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No. 675269

I know we have an employment thread, but that's more literal/informational. Have you ever experienced something shitty at work? Did work ever manage to make you quit, cry, go off on someone? Bitch about it here.

No. 675279

>>675269
I work in a professional post-grad setting, and I still deal with people shoving the "the customer is always right" mentality down my throat. I was bitched at by someone and was told by my boss "They're under stress, let it go". Excuse me? I don't talk to people like animals when I'm stressed. I go to my car and cry it out. Not fair how women are expected to be sympathetic all the fucking time. I work with kids too and I don't tolerate bullshit, and when I stand my ground I'm told, "but they're just a kid"! I didn't speak to people like that as a kid.

No. 675284

>>675269
i used to work night shifts at a hotel making buffet breakfast and my manager used to sit and watch me on the cctv while he has was at home. i only know this because he'd call whenever i walked into the kitchen without and apron on (which was always, because i wasn't supposed to wear protective gear outside of the kitchen) and he would come in at like 5am and be like "we need you to stay on til 10am" when i had to be back at 7pm… one day after like 5 phone calls and him coming in to tell me i did everything wrong despite me doing everything the exact same as always. his crazy has had me stand in the corner and watch him as he threw away everything i made and then remade it. i went home and cried and refused to go back to work. i know it was childish but i was 19 and not medicated. still fuck that dude he ruined a good and easy job just by being a total prick.

No. 675293

>>675284
The only one that sounds like they need to be medicated is your boss. Can't imagine literally being at home and deciding to spend time watching the cameras at work. He also seemed to be making his own life harder.

My boss yelled at me because their was a cigarette on one of our outside tables when she walked into work the next morning after my night shift. You realize that literally anyone can sit at those tables from 10pm-10am, and that I can't prevent what happens after my shift is over? She also came up to me one day and went "You think I'm crazy don't you." Yeaahhh.. I quit that job after 6 months, 8.25 an hour wasn't worth it.

No. 675297

>>675284
Nah, you were in the right to say fuck it, anon.
Healthy people don't stay in shitty situations like this. You did good.

No. 675328

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>18, working at shitty retail job
>youngish couple comes in
>say hello, normal polite retail greeting shit
>other guy comes in behind them
>recognize him as contractor who fixes stuff for us
>he asks if my manager is working today, tell him she won't be in until next week
>he thanks me and leaves
>couple is FURIOUS at me for ignoring them in the 4 seconds it took to have this conversation
>they said I gave this guy preferential treatment and ignored them even though they were first in line
>I apologize for talking to the guy first and said I didn't mean to ignore them
>they won't hear it and eventually write a letter about their poor treatment to my manager
Stuff like this happened all the time. It was usually just people wanting free shit/discounts but holy hell dude, I just work here and I'm doing my best.

No. 675365

>>675269
Horror stories? Not really but the insidious nature of the behavior gets under my skin.

So I work in a GDP environment, really strict with the documentation, and since I'm new I need to ask for clarification sometimes.

Anyway, I had to take a breather because new rules keep being introduced or just ignored to benefit the older coworkers who are showing me the ropes and have me put in the effort.

For example, I notice an older coworkers mistake on her paperwork. I point it out to her and she says it's my responsibility to register it in paperwork and all that because I'm the one who noticed it. Not 3 days later, same woman comes up to me and tells me I made the mistake, so I need to register it. Hmm. And it's very small things like that, but it adds up, but it's like…if I brought it up at all it would sound petty? Because as a group we have the same general responsibilities, and it only takes like 5-10 minutes to do. So if I said "uh shouldn't you be doing that?" I come off as lazy.

It has chill enough responsibilities, the manager is so nice and i'm paid well for what I do. But when those instances arise (several times a day), I usually need to take a breather to calm down so i'm not a complete cunt to them.

I mean on top of just a touch exploitative, it also leaves me on shaky ground of knowing what the rules actually are.

Just to add though I've relocated to within walking distance to work versus a 1.5 hour commute each way and it's much much better, I quite like the job I do but I don't want it to be my whole life. I'll never ever get a job with more than a 45 minute commute now, I hope. Now I can do things like shitpost on lolcow in my spare time!

No. 675369

>>675328
Don't take it personal.
They are shitty people.

No. 675373

This isn't a horror story but I'm still pissed about how my asshole coworker stole money from my purse and she was dating the manager so I couldn't even do anything about it, I'm really passive and shy so I ended up just quitting. She always referred to the manager as her husband but he would always talk about how he doesn't want to marry her kek. She's also a failed twitch streamer.

No. 675379

I worked at a Starbucks when I was 20, and some angry guy threw his hot coffee at me through the drive-though window. He was enraged after his coffee had spilt out and burnt his fingers when he took the lid off and drove away. He swung all the way back around to do that.
My manager had me apologize. I quit soon after. People are jerks.

No. 675389

When I was 19 I worked at my local Taco Bell for about 2 weeks before quitting. The day before I had quit, I saw a coworker wearing ankle socks, and I noted this because I was running low on tall socks and was thinking I could wear ankle socks the next day. But I guess that was the ultimate sin because when my manager saw me the next day, she pointed at my ankles (long legs, pants are never long enough, I was too broke to buy a new pair of pants so I was stuck with what I had) and started yelling "UNAPPROPRIATE". (Yep, not INappropriate. UNappropriate, cause she was an illiterate bitch) She yelled at me in front of all my coworkers and the other manager and sent me home to change, so I went home and changed into my pajamas and fucked right off.

Before that job I had a soul-sucking position at Walmart. When I was scheduled to close, I'd have to contact members of management to unlock doors and dumpsters for me, which was already a hassle. One evening though, for some fucking reason the daytime management switched over early to the night time crew, so I was trying to hunt down at least one fucking manager to unlock a few things for me. Ended up being stuck there for nearly 2 fucking hours past my shift end because no one would answer my radio calls, and if I hunted them down on the floor, they'd yell at me because they were with a customer. I was fucking livid. That was a few years ago but I'm still getting heated just typing this lmao.

No. 675422

Not a horror story, just general complaining about a coworker

I want to preface this by saying that I'm not trying to stroke my metaphorical dick, and that I'm not saying I'm the best employee to ever exist. I can follow directions and have a good enough work ethic for someone that was a neet before this job, that's it. In fact, that's what makes this coworker I have so annoying.

I was so damn nervous to start this job, and when I did I was beating myself up for making mistakes… for those first few days, maybe 3 or 4. After learning everything and getting comfortable, I haven't had a problem. And again, I'm no superstar, it's honestly just an easy, low-pressure job. So how is it that my coworker, who has worked here and worked in general much longer than I have, continues to fuck up at least once every single time she's working? I'm the newbie and I'm having to fix shit and apologize to customers on her behalf. They're such dumb fuck-ups too. They're the kind of mistakes that would get shrugged off if done by a new employee, but she's worked here for YEARS. And every time I have to call her to clarify something she fucked up, she doesn't even sound apologetic. At best she'll sound embarrassed. But most of the time she sounds surprised, almost as if she's saying "Oh, I didn't realize I'd have to actually deal with this. Thought that'd come up during YOUR shift."

I hope I never have to meet her in person, even if act nice to someone I'm awful at hiding how I really feel so I'm sure she'd see the irritation in my eyes lol

No. 675427

>>675373
You're kind, anon. I don't know if I would have been able to hold myself back from retaliation.

No. 675430

last year I had a interview for a corporate position at a vehicle rental company. The interviewers said "we've chosen someone for this job but we'd like to hire you for something else" so I took the offer. When I started it seemed like everyone I met from safety workers to Managers also started around the same time I did which was very weird. The job I took was fleet management which I've done before so no big deal. I go into my new office, it was very tiny and all three of the people in my department were squished inside. It was summer and the office would get very hot and my coworkers stunk like gamers. The job itself was extremely repetitive and it stressed me out because if my coworkers took the day off I'd be stuck doing theirs and my duties. After a couple weeks of working I finally met my manager on her first day. She seemed friendly enough and couldn't stop talking about her bratty kid. Few more weeks go by I'm feeling more miserable and stressed so of course I had a mental breakdown. I'm Autistic and was a diversity hire and my new manager/company said they were understanding. I drove home because I couldn't bear to see them like this. My social worker called the company and explained what happened. The next day I was back and my manager dragged me in her office. She said "I wouldn't have hired you if given the choice." and then to top it off she started commenting on my clothing choices and said I dressed like a slut. Which isn't true at all I pay a lot of money to have nice office clothes. After that I just decided right then and there that I'm going back home and never coming back.

No. 675448

i work in a wine store that's essentially the walmart of liquor and i am so tired of the politics. i'm depressed and complacent and make enough money there to pay my rent and live semi comfortably, so i have yet to find something better for the past 3+ years i've been there, but the positions are so stratified it feels like a fucking caste system. i was hired as a cashier, so even though i'm now one of the most senior employees and i have learned a lot about both our products and our selling process, i have to fight to do anything but be stuck on my register. it's been better since covid started, we didn't shut down because "people need their alcohol in times like this! you're an essential business, hyuck hyuck" (don't even get me started on the casual alcoholism i've come to expect working at a liquor store for this long) but we hired a ton of new people. long story short 2 people who were also hired as cashiers but are older than i am have been promoted to the sales team after working there 6 months where i'm still having to fight to "earn" shifts that aren't register, even though i'm constantly busting my ass - i basically set up the online ordering counter since a lot of our business is online now, the entire beer department is me and one other person's responsibility, i trained every new cashier, and sales are consistently above target when i'm the only one on the floor. it's just so frustrating, i hate this job and my store manager seems hellbent on keeping me miserable but now more than ever i feel like i'm trapped there because so many people are out of work.

No. 675450

>>675379
Also worked at Starbucks, some newish barista told a customer we were out of something (I think it was soy milk), so he cursed her out and threw his hot coffee at her.

She wasn't physically hurt luckily, but she was sobbing and the guy just casually strolled away like nothing. It was only like her second week out of training. I think our store called the cops on him but I don't remember what came of it.

Food service is like a whole other world of entitlement.

No. 675452

>>675450
>Food service is like a whole other world of entitlement.

Yep. That’s why I used to spit in peoples food. Felt great watching assholes I eat a fat wad. Not paid enough to care.

No. 675453

My horror story is that I was overworked and doing the jobs of 3-4 people while being the only one in the store all day…for minimum wage. I never complained but out of nowhere my manager goes "Be lucky you don't work at starbucks, this is nothing compared to that" Bullshit. Starbucks workers (I have a few friends who work there) get good hours, pay, benefits, and have a fairly straightforward job. My manager could not stand seeing me sitting down, even if the store was spotless and empty. So glad I got out of there.

No. 675455

>>675452
……. Yeah you're trash

No. 675463

>>675455
NTA but Spitting in people's food is nowhere near as sinful as mistreating a minimum wage employee catering employee.

No. 675470

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I used to work in a very well-known clothing store in Europe, part-time because I was a full-time student. The store is implemented in big cities in big European countries and known for being cheap and convenient and from friends and family it's just normal in other countries. But in mine, no matter the city, the customers were extremely entitles at best, and crazy as fuck at worse. We were mostly students and a few full-time young adults or middle-aged mothers so we often had a bunch of customers with their super noisy brats pointing at us like we were some circus animals, saying shit like "look, if you don't want to end up like these people you have to work hard at school", even though over half of us were studying for prestigious master's degrees.

I was most of the time assigned at the changing rooms, and I can't even count the number of times I've seen puddles or bottles of piss, huge shits, used diapers, etc. in the changing rooms, it happened too many times. There were times where some crazy customers lost things or forgot them there and they're open every cabin while panicking, causing huge fights. This kept happening when the changing rooms became mixed. I've had customers change around stickers to force us to reduce prices for articles that were already dirt cheap and threatening me to sue the company even though I never gave a fuck and couldn't even do anything about it. And then, for some reason, they hired a literal retard to work with us full time, and he was ALWAYS assigned to the same areas of the store so I almost always had to babysit him while dealing with the craziest assholes I've ever seen. All my other coworkers were great though, except my manager and only him. He was an asshole and right before I quit I didn't see him at all and was told he pumped and dumped another manager, they fought over something else and he beat the fuck out of her so maybe he was fired before I left.

