People Who Quit Their Jobs On The First Day, What Was Your “I’m Outta Here” Moment? (r/AskReddit)
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“He told me to dig the hole with my bare hands and drove off to another site leaving me completely alone.”
Would’ve liked to see him get fired
I'm surprised he even started doing it. I would've started walking away before he did
@@GyeongmiBaeb as soon as he turned around or i realized i was the only person there, i would’ve walked to the car and told him to take me back
I would've dug a hole 10 foot away and piled all the dirt where he wanted me to dig. Then left.
@@jameson2916 dang you have strong hands
@@garbage_goat8386 I've been working long enough to know yu can always find something to dig with. I've dug trenches in pure caked gravel with a pair of channellocks
The whole "low hourly wages because of tips" is such an alien concept to me. Just pay your employees!
It's an excuse to treat staff as slaves
Im quite sure its due to taxes.
@@Indoor_Carrot tf you mean, the waitresses i work with make 1000$+ dollars a week, while im in the kitchen making around 350$
@@TainyaGaming good for them. That's npt the reality in most places
Papa Johns is like that too. I made $7.25 while in the store, but out on delivery I was making $5.17/hr. Had to pay for all my gas, maintenance, repairs and even had to get Commercial insurance on my car. They do not reimburse you for anything. Oh yeah, and they treat you like garbage.
Telling a woman that he and her would be working alone often and that he rewards his employees by taking them to Mexico? Yeah, that sounds like a human trafficker.
1,000 red flags in a single sentence. People are fucking terrifying, which is why I'm an introvert
Had an experience like this with a guy working at a hostel. He was trying to get people, mainly young women, to go to Africa and help with various positions for his business. He'd butter it up saying stuff like "You'd get flown in, stay at nice hotels, the office is nice." Allegedly was some mining company, but when a friend asked their business info, website, LinkedIn, etc... all they said is that they had a Whatsapp group.
He started acting very weird and nervous, then said he had to go check more guests in. I'm hoping he didn't get any travelers to fall for this.
@@crust9889 Man, that's really sketchy. Hope everyone was safe.
Anyone with a brain would know that anything with the term "alone" and "extranational trip" in the same sentence is ten pounds of nope in a five pound bag. Either cite the source you're working with or don't.
@@ItsAntfarmNerds505 Exactly. And it floors me to no end how some people are so trusting of just any old body, even though the red flags are blaring, and events in the background and which happen simultaneously from each other don't get their attention.
That's just one example. They are either A.) Idiots, B.) Dangerously dense, C.) In on it. And you had better frickin' believe that they will want you to blindly follow them into the pit. And get THIS. It doesn't matter how many time you tell them not to do something, and they get bitten/taken advantage of: THEY DON'T LEARN. And when you bring this up, they'll dismiss it and ask when you're going to help them get into ANOTHER con and shady business.
I find myself isolating myself because of sketch people AND people too stupid that they fall for the con, and are scratching their heads on why you're not falling for it, why you're not being friendly with obviously shady characters, or calling you "uppity" for having caution. Expect these people to fall for too-good-to-be-true situations every single time.
At this point in my life, they can do what they want, I just make sure it doesn't involve me at all, because sometime the shady people will target the trusting person to get to you. And you can tell the trusting person this all you want till you're blue in the face. They. Don't. CARE. Expect these people to call you, telling you they stuck their hand in the stove yet again, and they're in a bind and need you to help them.
You're right, people are terrifying, but so are the blissfully unwary ones. And I'd rather leave the unwary ones to their own devices. They want "social togetherness", even at the cost of being conned or worse with obvious shady folks, they can be my guest. Bye. They're adults. I don't got time to educate them on common sense and I'm not their social babysitter.
Walked into the place, they said with an attitude, you are the new guy, then laughed.
I was like lmao, goodbye.
@@PersonaFan930 Yeah because being looked down on or made fun of is something to accept on your first day at work. You totally don't want for your co-workers to be serious and cooperative.
@@PersonaFan930 you are trying to troll but it's clear you have no self worth
I feel rather confused about this conversation
@@ytuser4562 basically petty peeps vs trolls
@Bonnalina Fuzbunny I'd been so confused so quick by reading 4 messages.
I worked at a call center asking for donations. My first day, a donor called asking if it was true that the CEO of the nonprofit just bought a private jet and mansion then cut funding for the cause due to the pandemic. I googled it. It was true. Quit on the spot
I hate nonprofit organizations, they are monsters. I used to work for a few of them.
Nonprofit doesn't mean shit. So many people stop at that designation or act like it's a good thing. You have to do your research on an organization before you donate, volunteer, work for, or assist one.
One example comes to mind. You know how many criticisms I've heard about Wounded Warrior from vets themselves? Telling me never to donate to them? About how their overhead is insane? Vet telling me they showed up at the VA and gave him a flag and some novelty items? Not providing any assistance to the vets that need it and come to them for help? I believe them.
I've also met a lot of good people within the Org that dedicate their time and hard work for it. Good people. Never heard a positive about the Org from any vet outside of it though.
@@BungieStudios heard the same thing, I was working the phone for the VFW and I was appalled to learn that only 5% goes to the vets. So for every $100 that got donated only 5% or less goes to help the people it was made to help. I felt dirty and quit after that. They called me unprofessional, I wanted to call them dirty f*cking scumbags w/ no souls...but just kept my mouth shut.
@@severedproxy Respect.
@@severedproxy If no one holds them accountable and no one calls out their bullshit, they will only continue doing it.
Moral of the story: bosses are not your friends. They can and will fuck you over no matter how friendly they seem.
I hate seeing coworkers chat to bosses as if they've been close friends since childhood.
This is not true at all, not every boss is out there to fuck you and i know this because of personal experience, when an ex boss (now one of my best buds) pretty much saved my ass by lending me enough cash when i needed it for a hospital (And he didn't even wanted me to pay him back btw had a hard time making him accept it)
Eh. Change bosses to shitty people. I've had more decent or good managers/supervisors than shitty ones. And shitty ones weren't any better off the clock.
Sadly it feels this way.
One of the best jobs I had was where I made vitamins and supplements.
One night out of the blue I'm told I'm getting fired for calling a coworker (who I didn't even know the name of, never the less even talked to her) a bitch.
I was astounded
Months of the bosses talking me through a ton of problems I was having in life
giving me sound advice
being understanding about situations
working to help me out when I had tough times
and suddenly just throwing me under the bus like that out of nowhere over a lie that they never even checked with anyone about.
@@thesun5275 the Gossips....can be very powerful...
As a first boss told me: _"Good managers manage productivity, bad managers manage costs."_ One of the wisest things that I've ever learned.
And he or she was a good boss?
Good managers manage outcomes for everyone from the boss to the lowest level employee. They make everyone happy and everyone whole.
There are no good managers
that man who got the state labor department involved over $40 is my type of role model
One guy at my place went for lunch on day one.... Still waiting for his return for 11 years. Longest lunch break ever
He got 15 to life. Gibe him a couple of years....
Wow that guy takes longer to eat his lunch than it took Odysseus to sail 50 miles
Yeah, methinks he is not coming back somehow...
Damn how long have you been working there if he left 10 years ago?
@@LowRes_Corgi56 well using simple maths, more than 10 years......;:-D
And so many businesses right now are asking "Why doesn't anybody want to work?" I would bet money that the places that can't find or keep workers are just like the ones in this video. Especially the retail and restaurant ones.
Definitely fast food. So glad I’m outta that shit hole
Even your basic construction jobs can be like this. In fact, they can get REALLY bad about even wanting to pay people for the job. Never do any kind of construction job for under 15 an hour. Even if you're working with Vynal.
sadly those environments seem to attract a-holes who become managers or team leaders and they actually enjoy making the lowest suffer
For real. I'm young, and I've already had to deal with bullshit like this. I applied at a campground to work in their store, and as soon as I walk in the first day they put outside on the maintenance team. I stayed because it was good money, but I didn't fucking apply for that position due to me fucking hating working outdoors. They made some guy in the store work a 15 or 16 hour shift on a extremely busy weekend and he never came back. That place fucking ruined my perception of the workforce or whatever the term is, and now I'm trying to make it in the music industry, because at least you can be your own boss from like Day 1. Little bit of a rant, but shit like that irritates me and makes me sympathize with people who don't want a job.
Oh god yes. I've been trying to get in Lowes for the past three weeks and I'm well qualified to work there. The position I applied for had decent hours and days off every week for me.
They kept giving me the run around, yet hired my less experienced friend in three days.
Can't make this shit up
I worked McDonald’s for one single day. It was one with two drive thrus. They ended up making me work both of them as well as taking care of the people at the first cash window. They showed me how to do it for like 10 minuets and then left me alone. And ON TOP of all that, when I inevitably made a mistake, they YELLED at me about it
Something similar happened to me like that but I was on the grill I was still learning where everything was and how to cook and prepare certain things..when I would make a mistake the manager would get very mad and start belittling me...around the 4th or 5th insult I put everything down and walked out..as I was walking out the manager was apologizing and talking about how stressed she was but I just kept walking..I still eat there from time to time but would never work fast food again. It's not worth the $9 an hour they barely want to give you.
Similar to my day. I told them in the interview I will not work one job if I'm being told I'm hired for another. Excepted me to wash all the breakfast dishes included grills. Nope! I was hired to do biscuits and that's what I wanted not to prep the biscuits for the next day because that's gross. They tried to make it better my giving me four shirts, free meals while working, and a hat. But, I've worked in restaurants before and each area had a different clock in and out code. If you want me to wash everyone's dishes give me a different code with more money.
Retail/fast food industry in a nutshell
Your story is literally mine! They left me alone as well on my first day with 2 drive thrus. I hadn't even learned all the buttons and how combos worked. Asked for help twice and got screamed at that 'I should know what I was doing by now!"
