Has anyone here ever worked at a rotten job?? I mean, something that was either really degrading or where you’ve had to put up with a lot of shit from the boss/customers. Perhaps yr working one right now - figuring out how you ever got yrself into this mess.Or have you ever been fired for some stupid reason?
If so, would like to hear about it as I’ve just been given the old heave-ho myself. Apparently they believe they hired someone with the ‘wrong skills’. If you can believe that one!?!!? C’mon, you hired me in the first place!!! - now it’s like “oh we like you but we were really after someone who could do…blah blah”.
Well I’m only 19 but I’ve already worked a shitload of terrible jobs…usually each of them lasting for around 6 months before I inevitably quit or was fired. Some of them:
Food Emporium Clerk
(used to show up drunk or high or both a lot because it was so goddamn boring. then i got fired because some old bag ratted me out for stealing a sandwich)
Tower Records Clerk
(this one wasn’t so bad except for the shitty pay. then I got fired for drawing naked women while I was working the register)
DJ @ Some Shitty College Bar
(Hahaa this one was the best. An aquintance told me they needed more DJs at some bar so I said why not. Went there and this coked out bar owner was screaming at me all night because I have no knowledge of pop music. Imagine a dancefloor full of drunk sorority girls and me playing some lame 50 Cent single. So eventually the bar owner made me play “She Bangs” by Ricky Martin and I swear the entire crowd in the bar just looked up at me in the booth and started booing at me so fuckin loudly. I had this big plan to go in the next night and blast Wolf Eyes “Stabbed in the Face” until the fired me but instead I just didn’t show up ever again)
College Dining Hall
(This is my current shithole job. This little old lady follows me around nagging me to wear a fucking surgeon type thing over my mouth because uncovered beards are considered unsanitary. Enough said.)
I worked in a sausage factory for a few months. I filled in open shifts for people who were sick or on vacation or whatever, so I ended up doing just about every job there. It was all pretty menial work, the same motion on a 1.5 second loop for 8 hours. But when working on the conveyor belt, we got to shift position every hour. We’d still be on the belt doing the same thing, but we’d be standing about 1 foot away from where we started. Then two feet. If we were lucky, at some point we would move from the top of the line to the bottom. That was exciting.
However, my favorite job was an experimental position that I call the “phallus operator.” They had gotten a new machine for stuffing the casings, which involved a rotating 3-spire sausage shooting device. For it to work, we had to put the casing onto the spires by way of a plastic tube. So for 8 hours, I could take this long, thin, pink plastic tubes which tapered at the end, and I would slide on the casings. The casings were actual sheep intestines, so they’d be veiny, and on top of the pink plastic tube… I think you get the picture. Best of all, to slide on the casings, I had to use a rapid fist-pumping motion. That’s right, 8 hours of simulated masturbation. I wonder if they’re hiring again…
Apparently they believe they hired someone with the ‘wrong skills’. If you can believe that one!?!!? C’mon, you hired me in the first place!!! - !
That is pretty messed up if they hired an incompetent. Then they too must be incompentent. But What’s worse is they have been at thei job longer than you so you figure they have should have the skills to weed people that are incompentent out before they are hired. Which means they have had a longer period of time than you to be become compitent and still don’t have it down. They clearly should be fired before you!
[/reply]now it’s like “oh we like you but we were really after someone who could do…blah blah”.
Talk about sticking it to the little guy![/reply]
Don’t kid yourself somebodies friend/relative needed a job. Did they have any documentation of this incompetenace? Probably not. If it’s somebodies relative they hire after you, you may be able to take some action against them for nepotism.
Late,
grmpysmrf
I hate the word priviledged…it sounds so pretentious…
Why not just say “spoiled”??
Go get a job and give some money to a poor Noise band or something.
Well, I’m not a rich bum. I do charity ‘work’ like helping out at an animal shelter and collecting money for the needy. Especially around Christmas
Mostly I just do my own thing. And do alot of travelling. And ALOT of cd purchasing. Trying to set up a web design business. Almost there too.
I’m not part of the snobby social set and I don’t act like a jerk and flaunt my position. If you saw me walking down the street, you’d have no idea. I can’t see the harm I’m doing rich or poor!
lousy pay… and here in Sweden the tip is not included…
And since you don’t have to pay it… people don’t.
Once there was some folks from America at the place I worked…
they where going to pay tips like they always do…
untill some “nice” swede “nicely” pointed out that “here in sweden you don’t have to tip the waiter”. … the movie title “license to kill” went to my head plenty that night.
The worse kustomers to have was mid aged wimen.
They don’t pay for the food, they pay to own you for a couple of hours… just boss around and complain about everything.
I was lucky enough to serve a shower? <- opposite to bachelor-party.
20 some… drunk mid-aged wimen bossing me around for a couple of hours… “can we have this with that instead of that… I didn’t order that… or maybe I did but I have changed my mind…” and so on…
and ofcourse they don’t tell me untill they have finished everything that they want to split the bill and everyone want to pay for what they have eaten.
“I want to pay for this and this and this… and maybe I had that to”…
lousy pay… and here in Sweden the tip is not included…
And since you don’t have to pay it… people don’t.
Wow that sucks…Here in Ireland (and in the rest of the world outside America AFAIK, all of Europe at least) you aren’t required to tip the waiter, yet I have never, ever seen someone not tipping in a restaurant…maybe Swedes are just scabby
Well, even in America you aren’t really required to tip service people (waiters, cab drivers, bellhops, etc.) but you’re a gigantic asshole if you don’t (think Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs). Although there are now some restaurants that tack on a “gratuity” charge to make sure you absolutely have to.
wow. here in Australia we hardly ever tip. I mean, we do, but it’s not expected of you. Nobody cares if you don’t.
I will only tip if the service is exceptional. So, like yr never going to see me tipping a waiter/waitress in London where the service is pathetic at best!
