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Sephiroth

bad days at work

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i have worked a few jobs and only had a few bad days, or funny days.

my first job was at burger king. it was poorly run but thats not the stroy. a white-trash woman and her family had been causeing problems at other resteraunts for several months. she and her family would trash the place and threaten anyne who told them to clean it up. knowing this i rejected service to them, this upset them until i reminded them of a friend. 2 weeks before that friend was working late at a dairy queen. that family came in and trashed the place and he told them to pick it up. the others just left except the mother, who is really that bad one. she starts threatening and such an then walks out. however she goes up to the windows and makes like she has a gun, starts screaming too. to her surprise my firend punches threw the glass and grabs her shirt. he pulls her threw the windows to see a childs squirt gun fall out of the pocket. he didnt get chraged with anything, she could have been charged with vandalism and attempt at robbery.

I also worked at a photo lab, we saw all kinds of shit. a guy once brought in pictures of a strip club. in one picture a woman, bent over, has a bucket on each ass cheek. the guy had his face between them, funniest thing ever. also the rules stated that the only thing we could not do was porn with more than 2 people, kids or animals.

another job i worked as a computer tech. would not belive how much porn we would find in office computers. everything from sick beastality, oversized orgies to twisted furry porn and henti. anyway a sign also says any unlawful matterail found will be reported. so a guy come in, he wants a new network card and to see if we could find a few doucuments on the hard drive. after finding and killing a few viruses we start looking. the first place we check is 'my doucuments' and there it is, around 75 megs of child porn. we call the police and tell them. we then call the guy to say the computer is ready, he comes and gets arrested. the police take just the hard drive. when i left that computer was still there, and it was new too. it had a 900Mhz PIII in it. last time i checked one of the other techs took it home, as the guy never came to pick it up.

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Heh, my first job was working at a pool and spa supply store. I was there for three years (just quit last month). I remember once when we looked out the window and seen a kid, with only a diaper on, just walking in the middle of the parking lot across the way. We figured that it must have had a parent somewhere nearby, so we didn't pay much attention. About ten minutes later, this lady comes in, sweating, panting, and asking if we seen a little baby in a diaper. Turned out that the baby we seen walking was her kid, and somehow it just walked out her front door! We called the cops, and everything turned out alright. Don't know what happend to the mother.

And then, just this summer, there was this lady who used a biguinide system (it's an alternative to chlorine which uses biguinide and hydrogen peroxide). She used to come in like at least twice a week to get her water tested by us (we do free water tests). She also asked why it was so hard to keep her peroxide level up. We told her to make sure to test it at least once every other day and to follow the results without question. She responded by saying that we were her test kit and refused to buy one. So, with the bosses out of town, my coworker/manager simply told her that our bosses wouldn't be testing her water that often without a fee. She told us that she could just go back to [competitor] where they'd do it for free. We said that it was fine. A few weeks later she comes in and talks to one of my bosses (I have two). She explains that the reason she didn't have a test kit was because she had some sort of mental illness that prohibited from working with numbers. Which is also why she was perfectly able to measure out her chemicals up to then.

The best part, however, was when people came in and said stuff like "What? You have to put chemicals in your pool?". Or, "My pool turned green." "Have you been shocking it lately, and making sure your chlorine floater is full?" "I don't use chemicals. Why's my pool green?"

Now I work at the multimedia services department at the Univeristy of Denver. So far, the stupidest thing was that someone didn't know the difference between a network cord and a telephone cord, and were wondering why "this telephone line" wouldn't fit into her modem on her laptop.

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After being at the same job for 5 years it's all blended into one big, bad day. At least it's a computer related job and i get paid pretty good.

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a few weeks ago i worked on computers at my grandmothers house. there where maybe 4 systems i was working on, needed just 1 to work. after i scraped one of them i noticed a classic dumbass trade mark. someone had stuck a 5 1/4 floppy in the space between the 2 drives. i saw this once were i worked, but i see it more when i do house calls. usally it is the work of a child or an older person.

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I worked for the Sears Catalogue taking orders and complaints for 3 years. One day this bitch calls in saying her shower curtain isn't working and wanted an exchange. So I ask her what the problem is so I can fill out the customer service form. She said the catalogue says that the curtain is water repellant, but when she hang it, water got all over the floor. Turns out she hung the curtain OUTSIDE the tub, and since it's water repellant it's supposed to magically push the water back in the tub, no matter where it hangs. After arguing with her for 10 minutes, I gave up and ordered her another one. Damn bitch probably yelled someone else's ear off when the second one was "defective" as well. Bitch.

