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Where do you work?
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ugh i can only imagine what you find while cleaning..people are nasty in theaters!
my last job was customer service for a company who worked with pro photographers...i got some crazy people that called..and really mean people...i have this one horror story about this guy who was the biggest ass to me that i always tell..but i feel like i could never do it any justice typing it out and it would be wayyy too long. haha.. i hated that job though..people are super mean. i did begin to have compassion on other customer service people after working there. haha
i also used to work as a nanny with 2 autistic children..by far the best job ever...the one is severely autistic..non verbal for the most part...but he is the love of my life! :) He is seriously the cutest little boy and he makes me smile so much..i don't work there anymore but i did it for like 5-6 years so i'm a part of the family now.
ooh one time..he had gluten..he's allergic to it..and it was my first time ever working there alone..i was like 16..the parents went out..all of a sudden i smell something..he had massive massive diarrhea alllll over. i almost cried.. it was everywhere. the poor kid couldn't help it..i attempted to clean things up..but i couldn't..almost threw up..so i just took him up and gave him a shower..haha they always joke that they are surprised i continued working after that.
oh man, jamie, i would have definitely thrown up if that happened to me!i worked at old navy for 5 years, so i definitely have had my share of rude people to last a lifetime. my first holiday season there, a woman threw a pen at my face in front of my supervisor because i couldn't take back her return without a receipt. i have lots of other scary/weird stories but i will not get into that here.
i also worked as a security guard last year which everyone laughs at because i'm a pretty small girl. that was the best job because i didn't do much other than read & do homework for 3 hours every day. during the time that i had that job i also worked early mornings doing gardening/landscaping for a crazy old woman. i saw so many snakes and one day got stung on the side of my face by 5-10 wasps. it was awful. haha.
tjmaxx distribution center for like 4 years now its fun sometimes but when you see your supervisor run as fast as you can
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ughh..i would have died if i saw snakes..or got stung by bees...two things i hate more than anything.
haha, when she threw the pen at me i was so stunned, i just stood there trying to process it. we only had the small counter separating us, so we were only a foot or two apart. my supervisor flipped out yelling "you could have blinded her!" and had her escorted out of the store by mall security.i was so embarrassed when i got stung by the bees because i was working with two guys younger than me and all i wanted to do was cry. my face and head swelled up and i ended up almost passing out, so i finally went and told my boss what happened and she started taking care of me and i eventually broke down and cried from the pain on her kitchen floor. i'm such a baby when it comes to things like that.
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i would have cried too..im a big baby.
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I had a lady (for lack of another word) that was upset at something I asked her to do so she threw scissors at me. Oh and I was her supervisor at the time, but the main manager had a thing for her, so she wasn't even written up. So I completely understand the shock of having something thrown at you.
The funniest was when I worked at a medical supply store. This elderly German gentleman came in and my coworker was talking to him, and he commented on her "lovely cleavage". I admit it was hard, but I didn't laugh. Then after he left, she asked me why he would say something like that. I told her because her shirt was trampy and she shouldn't be wearing it if she didn't want people to look. She sure changed her dressing habits after that.
This thread is hilarious!I've got so many stories, I don't have enough room, so I'll just share a few.
At KFC, I had a biscuit thrown at me because he said it was stale. Also there, a different guy was so mad because he said he got the wrong kind of chicken that seriously, we all were waiting for him to pull out a gun. For real. One family even left. Left their food on the table and everything because the parents were scared. Yeah.. I quit that job with one phone call then threw away my uniforms. Hehe. They told me to turn them in. =)
Then I worked at Staples for 2 years. A new employee puked on my shoes once then just stared at me, crying, with a customer in front of me that had a cart full of crap and I had already rung up half of her stuff. I just told the customer to go to another register and told the new girl to wipe her face, then go the long way around the store to the back. After she left, I realized I had puke all over my shoes and I couldn't walk away from the service desk without stepping in it.
Another time at Staples, I had my rudest, meanest customer... ever. And I knew her, but she didn't know me! It was a lady from the church I went to when I was little! And she still went to that church with my grandma! After she was mean as f**k, I told her to tell my grandma hello next sunday at church. She just stared at me with her mouth open and rushed out of the store. Hehe.