Soon before I left to start my slightly less shitty internship, I've had some guy going in the changing rooms without showing me any clothes so I stopped him and told him he had to wait in line if he wanted to try anything or if he was waiting for another customer. He straight up insulted me, showed me a white plastic card to show he was actually part of security, didn't notice he was showing the back of the card so he insulted me and threatened me for being retarded before showing the right side of the card. Which had a company logo that wasn't the security's company AT ALL. I called a supervisor who followed him and told him the things I did and he acted the same way. I then told the asshole manager and he was acting all smug like "oh, really? :) This happened? Are you sure? ;)" because apparently trying some kind of experiment where I'm called a stupid bitch and told I'll be beaten up by a guy twice my size is normal. A injured coworker told me the same guy did the same thing before but he shoved her away, so her injury was even worse for weeks. Literally hell on earth.

No. 675471

>>675463
lmao spitting in food is why you have trash jobs, because you are trash. aspire to get out of the trailer park

No. 675472

>>675471
People have trash jobs because the job market is a shambles and even people with master's degrees have to settle for low pay. Troll

No. 675473

>dumb and 18, trying to work at a clothing store
>job requires us to be attentive helping customers individually
>group of people comes in at the same time, older couple comes up and requests help
>woman stands awkwardly besides them, I assume she's their daughter or something
>helps couple, woman still being awkward
>another lady enters my section so I move to help her
>woman who was standing there gets pissed off, complains to my manager that I'm a racist bitch and storms out of the store
My manager didn't care so it's cool. Wish customers realized that employees aren't always 100% attentive and if you need help, sometimes you've gotta ask or speak up.

>Other notable mentions: woman starts going off on a rant about her bowel movements preventing her from travelling the moment I tell her the daily promos, man tells me to fuck off when I greet him with the standard "welcome," co-workers trying to steal sales from each other even though the number of mentions we receive does NOT translate into a commission or anything

No. 675476

>>675463
What's the point? It makes you equally unhinged imo.

No. 675480

>>675453
Starbucks is easier than some similar jobs, not gonna lie, but you still do several different jobs there. Starbucks baristas are still making coffee, taking out trash, mopping floors, cleaning bathrooms, etc. Trust me anon, it's not that great.

No. 675484

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I used to work 2 days a week for a placement thing at my college. Meaning that I did everything an actual employee was supposed to do without getting paid for a year straight for that sweet E X P E R I E N C E.

It was for an upcoming webdev group that consisted of me doing most of the work while the ones who got paid/received the shoutouts did nothing except gossip and shit-talk the customers. It's been 3 years and I'm still bitter about it, as I still remember them giving me shit for not producing an original(mostly consisted of me having to combine 3 website designs together and then write/transfer most of the text while making fixes after hearing the feedback from the customer) and fully functioning website with more than 8 pages in a day.
God, just thinking about it makes me furious. I looked up their website recently and it's in shambles, so there's that.

No. 675485

>>675470
ughhhh can definitely relate to experiences regarding changing rooms. I used to work at an outlet retail center that was popular among foreign tourists, the amount of people who think fitting room = baby changing room is insane. Also the standard smelly feet smell all the time

Asshole people yelling at you about clothing limits were also hilarious. The families who would park in the stalls and try to skip the limit by constantly sending the kid out to bring back more clothes and then dumping all the returns on me always pissed me off.

No. 675487

>>675453
We had one (1) chair in a small cubby at the back with the rest of the stock. We had to share that chair between us 5 and take turns on it, eating lunch in a literal dark corner like rats so the customers don't see us.

We also had to clean the air filters above the hot grill plate and deep fryers, and the floors were always slippery with oil. We were the main and busiest store of the fast food chain I worked at.

I don't know how anyone hasn't sued their asses so far, guess that's why they mostly hired immigrants.

No. 675490

>>675470
I'm so sorry anon, I've had to deal with entitled zoomers/boomers and the great unwashed on several occasions in food service but I can't imagine how much worse it is in retail. You guys have it the worst, hope you're doing better wherever you're at now.

Just for the record, can you give a hint what the store where you used to work was so I can avoid it and not give them any money? Shmull and Shmear? Shmershka? Shmap? SH&M? Shmara?

No. 675491

I worked at a nursing home as an aide and the entire time was basically a horror story.

No. 675492

>>675427
I really do wish I could've done something. One of these days I'm gonna show up on her twitch stream and call her a thief.

No. 675498

>>675492
What's her twitch handle, if you don't mind me asking? I'm curious about what she looks like, with the way you describe her she sounds like a trainwreck.

No. 675502

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i work for a public library in a pretty populated urban area and the shit i witness on a daily basis…

we have a lot of homeless people come in, which is fine for the most part. usually they mind their own business, use the computer, go to the bathroom, etc. but every now and again we'll get one with very obvious mental health issues, more specifically schizophrenia. i had one lady try to convince me that someone sneaks into the library after we close to spray pepper spray on the public computer keyboards because she knew what it felt like on her fingers. name dropped "beverly connely" and how she MUST BE STOPPED AT ALL COSTS!!! tried to get her to speak to a branch manager but when i suggested that she freaked out and said she couldnt speak to authority and literally ran out the building

No. 675506

>>675502
same anon, but the branch manager has also explicitly said she "hates poors" and wishes we we could vet "good patrons for library cards", constantly watches the moves of every single black person that comes in, and doesn't understand why "poor people dont work harder"

No. 675507

>>675491
Im a part time caregiver for disabled people and same. It's fun sometimes and I like the people mostly but its a (literal) shit show. I've been assaulted many times, one time I was given a concussion by a male client, my coworkers are irresponsible assholes and often worse to deal with than the clients, and I've cleaned up every bodily fluid imaginable.

No. 675508

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super long but gouging my eyes out story
>worked at a gym doing regular stuff like front desk shit, cleaning machines, helping people learn how to use machines, yelling at people for safety reasons etc
>we have a regular bill (not his real name) come in all the time, he’s old and fat and does nothing but sit in the sauna all day and try to flirt with every girl barf
>he hits on the smoothie girl (we had little places inside like a massage therapy room and a full smoothie bar) and she was not about that life so she called him out
>he comes back the next day and is mad when she’s ignoring him for customers who are actually up at her counter taking orders
>he starts screaming at her and doing shit like stealing straws and napkins, knocking over place cards on tables etc
>when we tell him to knock it off the cops are coming he runs away to the men’s locker room
>my shithead manager is talking with the cops and tells me to fetch him out of the locker room
> “I’m sorry the men’s?”
> “yes”
> “what if he’s naked?”
> “the cops will be right behind you”
>he got to stand there laugh and talk shit with the cops while I had to fetch him
>called out to the locker room there was a female entering so everyone could scramble for a towel
>we don’t see him
> cop piped up “is that him over there?”
>old fat man showering, not hearing anyone saying excuse me
>I shout his name and the man turns around, it’s bill
>ohgodmyeyesmyeyes.jpg
>tell the cops that’s him and I make a bee line for the door
>tell my manager he’s an asshole, bill was very much naked. manager acts surprised the resident creep known to be fully naked in the locker room on the regular would in fact be naked
>spend the rest of my day staring at the wall wondering how I got here

I’m glad I left that job, there were a lot of other horror stories too like injuries, bodily fluid, etc. 0/10 would not recommend working at a gym

No. 675509

>>675508
picture isn’t suppose to be a spoiler image rip

No. 675519

>>675485
>The families who would park in the stalls and try to skip the limit by constantly sending the kid out to bring back more clothes and then dumping all the returns on me always pissed me off.
That wasn't allowed, if you left you had to go back in line again. Products didn't have any of those devices that make noises if you try to steal them and leave so we had strict rules in the changing rooms, so middle aged moms who were trying that shit would regularly lose their shit at us. And fuck the ones with strollers. Most of the time their strollers were empty because their kids could walk just fine but they'd still go to stores with them and bump into everyone so my legs were always bruised, or bump into everything and making clothes fall so we'd have to rearrange every perpetually.

>>675490
Zoomers never shopped here unless they knew there wouldn't be too many customers, they knew it was a shithole. The store's name starts with P and that's all I'm gonna say.

No. 675530

I'm a personal care assistant and one of my patients (? Esl, not sure if this is the right term) has a really, really nasty yeast infection that just keeps coming back. I have to put all kinds of different medical creams up her cooch every day and I'm so, so sick of it. The smell makes me gag and it's gotten strong enough that I can smell it from like two feet away.
And before you ask, yes she's been to a gyno and like two different doctors but nothing is helping.

No. 675532

>>675530
This just ruined my fucking day

No. 675538

>>675530
Maybe she has something physically in there? Have they checked?

No. 675548

I was working at an internet cafe for my first job and ended up making eye contact with a guy as he was masturbating at the very back of the shop. I was so fucking mortified and disgusted. Someone there called the cops but he walked out way before they got to the cafe. It's not even like the computers were set up for privacy either, he just started going at it and was looking at Google images.

No. 675553

>>675532
Lmao I'm sorry anon.

>>675538
I don't know the details but she has seen several medical professionals and afaik they haven't found anything that could be causing the yeast infections. I suggested her new bidet might be causing fecal bacteria to get into her vagina, causing the infections but she stopped using it and the problem persists. It's been over a month by now, I think? Two months? Idk but I've started feeling incredibly anxious about going to work because of it.

No. 675558

I worked in a place were my boss was a Brazilian woman

Then I saw in my work computer's browsing history pornhub entries about "Brazilian Milfs" and "Sexy middle aged Brazilian women"

Shortly after I got fired for unknown reasons.

I wonder if someone set me up and then showed them the browsing history saying it was probably me LMAO

No. 675650

Should've named this "Workers' Revolution Thread", OP.

No. 675666

>>675422
i snitched on her to my manager, fingers crossed she isn't as spiteful as i've been told lol

No. 675743

>>675279
Damn, I like you anon. Working in the customer is right mentality is always tough. Been in Retail 10+ years. I am trying to get out of this field.

No. 675745

>>675422
It sounds like you work at starbucks. I have the same issue with a coworker as well. Hang in there, anon

No. 675774

ESL-chan here. Last year I was doing an internship at a university-funded lab and it was great, I loved working there, my supervisor was the best and he was like a mentor to me.

We had a Christmas party and the whole lab got together, including the lab's big boss. BB started talking to me about my interests (photography and modelling?) and eventually asks my instagram handle, and I stupidily gave it to him so he could see my work.

Fast forward, he texted me proposing money for sex since I was "doing that anyway on instagram". I showed the texts to my supervisor and he was livid, and encouraged me to go to our "HR" to report it.
HR guy decided to fire me for "being too agitated and speaking rudely" when reporting what happened. Supervisor tried to fight for me but they also threatened his job.

And that's how I learned men, specially powerful ones, are untouchable. And they will cover each other no matter what.

No. 675777

>>675774
>HR guy decided to fire me for "being too agitated and speaking rudely" when reporting what happened.
Fucking hell, I'd lawyer up. That's absurd.

No. 675779

>>675774
My SO just recommended going public after I read this out loud.

The company's image is all that matters. Save everything, make it viral. Destroy him.

No. 675783

I graduated college during the 2008 recession and ended up taking a job at a local printing shop so my family would stop yelling at me for being a failure. I should've acknowledged the red flags at the interview when the owner of the place decided to meet me at a fucking pizza restaurant for the interview and would pause every 5 minutes to look at TV behind me and rant about the newsfeed. He gave me a single-sheet contract for employment that was basically minimum wage with no benefits whatsoever. I told him I'd look it over and get back to him later that week. No other interviews came through so my parents told me to take the job while looking for something else. I emailed him the next day accepting the offer. It was one of the worst decisions of my life to this day.

