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Ever had one job not help you with anything, and yet another just comes and makes your life better? It happened to me.

My last job (dishwasher/food prep at a diner) fell through. Why? Didn't do my job? Nope. Showed up late? Nope. So riddle me this... how is it that I only get 10 hours a freaking week while you're giving the lazy twits 20 for standing around with a thumb up their ass?

Really? If I could have been paid to stand around with a thumb up my ass, I wouldn't need a job. But I can tell you what finger I DID use after I told him I quit. I had never outright quit a job before, but if I can't be trained to do something (and given the hours), there's no point in staying. So, I quit that POS.

(At least my new job pays more, gives me more hours, and more training. And they're a company, something he should learn from.)

Now, my new job has me making desserts and pasta. Simple, huh? Uh... no.

Just... no.

Three weeks in, and I already love the job. The problem is... it's a lot of prep work, and most of it isn't done by the time I get there. Really, people?! Does it really take fifteen minutes to restock breadsticks, cut garlic bread, or even make sure we have enough lasagna to feed Garfield the cat before I show up?!

I love challenges, but man, really?

I've talked previously about this manager that just pisses me off. Well, he struck again this past week.

Our store does Online Grocery Shopping. I help out sometimes with the actual shopping, but I mostly do the order pick-ups. Basically, I gather the totes/containers/bags for each specific order, and make sure everything is together so that the customer doesn't have to wait for their order.

The other day (I want to say it was Wednesday), we had an order pull up about 5 minutes before I was due to clock out (at 5PM). This manager told me no. That our Customer Service closer, who wasn't scheduled to clock in until 5PM, would do it. All I was going to do, was gather the items from our freezer/cooler and hand it off to the closer. But manager told me that he didn't want me doing 'overtime'. Overtime for part-timers is going over 40 hours a week, which almost never happens. He walked behind the CS desk and told me to put down the clipboard that the order form was attached to, that the closer would do it.

I exploded. 'Fine! I'll go home!' and I continued to cuss him out under my breath as somethings I was saying would not have been appropriate to say out loud in front of the customers. I said something to our Backroom Manager, and he agreed that I should've done the order, but he also agreed that Manager was right to send me home. It was clear to me that the customer should've come first, regardless of me staying "late".

This manager just does the most asinine things. Thank God upper management is watching him now. I hope he gets fired, as the majority of us that work the front end just do not like him.

I'll try my best to make it short since basically I'm too tired to type plenty via mobile.

Coworker 1&2 : *messed up something on the transfer invoice*

Coworker1: definitely not my fault. How was I supposed to know mistakes were made? It's coworker2's fault. They handled most of it(from tallying to wrapping to recording everything down)

Coworker2: *doesn't seem to give a damn since it's the end of their shift*

That's about the surmised version of what went down. When asked why didn't she double check and reaffirm everything, by all means, she denied responsibilities.

Coworker1 has this nasty habit of not owning up to her mistakes and somehow tries to turn everything around and pushes the blame off her and to something or someone else (myself, the bosses, the lady in the other store 2 towns over), including coworker2 who happens to be her own sister (although in her own words that the fact that they are related doesn't effect things I beg to differ. From the blatant biasness. One of the excuses used today after being chewed up by the lady boss, "we're only human. We make mistakes who doesn't?" Which had me internally laughing and screaming in distress because what the hell? As if she's roping me into it.
Had it been me who did it (lucky break since it was my day off), she would not pull any brakes to blame me for messing up real bad. That it's her ass the bosses will grill. Oh how her world will end all that jazz.
Is this what they call double standard?

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Later in the evening, same old coworker1 featuring a customer.

Quick background.. At the beginning of this year, to ensure that we are to care more for the environment the government of the state we live in has imposed on the ban of polystyrene case for take-aways and urged the public to reduce the usage of plastic bags in all business premises. Failure to comply,results in a rm1000 fine. But, there's a leeway of some sort, that is for business owners to charge 20cents for every plastic bag required (the tragic logic!)

Onto the suckage....
A customer comes in, takes a look of stuff, sees something they like and proceeds with it. At the end of transaction, the customer asked for a bag for their purchase in which coworker1 replied with "we must charge 20cents for it".

Here's the situation. It's common sense as a cashier, you are to ask whether the customer needs a plastic bag, they have the right to choose even more so after this legislation.

