I have heard enough about people here who have great jobs. Who of us here have shitty ass jobs that they hate?
I work for lenscrafters and I am a lab manager. I don't have to deal with people but it is still retail. I hate it. whos next?
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I have heard enough about people here who have great jobs. Who of us here have shitty ass jobs that they hate?
I work for lenscrafters and I am a lab manager. I don't have to deal with people but it is still retail. I hate it. whos next?
I wish that I even had a shitty job to hate and complain about. My summer job funds are almost depleted and it's not even Christmas yet. Definitely need to suck it up and find a shitty on-campus food-service job in a month or so.
well, i have a lousy job that i actually liked until recently. front end head at a grocery store, basicly i run the service desk, post office, lottery, cashier, occasional bagging, and make sure the breaks and lunches are running on time. its the kind of job people usually hate, but i liked it,it was really easy, my co-workers were easy to get along with, the majority of the customers loved me, since im good with people and get things resolved fast, and while the pay stunk, the benefits were pretty good, barely had to pay for any medical stuff, outside of once i had to pay a small amount for my glasses rims. unfortunatly due to the closing of another store my hours got shot to hell, luckily i was planning to head to seminary anyhow, so i was going to be going anyhow, but the lack of cash is, for the moment, yucky
I work in a factory that sort of serves just to pay my basic neccesities right now. Think I'm finally going back to college soon, the only thing I know is I have to get out of the goddamn factory, even if for another low paying shitty job.
Well I actually had a really cool job as a baseball beer vendor. The crappy part of the job is that I was a beer vendor for the Colorado Rockies. As of last Sunday I am currently unemployed.
Right now I work at a tropical fish store. I have a couple of fish tanks and know a lot about them, so at least it's something I like. Pay isn't very happening, but it's only until I know the area better.
Do you get a good deal on fish tanks? Hook a brother up!Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
I worked at a job where my managers were all ex cons and drug dealers, and I had to sell stickers to assholes over the phone. I finally quit, and am presently seeking new employment.
Its not the worst I've done though. I once worked at a tuna warehouse, where my job was to destack damagen palets of tuna that got hit with the forklift or whatever, and then sort out the rotten, maggot-infested tuna from the good cans, and then repackage the good cans. It was awesome.
I'm an IC design engineer. It's really boring, and the worst part is they have not had me do any design since i started here. I've basically been a script monkey for the past 7 months, doing the same shit over and over everyday. When one of the engineers makes a change to thier block, i have to make sure the build scripts can handle it. The changes generally all occur at once, so sometimes i sit and read TNL all day with nothing to do, and other days I am overloaded with script updates to make. At least I am well compensated for it.
Actually it's the only thing I don't get a deal on. The mark-up on tanks is very low, so the 25% off would be less than the store paid. I get a deal on everything else though, so I could help you get some interesting fishes for cheapish depending on the species. I've got a few Synodontis cats coming in this week for myself. Syndontis Multipunctiatus @ ~ $20 is a pretty damn good deal. :)
I work for a meat processing plant. My job? I unpack frozen chunks of hamburger beef, haul it up into a grinder and get paid bearly $10 (with incentive) an hour.
Do the math.
Frozen beef 60-70lbs
35 blocks per skid
9-12 skids per day, 40 hours per week.
If your job doesn't appear any worse, shut up.
dont you have a bad knee too? for me it wouldnt be that bad, but with a bad knee that would suck. im assuming its cold too.
If you have no other choice, then I feel for you. If you are too lazy to find another job, or aren't in the process of educating yourself or otherwise to get out of your shitty job, I have no sympathy.
I love my job. Don't hate.
I've managed to get around that, but it's my back that I have to worry about. I'm wearing a brace for it now cause it got weak at one point and I don't wanna pinch another nerve like I did last time.Quote:
Originally Posted by frostwolf ex
I'm trying to find out if there's any way I can have the knee restored to it's pre-tear condition since I still have the insurance handy. Otherwise I would've left this job over a year ago.
I sit at home and school posting on TNL. They work me mad hours and the pay is shit.
My boss is pretty cool though.
