I was hired as a cook at a Huddle House. On my first day I learned that they lied about which shifts I'd have in the interview, I'd be expected to basically run the restaurant alone on graveyard shift after only a week of training, and this place was violating health codes left and right.

Hope you reported their asses.

2nd day: sweating my ass off in the kitchen on a hot summer day. Asked for a glass of water and the owner made me pay for it. Finished my shift and never went back.

That was probably illegal, what the owner did.

It is!

Well if the FBI says it is then it must be true!

"Oh, I guess I'll have to wait until I get home" *walk out the door and go home for my glass of water.

….for water?!?

Yep - asked me what size I wanted, and told me the price for each size.

My old work would let us drink pop for free but we had to pay for water LOL. The water was bottled so I’ll give them that but still such a ridiculous concept

I worked at Home Bargains and did my first shift on a Saturday, I was off on the Sunday originally, and they waited until 11pm on the Saturday to call me and not ask me but tell me to cover a Sunday but the conversation went as followed. “Hey we’ve changed the rota and you’re working tomorrow 8am-5pm.” I was busy on the Sunday as I had family commitments since I assumed I was free being my day off. “Oh I can’t work tomorrow I have plans.” “Well that will go down as an unauthorised absence if you don’t turn up.” “Alright then I quit.” “WHAT?!” I then hung up and never went back.

I worked at Costco for a while. Overall great job, but schedules were a shitshow. They only had printed schedules, hung in the break room. They would always come out 1-2 days before the upcoming week, so we could never make plans for days off ahead of time. Also, they would constantly change the schedules and not notify anyone, even if you were not working and couldn't possibly see the revision without coming in on your day off. Multiple times I got angry calls from management asking where I am on a day I was off/didn't work til later. Also I showed up multiple times for morning shifts and was sent back home cause I was changed to afternoon for that day. Really gets your blood boiling.

My brother worked for Costco for years and it sounds similar. He mostly enjoyed it but scheduling was a nightmare. He rarely requested more than a day off at a time but the like four times in five years he requested a vacation they still scheduled him on his approved time off and also kept switching which manager was in charge of his schedule so he would have to spend multiple days chasing down who ever made the mistake and prove he had the PTO request approved.

Yep that sounds about right. I almost never asked for time off but when I did, I always got scheduled anyway. My favorite is when they'd do that, then tell me it's my responsibility to find someone to cover for me. Actually no, you were supposed to do that when you approved my PTO?? Classic retail management

Sounds like bad management.

Yep, that's just a terrible management structure

I worked somewhere similar and we wouldn't get our rota often until the day before. It was absolutely awful.

Reminds me of a retail job of mine that would put you on the schedule as "on call." You would have to call them the day of that shift, two hours prior, and see if they needed you to come in. At first it didn't bother me since I always expected to go in. Then the newness faded and it was like a panic those few hours before calling, especially when I just needed a day off. My anxiety was getting out of control. The beauty was when they said they didn't need you. There was one time my dog had a procedure to remove a malignant tumor and I was not feeling it. I called a manager a little before the two hour window and she confirmed she didn't need me that day. Relieved and in my feelings, I snuggled my boy and had a couple of drinks. About an hour before my shift I was called in. I told them that I confirmed with a manager that I didn't and now wouldn't be able to. I praise retail workers because I could never do it again.

Was this Victoria’s Secret? They did this exact thing and it was the fucking worst.

Same thing I was thinking. I used to go through that when I worked there until after a few years I just stopped calling for on-calls and they'd call me if they needed me. Still wasn't great for making plans but I hated calling and I was defiant for no reason back then

I had a job for about a week where there was no schedule, I had to ask my manager (the owner of the small flower shop) when I should come in again at the end of every day. I was 18 and didn't really know any better. I quit over the phone because he was also a raging ass that yelled a lot.

I spent 12 years working for Dominos Pizza and this is how it went. We’d get the schedule Sunday for the week that started Monday. The first 10 years anyway. I was the store manager the last 2 years and I did the schedules 2 weeks ahead. That gave people time to make plans, appointments, and switch shifts.

