I happen to be chronically ill, since i was about 17. Last time i visited my specialist, and i complained about being SO tired all the time and that it depressed me, he told me, i should view my disease and myself differently. He said: "Having Crohns disease, is like being an athlete, it's top sport for the body to deal with it, it's natural for you to be so tired,...it's the... Read More »
Arts and Crap
I used to work for an Arts and Crafts chain-store. I started in an older smaller store, but over the course of a few months we ended up moving into a new warehouse sized store. One night my manager who was a total dick told me to sweep up the warehouse store two hours before the store closed something we had never done before. I told him the floors would just get dirty again from all the dried flowers and vines and what not. He got upset, yelled at me and I ended up sweeping the floor. Two hours later we closed and like I said the floors were dirty again. He yelled at me I did not sweep it the first time and not only made me sweep it again he made me do it a third time while he watched to make sure I listen to him from now on. It's now around midnight and I'm tired for working my 8-9 hour day. My manager then comes over and tells me I have to show up tomorrow at 5 am at the old store to help clean it out. Not knowing any better I show up to the old store to see my other manager sitting at a table with some of the female employees. Their job was to sort all the miscellaneous items while sitting in nice chairs in the warm building. My job was to spend 8 hours moving 20 years worth of junk, heavy boxes, trash and anything else heavy to a dumpster that was 20 feet away from the store crossing the road that was a sheet of ice. The manager spent all day flirting with the girls, calling me a "pussy" when I needed help moving heavy items into the dumpster and buying lunch for everyone but me because he "forgot about me" while I was in the back. It's ok a week later the store was totally moved and I was laid off.
I used to be able to get back from lunch at 12:30 and know that there would be a fresh batch of uPick submissions to read, but now I have to actually do some work as it is not being updated everyday!!!!
Several years ago I worked with a overnight delivery company. It wasn't unusual to run into all sorts of dogs when you made a delivery (including nasty ones.) One day, I walked up to a lady's house where the front door was open. As soon as I rang the bell, I heard the jingle of dog tags & realized I was too far away from the vehicle to get back there in time, so I braced myself.... Read More »
I work at Wal-Mart as a Wireless Sales Associate (basically electronics), and we have this one reoccurring older African-American customer who comes in with the assumption that we are some type of IT or Geek Squad. Well anyways, he comes in about a week ago, and brings his laptop. The laptop that he has is a Compact with Windows XP (a bit outdated I must say). Anyways, he pulls... Read More »
I work private security, we have lately been having a lot of issues with access control and breaches (people not allowed to be there, being there.) so we have one officer who is in charge of training all of the officers in proper breach control. During his breach test, he failed and got a slap on the wrist. During mine, I passed but I missed a minor detail and got written up and... Read More »