Despite giving appearances of doing well, the company was in shambles. The guy had tons of outstanding bills and would do jobs without a down payment. It was only three people working there: me, the boss, and a graphic designer. Everyone else quit. My degree is in marketing/PR and the boss told me that my position was "flexible". Turns out that I was a glorified maid/secretary. The boss and the graphic designer would sit at their desks watching youtube videos and whenever the phone rang, none of them would answer it. The boss told me that I was always supposed to pick up first then transfer the call to him, to give the appearance of "professionalism". It took nearly three weeks to get my first payday and when it finally came around, the check wasn't properly filled out. I was so embarrassed at the bank because they flagged it for fraud and I was lucky to not get arrested.

Whenever the guys made a mess in the office I was expected to clean it up. On a snowy day, the graphic designer came through the back door and made a mess on the stairs. Instead of making a comment to the guy, he instead called me to the back of the office and told me that I "didn't bring value to his company". The graphic designer also had the keys to the office and was responsible for opening in the morning. There were numerous times that I stood outside the building and the guy showed up an hour late. The boss would then complain around payroll time about my late check-ins, saying that I "didn't take the job seriously." He would also complain when I looked out the window because it "made him feel like I didn't like my job."

There was another incident where a bunch of random orders were placed on the boss' credit card and the graphic designer openly blamed me for it when all of the charges were made before I even started working there. I had to search the company email archive myself and prove it wasn't me. I presented the evidence to the boss. Once again, instead of reprimanding the GD the boss told us both that he "wasn't going to go on a witch hunt" and "we should all try and work together". Between all this I overheard countless off-hand, thinly veiled misogynistic comments made by the boss while on the phone with his friends. The boss also forced us to work on Christmas Eve during a fucking blizzard when the whole city was shut down. There was nothing to do, so he had me stuff old invoices into envelopes that eventually got thrown out.

On New Years day he demanded we all show up at 630am for a "team meeting". I got there around 650am because the bus I took got stuck in the snow and I had to transfer to a different one. I explained myself but he yelled at me and I burst into tears despite myself because I was so damn sleepy and emotionally broken by the stress of working there. I still hadn't found another job and my family didn't support me quitting. The boss never apologized about the incident, and instead pretended nothing happened. I quit about three weeks after that when he accused me of cheating the clock and going on 3 hour lunch breaks despite the fact that my desk was 6 feet away from his (so he always saw where I was), there were security cameras, and I sent emails to clients during the supposed times I wasn't there. He also threatened to dock my pay by one hour for every 5 minutes I was late showing up in the morning or returning from lunch, which is illegal. At that point I finally stopped listening to my family and decided to stick up for myself. I walked out of the office during his reprimand and never went back. My parents were mad but I couldn't take anymore.

It took me a year to decompress from that job. It was truly the worst and most abusive ordeal I ever went through. It was the first job I ever had in my life and I didn't know better.

No. 675796

Hey guys I know COVID fucked employment but there are actually a lot of entry level jobs in my bumfuck town, so I imagine everywhere else too. Might not pay good but if you are already getting paid little might as well get out of your toxic environment.

>>675448
Don't settle anon! Start looking for jobs, lie in your resume about your position (like calling yourself cashier/team leader, instead of cashier, small things like that). Being stuck in a bad work environment can get so bad for your mental health. I wish you luck

No. 675831

>>675519
I know excatly the shop. How did you handle all those fumes? I wish this company would just die!

No. 675835

I worked at a fast food place. It was worse job I ever had. I had my boss yell at me for stuff only to realize that I did do it right. Not a single apology from her bitch ass.
The night I quit. I was working late and I was doing closing because my night boss liked me a lot and I got shit done. We went to lock the doors up and the front door lock was fucking broken. We call up our district manager and get told to put jumper cables on it because it wasn't their issue right now. So my old co worker left to get some and they couldn't even lock the door because it was a push door but we had to try because big boss said so. I was on edge and feeling off due to the whole not being able to lock the front door. The store lights were all turned off in the front and closed sign was up. I'm cleaning up and my co worker looks out into the lobby and then whispers that she saw a man crouching and moving towards the bathrooms. Keep in mind there are four people: me , another young female,middle aged woman,and an old short man. So my old co worker he goes to the bathroom and finds five men waiting in there. We had to threaten to call the cops and I was so scared because it wasn't like any of us could fight back. Not to mention why were they hiding in the bathroom at 2 am in an entirely dark store.
I just decided to quit because I'm not going to get raped or killed for some stupid job where basic locks fixes are put off.

No. 675839

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>be me
>18 and first job working in an office
>boss is 34 year old woman named Sandy
>starts asking inappropriate questions day 1
>ignore it
>Talks constantly about her ex-bf that used her credit cards to run up 30k debt then dipped
>come in one day with hair done in a certain not common at all way
>next day she comes in with hair the same way
>keeps copying shit about me but it's whatever, compliment her on her hair because i feel bad for her dumped and in-debt ass
>Sandy does run to store for drinks quite often
>Ask for a juice
>brings everyone back what they want
>bring me back sugar free shit i didn't ask for
>does this whenever i ask for anything when she goes so stop asking
>I'm 150lbs lighter than Sandy, 2 inches taller and normal weight
>ignore it because it's obvious these are her own issues
>Get a common cold, still come into work
>She calls me into back room away from work
>tells me i'm pregnant
>what? No i'm not
>yes you are
>argues with me about it until i cry
>tries to add me on facebook where she goes by the name "flirty Cinderella"
>ignore her
>big boss leaves for a week
>guy who runs the warehouse we own and our orders ship from has too much work to do, needs inventory taken, freaking out
>nice guy who always invited me out for social drinks with warehouse lads, never inappropriate, offer to help them with inventory after work hours
>"thank you so much anon just let flirty cinderella know you'll be staying late"
>Let old flirty know in front of another department manager
>"no"
>"ok, but it's after work hours and they're struggling"
>shouts at me no
>go to warehouse and let guy know
>he gets mad and calls her to chew her out
>tells me she does this because warehouse boys don't invite her anywhere because they hate her
>tells me she's a jealous bitch
>go home, whatever. Ignore it.
>big boss comes back
>get called into office
>SLAMS his fists on his desk
>demands to know why I "barked at Sandy like a dog"
>Wait what
>crying
>he's still slamming
>literally can't get my words out
>not sure if he's accusing me of actually barking???
>manage to splutter out other department managers name that saw the interaction
>Boss thinks he's calling my bluff by calling the other guy in
>big boss LOVES this other guy
>"ok guy tell me about when anon screamed at sandy"
>other guy looks confused
>checks big boss is talking about time I came in to ask to go to warehouse
>"yes and Sandy said she snapped"
>"she didn't raise her voice. she just asked and left."
>big boss asks AGAIN
>"she didn't raise her voice who told you she did?"
>"Sandy"
>big boss kicks other guy out of office
>I get up and walk out because i'm shaking and hyperventilating like the dub teen I am
>Sandy standing outside office door
>Hugs me and i stand there numb and just let her do it
>"so sorry babe you have to learn to behave"
>Pick up my bag, walk out go over to warehouse
>Tell them I quit and why
>Never go back to work. write a letter saying i'm not returning because of Sandy so it's on file.
>a month later nice guy from warehouse invited me out with them for a drink and catch up
>they tell me they all flipped at big boss
>none of the orders get run over before the cut off time because Sandy too fat to walk to warehouse
>Sandy screaming constantly since I left because the big boss just gave her my job to do on top of her own
>she never gets to go home on time
>nobody apparently realized how much work I was doing to keep warehouse running on time until I left
>feels good
>Sandy ARRIVES to the pub, uninvited.
>walks up to our booth and says hello to me
>completely ignore her
>drinks at the bar alone then leaves

This woman absolutely broke me down. I looked her up on facebook, she's still going by flirty cinders at over 40 years of age. She lost weight but still ugly and got dumped again. Rot bitch.

No. 675850

>>675835
Make a LinkedIn profile. If your cute, use a cute picture. If you didn't graduate college, lie and say you went for two years and dropped out. Or if you have some money take a paid online class at Stanford and put it on your profile-99% of the time recruiters are too lazy to figure out the difference.

Try to get an internship or entry level job in marketing, market research, software sales, whatever interests you. If you can get your profile looking nice recruiters will reach out to you. Even if you live in the middle of nowhere, most professional jobs are hiring remote now because of COVID anyways.

I know how ridiculous that sounds, but it works. Tbh it helps if you're young and moderately attractive (explains lack of experience, being attractive subconsciously makes you a more appealing hire), but you could probably still pull it off otherwise.

No. 675853

>>675850
nta but this really helped me and i'm going to try. I'm in the middle of nowhere so I felt something like linkedin was useless for me. thanks.

No. 675854

>>675774
agree with the other anons, you can take legal action . Destroying company image is a good idea too, you need to take advantage of the current "me to" period we are living in

No. 675855

>>675839
Glad you got out of that place and nearly everyone else (rightly) took your side, anon. She sounds like a nightmare.

No. 675928

>>675839
I worked at a warehouse once when I was pretty young, I got tormented from a middle aged woman because some 35 year old balding dude she was obsessed with allegedly had a crush on me. I am and was at the time a lesbian. The harassment went on and on until she saw a girl kiss me while she was in the freezer. She got terrified she’d be written up for harassing someone gay (she apparently had a write up for treating a gay co manager poorly) and kept referring to me as “a cool chick” and developed a complete 180. I ended up becoming work friends with the guy she was obsessed with just to spite her, she transferred to another store, I was smug. She copied my hair too. Skinwalkers don’t grow out of being pathetic directionless people apparently. Some of the worst work harassment I’ve ever had has been from jealous older women trying to fuck their way through whatever company they’re in.

No. 675932

>>675928
>Some of the worst work harassment I’ve ever had has been from jealous older women trying to fuck their way through whatever company they’re in.

Reading this reminded me of when I was 16 and got a job waitressing at a pub. A 45 year old woman made me her target because she was jealous that the dirty, gross, old drunks that sat at the end of the bar from opening to close were being gross about me, a literal child.

I'm in my late 20s now and I can't imagine treating a teenage girl like that. Especially over something as petty as my own desire for male attention.

No. 675934

>>675835
Holy shit anon, I'm glad you left.

Sorry to other anons ITT like >>675783 >>675839

who have had to work with abusive assholes too, people love to take advantage of their positions.

This one >>675774
should sue or at least #metoo it up.

No. 675939

>>675455
If someone is being so repulsive that you want to spit on their food, they surely deserve it. This doesn’t bother me because I’m kind to service workers.

No. 675950

>>675939
How do you know they're not the kind that spits on the food over small things? Don't get me wrong, I hate karens too, but there might be people who do this just for the sake of it.

No. 675959

>>675939
No I'm sorry but it's gross as fuck. It's not that I don't believe a lot of customers truly deserve it, it's just that a person that would even consider doing something like that has such low morals I don't think they'd make the decision on who to do it to fairly. I've been screamed at and swung at by customers and I still wouldn't do that because it's beneath me and proves nothing to anyone.

No. 675979

>>675959
If I ever worked in a restaurant setting, I’d 100% do it again. I have zero scruples at this point. Good on you for caring though.

No. 675982

>>675979
stopping giving people your aids trailer trash-chan

No. 675987

>>675979
Edgy badass anon has to point out that she just don't care, aw yeah

No. 675988

>>675959
Blech, I'm autistic as fuck and come off as rude when I don't mean to because I speak in a monotone way and I'm always so scared I'll come off as rude to a food service worker and get spit in my food or drink. You never know what little thing will tip some psycho off.