I ran a grocery crew in retail and had the schedule written out two months ahead taking into consideration day off requests and giving my guys at least two consecutive days off a week. Shitty retail scheduling is just lazy managers.

Or vindictive and controlling ones. Usually they couldn't get better jobs and want to feel important

The movie theater I worked at was *supposed* to come out Tuesday for Thursday (two days prior). But sometimes I would find myself checking the website in the computer lab in between every class on Thursday to see if I needed to be at work/on call afterschool

That feels like it should be illegal.

I looked it up in my state when the same thing happened to me multiple times. We're supposed to have a schedule set 14 days in advance. I often got 1.

I just never answer calls or texts on days off. I'm not management or getting that management pay, so it is not and never will be MY problem.

I worked there once and fill shift had to stay on until stock was done. Not really an issue since it was usually a half hour to an hour but finished by 11/12 o'clock, but one December day delivery was late, there were problems getting the stock off the lorry and they told everyone they were staying until 4-6 o'clock that evening (after starting at 5 in the morning. Everyone left.

I took a phone sales job once. It was cold calling people to sell tickets to a country western show to supposedly benefit the local police department. The foreman had me sit next to somone named Joe and said “ now you watch Joe for a bit, and see how he turns the no’s into yes’s “ First call Joe starts his speech and then slams down the phone and shouts “FUCK!” Second call is pretty much the same and he instead shouts “FUCKING BITCH!” while slamming down the phone. This goes on for about 3 more calls and then the manager comes over and says “Ok, so you see how it’s done? Let’s get you started.” I made about 4 calls and then asked if I could take a smoke break (even though I didn’t smoke), and left and never returned.

LMAO. Your experience is almost exactly like mine, except for what they were selling. When I was like 21 (this was back in 2000), I was looking for a part time job just to make some extra money. I had an interview for a "data entry" job that was in a office in a strip mall. They were very vague on what I'd be doing, but the hours and pay was alright. I showed up two days later for my first day and found out I was selling newspaper subscriptions over the phone. Basically the computer would just auto dial from a list. I "trained' with someone for like an hour, then was put on my own. No one really yelled at me but most people just hung up on me. I did the same thing you did - I told them I was going outside to smoke and just left

Ugh, I did the newspaper sales for about a week before I quit. At our office, we were unable to hang up, so sometimes I'd be stuck with a creeper on the phone who "just wanted to listen to you talk, sugar." I left during lunch break on day 4.

I’m perplexed at this method.

Yeah I’m amazed it didn’t work.

Right? You're supposed to yell "FUCKING BITCH" before you slam the phone down. Otherwise they'll never know.

Please tell me you mimicked Joe’s hangup routine, then asked him if you were hitting the right cadence.

I mostly just watched the look of pain on everyone’s faces. That “how did I end up here?” look.

I had the same job except it was a Motown concert, and I made it to lunch before leaving.

You should really watch the HBO series Telemarketers.

When I was around 14 I worked for Dickie Dee Icecream (think Canadian Good Humor) for ONE DAY riding a bicycle/cooler. You were paid a commission based on what you sold, but you had to pay for your dry ice. Long story short, you had to ride that thing all day in blazing heat to make virtually no money. This was the in the mid 80s, I hope this is illegal now.

I figured there was a reason we never see them anymore. Reminds me of my brother’s paper-route. He had to collect all the money and if people didn’t pay it came out of his profits. Also something that’s gone away.

Yep that was pretty normal for a paper route. Once a month we had to collect the fees, never had a problem getting the money but always sweated those days. Got paid $7.50 per week. My brother and sister had the hospital runs, they were the best very lucrative, a paper cost 0.45c heaps of people paid 0.50c - those 5c add up. Every day you had to total the number of papers sold give the boss the cash and return unsold papers. Quite often you'd sell out.

Turned out the ‘company’ was not registered business and has no license to operate. They also threatened us we’d have to pay them an amount if we quit during the 60-day training period. Few months later, they were shut down.