Left about 30 minutes later.
@@madidezirae coincidence? Maybe the same McDonald's?
I always remember my grandpa talking about working telling me "if you don't like something, don't be a part of."
I've left many jobs on the first day with no regrets.
Whether it's toxic coworkers or shady management practices, if you stay you continue the cycle.
Agreed
I just got done with my first day like 30 minutes ago and I really want to fucking quit 😫🙏🏾
Honestly. The one taco bell was horrible because all the workers seemed gloomy and were toxic asf. Even the mangager was toxic and barely taught how to do anything.
In the show RWBY, this same advice is given, not by an authority figure, but by a serial killer of all people. Emerald was questioning what she was doing and Tyrian (The SK) told her: "If you're not LOVING what you're doing, then you're in the wrong field".
Bad man.
Excellent advice.
@@avajanay Did you?
Bosses be like:
All people i hire quit too fast, kids today are too lazy
Us "lazy kids of today" dealing with all this shit on a daily basis
When the lazy kids work harder than the boss:
I’m at a job that left after 5 months because I get no help. I work with an older guy who is more experienced but that dude is lazy. I do most of the work and the guy since I started has become lazier and lazier and I left after giving a 2 week notice. And now my manager wants be back to work for 7 days a week when I can only work part time.
>lazy kids
>kids who don't want to spend everyday being suicidal
@@alexradice8163 im already like that without a shitty job
@@TainyaGaming it never gets better
I have a good one. This wasn't me, it happened to my dad.
He had been hired to be a pizza delivery guy when he was 16 (in 1973). He went around delivering the pizzas and when he got back at the end of the day to get paid, his boss kept all the money. When my dad asked him about the money, the guy said my dad wasn't an adult yet so he didn't have to get paid minimum wage. Instead, the guy tried to pay him with pizza boxes. He quit right then and there but he still took two of the boxes. One was empty, the other had a pizza in it. He took the one with the pizza pie, opened it, and let the pizza fall out, cheese facing down, onto the cash register, and then left while the guy was yelling at him.
swag
"Not an adult yet"
*Said to a father*
@@kkevan4138 he wasnt a father at the time...
@@kkevan4138 comprehend what you read
"Wasn't an adult yet"
This is why worker's rights and regulations need to be put in place. Bosses will do shit like this if they can get away with it.
When I was 16 I got a summer job in a coffee shop. The owner screamed at me for answering wrong in a quiz at orientation and start talking about how I'm lucky because there are many other persons who want my spot. I got there the first day and asked for the person that was going to be my boss and she goes something about "Oh no, I don't want to be in charge of her". Didn't have a bathroom in the shop, they wanted me to sneak in the restaurant across the street. And the last, they wanted me, a minor girl, to go around walking and deliver coffee at night in an area I didn't know and it's known for being a dangerous zone. Nope out of there the next day.
Yeah, it's a deal breaker for me when another employee/interviewer/boss/trainer yells at me or any employee for that matter. So unproffesional and rude 🙄
Glad you left those people are pieces of shit and that job is overall not fucking worth it
It's shocking how many places want you to have full time availability for part time work.
Currently working one. I'm being given full time hours, but I'm listed as a "part-time employee" and I'm not even given full time benefits. Although I just got hired almost a month and a half ago, its a little sus. I'm making alright money for the job and it pays 16.50 an hour, still.
Oh and forgot to mention, they don't want to work overtime hours for employees and will not pay for overtime hours you put in, even though sometimes they force you to stay in extra hours sometimes, and unload extra work on you. Its BS.
Big box retail is all about that. It's scummy as fuck. The same companies that hauled in God-knows-how-much in COVID relief funds then stiff their employees.
Former part-timer. Need to be available to work all hours, including weekends. Had to transfer locations for the opportunity to work full time because they don’t just promote - you have to wait for an open position and apply for it. Even if it’s the exact same position but with full time hours.
*part time wages
I have a deep respect for waiters and waitresses, they get blamed more than everyone in the restaurant working there and they get paid with tips, while cleaning up every customer’s mess and tables. Plus getting harassed by their boss is just icing on the shit cake of this position, I’m sorry for those who get yelled at for Karen’s and every waiter in general
Even Gordon Ramsey isnt an ass to waitors and waitresses.
The whole payed with tips shit should be illegal, in my country a waitress gets a normal wage then tips are an extra bonus they all share at the end of the day
The simple fact that good wait staff makes or breaks a restaurant makes it incomprehensible to me that the bosses and owners treat them so shit.
Like, if your wait staff are just done with the place, customers will be too, and that's _YOUR_ ass!
@@iamkyleme plenty of waiters would disagree with you.
@@stanleyhape8427 disagree that they should be payed with a normal wage?
They had me sanding some shit that turned out to be fiberglass but didn't bother to give me a mask or tell me it was fiberglass. When I found out 6 hours in I just walked to my car and drove home. Didn't even say anything.
Next day I woke up with burning eyes and throat.
Pretty sure thats an OSHA violation. i would have reported it.
@@oceanbytez847 same
Hope you are ok now.
@@oceanbytez847 hell yeh, I would have looked into suing those fuckers!
yo what the hell... you ok now man?
imagine wanting to work, realize the bosses are actually crazy, and then being told you're lazy for not putting up with them
I was 18 and applied for one of my first "adult" jobs. I thought I would be working in an office but about 30 minutes into my first day on the job the FBI raided the place.
They put everyone in hand cuffs including me. I was scared out of my mind, then one of the agents took me away from the others, took my cuffs off and explained they knew I had just started there and I didn't know anything useful and that I should just leave. They said if they needed anything that they would contact me.
The agents did not ask for any ID or even what my name was. I can only assume they had my contact information from my application.
To this day I have no idea what any of that was about. The raid was not covered in the news and in 1988 there was no internet to check.
It was just really weird.
Wow, I would have been so scared.
that sounds scary as hell just being raided on your first day confused out of your mind
That sir was a cold war bust XD
@@the_criminal_mastermind Tell me about it. I had no idea what the hell was going on. I think they must have had a mole and the mole told the Feds it was my first day on the job and I had nothing to do with anything.
There was one guy working there who asked me a bunch of questions about my background. At the time I thought nothing of it. Maybe he was the under cover agent. He was put in handcuffs with everyone else, but that's pretty common to maintain someone's cover.
That sounds both fascinating and terrifying, would love to hear more details about it.
That shit about not paying in restaurants is the exact reason i never work in the food industry.
This has happened to my boyfriend soooo many times. He doesn't have an ID so does a lot of under the table work. This is when we were homeless. He has way too much pride to beg so we always worked. He would work for hours and at the end of the day they would just laugh and wave him away or pay him an insultingly low amount. I've told him countless times to get something in writing guaranteeing his pay. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Just a little handwritten letter. If they won't do that then they're planning on cheating you. Hes so naive and good-hearted he can't imagine people doing this and is shocked every time. It's honestly quite sad. And these restaurants (and one country club) are in nice affluent areas. Once after working at a golf course for 10 hours mowing, picking up trash, cleaning cars, ect this man literally flipped through hundreds and fiftees to give him 25$. For 10 freaking hours! I'm like this is why jobs have contracts to protect the employee from this exact thing. Luckily one of the guests saw this and offered him a job. This man went above and beyond and helped him get his ID and even put us in a small apartment he owned and only only required we keep the place nice and clean. Now on top of being paid very well my now husband works maintenance for this man's complex and he took that as rent for the first year we lived there. I am so incredibly grateful and indebted to this man. I can't even think about it without tearing up. We've since left the apartment and my husband got a new job but still goes back to the apartment to help around for free even though this man STILL insists on paying him. After being homeless and treated worse than an animal, the kindness this complete stranger has shown us was just something I can't even begin to repay or explain my gratitude for. The only thing he ever asked for in return was for us to pay it forward. There really are some absolute saints in this world and I wish people like that for more recognition. Sorry, I kinda went on a tangent there lol
The pub/ bar scene in Australia is very similar. They always want to put you on for an hour or two as a "trial run". No-where in any workplace laws does it say this is anywhere near legal, but if you dont, you simply are overlooked for the job.
@@GyeongmiBaeb Tsk tsk tsk. Illegal.
@@KingFluffs yes. It would make me so angry. But what could we do? He was working under the table in the first place. I'm like you'd think he'd know better. His dad first came here illegally and was able to find work easy and built a fortune
I've worked as a line cook. The kitchen manager was 5 years younger than me, but that's not the point. She was a rude rude rude girl that had a tree stump up her ass. I was dealing with old injuries from the military, my battle buddy was killed and I severely injured. The pain I was dealing with during work, she told me too fucking bad, deal with it. Wrong answer lady!
Signed up to work at UPS. Was on a conveyer belt and my job was to sort packages and put them on one side. Sounds easy on paper, but I would get TONS of packages come down that chute and they weren’t lightweight packages. I was the only person doing that job. So here I am, sorting 50 packages a minute with no help. One of the managers would step in from time to time. The first time he was nice about it, but when he had to step in a second time, he was visibly annoyed and said how they were “behind schedule”. I was pissed off myself that they would put me in a such a position, but tried to push through. I asked him about bathroom breaks, and he literally told me “yeah, we don’t really do bathroom breaks here”. That’s when I picked up my water bottle and left with tons of packages still coming down the chute. He saw me leave and he called back “ya done??” I didn’t respond and kept moving
You are a badass. You should have asked him how it feels to be a sadist piece of human feces.
“We don’t allowed bathroom breaks”
And I don’t believe in slavery, 🙄
Sue can't refuse bathroom breaks
Package sorting arguably the worst job you can have at UPS. I did it for three years after high school in 2008 while taking classes and it sucked. Very similar story to you. My coworkers were constantly out and a good portion of the workload was put on me. I don't miss breaking my back for minimum wage that's for sure.
