearly every other minimum wage employee would agree with me that nearly every job like that is about spending as little time there as possible, getting your paycheck, and getting the hell out. (hence the reason i would see every cashier steal candy/gum/chips etc. at the grocery store because nobody ever got caught and nobody gives a shit about the business) that being said, i definitely think it's a good thing to act politely and treat people (customers and coworkers) with respect. I really don't care about the business at all, i care about myself. being nice to other people though, surprisingly, leads to other people being nice to you. even despite the asshole customers there's still a reason to be generally pleasant. smiling at work was one of the best things i ever did for myself. honestly. people not only smile when they feel happy, but they also feel happy when they smile, so by forcing myself to smile all day at work i actually had a MUCH better time. As well, of the half dozen entry level jobs i've worked i've noticed that the only thing that makes the job any good is who you work with. sure, some people prefer a job that keeps them busy to one that makes them bored, or one dealing with customers rather than not, but really it all comes down to whether or not you enjoy the company of the people you work with and if the place is properly managed or not. /rant
Its interesting you say that. I get paid minimum wage, and i am a support worker. This means i look after people with learning difficulties for a living. For minimum wage i am expected to:
-Administer medication in a safe way
-Look after the client's finances
-Carry out all personal care (all personal hygiene, and in my case, this involves cleaning up piss and shit at least 7-8 times a day)
-Know ALL current legislation to do with my industry and stick to that legislation at all time
and more
Our government says the care industry is broken, and they can't seem to figure out why. Cases of abuse are cropping up all over the place and no-one seems to get why it is happening.
Now combine what you said in your first two sentences with this information and i think you might start to get the picture, no?
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I work in a reception for a big IT company. We have a visitor parking, wich obviously are for visitors, but some of the employees park there anyways because they think it's their right to have a free parking spot at work. When the customers roll in, there's not enough parking spots for them cuz of the 20 spaces we have, 5-10 are occupied by employees! And the parking tickets for employees aren't even expensive!! They're like 40 bucks/month, and they only pay half of that cuz it isn't taxed (i dunno what to call it in english). They have such bigass salaries, at least double my salary, and they're so fucking cheap they can't even pay 20bucks/month for parking....
I have had countless days ruined by employees bitching about parking. Them suits think they're so high and mighty, always looking down at us footsoldiers... T_T (Most of the "suits" are quite nice though, but some just think they own the fucking world).
We've had this problem for 3 years now...
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I work as an in seat food runner at the Air Canada Centre /and sometimes BMO Field (Basically job title says it all; I run food from the kitchen to people in their seats during NBA, MLS, NHL games)
It's a cool job but honestly, when you're working, you're working so you don't get to see the game as much as you'd like. Also, people are understandably upset when you're going up and down the stairs and obstructing the view of their game when they've paid so much money. However in my defence, I am ducking down as best I can and if I just stand idle, then I get in shit from the boss and look like a lazy worker... and that just isn't who I am.
Also, shifts only last the game so, blah, 3-4 hours of minimum wage doesn't really bring in the big bux. And on top of that, they don't call in as much staff when shitty teams come into town. (example. Charlotte Bobcats)
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Working as an exec comp analyst at Mercer, the hours are half way between your normal job and an investment banker. It's interesting what you learn about executive compensation and the different view you get which is different from the frothing rage whenever your average man hears the words "executive" and "bonuses" in the same sentence.
I guess consulting is rather fun since every engagement has its own tempo and attitude which breaks the monotony.
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I used to work at red Robin and once night the toilets backed up. A few inches of nasty poo water was leaking into the kitchen and manager told us to keep working. More and more sewage was flooding the kitchen and it got to the point where there was feces floating around the kitchen. I told the manager I would not serve any more food while this was going on. He told me I was going to be fired if I left and I told him to go fuck himself and walked out. A friend who was a server there told me the kitchen didn't shut until poo was leaking out into the dining area... my next shift several days later they didn't mention the incident lol
When I first started I was a dishwasher and I had to close this was when I was like 14. It was a Friday around 11 and the last cook just left so it was just me a female manager still in the building. When I took the garbage out a car sped up to the door and the guy told me not to close the door so I didn't because I thought it was the guy who just left. Once he got closer I realized I had fucked up... he got inside and started losing his shit literally headbutting a few inch thick door to the office, punching it and elbowing it and screaming for Amy to come out. I was super scared now because the guy was huge and obviously a roid monkey so I went and sort of hid in my dish pit. He gave up trying to break down the door or get the manager to open it and then came and found me. He was asking me who was in the office and getting right in my face and trying to scare me and I just kept telling him I didn't know who was was In the office . This was because I was new and pretty shy so I didn't talk to the pretty managers :p. I remember at one point I said I swear to go dude I don't know who is in there and he said something like I'll fucking make you meet god kid and then he showed me a tattoo of a cross on his roided out arms. He was just being super menacing and threatening a fucking 14 year old kid. The manager opened the door and talked to him and eventually the cops showed up and then my mom came to get me and she was horrified at what had happened she thought we got robbed or something. I guess the fucking loser had been broken up with by his gf Amy who was a manager so he came and acted like that trying to get her back. The only punishment he got was a ban from that red Robin restaurant :/ the manager was super cute idk why she was dating that train wreck lol
I have so many stories but it sucks to type on a tablet
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On January 25 2013 18:43 tokicheese wrote:
I used to work at red Robin and once night the toilets backed up. A few inches of nasty poo water was leaking into the kitchen and manager told us to keep working. More and more sewage was flooding the kitchen and it got to the point where there was feces floating around the kitchen. I told the manager I would not serve any more food while this was going on. He told me I was going to be fired if I left and I told him to go fuck himself and walked out. A friend who was a server there told me the kitchen didn't shut until poo was leaking out into the dining area... my next shift several days later they didn't mention the incident lol
When I first started I was a dishwasher and I had to close this was when I was like 14. It was a Friday around 11 and the last cook just left so it was just me a female manager still in the building. When I took the garbage out a car sped up to the door and the guy told me not to close the door so I didn't because I thought it was the guy who just left. Once he got closer I realized I had fucked up... he got inside and started losing his shit literally headbutting a few inch thick door to the office, punching it and elbowing it and screaming for Amy to come out. I was super scared now because the guy was huge and obviously a roid monkey so I went and sort of hid in my dish pit. He gave up trying to break down the door or get the manager to open it and then came and found me. He was asking me who was in the office and getting right in my face and trying to scare me and I just kept telling him I didn't know who was was In the office . This was because I was new and pretty shy so I didn't talk to the pretty managers :p. I remember at one point I said I swear to go dude I don't know who is in there and he said something like I'll fucking make you meet god kid and then he showed me a tattoo of a cross on his roided out arms. He was just being super menacing and threatening a fucking 14 year old kid. The manager opened the door and talked to him and eventually the cops showed up and then my mom came to get me and she was horrified at what had happened she thought we got robbed or something. I guess the fucking loser had been broken up with by his gf Amy who was a manager so he came and acted like that trying to get her back. The only punishment he got was a ban from that red Robin restaurant :/ the manager was super cute idk why she was dating that train wreck lol
I have so many stories but it sucks to type on a tablet
Make sure to write more stories when you can!
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On January 25 2013 17:57 jjun212 wrote:
I work as an in seat food runner at the Air Canada Centre /and sometimes BMO Field (Basically job title says it all; I run food from the kitchen to people in their seats during NBA, MLS, NHL games)
It's a cool job but honestly, when you're working, you're working so you don't get to see the game as much as you'd like. Also, people are understandably upset when you're going up and down the stairs and obstructing the view of their game when they've paid so much money. However in my defence, I am ducking down as best I can and if I just stand idle, then I get in shit from the boss and look like a lazy worker... and that just isn't who I am.
Also, shifts only last the game so, blah, 3-4 hours of minimum wage doesn't really bring in the big bux. And on top of that, they don't call in as much staff when shitty teams come into town. (example. Charlotte Bobcats)
I loved those guys at Yankees Stadium. Always running around shouting stuff and since they have been shouting it for 20 years all the time, it sounded very funny. "Geeeeeetcha beer, ice cold beer, getcha ice cold beer here" etc (doesnt sound very funny, but I enjoy stuff like that so much)
Also, since the Yankees lost 0-1 (which from what I understand is a very low score in baseball), the food runners were the most interesting part of the game.
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On January 25 2013 19:01 PfiliTehDwarf wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 17:57 jjun212 wrote:
I work as an in seat food runner at the Air Canada Centre /and sometimes BMO Field (Basically job title says it all; I run food from the kitchen to people in their seats during NBA, MLS, NHL games)
It's a cool job but honestly, when you're working, you're working so you don't get to see the game as much as you'd like. Also, people are understandably upset when you're going up and down the stairs and obstructing the view of their game when they've paid so much money. However in my defence, I am ducking down as best I can and if I just stand idle, then I get in shit from the boss and look like a lazy worker... and that just isn't who I am.
Also, shifts only last the game so, blah, 3-4 hours of minimum wage doesn't really bring in the big bux. And on top of that, they don't call in as much staff when shitty teams come into town. (example. Charlotte Bobcats) I loved those guys at Yankees Stadium. Always running around shouting stuff and since they have been shouting it for 20 years all the time, it sounded very funny. "Geeeeeetcha beer, ice cold beer, getcha ice cold beer here" etc (doesnt sound very funny, but I enjoy stuff like that so much) Also, since the Yankees lost 0-1 (which from what I understand is a very low score in baseball), the food runners were the most interesting part of the game.
It's low as fuck, but it's not impossible. It usually happens when 2 teams have very good pitchers (and/or defense) in comparison with their offense. Sometimes called the pitcher's game. source: anime
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I'm writing about work and the little things that break the routine on my TL Blog.
Here's the first one:
On January 01 2013 23:32 JOJOsc2news wrote:Garden Work 82-year old patient presents himself with pain in the right hip area, spreading to his right thigh and to the sacroiliac joint. Patient tells me he injured himself while working in his garden. When I think I'm done with the medical history, the patient leans forward and whispers "I can tell you, but don't tell the doctor. It wasn't really garden work you know. I made love to my wife and sometimes you injure yourself during love making [smirks]"Patient was 82-years old, 45 years married. I will not forget the glow in his eyes when spoke of his wife and the smirk on his face when he told the doctor about his garden work. Needless to say this made my day. When I left the treatment room I thought "Goddammit - when I'm 82, I wanna be like this guy."
This was 3 months ago. Patient has, since then, received medication, physical therapy and intraarticular injections. Patient has no symptoms anymore.
