We're Employed, and We're dying inside.

A thread to bitch about things you hate or talk about funny shit at your job.

Well, I work at a movie theater and worked a shift from 6pm to 1am last night. Got home sore and angry and slept 3 hours then went back to work at 7 to open. Everything was cool until about 10:30 when 6 buses full of kids show up and every one of them wants 10 different things. I made a bunch of mistakes and burned a fuckload of popcorn. Got through that though. Later an 8 year old girl came up and asked for a large popcorn, candy, pretzels and a large soda. She leaves and my kitchen supervisor say, "This is why American kids are obese, and you know what, that little bitch is going to go in to the movie and spill that all over the fucking floor. AND I'LL HAVE TO CLEAN IT UP! FUCK!" and stormed off. Then had to work another 1 hour after my shift ended to cover for someone. Walked 2 miles back home with blisters on my feet and now I'm here. ROUGH FUCKING DAY!

haha kids.

Homeless man once told me to "get a Job" while I caught him trying to shoplift from my store.

Pet store + Dogs = Potential chance for cleaning up piss. Joy.

That and standing up for five to seven hours, answering questions, stocking shelves, and cashier duties. Needless to say, my legs are screaming in agony at the end of the day. The only good thing is seeing various type of dogs that I won't get a chance to see anywhere else.

Pay the price for living on your own, dude.

I believe I am. You know, cause I have a job.

You sort of missed the point, but well, who cares anyway.

Can you get me some free tickets and food?

Today this 6'4" guy that was like 280lbs tried stealing a shit ton of games today. When LP (lost prevention went up to hold his arms behind his back so he could get him in the office until the police showed up - the guy jerked and 3 other guys jumped on him.

The guy threw his elbows back and busted my managers lip and LPs eye - another guy jumped over the counter and jumped on the guys back and tried bringing him to the ground and then they were trying to shove him in the office.

He jerked around so much he broke the sensor thing by the front door.

Then we had another guy try to steal blank cds and he knew he was being followed so he went to the bathroom and took one of the cds out (they had individual cases) and he seriously stuck it between his ass cheeks. The police officer came in the bathroom (we had an employee in there following him pretending to take a leak) and when the guy came out of the bathroom the police officer patted him down and found the CD. The guy screamed that the CD was his - and the officer asked him if he kept all his CDs between his ass cheeks or just this one

Wow...
I think the real question here is whether or not you kept the CD afterwards.

Yeah we put it back in the case with the rest of them and put it back out on the floor.

At least, you're not like me, unable to find a part time job during your breaks. XD

I don't speak Spanish, and 80% of the people I work with do not speak English. They all think it's funny, as if food service isn't annoying enough when you know what the hell the waitress is yelling at you. I cannot describe the number of problems with this scenario, just know that every day I walk into my job knowing...that this could be the day. The day I fucking snap and kill all of them. The jackass in the back who keeps trying to sell me stolen electronics. The crackhead dishwasher who keeps taking my aprons and hiding them in random places. The obnoxious waitress who spends most of her time laughing maniacally at nothing in particular. And of course that other cook who spends all day yelling catch phrases at me, since I'm assuming those are the only english words he knows.

Best tv show idea since scrubs. Without the Spanish part.

Oh, man. I feel you about the blisters on your feet crap. I worked as a photographer for a Star Trek Exhibition (lol) at the Kodak Theater on Hollywood and Highland. At least two days out of the week, I was standing/running around like a jackass for 10 hours straight.

But I have a new job now.



Lmao! Man... this is incredible. What kind of catch phrases?

He's hard to understand, even on a good day; most of them involve beer in some form, relating to the consumption thereof. Other days he will quote commercials, like he might stand behind you and scream 'Can you hear me now?!' If I don't end up killing him, someone will, and that thought gives me comfort.

LOL. Nooo!

Wow, you really have a lot to do on your work sometimes Ziggy.

Ghost, maybe you need to get a bike.

For 2 years I never complained about my job. Paid well, nice work atmosphere, no shitty bosses.

Until now.

My programming team was tasked to create a registration facility for online distribution of various licensed contents last year. All the prospective registrants had to do is enter the required data through an online page we provide, and after they enter said data, they had to read the terms & conditions, and press OK. Then they wait for a few seconds while the system verifies their info provided, and a javascript alert message will notify them if their registration is successful or not.

Then, around the end of last year, we were bombarded with emails from disgruntled customers (one day we got around 500+ emails, which were pretty much BS) on so-called "registration problems".

I then was puzzled - why so many of them? Then I checked out our records, and I found out the truth - customers tend to ignore the "registration unsuccessful" messages, they tend to click the OK button more than a dozen times trying to get their desired result, and they complain about unsuccessful registrations when the problem is largely their own fault. They're treating our registration facility like we were some stupid slot machine that gives out registrations on luck. Why so many fucking stupid customers? All they had to do is read the goddamned alert message, it's only either successful registration or not, and the "not" always had a specific precise reason as to why the registration was denied.

I was pissed off at that. One customer, who I noted, initially registered last December and the initial alert message read that his account details did not match, thus his registration is denied due to invalidity. Then, in an unfathomable show of stupidity, he ignored the message and resubmitted his information 221 times in a span of 4 days (average of 54 clicks a day) and then emailed our company a letter detailing his difficulties at registering. To top it all off, his complaint was marked "Urgent - need to answer in detail immediately" by the customer care department. I was in conniptions, and I didn't want pandering to ignorant customers such as him. I then had somebody else to email that guy back. Then I got more emails to answer, and I said - enough's enough. I emailed the customer care department and detailed some stats regarding the complaints. I got a positive response and they told me they'd take care of it.

Nowadays we still get the same crap complaints, but thankfully the customer care department got around it and instead asked the customers to "read the popup message carefully before complaining".