Things that totally suck at your job

[Fatesealer]

What are some things about your job that just bite ass? Mine include:

-no assigned seats (so when its time to get started and you don't have an effing seat, you get written up for it... two words, people: hiring freeze)
-that the men at the company use the sole Mens room we have at the location to sheeyat in and the room has no fan (!!!) so when it's your time to use it, best believe you gotta grab the HAZMAT suit, a gas mask, and sign your last will and testament...
-addition to the above statement: people who sheeyat at the job and DON'T FLUSH!!! Ugh, that is SO third grade or something... pull that off when you're at your home, not a place of business...
-supervisors/managers who think they are above the guidelines of the employee handbook... we can't sip on a disposable bottle of Sprite at our desk, but you have the gall to open a can of Diet Coke at YOUR desk, spill said Coke, and nothing happens...

[captainofindustry]

Plated meals, and the none of the chicks. (which sucks because they don't suck... it's a viscous cycle)

[Graystone]

going to the regional office every month for meetings
stocking
making price tags
wearing dress shoes
dealing with ignorant people.

[Reality's Fringe]

Does the whole damn thing count? The rape of your favorite hobby for minimum wage?

[captainofindustry]

Does the whole damn thing count? The rape of your favorite hobby for minimum wage?

I take it you work at a gamestop? Or a Garden Ridge?

[AdamInPlaidum]

The lack of one which I have. Or not so much that, as the lack of money that I would have if I had one.

[Renzokuken]

The crappy phone calls I get and the Supervisor.

[Slipknot9762]

Does the whole damn thing count? The rape of your favorite hobby for minimum wage?

good point im a busboy cuz im only 15 and i get a whooping $4 an hour and it sucks but i have to save up for a car.

[fieldkillah]

Dumping rotten meat that smells so bad it needs to have an exorcism. crabby customers. otherwise my job is great.

[uesc]

working for 3 hours and not getting paid for it.
*commissions*

[guyver2077]

no internet access!!!! horrible

[Reality's Fringe]

Does the whole damn thing count? The rape of your favorite hobby for minimum wage?

I take it you work at a gamestop? Or a Garden Ridge?

Gamestop, or as I like to call it "Satan's Penis"

[Moxio]

How about the fact that I have to WORK at my job?

I know, I know, boo-hoo.

[bowsernieb]

What are some things about your job that just bite ass? Mine include:

-no assigned seats (so when its time to get started and you don't have an effing seat, you get written up for it... two words, people: hiring freeze)
-that the men at the company use the sole Mens room we have at the location to sheeyat in and the room has no fan (!!!) so when it's your time to use it, best believe you gotta grab the HAZMAT suit, a gas mask, and sign your last will and testament...
-addition to the above statement: people who sheeyat at the job and DON'T FLUSH!!! Ugh, that is SO third grade or something... pull that off when you're at your home, not a place of business...
-supervisors/managers who think they are above the guidelines of the employee handbook... we can't sip on a disposable bottle of Sprite at our desk, but you have the gall to open a can of Diet Coke at YOUR desk, spill said Coke, and nothing happens...

I'm trying to figure out your job. What kind of job do you sit all day...that you would need assigned seats? I'm stumped, help me out here.

As for mine (which is Blockbuster):
-the constant focus on up-selling the customer...and by up-selling, I mean asking if they want the movie pass until they're ready to shoot us
-the new employees that can't even use a computer
-working Friday and Saturday nights

[scsg75]

Company issued tools suck ass and constantly break, and we're not "allowed" to use our own.

Too much work in the summer, not enough in the winter

Having to put up with store managers shit. Most are cool, many are not.

Having to drive over 2 hours to do about 1 1/2 hours of work and only getting reimbursed about $6.00 for gas.

Shitty medical coverage

[Ledhed]

In line with what RF said:

Taking the few things that are enjoyable about said job, and remove them for cost efficiency (READ: less hours and smaller wages)?

Can't wait to get out of GameStop, and retail in general...

[Kaijufan]

I work at a winery, and when I give out samples people like to ask me what my favorite type of wine is because Im too young to drink. Almost every person that samples wine comes up with a joke like that, and they sure think its funny. Ha, ha, ha it was not funny the first time, so it wont be funny the 10,000th time I hear it. A few times I have gotten in people who ask me that and are serious because they have no idea im too young to drink wine.
Also, old people love to ask me if I need to card them.
Otherwise I have a great workplace. When its not busy I can go on the internet and visit CAG.