If you have any questions/suggestions/etc. free to comment on the blog directly. Blog: Stories from work #1
Fun fact: This post was written at work.
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On January 25 2013 19:29 JOJOsc2news wrote:I'm writing about work and the little things that break the routine on my TL Blog. Here's the first one: Show nested quote +On January 01 2013 23:32 JOJOsc2news wrote:Garden Work 82-year old patient presents himself with pain in the right hip area, spreading to his right thigh and to the sacroiliac joint. Patient tells me he injured himself while working in his garden. When I think I'm done with the medical history, the patient leans forward and whispers "I can tell you, but don't tell the doctor. It wasn't really garden work you know. I made love to my wife and sometimes you injure yourself during love making [smirks]"Patient was 82-years old, 45 years married. I will not forget the glow in his eyes when spoke of his wife and the smirk on his face when he told the doctor about his garden work. Needless to say this made my day. When I left the treatment room I thought "Goddammit - when I'm 82, I wanna be like this guy."
This was 3 months ago. Patient has, since then, received medication, physical therapy and intraarticular injections. Patient has no symptoms anymore. If you have any questions/suggestions/etc. free to comment on the blog directly. Blog: Stories from work #1Fun fact: This post was written at work.
Awesome, you should also post that in the "Hurray up and die" thread. I'll check out the blog.
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On January 25 2013 13:23 neggro wrote:
Police officer here.
hahaha (sorry, i'm from LA)
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHAHA
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On January 25 2013 19:40 Deleuze wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 19:29 JOJOsc2news wrote:I'm writing about work and the little things that break the routine on my TL Blog. Here's the first one: On January 01 2013 23:32 JOJOsc2news wrote:Garden Work 82-year old patient presents himself with pain in the right hip area, spreading to his right thigh and to the sacroiliac joint. Patient tells me he injured himself while working in his garden. When I think I'm done with the medical history, the patient leans forward and whispers "I can tell you, but don't tell the doctor. It wasn't really garden work you know. I made love to my wife and sometimes you injure yourself during love making [smirks]"Patient was 82-years old, 45 years married. I will not forget the glow in his eyes when spoke of his wife and the smirk on his face when he told the doctor about his garden work. Needless to say this made my day. When I left the treatment room I thought "Goddammit - when I'm 82, I wanna be like this guy."
This was 3 months ago. Patient has, since then, received medication, physical therapy and intraarticular injections. Patient has no symptoms anymore. If you have any questions/suggestions/etc. free to comment on the blog directly. Blog: Stories from work #1Fun fact: This post was written at work. Awesome, you should also post that in the "Hurray up and die" thread. I'll check out the blog.
Hurry up and die thread?! That sounds interesting. I haven't really looked into that. It had something to do with Japan right?
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I work in retail, at TK Maxx (known as TJ Maxx in the states). I have a bunch of silly stories that I share often with my friends (you need to have some fun doing a job like this in order to survive), but the one I'm most proud of is this one:
I was a cashier at the time. A customer came, a young girl, wanting to buy a bunch of stuff. She wanted to pay with a credit card and since it was assigned to a foreign currency account my elavon downloaded and printed out that day's currency rates. This takes about 5x longer to print out than a regular elavon receipt and as it is printing the girl looks at it and says "wow, that's pretty long!", to which I immediately reply, staring deep into her big, green eyes, with a dead serious look on my face, "thank you". It just so happened my manager was right behind me at the time and he cracked up instantly.
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I've had a lot of jobs over my university studies.
I think the biggest moments I won't forget is my work as a pharmacy student.
First day of an internship at a new pharmacy, come in at 8am... first client literally passes out on the counter. That was a pretty messed up first day at a new place.
But the real story I will never forget : Two 15 or so year old girls came together to our pharmacy for Plan B (anti-pregnancy post-coitus pill). A lot of girls come with their friends as they are scared, so the pharmacist didn't think much of it, goes in the office and goes through the meeting to explain the medication etc etc.
When the pharmacist (an older woman, pretty straight edge) came out of the office, she looked so creeped out and asked : "What's a gang bang?" ROFL
Even worse, we only had 1 Plan B left. They starting joking about it that the other should take it and they clearly didn't give a fuck.
Seriously, I think that's the moment I gave up on humanity.
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On January 25 2013 19:57 JOJOsc2news wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 19:40 Deleuze wrote:On January 25 2013 19:29 JOJOsc2news wrote:I'm writing about work and the little things that break the routine on my TL Blog. Here's the first one: On January 01 2013 23:32 JOJOsc2news wrote:Garden Work 82-year old patient presents himself with pain in the right hip area, spreading to his right thigh and to the sacroiliac joint. Patient tells me he injured himself while working in his garden. When I think I'm done with the medical history, the patient leans forward and whispers "I can tell you, but don't tell the doctor. It wasn't really garden work you know. I made love to my wife and sometimes you injure yourself during love making [smirks]"Patient was 82-years old, 45 years married. I will not forget the glow in his eyes when spoke of his wife and the smirk on his face when he told the doctor about his garden work. Needless to say this made my day. When I left the treatment room I thought "Goddammit - when I'm 82, I wanna be like this guy."
This was 3 months ago. Patient has, since then, received medication, physical therapy and intraarticular injections. Patient has no symptoms anymore. If you have any questions/suggestions/etc. free to comment on the blog directly. Blog: Stories from work #1Fun fact: This post was written at work. Awesome, you should also post that in the "Hurray up and die" thread. I'll check out the blog. Hurry up and die thread?! That sounds interesting. I haven't really looked into that. It had something to do with Japan right?
Yeah, it was the dismal news that more old people = more health expenses for the current working population.
The fact that an 86 year old put their back out through their rampant sexuality seems somehow pertinent. It's a Shady Sands thread, but I'm will fill with the usual General Forum dross, also the per capita spend on healthcare measure is misleading.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=395027
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On January 25 2013 21:13 Deleuze wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 19:57 JOJOsc2news wrote:On January 25 2013 19:40 Deleuze wrote:On January 25 2013 19:29 JOJOsc2news wrote:I'm writing about work and the little things that break the routine on my TL Blog. Here's the first one: On January 01 2013 23:32 JOJOsc2news wrote:Garden Work 82-year old patient presents himself with pain in the right hip area, spreading to his right thigh and to the sacroiliac joint. Patient tells me he injured himself while working in his garden. When I think I'm done with the medical history, the patient leans forward and whispers "I can tell you, but don't tell the doctor. It wasn't really garden work you know. I made love to my wife and sometimes you injure yourself during love making [smirks]"Patient was 82-years old, 45 years married. I will not forget the glow in his eyes when spoke of his wife and the smirk on his face when he told the doctor about his garden work. Needless to say this made my day. When I left the treatment room I thought "Goddammit - when I'm 82, I wanna be like this guy."
This was 3 months ago. Patient has, since then, received medication, physical therapy and intraarticular injections. Patient has no symptoms anymore. If you have any questions/suggestions/etc. free to comment on the blog directly. Blog: Stories from work #1Fun fact: This post was written at work. Awesome, you should also post that in the "Hurray up and die" thread. I'll check out the blog. Hurry up and die thread?! That sounds interesting. I haven't really looked into that. It had something to do with Japan right? Yeah, it was the dismal news that more old people = more health expenses for the current working population. The fact that an 86 year old put their back out through their rampant sexuality seems somehow pertinent. It's a Shady Sands thread, but I'm will fill with the usual General Forum dross, also the per capita spend on healthcare measure is misleading. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=395027
Thanks! I checked it out and posted the story too. There is a lot to say about the topic of the thread and the quality of discussion as well as data used (as you pointed out) but this thread is probably not the right place for it.
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Some of the replies in this thread are so depressing. The op started out with an amusing story from his job, and somehow it turned into "gotta be as much of an asshole to customers as I can get away with, gotta talk about how stealing from a fucking corner shop which is probably barely staying afloat is something to be proud about, and then I gotta complain about my boss cuz all bosses are rich assholes". Aside from the hypocrisy in some of those posts, it is interesting to see how an "us vs them" mindset is developed, when for most of the day "us" really becomes "them" as well.
All that aside, my job as a programmer has had really nothing interesting happen, and my job at a corner shop also had nothing happen to them lol. I feel I've somewhat missed out.
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On January 25 2013 21:38 bo1b wrote:
Some of the replies in this thread are so depressing. The op started out with an amusing story from his job, and somehow it turned into "gotta be as much of an asshole to customers as I can get away with, gotta talk about how stealing from a fucking corner shop which is probably barely staying afloat is something to be proud about, and then I gotta complain about my boss cuz all bosses are rich assholes". Aside from the hypocrisy in some of those posts, it is interesting to see how an "us vs them" mindset is developed, when for most of the day "us" really becomes "them" as well.
All that aside, my job as a programmer has had really nothing interesting happen, and my job at a corner shop also had nothing happen to them lol. I feel I've somewhat missed out.
^ This
Most people believe if they do not get paid like kings they will treat their employer's like absolute garbage. If you are doing a job that requires little to no skills do not expect a huge paycheck. Although this does not mean all minimum wage work is less equal than others or you should automatically not give a flying f***. At-least here in the states jobs are in short supply and it is a privilege to get a job. Going to work with the mindset of just wanting to collect a check every two weeks is a very bad way to go about it. Don't get me wrong I do not care about the business side of things but I do care about the success of the company. If the company I am currently employed by goes under that means so does my future with that company.
I am at an age where you look for a "career", not a "job" and you want to go through the ranks to become the most successful/paid. So by treating customers like crap and having a bad mindset will only set you up for cloudy future in the current field you are in. People often overlook on how important it is to leave your last job with on a positive note because future employers will look back on your job history. Right now I am a Network Engineer for Bright House Networks and work at a data-cetner. Believe it or not the network administrators do not deal with customers as much as an engineer does. So by treating the customers right on a case by case basis will lead to more positive feedback. All I got to say is the amount of positive feedback from clients just makes management that much happier with your performance within the workplace.
@ OP
Here is a quick story for everybody.
I worked as a PC technician at Kablelink L.L.C. which is a company who contracts with the big cable/internet companies. So my role within the company is to install/manage/troubleshoot the networks the clients want installed on each job site. It was a weekday and I get a call about a customer experience a 213 which translates to "interruption of service". With this job it requires a lot of time behind the wheel. From the office to the job site it was roughly 1hour worth of driving in the back roads which was alright in my 94' firebird.(Yes they allowed me to drive my 94' firebird with a 450 big block bored .60 over) Most of the time the customers in the area are elderly people or just middle-aged individuals who do not know to much about the tech side of things.