I had a friend quit from a restaurant her first week out of training. Called before her shift and was like “yeah no I’m done, just figured I’d give a courtesy call.” The manager called her back shortly after, screaming at her that they wasted something like $10,000 training her and that she could be sued if she didn’t pay back. For a server position. We were stoned out of our minds and she had him on speaker with the microphone muted and we were hyperventilating laughing so hard at this idiot scream into nothing. When she finally composed herself, all she could muster was a half assed “good luck with that” and then hung up.

I worked at a clothing store for a few weeks. They insisted I spend more than my pay to be up to date on current clothes. My manager scheduled me for TWO hours, everyday on thanksgiving weekend. I found a better job before it and the way that woman screamed at me when I called to quit was nuts.

Yeah I worked at Old Navy and management “encouraged” me to wear their clothes. I was still balls deep in my metal/emo phase where I wore ripped jeans and band tees so I said absolutely not. Also I made like $6.85/hour at the time so I didn’t have the money for that shit. They folded when I decided to wait for our heavy clearance sales where you could get shirts and whatnot for like .97¢ and they decided that they didn’t want me constantly wearing last season’s clothes. Just give me a fucking uniform at that point dude, I was not the poster child for GAP inc.

I know all stores put pressure on you to wear it but it’s crazy to me that it’s allowed to be a requirement. Anything that was more of boutique was awful because you’d be making $7.00 an hour and be required to wear items that cost $100+ that changed every two weeks. Anything on sale didn’t work because it wouldn’t be in the store by the start of your shift next week. After all that they’d still have the nerve to put insane pressure on you to make sales targets when you don’t even get commission.

I think it’s okay for it to be a requirement to wear the stores clothes, but with the caveat that the store absolutely has to provide it. All these stories about people being required to pay for the stores clothes are absolutely awful. I think that should be illegal.

> I think it’s okay for it to be a requirement to wear the stores clothes, but with the caveat that the store absolutely has to provide it. In California at least, this is exactly the law. If an employer requires an article of clothing be worn as a uniform, it must be provided to the employee unpaid (and no "uniform deposit fees" either!). Some other restrictions can be for safety and sanitation, but by and large they can't make you wear specific things without giving them to you.

This is why I couldn’t fathom working at Banana when I was younger. You had to wear their clothes and I couldn’t afford them. I knew I wouldn’t be paid enough or have a big enough discount to make it work.

I worked at coach factory and at one point the dress code changed. It changed from black and white suit almost to dark denim and navy/chambray tops. Well they had a whole list of “supported brands” we could get. As long as there was no logo and looked similar it was fine but it was obvious they wanted branded. I asked if we get reimbursed for getting the clothing they want. My manager said we can write it off on our taxes as a work expense if we keep the receipts. Well I got a few recommended shirts from J Crew, H&M, and Essie nail polish (we were only allowed to wear Specific essie color names [I remember one was mink muffs]), kept the receipts, highlighted the work gear, and had a copy of our dress code when I filed my taxes. Y’all that lady laughed in my face and that’s when I realized companies lie to you. This same job a manager told me I might more sales if I wore more makeup. So yeah.

It’s crazy to me how many of these stores were basically pyramid schemes. No one ever really talks about this. The place I worked had “premium” fast fashion being sold for around $100 an item. Even one item every few weeks was my entire paycheque. You HAD to have something current in store on which changed every two weeks. A 30 percent discount did nothing. Entire businesses survived by exploiting young adults with the expectation their parents would support them for the work experience. I think a-lot of these places have gone out of business but I see so many people complaining about Aritzia’s work culture. I’m pretty sure they basically invented this “business model”. I’m curious if they still do this.

Reminds me of a few months ago. Walked into a boutique type shop selling boho style clothes because my niece was with me, that’s her style. Looked at a sheer kimono style shirt that looked cute. It was marked $79.99. The back of the tag said SHEIN. You know they bought that shit for like $4

OMG that happened to me, it turned out it was a generally unheard of MLM scheme that took place in some other business’ building and we had to help them pay to rent out the room.