@@Mikey-1990 What’s funny is that I moved to UPS from amazon because I heard how much better UPS is compared to amazon... at least at Amazon you got bathroom breaks, a “break”, and you could even keep your phone on you and listen to music (depending on what manager was working that day)
I applied for a job at a local Target. I thought I was coming in for my interview. Apparently, I was supposed to be working and in uniform. Weird, but I chalk it up to a miscommunication. District manager did my interview. She seemed really nice, treated me really well. She introduced me to the team and told one of the employees that she would be the one to train me. The employee refused. I still have no idea why. This employee started arguing with the DM in front of customers, to the point where started yelling and swearing at the DM. DM and I walked off, and she tried telling me that I would be training at another store that was an hour and a half drive from my house. I asked her if I would be compensated for gas, and she said no. I finished the interview, thought about it, and called her back about 2 hours later. I told her, as nicely as I could, that I thought she was too weak as a DM, as she let this employee walk all over her like that in front of customers. I told her it was a huge red flag, and that I want a manager that can put their foot down with employees. I apologized and told her I wouldn’t be coming back. She understood and apologized to me.
It really sucks because they were offering $15/hr starting pay. Oh, well, it was clearly a toxic environment, and I currently work a job that I love anyway.
As someone who worked at Target for close to 4 years, you definitely avoided a nightmare!
As someone who bounced around more than he'd care to admit as a young adult. Food service and retail are truly miserable, there's just too many things playing into the misery. I avoid them like the plague.
Not me, I quit much later. But a new employee started as a truck unloader for a popular US retail store, on his first day of training our supervisor had a group meeting to generally berate everyone for how awful we are all the time and how he's never had a team so lazy, blah blah blah. Once this was done the new guy turned to me and another person and asked if this was normal. We wasted no time in telling him this was a daily thing, he never came back from lunch.
Why did you stick around?
I showed up to a job interview I got through an agency. When I got there, there were about a dozen people. I thought that was strange. We get in there and most of them seem to know each other.
The boss explained to me that I was going to be calling (very busy) chemical engineers at these different businesses to help a corporate supplier anticipate approximate demand so they didn't oversupply. They weren't telemarketers exactly, they did phone lists that were typically a little more difficult. The other people in the office were being hung up on and not taken seriously. He emphasized he was paying me more than them because I had a British accent and the agency predicted I would have more success because I sound official.
Weird.
So, I start making phone calls, getting receptionists and then explaining what I'm calling about. I did this all morning and I only got three of them to answer the survey with names of chemicals that I could only guess how to pronounce.
I went for lunch and talked to the other people. They affirmed what the boss had said and were impressed that I had three completed surveys. They hadn't managed to get even one completed. Okay, but where's room to move up in the company? Or do anything that I would want to put on my resume? I don't want to sit on a phone all day, every day.
This had been why the agency had been so vague about the job I was interviewing for. For the same money, I could be working a job that has an actual rung on a career ladder. I came back from lunch and quit.
It was an excellent decision. It took another two weeks unemployed but I found something in engineering in aviation in communications. I might not have the 'best' education but I'm more than a British accent.
@@runningfromabear8354 I was just barely in my 20s and didn't know better. I wasn't allowed to have a job in high school so I had no experience with what was acceptable or not. Cost of living is also high where I live so even a few days of missed pay would've been devastating.
Nowadays I don't put up with anything less than my expectations and its worked out wonderfully.
worked for Ricoh and i quit
Sounds exactly like my experience working for Target
@@nihilriv3r Glad to hear you learned from the experience.
This videos just points out how tired people are getting of the absurdity of job markets nowadays
Looking for an intern level position, must have a masters degree and 5 years experience in a field that has only existed for the past 2 years. What? Why can't we hire people? They must just be lazy free loaders!
@@KingFluffs thats because the people hiring have nothing to do with the position you are applying for lol
Good luck looking a good job out there!
@MikeProductions1000 Good luck bro! Unless you need the money look for experience, knowledge and passion in your first job, it is painful to grow in a field you don't really like for money...
@MikeProductions1000 thats a big problem in the USA. Mandaroty unpaid interships make 100x harder to get a career if you really need the money.
@MikeProductions1000 depending on where you are foreign companies tent to follow more regulations than national ones
Quit after my first day at a gas station, got to work, partway into the shift I asked how breaks are done the person I was working with and the assistant manager training me both laughed and said they don’t get breaks, same with lunches. Girl I worked with said she once worked a 10.5 hr day that was super busy without getting a chance to sit down for a few minutes to eat. Later I was surprised it’s a 9th hour of work when it was only supposed to be 8 hrs and when I made it clear I wasn’t happy with the 9 hrs with no break or lunch assistant manager told me “it’s just the type of job it is you’ll get used to it.”
It’s really sad to me that these two got used to it.
That's against the law... Everyone had to go n take a break
It’s like that in restaurants a lot too, especially if you work in the kitchen in a smaller place. There’s always something people will want you to do.
@@brandyrodgers4329 Depends on where you are at. In Utah there are no labor laws about needing to give adults breaks or meal periods. Only anyone under 18 is protected by law because then it would be child labor.
@@kitamik6080 Same in Ohio. Most places are decent and realize that humans aren't robots, but McDonald's? Yeah, 10+ hrs supposed to get just a 15-min break lunch, but sometimes wouldn't even get that when understaffed and super busy. Then had the gall to call me out on getting snippy with customers. Um, yes, because I can handle a Karen on a good day but not when I'm contemplating murdering my boss. Needless to say, I quit soon after that.
@@wintergray1221 Thank you, it’s get a meal while working on your break or get your 3 in jail after your F everyone up for the BS.
I worked this construction job and the night before I was in the ER due to server stomach pain. Told the foreman I couldn't lift anything over 20lbs even gave him the papers the doctor sent home with me. He said to go help the others lift this 150-200lb wooden wall.
Working till your body breaks isn't how we should be living our lives, especially while young.
Ouch
Wow
Would’ve bounced the minute he said that
That employer is dumb, you could definitely sue for that.
This man went to war for his 40 bucks... All this blood, the life of his enemies... He would buy that new dice set
If it were me it wouldnt even be abt the 40 dollars, it's more of a way of saying "fuck you, you are not going to take advantage of me, and now I'm going to reign hell on you"
@@prod.scxrrified869 RIP AND TEAR
I would. It's the principle of it that counts.
It probably wasn't about the money at that point.
If that happened to me, I’d order $100 of food there and dine and dash to teach them a lesson.
So restaurant owners just expect customers to tip their waiters? I thought it was a polite gesture, not part of their paycheck!
Yeah. And because of it waiters and waitresses will 90% of the time be paid less than minimum wage because of a legal loophole allowing it. In some cases it can work out like if you work at a nice place where people tend to tip a good amount, but a lot of the time its less reliable than a stable wage
Since prohibition us restaurants have done this. During prohibition, the depression was going on too, owners had little money. But would have hidden alcohol & used that as an incentive for customers to pay the employees Now its codified into law that they need to make hourly $2 an hour. Fucking illegal if you ask me
it is actually worse than that. In many cases not only is your wage dependent on people tipping? You are taxed as though you were tipped a certain amount. Not leaving a tip can not only mean that person didn't get paid, but it can actually put them in a negative because they have to pay taxes on the money they didn't get. "Your employer will report your tip income on your W-2, Box 7 (Social Security tips). The law assumes an average tip rate of 8%, and it expects employees to report tips at least 8% of the gross food and drink sales." you are required to report tips over 8% as well, naturally but 8% WILL be assumed as acquired. so yay. your time spent can be negative pay.
Yeah, the whole concept of tipping has mutated from a way to show gratefulness for exceptional service into companies expecting customers to pay their employees’ wages so they don’t have to do it themselves, and it is completely ridiculous.
Thats how restaurants and hair salons run here in the US. If you don’t tip, expect shitty services next time you show up
For any wait staff reading this. They literally have to give you at least minimum. If your tips are being taken, they must pay minimum wage, as you are not receiving them. That is the gamble a place takes on serving staff. If you have ever had them pay you less while in some way not giving tips(Confiscation, not paying out at the end of the night/week, etc.) please contact your state labor board. In the US, the burden of proof is still on them.
The problem is that most of these places make you sign a tip agreement so you sign away your right to minimum wage.
@@palladiamorsdeus Nope, federal law mandates you still have to make minimum wage. If the tips are not enough to bring you up to it, then the place has to pay you more. Again, that's the gamble they make when allowing you to have tips in the first place. Of course, some places will still tell you an agreement with them somehow supersedes laws, or waives a right you can't actually waive. Similar to those places that try to require you to 'volunteer' hours off the clock, or not discuss your pay with coworks. They can't do either, but they will try to convince you they can.
@@palladiamorsdeus You can't agree to be a slave.
The not discussing hours is also illegal, the job cannot make you keep your wage secret. Thats a good thing to know.
1.These jobs will just as easily cheat you out of your hours worked and forget about you so always have a plan B.
2. If your going to do something, make sure it's what you want and not what someone else pursades you to do.
3. It's ok to take time to search and plan vs just accepting some BS, you deserve it.
Agreed I work in a shitty wood mill but I'm leaving to do garden stuff
I once had a friend who wanted to become a coroner after watching a bunch of crime shows. Needless to say, most teenagers aren't cut out for it on the first day.