No. 675992

I keep getting accused of being rude through online working.I'm typing in the most formal, civil matter, saying thank you whenever possible, and I'm told that I come off as cold and rude. It's making me really upset. I'm just trying to do my job. It's not my fault you can't hear my tone or anything through email.

No. 675998

My current horror story is that our workplace is supposed to have the schedule made two weeks in advance and the manager only finishes it the day the pay week begins. I’ve had my schedule changed four times since last Monday.

The one positive is that I missed some drunk/sick guy projectile vomiting all over himself and the floors because it happened on my day off

No. 676002

>>675507
I worked in a group home for autistic people and they somehow thought it was a good idea to have young women working with a 300lb guy with explosive, violent tendencies. This guy attacks me out of nowhere, tackles me, and rips a piece of my hair out. My coworkers who are supposed to help just stood and watched the whole time. I took myself outside to get some distance and he followed me, tried to slam me on the pavement, and started banging on the hoods of cars. My boss thought I needed to apologize to this person who just viciously assaulted me. I only got paid around $10/hour too. I went to the doctor just to make sure I was ok after and he keeped reccomending I press charges against the kid. Honestly, I put more blame on my boss who put this kid in an environment he clearly wasn't suited for. He also really mislead me when I was hired about what behaviors I would be dealing with.

No. 676003

>>675982
I feel like you’re trying so hard to make them feel lesser than you because you are the kind of person that deserves to have spit in your food.

No. 676012

>>675992
Sounds like that thing where women are expected to say please, sorry and thank you in every fucking interaction.

No. 676028

>>675992
Can you write your name in a way which it could be mistaken for a man's?
Women use an insane amount of exclamation marks in their emails because of the social norm to be positive and friendly at all times, and now I'm even seeing emoji use become normal.

No. 676030

>>675992
i've read a lot of posts from women who are working remotely lately and they say that they have to lay on sprinklings of warmth and calculated exclamation points to convey enthusiasm or appreciation, the occasional thoughtfully placed smiley face into their work emails for the same reason.
it's always been a bit of an issue but with more people working from home and tensions outside of the workplace being higher it's becoming more pronounced. it sounds frustrating and i agree with the other anon, i feel like if you were male, people would quietly appreciate your efficiency at what you do and your professional tone instead. i doubt the male colleagues of those women have to sit and edit their emails each time to coddle their coworkers. i also doubt that the people who project a cold tone onto a basic, neutral work email consider how this might (over time) damage morale or make it annoying to do your job, even though they expect you to consider their irrational feelings and act accordingly.

No. 676051

At my old job people would lie about their family members dying so they could get extra days off.

No. 676071

>>675508
Wtf is there really not some rule in place that makes it so only male employees can go into the men's lockers and vice versa? I feel like your manager is a creep and wanted you to go in and see something horrible. Glad you got to leave that job though anon.

No. 676074

>>676051
My friend made up an entire fake trip to Brazil to her manager and its still the funniest thing in the world to me. She ended up quitting and recently got hired at a different place and that same manager was working there and asked about the trip. Its shitty but so fucking funny to me

No. 676078

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Worked at a pet hotel that also had grooming salon. The manager was absolutely insane and so many horrible things happened there. I have seen many people's pets get sick and some die due to negligence on management and not to mention how run down everything was. One time this bird was boarding and when dogs were being brought into kennels, one of them was able to open a door due to it being faulty and he killed the bird, got blamed on someone who had nothing to do with it. Poor girl got screamed at and fired when its the fault of management for not fixing broken things. My manager made staff put bird in the freezer and refused to call the owners for quite some time. I've seen dogs get giardia and get very ill because management refused to do anything about getting proper flooring to sanitize. One dog ended up with bloat over a holiday and couldn't be saved. A dog died over a weekend and manager put it in the groom salon for 2 days before doing anything, left a huge stain on the floor. Horror story that happened before I worked there: a dog in a playgroup was mauled to death by a few others. When I started working in the groom salon things didn't get better. We had to work on aggressive animals that were a huge safety hazard to not only us but themselves as well. She would book us so full that instead of 8 hour days it was more like 10 because she wouldn't let us leave, just kept adding dogs to the schedule. Also wouldn't let us take lunches or breaks without freaking out about it. Manager's dog was dying and she wouldn't stay with him so we made him comfortable in his last moments and didn't leave him alone. She neglected her dogs grooming to the point her dog was in pain so we bathed her, de-matted, and clipped her overgrown nails. Manager yelled at us for it as if she was ever going to take care of that poor dog. She used to groom and can hardly see so I've witnessed her cut animals while doing clips, shaved a whole nipple off a cat. I've seen her straight up let animals fall off the groom table, leave them in dryers unattended, let them sit in the dryers with piss and shit in it and leave it for us to clean. She was disgusting. She also tried to give my job away behind my back for no reason, once I found out about it all my coworkers and even the owner of the business told her you can't just give someone's job away because you feel like it. Idk how this was never brought up to have her fired, but a supervisor told us that one time the manager came in and was freaking out like crying and she said sometimes she feels like bringing a gun and shooting us all. I was so scared for my safety having someone like that in charge. The owners randomly wanted to do an overhaul of how the salon works and then it into a corporate like petco, and they told us we would no longer be able to cater to animal's special needs unless an owner pays more for it. I was done at that moment. We had alot of clients with skin issues and we were known for taking extra time and attention to give these poor animals what they deserve. Manager straight up told me to use normal shampoo on a dog that has severe dermatitis to where he needs special antifungal shampoo. I will never be forced to do something I think is unethical so a business can make more money so I left. It hurt to quit because I grew to know these animals as if they were my own pets and I miss them. But I cried so much working there and had constant panic attacks. My mental health is so much better now that I'm not dealing with crazy people being in charge making unethical decisions.

No. 676080

>>675519
its primark anon
>>675490

No. 676083

>>675519
OT but women with prams/strollers/buggies are the most obnoxious people ever. they're always in the way and the look of horror if you get in their way/don't move for them

No. 676085

>>675774
Anon this is OUTRAGEOUS. you have to take this higher. crowdfund for a lawyer. How the fuck can you let someone violate you like this?! He will do this to more women. Anon please. At least doxx him and leak his texts. Please.

No. 676089

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>me, 18 crippling social anxiety
>first day canvassing in the most busy parts of LA
>have to stand outside in one spot and convince people to give money to this shitty organization
>stuttering mess. couldn't memorize a word from my script
>"d-d-d-do you want to h-help f-f-fight the t-trump administration…"
>no one comes up to me except scrotes trying to hit on me
>only 2 hours into the day start having the most gnarly panic attack to date
>thinking of how I could run away and get a bus back home without stealing the company ipad
>vision going dark over and over again, feeling like I'm about pass out
>tears rolling down my cheeks as I read "d-d-do you support immigrants" off a crumpled piece of paper into a crowd of faces
>anxiety affects my stomach badly so I keep running into the Starbucks to empty my bowels
>failing to hold back the tears and havent gotten a single cent from anyone yet
>can't speak half the time, getting cold sweats trying not to literally shit myself
>large Armenian family points and laughs at my suffering
>nerdy white guy pities me and slips a $5
>shift finally ends and all the other canvassers have tallied up their donations to an average of $70
>hand them my lone 5 dollar bill, still in the midst of the longest panic attack I've ever had, can't speak at all since my throat is closed
>they think I'm having some sort of medical episode so I have to shake my head wildly when they ask if I need an inhaler or something


I called the next day to quit and never picked up my paycheck out of humiliation. I ended up working retail for a year with only mild anxiety, but the lesson here is to treat mental illness instead of just try to bulldoze it. I don't know why that day went so catastrophically but I will never forget feeling like the most pathetic bitch in the world.

No. 676099

I would bet money that the boss I had for my first job had some kind of untreated cluster-B personality disorder. He would scream at me and call me a retard in front of customers. He would even pick fights with his own customers. He’d yell at me for doing something X way when clearly it should be done Y way, then the next day he’d yell at me for doing it Y way because obviously it should be done X way. He’d constantly tell me that he normally doesn’t hire girls because girls are stupid and useless. Sometimes he’d prepare snacks for the employees at random points during the day. He’d call us over to him in this sickly sweet sing-song voice and we’d never know whether he was going to feed us or scream at us. Once when I was about to head home he blocked my path, stared me straight in the eyes, knocked something off a shelf and said “Where do you think you’re going? Look what you did! Clean that up!”

We had a lot of repeat customers who’d witnessed him blatantly abusing his teenage employees and other customers countless times but for some reason kept coming back. They’d say “that’s just how he is”. What does that even mean? Even my own mother continued going to his shop after I’d told her how he treated me, and despite being present when I quit and he screamed at me that I was a cold-hearted bitch.
It’s been almost a decade and I still have nightmares about that place sometimes.

No. 676108

>>676074
I told my workplace I had to go to South Africa for 2 weeks for a funeral. I got 4 weeks off because of quarantine and paid the whole time. I quit a few weeks after.

No. 676109

>>676089
anon i'm so sorry, that's so rough. i felt my stomach trying to climb out of my throat reading this. well done for getting the hell out and finding something better for you

No. 676110

>>676078
holy shit anon that was a ride

No. 676115

>>676078
that is absolutely horrifying

No. 676116

>>676089
I really felt for you, every sentence
>, but the lesson here is to treat mental illness instead of just try to bulldoze it
Spot on, I grew up struggling with anxiety and my parents expected me to just go from being housebound to diving into intense interactions where I couldn't escape. What you described is what happens when you take that route. Glad you didn't retreat to full hermit mode after that. You'd be tempted to lol

No. 676124

>>676108
queen shit

No. 676144

I work front desk for a facility which serves the disabled.
>A woman held me up for an entire day trying to convince me she was a traveling socialite looking for an exclusive beachfront home (she was homeless and didn't want to be housed with black people)
>A man held it against me personally for not knowing he fell down on a sidewalk 30 miles away; he threatened to block my front door with his wheelchair and protest unless I paid him $50,000
>A homeless man who visits our office once a week to rant about suing the police started harassing a completely unrelated business down the street because I wasn't there
>They installed a panic button specifically for if he shows back up
This job is great.

No. 676145

A mother made her young child pick up a used needle she found outside of our store in order to get compo…..only the property she found the needle on wasnt ours and so she got nothing. I was the person who had to deal with her, and she was fucking pissed. We had footage of her instructing her child to pick up the needle….

No. 676152

>>676145
that's fucked up

No. 676154

Thank god for this thread. I'm on my second burnout of 2020 and feeling very cynical

No. 676158

>>675928
I remember one specific incident where this happened with a younger coworker. I was like 21 and she was 18, her first job, etc. She was an absolute bitch to me for no reason, except that some guy (also younger than me) that she liked apparently had a crush on me.

I barely interacted with either of them, but she went out of her way to start shit, like going to the managers if I was late by 2 minutes or made any minor mistake/did something not by the books. This shit went on for almost a year before another manager finally chewed her out and told her to stop acting like a child. I hope she got over this pickme phase.

No. 676165

ive been a nurse for 2 months and had my ass touched by literal tards twice now and i dont know how to feel about it. one has most his brain missing and the others retarded from birth
dont know if i should be angry or horrified or accept it as aok since they dont understand how sexual harassment work, or so i presume

No. 676175

>>676165
I'm sorry you have to deal with this anon. Unfortunately it's something you will likely continue to face at work, but that doesn't mean it's okay. You can recognize that the men doing it don't have the capacity to understand it's wrong, but also recognize that you don't like it and it's still an affront to your autonomy. Are there other female nurses you can speak with about how to handle it, whether that's regarding attempts at prevention and/or dealing with the emotional aftermath?

No. 676197

>>676165
Is there any way you could electrify your ass to deliver a mild electric shock when touched? Presumably these guys learned not to touch the stove, right?