Another one. I work at Mr. Sub, as you may (or may not) know. Little Caesars used to be beside us. It's supper rush. A customer stands in line for 10 minutes, gets to the makeup table (where we make the subs) and says they're there to pick up a pizza. The idiot stood in line for 10 minutes, with Mr. Sub signs all over the place, and it doesn't occur to him that we don't have pizza. Same thing happens with KFC (which is across the parking lot). Every once in a while someone comes in to pick up a bucket of chicken. People are stupid.

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Fredrik said:

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ROFL. 16th funniest post ever. Ralph is still no.1;

Ralphis said:

fredrik is a god. I love his long swedish penis

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pritch said:

ROFL. 16th funniest post ever. Ralph is still no.1;

I'd like to see the rest of that list.

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The only job I've had was washing dishes at a local resturant. That was hellish, plus the pay was ass. Sometimes I had to work the front and back, which was a total pain. Both of the owners said I was their best dishwasher, I was quick and I only broke one dish in my entire time there. Heh, one dumb fuck that works there now breaks on average 1 dish a night.

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Damn Seph, you should have your own sitcom! :P

Sephiroth said:

... everything from sick beastality, oversized orgies to twisted furry porn and henti ...

!!! Please, think of the humans' feelings for crying out loud! :P

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the dairy queen lady was funny, in a recent news paper she was arrested for shop lifting and disturbing the peace, also late charges of drug use/possesion were issued. she stole a coke in the local krogers and made such a rucus it took 3 cops to get her into a car. she was later found to have drugs on her: she had crack, LSD and a baggie of pot. this happened during july if i remeber correctly, the guy who pulled her threw the glass showed me the article.

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I'm a full time construction worker in the summer, I get 50 hour weeks, and make 12.50/hour. I just find an easy job for the winter and spring to get me through. It equals out to 600 dollar pay checks a week which is nice, especially when you work 16 weeks. Anyways, I drive forklifts, etc etc there (BTW I'm 18) and I'm fully licensed. One of the ministry guys came in last summer and gave me a hard time. Despite being fully licensed he didn't think I was fully qualified (This year will be my third summer working there, and 4th summer on a forklift) I guess because I was "only a kid" as he called me. I jumped off and let this fag get up there and drive it. He didn't know drive from reverse and backed into a skid of 2 and a quarter inch walco sill snapping them all in half. Total cost to replace the 10 foot sill's, $1000. "Way to go dumbass" was all I said. And why not? I can't get in shit for it.

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Heh, I remember another time when these two guys came in and wanted to return a thermometer that had stopped working. It had already been used for at least a month, so I told them that I couldn't take it back. They insisted that I call my boss, at home, to make sure. While I did, they went over to look at our spa chemicals.

Well, my boss of course said, "No". So, I went over and told them. The first one then says in a very arrogant voice, "Well, I guess you can just toss that out then." But then the second one goes, "Or, bend over." I just look at them, walk up to the front counter, throw the thermometer out, and refused to help them anymore.

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a friend once made a deep gash in his hand when he slipped. He was useing a metal grinder. The rest of the day he spent removing chunks of metal from his hand.

his dad also fell off a lift and impaled his left arm near the wrist

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My former job as a theater manager saw no limits to the ammount of stupidity and bullshit I witnessed and had to deal with.

First, I was tasked with running a 20-year-old theater that was literally falling apart. Projectors were barely working with screws missing and important failsafe switches broken. When you walked inside the main hall, everything looked straight out of the 70s. Orange laminant on the snack bars, brown tweed curtains and, oh yeah, speakers so old, the paper cones had turned to dust! Of course, everything was analog, with only 2 screens even attempting stereo (the other 2 screens were mono)

So you can imagine the extreme bitching I had to listen to from the customers, who were charged FULL PRICE admission for such piss-poor theater. On top of all that, I was given all of the "trashy" movies to show (i.e. "Next Friday", "Battlefield Earth", "Rugrats"), so I had the extra headache of dealing with the scum of the earth, who would smuggle booze, steal candy, and let their friends in the back door.

Then I had to listen to bitching about the floors being sticky after the movie was over. Like I'm somehow able to magically mop the floors while people are watching the movie. "Oh excuse me for moment, would you stand up while I mop? Don't worry about seeing this part, it's the chick who kills him..." I would explain this to customers, yet they couldn't resist the "Well yes but..." and continue to bitch.