To pay for my final year of design school I worked in a pop carton factory in my town (Mead). I was a take off operator, which means I had to take 90 pound small stacks of flattened, hot corregated cartons from the press and stack it on a skid for 12 hours straight. Usually 7pm to 7am through the night, too so I feel your pain. The worst part was that there were large, red, brightly lit clocks EVERYWHERE so you were always aware of what time it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by voltz
The hardest part about paper cartons is that they'd come out in jagged stacks so you had to shuffle these 90lbs stacks before you could pick them up. Luckily I have rather large guns and could do it, but some of the nerdy students were so hilarious to watch try. All the cartons would fall all over the floor while the press operator swore in frustration because he had to help.
I got paid more than 10 dollars and hour and was a student worker. You're getting ripped.
It is refreshing to know that people out there hate their jobs. Thats pretty much it.
I still work at a video game store. I hate it so much, but I have no choice: either do something you hate selling/talking about something you don't love anymore, or be broke.
I've been looking for a real job since I graduated in June. I've applied hardcore to a bajillion jobs. I don't know what's more soul destroying: the job search or going to the mall everyday. The real world is harsh.
Right now I'm working on building up my resume.
Brisco, I know how you feel. I hate the mall with a passion. Having to go there everyday destroys a little piece of me everytime. I think what it comes down to though, is that I just hate the human race.
Just keep trying man, a good job will come your way. Good luck!Quote:
Originally Posted by Brisco Bold
Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tenchimo Dos
Yoshi once said, "if someone is working in gaming retail for more than five or so years, it's because they can't do better." I know a ton of people who've worked at my store for almost a decade. He's right. They can't do better. And they know it. And some have even almost lost their minds over it.
I'm not going out like that.
I work two crappy jobs.
Crappy job # 1: I work as a delivery driver for Pizza Hut. I have worked their for six years to pay my way through college. After six years I just received an eight cent raise and I am now making $7.58 an hour. Minimum wage where I live is about $7.50. This job sucks hardcore.
Crappy job # 2: I just finished the teaching credential program at the university near me. Now, most people would think teaching is a crappy job period, but I actually like teaching full time. I think its a very rewarding experience and I really enjoy it.............OR I would enjoy it if anybody would bother to hire me. Stupid school districts. SO, for right now...my second crappy job is working as a SUBSTITUTE teacher. This job is always stressful because all students act like dicks to subs, and its always boring because you don't really get to do any teaching. Its kind of like baby sitting a group of 40 plus kids for 7 hours straight...and just kind of sitting around looking at my watch waiting for the school day to end.
So yes, I work two extremely crappy jobs and I'm still not making nearly enough money to live comfortably in Southern California.
Ever thought of moving? Wouldn't there be less compatetion in other states?
The biggest compatetion I've been in involved eating posta.
Have you ever delivered to a student? Cause that'd be awesome.
I was thinking the same thing.
I have been giving this some serious thought lately. I should just move somewhere where there is a low number of college grads. There are a lot of school districts in Southern California, but there seems to be a ton of competition too. Its getting to the point where a Bachelors Degree and Teaching Credential don't seem like enough to get a job. I have been on tons of interviews since June too, and I thought I was acing all of them...except for one...the last interview I went on the principal seriously started to fall asleep every time he asked me a question :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by buttcheeks
I haven't delivered to a student yet, but interestingly enough there have been a couple of students who somehow got hired at the Pizza Hut I work at. When I was doing my student teaching last fall one of the kids in my class started working at the Hut. Of course the news that I worked at Pizza Hut spread to all my classes fairly quickly. Plus when I was subbing today I realized there were two people in class that work at the Pizza Hut with me. They also had a fun time telling the class that I was really "just a pizza boy" :) Its moments like these that I realize I have been working at the Pizza Hut way too long.Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
I haven't a had a proper job yet, but I did some work experience a in a warehouse for a week sorting out orders for LaCie computer parts which I quite enjoyed, as there was a variation of tasks to do as nobody there really specified.
I'm sure people had been there a while would get bored of it though.
I work for the Orange County Public Defender's Office. In Orange County, everyone gets convicted, even if you have an airtight alibi. I worked on this one homicide case where the defendant was actually on-camera at a gas station, at the time of the shooting, five miles away from scene of the crime. He was still found guilty. The prosecution argued that the camera's timer was off (she didn't even prove it, which she has to if she's going to make the argument), and the jury bought it. So you're pretty much a loser if you work for the Public Defender's office.
