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 »
My second day
I worked at a fast food restaurant when I was 16 years old, for two days. A good friend of mine had gotten hired around the same time as me. She and I were given a late night shift together, she was on counter, I was on drive-thru. The drive thru was slow, so I was chatting with my friend at the counter when an obese woman came in. She smelled like cigarettes, vomit, and hard liquor. She had on daisy duke short-shorts and a plaid half shirt tied up over her massive stomach and right under her boobs that were DEFINITELY not in a bra. She had bleach blonde hair with the roots grown out a good 5 inches. My friend asked for her order and all the tubby woman said was "I want fries!" My friend asked her what size fries. The woman shouted "I want lots of fries!". So, my friends rang up an order of large fries, gave the woman her total and said the fries would be ready soon. Apparently, this lady could not wait, a fact made obvious to me when she punched my friend in the face and proceeded to climb over the counter like a swollen gorilla and waddle over to the fryer where one of my co-workers was emptying a basket of fresh fries. The woman then proceeded to shovel hand fulls of hot fries into her face hole. I was horrified! I rushed to my friend who had fallen on the floor, her face bleeding where the insane woman's wedding ring (yup, she had a WEDDING RING, someone married her sloppy ass) had scraped her cheek. I went to go call my mom and tell her to take my friend and I to the ER because my friend's mother was in the night shift at the hospital, she's a nurse. My manager had heard the commotion as was on the phone with the police when my mom pulled up. We got to the ER, my friend got stitches and a tetanus shot. We were later told that the woman had left the restaurant and crashed her car into the video store across the street. The police took care of the rest, but my friend and I had to testify in court, it was not pleasant. The next day my friend and I went to work to tell our manager that we quit. He said that he understood and that if we ever change our minds, we're welcome to work there in the future. I have never worked fast food again.
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!!!!
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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 »