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You know the moment I mean – the one where, confronted with some person or task that is just the worst, you realize that you do not get paid enough to deal with that sh*t.
It stinks when it happens to you, but it’s almost funny when you’re reading about it happening to others – and these 15 people have some pretty convincing arguments.
#15. It’s always things that have to do with the bathroom.
I manage a fast food restaurant and for me it’s always things that have to do with the bathroom. From having to clean up porn magazines w/ semen on the floor or walls, to people either purposely sh***ing on the floor, even used hypodermic needles.
#14. A stupid look on my face.
I was working late, like 2am in the office.
My manager, said let’s go to the convenience store to buy some snacks and smokes. She sits in the back and we drive there. After we get our shit, she says can we swing by (this street intersection) real quick.
When we get to that intersection, I guess she see’s a car that belongs to someone she knows, parked infront of her boyfriends house. She starts to wail, cry and kick around in the backseat. While my bewildered ass just holds the steering wheel, with a stupid look on my face.
After 20 minutes of that shit, we drive back to the office, I drop her off and I go home.
WTF
#13. Blowouts and puke.
I work in childcare. There was one time we had one kid who had a diaper blowout and one kid who puked everywhere. There’s only two teachers so one has to handle the blowout and one the vomit, while also keeping the rest of the kids away from it all.
#12. He’s rolling around in the stuff.
Posted before this before…
This was back in the late ’90s. I was working at Wal-Mart as my first job as a teenager. I was floated to the garden department one day and there was a guy looking at lawn fertilizer. I walked over and asked if he needs help, he said “Not now, just looking at the different kinds you have.” Pretty standard reply from the guy, so I said “Okay, let me know.” I walk away, and then swing back about 5 minutes later. Same guy has proceeded to rip open about 10 different kinds of the fertilizer all over the ground and is rolling around in the stuff. He is also taste sampling the stuff. I called my manger because I did not want to deal with it. Security escorted the guy out the store and called an ambulance in case the ingestion of the fertilizer hurt him.
#11. Every day.
I make $13/ hour. On an ambulance. Everyday is an “I don’t get paid enough for this” moment.
#10. An open and shut case.
When I worked at McDonald’s, I found out we didn’t get paid for closing. We got paid until the store closed, so if it took us an extra hour or two to close, that was unpaid. I wish I knew what I know now, because that is an open and shut case, but at the time, I was young and dumb.
My first paycheck, I noticed I had a ton of missing hours. So when I asked my boss about it, she told me we only get paid until the store closed…. So that night, I walked out when the store closed. They tried to guilt me into staying, because “the other team members need me” Fuck. That. I don’t work for free, sorry. Especially when I’m already making minimum wage. No thanks, not gonna happen
#9. Like going into a war zone.
When I walked in to the room of a confused patient on blood thinners who had ripped out his IV and catheter, and had shit and blood on every surface of his room. It looked like a murder had been committed. I’ve been through a lot as a nurse, but that was like going into a war zone.
#8. I didn’t want to lose my job.
Countless times at the go-kart place (summer job) where I work I’ve had to put up with special needs kids whose caretakers or parents dropped them off and drove off because they wanted a break from them. these kids (and adults) have a mental age of anywhere from 3-15 and many times they are unable to follow the directions that we provide or even listen to us. They are not only a danger to themselves but to the other riders and to us the staff. An easy solution to this would be for their parents to ride with them in a double and to drive for them allowing them to have fun without having to put anyone in danger. However that “costs more money” and “they don’t want to” one parent even said “Why can’t you just ride with him?” and when I asked if she would be comfortable with other people she said he wasn’t. I wanted to call her a shitty parent but I didn’t want to lose my job. We can’t deny them as they have the physical age to ride. But are hopefully putting rules in place to require parents of children with special needs to ride with their parents.
Edit: I hold nothing against these kids, but the fact is that their parents are responsible for them. If they want a break from them they could hire a caretaker. Even then though I understand that bad parents do exist, however it is the caretakers who refuse to take care of the kids who are unacceptable. YOU ARE GETTING PAID! Do your job!