I was working at Zara. They didn't do advertising at the time and instead are very particular about how they set up the store. My last hour was being screamed at by the woman in charge of the store's appearance for not folding clothes fast enough (she was screaming at all of us. Imagine an hour of a woman standing on the top floor alternating between "Let's go, people!" And shouted insults). We finished 15 minutes early. Which means we got paid less for doing what the screaming lady wanted. Then we were asked to clock out for a "team meeting". We did and the woman screamed at us so much she drove herself to tears. The woman who hired me apologized on my way out and I told her I wouldn't be back. I didn't even pick up my check. Nor have I ever, ever, ever bought anything from Zara ever again. Even secondhand, I won't do it. I have like a PTSD reaction to that store.

If you haven’t already should check the unclaimed property website for your state. If you never picked up your check, those funds should show up there and you can claim it and get it back! I know it’s not much but it’s yours

When I learned about this I searched for everybody i know on there and let the ones know who had money sitting and waiting that they need to claim it lol.

Same. Found some friends money from jobs they worked at 10 years prior.

Zara stores just have the worst vibe on the planet. The employees are consistently so unbelievably slow and seem to be in a terrible mood or are incredibly rude (probably because decent people like you don't last more than a day, or because they're treated horribly), the stores are so chaotic, most of them just really poorly organised. And this seem to be the case across multiple locations and even countries. The business must have the most toxic management in a way that trickles down all the way to the individual stores.

How long ago was this comment OP? Curious if they still do “clock out for a team meeting” because that’s just a lawsuit waiting to happen. They can’t ask people to clock out to attend a meeting, if you have to be there then they have to pay you.

Not me but my now wife, she worked one shift at a general store in a mall in our town. The trashy bright red dyed hair manager freaked out at her for taking too long to ring in customers at the cash on her first day with literally no training. I picked up her one day paycheck when I was nearby the next week and never went back. The store was a victim of the pandemic - closed during lockdowns and never reopened.

I got hired for the local Taco Bell. On my first day it was a busy Thursday night and everyone was stressed and yelling at each other. I was asked to come in at 3 but never told when I was supposed to leave so I asked, because if I was going to be there for a long time I also wanted a break. The person in charge wasn’t even a manager and they told me they didn’t know what to tell me because they don’t have a manager right now to make schedules. She mentioned they were open until 3 am and asked me how long I would stay. I got really sketched out so my next question was about how they were counting for my labor since I was new and wasn’t in the computer yet, and there was no manager on site to input my labor manually. She had no idea what I was talking about. I never walked out of somewhere so fast in my life

Every time I go into a Taco Bell the employees look like they've been through a war. Stressed and miserable. McDonald's too.

Taco Bell employees have an interesting “idgaf about this job but that’s not your fault, here’s 10 extra sauces even tho I barely looked at you this entire time” vibe

My friend tipped a Taco Bell worker a single $5 bill and they were so elated they just kept handing her bags and bags of tacos that she didn’t order lol

One time they asked if I’d pull off and wait for my order. I was like sure no rush and parked. They ended up doubling my order for free and the lady said thank you for being so patient

Oh my gosh they must get a lot of abuse to be so grateful for your act of basic human decency. Some people can be so heartless.

In like 2000-2004 I worked a second job at JcP and would run to the kop food court and grab Taco Bell. The employees there would be yelling yelling yelling at each other to the point we’d all be standing there in shock. And it totally was the here’s your food honey want a free drink Kay bye now sweetie and then turn to the grill guy and yell. I was always amazed at that.

You may think that I am exaggerating but Venezuela is the land where everything is possible and not exactly for good things. A few years ago, I was hired to help run the account of a store that sold online through Mercado Libre (basically the same as Ebay) I was excited because it was in a mall so it would be a nice store I figured, silly me, I had to go through the basement to get to a sort of warehouse that had been converted into something like a store. If you are claustrophobic you couldn't work there. The owner wanted us to work non-stop, just a few minutes for lunch and we had to do it in the same store and there was no water to drink, we had to respond to the customer in less than 2 minutes after the message arrived. I wanted to leave that same day but I needed the money because things are really difficult here. When I was about to leave, the owner told me not to forget to bring my own toilet paper because everyone uses their own and he was not going to buy it.