Next, I would have to stay until 3am every night printing out 100 pages of profit reports on a computer so old, I swear it was IMB's first prototype. The friggin thing would crash trying to print!! The corperate offices didn't give a rat's ass how old my equipment was, because they got all the profits in the end. In other words, they got to basically hoodwink people out of their money and I was the one who had to listen to bitching because of it. On top of all that, I was on salary, which meant I was forced to work 65-hour weeks, yet only get paid for 40. Salary is basically free labor for corperations and should be flat-out illegal in my opinion.

Then there are the stupid customers. Everyday, I'd get people pointing to the time slots and ask "When does this movie start?". I'd go stand next to them and point to the time slot and say "7pm according to this thing you're pointing at". I'd also have to play the role of movie critic because 70% of the customers would ask "What's this movie about and is it any good?". A word of advice folks: Never ask this question of a movie theater employee, they are told to praise EVERY movie when asked (more hoodwinking by the corperate offices). I naturally got yelled at for a movie sucking too. Like I had any say in the making of the movie. People just want to bitch to whoever's available, not to whoever's truly responsible.

The final straw that made me resign was when some kids decided to clog all the toilets. You see, movie theaters are run on such a tight schedule (in order to rip more people off per day) that there's literally no time to deal with a catastrophy such as this. The theater is flooded with shit-water, but I better Goddamn show those movies or I'll get yelled at by the coperate offices! Some woman got a tiny dab of water on the bottom of her pant-cuff and went insane. She got it in her mind that I intentionally did this to her and by God I was going to pay! She got in my face screaming cuss words in front of her 5-year-old and actually grabbed my arm. By this time, I was boiling over and yelled "I'M SICK OF THIS SHIT!!" and resigned one week later.

So in closing, if you ever go to a crappy theater, get the management to give you home office numbers. The people at the top are to blame, not the poor manager who is being sacrificed to the public.

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FirebrandX said:

So in closing, if you ever go to a crappy theater, get the management to give you home office numbers. The people at the top are to blame, not the poor manager who is being sacrificed to the public.

Amen.

I work in a similar job (well, not really, working registers at a department store), and I get the same damned thing. People come in and yell at me cause the price is wrong and all I do is serve people. I have nothing to do with that part of the store yet they think it's ok to yell at me and blame me.

Like today one old biddy comes in. She complained cause some damned shirt was on special, it came up $1 more than it actually was. She had the nerve to yell at me cause it an extra dollar. She acted like she had no money...yet when she went to pay for it, money was nearly pouring out of her purse (she had at least $1000 in $50AUS notes in there)...fucking bitch.

When I cut my foot the other week, I took a few days off work, and came back to work (I needed the money plus I could walk on it, so it was ok)...had to show some dickhead where the bikes were. He couldn't find them even after detailed instructions by me (it's not that damned hard, but I guess this guy was a norman so he's just dumb)...I had to walk with him and show him. All the time, he was abusive, yelling at me, other staff and other customers. I was thinking, probably just a bad day. Then he says "Why are you walking so damned slow? Are you a retard or something?"...that was it. I told him in the nicest way possible to either calm down or leave.

"What? Don't speak to me like that!"

I just ignored him. We got to the bikes, I showed him a couple (since the guy that is usually there was away that day)...he wanted some specific colour, but we had none. He chucked another shit. Blamed me for it. This just pissed me off a little too much and:

"Well, take your fucking money and piss off then..."

He made a complaint, but I told my boss what happened and how he treated me, and he agreed with me. He kicked the guy out.

Heh. Jeez I hate my job.

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Well, there was the time we where sent to the base on phobos to investigate a distress call, and all my squad mates where whipped out my some mysterious evil presence, and I ended up having to go in alone with only a pistol at my side...

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Ct_red_pants said:

Well, there was the time we where sent to the base on phobos to investigate a distress call, and all my squad mates where whipped out my some mysterious evil presence, and I ended up having to go in alone with only a pistol at my side...

...Hm, but somehow it still sounds like the job o'my dreams...!

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Ct_red_pants said:

Well, there was the time we where sent to the base on phobos to investigate a distress call, and all my squad mates where whipped out my some mysterious evil presence, and I ended up having to go in alone with only a pistol at my side...


And then you went to disneyland....RIGHT?!?!?! say it...

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Alientank said:

And then you went to disneyland....RIGHT?!?!?! say it...

Dear lord! We want the man to live don't we?

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