No. 676213

>>676165
anon i'm sorry, you shouldn't have to accept it as okay but unfortunately as a female nurse you're going to get groped and harassed a LOT, and only sometimes will it be by literal tards that don't realize what they're doing… i'm not trying to tell you to suck it up, it's awful, but all my nurse friends have basically accepted it as an inevitability. all you can really do is ask to not have that patient, but depending on your workplace and how busy it is, you'll probably still have to interact with them. medicine is a tough field, especially for nurses where everything happens "behind closed doors" so to speak. even the male nurses i know get sexually harassed on the job

No. 676222

>>675470
What the fuck is it with people and shitting in changing rooms?

No. 676248

Another Primark anon here, apart for the occasional shit in the changing room the worst part was when I was hanging up stock on one of those big trolleys. Woman with a pram comes up and tells me to move I tell her I can't and that she can go another way. She asks me again and say the same thing, 10 seconds later I thought she went away. This bitch, rams the pram right at the back of me and ended up snapping my tendon at the back on my ankle. I had to quit but got an alright amount of money when I had to go to court about it, but defiantly not enough for all the pain it caused.

No. 676267

>>676197
Anon they’re literally retarded. I’m a nurse too and all nurses deal with it. If you can’t take the heat, you shouldn’t be a nurse. Expecting a literal tard to know right from wrong?

No. 676289

>>675796
thanks, anon. i appreciate the advice, i have updated my resume a bit and put in at a few data-entry type jobs. i just hope something comes out of it, i'm sick of retail… that said i salute everyone in food service, i dunno how anyone does it.

No. 676326

Just accidentally received an email from a client who was talking SHIT ABOUT ME. Meant to send it to my coworker. Worst part is google chat allows you to delete your messages within the first few seconds and the deleted it and tried to pretend like it was never sent. I slightly addressed it to him but he pretended like it never happened , and I couldn't go in on him because I didn't have a screenshot to prove it because he deleted his message.

No. 676336

>>676248
Omg anon please tell me you took the bitch for everything she had. I'm legitimately angry for you.

No. 676344

>>676248
I'm the Primark anon who complained about the piss and shit in changing rooms and the tard diversity hire coworker and that shit with the pram was my biggest fear. I would have lost it and thrown her pram with the baby in it at the bitch. Did you sue the woman or your workplace? How did that go exactly? Are you doing ok now?

No. 676402

>>676145
Please report this somehow. Please.

No. 676440

>>676030
Had to do this. I have a very formal academic way of writing.
Even with the right amount of please and thank you. Collegues started asking why I was rude and cold like this.
Meanwhile, a male collegue used to write just in the subject things like "THIS THING IS NOT WORKIIIING". No more information, blank email.

No. 676448

Oh boy my previous job was a ride.
>night shift at a call center, pretty chill since few people called at those unholy hours so we were mostly doing admin tasks
>at the same time I got in someone from the morning shift got transfered to the night one as a manager
>everyone but me knew about her antics
>literal landwhale late 40s Karen style wearing miniskirts or minidresses
>always munching on cookies or candy
>I will never forget the time a coworker made me look at her while she was sitting with her legs wide open and her fucking belly was hanging under the dress between her legs
>had her shift changed because she was an absolute asslicker and bitch
>bitches to our supervisor about everything we do wrong (aka not behaving like robots)
>supervisor is a sweet woman who takes our side
>landwhale manages to lick boss's ass and gets supervisor in trouble, still they can't fire supervisor because she's doing a perfect job, the only issue is she isn't whipping us like slaves
>supervisor takes a liking on me because I tend to stay away from drama and tries to promote me to manager (I didn't want a promotion, it was a lot more work for just a hundred more a month)
>landwhale finds out, oh boy
>starts bullying me into oblivion
>no calls? "anon will do all the admin work"
>"finished the admin work? redo it just because"
>at some point I already know more than her about procedures and colleagues ask me to help them
>"why are you asking anon? she's not your manager. why are you asking me? can't you see I'm busy? ask anon."
>whenever me or people I got along with had some question she gave wrong answers on purpose so we got in trouble
>this resulted in work being postponed until our supervisor could help us, boss isn't pleased
>landwhale eventually manages to push all the work she can on me with no right to complain while she and her asslickers do fuck all
>eventually start getting panic attacks and wishing a car would hit me on the way to work so I don't have to put out with her
>go to the doctor and tell everything, doctor puts me on medical leave for a month but says I have to quit
>send quit notice by mail since I don't want to see her fucking mug anymore
>Find an admin job within a month I'm plenty qualified for due to this bitch pushing all the work on me
>More than 2 years since I quit, never been happier

I still have friends there and karma still didn't hit that bitch. At least now they're working from home so they don't have to stand her bitching.

No. 676477

>>676344
Security managed to to hold her up after one of the workers told them to stop her from leaving, police showed up looked at the cctv footage and arrested the woman. In the end she got 120 days community service and I got paid out by my insurance and manager. Still makes me angry when I think about it, I couldn't work for almost 10 months.

No. 676482

>>676344
I also worked in Primark and holy shit I feel like we're the same person.

I worked fitting rooms and used to find piles of shit, used tampons and puddles of piss that people used our clothes to try and mop up?? And the worst of all was a positive pregnancy test lmao, the public have no shame and the managers don't give a sbit

No. 676644

My first retail job was at a skincare boutique in my local mall. My lead manager was (literally) some old trashy bitch from the high desert, and her and the assistant manager fucked up the store really badly after the lead ran off the old team.

I have no idea what her problem was, but she was abusive and low key racist. She only wanted Chinese people shopping at the store, made passive aggressive comments around me about black people being exaggerating monkeys, and I presume, talking mad shit about me behind my back.

They both did that game where nothing you do is ever good enough - I was too aggressive when I was trying to sell and be confident, but then when I was quiet because they kept accusing me of “scaring customers” (because I am the scary negro uwu) even though I never once got a complaint and I liked my customers. Soooo I was obviously “depressed” and had mental issues. I was never told my hours, got yelled at and pushed into the register during some stupid interrogation because “the manager was afraid of me”, and how I was so mean and terrifying and couldn’t be trusted working the floor, and other crazy shit I can’t be arsed to remember now.

I also suspected they were stealing my sign up receipts as I would get tons of emails under my name when I would have the store to myself, but then somehow mysteriously I would come into work the next day and be told I didn’t and how I was ruining the store’s rep. We had to (supposedly) get at least 60-80% new customer sign ups, but I was only getting 20%? I had started saving my receipts and nothing was adding up.

Then to add insult to injury, they ghosted me for two weeks, hoping I would quit, and when I tried to get an explanation of why no one was communicating with me, my lead hung up in my face in the middle of my call. She only fired me after I told her I wasn’t going to just up and quit after being worked like a mule over the summer. So then she went off on how I need to be scrubbing toilets and shit. I have always suspected they were hoping for a chimp out to fire me, and from comments she made about the old team, this wasn’t a new tactic of hers.

All of this over some fucking lavender lotion top kek.

No. 676650

>>676482
I've heard a few stories of finding actual shit in dressing rooms. Is it some sick kink?

No. 677091

>>676650
I think it's just laziness/lack of care most of the time. They don't want to walk over to wherever the actual restroom is, they don't care that other people have to clean up after them, and they know they won't get in trouble 99% of the time. People are gross when no one is looking.

No. 677112

Had a guy come up to the front desk and tell me a long winded story about how he threw a baby squirrel off a bell tower. Had to act like I wasn’t phased. He probably gets off on telling the story to unsuspecting young female employees who have to listen to him tell it in the name of customer service.

No. 677115

I fucking refuse to believe a common theme among retail workers is people shitting in dressing rooms. What the fuck? There are people like this out there?! I thought leaving pee on the toilet seat was criminal.

These people probably won't even get karma for the literal shit they dish out and probably walk around like they are normal.

No. 677120

>>677115
>a common theme among retail workers is people shitting in dressing rooms
…the fuck? that actually happens?

No. 677124


No. 677160

This discussion reminds me of that video of a woman shitting on a supermarket floor and walking away like it's nothing.

No. 677271

>>677115
People who were raised without compassion and decency learn to mimic it as adults, but it's all an act they'll drop in an instant when it becomes convenient.

No. 677302

>>675530
Anon, I was thinking about this yesterday. I know that she's been to gyn, but what if she has a small fistula that developed?

My own horror story:
>get job at hospital lab
>assigned role to clean out machine fluids
>poorly ventilated room about 5×7ft with 4 machines and a sink setup
>expected to shut the doors when changing fluids because no one else wants to smell it
>common knowledge that it's not ventilated anywhere near required standards (and wouldn't be for several years later)
>not yet underweight, but not strong enough to easily lift massive jugs easily with precision
>spill 100% alcohol solution on leg through scrubs
>other chemicals like formalin, acetone and formaldehyde melt my shitty vinyl gloves
>nearly pass out from smell through basic n-95 mask
>ask for proper equipment to handle materials constantly
>woman that oversees lab is angry skeleton that tells me to talk to lab asst manager
>disgusting manwhore scrote that runs the lab constantly promising to get proper equipment keeps putting it off
>quit job because don't want head lumps
These fucking assholes put me down as non-rehireable. Now they're monopolizing everything in the area, eating all of the smaller medical businesses up. Not sure what to do after I get this degree.

No. 677388

>>675507
I work in a nursing home, which is usually pretty great. The pay is good, the staff is amazing and I really like it. What I hate about it is whenever we have a temp or someone new is hired and they're foreign. There is a lot you need to know when you start working in elderly care for the first time (some patients have chronic infections which can easily spread etc), and 9/10 times when you try to teach them something or tell them something important, they'll nod, say "I understand" and five minutes later they do the thing you told them that they should never ever do. I have so many stories of how I´ve spent entire shifts running after newly hired persons, cleaning up their mess, redoing everyone they've done and desperately trying to tell them how they should do their job. I don't understand how I still get shocked every time someone with extremely limited language skills gets hired (it's like every other month).

No. 677452

>>676165
Welcome to healthcare where every day is a horror story and it's always your fault for being assaulted either physically/mentally or sexually.

Anon, I've slapped, had my chest punched/grabbed, my crotch swiped, spat on and called various profanities. My ex-managers solution? Hold me back after hours to do paperwork and scream at me how it's my fault it happened. I worked evening and was supposed to be out the door at 11, but mostly left at 1-2 am because I had piles of paperwork. May I also state I wasn't paid for that extra time. I literally have so many horror stories from working in a retirement home/nursing home.

No. 677823

>>677388
Do you think the foreign people are hired anyway because there’s a lot of demand for workers?

No. 677880


No. 677882

>>676248
how much money did you get, anon? amazing. i fucking hate chavs. women with prams are the most entitled members of society.

No. 679133

>>675448

>casual alcoholism


former booze slinger here, god that shit was nuts. Half the salespeople at the store I worked at had DUI/public intox records or would drink on the clock because they were "tasting"

No. 679560

>>677823
Absolutely, and I would rather work with them, compared to none at all, because were already under-staffed as it is. It's just extremely frustrating having such commutation-barriers when the work we do is with an at-risk group and very time sensitive

No. 680838

Not my story, but one that I witnessed while at starbucks. An employee was making an apple cider hot drink for a customer who straight up dictated everything he did. Usually you go on your phone while waiting for your drank, but this lady was literally peeking over the counter critiquing every move.

> Why are you putting that spice in there I don't remember seeing the last worker do that

> That doesn't look very hot, heat it up longer.
> There's not enough foam on top

The worker added more foam, closed the lid. And the lady told him he didn't fill it all the way to the top and to open it again and add as much as he could. He opened the lid to the cup that was literally full and the hot cider splashed in his face. She didn't even feel bad or ask if he was okay. The whole time she kept condescendingly saying "please" as if that made it any less annoying. He gave her the drink and she left without saying thank you.