And finally.. now I work at a bank as a teller. By far, the best job ever. I get to sit on my butt and hand people money, crack jokes with the other girls, and watch my checking account slowly deplete daily. Haha. I've been there about a year and a half now and I really do love it, but geez we get some dummies. The ones that don't know how to use their checkbook register. Sometimes I just want to scream you idoits!! And then they come in and want the fees back. Just yesterday this man was yelling so much I could see his spit. He was pissed at me because he wanted to cash a $6000 insurance check and he only had $43 in his account. There's no way on God's earth I could cash that check. I could only deposit it and he would have to wait for it to clear the bank before it was available. He snatched the check out of my hand, yelled some more at me and stormed off. I just smiled and said have a wonderful day, sir! That kind of stuff doesn't bother me anymore, because the other pros of my job outweighs those moments by far.
I have seriously done every job there is out there. I get bored and quit a lot (or get laid off when my boss buys a million dollar condo in downtown San Diego and can't afford to pay me anymore), so now my thing is trying to keep a job for more than a year. My longest run is three and a half years of mandatory volunteer work in high school handing out promotion items to fans at Padres home games... "I'm sorry 35 year old man but you can not have this baseball bat because it is kids day and that means twelve and under and I can see you have a very nice mustache and are trying to sneak beer in. Walking in on your knees won't fool me! If you try and take one out of that box like last week I am going to hit you with this baseball bat - just like I promised you last week." I pretty much worked at the same gate everytime and saw the same people coming in every weekend. The best part? Rally's fries.
Right now I'm the administrative assistant/accounting department for an architect. It's okay, but I don't want to be here forever. My dream job of the past six months is Interior Designer. Probably just because of all the swatches and samples we get here.
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justine..people like that crack me up! & what are Rally's fries?
Tami..that cleavage story is too funny.
Haha you all have hilarious stories!I work at Barnes and Noble, and I seriously think that all the crazy people flock there. I have so many crazy people that I actually have a section of my journal devoted to what crazy/stupid customers I had and what they said/asked for.
One creepy middle aged man asked me where the books on body language were, so I showed him. Then he said, "What would I have to do with my body to get you to go out with me?" I just laughed. Then he creepily said, "Some people would think I was kidding when I said that. I'm serious."
...oookay.
Also, just the sheer stupidity of people is hilarious sometimes. "Yeah, where is that journal? You know the one with that girl, Anne Franklin."
I have so many stories...
Jamie, Rally's was a fast food place in San Diego like 15 years ago and the only one left was in the stadium. They have the best curly fries.
We have a rallys... I love their chili!
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Has anyone ever been to a Chickie's and Pete's?
OMG you guys have the funniest stories. I would have freaked with some of this stuff. I work at a daycare for 5-12 year olds. I have been there for almost 6 years now. I guess I could come up with some funny stories but I can't even think of any. We usually make bets every summer of when the first kid will throw up. We made it all the way to August last summer! It was amazing!! Haha.You guys have some great stories though! :)
I LOVE RALLY'S!!!! <3<3<3I just started a new job at a Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi bar! I like it so far.
I also have a quarter time job at the Picture People in Indy. I love most of the co-workers but hate the job.
I have some funny stories, but I haven't the energy to list them!
I love this thread.
I work at a radio station in my home town and then at the college radio station. I also just got a job at a fashion boutique.
I used to work before during summer vacation. But that was even before I went to college. I was an assistant of a traveling salesman when I was in the fifth grade. I crapped my pants once but didn't tell him. And then I did office work when I was in highschool.
when i worked in dennys restruant some guy asked me if i had any weed? that was funny....i got nothing funny oh well
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Mykee..when you were in 5th grade you were an assistant? thats awesome! i'm pretty sure i was still playing with Barbies in 5th grade. haha.
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Jamie- The same girl with the cleavage comment, had a tattoo on the small of her back. She was dicusing tat's with another elderly male customer one day and pulled her shirt up and the waist band of her pants down to show him hers. She was something else.
I am lucky though. I feel like I now have my dream job. Well, at least the place to work, I would like to be higher up the chain of command.
Oh Dennys...When I first moved out after high school one of my three jobs was working the graveyard shift at Dennys in a not so great part of town. I quit after a few weeks I think, but I didn't tell my mom out of shame or something. The week after I quit, someone got shot in the face on my shift and my mom saw it on the news and thought it was me. Oops.
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Denny's! A completely random thing. My Great Grandmother lived in Encinitas, and my mom and I had gone to visit. We usually ate out during the visits so she suggested just a quick Burger place one night and directed us to Denny's. :) Not sure the Denny's people would like being put into that category.