[Reality's Fringe]

Good man

[Odenat]

I work two jobs one being circuit city and the bad parts about working there are. Having managers getting on you for not selling the CC warrenty after you've beat your projection for the month buy 5k. And people who call us thinking were tech support when they bought the item at walmart

[thatstoobad]

customers.

"this job would be great if it weren't for the fucking customers."

[Ledhed]

customers.

"this job would be great if it weren't for the shaq-fuing customers."

Truer words were never spoken. :applause:

Why, why, WHY did they decide not to make Clerks 2...

[Fatesealer]

going to the regional office every month for meetings
stocking
making price tags
wearing dress shoes
dealing with ignorant people.

Try dealing with an ass job that makes you wear a shirt and tie m-f even in this goddamn 90 degree heat... but the women have more 'options' when it comes to their attire and dress code...

[Fatesealer]

I'm trying to figure out your job. What kind of job do you sit all day...that you would need assigned seats? I'm stumped, help me out here.

I work at Orkin Pest Control as a sales agent... here's the thing... let's do some math...

If you have 35 seats... and between 6 am and 3pm on any given day, you have about 45 agents coming in (don't even get me started on Saturdays)... no one gets off until at least 3pm... therein lies the problem... with so many people coming in some day and so few people on others (read: Sunday and Friday), and them STILL HIRING PEOPLE (!!!), we might start taking calls in the break room or outside...

[LoganDX]

Idiot tenants. "Help! I have a massive water leak!Hurry!" Get there and it's a leaky faucet...

[mtxbass1]

Some employees where I work suck. They think that they "work so hard" when in fact they don't do much work at all.

[captainfrizo]

What sucked at my last job at a fairly large book store? Let me count the ways:

Store closing at 11 pm, but not leaving until 1 am on a good night.
Being yelled at by managers because you didn't show for work because they changed the schedule without telling you. For some reason they assumed every employee would go to the store daily for schedule changes. This happened about once a week.

This is the primary reason I quit the job:
We were going to have a meeting on a Saturday at 7 am. I was working the night before and the manager wouldn't let us leave until the store was spotless for the meeting. We left a little after 3 am.

At the meeting we didn't even have a meeting, instead the three managers put us to work organizing new the shelves (they claimed it was training for the all the new employees, yet everyone was required to attend).

I left the "meeting' at 9 am and worked the same day from 4pm-1:30am. I walked out on the manager that night. The store was clean and she was complaining and making us stay to fix every little book on the shelves. I told her it was fine and I wasn't wasting my time anymore that night.

A couple days later there was another scheduling screw up and I quit the following day. The place was a joke and I wasn't being paid enough to put up with those hours and the morons running the place. A few weeks after I quit the majority of my co-workers did as well.

[FriskyTanuki]

My boss is short on hours.
Meaning: I'm off permanently and am not getting any money to spend(obviously) when I need it to pay off my preorder of Madden 05 CE.

[dustyeff]

What sucks about my job? Nothing, except the occasional crabby customer.

What rocks about my job?
1. internet access. I spend 50% of my time (at least) browsing the internet.
2. Universities are not open on the weekends, so no weekend shifts.
3. No pressure to 'sell' things, because we aren't a profitable department, although we sell the occasional network cable, mouse, or software package.
4. Good pay.
5. A kick-ass boss.

Yep, I pretty much have a great job.

[1SwtDeception]

oh what sucks about my job... well its gotta be the bossing you too damn much when your focus on some thing already.. wait thats just my home life.. im stuck here jobless and after reading it seems .. ALMOST worth being jobless

[kristianator]

cons to working at target electronics:

- dumbass customers
- messy customers
- non-english speaking customers (i don't know if i'm gonna get flack for this one.. but come on. if i decided i was going to live in germany, i'd at least TRY to learn german)
- snotty customers
- smelly/dirty customers who feel the need to talk to you WHILE STANDING AS CLOSE TO YOU AS POSSIBLE
retail is the same shit everywhere... gotta kiss peoples asses, no matter how inferior they may be. but i applied here, so i guess i can't complain

pros:

- talking games
- playing with new cameras
- and if you've ever wondered if those 19.99 la pucelle tactics were REALLY sold to a customer orif they were being held behind the counter for an employee... heh heh
- employees put ticketed clearance items away, and they usually know about it first (unless they're stupid), so we get first dibs

[gokou36]

Mine would be, dumbass customers coming at closing time to eat and spends a f*ckin hour before my bro tells thems we were closing in 10mins.