You and me... We're like twice seperated down the same road. Pizza Hut was my least stressful job ever. I was often the only delivery driver, i worked open to close several times, and on my next to last day, the store manager walked out. But it was out in twentyminutesnorthfromknoxville, TN, and it was rare that we were even remotely busy. Amazingly, during the time i was working, i was the only one who gave a shit. I remember one Sunday where we had at least a two hour stretch of no business at all and we had 6 people working. Everyone else was watching some stupid shit on the television and i was cleaning.Quote:
Originally Posted by magnifiedplaid
*sigh* Those were the days... Dreamcast, GameGO!...
I dislike B&N sometimes, but i can't say i hate it all the time. I'm amazed i haven't been fired with all the back talk, breaking shit, yelling at customers, showing up late i've been doing the past... 2 years. They seem to like me, actually.
I work at a 7-11. Third shift even. It's kind of out in a good neighborhood though so it's pretty safe there. Cops come in all through the night taking coffee and donuts. Drunks come in at 2:05 asking for beer. It's really not that bad but I definitely don't want to be doing it much longer.
I take care of old people, I have some serious issues with germs and I feel disgusted with myself every day that I come home from work. It has also made my really afraid of dying. I worry all the time about getting a heart attack, once I woke up in the middle of the night screaming, thinking I had one.
To cope with it I smoke a lot, with my luck I will probably get a stroke.
It's pretty hard to get fired from most retail jobs unless you're openly stealing or assaulting customers or some shit like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
Or like what I did at Staples. I berated a customer. I was so tired of it. The management was shit, The employees were assholes, I hated it. Customer basically was trying to get a cordless phone. I was basically explaining why NOT to get this phone. The customer was like okay I'll take that one instead. A customer behind him; who might I add listened to the whole explaination, said I'll still take the V-Tech. I snapped. Needless to say I was let go.
The only good thing to come from my current job, is that once your in a big corp. You can move up quick. Which is what I am doing currently.
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Phone-based tech support in a massive, horrible call center. Kill me.
Its not my job that I hate, its the people I work with. Just about everyone is from MIT. They are all so pedantic and arogant. Can't really stand it. Its too bad, b/c the actual work is very very cool. But alas, I will probably drop it and go to grad school, or something.
And to the people that work retail. I feel your pain. Before I finished my degree, I worked retail for a while (was also a janitor but that was not that bad at all. No stress!!!). Dealing with the mass market consumer is not a pleasant experience.
For the warehouse ppl, I worked in a warehouse for a year. The only thing that I found bad about it were the hours. Like the janitor job, no stress.
My current job isn't too bad (I run a copy center) but my first job at Little Caesars was complete shit. I started out as a part time employee, making so little that when the minimum wage was raised, I got a raise too. But, it wasn't too bad for a shitty part-time job.
Then, I got promoted to manager. The job itself wasn't to bad, but I only made $6.50 an hour as MANAGEMENT. It was still cool for a while though, the store was dead. I usually spent most of my days sleeping or playing my Nomad. Then, my cool boss left, and an asshole started working as head manager. Asshole+low pay+crappy hours=me almost going insane.
Finally, I was opening one day and the boss (who lived almost an hours drive away) came in before we opened JUST to complain about how shitty a job I had done mopping the floor. After he left I went outside, looked up in the sky and it was a beautiful day. I started to think if I weren't working in this hellhole, I could be outside. Then the more I thought about not working there, the happier I became. By the time the boss came in at 3, I told him I was quitting. No notice, I just couldn't stand working there for a minute longer. I was free!
The store had to close two weeks later because you can't run the place with only one manager. Beautiful.
I've never worked retail or had a "real" job yet. Most of the work I've done so far is odd jobs of various forms of manual labor.