For those that don't live in or around San Diego, Encinitas is just a little to the North.
Oh man I can't think of any great work stories.. mine would sound sooooo boring in comparison to yalls!Well, my first real job was during high school at the county library. I pretty much disliked it at the time, but looking back it was pretty sweet. We had a good collection of movies to borrow and you always got to see the new books first.
Then I worked for my dad who is a lawyer. I was the receptionist/secretary/go-fer. That was a nice job b/c the work was usually pretty minimal and I just did homework and read for the majority of the time. Plus I didn't have a dress code. On the downside, I had to clean once or twice a week which sucked majorly. Bathrooms were included as well as mopping and buffing the floors.
The summer after college, my dad changed firms and didn't need me anymore, and the only job I could find was at a temp agency. That was an insane job. You never knew what days you would be working. They usually called about an hour before you needed to show up. The pay was great, but the hours you worked per week were totally inconsistent. However, I gained a ton of new skills. One day I was a temp for a temp at a trucking company. I mostly read and chatted with the fun truckers and had to hand out work info. But I hated when the phone rang b/c I could never get in touch with "Bill" who they were always calling for. But the boss was so cool. He was like "There is no possible way you can screw up this job."
Then there were two weeks where I worked as a transcriptionist. That was fun and so easy. And it made me really happy b/c I was good at it. Plus it is a great skill to list on resumes, I think. But it was for a psychiatric hospital and so I heard some really really disturbing things.
Then I worked for a week at this office that made prefab buildings or something? I really don't know. The boss was never there. He met me when I came in on the first day and then I think I saw him one other time. The only thing I had to do was send one fax one day and answer the phone and basically relay their messages to him by calling his cell phone. The phone rang maybe 3 times. The rest of the time I just read. Oh it was a sweet job!
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Lynn..those jobs sound pretty nice! You get to read for the majority of time!
hahahha this thread is hilarious..I worked at Target for a while..get a lot of rude people and alot of creeper guys.
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I hate creepers! At my last job we would have drunk creepers come in all the time!
i work at a starbucks and there are sooo many creepers! we've starting nicknaming them to keep them all straight. there's rich creeper, craigslist creeper, THE creeper, and mike. we know mike by his actual name because he's so creepy that he volunteers information to us without anyone asking, lol.
Ugh the joys of coffee house creepers!
Haha we have nicknames for our customers too!
yeah Dennys was fun, working in the back and drinking soda for free....... but the pay was not as good but it still was fun
i worked at blockbuster for a little while and there were some definite creepers there.
I wish I had a part-time job during the year. But I just can't fit one in. I feel like if I got one, I wouldn't get my homework done and I'd die of stress. My good friend is thinking of dropping a class so she can get a job to help her family. I made the mistake of mentioning this to my mom and her response was, "Gee, I wish my daughter was concerned enough to help her family," which made me feel like crap. So I was thinking of donating plasma to have some money to buy some groceries and some extras. I've donated before, when I was a freshman, and it wasn't bad. I don't know...I hate money.
I'm a little different on this subject. I've worked since I was 13. Always part time when in school & full time in the summer. I had to. I've always paid my own way & had to take the burden off my family. Sure, it sucks when in school, but I have my own apartment, I do what I want, when I want, & everything is relaxed. I still worry about money, I don't make THAT much.. but I have a budget that my boyfriend & I pretty much stick to.
Yeah, I'm the same as Lauren, but I got my first job when I was 15. I've been working full time and going to school full time for 2 years now. I thought that I'd die of stress, but you really just have to take it a day at a time and not think about it. It definitely IS stressful though. Sometimes I get so tired and worn out that I just don't even want to move! I just keep telling myself that this won't last forever and I'll have some free time after I graduate, because right now, I have absolutely no free time at all.
Yup. That's what I do Kelsey. One summer, I worked at Staples, Booksamillion, and was training at my current job.. National City Bank. It was absolute hell on earth. My feet hurt 24 hours a day. I finally after 2 months quit Booksamillion because they were HORRIBLE to work for... and I was making minimum wage. Then I put in my 2 weeks notice for Staples. Now I'm a happy camper here at the bank. It's not stressful work and I have a chair!!! Haha.
I'm looking for a job right now!! I tried waitressing for like a week and couldn't handle it! I had creepy guys hit on me and i spilled some drinks and the people were soooo mean about it..they didn't even care that it was my first day.