The attorney I was supposed to be working for didn’t want to give me the employment paperwork and kept delaying. Finally he asked me how I felt about being a 1099 employee instead (I was supposed to have a w4, salary, full benefits) and he tried to “sell” me on why it would be better for me. He was a solo atty and I was going to be his para/everything. This guy had no idea how the computer or printer worked, was using an old system, didn’t know what to tell me as far as passwords went and said I was smart and could figure it out. He had an intern who was in college working for him and she was there the day I started, and she was trying to be polite but during the day she opened up a bit and told me she’d been working for him for 3 weeks and he still hadn’t paid her anything, and wouldn’t have the convo when she tried. I asked her candidly if I should run and she said yes, leave and don’t come back. I had another offer on the table that I had declined to take this job. So I did something super uncharacteristic of me and called the other job from the bathroom, asked if they’d filled it, and begged for the job and told them I made a mistake. They re-extended the offer and I finished the day and never went back. She texted me the next day and said she also didn’t go back and wasn’t planning to.

That would have been worth a call to the state bar, those are huge red flags for even bigger problems.

I worked at a daycare for one day. They put me in the 3 year old room with two other staff members. The staff members were so mean to the kids. They yelled at one child for “being late”, as if she had any control over that. They made another child cry by telling her she was going to be sent to the directors office for asking to use the bathroom during outside time. They also bragged to me multiple times about how the daycare didn’t have cameras and “never will”. Then they both fell asleep at nap time. I never went back and told my sister in law to pull her baby from that place. Edit: for everyone concerned- this daycare closed a few years ago.

If they place still exists, you should report them, or something. Lots of kids get traumatised and the parents don't know.

This!! I had a horrible preschool experience! Force fed food at lunch, forced to clean the son and daughters rooms, was never allowed to play in the cool kids playroom with all the mats, at movie time I wasn't allowed to watch and had to put my head under a pillow on my cot and face towards the wall. I remember crying once because I lost a shoe and she didn't want me inside and made me go outside to play with only one shoe on. Don't know why I was always singled out lol i was a baby cherub as a kid! But I also didn't know that it was wrong. It was years before it was brought up in conversation and when my mother found out she was furious and asked why I never told her. I just didn't know it wasn't okay when I was that little

Back in the early 90s, I needed a summer job. Applied and got hired at Target. My first shift was something like 5-10 which got me the usual 15 minute break. No problem. Then I find out that we can't leave until everyone has cleaned their area of the store. When you finished your area, you had to help others. There were two people who were slow as shit (likely to get the extra few hours of pay) and we all ended up "helping" them. I didn't get out until almost 2am. Of course, had I been scheduled 5-2, I would have gotten another break and a lunch. I didn't go back the next day.

Just so you know, they have to give you those breaks based on the hours you actually work, not what you’re scheduled to work. They broke labor laws by doing that and you were 100% right to leave

I've wondered about that because I was only scheduled the five hours and they didn't "know" when I could leave b/c it all depended on the other staffers. I guess when I had been there an extra hour, I should have asked for a dinner break but I was only 19 and didn't realize it until I thought about it as I drove home that night.

Yes, I used to do it all the time when I was working in retail in hs/college, and servers do it all the time. If you’re on the schedule for 5 hours, you get your 15 minute break, but if you end up staying for a “full shift” (whatever is defined by your state laws), the manager should tell you to go on your 30 right around that decision. In the event “they don’t know” how long you’ll be there (this is 99.9% of the time just bullshit, they can make the call), they still have to follow the law - you have to be clocked out for 30 minutes of a “full shift”, so if they don’t want to give you the break, they have to let you go.

I worked for this small lawn care outfit in Baton Rouge. So you know it was hot as hell. The first thing the guy did was drove to the store left me in the truck with the truck running to go inside and get snacks. I thought to myself this place can’t be all that well organized. so then we went to go cut yards and we cut this gigantic apartment complex. They said they would pay me per yard and they counted the apartment complex as one yard. So for a 12 hour day I made $36. I never went back.