Yeh, my pops was a coroner. Man, I tell ya what, I had seen some pics of folks who were pretty messed up. The 2 that really stick are one of a guy from a boating accident and got hit by the propeller several times. And this other dude who committed suicide by drinking some kind of powerful acid (probably drain cleaner) and it pretty much dissolved most of his face and neck as I remember. 😲🤮
I'm actually currently going to school for that 😊 i constantly get asked if i'll be able to handle it
I wanna be a coroner now
@@mzpinks97 good luck fam, hope u make it great in life 😄👍
One can well imagine why.
Around 1998(was 18), I responded to a vague help wanted ad in the newspaper. Said things like "no experience, paid training, etc". I showed up at the time, and I was the only one there. Except the one employee. He greets me, asks me to have a seat. He pops in a video cassette-it starts playing. He leaves the room. On the screen I see William Shatner on horseback in Wyoming or some shit, and he eventually starts talking about Kirby vacuums. I snuck out the side door, hopped in my car and left. By the time I was on the street, I saw the guy come out looking around for me. Funny shit
KIRBY STORY #2 Flash forward about 5 years and I'm in a new town and respond to a similar type vague ad. Show up, people are waiting. Something felt weird and I started talking shit to other interviewees about how "I hope this isn't a Kirby interview". Now it was my turn to be interviewed, and the guy immediately started digging into me saying "I heard you out there talking that shit" and eventually revealed he was interviewing for Kirby. He only berated me and kicked me out, but a hilarious continuation in my short Kirby saga
Good thing you didn't get sucked into that mess.
Yes, that pun was intended. 😉
What's Kirby? Some sort of scam?
@@user-ce1cu5my4j Pretty much, yeah.
@@user-ce1cu5my4j they sell vacuums. I only know because my mom had one that she paid a ridiculous $900 for. The Kirby salesman pretty much vacuumed our entire house and spent 6 hours trying to convince my parents to buy it. The vacuum had good strong suction. But for $900 that vacuum better do it itself. That was like 20 years ago. She has a roomba now that vacuums on schedule on its own, charges itself, and empties itself. Not sure how much it costed but probably less than $900.
@@user-ce1cu5my4j it's a line of deluxe vacuum/carpet cleaners
I went in for an interview at a hotel to be a clerk. I told them I was going to be in college and that I lived half an hour away. They said that was fine. On the day I did my first shift they gave me what my schedule would be. I was to work the 5 weekdays from 8pm-4am. My earliest classes were at 6:30am and my latest were 5pm. And the hotel, while 30 minutes from my home, was an hour from the college. I brought this up to management and they said I’d be fine. I also asked if I could at least do homework when it was slow. They said no. They didn’t even have a chair for the clerk, meaning you had to stand all 8 hours. Next day I got a call from YMCA about an after school care position for an elementary school that was directly across from my college and the classes got out in time with mine. Not to mention they were only 4 hour shifts. Much easier to handle and gave me time for homework. Needless to say, I left that terrible hotel. The manager got pissy saying all I did was complain and that she was glad I was quitting.
I never understood that whole thing about not letting cashiers and the like have chairs. I heard they said it was because it would be "unprofessional" but as a customer what I care about is getting my stuff. If the cashier can do it while sitting down instead of breaking their feet standing long hours wearing high heels, why not?
"They said I'd be fine."
Ah, yes, reality bent for them because it didn't want to inconvenience them, and they are magical overlords. How kind of them to correct that for you.
You : "Hey, I literally can't be in two different places at once or spend the same hours twice once at work and once at school". Them : "Yes huh 'cause I say so now get to work under-paid laborer". You : "Oh, wow! You fixed the canon-universe error! Thanks, manager-overlords!" (Except not! Right? *smh* fr...)
I actually have one of these stories! In the interview, I was told that the hours would be 5:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. I came in, did the work, and when it got to 2, my co-workers weren't even slowing down, so I asked the manager about it. He said that the shift doesn't end until the daily quota is met. I told him that unless I worked for the hours I was told I'd be working, I would leave. He just looked me in the eyes, said "so be it", turned around and walked away. I went straight my car and went home.
That kind of shit grinds my gears. When it’s time to go, I’m ready to go. That bait and switch crap with employers doesn’t sit well with me
TLDR: started a new job that wanted me to cut off my arm. Got stalked in the restroom and left
I went to work for a wood manufacturing type company. They made picture frames and other types of wood products. It was not my first factory job, or the first time I ever cut wood with a table saw.
Firstly, the floor manager, who was a lady in her forties, never had me watch any safety videos, ergo she told me that orientation would probably be a couple more days from now or next week (it was a Monday). I told her, OK well I can just come back for orientation, it's not a big deal for me to start today.
She told me that it would be fine because I have experience and that I could just do simple things for a couple days until the orientation lady got there. These people didn't even have any verification I was who I am, no ID check, no ss card check, and expected me to start working. Like, how was I going to get paid? What if I was a mass shooter? What if I was gonna steal a bunch of shit and leave at noon?
So against my better judgment, because I really needed a job at the time, I let her show me around. She shows me the bathrooms and shows me a couple areas, the break room, different departments, it was a pretty simple building. She starts going over rules like we are in 2nd grade about cell phones and other things. I'm just nodding and smiling, already thinking about bolting.
So finally she takes me over to the table saw and is telling me to cut rods at a certain length. But the way the table saw is set up, pieces would fall to my left, not my right, meaning I would have to cross my left arm over the blade in order to make the cuts. I explain to her, my manager, how incredibly unsafe that is. That, if the safety guard were to fail for any reason, my arm would be cut off. I tell her I'll just move the trash can to the other side and cut the rods properly.
She gets visably upset with me. I believe it was because I pointed out a very serious problem within 30 minutes of meeting her, and directly refused to do what she said. She said something to the effect of the rods had to drop to my left, so the other person beside me could grab them, and continue down the line. She laughed off my safety concern and said "oh it'll be fine" and said to just do it how I was told.
So for about an hr I stood there, barely speaking to the nice ladies on either side of me, because all I could focus on was every safety training video I had ever watched in my life scream alarms in my brains as I cut this wood the wrong way. The ladies next to me whispered their opinions about how they thought the same thing when they first worked there. They whispered because we weren't allowed to talk, really.
So when first break came about I went to the restroom to call/text my bf at the time, and just kinda ask him if I was being unreasonable or if the manager was. On the door of the restroom is a paper that says 'no cell phones' and I actually laughed out loud.
I went into a stall and began texting trying to see if this was worth staying and tell me why this loony toon manager came into the rest room and stood in front of my stall and asked me if I was on my phone. I told her I was checking messages while I was pooping and she felt the need to tell me they don't allow cell phones. To which I felt the need to remind her we were in the ladies room and I was currently taking a shit and that this inappropriate conversation could wait until I was finished. She huffed out of there, I can only assume to get some back up, because after calling my bf and telling him I was just going to come home, I couldn't find her anywhere in her managers spot in the building.
I was going to give her a piece of my mind, but instead of waiting around, I just left. I told the ladies I worked next to that it was nice meeting them, but I don't work for crazies. Then I left, and the sun was just peeking over some pink fluffy clouds, and I knew I made the right decision.
I think maybe a week later I saw her position listed under that company on Indeed.
That’s sweet karma right there. What a psycho. I wonder if another worker got injured from her OSHA-violation-ridden area and it let to her termination
How did she know you were on your phone when you were taking a dump? Did I not read correctly?
@A H Is this like an American thing..?
@A H no man I live in America. I know the stall doors have big slits on the top and bottom plus small slits on the sides but unless someone’s peeking through the slits on the side idk how they could see you.
@@lordvader6172
Most bathroom stalls have gaps between the door and side of the stall, almost everywhere you go. So essentially, she was peering in at me through those gaps. Spying on my toilet time.
Got a job doing landscaping. First day I showed up and the project was pouring a concrete foundation for racquetball court and building a 20-ft. retaining wall while removing 70 lb. concrete chunks of the old one AND replacing grass with new sod in a ~200 sq. yd. slight slope. Spent most of the day using a mattock to hand-pull the grass on the slope (without gloves, because every other of the 10+ landscaping companies I had worked for provided gloves and safety equipment so I didn't have any - boss failed to mention this beforehand), and the other part hauling out concrete chunks while the boss/owner "coordinated" with the homeowner/client half the day and spent the other half walking around on the phone. The first day I showed up wondering why this guy didn't have any other employees. It didn't take long to solve that riddle.
Here's the kicker: dude had a sod-cutter and a backhoe already on the property but insisted I use the mattock. He said we'd be using the sod-cutter the next day, so I still showed up. On my way to work, there was a slight construction delay. I called him before start time, told him I might be a few minutes late and he said 'ok, no problem'. Got there 8 minutes late and he proceeded to berate me and chew me out with "Hey, buddy when you have a job, 8am means 8am, not 8:08" kind of shit that I was in no way deserving of. He then told me to grab the mattock and get back to work. I said, respectfully, that I thought we were using the sod-cutter that day. He said something unintelligible and then walked back up and around the house. I took that opportunity to yell back "Hey, yeah, fuck you too!", got back in my car, and peeled the eff outta the housing plan.
The SOB had the nerve to call me when I was 10 minutes down the road and apologize, which I was not having any of. He finally said "fuck you, I'm not paying you" when I asked if he had my address to mail my pay from the previous day. Would have been cheaper than replacing the two truck tires that he had to the next week. ;0)
Sorry it's not exactly a "first day quit" story, but it's pretty damn close, since I never started work on the second day.
Nice
No, this counts
I was working my first shift at a GNC on Times Square NYC and went out for a walk on my lunch break. When I came back, the manager called me into the office and sat me me down before telling me that I was required to stay on the premises during my break in case they needed me for anything. I wasn't allowed to leave and go get food. My attempts at questions were cut off with him telling me that's how he wants it. I smiled and said no sir. That won't work for me and walked right out of the store.
