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I once worked for an alcoholic compulsive gambler as a house painter. I needed some more putty and went to the van one hot July day. I found him in there squatting on a 20 gallon bucket, shitting. He called me a faggot and threw a hammer at me. It was then I realized how much this job sucked.

Gookstorm wrote:Not sleeping for 2-3 days every few weeks, 4 am conference calls, (indirectly) being on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in deals, 40-100 hour weeks. Bringing in $1.5 million but getting maybe $1k of that as part of an annual bonus. 10% paycut and most of your benefits extinguished when your salary already was in the bottom 25 percentile for your job and experience level nationwide... and you're living in a high-cost area.

It's one thing to get a menial job because you expect it to suck and be treated like dirt, but I got a white collar job that made lots of old white farts really rich (should have had some leverage that is), was told repeatedly "oh no, we're not so bad," and was treated pretty much exactly like how Walmart treats its employees.

Gookstorm wrote:Not sleeping for 2-3 days every few weeks, 4 am conference calls, (indirectly) being on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in deals, 40-100 hour weeks. Bringing in $1.5 million but getting maybe $1k of that as part of an annual bonus. 10% paycut and most of your benefits extinguished when your salary already was in the bottom 25 percentile for your job and experience level nationwide... and you're living in a high-cost area.

It's one thing to get a menial job because you expect it to suck and be treated like dirt, but I got a white collar job that made lots of old white farts really rich (should have had some leverage that is), was told repeatedly "oh no, we're not so bad," and was treated pretty much exactly like how Walmart treats its employees.

Gookstorm wrote:Not sleeping for 2-3 days every few weeks, 4 am conference calls, (indirectly) being on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in deals, 40-100 hour weeks. Bringing in $1.5 million but getting maybe $1k of that as part of an annual bonus. 10% paycut and most of your benefits extinguished when your salary already was in the bottom 25 percentile for your job and experience level nationwide... and you're living in a high-cost area.

It's one thing to get a menial job because you expect it to suck and be treated like dirt, but I got a white collar job that made lots of old white farts really rich (should have had some leverage that is), was told repeatedly "oh no, we're not so bad," and was treated pretty much exactly like how Walmart treats its employees.

Hypnagogia wrote:get unionized.

Mooretician wrote:

Gookstorm wrote:Not sleeping for 2-3 days every few weeks, 4 am conference calls, (indirectly) being on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in deals, 40-100 hour weeks. Bringing in $1.5 million but getting maybe $1k of that as part of an annual bonus. 10% paycut and most of your benefits extinguished when your salary already was in the bottom 25 percentile for your job and experience level nationwide... and you're living in a high-cost area.

It's one thing to get a menial job because you expect it to suck and be treated like dirt, but I got a white collar job that made lots of old white farts really rich (should have had some leverage that is), was told repeatedly "oh no, we're not so bad," and was treated pretty much exactly like how Walmart treats its employees.

Jesus, I could have made this exact same post.

electronicham wrote:My moment came from the first night in Basic Training when I cried myself to sleep.....

Broken Into Pieces wrote:I went for training for a promotion. Three staff went, and there were two positions to fill. When it came to the trial at the end of the training, I did half of the work by myself while the other two worked together on the other half of the work and had to ask me what they should be doing and where things should go. They got the promotions instead of me. No, it wasn't because they worked together and therefore displayed teamwork qualities.

Hypnagogia wrote:

Broken Into Pieces wrote:I went for training for a promotion. Three staff went, and there were two positions to fill. When it came to the trial at the end of the training, I did half of the work by myself while the other two worked together on the other half of the work and had to ask me what they should be doing and where things should go. They got the promotions instead of me. No, it wasn't because they worked together and therefore displayed teamwork qualities.

But was it because they could tell you were a basement dweller incapable of working in a team, and their paltry team skills was enough to put them over the top?

How Are Mortiis Goatse?! wrote:I had a "fuck you, I quit"-moment when I took on a job in my teens delivering papers. I got hired over the phone and had to get up at the asscrack of dawn and get a stack of papers along with a list of names and addresses to deliver them to. The job paid you per paper delivered, not by the hour, so at the end of the route I calculated that I'd be making 60% less than minimum wage. I called the guy who hired me and told him I wouldn't do the job unless I got paid more, but he said he couldn't. I told him that he was exploiting underage workers, and that I was entitled to minimum wage. He came up with some more bullshit excuses to justify paying minors fuck all to do a physically demanding job at an inconvenient hour, so I told him I quit. He then told me I had to give three weeks notice, and that he needed time to find a replacement so I couldn't quit, so I said "That's not my problem, I never signed a contract agreeing to that, so fuck you" and hung up. Our house was on my route and we got a paper the next day so he was obviously just a lying sack of shit. When I got the paycheck for the one day I worked, I received minimum wage for the hours I worked.

Natas wrote:you little fucking bitch. who complains about a paper route and expects to get minimum wage doing it as a young teenager? honestly, man

Bored, Esq. wrote: I went in, vomited all over the dining room floor, laughed at an old lady clutching her chest through tears and bile, and when handed a broom by my manager I grabbed it, pretended I was a witch, and rode it out the front door. Never went back.

Streven Adler wrote:hey, skyclad. "by" =/= "buy"