So I show up at this nice big house which looks like it was at-least 1mill USD. This middle aged man leads me into this office and explains to me his service was down and he did not know why. He also told me he was on the phone with tech support for hours and they could not figure out what was wrong. They usually only call out PC-techs when the troubleshooting over the phone failed. Well I look at the equipment and I notice that one of the modem's he has installed is in standby mode. When you put this specific unit in standby it cuts off the internet/phone because they both run through the same box.
Now at this time he tells me that tech support never mentioned a standby mode and did not know what it was. A part of that job was for me to educate the client and which I did verbally, and then pointed out the chapter about stand by from the manual that came with the modem. After I educated the client I hit the giant big grey button on the from and eureka he had service again. This took me a whole 5 minutes to figure out and the guy gave me some praise and tipped me 5$ to go get something to eat. All in all it just baffles me how bad tech support can be sometimes, as that should be step #1 to figure out if everything was in working order. Oh well made me some quick money which turned out to be a pretty sweet deal and covered my expenses to get to the job site.
Tl:DR
Go to work with a neutral mindset and avoid feeling the need to only care for your work if your getting paid extremely well. Give each job a chance and see if you enjoy it after awhile. Working at a job where you actually enjoy will lead to more success. Minimum wage does not mean you automatically treat your employers policies/customers like crap.
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On January 25 2013 15:00 sam!zdat wrote:
Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit.
No. Haven't you ever heard of "The customer is always right?" While it sucks, it's often times a necessary philosophy to retain business. And the business is bigger than you getting your feelings hurt, Mr. Employee #384744, so suck it up and ignore their stupidity for the whole sixty seconds that you'll interact with them.
And also, maybe some of them are acting like shit because you're treating them like shit 
On January 25 2013 15:13 sam!zdat wrote:
I think it's your job to avoid getting fired. Whatever subtle abuse you can heap on well-deserving customers while accomplishing this aim is fair game. gotta steal back those crumbs of jouissance wherever you can.
Sure, that's a practical reason, but your job is also to do your job, and that also includes keeping the client happy by doing your job competently, often times with a smile (or fake smile) on your face. Every job has customers who are pains in the asses, but you tend to put up with them because it makes your boss happy, and/ or you get a paycheck, and/ or you like your job, etc. You don't take out your anger on a customer; that's just showing that you don't know how to handle situations properly as an employee.
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I work for a tyre company (my dad is 2nd majority share holder) and in the office i work at (with a bunch of old people, one my uncle (their all 50+ uncle 60))
What is fun about this office is that it is the pay roll office too, and well i do here so amazing stories from the area managers when they come into town. Mainly about how silly employee's are.
Lets take the latest one. Their was a guy in one of our depots, who was good, paperwork was great and his sales were good. One day we rang the depot up chasing some banking and he wasn't their, they told he didn't work their anymore. We all were like oh, i guess he's been sacked for something (we have a high turn over of staff). We thought nothing about it until about 3 hours later the area manager rang up. Told us the reason he was sacked was because he was running his drug business on the depot fore court...selling just weed, but still. He thought it would be a great way to sell them.
After he asked him why he was selling them at work he said "well the mrs didn't want me selling them from home"
Ahaha, i was just like LOL when i heard that reply xD
I hear many a funny tale from the accounts office, it is great fun. People fighting in the depots, people robbing tyres, all sorts of things, it's great fun.
My job though, in a sense is a pretty much boring paper work junkie, but it's pretty easy work so the majority of my day is watching GSL at work and doing things on TL xD so i can't complain.
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Wow, there are some people with bad mindsets here. It sounds like some of my collegues at the supermarket where i work part time. I like it quite a bit for 2 reasons: finding a good balance between efficiency in logistics and customerservice is harder than it looks when pressure's high, and experimenting with leadership principles is fun. There are some assholes along the costumers, but there are bound to be when there are 40k customers every week.
Nothing big really happens most of the time apart from the occasional disappearing employee (going away from work, and neve comng back), drunk customer telling bizarre stories, standard gossip and working with sometimes retarded people.
Depends what you call big <.<
On January 25 2013 22:42 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 15:00 sam!zdat wrote:
Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit. No. Haven't you ever heard of "The customer is always right?" While it sucks, it's often times a necessary philosophy to retain business. And the business is bigger than you getting your feelings hurt, Mr. Employee #384744, so suck it up and ignore their stupidity for the whole sixty seconds that you'll interact with them. And also, maybe some of them are acting like shit because you're treating them like shit Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 15:13 sam!zdat wrote:
I think it's your job to avoid getting fired. Whatever subtle abuse you can heap on well-deserving customers while accomplishing this aim is fair game. gotta steal back those crumbs of jouissance wherever you can. Sure, that's a practical reason, but your job is also to do your job, and that also includes keeping the client happy by doing your job competently, often times with a smile (or fake smile) on your face. Every job has customers who are pains in the asses, but you tend to put up with them because it makes your boss happy, and/ or you get a paycheck, and/ or you like your job, etc. You don't take out your anger on a customer; that's just showing that you don't know how to handle situations properly as an employee. Completely agree with this.
To be honest, anyone thinking otherwise is pretty unfit for any service-related work.
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On January 25 2013 13:47 Divergence wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 13:38 Thienan567 wrote:
Fast food kid here. Guy who usually opens is pissed because night shift apparently did a shitty job. Ok, that's bad, but imo nothing we can't handle. Not to this guy. Entire morning he's in the corner fuming. Lunch rolls around and he's the only person in drive-thru and gets frustrated. Like, really frustrated (you'd be surprised, sometimes I think you multitask more than in sc). Eventually he starts flipping out and the GM has to take him in the back. We could hear his yelling all the way in the front.
Apparently he said 'FUCK YOU' to the GM. You can guess where his ass went next. Never forget. But seriously, fuck those night shifters.
I pick milk in a warehouse, we pick cages of milk for different depots, shove them in lorries, unload delivery lorrys of more milk and it repeats.
Fuck. Night shifters. Seriously all they have to do is unload some milk and cream and line it up, and they're fucking terrible. Sometimes we come in and they're like lined up in the wrong places so when you follow the sheet of what to pick, you miss things out cause they're in the wrong order and end up having to go back and cut through everyone and it's already busy as shit anyway -_- nightmare.
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Lol, don't even complain about not getting paid enough while seemingly having to be nice to your clients/customers. I've been a nursing student for 3 years and I've been doing placements in the hospital working for FREE. If i do anything that is remotely disrespectful i would get kicked out. Ive had patients tell me to "piss off" before (mostly due to their condition) and keep a smiling face throughout the whole day (funny enough, we got along quite well later on in the day).
It's too bad I can't really share any work stories because of this whole confidentiality stuff
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I work as tech support tier 2 for a prominent technology manufacturer. I also work from a home office, so that's the only really nifty part about my job.
At least once a day, I get a call from someone who is pissed off and feels entitled to free shit. As a T2 agent, I have the ability to give out free shit, but I never do it for douchebags. Just the other day, this guy called in because his account had been locked out and his business, which he ran from a tablet, was completely halted because he couldn't log into the account. At first, the call started off okay. I was gathering information, telling him I'd do my best to get things fixed, etc. Every time I asked him for a piece of information to validate his identity, he would get pissy and start complaining about how he's losing money and how it's our fault for making things so hard. So we get to a point where he's not able to provide what I need, so I can't get him into the account.
Now, he flips his lid. He starts cursing me, demanding a supervisor (nobody above me), swearing to sue, saying i'm not helping him and how his business is more important than a piece of shit like me, etc.
I tell him to have a nice day and hang up the phone :D
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pretty much the funniest story from my work life so far:
Working IT support, when external users sign up for one of the services, they get text fields to enter their secret questions and the respective answers.
In the middle of one of our shifts, this British bloke gets up, raises his voice a bit, switches his phone to speakers and goes 'Ok, Sir, I'm going to ask you your secret question now to verify your identity: 'How long is it?'
The guy didn't own up to his claimed '9 inches'...
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On January 25 2013 15:13 sam!zdat wrote:
I think it's your job to avoid getting fired. Whatever subtle abuse you can heap on well-deserving customers while accomplishing this aim is fair game. gotta steal back those crumbs of jouissance wherever you can.
Actually no, its your job to shut the fuck up and do what they tell you.
You arent employed to run the company, you're employed to do what the fuck they tell you.
Which is basically whatever they hired you for, driving, ordering food whatever.
Okay I guess I can do mine, I work at Lowe's the basic thing about our store is, all the Asst Managers hate the store manager cause he actually(you can tell it really) enjoys the job and likes the company, so he goes out of the way to do everything extra for them blah blah. But more or less they bitch about working too hard when in reality he does more work than all of them combined -_-.
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On January 25 2013 16:36 D10 wrote:
Im an internet
I won't say how, but I know you're lying.
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This from my dad few years ago calculating parts/hours for plumming offer for client he didn't like (most other plumbers didn't like either). So he put stuff with almost zero discount and then was like shit I don't even want this work at all (its good thing to give some offer too other ways you are not sent offers anymore). So he doubled money he wanted for the total sum just for giggles. Week later he got the contract to do the job... He was pissed but at least getting double money is always nice. I guess other people had even deeper costs
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On January 25 2013 23:12 LOLItsRyann wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 13:47 Divergence wrote:On January 25 2013 13:38 Thienan567 wrote:
Fast food kid here. Guy who usually opens is pissed because night shift apparently did a shitty job. Ok, that's bad, but imo nothing we can't handle. Not to this guy. Entire morning he's in the corner fuming. Lunch rolls around and he's the only person in drive-thru and gets frustrated. Like, really frustrated (you'd be surprised, sometimes I think you multitask more than in sc). Eventually he starts flipping out and the GM has to take him in the back. We could hear his yelling all the way in the front.
Apparently he said 'FUCK YOU' to the GM. You can guess where his ass went next. Never forget. But seriously, fuck those night shifters. I pick milk in a warehouse, we pick cages of milk for different depots, shove them in lorries, unload delivery lorrys of more milk and it repeats. Fuck. Night shifters. Seriously all they have to do is unload some milk and cream and line it up, and they're fucking terrible. Sometimes we come in and they're like lined up in the wrong places so when you follow the sheet of what to pick, you miss things out cause they're in the wrong order and end up having to go back and cut through everyone and it's already busy as shit anyway -_- nightmare.
The funny thing is at the store I work at I could be both morning and night shift in the same week. So sometimes I'd close and then come in the morning to my own shitty work. I know it's shitty because when you're night shift you're less worried about doing a good job and more worried about getting out so you can go come and chill. Not to say that I purposefully do a shit job, but hey man, gotta get that game of sc in before going to sleep.