From what I saw and heard of the exchange, said customer replied with "I don't mind (the charge) but you didn't ask me the option." Which she didn't.(It's rather rare that I agree with that blasted "customers always right" phrase).

After said customer is well on their ways away, coworker1 started, "they was already carrying a plastic bag, I wouldn't have bothered with it since most would refuse anyway".
I replied with she should have asked anyway and that certainly didn't sit well with her. It's funny to me.
It seems like she doesn't like when people don't agree with her opinions.



[Notes: All quotes are translated to English as best as I could to still be able to retain its original content.]

oh no did i write an essay?

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Earlier today, I was reading a statement I'd written for the local Labour Board about my last job. I've been gone from this job for some time now, but I thought I'd post some details here, since it seemed like the perfect thing to post in this comm.

In late 2014, I accepted a job as an accountant for a local warehousing company. I found the job through a staffing agency. The pay seemed pretty good, the office was really nice, and the interview had gone well. I was there for just over a year, total. For most of my duration there, I didn't have to deal with the owner's grandmother, who I'll refer to as 'Granny'. The last three months saw Granny practically living at the office, and things went straight to hell in a major hurry. Since I was the only financial-type employee, and she'd been a bookkeeper for 40 years (so she claimed), she made it her life's purpose to supervise me specifically, but she also had to have her nose in everyone else's job.

She was miserable. She was vile. The woman was 100% certifiably batshit nuts. I think she had some sort of paranoid or delusional disorder, or dementia, because her behavior was completely out to lunch. My boss was a bit of an odd duck, as well; he was terrified of confrontation, and he hated communicating with people, so he'd send everyone emails instead of actually talking to them. If you had a question and went into his office, he'd get this fear in his eyes. I never knew why until Granny showed up. She was the one who'd raised him, and after spending a month or so around the woman, I realized she'd fucked this guy up (and his sister, but that's another story). Whatever the case, he was terrified of her, and would never stand up to her. I was actually warned about this from the previous accountant who I'd taken over from (Granny was the reason she was quitting), but I thought it was just a personality conflict that wasn't going to affect me.

Boy, was I wrong.

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At our hotel on the night shifts we have MIN staff and around 6am I'm pretty much the only one here. We also do not have any access to basics such as a hammer or a plunger. This is a huge management suck. And it sets me up to fail. But I'm the one who is going to pay.

Around 6:30am a guest called to say that their toilet is clogged. Well, gee, fuck...nothing I can do about it. See, that's an engineering thing. And no one from engineering is here. I don't have any access to a plunger. Yeah. I offer the use of the public restroom but that is not the answer. So I give them keys to another hotel room that is two floors down because we are nearly sold out and we don't have anything avail on their floor. Oh, yes, you'll have to get the key yourself. You wanted it NOW NOW and trying to call down to the laundry and seeing if anyone is there will take longer and I can't leave the desk.

So the guest is now apocalypticly mad. They have to come down in their bathrobe to get a key to a room two floors down to use the bathroom and there are five people in the room too. I'm now rude and lying because I have no idea when engineering comes in. Could be 7am it could be 9am. They misunderstood when I said no rooms avail (ON THEIR FLOOR) as no rooms at all. Whatever. I'm screwed. Because now there is a MAJOR ISSUE and it's my fault for not handling it correctly. They cannot be consoled. We offer full refunds and all their points back plus 100,000 points and that's not good enough. I could be fired for this. I don't work until Weds but I am just waiting for a phone call or text from my boss...

I hate this job. I am going to be the blame for this when all it could be solved with a plunger. Had an issue with a nail poking out of a door frame. Guest stepped on it. No hammer around to fix it. Why? Basic stuff! No engineering on staff at night. All that stuff is locked up. No keys to it. WHY?!

I've gotten over the fact that you will never cross train me and I'll be stuck in my current position until I quit. Fine. And it's bad enough I have to stand on my feet for 6 hours straight without a single break because we're fast food. Fine. But ffs when my shift ends at 5pm, I expect to be on my way home by 505pm, not 515 or 530pm because I have to wait for my 'relief'. You know something, just close the window for however long my 'relief' is taking. The customers are still getting served, just a little bit slower.

And you people wonder why I bitch and complain and tell you 'oi, it's 5pm, let's go, people'. Maybe cause I hurt very badly.

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