Stories From the Workplace (Reddit Compilation)

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  @Hplink1354 · 4 years ago

  Not my story, but my mom's. She had been working a specific position for about 4 years, and was doing the work of 3 people by herself. When she applied for a better paying position with the same company they told her no because "we need you to stay in the position you're in since you're the only one trained to do that job." Put in her two weeks immediately after.

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• KI

  @kirazookalex5401 · 4 years ago

  I got my first job at piggy wiggly two years ago, I was sixteen. I HATED working the register, but when it was quiet I got to go stock, I loved doing that. A few months ago I got moved to stock permanently. I was so happy, I was excited to go to work for the first time ever. And until last month, I was livin my best life finishing 3-5 isles a day, got a pay raise and made some friends. My manager told me we had a store meeting to meet the new store manager. Okay fine. <br><br>So I go to the meeting new manager is nice, but they tell us no more ear buds. <br><br>That&apos;s a issue, I have adhd and I can&apos;t focus without them. Like, at all... I&apos;m like a squirrel. <br><br>So the meeting ends and I approach Ms.m to let her know that I can&apos;t work as well without them. She says&quot;sorry nothing I can do&quot;.<br>So I say okay, and go about my work... Everything is fine for about a week. <br><br>I clock in. Go to the break room. Drop my purse. Head to the stock room. My manager, let&apos;s call him mr.m stops me in front of every one. <br><br>He proceeds to ask me were I get the AUDACITY to tell the store manager I can&apos;t work without my ear buds. <br><br>I respond back like one. That was a freakin week ago two. Excuse me? The AUDACITY? The moment he said audacity my mind was made up. <br><br>But I waited... To see what would happen. He walked me to my first isle, and told me &quot;you don&apos;t need those ear buds. You just think you do. How you do today will determine your future here. &quot;<br><br>So I looked at him like EXCUSE ME? <br>but I got to work anyways. For about fifteen minutes. I worked myself up, and went to the break room, grabbed my purse and went up front. <br><br>Told ms.m I was done. She asked me why and I said quote to the best of my ability *I refuse to work somewhere the manager had the audacity to speak to me the way Mr. M just did. * and I just left. Goin to pick up my last check tomorrow.

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• CV

  @cvf253 · 3 years ago

  Long story but here it is:<br>Coffee stand, very tiny &amp; not the cleanest. It&apos;s a job though. <br>When I went to take a bathroom break the door accidentally slammed. It happens often, something about the small space &amp; the air it creates like a vortex.<br>I said &quot;oh wow! my bad!&quot; There was 2 other girls, one not working but stopped by to talk to the other. The one not currently working came yelling at me, asking me why I slammed the door. I explained myself and said something to the effect of do not yell at me and back away from my person.<br><br>She then really started getting worked up yelling profanities at me &amp; acting like she was going to fight me. I told her she didn&apos;t know who I am &amp; that I was not going to be treated that way. I then turned on my heel went n did my business. Called the owner, explained the situation. Had a good cry because I was not expecting that at a new job!<br><br>Went back and she started at me again. Told her I did not need the job that bad &amp; to have fun working my shift. She tried saying there needed to be 2 ppl there etc etc. I got into my car &amp; went home! Haha. SMH<br> <br>I&apos;m a nanny now &amp; I love it! So happy not to have to put up with young girl drama anymore.

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  @sevrono · 3 years ago

  i worked in &nbsp;small(by size not clientele) flower shop in collage i didn&apos;t work as a florist, i did basically everything else. grounds keeping (it was built out of an old house so i was responsible for the yards and gardens outside, as well as the living plants inside), IT, deliveries, taking orders and payments over the phone, inventory management of both regular and consignment products. I also had to walk the owners dog, but he was my best buddy so i cant say i minded<br><br>but everyone thinks that every roll, including the florist is just a bunch of fun playing with flowers all day, its not, &nbsp;doing the arrangements are a small portion and even then there&apos;s a lot more to it than what would be assumed on the surface

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• 86

  @86nomes · 4 years ago

  Black Friday makes me think people just toss out their tvs yearly since the same people are there every year buying a tv.

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• ST

  @steveadams7592 · 4 years ago

  Ghetto ladies: &nbsp;&quot;Ha ha, you work at Walmart.&quot;<br>Employee: &nbsp;&quot;Not as embarrassing as shopping at Walmart, huh?&quot;

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• FE

  @felicitybywater8012 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Got to work one day at a minimum wage job to find the place had been put into receivership because the boss hadn&apos;t been paying the suppliers for a long time. The receivership manager told us we had to keep coming to work &amp; we&apos;d be paid. I said our wages could be put into escrow so we could be sure we&apos;d be paid. He sneered at me. I didn&apos;t come back the next day. Years later, I ran into one of the other workers, one of the ones who&apos;d believe that crap about being paid. She told me a couple of the top guys on the floor got paid &amp; none of the women did, after they&apos;d worked about another week there. I told her I had taken a couple of days off then walked straight into another job. So don&apos;t do another hour until management proves the money is there waiting &amp; they can&apos;t pull it out again.

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• VA

  @Valiare92 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Yeah, one time I went to the bathroom at work and found a trail of blood from the toilet to the trash can. Not drops of blood. A literal unbroken line of blood. I glanced in the can and the only thing in there was a blood-soaked facemask. Definitely one of the most &quot;What the hell?&quot; moments I&apos;ve ever had.

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  @cleverballoon6535 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFPoxMrl2BU&amp;t=840">14:00</a> OMG the John Mullaney reference! That was perfect

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• ZE

  @ZeranZeran · 2 years ago

  I waited until my boss texted me that he was on the plane and flying away for his (4th) vacation since I began working there.<br>It was 1 year. I said &quot;Awesome, have a great trip.&quot; - Shut down all our phones, computers, locked up, and left.<br>He tried to not pay me for a solid month of 9-5 work, I contacted the board of labor, within 2 months he had been ordered to pay me over double what he would&apos;ve normally.<br><br>Thank you, bord of labor ♥<br>And Chris, if you&apos;re reading this? From the bottom of my heart.. I can&apos;t say it here without getting banned, but you will die miserable and alone. Disgusting shark of a person. More like a roach, tbh. He was such a coward and threw all the drama on his new hires. He was THE BOSS. &nbsp;<br>If you&apos;re thinking about starting a Startup company with 0 people ready to go, don&apos;t. You will get sued.

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  @justAPlaceholderName · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFPoxMrl2BU&amp;t=2400">40:00</a> is a clear example how you need to meet &quot;Oh... that&apos;s not how things work here&quot; with an &quot;Oh... that&apos;s why I don&apos;t work here&quot;.

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• VL

  @vleesmoord · 3 years ago

  I always thought Black Friday is the stupidest things ever. As far back as the 1990s, I learned to steer clear of any major shopping mall or strip mall area. People are just vicious and stupid. I worked in a supermarket when I was a college student the days before the holidays were horrendous with so many people last minute shopping. People are very stupid in large crowds.

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