Tbh I don't mind because when we open there's never any business anyway, if the night shift leaves the place a mess then at least there's something to do. Though sometimes it really does seem they were lazy as fuck and didn't do anything right. THAT is annoying.
On January 25 2013 22:42 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 15:00 sam!zdat wrote:
Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit. No. Haven't you ever heard of "The customer is always right?" While it sucks, it's often times a necessary philosophy to retain business. And the business is bigger than you getting your feelings hurt, Mr. Employee #384744, so suck it up and ignore their stupidity for the whole sixty seconds that you'll interact with them. And also, maybe some of them are acting like shit because you're treating them like shit Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 15:13 sam!zdat wrote:
I think it's your job to avoid getting fired. Whatever subtle abuse you can heap on well-deserving customers while accomplishing this aim is fair game. gotta steal back those crumbs of jouissance wherever you can. Sure, that's a practical reason, but your job is also to do your job, and that also includes keeping the client happy by doing your job competently, often times with a smile (or fake smile) on your face. Every job has customers who are pains in the asses, but you tend to put up with them because it makes your boss happy, and/ or you get a paycheck, and/ or you like your job, etc. You don't take out your anger on a customer; that's just showing that you don't know how to handle situations properly as an employee.
Imo, do your job, and do your best to be friendly, but if someone comes in and starts spitting in your face, yelling at you, etc. then just call over the manager and let them deal with it.
I can be pleasant and friendly, do a good job, and offer good service, but if you come in and act like a douche, you should expect to get shitty service. You deserve it, too.
Lesson here, folks: when you're going in as a customer, be pleasant and friendly, and VIOLA, you'll get good service. Much better than yelling at the people working, what's that gonna do?
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Business Consultant that works normal the normal 40 hours.
I was on site for a project with one of our clients. We were all coming back from a meeting and one of my coworkers banged up against one of the cubicle walls. It collapses within itself and fell over, destroying the entire cubicle. The person inside was working and jumped in shock. It was hilarious because it seemed like he barely touched it, but I guess the entire thing was completely unstable. Was hilarious to watch.
That's about it. Haha.
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my managers breath smells like a crack whore took a huge dump in his mouth. I know wtf he eats but there is always an overwhelming cloud of some really foul smelling rotten fuck I don't even know how to explain it. I call him pudge. Oh he also spits when he talks. I can throw up when that shit happens.
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On January 25 2013 21:38 bo1b wrote:
Some of the replies in this thread are so depressing. The op started out with an amusing story from his job, and somehow it turned into "gotta be as much of an asshole to customers as I can get away with, gotta talk about how stealing from a fucking corner shop which is probably barely staying afloat is something to be proud about, and then I gotta complain about my boss cuz all bosses are rich assholes". Aside from the hypocrisy in some of those posts, it is interesting to see how an "us vs them" mindset is developed, when for most of the day "us" really becomes "them" as well.
All that aside, my job as a programmer has had really nothing interesting happen, and my job at a corner shop also had nothing happen to them lol. I feel I've somewhat missed out.
Yeah. It started out well, but it seems the thread devolved midway through page 1 to kids in dead end jobs griping about it. I think the OP was looking for people who are done with school and are already starting their career.
I work in an earthquake prone area with a lot of out of towners. Every year or so, we get a slight tremor that can be felt. The magnitude is around 4ish. It's just funny seeing the mostly east coast transplants completely freak out.
The place is part office, part factory. Most of the factory workers who are 50+ years old only have a high school degree and did not study in college at all. I suspect some might not have finished high school. Most of the time, it's not a problem. But every once in a while, these people need to e-mail somebody. On very rare occasions, I've seen some e-mails where they completely fuck up the English language. Just not understandable at all.
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I work as a management consultant. In December, right before the holidays, I was doing some work for an oil pipeline company down in Houston (I'm Canadian). On my cab ride back to the airport, my driver asked me if I believed in God. I'm an atheist, and in my foolishness I replied honestly. The cabby moved on and said "oh you must be Buddhist" (I'm Asian). A little offended, I foolishly replied honestly. He then spent the rest of the 45 minute cab ride lecturing me about how I should believe in God. Not backing down from a challenge, I convinced him by the end of the trip that he shouldn't worry about the dogma and just concentrate on being a good person and that, since no man can comprehend God, that he should focus on doing good to God's creations (stuff on Earth) rather than praising a lord he cannot understand.
On hindsight, I now realize how dangerous that conversation could have been...
(and I almost missed my flight and didn't get a receipt for the trip and got chewed out by the accountant when I got back to the office - FML)
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Had a job as the personal assistant to a female entrepeneur to make some cash to pay for my studies.
I had to to stuff for her thrice a week, and her office was at her home, which was about half an hour away by car.
Usually at least twice a week when I got there, nobody was there as she frequently forgot I was supposed to come and never notified me beforehand, so I usually sat in my car, waiting dutyfully (the fact I got full pay for my reading-in-car sessions sort of added to my being dutyful).
Though I essentially only worked a day a week, if that, I loved that job and got fired for the stupidest reason:
Albeit my utter uglyness (think: Denny Devito's uglier younger brother) and despite being about twice my size, her husband got really jealous of her having a male assistant and would frequently throw hissyfits when we dared close the office door.
I would have understood being fired due to my obvious not being needed, but that was just pathetic.
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Interned at a copper mine last summer; I’m finishing school and will be heading back out there for a full-time position, so I’d say I still count. 
One of my co-workers, I learned, was a closet nerd. During our safety briefings and around the office, he’d always be a bit of a jerk to me (only mockingly, however). But when we were in the mine collecting samples and stuff, we’d talk about his barbarian he was working in Diablo III, how he used to play Counter-Strike with his sister as a kid, various Total War and strategy games, and I learned he used to be a pretty avid Magic: The Gathering fan.
Minor politics below:
+ Show Spoiler +Another co-worker was an unabashed liberal. I never really brought politics up, but she occasionally insisted on discussing, what had been at the time, the upcoming Presidential election, as well as complaining that she "probably" didn't get paid as much as her male co-workers and being mildly obsessed with recycling. I didn't share with her whom I was voting for, mostly because I didn't know whom I wanted to vote for, but since I had noncommittally said, "Definitely not Obama," she automatically assumed I was in Camp Romney, lol. Rumor has it she even called for her order/prescription of birth control during work hours. At the office, where everyone could hear her. Mr. Closet Nerd said it was flippin' hilarious.
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being nice to your customers open more doors than you think.
I work at the gameshop and people have a lot of small troubles with their videogames machines. We dont provide any service but hey there is no GSL at the moment so why dont help them ? I always say its free but I think it makes them give me even more money. I get 5euros to instal sims 3, 20e for Windows. Once I helped to build PC (Thank you kind ppl in tech section of TL) I got like 50e for that! I get a lot of alcohol too, too bad i dont drink, at least my co-workers are happy. When you dont get any tips and make 2,5e for a hour of work its really nice to be able to say that you are proud of what you do.)
So here are a few stories:
1, Our shop is located next to this big electro where guys love to troll their customers. For instance 60-70 old man and probably his grandchild came in and asked for DVD games, We knew something was going on so we asked him some questions and it turned out that he bought DVD player and they told him that it can play games too. they were so sad
2, 25-29years old male with his GF came in and said: We just bought PS3 and Kinect and we are looking for some party game that can be played on it. And yes they had PS3 + Kinect sensor in the bag
3, Every day I get someone asking me how much for cracking his x360, cant blame them, games are expensive (btw We dont do that)
4, The only thing I hate about this job is when I talk to the customers for like 20minutes explaining x360vsPs3vsNintendo and I say how much it cost to them and they say they will buy it in the electro across the street and come here for some games. I can give them disscount for games but its still like 15e difference for 2min of walk so cant blame them
5, I SELL SS, ROCCAT, AND RAZER GEAR, everytime I sell one It makes me so happy.
6, We have anime section so its ok to see 12-16 years old girls sitting on the floor for 3hours not moving just reading.
7, Kids pee and vomit from time to time, yet no poop
8, I have super nice co-workers and boss, so when this cute girl with crazy badass tattoos and her GF came in to ask if we knew someone that can help them set up ps3 I could go and take extra controler with me (this happened at 17:00, we close at 21:00 so my co-worker had to work alone for 4 hours + I dont have ps3, had no idea what I was doing)
9, Horror story: No Pre-paid cards for WoW in entire Bratislava for like a week, some ppl were ok with that but mostly they were ok with going 70km to the next city.
10, There is this one guy who wants to sue us because his x360 can not play his downloaded fable3, I dont take shit like this seriously but when I saw that he is Phd and has like 20pages of text it was the 1st time I had no idea how can someone put so much time into the prank. LOL !
11, We used to let kids play ps3 in the shop, after 2 days kids used to come there and play after the school after a week they camped there and waited for us to open, We knew something was wrong but had no idea how much until parents used to pick up their kids after work at 21:00.
12, There are a few funny theif stories but that would take so much time and I have some work here so maybe later. haha !
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On January 26 2013 01:46 NIIINO wrote:
12, There are a few funny theif stories but that would take so much time and I have some work here so maybe later. haha !
Please do! Besides working in a music store, working in a Gamestop or bookstore are the only sales-positions I find remotely interesting and I like reading about those.
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Idk if this counts, but I have some stories working at a political campaign. I was like 20 hours (not very much considering how many hours you had to have to be an intern) off of being an intern, so I was a lowly volunteer. Anyways, I usually went to low socio-economic areas of my ghetto as fuk city since republicans (damn you, Anax) gerrymandered the crap out of the districts in my city. Bias aside, I went to one area to "GOTV, get the vote out." After going there, I, being a very small and definitely not at all scary white kid, get approached by 5 much larger, probably mid teen black kids. They "axed" me if, " You bruh, you got change for a $20." I respectfully responded with a jittery, almost pale-faced, "I don't have any money on me." I then proceeded to coolly walk... then walk faster... then run the fuck away. They then proceeded to get off their lawn and I thought they were going to chase me, but they just went inside as they laughed their asses off about me. Fucking sucked -_-.
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-double post- mods please delete it . Somehow beat the anti-double post magic.
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I thought everyone on TL had baller jobs like engineers at star companies or semi-pro poker players.
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On January 25 2013 23:39 danl9rm wrote:I won't say how, but I know you're lying.
I meant intern ... lol
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I'm an Engg student at university, and I'm also a Kitchen Manager at my local bar. It's a bar, so it seems like lots of stuff would happen, but besides bar fights and out-of-control drunk people, usually not too much. Yesterday I had a little hero situation happen to me at work, so I thought I'd share.