Oooo wish I'd seen this one. I interviewed for an Executive Asst position once where the guy was running a bunch of housewares stores that I NEVER saw getting any business. His office was above the sales floor and the place was completely empty of customers at 2pm on a weekday. The interview was just one red flag after another. He asked me about my health, my marital status, whether I had children or ongoing family commitments, and whether I would be willing to come in after hours for overseas calls...at 2 in the morning. He also said that I would be required to basically wait on him, bring him drinks, and "anticipate his needs," as well as accompany him on business trips to China. The offered salary was $15/hr. After the interview, the hiring manager said, "He seems to like you, I bet you'll get the job!" I told her I wasn't interested in being a servant for a man who asked half a dozen illegal questions during an interview and couldn't stop staring at my chest. Never heard back. To this day, I'm convinced the business was a front for some kind of overseas black market goods or money laundering.
I applied for a sales job. Went to the interview and found it was for Kirby vacuum cleaners. Left when they called my name
I’m noticing a lot of Kirby vacuum stories
@@sissa8216 Kirby Vaccum is garbage
I had a job like that too. didn't realize the whole Kirby vacuum scam jobs before this. I did training for 3 days and they didn't pay me. told me to come back on Monday, but I had a gut feeling about the place that something just didn't seem right.. well guess I was right about it. I didn't show up on Monday, nor did I answer any calls from them.
oooh yeah i went on one day of selling for kirby. It was a lot like the poster's story: dude is pressuring a lady LITERALLY WITH A TERMINAL DIAGNOSIS. He's like, "you can will it to your kids." yeahhhhhhhh, i just decided i'd rather be unemployed.
@@OnlyJordan my mom got scammed into buying one and it broke after the second use
Manager forgot to tell me I'd literally be running the entire store. Even though I was hired as a cashier. So answering phone calls, answering questions about our stock. On. The. First. Day. As well as check out a long line. I've been in customer service for years. Completely rude to answer a call while cashing out someone.
That happened to me once. Wasn't told I was hired as an assistant manager, instead of a regular trainee associate, at a retail store when it was literally my first retail job evee (although not first job altogether, fortunately). Manager said it was because she had a good feeling about me, and we had actually had a good interview, and to perhaps give her undue credit, she was right; I did honestly do my best to assist customers, keep the store clean and stocked, and manage the tills (I even manage to successfully catch out a salesgirl I suspected of stealing cash by changing up the assigned-register rotation, for which I was commended).
But I was hamstrung by knowing next to nothing about the company policies, having no prior management experience, being (understandably) resented by some of the previously hired sales staff (although obviously there were valid reasons they weren't promoted instead). And worst of all, by being basically abandoned by the actual manager. "Oh yeah I'll totally be available by phone" (she picked up exactly once and never returned calls and every second an angry customer is @'ing at you waiting for that phone call is a lifetime to a anxiety-ridden newbie like I was), and "here's the employee 'handbook' folder" (half-filled, and half of that was useless promo/ads material), and "I'll schedule you with me to train you kthxbai" (literally never happened except the first day) oh-so-helpful store manager.
(Btw, I started this job in December. That was obviously mistake #1 on my part.)
@@iprobablyforgotsomething That's really bad. Sounds like they missed out on a good employee.
My old job had the cashiers answer all phone calls, often in the middle of helping customers. Imagine my relief when I learned that wasn’t normal.
I went to work for a restaurant as a host. Pretty easy job for a high schooler. The restaurant had waiters and waitresses and bus boys. The way it works was the waiters and waitresses split their tips or at least gave a portion of their tips to whoever bused their table. I was scheduled to work a Sunday. There are no bus boys on Sundays so the waiters and waitresses have to bus. their own tables. They tried to get me to bus their tables for them and I said I would do so if they split their tips with me like they are supposed to.
They refused so I refused to bus their table. They went and complained to the manager and the manager pulled me into his office and chewed me out and said that I need to bus their tables Even if they won't split their tips with me.
I stood up and walked out on the spot.
For me it was realizing it was too dangerous. I have a dissociative disorder and when I'm dissociated I cant process things correctly so walking across the street, cooking etc is dangerous. I worked at Burger King, was extremely dissociated and proceeded to spill hot oil on myself because of it. I quit and had 2nd degree burns
Dude, that's f'd up.
@@feritmoumin5575 yes it is, it sucks sometimes but I dont dissociate as badly anymore and my new workplace is a bit safer and more supportive tbh. I mean I did break my foot but that wasnt when I was dissociated it was just when I was being a dumbass
@@feritmoumin5575 the Burger King situation was a couple years ago
First get rid of incompetent mgrs. Idc if u don't like me. If im working consistent and effective & productive - enough, go crawl up someone else's ass and decide to die there instead bc I can make this real rough for you... how about you work?!!!🤗 k bye
Its sad that the difference between surviving or living on the street is a couple hours a week...
its not sad. dont you know the people that own those companies really need their 8th mansion and 12th private jet. think of all the rich people that really need that 4th lamborghini
@@tosutaa ugh ur right
@@tosutaa weird how the people that take the biggest risk starting and funding a company are entitled to the most profits... the average employee can always quit and leave, the owner is taking a gamble with their own savings and loans and if the business fails they are out not only time but also all the capital and potentially saddled with massive debt.
@@zeroeffortmemes you know damn well that s not what they were talking about
Currently working at McD run by another company and quitting. I have amazing coworkers and the customers are great but I was pissed I had been doing everyone's job and told the manager. Few minutes later the girl I told on said over the headset, "Shes going to slash this little girls tires and kill her." Just rambling on about it. Started to notice people staring at me and such. I assumed at that point it was about me, since I'm 5'1 and complained about her being on her phone which she stated. Told my manager I was going home, my manager then called her to ask for confirmation it was about me. Obviously she said no, lied and said she was talking about her male ex (she was straight) even though she kept saying her, brought up slashing my hondas tires, im the only one with a crv honda there and more things that let me to believe it was about me. They ended up brushing it off saying it was never about me and asked me to work the next day. Haven't gone in since and dont plan too.
That's f'cking crazy! I'm so glad you left. I wish they would be prosecuted.
I went on a cleaning job once when I was about 24 and it was a literal nightmare, it was for the holiday inn. It was a new building at the time and the ‘rules’ were not only ridiculous, they were illegal! I was working from 9-4pm and they said we couldn’t take a break , go to toilet etc. I was also only supposed to be doing one floor myself ,but so many staff had left according to the manager that we were extremely understaffed. I ended up having to do two floors by myself. We also got told that if we had to replace mattresses or bring anything else up we would have to carry it up the stairs (not get in one of the elevator )from the basement ??? There were 20 floors, and these were king sized mattresses that were heavy af and I’m 5 foot literally. There were so many ridiculous rules and the person in actual charge of the hotel runnings was a nazi and her rules were illegal, I know my rights and I should be entitled to a lunch break and a pee break for 5 minutes (as we were not allowed to use the hotel rooms). By the end of the day I was hanging (sooo tired and hungry) , having to rush to finish two floors by myself when I was supposed to be doing 1, hauling things up flights of stairs and no breaks, lunch or pee breaks! You can guess why I just ghosted the next day, it was too much and I already knew that they had such a high turnover due to the floors cleaning manager , that said that apparently there had been 10 people who came in and left the next day in a week. Never went back 🤷🏻♀️
My "I'm out of here moment" was when I was working for a restaurant called El Mezcal.
I was struggling to keep up with the pace and was trying to keep up. They got increasingly frustrated with me and despite my fingers literally bleeding (not much, but there was blood.) into the dish water, they wanted to say I was being lazy and that I was short changing them. Then when I go out, I see all the staff sitting around eating when I was told that I couldn't have lunch breaks. (I learned of this first and the accusation that I was being lazy was the last straw.)
And every time I would walk up on the manager talking to one of the other staff, I would hear "Blanco Niño" along with more Spanish I didn't understand. I understood enough to know they were calling me "White boy" and not by my fucking name.
Dude I’m sorry I went thru that , bad representation of Mexican ppl smh! I hate some of the Mexican restaurants I’ve worked at
@@Sidiosquisiera I feel that all too much. Thankfully not all employment was that bad. For instance, The one I actually enjoyed working at was Lupitas. While the work got too fast paced for me; I had to quit because of it, but the owner thanked me for the honesty, and he still treated me like a human being.
I'm trying not to hold anything against them for it. (Easier said than done sometimes) Honestly my skin color hasn't had the best track record of treating others with basic fucking dignity.
@@mitchellbarton7915 You should never have to worry about that, you are not at fault for what people have done in the past. And its especially cruel for them to call you lazy if you are literally bleeding for them.
I'm sorry you went through that. I hope your well, and yeah there's many Mexicans who just like to talk bad about others (and yes I'm Mexican myself) . I'm currently on my first job, a Mexican restaurant but it's a fast paced job and essentially you have to memorize menus, cook, clean, prepare, dishes and it's a tight space, the people are nice but I feel so useless. I'm thinking of giving it a few weeks. I'm also studying for school and I have to work 6 hours from noon to night. I really want to stay but I also want to focus on my education.
@@maria-melek If you need to take a few weeks, recoup and bounce back; go for it. Your mental health comes first. Best of luck with your education! Hope to look back on this and see you reply you graduated with honors or something! ;P
Worked in a factory that said we hardly ever do weekends and I finished my whole first day.
Nobody showed me how to do anything and I was put on a fast line moving metal parts.
By the end I had fucked up my back so bad I couldn't move the next morning. On my way out they told me we would be working Saturday and Sunday, so next 10 days straight. I didnt go back.
isn't that illegal?
Wait, that’s illegal
I've worked mandatory overtime in Atlanta. They can do it. Infact my first job out of the military was a plastic company and I literally worked 7 days a week for 3-4 months straight. 8-10 hour days. I wasn't complaining about it because most people I knew had a hard time finding a job. Stayed there for some years. Honestly the pay was good. But the hours sucked. Literally you are working almost everyday with the exception of maybe having Sunday off.