I've;
loaded steel onto trailors
loaded boxes onto trailors
helped a forklift move things from point A to point B
dug holes for shrubs and trees
cleaned severial acres of land
mowed severial acres of land
cleaned just everything under the sun with a highpressure washer
dug a small pool with a pickaxe (in gravel)
moved cars with a forklift
gotten cargo trucks, tractors, and jeeps unstuck
painted houses
helped do roofing
killed weeds
minor office computer networking
minor computer repair
picked up garbage
mopped and waxed floors
scrubbed down rooms
and probably a bunch of shit I can't remember at 9 am
I bet the job you hated the most though was that one time you were a newspaper editor.Quote:
Originally Posted by buttcheeks
By IC do you mean intergrated circuit? Do you work for Dallas/Maxim, NI, or Texas Instruments or somebody smaller?Quote:
Originally Posted by stormy
I work a great job, but the management is a laughingstock and the pay is immorally low. And while I was replying to this, a 38-year-old man who just had surgery for mouth cancer told me he has six months to live. He was hard to understand because of the recent surgery, but that's what he told me.
Life is too sweet to waste on dead-end jobs.
My dad worked for Mead in Chicago. The only good thing about it was I would sometimes get free notebooks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
That's a little crazy. Are you banned from the store now?Quote:
Originally Posted by Advocate
No. I'm not banned, but it was basically working there for 7 years being passed up on every promotion. I had a supervisory position and the place I worked at relocated and reduced the workforce. I was expendible, so instead of being laid off I was transferred back to my old store. And since that position was filled, I went back to being a peon, making 12 an hour.
Everyone complains about management at their jobs. If you're all so much smarter than management, push them aside and take their 80 hour work week.
Yeah, I do circuit design. I don't work for any of those though. I'm at a medium size company. You actually mentioned the place in a post once when you were complaining about engineers, they wanted to use a chip from my company. I just don't want it to be publically posted on the board since i am on here all day at work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Biff_Pocoroba
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Originally Posted by Brisco Bold
I know your pain. I work at a game store during the week, but co-own a flea market stand with my boss that is open on the weekend. I hate having to be an employee, but we do really well at the flea. So I have to deal with smiling at asshats, giving opinions no listens to, and dealing with crackheads so that I don't rock the boat and screw up the weekend gig.
I work in sales in a semiconductor company. My main complaints are that my customers are dicks and I always have to get on the engineers and even my own boss here to get shit done. This is compared to my last job at a Japanese company where it was like clockwork. Oh, and we have to work the day after Thanksgiving. Still, I get paid decently and work pretty much 40 hrs/week.
Fair enough, it's a dog eat dog world out there. The Chinese will pass us by in 10 years in terms of cost of production.Quote:
Originally Posted by stormy
I love management at my new job.Quote:
Originally Posted by he who shall never be named
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Originally Posted by Cowdisease
what really makes that sad is just how not clever or funny it was.
LOL at the 20-hour work weeks my managers enjoy.Quote:
Originally Posted by he who shall never be named
To cope with overwhelming health concerns you smoke?Quote:
Originally Posted by J2d
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Originally Posted by Nick
understood.
One of the greatest things about my job is that my boss works just as hard as any of us do, if not harder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick
And hub, remember Dennis? Remember how much we wanted to shit in his mouth? Any manager that is even 10% the dumbass/straight up asshole he is I would consider a bad manager.
That's probably the stupidest solution that I've ever heard of. Congrats.Quote:
Originally Posted by J2d
I work at an ID Theft call center for the FTC...call centers are the worst.
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Originally Posted by Clownporn
lol Dennis "Danger" Nunn. What a bitch.
The Dominos I worked for was always really busy but even so I liked the job. Base was $7.50, but with tips, mileage, and the fact that I barely declared any of my tips it added up to more like $15 an hour, which isn't great or anything but is awesome when you consider how little actual work is required. Driving a car around is painfully easy, and unlike many easy jobs it actually keeps you busy and makes the time pass quickly. You barely have contact with the public, besides a "That'll be 18.50. Thanks" and generally most complaints are called in so you don't have to deal with annoying people outside of assholes that don't tip.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
I really enjoyed it up until I got robbed, but I was delivering in Baltimore so I guess I should've expected that sooner or later.