I felt so bad for him. Hope he's doing okay.

No. 711846

>>675774
I think the reason they did that wasn't because they had some fraternity thing going on, maybe not even a friendship or a personal like for each other, but because that higher-up was in a position that's more critical for the function and the profits of the organization. He's a big cog in the machine and they don't want drama to stop the cogs from turning so they swept it under the rug.

Leaking the stuff to social media and yellow newspapers might work if their profits would be hurt by a customer boycott though.

No. 712708

I recently started working at a company and my coworker told me some reasons why some people were fired. Some of the reasons were:
- not moving around the office confidently enough after 2 weeks
- wearing black too often (manager doesn't like black)
- exuding sadness
- having too much fun
- standing up at the end of the official working hours and going home (working overtime is the basic expectation here)

When I heard these I didn't know whether to cry or laugh

No. 712715

>>712708
samefag, also the proejct assistant doesn't like anyone whom she perceives as prettier than her and makes sure to fire them if they are

No. 713122

>>712708

It fucking blows my mind how few employment rights americanons have… you can really get fired for fucking anything.

No. 713318

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Never cried but I want to scream or go lock myself in the work bathroom frequently. I work at the most drug and crime ridden inner city hospital in my area. Behaviour has gotten even worse because of Covid-19. I Get called a stupid whore, cunt, bitch, slut, idiot, retard, get told I am a soulless evil demon going to hell, and have my life threatened on a daily basis. We can't retaliate no matter how outrageous the behaviour or we are in deep shit. The most we can do is ask the patient or visitors to please be respectful. Had a like 50 year old guy come in just now (driving a Porsche, naturally) with earrings, a terrible bleach blonde dye job and a reusable skull mask. It's policy to get people to change their masks to medical ones when entering to make sure they are fresh. He tells me it's a stupid policy multiple times. I tell him he can keep his mask and to please just change it. He tells me he obviously knows that and I must be stupid. I ask him to please sanitize his hands. He tells me he did but I didn't see because I must be really bad at my job and stupid (I was juggling many other tasks). I tell him he is being quite impolite. He demands that I sit my ass down while looking at me like I'm a cockroach. Before I can properly screen him a nurse brings his mother, a patient out, and he mutters something like stupid bitch under this breath before leaving. I deal with at least a dozen people like this every day. The day before a woman called me a white whore and had her friends (patients) threaten to find my home and kill me because I wouldn't let her in the hospital after visiting hours to see someone. Makes me want to call in sick every day.

No. 713333

>>712708
Anon… Do you happen to live somewhere in East Asia? Japan or South Korea in particular? This reminds me of office wage slave horror stories I have heard from there.

No. 713354

>>713333
>>713122
I'm Eurofag, from a shithole central European country

No. 713405

>>675269
I've experienced so many shitty things at different jobs over the past 15-20 years! The most recent that made me upset was when I was working for a super small business, about 5-10 people. I was put in the position of finding and hiring a new person. The boss would ask me to send him the resumes first though and based on the names he would say we won't even interview them. Specifically, no black people he said. (He himself was a Chinese immigrant) I'm white and it disturbed me on a few levels which are probably obvious. I always kept my head down because I needed the job but I started looking shortly after that and found somewhere much better.

I always think about this though when I hear people try to say systemic racism doesn't exist.

No. 713452

>>713405
I really hate immigrants who are racist, especially to people that where born in the country. I wish they could all be mass deported hounded into dingys and air lifted into the middle of the pacific

No. 713537

>>713318
I'm sorry you have to deal with that bullshit, having your intelligence insulted is such a horrible feeling, especially as a woman. I don't think I'd be able to handle that, you sound like a strong person anon. I hope people stop being fucking terrible. Like I understand being at the hospital is stressful but that's no excuse to act like an asshole to the people working there.

No. 713544

>>713405
I had a manager at a pizza joint I worked at do something like this. Only he said “no fat girls”. If someone didn’t see if the girl applying for the position was attractive and thin enough for him, he would have us throw out the applications. He would always ask us to describe applicants physical appearance.
I was 17 at the time, and would never stand for something like that at my age now. Fuck that sack of shit.

No. 713548

>>713318
Girl, the only people who have the balls to behave that way and call you those things are the people who ARE stupid whore cunts.

You are not "it" here. You are a fucking clinician (if I get it correctly), that shit takes BRAINS.

Fuck those fuck faces, you just hang in there, OK?

No. 713549

>>713405
Chinese are SUPER racist, especially against black people and the Japanese. Though don't get me wrong, mainland Chinese hate white ppl too.

Fuck 'em.(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)

No. 713557

Idk how, but my manager regularly forget to flush her poop and I'll fing huge logs in the toilet. I've talked to her about it, it's like she can't help herself.

No. 713558

I worked at a 24/7 call center for a garbage, very popular ISP. My supervisors were garbage and would constantly dodge calls and questions. I got screamed at my 1st week out of training and was called a retard elementary school child who needs to go back to training. I got written up for being late 5 times in 1 year(late considered more than 5 minutes after start of shift). But some of the customers I got were varying degrees of interesting/awful.

>One lady who continuously yelled at me and refused to talk to me because I was a woman. Told me I spoke too softly and I need to put "bass" in my voice and she only wants help from the male technicians.


>Lady who called me a cockroach and threatened to come to the office and find me


>Man who would always call on nightshifts at 4am to talk about how lonely he is and how his mother passed away, would talk for hours if you let him, asked if he could buy me breakfast


>Woman who sounds at least 65 would call and ask for help ordering gay porn on VOD (this one was pretty funny tbh)


>Once we had a huge outage and some guy who was clearly in the middle of jerking off called to complain, then proceeded to ask me what I was wearing in vivid detail


>Obvious child calling and trying to upgrade services. When I asked him for ID he hung up, obviously went to steal his dad's ID and called back.


>Schizo woman who always called at 5am to talk about how major tech companies are stealing everyone's information and monitoring browsing history and asking to speak to our legal team

No. 713560

I'm so sorry to all the anons here, you guys deserve so much better.
I don't have many horror stories, but I work at a men's clothing store and my co-workers have had scrotes that flash at them, but I only experienced a man that got out of the changing room without his mask and shirt on, so casually. The fuck.
During the pandemic we've had a lot of people who refuse to wear the mask correctly while talking on the phone and stuff like that and one woman insulted me under her breath and left as I was speaking to her. (She was with her four family members and I told her that only one could enter the store as we were at our limit of people inside). And I guess I can add the typical costumer that makes you show you every single item at the store and after 40 mins attending him/her, leaves without buying anything, I hate those

No. 713679

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This is pretty mundane, but one time I had to deal with a customer that stunk so bad it activated my fight or flight response. He was hugely overweight and smelled like a wet couch that had been used as a bathroom. I had to breathe through my mouth for the entire transaction and it actually made me panicky. I feel bad for people like that but god it was horrible. There was also this one guy that would always ask me creepy personal questions, like whether I wore child size clothing or if I could finish a whole subway sandwich on my own. He'd go on about his Chinese ex-wife and how smol and tiny she was. One time I was alone in the store with him so I just hid in the back room with a stick ready to hit him in case he tried something, kek. He creeped me the fuck out.

No. 713757

I worked as a cleaner in a hotel when I was a teenager and more than once had to deal with disgusting men calling for room service delivery and exposing themselves/masturbating when I walked in.

No. 714543

>>713679
I used to work as a bagger at a grocery store and experienced something similar. These people would bring their own bags, and the bags would always smell extremely disgusting. Like a pungent mix of sweat and saliva. I don’t know why their bags smelled so disgusting but I had to breath through my mouth the entire time I bagged their stuff.

No. 714573

>>713757
I worked at an Abercrombie in the city where I live, and a guy came in and started masterbating “at” me. Guys are fucking sick and pathetic. Sorry that happened to you as well.

No. 716024

>>675269

the senior in one of the sections is absolutely shit at his job. he has no loyalty and make loads of mistakes but won't own up to them and if anything happens he'll look to blame anyone.

he doesn't know how to speak to people AT ALL. ever since it's been just him, it's been absolutely shit and he puts me on the edge to the point where i'm constantly anxious about what i'm doing and second guessing myself.

this whole weekend i've been anxious about my friday shift and going over everything i've done, just waiting for monday so i can go back in and check for the 34959th time. how tf do i get over this shit? probably only when he leaves.

No. 716440

>>713679
That puppy is so cute! That's disgusting and unfair. You can't just waltz around being a walking biohazard. I don't think there are that many people who literally can't shower/bathe, change their clothes, or have a body condition where even if they do they still reek. And even if they do I don't feel it's your problem to literally have to hold your vomit in. Nasty. They need to get medical help. Working in retail really exposes you to men shamelessly flaunting their weird fetishistic behaviour in public, especially their pedophilic ones (with extra Asian stuff to boot). I had a similar guy go nuts over how young I looked in front of his wife at my first shitty job. His wife was just giggling and going "oh that's just how he is.." while he just grabbed my wrist and kept repeating "How old are you? You look young.. like really young…" Scrotes, man.

No. 717976

>>675502
When looking for a job, my dad notified me that the library had an opening… I knew that library was drunk/homeless person central, they all congregate there because they can't kick them out.
I immediately turned it down because I knew it would be in no time that shit would happen to me esp. as a woman. My dad blew it off saying nothing would happen.
Well a month later another woman took the job and when she left a man had followed her, put a gun against her back and drove off with her and raped her.
While he got away, she still lived thankfully. Made me feel like I dodged a literal bullet esp. since dumbass me would've fought and probably gotten shot. At least it proved a point to my father.
You would think a library job is peaceful but nope.

Hope you don't mind me sharing this even if I didn't actually work there. Listen to your gut and stay safe y'all.

No. 719290

I worked at a company selling and developing educational softwares and games. Boss is a technologically illiterate woman in her fifties with violent moodswings. Meetings usually went like this:

Boss on Monday: 'This game is a pile of trash. It's impossible to follow through, there's no logic in it, nobody's going to buy this. What the fuck- did the graphic designers seriously send in that?? They must be sleeping instead of working, I'm going to revoke their home office privileges!!'

Boss on Wednesday, about the same game: 'This game is truly amazing. People are going to love it. We need merchandise based on this stuff - I'm talking cups, T-shirts, pens, etc'. We also need translators to translate it into 15 different languages - the whole world needs to play this game!!!

No. 1270170

wow just wow

No. 1270181

>>713679
So many fat people who completely immune to their own stink. I hate working with obese monsters.

No. 1270225

I can finally get this off my chest. I took phone calls for an insurance company. I was used to getting yelled at. While I couldn't say it out loud, I fully agreed with tons of customers that our policies were shitty. Still, many people called having just bought an insurance and expecting to get coverage for stuff that happened several years ago, which is just not how insurance works.

Anyway. I took a call from a crying woman who had her insurance denied. She just sobbed for like five minutes and could barely get a word out. I picked up that she was currently driving a car. She mentioned that she was on the highway. I then recall her saying something like "this is what you've done to me" before hearing the vehicle speed up and then just noise. I never got to know if it was an accident or suicide. I contacted my boss while still on the line and got told to hang up and move to the next call while he dealt with it. Next call was another man screaming at me for one of those cases where he bought insurance for something that happened a while back. I was completely numb while talking to him. Wasn't allowed to take a break. Couldn't finish my shift early. My coworker asked me if I was okay, but I don't remember much of that day after that. I stayed at the company for another 6 months before I quit. I refuse to ever take customer calls for a company again.

No. 1270232

>>1270225
Hoping you have recovered from that. I'm so sorry, anon.