They figured that you would just put up with it. Got a food service job in which I explained that due to family circumstances, I absolutely couldn't do weekends. They said no problem. Guess what? Started on Friday and quit when I saw the schedule with my name on it for Sat/Sun.
@@GiordanDiodato Its absolutely illegal. They get away with it anyway. Worked a job on the railroad and during tourist season I was working between 80-90 hours a week. Great pay but my body gave out after twenty one days and I got extremely sick. Took two days off and they pleaded with me to come back in even though I was still miserably ill.
It wasn't the first day, first week actually. I should have known something was up when I was hired after just a five minute interview. Working for a wood mill on a trimmer line. Boss was 20 and got the position through seniority, also a bad sign. He didn't have the maturity to handle the position, always exercising his authority like a child put in charge for five minutes. Coworkers were burn outs, the kind that can't get anything but crap jobs due to bad life choices and just angry at the world in general. Supposed to be 45 hour work weeks. Four tens and a half day Friday. Rumor was that was a lie. Every Friday at lunch they would tell you to work a full ten. Then at 2:29 a.m. they would tell you to come in and work another 10 hours on Saturday. I could handle the hard work but everything else was the most soul sucking experience I've had on a job. Sure enough On Friday I was told to keep working after lunch. I was better than that, so I clocked out and walked off.
Burnouts dont work 40+ hour weeks ...if anything that's just a functioning addict.
@@mistermonologue2442 I guess that all depends on your definition of a burnout. Burned out on drugs/alcohol to the point of being non functional. Then yes you'd be right. I'm talking about the ones that burned the candle at both ends while making bad choices along the way. Which may include drugs/alcohol. Think peaked in high school then partied all the time until life hits them with job loss, a divorce and $1,500 a month in child support. No one wants to hire them so all they can get are jobs no one wants.
@@pearldragonz I suppose so. I've never heard of a burnout that could hold down a full-time while affording to get married and the subsequent child support/alimony payments.
Anytime I've heard one referenced it's the work part-time while drugging/drinking full-time, not able to keep anything they manage to own (get given to them) clean and aren't able to get a date much less a ex-wife.
Honestly though your idea of a burnout sounds like they at least tried the life thing haha I wasnt giving mine so much credit.
@@mistermonologue2442 I'll give it to you that there are functional addicts. When I was younger and in college I worked part time at a grass seed processing facility. Seemed like there were three kinds of people who worked there. College students, migrant workers and meth heads. Back then they only did drug tests after a lost time accident. Talk about circular thinking from the meth heads. They loved overtime. "If I work more hours I can get more money, If I get more money I can buy more meth, if I do more meth I can work more hours, blaahblahbahhahahbah Cornholio!" LOL
Lol, I quite my job on day one once, here’s why: The owner of the tea place, who hired me, had to go to a storage unit and needed my help getting stuff from it. He had just gotten back from his break where he went to a sports bar and had a couple beers, I was only 15 so I couldn’t drive. So first of all, he drove me while he had alcohol to his system, which was already red flag number one, but it also turned out he needed to get stuff from the storage unit for PERSONAL REASONS, nothing to do with work. There’s red flag number 2. When we got back, he didn’t teach me how to do anything in the preparation of tea or anything. instead he had me clean the windows, the OUTSIDE of the windows. Keep in mind this is at an outdoor mall, so they are already cleaned every night by cleaners. And the windows were like 12-15 feet high, and basically all the walls of the store was windows, and I had to clean them all. Strike three. It was really bad.
"While I was in training, all of the tips I got had to be given to my trainer." Never knew waitressing was a pyramid scheme.
I can relate to the washing dishes and having eczema. It’s painful af and makes your hands all irritated even with gloves on. Skin be looking like that of an alligators.
Damn.. I have eczema too but I’ve never had a dishwashing job yet.. washing dishes in my apartment isn’t too bad but I can see how long term that would suck- thanks for the heads up!
@@AutumnAzaleas definitely I agree, as a matter of fact after I have stopped dishwashing everyday and began working as a line-cook at other jobs, my hands have definitely healed a lot more. But yeah you’re welcome for the heads up. Glad I could help out, don’t ruin your hands as I have ruined mine. 😂
Bro tell me about it. I worked in dishwashing for about a year and that shit made me feel like a fallout ghoul. I'd have to spend a portion of my minimum wage check every week on guaze and cream. It's a shit feeling when you're home at about midnight, sore all over from walking all day, and instead of conking out right then and there, you gotta put on this gross cream and wrap it up. Just feels like you're dying every time you get off a shift.
I applied at Auto Zone, Hardee's, and McDonald's in my town and did their interviews cause they were needing workers. Well I never got called to work even after calling about it multiple times. Well a month later they still have help wanted signs out and I can care less cause it seems like they are looking for specific people or traits or whatever. Places shouldn't be so picky especially when they are desperate for workers.
I hate it when places do that. They could at leadt have the decency to say you are not what they are looking for and not keep you wondering. With the help wanted sign still up makes you want to ask if they even look to their applications.
Dollar store near me has had a help wanted sign up ever since I moved into my apartment complex roughly two years ago. I went in and applied, showed up for my interview but never got called back. It wasn't until my roommate went in there the week after to pick up some chips and dip that they told -him- they had no intention of hiring me.
Feels like I dodged a bullet.
@@marksmithjr1414 Dang that definitely sounds like you did
I got turned down by family dollar but hired by Disney. Lol. Should say enough 😂😂
I fucking LOVE when places do that.
Had an interview with a phone company and I got the job. At first, they promised me that I'll get paid $500 (minimum wage in Ecuador was $400) and that they'll give me training.
First day I had to start as if I was already experienced in sales which I had explained millions of times that I didn't have any experience at all (hence why they offered training).
Then they made me sign the contract, which stated that if I didn't have 3 sales each day, I wasn't going to get paid at all.
I pretended to sign but I actually didn't. I just drew a sun and a flower and the employer didn't even notice. I went to the bathroom with all of my stuff on me, sneaked to my employer's office and grabbed the copies they had of my documents and then I ran as fast as I could to the exit.
I quit the moment my employer breaks their word or anything we agreed on in the interview. I have had people lie in the interview to get me on the job having no intention of honoring our agreement. I have quit day 1 more than once
Okay my time to shine...so I applied for McDonald down the street from my house because i came there alot and they were always short staff and i had nothing better going on...now before my first shift youtube had already been giving me McDonald's videos "recommendations"(news videos/horror stories)and my weird self kept clicking on said videos...so I kept saying none of that would happen,customers aren't that bad...MANNNNN..i didn't even get to clock in my first shift when this woman came over and started snapping about her order..she had a huge McDonald's bag in hand and dumped it all including drink all over the counter..i just said fuck it and walked right out...
The fn irony treating fast food workers like sh expecting 5 star treatment. I like the customers expecting any kind of respect while giving none tho. Being completely oblivious to themselves.. Work settings or not ppl will always be ppl. Also, I like the way ppl think they have me at their finger tips while delusionaly telling themselves their leaders of sheep... actually, not everyone operates the same tho. Someone said it looks like i had a bad day. I said a bad life, laughed it off, & said im kidding. Im just being dramatic. I wasn't really but I figured I'd spare a stranger my life story. He proceeded to shake his head at rude customers w/ me. :/ I mean, I appreciate it. But I dont want to feel babied either. I just dont really appreciate being yelled at for small sh as if their lifes depended on it. And b, Ill walk out mid sentence. Don't try me in all that extra on extraness .. bs w/ me. I never really thought it was all worth it anyways. Hiring short staffs, no proper training, shitty pay, mixed in w/ ignorant customers & co workers. If I gotta do all this I should've just stuck to strippin :/...
I never left a job on the first day but I knew it within the very first day that I was not going to be happy there and the job wasn't for me. I was sold something completely different.
I stayed there for 6 weeks. That gave me enough time to find a new job.
A guy owed me 800$ for a "lost time card". Cut to 18 months later and he's in a class action lawsuit from about 15 previous employees, business went under. Was a historical building in my city pretty crazy to see
The one where the manager had put pictures of that girls Facebook wall and her boyfriends... wtf?? although she said she felt uncomfortable she seemed to have not realised how weird it was at the time, I mean WTF??
That’s pretty much invasion of privacy, and just down right unprofessional and creepy. I don’t blame her for resigning lol.
My Dad once managed a Western Sizzlin' after dropping out of college (he was a GM for a few stores on his resumé). He was my parents' sole income. Some new owners took over and changed the schedules around. Basically, you'd work beaucoup hours one week and balance out the 80 the next week (50/30, 60/20, etc.). Now, some of those chefs earned at minimum $18/hour. My Dad said under no circumstance would he sign off on the payroll because the owners refused to compensate overtime for the longer weeks. They eventually fired him with some BS excuse so he couldn't collect unemployment (fortunately, this motivated him to go back and get a business degree and now both my parents are doing quite well for themselves).
Fast forward two years: Department of Labor was notified about the nonpayment of wages. He said the lawsuit paid out to the employees was essentially "Christmas in July." They received back pay and interest.
Yeah a lot of places do that with two week pay periods. Its bullcrap but they get away with it more often than not.
@@palladiamorsdeus mhmm
And not only that, if tips are involved, they can come up with a whole slew of reasons to not give them
Chad Dad!
At a restaurant that specialized in chicken, on my first day they had me peeling the skin off of chicken wings that were completely frozen. Maybe I'm just a big p*ssy, but after ten minutes I couldn't feel my damn hands. How can I work with my hands if I can't feel them? I made it through the whole day, but didn't go back.