Well not only that but I have to whipe asses on pretty much a daily basis when I'm at retirement homes, smell the aroma of brownish pee and once in a while puke. It's nice to go out and have a smoke after such negative sides of the job, plus it dampens my sense of smell.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkRyan
Yeah, that was the life. I say it every time it's brought up; if i had a car to beat the shit out of, i'd be doing it now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saint of Killers
I was robbed once, and went to deliver again in a safer area (Nowhere,TN). Even in Savannah, where one of my co-workers had a gun stuck in his mouth, i delivered. They liked me so i always got the much safer days shifts. I only got $5.15 and tips sucked, but rent was cheap and it was such an easy job i didn't care.
I work with Drug Addicts. Meaning I sell them drugs everyday. I work in a pharmacy and boy are people drug addicts to prescription drugs. Gotta have my xanax gotta get some vicodin, oh where's my digoxin? Why didn't my doctor call, can you call my doctor? My pills fell down the sink(why don't non controlled drugs fall down the sink?) Can I get price? How much is my copay? I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH YOUR FUCKING COPAY IS!!! IT'S YOUR GODDAMN INSURANCE YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW MUCH IT IS ALREADY!!! Besides that it's cool cuz we make fun of people all day long. What ever is said in the pharmacy stays in the pharmacy... Oh by the way if pills fall to the floor they go in your pill bottle! lol
Are you loaded? I heard pharmacists make mad money. And all they do is hang out at CVS! Always sounded like a sweet job to me.
Fucking junkies, always jonesin' for their heart medication.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daitokuji
I have two jobs- I'm a teacher's assistant at my college on weekdays, and on weekends I'm a dishwasher. I love both the jobs, even though one of them is just washing dishes. I also go to school fulltime. I'm actually really happy with everything.
heh, so much time and money is wasted in dealing with people who won't take the time to do their own insurance shit on their own time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daitokuji
I work at Fry's as a sales associate. It's really fucking easy and I can get a pretty good amount of overtime. I say pretty good becuase I'd work 14 hour days 7 days a week if they'd let me.
They won't.
DRUG ADDICTS!!! They think that if they don't get their drugs they are going to die forgetting the fact that they are going to die.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saint of Killers
If i worked at Fry's the piano music they play all day would drive me insane. I love the store but I can barely stay in there for more than 20 minutes. Worst store soundtrack ever, and that's coming from someone that worked at a toy store for years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
Free Pizza Fridays at my job rule so hard.
Are you getting paid to be a TA? I was a TA last spring, and all I got was credits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/2...ithtitswh5.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by he who shall never be named
Why'd you photoshop his boobs?
I didn't do shit. A google search of "bitch tits" yielded this.
Front End Manager at Albertsons - most days its ok, but with the new company that bought us out starting to implement their new rules, its taking its toll on everyone.
Also, 3's a crowd is a joke, they cut our labor and hours, and expect us to open checkstands if there's ever more than 3 people in line. If it takes more than 60 seconds for someone to respond, everyone in line gets a $1 coupon off their order, which sounds all fine and good, but lets be serious, its a fucking dollar, whats to say there is someone in line with a $5 order, the coupon rocks for them, yet someone with a $400 order would take it as a joke, its such a shitty system that they didn't look at before implementing again.
Playing baby sitter for stupid customers who can't read and Courtesy Clerks who don't do shit are just about as bad.
That is all.
I get credits, working my way up to pay. Paperwork takes one million years to process.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tenchimo Dos
hearing other people's shitty jobs makes me feel a lil bit better
just a tint bit
You're the worst sales person in the world. That makes me like you a little more BTW.Quote:
Originally Posted by Advocate
Mead seemed to actually treat its employee's quite well and if you worked there long enough you could work your way up to a press operator, which is like 50 grand a year. Not bad for no schoolin'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick
They own Five Star Binders and give away all sorts of free shit if you put money in to some kind of fund. The only thing I really hated about my time there was the hours. It also gave me a better appreciation for education and how much it really helps you further your life faster. I'm 22 at my current job, the youngest in the company, and I'm making more than 70% of everybody there.
I've also started my own business, but who the fuck knows if that will take off. If it does it does, if it doesn't I'm good too.
If I didn't snap I would have quit that day. I was actually planning on telling the boss I was quitting right after that anyway. 6 years at a job that had no hope of upward mobility.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
Even if it had upward mobility... you're working for Staples...