No. 1270247

>>675502
I worked at a library for 6-7 years and it is common for the librarians to be cold towards the homeless. I don't blame them. We had librarians telling homeless patrons about job help programs, food stamps/welfare programs, even going to the trouble of signing them up, getting them an email, trying to sign them up for government programs so they could get cellphones, trying to help them earnestly, etc. and I've never seen a single homeless person take advantage of the programs offered. They just want money and a place to do drugs. They would vomit everywhere and not want us to call the ambulance but insisted on staying inside the branch. They also would damage our collection and sexually harass the staff, including me. It was especially gross because of the regulars saw me go to the library as a kid and as an adult he'd say all types of sexual stuff to me, just 1 example of that. It is easy to lose your empathy for the regulars given this.

No. 1270250

>>1270225
Oh my goodness, I am so sorry you had to experience that. I hope you can find some peace soon nony

No. 1270255

>>1270225
I have a feeling I would have ended up with a similar call if I stayed longer at my previous job since it was a similar job. I'm so glad I could find something related to my field so I could quit asap. It's awful, I really hope the woman was just being a drama queen and wanted to scare you or make you upset just so she could still be alive.

No. 1270275

>>1270247

I do not envy librarians and nurses. I toyed with the idea of being a librarian but from what I've seen, most places want at least a bachelor's degree and I only have a puny A.A.S, so I didn't bother. I never thought about how much homeless people I'd have to deal with if I did land a library job. I already dislike the majority of the homeless population I think it would peek me to Kim Kardashian levels kek

No. 1270278

>>1270232
>>1270250
Thank you, nonnas. I currently work a job where I'm not dealing with customers or human lives at all, so while it's a painful memory it doesn't affect my daily life.

>>1270255
I'm glad you could find something different too. Working in a callcenter in general exposes you to so much weird stuff that you just didn't think you'd have to face in a job like that, unless you're a 911 operator or something. I hope the woman is alive too, or at least if the worst case happened, that her family and loved ones are alright.

No. 1271629

In 2014, I worked at an online store that sold useless junk through eBay and Amazon. Very small company, no HR. At the time, we'd communicate through Skype and my dumbass used my personal Skype account. One of the girls from the shipping department was really annoying and I'd complain about her a lot through Skype to my friend who was also my coworker–we we're friends before this and she got me the job. We'd complain about everyone we worked with. One day, the shipping girl jokingly tells me she's going to hack my Skype. I laugh and say go ahead. Even though she annoyed me, we honestly got along and joked around a lot. I really thought she was just joking so it didn't really stick out as a red flag or anything and I forgot about it.
Weeks and weeks go by until one morning she messages me a direct quote from my Skype convo with my friend. Its clear she had access to my conversations because she kept referencing things I said to my friend. She eventually stops being cordial with me as well as every single person I'd work with. They would give me death stares, roll their eyes when I said good morning, and started making complaints about the quality of my work to my boss. I had to give a presentation and the way everyone stared at me was like they were cursing me. This went on for months and I hated going to work everyday. I know I talked shit, but did I really deserve this? I didn't even deal with this petty crap in middle school or high school. We didn't have HR and I didn't tell my boss because he hated confrontation and I didn't want to admit I spent most of my work day chatting away.
One time, I made a reddit account to look for advice about the situation in I wanna say 2015 and everyone in the comments blamed me. They all said its my fault because I was talking crap on company time and I was the one who gave her permission to hack my Skype in the first place. These autistic redditors smfh. I ended up not responding to anything and just deleted my account and post.
Anyway, in 2017, I was still working there and there were a lot of new employees because the turn around was high so things got less tense over time. I made friends with a newer girl so she told me everything. The shipping girl saw my friend's account logged in on the spare computer, but didn't do anything about it for a while until she told a different coworker about it. They read through everything and eventually decided to print it out and make multiple copies to share with the whole office. Everytime somebody new got hired, they would tell them about it and told them to ignore me and my friend. I hated the shipping girl so much and I just don't understand why she did it. I eventually forgave her because I learned that my one male coworker raped her and told her if she told anyone, it's her word against his and no one believe her. That male coworker also ensured that my boss would only hire young women because he was manipulative and skeezy as fuck. I left at the end of 2017 and never looked back. The shipping girl moved to another state and I honestly hope she's doing alright.

No. 1271649

I was a legal secretary until the girl (who hired me) started treating me like shit right after I started. She just couldn't stop gossiping about me with the whole office for no reason. I figured out what her issue was - she wasted her money and went to college for a shitty associates paralegal degree but I was only a high school graduate. She was jealous of that. She was also unhealthily obese so I'm sure she was upset about my weight and good looks as well. The abuse just wouldn't stop and kept getting worse to the point where she refused to help me or train me so I ended up having to quit because of the lack of training. I obviously wasn't able to do the job. I told the attorney and he didn't give a shit partly because he was leaving to become a state attorney.

At another job, I was stalked by an uber driver I had. He kept coming to my workplace on different days asking my coworkers if I was working because he wanted to give me a "free ride". This old guy was grossly flirty in the uber, asking me how old I was and insinuating on how young I look. He was also extremely fucking tall like 6'5" which was scarier. Definite pedo vibes.

No. 1271666

Having a worried mom call in and ask me if her daughter has been to work because she hadn't heard from her, she hadn't been in for 5 days at that point. She asked me to call the police to check on her since she lived in a different country. I was friendly with my coworker, not friends or anything but I was concerned after hearing her mom so I called the police. Found out later she died in her apartment, don't know how though. I still think about her mom sometimes, she sounded so desperate.

No. 1271683

>>1271666
Damn, that's such a sad tale.

No. 1271733

I worked as a lifeguard at an outdoor summer camp and the pool op ( basically one of my bosses/head of the pool) was a fat smelly neckbeard that would constantly sperg about my little pony and world of warcraft
we were supposed to teach kids to swim when not sitting up in the guard chair and instead of teaching he would go down into the pools pump room, pretend he had to fix stuff, and sit there on his phone the whole time
and when the supervisor would walk by I would always get yelled at for not doing enough (it's hard trying to teach 20+ kids to swim without help) and of course he would not get in trouble because he would be out of sight hiding away in the pump room
I quit after that summer and last I heard he got fired
another story from when I applied at a grocery store chain (big mistake): I applied to a bunch of minimum wage jobs and the only one that bothered calling me back was a chain grocery store and I went in for an interview
the store manager was this obese neckbeard that gave me the creeps, and during the interview he said a portion of every paycheck would go towards union fees and that the union was useless and did nothing other than steal money
anyways I got hired and he said they would email or call me with my shift schedule and info on where to pick up my uniform
the next day I get missed calls and angry voicemails from the other employees about how I missed my shift and they were short staffed but I never got an email or anything letting me know I was scheduled to work so I got annoyed and ghosted and they never contacted me again, I feel like I dodged a bullet

No. 1271749

Accidentally sending a tow truck 100s of kms in the wrong direction for a mother and infant IN THE WINTER. Everything was ok, got a good scolding and guilt to this day.

No. 1271782

>>1271666
That's awful and sad, at least her mom reached you and not some asshole. Hope she's at peace now and her mom can heal too, fucking tragic.

No. 1273612

>start job ready to learn
>working with woman who has been there longer in me in our department
>learning things, need her help to pick up some things, she says she will teach me later
>dept. boss asks her to teach me tasks, she says later
>dept. boss tells her to teach me, she says it will be too confusing to delegate the tasks(???)
>coworker tells me she is talking shit about me behind my back because she is jealous of me (????)
>other coworkers and boss tell me she is know for gossiping about other employee pay and acting outside her role's authority even though we work in a sensitive department
>boss demands she share responsibilities with me and she basically whines it's not fair and she's not going to send employees to me
>she ends up going on medical leave, purposely throws some jabs disguised as jokes at me in front of other employees
>boss tells her NOT to work during her leave, she still posts notices related to our work on her SMS that we have to report for takedown
>we both get promoted while she is out
>boss reports she has said she is not happy with my promotion
>Get news she has called one of my direct reports and told them my pay to try and start shit
>she comes back, demands meeting with company president
>claims I am not qualified for promotion and also our boss is racist (???)
>she quits but makes sure to purposely ignore me the entire time in the office, refuses to give me any handover information, makes it a point to give important papers to my direct report and not me before she leaves
>I win!

It didn't surprise me that she had bullied other "threats" to her position out of our department. Honestly after she left a lot of employees told me they didn't trust her or she had backstabbed them at one point in time, so she wasn't as popular as she thought. Some people really are that delusional. I guess women really do hate women in the workplace.

No. 1279703

I used to have a 2 and a half commute each way. Now I work remotely (different company.) All that time I could have been working from home but instead I was forced for 4 months to spend 5 hours a day on a bus or waiting for a connection to a different bus, just to satisfy some boomer's ego. I will never work in an office again so long as I live so I can make those hours up.
Don't do the long commute life, it leads to burnout and crashing and health complications from lack of sleep exercise and proper food. No job is worth it.

No. 1279736

>>713757
I worked at a hotel for years and I was expecting to hear stories like that but we were located next to a hospital so instead what happened was people would hole themselves up in the rooms to die because they were terminal, or they would spiral into depression because their family member was dying and you could see their mental state by looking at their room when you cleaned it… very sad. we had corporate rules about being cheerful and giving guests a warm greeting within 3 seconds of seeing them or w/e and one time this poor old guy blew his top at me like "no you can't do anything for me! stop asking! how can I have a good day when my fucking wife is dying?!" (paraphrasing) which honestly I do not blame him for doing.

although one time a guest intentionally left porn on display in his room for the housekeeper to see which really upset her. he got kicked out.

another time I was working overnight and around 3am a random guy outside asked to borrow my lighter and when I went to hand it to him he flashed me. I was pissed because he lowered his hand right before my hand got to his with the lighter and I instinctually followed his hand with my hand like I was chasing it, which brought me within inches of his dick. plus the movement drew my eyes away from his other hand that was apparently taking his dick out. fucking sleight-of-hand asshole. he ran away when I yelled at him, he was weirdly dirty & I'm not sure what his deal was, never saw him after that.

No. 1279762

One time a man talked to me. Awful.

No. 1279820

Working at an amazon warehouse is a horror itself. The pay was the only good thing about it but that fact still didn't stop me from quitting and getting a job that pays me biweekly instead

No. 1279828

>>1279703
This is such an important thing to know. I choose a job majorly based on pay and commute. I can't wait to work from home hopefully this year. I just started, so I am not qualified just yet, but I can feel it. my commute is under 30 mins, so i feel okay. I am really happy for you, anon. What job do you do now?

No. 1279855

When I felt like the universe got revenge on my work bully, it made me feel bad. She had bullied me throughout the last half of high school right after my dad had died, I had just been moved to a new family in a new city because of it and now I'm new at school and very fucked up due to events. Nobody knew this info of course. She made sure to make my life hell for seemingly no reason, and made entire Tumblr accounts dedicated to photos of me that she'd take. A couple years after high school, I'm a higher up manager at a large chain and in walks one of my new employees - her. I was instantly so uncomfortable I stationed her as far away as possible from me and had other coworkers let her know where/when to go for breaks. It was easy to avoid her and there were no incidents I guess. She had had a kid that was quite disabled with a scrote, and this scrote eventually got addicted to every substance and was homeless not long after the kid was born. She herself runs a famous instagram account of gothic selfies but has absolutely no mention of having a kid or being a mother.
One day I got a call while I was working that she wanted to speak to me. I was seriously sweating bullets even though I was technically her boss at this point, I had no idea what it could even be about. But when she showed up, she was fuuuucked up. Her scrote had beat her up so badly she was unrecognizable. She was swollen, black and blue, her perfect nose was broken. It was so fucked up. She didn't even do her hair to come in, just jammed a hat on and met me in the finances room. She basically said that she had to quit but didn't want anyone else to see her in that state, and later that evening messaged me a big thank you for being so kind. I cried like an absolute bitch for about a week after because I felt such mixed feelings. Her life was so shit for like.. my viewing only, front-row seats. I lurked her recently and she's back with him, still no mention of the child. He would be like 7-8 years old now. It didn't make me feel better to see her in such a state, even though I kinda thought it should have had that effect or something. Maybe if I had kicked her ass it would have been different, though. I hope her scrote dies

No. 1279860

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>>1275185
Love this for u nona

No. 1279866

>>1279825
??????