Lol I can half feel ya for that. I’ve had to prepare frozen wings before and the whole process maybe takes like 15 min? I COULD put on on plastic gloves but like, nah. My fingers do be frozen after it though
This was me like a week ago. FedEx Package Handler.
*My thoughts:* I have a degree. Why am I hauling boxes painstakingly for 4+ hours without a break, sweaty, dehydrated, and nauseous, while being treated like disposable trash by coworkers and managers who are shaming me for moving slow on my first day.... all for like 80 bucks when my uber costs 60 round trip?
Uh. No, thank you.
I worked Fed Ex package handling for years, I loved it. I had to drop it due to lack of hours though, my new job pays more an hour and has more hours a week, Fed ex was good times though, still talk to some of my old coworkers.
I work for a police department as a traffic officer and my job is a load of bullshit. There's four higher ups who have been working the job for years. This includes my boss. They don't do anything. They just sit in the car and complain that those on the street doing the actual work are not doing anything. One day, my boss stuck me on the corner of a street for four hours, doing nothing. I loved walking around and talking to the people and my boss somehow saw this as an "escape to not work".
What makes my job more irritating is the amount of treatment people get. There's a select few of officers who go with the higher ups during their shifts and drive around and get Starbucks and don't do anything. Then me and one other girl who works with me, have to monitor two streets on our own, doing other people's work.
I'm quitting soon. I can't take this shit anymore.
My previous boss would tell me to clock out and call for my ride at the time, but I always cleaned/helped until my ride came. I never expected pay for this as I had nothing else to do while I waited, plus it's awkward if you are just standing around and not helping. But I never stayed longer than an hour and mostly did the little extra work to make the opening shifts a little easier (although others don't ever do it back lol). But if they tell you to clock out, don't stick around if you don't have to wait for a ride, just start packing up and if they ask why you are leaving, tell them your shift is over and leave. If they give you flak or fire you, report the shit out of them.
My job is good about that. soon as I clock out, even if i have to hang out for a bit, they will not let me do anything work related what so ever. I actually got yelled at for handing a customer their order just after clocking out (he was already right there at the counter and told me he was picking up for [name], I looked and saw it was already paid for and grabbed it for him as I was leaving).
Well, as far as I understand, any labor done off the clock could land the company in a lot of hot water, especially when it's on camera, apparently there have been lawsuits against employees who clocked out but kept working and ended up causing problems or accidents, since any work done off the clock means company isn't liable, they also can't defend u, BUT, since u are working when u shouldnt be and no one stops you, the company will pay huge fines depending on the situation.
i remember once working as a cashier at home depot they had just hired a new guy and the was training to be cashier during the middle of training on his first day he has a seizure he gets picked up by an ambulance and that’s the last i ever see of him hopes doing alright
Fun fact for anyone that might have an elder relative with dementia and might be getting preyed on by salespeople you can actually get the contract voided since they (the relative) was not in a correct state of mind when entering the contract.
I quit my job today. I was only there for a week. I worded at the front desk at a hotel and it was shit. The staff was super lazy and rude to me. (Probly becuse I am young girl who wasn't and obese middle aged women like the rest of them) the costumers would come to the desk and literally yell at me because the maid were super lazy and didn't clean the rooms. Unfortunately I can't really do anything about that except apologize and tell then that I'd ask the maids to go to their room. The assistant manager talked bad about every single costmer that checked in. It was super unprofessional. Then a creepy janitor would always come up to the desk and linger around and try to joke with me or talk to me when I was busy working... a lot of other stuff happened but long story short, all the physical and emotional exhaustion was not worth the super low shitty pay.
Holy sh*t grabbing your employees thigh? What in the hell?!? That’s just straight up creepy. Wanna know though if any charges were made lol
I'm so glad to live in a country where door-to-door sales are prohibited.
Also sales to people with dementia or other mental impairment are considered "pending ineffective", i.e. they or their family members can claim the money back at any point.
Remember kids, the trip to the clock out machine is always via the toilet
Worked at a call center for like an hour because they told me I wasn't allowed to take no for an answer when asking people for money.
The shitty motel job in Raleigh, NC. I have to confess, I would love to work there for about a month just to see all the stuff that happened there, and for good stories to tell later in life.
I can assure you, you get the same storys at most other places, but without having to deal with this much dirt and filth...
@@Randleray i believe you. :)
Atlanta at the quality inn on Fulton industrial. Knock yourself out
Visit North Lincoln Avenue, near Devon, in Chicago aka The Stroll.
@@bane4743 Hell just about anywhere in Atlanta. I have friends there and have seen some stuff. LOL
My husband, when we were young, worked at McDonald’s for a day. I dropped him off and thought it would be funny to go through the drive thru. I seen him and giggled a bit. Drove home and 5 mins later he walked in the door saying he quit right after 😂😂
What made him quit?
Why did he quit the job for?
@@luishernandezsoto I guess he was too embarrassed 😂
@@RealGateGuardian he didn’t want me to laugh at him in there lmao. He was too embarrassed
@Blake Kruger he took a cab he said 😂 that was like 8 years ago tho. He has a car now lol
They paid me 3.00 an hour to do delivery driving saying I'd make so much in tips. After my first delivery, they got in my face and started yelling at me saying if I even once brought back the wrong signed receipt paper (customer copy instead of business copy), they'd call the police and make sure I'd be sent to jail. And they'd sue me. I went on my second delivery, called my Dad and told him I was gonna quit. I did the delivery, and shoved my 7$ in tips in my shoe. Went back in, and told them I was quitting. They aggressively got in my face looking around my body trying to take my tips because I "didn't deserve them" and I said I didn't make any. I never got paid for my drive. But, they didn't find my tips.
But people know not to ever support that business now. Word of that spread pretty quickly.
At least now i know why people don’t want to work right now. :/
My mom went to an interview I don't remember what for, but she asked for a part time job, since my younger brother is disabled, and my dad already woks a full time job, so she was just working for a bit of extra money, she got hired, she goes, they work her full time, she leaves and never goes back. Now she works at KFC where she actually works part time, makes her own hours and days, gets along with everyone there, and actually enjoys it! She only works during the time where my dad would be home though
Went through the entire interview process being told that I would be starting off as a salaried employee making a certain amount of money. Then I got in on the first day and they said I was going to be treated as an unpaid intern until I'd been on the job for at least a year.
I don’t know where to type these Reddit’s so I’ll just add mind here. “Mechanic here , ended up applying for a job and when I was moving my toolbox in and everything I saw nothing , but 18 year old kids who only do oil changes and they were avoiding all the cars in the back and the manager wasn’t caring either. No management skills and my first day there manager wanted me to take out the trash and put up tires and I threw away one can and afterwards left. I’m a fucken mechanic not a damn janitor” left his sorry ass
I got hired by a "charity fundraising company" and even after I told them I cant walk far because I'm literally disabled, they still expected me to start as a door to door salesperson and that the more people we signed up, the more commission we'd make
I worked at an EZ Lube (Jiffy Lube knockoff) for one day. In that one day, the manager walked me around the shop and what stood out was a box labeled extras. This box was for the "extra" nuts and bolts after working on a car..... also, while sweeping the shop, I had the opportunity to listen to a past customer tell the manager that he owed her a brand new engine because EZ Lube did an engine flush incorrectly. The manager said that they weren't liable because the paperwork she failed to read said that ez Lube is not responsible for any damage done to the car.
They sent me on my 15 minute break and I never went back...
3:30 LOL I WAS HALF-ASLEEP AND THOUGHT THAT SAID
“I was a witness. The only witness”
Got called for a job at a greengrocery. I was supossed to be there four hours at most while they taught me stuff and checked if I did it right. Ended up not being taught much, and being berated for not doing stuff right. Had to do like four jobs instead of just one during the whole day, some of which included cleaning and unloading fruit and vegetables from a truck. Greengroceries get really dirty, and fruit crates are really heavy (and they made me carry multiple of them at once, I could barely walk). They even made me jump on the garbage container because the rotten fruit was taking up too much space. Can't say that last part wasn't funny, but rotten fruit smells really really bad. Ended up really fucking tired after, get this, NINE hours of work instead of the intended four. Really dirty too, and they paid me less than minimum wage (I had to stay the whole shift because they told me they wouldn't pay me otherwise and I didn't even know how much they were paying, I also didn't know how long this "whole shift" would last initially). At the end of the day they told me I could keep the job if I wanted it but I just took the money and left. No way I'm going to be someone elses slave for less than minimum wage.
While I was walking back home I coincidentally crossed paths with my dad who asked how it went and was surprised to see me coming back so late since he knew I was only supossed to be there for four hours. Told him everything and he said I made the right choice.
"It's good you left before they found out you did it" 😂😂😂😂
I had osmething like the 3rd story in my early 20s. Applied to a restaurant, got a call the next morning to come in whenever I could. I walked in the boss asked "you're Greg?" I said yes, she said "you're hired. Our dishwasher just quit I need you to get on that as it's poked up insanely" I got to it and stood in one place for 4 hours to catch up on all the pots and pans that were already there by the time I got there, and this was with a proper dishwashing machine moving as quickly as the thing would allow. The next 4 hours I bounced between helping out around the kitchen and washing dishes and at some point I asked what the wage was. 2 hours after I got home I was called and they said they didn't need me anymore, and tried some lame excuse which I don't remember but I think it was facial hair, which I said I'd shave. Then said my hair was too long, which is wasn't, to which I replied I would cut it. Then she mumbled a bit and said sorry it's just not going ng to work out have a nice evening"
They closed permanently 2 weeks later, which I thought was fantastic karma until I realized the daughter of the family that owned it had died in a traumatic way. I was glad to see them close after how they treat people, but I'd never wish osmething like that on someone. I had just met that girl about 3 hours before the end of my shift that day. Very sad. Still screw that boss.