I'm a grocery manager (Team Lead, whatever) at a Target. Was fun for awhile, now it sucks. Not so much the job itself but just the people I work with and the people above me.
Used to Andrew re-read the story. I don't work there anymore I did when I was 18. I'm 31 now.
I'm glad I can at least relate to this thread. I worked at two different McDonald's, two different grocery stores, and a game store while in high school and early college. Then I got a gig grading math papers, followed by tutoring for statistics, and I have never looked back to retail or food service.
Which one? Looking back, what do you think of your time there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
I have worked grocery twice. The second as a Seafood Clerk I cleaned up at the end of the night. I cannot discribe the smell. 9 months at that job. I've done temporary Banquet Staffing which suprisingly was not that bad if you dont care about your back. The money was ok. I worked in a Museum Store (boring as fuck) and more recently a bank vault processing money; boring but awesome coworkers and the only job where I didnt have to deal with the customers. I liked the temp banquet stuff. Never worked with the same people or at the same place. The bank was cool, because of the people but fucked in other ways.
Luckily I've never really had an ultra shitty job. I've been in retail pretty much since I was 15. It can suck at times but no where near as much as some of the stuff I've read in here.
Right now I'm working for my buddy at his game shop. It's in a dying mall and we get very little foot traffic (for a mall). In a 5 hour shift I'd say I do about 45 min of actual work. The rest of the time I surf the net, play games & watch DVDs.
There are two downsides; retarded ghetto customers & the pay ($7 a hour). But I do get games & dvds at cost. I'll only be there until I'm done with school (7 or 8 more months) then I have to get a real job.
you know retail isn't so bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xeno G
all the other employees were my age, work was very light & we had plenty of time to just hang out.
Then we got a bitch manager & that all went to hell.
Xeno didn't you have a store webcam set up? I remember sitting at home for 3 hours watching nothing but crap. I realized how bored you must be, when I sat for 3 hours on my ass in front of a computer. BTW ... if this was what I rmember ... your mall sucks ball.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xeno G
I've done a shitload of jobs over the years, the worst easily was a temp job I did after college. Temp agencies are very sneaky but they work by scanning for resumes, and calling you up for an interview to see what they have. When you get there they tell you, well your resume is good but you don't have the experience to do a really good job. Then, that same day or even the next day they extend to you a temp job to "get experience". This is how not one but two temp agencies I went to operated and I doubt it's a coincidence.
Anyway, my job was basically entering in invoices the company received into the Peoplesoft database for Cendant. The temp people said I would get good experience but I mastered the job before lunch the first day. It was total garbage and amazingly there were people there doing the same fucking work for 3 or 4 years! At one point I called the recruiter and was like, "do you have anything else for me?", and she was like, ya do you want me to set up an interview! I was like, ya ok and then I called a week later and was like, did you set it up? And she was like, "the company was out on vacation". O RLY THE WHOLE FUCKING COMPANY?!
Oftentimes I would take a day or half a day to go interview at other places and at one point I even got an angry phone call from my recruiter wondering "if I wanted to work". So anyway after about 10 weeks at that job I took a few days off to go to my graduation ceremonies, I came back and there was no desk for me. I just quit right at that moment and never heard from te temp agency again.
I've done "blue-collar" whatever, I worked at EB for years, I worked as a shelf stocker at a food store (graveyard shift), I worked at a factory, but that job was easily the worst because I knew I was getting manipulated and used but I needed the money while I looked for more work. It took me six weeks after I quit before I found one.
Yeah, I haven't set it back up in a while. Every time I log into #tnl at work no one is around. Maybe I'll do it again tomorrow evening (I close). And yeah, I'm bored out of my mind most of the time. It's a lot more barable when I have some friends hanging out with me up there but that dosen't happen often enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Advocate
Retail is only as fun as your manager allows it to be. So a cool manager is a must.Quote:
Originally Posted by WTFer
Yeah, I have worked at two grocery stores, and they both had their merits and downsides. At the old store, I always had the same schedule, and I always had the same work load, which I was actually able to complete, which made it an easygoing job. I worked there for 4 years, so all of the managers liked me and trusted me. However, it was a pretty tight ship: I didn't ever really goof off, but because I could always finished what needed to be done, I would have a sense of accomplishment when I left.