Now from the people who come in, it's 80-90% guys, naturally the owner wants all the servers are bartenders to be girls, anyways. It was a pretty slow thursday for Karaoke night, I went from the kitchen to the front of house, to fill up my cup with iced tea. There I am, just having small talk with a couple regulars sitting at the bar, and all of the sudden a stool swishes maybe a meter from my head, and right onto the counter behind the bar, knocking over a couple bottles in the process.
I look up, and see a tall, maybe 6'2" enraged man, and a younger lad, likely no older than 22, leaning against the VLT machines, and I make the connection that the tall man threw the stool, probably at the other guy. Not even a second later, the older man slowly approaches the kid, and the 4 men sitting at the table behind them stand up. As I see him loading up his first strike, I begin to sprint as quickly to this situation to break it up, my heart is already racing, I hear background noise. "Take that out of my bar! You are not welcome here".
He grabs the kid by the shirt and throws a few quick punches and the kid drops. He begins yelling shit at him, calling him a "fuckin' twad", and always using some sort of derivative of that insult. The kid is just trying to cover himself. He starts kicking him, and to my dismay, the four other men, that I just was not concerned about at all, join in on the fray. The kid gets maybe 10 kicks to the stomach, head, whatever, they are continuing too. I finally get there, I'm an average sized guy, 5'10" and 180lb, decently built. this guy seems huge, either way, with the momentum of my run I give him the biggest push I can, and the others who are half watching and half-kicking I yell at "Fucking sit down if you don't want to spend the night in jail".
Then, ughhh, a get a pretty shark hook to my kidney from the tall older guy who got his footing back. I clench my teeth, and yell at him, "What the fuck are you doing?" "What the FUCK are YOU doing, man?!" "Like seriously, WHY the FUCK did you do that?!"... I just kept repeating that (anyone working at a bar, effective strategy), the guy seems a little calmer, maybe thinking a bit, I dunno, but gives me a push on the shoulders anyways as I take a couple steps back to regain my balance, "little shit snorted my blow". Instinctively I just reply, "How much?!" he mumbles something, I ask again, "How much coke?". "He replies, "This kid is getting fucked, I don't give a shit that it was only a few". I reply, "Okay, so like $40 man? Seriously man, I'm trying to help you, this isn't worth it, I'll give you the money and just please leave the guy alone, we will get his sorry ass out of here, and you can enjoy the rest of the night". I take out my wallet, hand the man 2 20's, and quickly the noise clears.
My heart stops racing, the spectators head back to their seats; some leave, some clap. The young guy, he doesn't need another signal to get out of there, he scurries a long (didn't pay his bill or anything, not a bad free 10~ beers + food). The assistant manager was quick to call the cops during the situation, I'm quickly trying to survey the damage, one stool had a broken leg, and there was a pushed over table and a couple other stools that were fallen over. On the bar end, nearly $100 worth of alcohol spilled.
Two cop cars show up, three cops come in. Bartenders point towards the table, the cops begin conversation with them, and I'll just mainly paraphrase this part. The guys get pissed off and start swearing at us for calling the cops, the power-hungry cops are threatening to Taser the guys, in the end, two of them get handcuffed, the other 3 just follow them outside. Before that however, the cops literally forced them to pay for their tabs, to pay for the broken bottles, and the other kid's bill. I never got my $40 back, and the stool we will have to nail back together, but besides that, just a day on the job.
I really like the job, it's fast-paced, and you really do get money for what you're doing. You are just expected to break up these situations, pretty much a qualification to work there, is to be able to neutralize any strength man while he is drunk, usually talking will help, the servers are pretty good with that, sometimes some physical violence is required so they don't pose a danger to other customers. Usually if people are in groups they can deal with them, so it tends to be always one lone person gets really mad. This is a one every two weeks occurrence or so, this is one of the more interesting ones, but people will be people. Hope you guys enjoyed the read (:
Might write some stories that are a little less typical and maybe more embarrassing in the bar scene if there is demand! (getting knocked out by 50y/o blonde with a wine bottle? S;)
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On January 26 2013 03:08 FiWiFaKi wrote:+ Show Spoiler +
I'm an Engg student at university, and I'm also a Kitchen Manager at my local bar. It's a bar, so it seems like lots of stuff would happen, but besides bar fights and out-of-control drunk people, usually not too much. Yesterday I had a little hero situation happen to me at work, so I thought I'd share.
Now from the people who come in, it's 80-90% guys, naturally the owner wants all the servers are bartenders to be girls, anyways. It was a pretty slow thursday for Karaoke night, I went from the kitchen to the front of house, to fill up my cup with iced tea. There I am, just having small talk with a couple regulars sitting at the bar, and all of the sudden a stool swishes maybe a meter from my head, and right onto the counter behind the bar, knocking over a couple bottles in the process.
I look up, and see a tall, maybe 6'2" enraged man, and a younger lad, likely no older than 22, leaning against the VLT machines, and I make the connection that the tall man threw the stool, probably at the other guy. Not even a second later, the older man slowly approaches the kid, and the 4 men sitting at the table behind them stand up. As I see him loading up his first strike, I begin to sprint as quickly to this situation to break it up, my heart is already racing, I hear background noise. "Take that out of my bar! You are not welcome here".
He grabs the kid by the shirt and throws a few quick punches and the kid drops. He begins yelling shit at him, calling him a "fuckin' twad", and always using some sort of derivative of that insult. The kid is just trying to cover himself. He starts kicking him, and to my dismay, the four other men, that I just was not concerned about at all, join in on the fray. The kid gets maybe 10 kicks to the stomach, head, whatever, they are continuing too. I finally get there, I'm an average sized guy, 5'10" and 180lb, decently built. this guy seems huge, either way, with the momentum of my run I give him the biggest push I can, and the others who are half watching and half-kicking I yell at "Fucking sit down if you don't want to spend the night in jail".
Then, ughhh, a get a pretty shark hook to my kidney from the tall older guy who got his footing back. I clench my teeth, and yell at him, "What the fuck are you doing?" "What the FUCK are YOU doing, man?!" "Like seriously, WHY the FUCK did you do that?!"... I just kept repeating that (anyone working at a bar, effective strategy), the guy seems a little calmer, maybe thinking a bit, I dunno, but gives me a push on the shoulders anyways as I take a couple steps back to regain my balance, "little shit snorted my blow". Instinctively I just reply, "How much?!" he mumbles something, I ask again, "How much coke?". "He replies, "This kid is getting fucked, I don't give a shit that it was only a few". I reply, "Okay, so like $40 man? Seriously man, I'm trying to help you, this isn't worth it, I'll give you the money and just please leave the guy alone, we will get his sorry ass out of here, and you can enjoy the rest of the night". I take out my wallet, hand the man 2 20's, and quickly the noise clears.
My heart stops racing, the spectators head back to their seats; some leave, some clap. The young guy, he doesn't need another signal to get out of there, he scurries a long (didn't pay his bill or anything, not a bad free 10~ beers + food). The assistant manager was quick to call the cops during the situation, I'm quickly trying to survey the damage, one stool had a broken leg, and there was a pushed over table and a couple other stools that were fallen over. On the bar end, nearly $100 worth of alcohol spilled.
Two cop cars show up, three cops come in. Bartenders point towards the table, the cops begin conversation with them, and I'll just mainly paraphrase this part. The guys get pissed off and start swearing at us for calling the cops, the power-hungry cops are threatening to Taser the guys, in the end, two of them get handcuffed, the other 3 just follow them outside. Before that however, the cops literally forced them to pay for their tabs, to pay for the broken bottles, and the other kid's bill. I never got my $40 back, and the stool we will have to nail back together, but besides that, just a day on the job.
I really like the job, it's fast-paced, and you really do get money for what you're doing. You are just expected to break up these situations, pretty much a qualification to work there, is to be able to neutralize any strength man while he is drunk, usually talking will help, the servers are pretty good with that, sometimes some physical violence is required so they don't pose a danger to other customers. Usually if people are in groups they can deal with them, so it tends to be always one lone person gets really mad. This is a one every two weeks occurrence or so, this is one of the more interesting ones, but people will be people. Hope you guys enjoyed the read (:
Might write some stories that are a little less typical and maybe more embarrassing in the bar scene if there is demand! (getting knocked out by 50y/o blonde with a wine bottle? S;)
Great story - interesting read! You got balls to step in when there's that many of them.
Might write some stories that are a little less typical and maybe more embarrassing in the bar scene if there is demand! (getting knocked out by 50y/o blonde with a wine bottle? S;)
YES PLEASE
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On January 25 2013 22:42 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 15:00 sam!zdat wrote:
Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit. No. Haven't you ever heard of "The customer is always right?" While it sucks, it's often times a necessary philosophy to retain business. And the business is bigger than you getting your feelings hurt, Mr. Employee #384744, so suck it up and ignore their stupidity for the whole sixty seconds that you'll interact with them.
That's a philosophy for employers. I don't feel that employees are in solidarity with employers, so I don't care about this. It's not my job to make the business go well, it's my job to keep my job while expending as little effort and sanity as possible. My boss can go around thinking "the customer is always right" as much as she wants, that's her problem.
And also, maybe some of them are acting like shit because you're treating them like shit
No. I treat them like normal people to start out with. I'm a very polite person, and I don't even talk to them about philosophy. But if they act like shit I'm not going to kiss their ass.
Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 15:13 sam!zdat wrote:
I think it's your job to avoid getting fired. Whatever subtle abuse you can heap on well-deserving customers while accomplishing this aim is fair game. gotta steal back those crumbs of jouissance wherever you can. Sure, that's a practical reason, but your job is also to do your job, and that also includes keeping the client happy by doing your job competently, often times with a smile (or fake smile) on your face. Every job has customers who are pains in the asses, but you tend to put up with them because it makes your boss happy, and/ or you get a paycheck, and/ or you like your job, etc. You don't take out your anger on a customer; that's just showing that you don't know how to handle situations properly as an employee.
I don't agree that my job is to do my job. It's your boss's job to try to get you to do your job, and its your job to try to avoid doing your job while keeping your job.
edit: my point is not that you should treat people badly. My point is that working in the service industry doesn't mean you temporarily suspend your person-hood. If my boss wanted me to be a "professional," she could pay me like a professional.