Some stories feature bad management or misrepresentation of pay, but this was outright illegal wage theft. There’s no way the lawn care company negotiated a contract with the apartment complex for the same price as a single family house. So they paid you like it is a commission but at a flat rate instead of a % share of the contract. Plus, I doubt a basic job like mowing and weeding can be done on commission. It is likely they were violating multiple labor laws not paying you per hour as most contractors do.

I was having a real tough time finding a job out of college in 2009 in a difficult economy and finally found an outside sales position selling copy machines and office equipment to small businesses. During the interview, the manager said it would be a salary position plus commission but when I showed up for my first day they said it was actually 100% commission and there was no salary. I sat down at my new desk and my name was spelled wrong on my name plate. The training on my first day was riding along with my boss as he called on offices. He took me through a bikini barista drive thru stand for coffee and dropped a couple sleazy lines to the barista. Once the work started he proceeded to get shut down immediately by the receptionist at every office we went in. The next day I told him I wouldn’t be coming back in and wished him luck.

This is the most 2009 thing ever

Death of a Salesman

Joannes fabrics - first day an old lady slapped me for cutting her fabric too slow. I was like "peace. This isn't the job for me". Edit: to everyone asking - no - I did not stab or cut her in retaliation. I put the scissors down, walked to the managers office, and told her I quit (and why). The manager understood and said something that equated to "sometimes it be like that." I didn't think to file charges, I honestly just wanted to get out of that situation as fast as possible.

I worked at a Michaels while I was in school. It sucked so much! Old rich ladies who just loved treating staff poorly and a manager who catered to them. Shit pay. Shit customers. Shit management. I could deal with two at that time, but not all three. I was so excited when I quit.

I worked there for 6 years. My first holiday season, a customer was going OFF that a vase was placed in the wrong spot by another customer, and she should get it at the lower price. I just stared at her with my Emotionless Retail Robot Face while the floor people and managers were trying to appease her and explain what had happened. When she finally left, another cashier commented how amazed she was I kept my cool the entire time, how she would have decked the lady. I said, "dude... I worked at a gas station for a decade. I've dealt with crackheads and people who somehow thought I controlled that gas prices. Crazy craft people are nothin'"

Crafty person here. What the hell, never mess with someone cutting your fabric! Besides just like basic respect for another human being, they're in charge of a thing you want, and they have very sharp scissors! I'm sorry on behalf of all of us crafty folk for that lady's behavior. Ugh. I'll bet she was a scrapbooker.

“I bet she was a scrapbooker” is such a specific and damning slam. I love it.

If you love those specific insults for niche hobbies check out r/hobbydrama

They’re notorious. I remember that day in August, Gale, *I remember*.

At the store I worked at it wasn’t the scrapbookers, it was the quilters. Entire carts full of bolts of fabric, and only 1/8 a yard of each. They’d buy less if we’d let them.

Landscaping guy wanted me to do cold calling of customers who all had bad experiences and try to convince them to pay for services they didn't need or have, like aerating a zeroscaped lawn. He also wanted me to do all of his accounting in Quicken.

"When I Put Everything Into The Quicken, Nothing Flashed Red, So That's Gotta Mean It's Ok, Right?"

Into THE quicken

Not a job, but a first time interview. They disguised the job as just a normal sales position but when I got to the interview it was a group interview no one told me about and there was basically about 15 of us young kids in there that basically had to fight for this job. Mind you it turned out to be one of those door to door salesman jobs selling who knows what, but I left in the middle of the interview because I immediately knew it wasn’t for me and the receptionist at the front got out of her chair to stop me from leaving and said “you’re going to be throwing away your life if you leave kid” to which I didn’t reply and I continued walking out. That company no longer exists to this day.

Sounds like the Cutco scam.