At this store, however, it's a bit of a different story. My schedule isn't as consistent as it was at the other store, and I am always asked to do so many duties by my department manager that even if I stayed a few extra hours, I wouldn't be able to finish them. So, I either say fuck it and do a crappy job (and they usually don't say anything about it), or do a job that I feel is up to "my standards", and have other stuff I wasn't even able to start doing. However, It's nice because all of the night managers that I work with are very laid back. We always put the Gator game over the PA system, so while I always have to work during a game, I never have to miss it. One of the night managers always makes sure that we eat something decent. Crab legs are on sale, so last night, after the seafood person went home, I had myself a nice amount of fresh steamed crab legs for about $5; better than any fast food crap imo.
I didn't realize how good I had it with jobs till now. My first job was as a TA. I did that for a few years and quit after the money wasn't cutting it any more and the new princinpal that took hated my guts and always had to make my days longer with uneccesary BS.
After that I did retail Suncoast, Radio Shack and Best Buy I liked all 3. But Best Buy I ended up not liking too much with the we are not commissioned but must act like used car salesmen steez besides that not too bad.
Also worked a summer doing dry walls/construction that was interesting. Pay was good, but I sucked at the job. I quit because my boss was real duechbag. We'd have to meet at 5am at different locations every other day or so and this idiot would get drunk, high or whatever and never show up while I called his stupid nextel for hours while he slept it off this happened at least once a week some times twice.
My last 2 jobs man these are the ones really I hate... Yes a Call Centers are hell. I was working at Bank Of America Yes the benefits and pay is nice, but after 4 months I felt I was about to have a nervous breakdown from all being stuck in a cubicle unable to see day light chained to 6 ft headset cord tracking every damn transaction morons made at walmart the last 3 months among many other things to now working doing the same damn thing but for Disability insurance company where most calls are obviously form people on drugs, old peopple on their death beds telling me their life story (some are interesting) to snobby lawyers threatning to sue me LOL. :chick:
I've come to realize I hate cubicles3 I like the freedom to walk around and see the people I'm helping or working with face to face I'm just trying to hold off quitting till December when I plan to relocate down south for a while.
Dude, nobody likes cubicles. For a lot of people I think if you ask them what they really want in their career, it is a door.Quote:
Originally Posted by x2y
I probably won't be around tomorrow, but you should set up the webcam addy and everyone can log on here on the boards.
I've never seen a worse mall than yours ... no I take that back. The Cumberland Mall in Vineland, NJ was horrendous. It was a strip mall with a roof and a walking path.
Super Flea rocks the hiz but I can't imagine dealing with most of the people that shop there. Man I haven't been there in like a year - there was a time that I would go there almost every weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by JesusC
I'm on the price change team at my target. I was Market, Pets, and Chemicals Team Lead for a couple months two years ago, but when I went back to school after that summer, I decided I didn't want a full time job while going to school..so I told them to put me somewhere else. That's when I went to price change. It's shitty, like everything else at target...the biggest benefit however, is price change works mornings only, and monday through friday with weekends off. I also have had opportunities to buy quite a few cheap things over the last year on price change.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hot Like Wasabi
Luckily I'm planning to quite after this semester. So I'm looking forward to that.
Confirmed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Not to be a dick, but if some of you guys went to college when you graduated you wouldn't be working in, yuck, retail or worse.
I'm in college...what's my excuse?Quote:
Originally Posted by Biff_Pocoroba
Nothing, we all suffer through college. I was refering to anyone over 21 who hates their job and hasn't decided that college was the way to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Criticom
What if you think working in the corporate world is an even worse scenario? I'm just content to make enough money to live until I die. I don't want kids, so as long as my wife and I are happy, I'm good :)
Edit: I did go to college; and a trade school.
Your wife will probably eventually want kids. Corporate life is actually kind of easy. Just expect a lot of unnecessary drama to unfold because people don't like to communicate problems. They'd rather say nothing and let it come to an explosive head, usually ending with someone getting fired.