Edit 2: typo
#7. The missing sandwich.
Worked at a fast food place about 13 years ago. This lady in the drive thru claimed she was missing a sandwich. Our policy was to ask for the bags back to verify. I asked to see the bags (3 or 4, decent sized order) and instead of handing them back like a civilized human being she instantly started raging and throwing the food into the window while cussing me out!
Guess what one of the items that she threw at me was? Yep, said missing sandwich.
#6. She made me take roll.
My boss insisted that everybody be at their desks at 8:30 sharp. She made me take roll on an attendance sheet and hand it into her everyday. She also made me do it at lunch time (when everybody left and came back) and when they left at night.
Took roll for a bunch of adults three times a day. I don’t work there anymore.
#5. All over my pants and shoes.
Used to work as a dental nurse. First patient of the friggen day, bloke said he felt sick after having a local anaesthetic. He looked it. I grabbed the bin and told him if he needed to vomit, take the bin. He held it in his lap and turned, vomiting down the side of the chair and all over my pants and shoes. Of course I had to clean it up and of course they wouldn’t let me go home to change.
#4. She had a tantrum.
Psycho camp director lost her shit on all of the lifeguards because we said we weren’t coming back next summer. Reality was we all had legit reasons. I was goi g to take summer courses to graduate early, another guard was moving to university and was going to work in that city, another guard got offered a head guard spot at a camp near her house, etc. Nothing that said we hated the current camp, just other things going on.
We were told in a group meeting if we weren’t happy there we could leave and she would find other guards.
Following Friday she calls us all in to tell us what a great job we are doing and how happy everyone is going to the lake.
Tuesday after that she calls us in individually to tell us we aren’t working hard enough and she sees us slacking off all the time.
Lunchtime Tuesday all the guards walked into her office, told her to go fuck herself in front of the owner of the camp, and we all piled into my Ford Focus and went for beer.
Went home that night to message from camp owner asking us to give him a call back (we all chatted and realized he had called all of us). Called him the following day, told him what went down. He asked us to reconsider and that he would give us a $5 an hour raise and report directly to him.
We discussed it and agreed on the condition that psycho director apologized to us at a collective staff meeting. She refused and had a tantrum. Camp owner fired her on the spot, escorted her off the property and we opened the lake back up.
Fuck you Barb.
Edit: wow my first silver. Thank you!!!! Barb finally got me something worthwhile!
#3. It was terrible in general.
TL; DR: Toyota Service Advisor working his bloody feet off alone. quits after returning everything to the state is was when I got there while Boss had to deal with the army of customers he allowed to set unlimited appointments.
I worked at a Toyota Service Department for a few months…it was terrible in general but one day was the worst.
During the week I had a nail go straight through my foot so I’m bandaged up and have to walk around to get everything. Probably 100 yards to the car wash, 40 yards to the shop etc.
My team for Saturday (4 people) had 1 person quit on Wednesday and 1 person had a funeral to leave early for. The other guy was new so he was slow to get stuff done. My boss says he’ll come in and help.
Wednesday we lock it at 60 appointments since we have short staff up front and back. We do take walk ins too. Thursday it’s at 80, and we tell our boss to lock it. Again on Friday before closing we see 110 appointments. He never locked it. Come Saturday morning we had 130 appointments from 7am-4pm.
I’m having to walk around a lot and ended up bleeding through 3 pairs of socks and bandages. I had to chase down about 80% of our customers cars because our Porter’s were goofing off.
I had 53 opened tickets at 12pm, we had a 4 hour wait for walk ins, and 2 with appointments. Haven’t had lunch or a snack since they banned food/drinks at our desks. My friend is about to leave for the funeral so I cover his work. and my boss leaves for lunch throwing his 20ish tickets on my desk.
So I’m now 110 tickets deep, helping the new guy with stuff, moving cars, and trying not to pass out. Oh did I mention 95F outside, no AC in our covered area (not inside) and 90% humidity? We didn’t even get a breeze. Can’t have snacks/drinks at our desks either.