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On January 26 2013 03:56 sam!zdat wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 22:42 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On January 25 2013 15:00 sam!zdat wrote:
Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit. No. Haven't you ever heard of "The customer is always right?" While it sucks, it's often times a necessary philosophy to retain business. And the business is bigger than you getting your feelings hurt, Mr. Employee #384744, so suck it up and ignore their stupidity for the whole sixty seconds that you'll interact with them. That's a philosophy for employers. I don't feel that employees are in solidarity with employers, so I don't care about this. It's not my job to make the business go well, it's my job to keep my job while expending as little effort and sanity as possible. My boss can go around thinking "the customer is always right" as much as she wants, that's her problem. Show nested quote +And also, maybe some of them are acting like shit because you're treating them like shit No. I treat them like normal people to start out with. I'm a very polite person, and I don't even talk to them about philosophy. But if they act like shit I'm not going to kiss their ass. Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 15:13 sam!zdat wrote:
I think it's your job to avoid getting fired. Whatever subtle abuse you can heap on well-deserving customers while accomplishing this aim is fair game. gotta steal back those crumbs of jouissance wherever you can. Sure, that's a practical reason, but your job is also to do your job, and that also includes keeping the client happy by doing your job competently, often times with a smile (or fake smile) on your face. Every job has customers who are pains in the asses, but you tend to put up with them because it makes your boss happy, and/ or you get a paycheck, and/ or you like your job, etc. You don't take out your anger on a customer; that's just showing that you don't know how to handle situations properly as an employee. I don't agree that my job is to do my job. It's your boss's job to try to get you to do your job, and its your job to try to avoid doing your job while keeping your job.
This is a terrible attitude to work and life in general. I hope you realize your career has been severely castrated by this attitude and that your chances of promotion or moving on to better things are slim to none.
I used experience at a Korean food court stall to land an IT job with a major tourism and resorts corporation. Totally unrelated experience, but I had the references and the stories from the previous job to convince my manager-to-be that I was the best damn kimchi cutter at that store, so I would strive my best to be the best damn IT guy at his company.
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On January 25 2013 15:13 sam!zdat wrote:
I think it's your job to avoid getting fired. Whatever subtle abuse you can heap on well-deserving customers while accomplishing this aim is fair game. gotta steal back those crumbs of jouissance wherever you can.
Of course, if you're satisfied with what you have, then you can get by simply doing the minimum not to get fired. But I didn't want to cut kimchi, fry potatoes and mix 'slaw for the rest of my life, so I worked harder. Just sayin', there are reasons to work hard other than your monthly paycheck. Think about next year's paycheck, or your paycheck 5 years from now. In 2006 I was making $6.50 an hour (Asian places don't exactly respect minimum wage). Needless to say, I make way more now and am looking to make even more later.
EDIT: OK he ninja deleted his post - will edit if he reposts.
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I was an undergrad Research Assistant, and the only one under a professor and we were discussing how to approach a problem and he mentions method A while I was asking why not we use method B. He said no and gave me some reasons. I argued for a while but eventually gave in.
A week later, I came back and told him that it didn't work out. So he asks me how did I do it and I explained method A to him. He proceeds to look at me with a smirk on his face asking: "Why did you use Method B? Of course Method A won't work!"
He's a really nice guy and enjoyable person to work with so I didn't get pissed like I normally would.
1 year later I was working with a different professor and we had to detect moving things in a video. The first video was under normal lighting conditions while then 2nd one was under different light and it was really hard to see the fish with the naked eye. He and his colleague were talking about how hard the 2nd one would be and he told me to leave the 2nd one aside. For 2 months I worked on the first video and everytime I show my non-perfect results he tells me how the 2nd one would be much harder, and we should leave it for another time and concentrate on a simple one first.
After 2 months I got sick and he got sick and we didn't meet for 1-2 weeks. When I got back, he asks me about progress and I told him I'm a bit behind because my HDD bricked and I spent a lot of time recovering it.
He proceeds question me on why haven't I started analysing the 2nd video and tells me about how I'm behind on my work
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On January 26 2013 01:46 NIIINO wrote:being nice to your customers open more doors than you think. I work at the gameshop and people have a lot of small troubles with their videogames machines. We dont provide any service but hey there is no GSL at the moment so why dont help them ? I always say its free but I think it makes them give me even more money. I get 5euros to instal sims 3, 20e for Windows. Once I helped to build PC (Thank you kind ppl in tech section of TL) I got like 50e for that! I get a lot of alcohol too, too bad i dont drink, at least my co-workers are happy. When you dont get any tips and make 2,5e for a hour of work its really nice to be able to say that you are proud of what you do.) So here are a few stories: 1, Our shop is located next to this big electro where guys love to troll their customers. For instance 60-70 old man and probably his grandchild came in and asked for DVD games, We knew something was going on so we asked him some questions and it turned out that he bought DVD player and they told him that it can play games too. they were so sad 2, 25-29years old male with his GF came in and said: We just bought PS3 and Kinect and we are looking for some party game that can be played on it. And yes they had PS3 + Kinect sensor in the bag 3, Every day I get someone asking me how much for cracking his x360, cant blame them, games are expensive (btw We dont do that) 4, The only thing I hate about this job is when I talk to the customers for like 20minutes explaining x360vsPs3vsNintendo and I say how much it cost to them and they say they will buy it in the electro across the street and come here for some games. I can give them disscount for games but its still like 15e difference for 2min of walk so cant blame them 5, I SELL SS, ROCCAT, AND RAZER GEAR, everytime I sell one It makes me so happy. 6, We have anime section so its ok to see 12-16 years old girls sitting on the floor for 3hours not moving just reading. 7, Kids pee and vomit from time to time, yet no poop 8, I have super nice co-workers and boss, so when this cute girl with crazy badass tattoos and her GF came in to ask if we knew someone that can help them set up ps3 I could go and take extra controler with me (this happened at 17:00, we close at 21:00 so my co-worker had to work alone for 4 hours + I dont have ps3, had no idea what I was doing) 9, Horror story: No Pre-paid cards for WoW in entire Bratislava for like a week, some ppl were ok with that but mostly they were ok with going 70km to the next city. 10, There is this one guy who wants to sue us because his x360 can not play his downloaded fable3, I dont take shit like this seriously but when I saw that he is Phd and has like 20pages of text it was the 1st time I had no idea how can someone put so much time into the prank. LOL ! 11, We used to let kids play ps3 in the shop, after 2 days kids used to come there and play after the school after a week they camped there and waited for us to open, We knew something was wrong but had no idea how much until parents used to pick up their kids after work at 21:00. 12, There are a few funny theif stories but that would take so much time and I have some work here so maybe later. haha !
Hahahahaahahaha I love this thread!
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On January 25 2013 22:42 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 15:00 sam!zdat wrote:
Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit. No. Haven't you ever heard of "The customer is always right?" While it sucks, it's often times a necessary philosophy to retain business. And the business is bigger than you getting your feelings hurt, Mr. Employee #384744, so suck it up and ignore their stupidity for the whole sixty seconds that you'll interact with them. And also, maybe some of them are acting like shit because you're treating them like shit Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 15:13 sam!zdat wrote:
I think it's your job to avoid getting fired. Whatever subtle abuse you can heap on well-deserving customers while accomplishing this aim is fair game. gotta steal back those crumbs of jouissance wherever you can. Sure, that's a practical reason, but your job is also to do your job, and that also includes keeping the client happy by doing your job competently, often times with a smile (or fake smile) on your face. Every job has customers who are pains in the asses, but you tend to put up with them because it makes your boss happy, and/ or you get a paycheck, and/ or you like your job, etc. You don't take out your anger on a customer; that's just showing that you don't know how to handle situations properly as an employee.
I dunno about that. My brother-in-law is a regional manager of a phone store in the UK and he routinely follows this philosophy, regularly get pulled up on customer complaints yet regularly gets awarded bonuses for smashing targets.
I think the 'don't-get-fired-treat-customers-like-shit' approach pretty much defines the philosophy behind the capitalist mode of production!
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On January 26 2013 02:43 c0ldfusion wrote:
I thought everyone on TL had baller jobs like engineers at star companies or semi-pro poker players.
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On January 26 2013 04:04 farseerdk wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2013 03:56 sam!zdat wrote:On January 25 2013 22:42 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On January 25 2013 15:00 sam!zdat wrote:
Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit. No. Haven't you ever heard of "The customer is always right?" While it sucks, it's often times a necessary philosophy to retain business. And the business is bigger than you getting your feelings hurt, Mr. Employee #384744, so suck it up and ignore their stupidity for the whole sixty seconds that you'll interact with them. That's a philosophy for employers. I don't feel that employees are in solidarity with employers, so I don't care about this. It's not my job to make the business go well, it's my job to keep my job while expending as little effort and sanity as possible. My boss can go around thinking "the customer is always right" as much as she wants, that's her problem. And also, maybe some of them are acting like shit because you're treating them like shit No. I treat them like normal people to start out with. I'm a very polite person, and I don't even talk to them about philosophy. But if they act like shit I'm not going to kiss their ass. On January 25 2013 15:13 sam!zdat wrote:
I think it's your job to avoid getting fired. Whatever subtle abuse you can heap on well-deserving customers while accomplishing this aim is fair game. gotta steal back those crumbs of jouissance wherever you can. Sure, that's a practical reason, but your job is also to do your job, and that also includes keeping the client happy by doing your job competently, often times with a smile (or fake smile) on your face. Every job has customers who are pains in the asses, but you tend to put up with them because it makes your boss happy, and/ or you get a paycheck, and/ or you like your job, etc. You don't take out your anger on a customer; that's just showing that you don't know how to handle situations properly as an employee. I don't agree that my job is to do my job. It's your boss's job to try to get you to do your job, and its your job to try to avoid doing your job while keeping your job. This is a terrible attitude to work and life in general. I hope you realize your career has been severely castrated by this attitude and that your chances of promotion or moving on to better things are slim to none.
It's not a career, it's a service job.
On January 26 2013 04:36 Deleuze wrote:I think the 'don't-get-fired-treat-customers-like-shit' approach pretty much defines the philosophy behind the capitalist mode of production!
word yo, I say call a spade a spade
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i am currently enlisted in the army. we were doing some field training last week and after a long day we finally got back to the barracks we were staying in, and everyone started to get ready to go to bed. my team leader was looking at pictures taken that day on his camera, when he said to me "hey come look at this, it's the funniest thing i've ever seen." so i walk over to him and he proceeds to show me a picture of his dick on the camera. he then did the same thing to like 3 other people. kinda gross but still funny to see other people's reactions.
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On January 26 2013 03:56 sam!zdat wrote:
If my boss wanted me to be a "professional," she could pay me like a professional.
That's exactly what you're getting now, you just don't think it's worth your time.
I'm from a country without minimum wages.