[Fatesealer]

- non-english speaking customers (i don't know if i'm gonna get flack for this one.. but come on. if i decided i was going to live in germany, i'd at least TRY to learn german)

No flack at all... trust me... it's a pain in the ass when we have to go through the entire sales pitch, which takes roughly about 10-15 minutes, depending on how much we go into the pest control program... only to hear (and please don't kill me, but I'm being phonetic...) 'speaky spanish?' Argh! And please tell me why is it when spanish speaking individuals come to the US, their CHILDREN speak English so well but the parents sound as though the only language they would comprehend is the menu of a Taco Bell?

[The Successful Dropout]

fat ugly whores thinking they run shit when they have the job thats equivalent to a low-rate janitor

[Ebraum]

No A/C in the summer. No heat in the winter.

[LV-426RS]

No flack at all... trust me... it's a pain in the ass when we have to go through the entire sales pitch, which takes roughly about 10-15 minutes, depending on how much we go into the pest control program... only to hear (and please don't kill me, but I'm being phonetic...) 'speaky spanish?' Argh! And please tell me why is it when spanish speaking individuals come to the US, their CHILDREN speak English so well but the parents sound as though the only language they would comprehend is the menu of a Taco Bell?

If you're pitching sales over the phone as a telemarketer you deserve it. If they are calling you then I understand your pain.

[thesilentshadow30]

I would agree with everyone about people not speaking english. The company I work for has hired workers from other countries (which I don't mind really) but the problem is they don't speak a SINGLE SHAQ-FUING WORD OF ENGLISH! Hell one incident that comes to mind, this guy arrived in the country @ 5am and he was at work same day @ 7am. COME ON, how can I train someone to do a job if they can't understand a single thing I try to tell them! If I was going to live in France I would need to speak French, Germany=german, russia=russian and so on... Why is it that they come to the US and can't even speak a single word of engish and even get a damn job sometimes before they even get to the US. The whole thing is just Shaq-Fued up.

[LV-426RS]

^^^ A lot of these people come here to escape the horrors of their own country. They deserve the job as much as you do. Many foriegn workers will work twice as hard as natural-born citizens and employers know this.

[thesilentshadow30]

^^^ A lot of these people come here to escape the horrors of their own country. They deserve the job as much as you do. Many foriegn workers will work twice as hard as natural-born citizens and employers know this.

I agree that some will work hard BUT the vast majority that come to work where I do are LAZY AS HELL and if they don't want to do something they say that they don't understand (they learn those words DAMN FAST)...

[GuilewasNK]

This is easy, I don't get paid for overtime.

[Fatesealer]

No flack at all... trust me... it's a pain in the ass when we have to go through the entire sales pitch, which takes roughly about 10-15 minutes, depending on how much we go into the pest control program... only to hear (and please don't kill me, but I'm being phonetic...) 'speaky spanish?' Argh! And please tell me why is it when spanish speaking individuals come to the US, their CHILDREN speak English so well but the parents sound as though the only language they would comprehend is the menu of a Taco Bell?

If you're pitching sales over the phone as a telemarketer you deserve it. If they are calling you then I understand your pain.

It's inbound, so they have to call us... I did the whole outbound calling for a while and yes, that felt like straight TM... you get most of these... umm... folks... when it's inbound...

[RBM]

Getting no credit for the things I do. Successes vanish in the wind the moment after they're accomplished. Mistakes, on the other hand, are regularly brought out to air and harped on. The result? Unless you're willing to brag about your own accomplishments, it seems like all you ever do is make mistakes. :cry:

[Fatesealer]

Getting no credit for the things I do. Successes vanish in the wind the moment after they're accomplished. Mistakes, on the other hand, are regularly brought out to air and harped on. The result? Unless you're willing to brag about your own accomplishments, it seems like all you ever do is make mistakes. :cry:

This is pretty much every job... you could be the superstar and be Employee of the Month forever... but mess up ONCE, and people zero in on it like you're habitual...