It gets to 3pm and I’m rescheduling people, trying to get everyone out when their cars are done but have to limp them down to pull them in front to leave after they pay. My boss still isn’t back and the new guy quits.
I end up getting in one car and blood from my sock drips onto our paper mats in the car. I cleaned everything out, vacuumed the car, washed it, and pulled it up. Customer went APE SHIT that she saw blood on the disposable paper mat, about the wait, not getting a discount for her non-appointment service, and demanded to speak to my manager. That was it.
Called him up and sent to voicemail. I explained it to his mailbox then called the GM to explain that I have been alone for about 3 hours dealing with an un-capped amount of customers, 5 technicians walked out, I’m still not recovered from my workplace injury, and that I’m finishing my paperwork to take my lunch break at 4:00PM.
Boss shows up when I’m about to leave to eat my lunch I brought knowing their “provided lunch” would be gone before I could set foot in the break room. He told me that in our state I’m not legally allowed a lunch break during a shift & I have to stay to finish out the customers on my tickets. I mentioned being here since 6am pre-printing everything saying I just need to relax and he said “You didn’t even clock in this morning so unless you do what I say, you aren’t getting paid”. – Service advisors are paid commission here, and % of parts profit for stuff sold. I don’t even get $0.10 an hour. –
So I walked to my station, removed all of everyone’s login copies of my permissions, deleted all of my notes, deleted all of my warranty macros, all the spreadsheets, and reset every custom line I added to our programs before I removed my admin permissions. Walked out & got a call when I got to my car asking “Why isn’t your login able to collect credit cards?” so he had to either write down credit card info, take cash/checks, or let them go.
My GM asked me to come back at a pay raise and less hours but I knew it was bs. My boss ended up getting let go the following month since he couldn’t get things back up to speed. My good friend moved to Mercedes parts so he’s happy.
I ended up going to BMW for a bit after that and handled a few other franchises later
Edit: Wow this blew up, if I get on a YouTube video please unsub. I’ll reply to all comments but it will take some time. Thanks guys!
Edit 2: Thanks for the Silver & Gold kind strangers. Here’s the link to the Revenge subreddit Post
#2. We didn’t have meatballs.
Got change thrown in my face at work because a man was upset we didn’t have meatballs. Now if I’m working he’ll come in, see me, and walk out
Edit: I work at subway lol Edit 2: I’m sorry if I don’t reply to you, I keep getting a lot of comments and have to work with what I got lol
#1. We would no longer be paid.
We used to be paid half-salary to attend seminars related to our industry that grant Professional Development Hours. These seminars would often be at 7am at a hotel that was about a 2 hour drive for me (if I was lucky) in rush hour traffic to get to, but hey it was paid and had free breakfast, so waking up at 4:30 to attend wasn’t the worst thing in the world.
The company announced that they believed attending the seminars was furthering our knowledge, therefore helping the company, and therefore helping us, so we would no longer be paid to attend them but were still expected to go?
I just said fuck that and haven’t attended a single one since then and delete all the invite emails.
I’m paid hourly, so taking the ~6 hours out of my day to drive and attend a seminar I am not being paid for is just plain stupid. I was asked why I haven’t gone to any and told them I have a mortgage to pay. Haven’t been asked to go again since.
Edit: Holy crap my inbox. Wanted to throw a few comments out cause I’ve been bombarded:
I believe the above situation arose when the company realized the licensed PE’s were required to attend the seminars for Development Hours regardless, so they could get away with not paying. The company threw out that BS line to try to guilt us into going, but those of us who are not required to get the hours can’t be forced to go.
I have already told them, as I mentioned above, that I have a mortgage to pay and am not going to attend anything without pay. I have not been reprimanded for it because, as many of you have been pointed out, that would be illegal and they know it. I am, quite literally, not getting paid enough do deal with that shit
We all have those days, I guess. Best of luck on the next of yours!