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On January 26 2013 04:59 Dfgj wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2013 03:56 sam!zdat wrote:
If my boss wanted me to be a "professional," she could pay me like a professional. That's exactly what you're getting now, you just don't think it's worth your time.
Well it's definitely not worth MY time, because I'm "slumming it." But I don't think it's worth any of my co-workers' time, either.
I'm from a country without minimum wages.
What a miserable thought.
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Okay guys, I hate to just like, back-seat mod. But I seriously want this thread to workout, I'm enjoying reading the stories, and this thread doesn't need to be filled with crap nobody cares about. So if this discussion is that important to you, can you please take it to PM? I don't, and nobody else cares about how:
"If my boss wanted me to be a "professional," she could pay me like a professional."
"This is a terrible attitude to work and life in general. I hope you realize your career has been severely castrated by this attitude and that your chances of promotion or moving on to better things are slim to none. "
"No. I treat them like normal people to start out with. I'm a very polite person, and I don't even talk to them about philosophy. But if they act like shit I'm not going to kiss their ass."
"I don't agree that my job is to do my job. It's your boss's job to try to get you to do your job, and its your job to try to avoid doing your job while keeping your job."
I really don't want to see a good thread closed. Thank you, please keep the stories coming guys. (:
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Thief story time: 1st I want to say that we as workers cost our shop money too by being simply stupid. Sometimes we dont get emails to change value on games because some special deal just ended. this is still OK but when We threw some things away because we tought it was trash thats really bad.
2nd thing is that We have the BEST customers ever, they are nice and everything, THEY dont steal, who steals shit is not our customer just a thief who goes by.
-There are blind spots in our shop, places where we dont see our customers every move while we are behind the desk. But we have cameras so we thought it was ok. well we were wrong. Lets call this guy Magician. When we watched the video we couldnt believe this. He opened locked glass door (purport?) with new games. He did it with one hand, (I need 2hands to open it and it takes me around 10sec to do so because the lock is fucked up) So he used one hand to take 8 games and put it into his tesco bag after 2min he came back for another 8 games. Magician with some balls
-We dont have free space for wrapped goods so when goods come in we have to unpack them on the table. It would be ok but this time we were really close to loosing 2x PsP and some games. It was a chill day so we were talking a lot and joking with customers but some youngsters saw their opportunity to get rich. took the goods and walked away. the things they took were prepared for loading onto shelves so they already had the things that make sound when you get out of the shop in them. Kids were 12 and 13 so we called their parents and asked them to pick them up. it was 20:00 so we didnt want to sent them home alone. no police.
-Every month we have to count gift cards / vouchers its simple and it takes 20minutes and there is no way this can go wrong when there are 2 of us. so while my co-worker is counting I talk to people. From time to time gypsies come here to sell knifes, food, watches or parfumes, (its probably stolen or broken and yes they sell food too chicken mostly) so I say: no thanks and this woman goes away but there are still 4 of her kids (14-16yo) so I paused stream of dota and watched them as they were running around, told them to stop and they did, and as they were leaving 2 of them took some vouchers and tried to run away, the 1st kid was caught by customer that just came in and I caught the 2nd one after 10meters of run because he couldnt open the 2nd door from the shopping place fast enought. Coworker called police. 1st I was like nah just let them go but now I think it was right decision, maybe if they take them from their parents and teach them something we can have a new John Blake.
-We have huge box full of angry birds located next to our doors, they are 5-25cm big so when parents and their lets say 4yo kids enter and just want to look I dont pay much of attention but it happens more than often that they accidently leave with one or two angry birds. Fathers are usually really ashamed and give us money for them even they dont want to buy them. ofc they dont take a reciept so every week we ask our boss if we can buy some angry birds with extra disscount.
-This guy wanted to buy ps3 / x360 and some games for everything he looked like he doesnt care about money and took everything we said is at least playable. (Selling this easy is not hard a week before xmas) so nothing was wierd until he gave signiture credit card still ok but you know its like 900e (thats what i make in 2 months) So I ask for ID, everything was OK, date, signiture, name, photo so we sold it. 2 weeks later police and bank guys came in and said that the cradit card was stolen and they need money, boss gave them video where you could see me asking for ID and stuff so we could keep our 900e ! 1st time I saw fake ID.
This is not really thief story but I think its cool. 6 months ago our cameras went off because we change PCs with programs so cameras are useless now, so my boss decided that he will use his webcam. It took him 2h to set it up and in the end it worked more like spy camera for pranks. After 1month we forget about it, until customer asked for webcam, well we sell these useless speedlink crap so we gave him our spy camera. it was shit too but little bit better, he didnt care so he took it for 20e. after 2 months boss found out that his camera is missing so we end up paying him 10e, everybody was happy :D
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lawyer. daily life is boring, so some war stories.....
in a personal injury trial, the plaintiff was a 19 year old. he was a liar and stupid. little background: personal injury lawsuit; he was riding a motocross bike on a motocross track after everyone had been waved off the track; he t-boned a water truck that was watering the track; serious injuries, including rods in both femurs (actually inside the bone....), brain injury (how he could get stupider, i dont know), etc.
before trial, i went on his myspace account and downloaded all of his posts and pictures. said pictures included pictures of him kissing multiple girls despite alleging no sex drive and pictures with a giant dildo hanging out of his pants (horse costume). judge was not amused. best of all, despite claiming he couldn't return to motocross and despite claims of intense pain, found multiple pictures of him riding motocross during a time period he said he was physically unable. also, posts showed post-injury accidents that he denied under oath, including serious back injury that he lied about to his doctors. etc. etc. etc.
so, cross-examination day (when we get to ask the plaintiff questions). ask plaintiff question, plaintiff lies, i pull out exhibit, plaintiff looks like liar, haha. repeat this pattern. eventually, plaintiff gets smart and stops lying. new pattern: ask plaintiff question, plaintiff looks at me, i reach for document, plaintiff answers truthfully. i eventually ran out of impeachment evidence (pictures/posts/etc. showing that he was lying), but he didn't know that. so, asked plaintiff question, plaintiff looks at me, i reach down to grab a non-existent document, plaintiff answers truthfully. lol.
after the day of cross-examination, he went home and shut down his myspace account almost immediately (his lawyers were pissed). but before he did so, he wrote to his gf about how he had just got reamed on the stand. she was offering him sex to console him (stupid gf for a stupid bf). lol
oh, and the judge was a bastard. my boss was asking questions and trying to read the posts on myspace, but the kid writes like a degenerate. after considerable trouble by my boss, the judge interrupts him and says "why dont you have your young associate read them instead" like i could read what this retarded kid was writing.....ageist.....
we won the trial. court found that kid was a liar and our client did nothing wrong. was a hilarious case.
look at this moron:
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During the summer I work in a shop that makes high-end croquet equipment and accessories (croquetstore.com, we're a big deal in the tournament croquet world lol) The work itself is boring and repetitive, but I really like the environment in the shop. Everyone is super chill and we get paid slightly above minimum wage. Since my boss handles a lot of the phone orders and paperwork, us employees are usually left to our own devices.
One of the other guys that works there is a lot older than us (we're students, he's like 30 something), and we like to fuck with him because he's a big goof. We have these huge bags of packing peanuts because we do a lot of shipping, so one day we filled this dudes locker with them.
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That's the only one I can think of at the moment, most of our work jokes aren't funny unless you were actually there haha
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On January 26 2013 03:56 sam!zdat wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 22:42 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On January 25 2013 15:00 sam!zdat wrote:
Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit. No. Haven't you ever heard of "The customer is always right?" While it sucks, it's often times a necessary philosophy to retain business. And the business is bigger than you getting your feelings hurt, Mr. Employee #384744, so suck it up and ignore their stupidity for the whole sixty seconds that you'll interact with them. That's a philosophy for employers. I don't feel that employees are in solidarity with employers, so I don't care about this. It's not my job to make the business go well, it's my job to keep my job while expending as little effort and sanity as possible. My boss can go around thinking "the customer is always right" as much as she wants, that's her problem. Show nested quote +And also, maybe some of them are acting like shit because you're treating them like shit No. I treat them like normal people to start out with. I'm a very polite person, and I don't even talk to them about philosophy. But if they act like shit I'm not going to kiss their ass. Show nested quote +On January 25 2013 15:13 sam!zdat wrote:
I think it's your job to avoid getting fired. Whatever subtle abuse you can heap on well-deserving customers while accomplishing this aim is fair game. gotta steal back those crumbs of jouissance wherever you can. Sure, that's a practical reason, but your job is also to do your job, and that also includes keeping the client happy by doing your job competently, often times with a smile (or fake smile) on your face. Every job has customers who are pains in the asses, but you tend to put up with them because it makes your boss happy, and/ or you get a paycheck, and/ or you like your job, etc. You don't take out your anger on a customer; that's just showing that you don't know how to handle situations properly as an employee. I don't agree that my job is to do my job. It's your boss's job to try to get you to do your job, and its your job to try to avoid doing your job while keeping your job. edit: my point is not that you should treat people badly. My point is that working in the service industry doesn't mean you temporarily suspend your person-hood. If my boss wanted me to be a "professional," she could pay me like a professional.
You're like the perfect example of the classic "If you want to get a high paying position in the company don't act like this guy".
So much so its kinda sickening.
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Not my personal work, but an encounter I had with someone who was working that left me speechless.
I'm a huge baseball fan. HUGE baseball fan. Of a small market team. So of course, I hate the Yankees who poach our players. I had a white T-shirt made up years ago that simply said in black lettering "I hate the Yankees." Simple, right? Maybe not.
Two years ago, it was playoff season and Yankees were playing the Twins. I wore this shirt to class and got the usual agreement and/or high fives from strangers on the street. I had to send a package at the post office that day, so I went a few blocks down to drop it off. I went and greeted the lady behind the counter working. After explaining what I needed, she looked at me for a few seconds, clearly looking at the shirt. She then looks up at me and says "They should make shirts like that, but say 'I hate Muslims' instead."
I didn't know what to say. My jaw dropped and I just looked over at her co-worker who seemed completely unphased by it, but was clearly aware of how racist that was. I just looked back and forth between these two ladies, before the second lady just shrugged as if to say "what am I supposed to do about it" and went in back. I didn't say another word to the lady and left.
Who says shit like that?