Watching these types of videos kinda make you see where the villains wiping out humanity was coming from.
I don’t understand how it isn’t illegal to pay an employee less than $2 an hour in America. Why should customers have to pay someone else’s employees wages?
A couple of places. One a factory with raw chicken, it was disgusting, everything was dirty and I spent an hour cleaning a scale and they made it clear they never cleaned it. I never went back after the first day and never got for the full day. My chest hurt for a couple of weeks after that, so I'm glad I never stayed.
Damn, seems like you made a great choice walking out
"my chest hurt for a couple of a weeks" now i'm curious to know AND i dont want to know what types of shit contain the thing you cleaned.... curious feeling
It's a shame what goes on with Kirby vacuum. They're excellent vacuums but, it's a super-sleazy operation. NEVER say yes to the "free" carpet cleaning! If you really want a Kirby vac, go to ebay!
i made the mistake of the free carpet clean, they were in my house 3 hours, super hard to get rid of them, they started the kirby price at $6500 and gave me discounts all the way down to 3500, claiming thats a great deal. learned my lesson there!
Former Kirby salewomen on myself I can completely agree I absolutely absolutely abhorred their business practices And how they treated you like if you want to use the restroom they made you go in customer's houses which was fucking ridiculous
@@danielsmith1892 So you’re telling me I can get a free audience to listen to music for 3 hours if I agree to a free carpet cleaning? Worlds barely opening back up but I am so in the mood to have a little fun with people. Can’t wait to trade an hour of listening to my
Music for an hour of listening to the mormons talk about god xD
My parents bought a Kirby vacuum, back when salesman were going door to door. It costed $1,000, and it still works great 27 years later. But without said, I have seen some Kirby scams as well. It started happening when the company was struggling, and wanted top dollar for everything. They were mainly targeting people with special needs, which is sad. Therefore, Kirby lost it’s reputation of being the best vacuum at it’s time.
@@Joshtheweatherman unfortunately the one my mom got broke after the second use and she was never able to get ahold of them for a replacement. she's on the older side so she doesn't know how to work a computer and I was young at the time so I didnt know how either.
Here's my stories. I've never been fired I've always quit my jobs. I'm now a very happy photographer and am trying to break into tv production.
Anyway one of my first jobs was at little Ceasars. I had the same issue with having to clock out and still work. That job I lasted a year and a half at.
The really juicy story is my job working for alsco linen factory. I was hire in 1 position and was transfered to 5 different areas in the factory within 1 month. Finally settled in at the mat department. We rolled mats, thats it. Was a lot of fun, it was just me and this old biker dude who was insane but had a really good heart. We would listen to music and roll mats all day. Fulfill that day's orders and go home. It was great. 3 months in I was informed that I was being moved back to a department that I hated. That the mat department didn't need 2 people. I immediately said I wasn't interested in that and was told it was that or be fired. I shook the floor managers hand and left right then and there.
So I go home, I'm not to bothered as I knew I could get a job. I wake up the next morning getting a call from the office manager asking me if I'd be interested at returning to work in the mat department. I agree and speed to work in record time because I knew my old biker friend was probably swamped with mats. I work there for another 3 months before THE INCIDENT happens.
I get to work and start going through my day. My old biker friend hadn't come in yet. Didn't think anything of it and asked management when I could get some help. I knew i couldn't get help right away but I would get one within a couple hours. Management replies with me getting no help. That today would be the day that its proven mat department could be done by 1 person. The manager then stands behind my station watching me roll mats with a freaking stopwatch. The dude was timing me. I was PISSED. I rolled mats till my first break. I went out to my car and just sat there. Sitting and thinking. After the break was over I didn't get out of my car. I turned it on and left without a word. I applied to a community College that very day and it's now coming up on the 3 year anniversary since I quit. I have an associates degree and am almost done with my bachelors. I work part time as a professional photographer and go to school fulltime. The single best choice I've ever made.
What's even better is that my best buddy worked there, he's actually how I got the job. So I got to hear what the aftermath of that day was. Turns out my manager had to do the mats by himself for that day. My old biker friend got his job back and returned to mat department for a few months before he got fired for threatening to kill another worker (told you he was insane). The manager quit without notice only a few months later, and the most insane thing was that the guy above the floor manager was arrested for taking earnings from employees by messing with pay checks only a few months after that. It was by far the most wild time of my life by far. Every week was like a reality TV show.
The church reminded me a few weeks ago we had an interviewee waiting on the couch. The owner of the nursing facility showed up and started asking people if they have accepted jesus....the interviewee got up and left and I didn't blame them lol
Lol I would have said, "No, have you accepted Satan?"
I would've found out their social media and spammed it with Montero by Lil Nas X.
The fourth one though!
lol 420 👍
Justice Baby, a pizza place I used to like got me food poisoning I told the health inspector that was at the snack bar I ran. two months later place was closed for good.
It was a job in a british pub. I applied as a barman but once I passed the interview and arrived there I was informed I was going to be working in the kitchen. All the time. Tiny, hot, horrible place to be locked in. Thing is, I love serving and I hate cooking. That was obviously not the deal I had accepted. I remember I was told to cut some veggies and I was given the bluntest knife I had ever seen and was also told to remember 40 different recipes from a book (being that a british pub and me being Spanish, you will understand that I'm being quite generous considering them recipes at all).
Anyway, the girl who (I guess) was in charge of me on my first day noticed I was getting overly frustrated by the overglorified wet sponge she gave me as a knife so I was sent to wash a pile of dishes outside instead. I was doing so for like 3 minutes (and I was glad I was outside that janitor's wardrobe they called kitchen) when a young girl who worked there entered the kitchen. One minute later she ran off said place bursting in tears. All that in less than 15 minutes, so obviously this was not going to be the best place to work at. You know, I might have been an nearly broke immigrant but I had some pride and an university degree, so I finished with the dishes because of my TASK-MUST-BE-FINISHED brain state, then I kindly informed the girl this was not the job I was interested in and left. I didn't even came back for a beer ever, what a shit-hole of a pub.
I was hired at sushi resturant called Sakura Sushi. I was supposed to be this cashier/server who was authentically dressed in historic Asian attire. I was told we don't get lunch breaks like our male counterparts by my female coworker who treated like it was fine. Then she and the owner got edgy about me going to the bathroom. I didn't bother showing up the next day and he never gave me my check for those hours.
Take them to labour. Dont let them rip you off
@@urbanwarchief this was in 2015.
Such a great video lol
Last week I started working at a fast food chain.
First day was alright, but the second day was the worst day of work I've ever had, thats with more than a dozen different jobs under my belt.
They put me on the line having less than 2 hours experience.
The lead refused to communicate with me and literally watched as I was being buried in orders and didn't help with anything my end.
I was expected to do the salad position and the expo position with tons of online orders coming in, that I wasn't trained on at all.
And I was coaching the lady in drive thru because she didn't know what the hell she was supposed to do either.
The best part?
Corporate sent a trainer over for that whole day and the boss told them explicitly to sit and train me all through lunch, but the trainer f5cked off the moment the manager left the store to do a catering order, and they didn't come back until lunch was almost over.
F7ck that place, hope it burns.
I was supposed to be a “security guard” for a lumber store, basically we just had to make sure everyone leaving the yard had a receipt. I thought we would be inside an actual station. Nope. It was just me and some fat old guy in a plexiglass box, no AC, no water, no air circulation. We had a battery operated desk fan, and it was the middle of July. The second day, the fan broke. I asked for my check at the end of my shift.
I'm not even going to lie that sounds pretty gravy. Though yeah you are right the weather would eventually be killing you.
Welcome to 80% of unarmed security. Even on armed, Im so sick of that shit they will leave you in the sun with nothing but your gun and no water and act like theyre gonna fix it. Cant wait to finish my degree.
@@bane4743 its why old people take the unarmed sites
Wasn't quite the first day, but I didn't even officially start the job or get through training, so maybe this counts.
TL;DR, private colleges suck, so do cheating girlfriends, but there's a good ending.
I got a job at my college cold calling collegiate prospects and trying to sell them on attending. Now, the school I went to was big on its mission statement of integrity, but this job wanted me to full-on lie to people to get them to come. Not even bend the truth, just lie. And my girlfriend at the time was also on the team, and she turned into a nasty, competitive, constantly-stressed asshole.
I'm normally really good on phone work. I'd done it before, but when we got set up to do a mock call and just push the school's abject lies, I was out. There were kids at the school who were actively suffering because they'd come with false expectations sold to them by other kids in our line of work, and their parents wouldn't let them bail out because of either the false image the school projected or sunk cost. I told the guy in charge that the school should be ashamed of itself and quit before training ended.
Like 6 months later, my girlfriend dumped me because she'd been banging my roommate. The stress wasn't just the job, I guess, but during that time she did sell the school experience to the kid whose ex-girlfriend would eventually become my wife. Happy that a crappy thing worked out as well as it did.
A friend's first day: The manager said, "Stand right here. I'll be right back. Don't go anywhere." So like an hour later the manager came back and yelled at him for just standing there. My friend said, "F this. I'm out." He got a phone call the next day asking what happened. He told his story and never knew the outcome but since they didn't offer him a job he figures the manager got away with it.
I quit after my second day. Was 18 and got a job that was for signing unsuspecting people up for a mall company credit card. It was commission only, so I had to actually get signatures to be paid. The mornings before we went out, we'd have a meeting where the boss would be talking about us making big money. I wasn't comfortable with it from the start, but needed a job. Noped out after the second day. They weren't going to pay me, but my mum gave them a blasting haha. I think I made about AU$40. It was lame.
The first one had me fucked up lol he did right to leave