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ughh. i hate work.
In college I worked at a small Greek restaurant called the Happy Falafel and mostly loved it. My boss was kinda an ass but in a straight forward way...you do something wrong you get yelled at do it right and everything is fine. My boss would always say "the customer is stupid", it works 2 ways first you know the product better than the customers so you have to inform them and second customers are just idiots so don't let em get you down.
I'm Science/Maps reference specialist at my alma mater. I graduated last year (working at the library 3 years as an undergrad) and then they offered me a staff position. Yeah! All time favorite questions ( in no particular order):
-Can you appraise my civil-war-era saddle blanket for me?
-Do you have a life-sized model of the globe?
-I'm sick of dinosaur pictures being so different. Do you just have a photograph I can look at?
-"Do you have a star chart of the galaxy?" "Which galaxy?" "You mean there's more than one? Which one do we live in?"
-"Please put your personal items in the locker and we'll bring your books to the reading room for you." "Oh, no. (flopping on the desk) Oh no." "What?" (looking up suddenly) "They've been here, haven't they?" "Who?" "911. They've been here. They've been everywhere. They don't trust me. No one trusts me. Speaking of which. I don't trust you. No one on campus has hair like yours."
-Where can I buy emergency candles?
-"I'm looking for a book. Can you help me?" "Can you describe this book?" "It's big." "Here's a big book". (haughty noise) "Well, if you can't help me, I'm just going to find someone who can."
I am making a collection of these to hopefully publish some day, so note that these are copyrighted experiences...and only pebble in a sea of funny patron experiences. :)
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That is classic David. Please let us know when it is published so I can go buy it. :)
I work at B&N and have for almost five years... I get questions like, "Can you help me? I'm looking for a book." "Do you know the title or author?" "No, but the cover was red." "..."I also got a customer last semester who complained someone had cut her in line at the customer service desk. Not knowing what to do, I apologized, and she responded with a really rude "Are you REALLY?" as she was walking away. I got so angry I said rudely back, "Actually, YEAH."
My absolute favorite story though is when I was still in high school, I was on the registers and a middle-aged dude came up with two huge stacks of paperbacks. I started to ring him up, and then he said "Oh, hang on" and went over to the magazine rack. He came back with a Playboy and said to me with a smile, "You reminded me." I was like, excuse me, what? I said "thanks" sarcastically. And then told my head cashier who thought it was hilarious and still thinks its one of the best stories he's heard from our store.
Just thought of another good one. It was two summers ago, and I was shelving audio books when a customer came up to me and asked if I could help him. Thinking he needed help finding a book, since, you know, that's what my job is, I said sure. He then proceeded to describe a song that he heard on the radio and was stuck in his head, and asked if I knew what it was. He sang it for me too. I had no idea what he was talking about (believe me I wish I did so I could get away from him) and then he said that's okay, just think about it. I was like, okay whatever, and he left. THEN he came back up to me later and asked me if I had remembered it! I was just like, ummmm no. He then introduced himself as Nick and shook my hand. And that was pretty much the end of our interaction... I made my managers aware of his presence haha.
Tahleen, that's hilarious. What do you say to something like that? I've had experiences like the "song" one, but "you reminded me"...~shudder~.
Yeah it was pretty creepy but it definitely made for a fantastic story.
Haha I've definitely been planning on doing exactly the same thing. I work at B&N too, and I always write down the crazy things my customers say so that I can publish a book sometime in the future. It's pretty ridiculous how many people in this world are just complete idiots. My boyfriend and I always say, "If you want to retain your hope in the human race, do not work in retail."
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I work at the movie threatre so we get the usual odd balls, the gothic kids, the giggling girls, the oh-so in love couples (yeah I fit into this category when I go to the movie), the creepers, and of course the informants. The informants tell you about everything that is wrong. I've been told:
1. I tripped on a stair, please change the architecure so I can see the stair next time (I am not an engineer)
2. The level on the water is too low. Please make it go up (I am not a plumber)
3. There is stuff on the toilets, please wipe it (I am not a janitor)
The informants can all cry me a river. I am here to make that yummy popcorn for you, clean the theatre up after you when you leave your full super large coke bottles in the theatre and other things (like condoms), sell you tickets, and make sure youre under-age 10 year olds are not trying to sneak into 18A movies. So that`s my rant! What do you guys do to support your way through school?