No. 1279871

>>1279855
Damn. That's fucked, anon. Violence like that I can't wish upon any woman, no matter how shitty she is.

No. 1279875

>>1279866
check meta and ignore the schizo tranny.

No. 1280040

Help I have to really mean coworkers who are closer to 40 than 18 and tries to pull Mean Girl tactics on me.
I work in a restaurant and repeatedly get better reviews and tips. I am kind to everyone and save my anger for after work.
How do you deal with stupid incompetent mean bitches? They get upset any time I make an improvement, and quickly revert it.
The urge to start spamming bad reviews for them is overwhelming, but I will hold off a little longer. Most customers hate dealing with them, so its not completely wrong.

No. 1280183

>>675928
>>675932
Look I realise this is late but this reminds me of the co worker I had at a mexican chain I worked at. She was a spiteful, bitter bitch and I was only 17 when I started working there. I did my job, worked hard, this wasn't my first fast food job and I was an involved worker. She would pull me up for things like being late because I was smoking (I was walking to work with a smoke in my hand, not being purposefully late because I was having a cigarette), for being on my phone at work (I had it out charging and I was checking if it was charged so I could put it away). When she yelled at me for that, there was another girl on her phone BROWSING within both our eye sight, so I pointed that out and she just looked at her and told her to get off her phone, but only gave me a warning for it. They ended up firing me all because she didn't like me and pit the other managers up against me. She was obese, had fucked teeth and had those tattoos you see bogans (sorry, ausfag) get with a bunch of dates because they've lost several family members to meth and god knows what else. She called me a slut behind my back because I was comfortable chatting to another co-worker about my love life within her earshot, and that I was attention seeking. Honestly one of the most vile women I worked with, she was 10 years older than me and her obvious jealousy for the fact I was young and still had all my teeth was apparent.

No. 1280381

So I'm a greeter and I'm often asked why I'm there when I have my degree. I needed a job fast after graduating and none of the jobs that I could actually do in my field would take me at the time and it's a real blow when you wonder where you are in life and where you could be, and if you're trapping yourself. Also, this gross old man groped me last Saturday, and I don't think my manager can find proof on the cameras so it's like it doesn't even fucking matter lol

No. 1280473

I had this entry level assistant at a medium company years ago, where I worked at the accountability dpt, there were 5 people: me, another entry, analyst and 2 accountants (joe and leo - fake names). Some context:
> Leo was our main chief and he was pathethic
> Joe was a literal sociopath
> Joe did absolutely NOTHING all day, every day, but he knew so much shit about everyone he simply blackmailed important people
> Joe was a leader in the local Catholic church, always involved in their events, etc. so people in this small hick town thought he was a saint
> Joe hated black people, they saw them as inferior and only married a woman because she was a blonde, like him
Now let me tell how it was to work with Joe
> My very first day at job, I was placed at another dpt
> Joe asks me to come to the meeting room
> At my arrival, he asks me to shut the door and come closer because he had a question about something I did in the laptop company
> Yes, somehow he grabbed my laptop from dpt in my lunch time
> I was super scared, he asked if I broke it because numeric keyboard wasnt working
> All he had to do was press the goddamn NmLk key
> I pressed it and said "there, its working" and ran away from the room
> Few weeks later I was replaced at his and Leo dpt
> I had to do a lot of out room errands (grab and deliver papers to other dpts)
> He would follow me, always pretending to be on the phone
> Everytime I looked in the corner of my eye he was around
> I was only authorized to have lunch after everyone left for lunch
> He would always wait everyone to leave
> He would close the doors and windows, including a balcony window we had to communicate to other dpt so they would no need to enter the room
> Would take half an hour pretending to work
> This was the only time I'd seen him in front of his computer
> Except he was looking at me
> Everyday this shit
> I would leave for college fucking drained
> He had an very obscure energy, and I don't even believe this shit much
> Sometimes he would also hold my shoulders when I was sitting in front of my computer
> Would whisper any shit in my ear I already knew to do under the pretense to ask smth or teach me smth
> Would smell my fucking neck
> Leo didn't gave a shit, would never ever confront him
> Joe also mistreated a lot of people and Leo would do nothing
> Learned later Joe had also blackmailed him

I got several chills under my spine reliving this. Dude was so creep. He had a fucking dark aurea.
100% sure he was a sociopath.

No. 1280496

>>1280473
Sounds like he was trying to make it look like you two were having sex during lunch.

No. 1280770

>>1280473
Lmao I’m sorry that’s not funny but it’s kinda darkly funny because he absolutely wanted to murderrape you and play w/ your corpse. I’m so glad you left that sounds horrifying and frustratingly unactionable

No. 1283789

Many managers are there to be the "heel", the designated bad guy, and are not so much to actually manage things.

Most people that start businesses are gregarious like other normies. They don't enjoy having to tardwrangle in workers and to be strict. They genuinely want to get along with people and having to be negative ruins their mood. So they hire someone who genuinely enjoys that shit as a job and gets off on it. And that way they can go back to being a person everyone likes and thinks highly of.

But the business owners and upper leadership that hire these psychos hold them in total contempt. I have relatives that own large businesses and growing up they used to tell me often "I would punch him out if I could, I absolutely despise him but he's useful" and "if I was one of my workers I wouldn't let him talk to me that way, but they take it so oh well".

I'm not sure if your average tardwrangling manager is aware of how much their bosses just see them as a useful tool, and despise them. I think they're ignorant to it, because they're often sycophantic little fucks that are desperate from validation from further up, and that asslicking is too intense and pointless to be entirely cynical. They're the former bullies at school that have come to believe in prosperity gospel bullshit and that if they just work hard enough, they'll be at the top themselves one day by golly. But they never seem to go any further up than they are, ever. They just stay at that level for ten, twenty, thirty years and then retire.

But because people are people and do push limits, you have to have someone that's a bit of a cunt there to keep people in line. The problem is that the job is too often being offloaded to sociopaths that get off on it, and inevitably they just end up bullying the most vulnerable person pointlessly until she leaves.

No. 1283979

I used to work at a distribution center that handled farm and veterinary related stuff. One time a vet clinic accidentally sent us a bloody mass. It was an organ from a cow that was supposed to go to a facility to be tested. Hard to say what it was. Section of intestine or liver. Possibly just a slab of meat with all kinds of stuff in it. I have photos if nonnas are interested.

No. 1284424

>>1283979
yes please, but it might go against site rules

No. 1284474

>>1284424
It's just a plastic zip lock bag with red slop inside it. This has happened a couple times to be honest. We got sent vials of blood, petri dishes with growths on them, skin biopsies, and a whole bag of cow shit. All meant to be tested for diseases. The cow shit bag had a form with it, the farm was looking for some form of cancer or somesuch. The clinic that sent the organ wanted it returned to them but the cow shit farm said nah you can toss it. Less dangerous but still gross stories include farms sending back rubber boots caked in shit and used drench guns, vaccinating syringes, fly sprays all covered in sticky blood or shit. You could tell which returned boxes came from farms just by the smell. And you wouldn't believe the number of knives that accidentally got sent back. No idea what for. Maybe the people packing up boxes accidentally dropped them in.

No. 1284544

>>1284474
Post and just spoiler it with a warning. I've posted a gross wound I got and didn't get banned.

No. 1284550

>>1283979
How do we know it's pics of some random animal and not of someone OP murdered and dismembered

No. 1284555

A drunken old moid with one eye said “I love you” to me last night and I was just like ok… and then he was sticking his tongue out at me and wiggling it. His shirt was dirty and he looked disgusting. I wanted to die, I immediately left the register.

No. 1284557

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>>1284544
1 of 2

No. 1284561

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>>1284557
2 of 2

No. 1284562

>>1284557
>>1284561
Brave touching that without gloves on

No. 1284568

>>1284550
Thankfully I didn't work in the human division otherwise being sent human parts would probably have been a possibility. Imagine opening a box at work thinking you were getting medical devices to put away and it's just casually a human heart or eye ball.

>>1284562
This wasn't in a marked bio hazard box so when I opened it, I almost cut into the plastic bag it was in. Those aren't my hands in the pictures. I definitely handled it with gloves when I was told to put it in the cooler while we waited for word from the clinic on what to do with it. They ended up paying to have it same day shipped back to them.

No. 1285522

>>675553
>>675530
Does she have a coil or other IUD? These can cause repeat yeast infections that come back stronger.

No. 1285961

>>1279855
babe, you have a peasant heart devoted to the virgin mary who goes to the forest every day to fetch firewood, god bless you, i would never have compassion for a bully

No. 1286161

I work at a dry cleaner and my job is to inspect and mark in the dirty clothes before they're cleaned. People will shit in their pants and leave dried fecal matter caked on the inside as a little surprise just for me. They won't even try to wipe it out or anything. One time a man brought in a pair of pants he had an "accident" in. They were still wet—completely saturated in piss—and crawling with live ants.

No. 1286168

I’m so ready to quit my job but I have no idea how to go about doing it because I’ve never done it. I’ve been putting it off for like a year.

No. 1286202

>>1286168
write a letter that says "dear [soandso], please consider this my two weeks notice. my last day will be [xyz]. thank you for the opportunity. sincerely, [nonnetta]. [sign & date]" make a copy for your own records, then hand it to your boss or even just leave it in their office or whatever it doesn't matter. work the next two weeks and never go back.

No. 1286257

>>1286168
Google resignation letter template and fill in the blanks. You don't owe them an explanation, and if you're in the US, you don't even owe them an actual notice, but it's good to give 2 weeks if you're in an office setting where you might be networking or something. If it's retail or food, just print out the letter for paper trail purposes and give them a two day notice. Fuck em.

No. 1286316

this was the week before the UK had its first lockdown 2 years ago, I was working my full time cafe job and it became the absolute week from hell. firstly our store got robbed, the glass door was smashed and months and months of our tips were stolen, but nothing was stolen from the till so the owner refused to bother getting the police involved, we were told to open up as normal despite there being a fucking smashed door letting in a freezing draft with glass littering the area around it. then the news about covid caught up to us properly and every interaction with a customer made us all frightened for our lives kek. finally, the last straw was someone taking a dump in the SINK of the disabled toilet. we never found out who it was but I strongly suspect this one retarded fat child who was always in with her older sister after school. anyway after that I ended up in quarantine and the lockdown kicked off a few days later. thankfully I quit after the furlough programme stopped at the end of the summer.

No. 1286320

for the past three years, i've worked as a social media manager at the coolest agency ever. i loved my job and the people. it was everything i'd ever dreamed of. i could be creative, had a lot of freedom and was given a lot of responsibility from the get go. was able to create stuff for various clients, contribute in big presentations to win over new ones, etc. everything seemed perfect. but this fucking job ended up killing every last bit of creativity i had. after year 3, i felt like a shell lmao. it's just making fucking ads for clients. all the time. trying to think of new ways to sell people on IG something, every goddamn month the same shit. and most of the time, you do it for brands you absolutely hate bc you can't choose. also, you're never done with work, you take it home with you and it was normal for me to get up at night and check if an ad was performing well. i was overworked af and it was seen as absolutely normal. i quit my job because i felt like i was on the brink of burnout. creativity is now dead. i can't be arsed to do anything now bc i feel so exhausted all the time, just burnt tf out and i was an avid painter and writer before. tldr a creative job will suck out every last drop of creativity if you get consumed by it.

No. 1291813

>>675279
Why don't you try a different field, I work with costumers and don't understand why should I get emotionally invested in anything they say. Idk, ether work on yourself or find a field that suits you better.



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