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On January 26 2013 05:13 arb wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2013 03:56 sam!zdat wrote:On January 25 2013 22:42 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On January 25 2013 15:00 sam!zdat wrote:
Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit. No. Haven't you ever heard of "The customer is always right?" While it sucks, it's often times a necessary philosophy to retain business. And the business is bigger than you getting your feelings hurt, Mr. Employee #384744, so suck it up and ignore their stupidity for the whole sixty seconds that you'll interact with them. That's a philosophy for employers. I don't feel that employees are in solidarity with employers, so I don't care about this. It's not my job to make the business go well, it's my job to keep my job while expending as little effort and sanity as possible. My boss can go around thinking "the customer is always right" as much as she wants, that's her problem. And also, maybe some of them are acting like shit because you're treating them like shit No. I treat them like normal people to start out with. I'm a very polite person, and I don't even talk to them about philosophy. But if they act like shit I'm not going to kiss their ass. On January 25 2013 15:13 sam!zdat wrote:
I think it's your job to avoid getting fired. Whatever subtle abuse you can heap on well-deserving customers while accomplishing this aim is fair game. gotta steal back those crumbs of jouissance wherever you can. Sure, that's a practical reason, but your job is also to do your job, and that also includes keeping the client happy by doing your job competently, often times with a smile (or fake smile) on your face. Every job has customers who are pains in the asses, but you tend to put up with them because it makes your boss happy, and/ or you get a paycheck, and/ or you like your job, etc. You don't take out your anger on a customer; that's just showing that you don't know how to handle situations properly as an employee. I don't agree that my job is to do my job. It's your boss's job to try to get you to do your job, and its your job to try to avoid doing your job while keeping your job. edit: my point is not that you should treat people badly. My point is that working in the service industry doesn't mean you temporarily suspend your person-hood. If my boss wanted me to be a "professional," she could pay me like a professional. You're like the perfect example of the classic "If you want to get a high paying position in the company don't act like this guy". So much so its kinda sickening.
I work in an exploitative job for a large corporation with no hope of advancement or even a raise.
edit: I still work there only because I'm the most competent employee they've ever had, and they're happy to have me so I can make my own hours. Other people's situations are of course different, and the arrangement works out for my current needs in life.
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On January 26 2013 05:11 NIIINO wrote:
-There are blind spots in our shop, places where we dont see our customers every move while we are behind the desk. But we have cameras so we thought it was ok. well we were wrong. Lets call this guy Magician. When we watched the video we couldnt believe this. He opened locked glass door (purport?) with new games. He did it with one hand, (I need 2hands to open it and it takes me around 10sec to do so because the lock is fucked up) So he used one hand to take 8 games and put it into his tesco bag after 2min he came back for another 8 games. Magician with some balls
-We have huge box full of angry birds located next to our doors, they are 5-25cm big so when parents and their lets say 4yo kids enter and just want to look I dont pay much of attention but it happens more than often that they accidently leave with one or two angry birds. Fathers are usually really ashamed and give us money for them even they dont want to buy them. ofc they dont take a reciept so every week we ask our boss if we can buy some angry birds with extra disscount.
This is not really thief story but I think its cool. 6 months ago our cameras went off because we change PCs with programs so cameras are useless now, so my boss decided that he will use his webcam. It took him 2h to set it up and in the end it worked more like spy camera for pranks. After 1month we forget about it, until customer asked for webcam, well we sell these useless speedlink crap so we gave him our spy camera. it was shit too but little bit better, he didnt care so he took it for 20e. after 2 months boss found out that his camera is missing so we end up paying him 10e, everybody was happy :D
ahahahhahahah that's actually really smart and sly
And lol at the name "magician", sounds funny because of the translation.
On January 26 2013 05:11 dAPhREAk wrote:
before trial, i went on his myspace account and downloaded all of his posts and pictures. said pictures included pictures of him kissing multiple girls despite alleging no sex drive and pictures with a giant dildo hanging out of his pants (horse costume). judge was not amused. best of all, despite claiming he couldn't return to motocross and despite claims of intense pain, found multiple pictures of him riding motocross during a time period he said he was physically unable. also, posts showed post-injury accidents that he denied under oath, including serious back injury that he lied about to his doctors. etc. etc. etc.
so, cross-examination day (when we get to ask the plaintiff questions). ask plaintiff question, plaintiff lies, i pull out exhibit, plaintiff looks like liar, haha. repeat this pattern. eventually, plaintiff gets smart and stops lying. new pattern: ask plaintiff question, plaintiff looks at me, i reach for document, plaintiff answers truthfully. i eventually ran out of impeachment evidence (pictures/posts/etc. showing that he was lying), but he didn't know that. so, asked plaintiff question, plaintiff looks at me, i reach down to grab a non-existent document, plaintiff answers truthfully. lol.
hahaha that's a smart bluff :D
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On January 26 2013 05:15 sam!zdat wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2013 05:13 arb wrote:On January 26 2013 03:56 sam!zdat wrote:On January 25 2013 22:42 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On January 25 2013 15:00 sam!zdat wrote:
Customers generally deserve to be treated like shit because they act like shit. No. Haven't you ever heard of "The customer is always right?" While it sucks, it's often times a necessary philosophy to retain business. And the business is bigger than you getting your feelings hurt, Mr. Employee #384744, so suck it up and ignore their stupidity for the whole sixty seconds that you'll interact with them. That's a philosophy for employers. I don't feel that employees are in solidarity with employers, so I don't care about this. It's not my job to make the business go well, it's my job to keep my job while expending as little effort and sanity as possible. My boss can go around thinking "the customer is always right" as much as she wants, that's her problem. And also, maybe some of them are acting like shit because you're treating them like shit No. I treat them like normal people to start out with. I'm a very polite person, and I don't even talk to them about philosophy. But if they act like shit I'm not going to kiss their ass. On January 25 2013 15:13 sam!zdat wrote:
I think it's your job to avoid getting fired. Whatever subtle abuse you can heap on well-deserving customers while accomplishing this aim is fair game. gotta steal back those crumbs of jouissance wherever you can. Sure, that's a practical reason, but your job is also to do your job, and that also includes keeping the client happy by doing your job competently, often times with a smile (or fake smile) on your face. Every job has customers who are pains in the asses, but you tend to put up with them because it makes your boss happy, and/ or you get a paycheck, and/ or you like your job, etc. You don't take out your anger on a customer; that's just showing that you don't know how to handle situations properly as an employee. I don't agree that my job is to do my job. It's your boss's job to try to get you to do your job, and its your job to try to avoid doing your job while keeping your job. edit: my point is not that you should treat people badly. My point is that working in the service industry doesn't mean you temporarily suspend your person-hood. If my boss wanted me to be a "professional," she could pay me like a professional. You're like the perfect example of the classic "If you want to get a high paying position in the company don't act like this guy". So much so its kinda sickening. I work in an exploitative job for a large corporation with no hope of advancement or even a raise. edit: I still work there only because I'm the most competent employee they've ever had, and they're happy to have me so I can make my own hours. Other people's situations are of course different, and the arrangement works out for my current needs in life.
Maybe you have a shitty job... because you have a shitty work ethic?
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of course not. "work ethic" is a bourgeois notion. What an absurd idea. How can one even put those two words together? Work is not ethics.
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On January 26 2013 13:32 sam!zdat wrote:
of course not. "work ethic" is a bourgeois notion. What an absurd idea. How can one even put those two words together? Work is not ethics.
You do the minimum amount of work so you get the minimum that they can pay you... You can try to act like your fighting for the proletariat all you want but to every who works you just sound lazy.
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On January 26 2013 13:32 sam!zdat wrote:
of course not. "work ethic" is a bourgeois notion. What an absurd idea. How can one even put those two words together? Work is not ethics.
People like you make me lose faith in humanity
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On January 26 2013 13:32 sam!zdat wrote:
of course not. "work ethic" is a bourgeois notion. What an absurd idea. How can one even put those two words together? Work is not ethics.
IMHO Work Ethic is a term regarding how to behave at a work envyroment, being loyal, friendly, usefull, efficient, clean and always do a bit more than what is asked of you.
We are not robots, we dont need someone doing constant input of orders to know what to do, I know sometimes going the extra mile isnt worth it or even advisable, but in the great majority of cases, its what gonna make people appreciate you, and give you good references even if you quit the job later on.
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On January 26 2013 13:32 sam!zdat wrote:
of course not. "work ethic" is a bourgeois notion. What an absurd idea. How can one even put those two words together? Work is not ethics.
Entitlement is a serious problem in the mind's of many people in the workforce today. I totally understand that the job you may be working is not your career and you have no chance or desire to move up on your employment ladder.
However, I've always tried to learn as much as I can no matter what job I am working(I have worked as a loader in a warehouse[both dry Grocery and Deli/Frozen] and just about every type of job in a grocery store) to learn as much as I can.
I joined the grocery store business just to make some money and use some of my spare time; I found that I did not like my job that much and dreaded it. After a while something just clicked in my head and my whole mindset changed; I decided to do the best job that I could and learn as much absolutely possible. Eventually I would be promoted several times and I kept that mindset, I'm near the top of my store now and for a while I had decided I loved the business so much it was going to be my career. Recently that has changed because I simply want to do other things with my life.
Yet I find that before I leave my store that I will do as much as I can to ensure a smooth transition from my departure; I've always been put in charge of training many new employees(mainly box boys and clerks) so I definitely try to instill that knowledge and mindset into them as well.
A few personal anecdotes of mine: there are many customers who like their groceries bagged in the most absurd ways and are quite rude about it. One particular gentleman is very intimidating and outspoken; every time he came up to the register the box boys would scatter in fear. I always stepped up to the plate(sure I screwed up, but I eventually mastered the technique that he preferred) and now years later we get along great. Diffusing situations with rude customers is very easy, it's called taking the high road and venting to someone else later, not treating someone with disrespect because they abused you.
There's no dishonor in working hard at whatever it is you're doing, whether it's bagging groceries, scrubbing crap off a toilet, or building a rocket to go to the moon. In my opinion anyway...
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my boss and coworkers like me and I'm a good employee...
I'm just being honest about the nature of our relationship. And the original point was that you shouldn't take crap from customers.
edit: and I really don't believe in the work ethic.
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On January 26 2013 16:10 arb wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2013 13:32 sam!zdat wrote:
of course not. "work ethic" is a bourgeois notion. What an absurd idea. How can one even put those two words together? Work is not ethics. People like you make me lose faith in humanity
This could be a good thing, depending on your notion of "faith." What do you mean?
edit: the point is, I don't need this job - I'm doing it for more complicated reasons. But other people *do* need jobs like this, and I find the way that they are treated by the economic system to be abhorrent. And part of it has to do with instilling in them this notion that they owe some moral debt to their employers. bs.
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Why is this moved to blogs? My intention here is to have a thread where people who work could share and have a laugh at stuff about work...
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