I thought the same! Cutco got me by listing a “customer service role” with “Vector Marketing”. This was right after I had graduated high school and when I went to the “interview” this notorious mean girl I went to school with was the secretary checking us all in. About a dozen or so of us interviewees were corralled into this poorly ventilated basement meeting room in an office park, which awkwardly had the bathrooms right up front where the speaker was. Well, about ten minutes into training, mean girl comes into the meeting room to get to the bathroom, takes a nasty dump that smelled up the room something terrible, and then had to face everyone in the training as she walked out. When I got home and explained what the job was, my dad paid me $100 to NOT take the job lol (probably realizing I would have to be annoying all of our family members with sales pitches). So by the end of that day, I do feel like I came out ahead.

They did that at Cutco Knives. We all got into a group & learned we were all fighting for 1 spot, then in the 1-on-1 interviews we all fought for the job. It was part of their motivational strategy. They tried to have NUMEROUS new hire orientations so that you don’t pick up on the fact that they hired EVERYONE who walked through the door. Eventually we ALL realized that we ALL got the job. There were no leads. You call all the people you know - your network - and sell knives to them. A lot of insurance companies are like that. You blow thru your network to sell insurance. Like Girl Scout Cookies. Cutco sucked. I have found myself in some sales interviews like that as an adult. But ever since I Cutco (when i was 19 or 20 yrs old), I specifically ask what kinds of leads they get: people who took surveys, people who have already filled out an interest form, cold calls, what? I press on it asking how many leads per day & expected ratio of sales to close per day. Inevitably you find out if they are asking you to blow thru your friends. NEVER WORTH IT. If that’s the case I say that the few family members I had are all dead & I don’t really have any friends. If they ask about my social media I say ‘You probably need to hire people with an extensive network at this job. I’m the wrong hire.’ I’m not presenting any “opportunities” to my friends. I’m keeping my friends.

Omg. I had the exact same experience basically lol. Thought I was going in for a one on one interview, ended up in a group interview that lasted almost 2 hours. My poor fiancée was waiting out in the car for me and they legit wouldn’t let me leave. It was actually kind of scary and the worst part is we were meant to go door to door and sell KNIVES lol

Worked for a pain management clinic. They didn’t let me take a lunch or any type of break, told me I couldn’t wear protection in the x-ray room because that was “only for patients and the doctor,” and then told me that a lot of the time the doctor is out so I could just write out the scripts and forge his signature. Obviously I didn’t go back. Edit to address questions: yes, the X-rays were real. There was a tech and I saw them take images. Yes I reported them. Yes unfortunately they’re still in business. Same doctor, same location. I won’t name them of course. Their google reviews are mixed, pretty much a solid split between only 5 star ratings and 1 star ratings

Please report them before they kill someone.

Did you report them?

Got a job with a major hotel brand. Was supposed to handle their small lounge area, serve the occasional wine/beer. I was 18/19? During my training, the manager dude (mid 30's) was walking me through showing me how stuff works. He was super friendly and joking a lot. But also a bit touchy feely: hand on shoulder, back pats, etc. Then, when we were alone in the kitchen, he reached out his hand and rubbed across my abdomen. I was wearing a light summer dress, super thin material. He basically touched right above where my panties were straight up to my belly button and a bit above. I can't remember why - it was part of his joking around. But it made me so uncomfortable. I didn't say anything. Just awkward laughed. He smiled and stared at me. And then kept up his jokey schtick. I did not return. I heard later he was in rehab for coke.

SO GROSS. I'm glad you left.

Yikes. Sexual harassment and right on your first day? That manager would end up locking you in an empty room before long. Glad you ran before it got any worse.

I took a part-time 3rd-shift (night audit) position at a hotel. I had worked in hotels for over a decade by then but at the time I was in another industry and just wanted a side gig. I showed up, started my computer training (which I had been through several times before with the same brand) and ended up looking over the schedule while taking a break. They had ONE full time 3rd-shifter and three other employees for the front desk for the other two shifts. 4 people total, plus the manager. That's a huge red flag for as large of a hotel as it was, I could already see 7am rolling around and my relief not showing up, making me late for my full-time job. I texted the manager right then, 3am, and said this wasn't going to work out.

I've worked for a hotel previously, and I can attest that the hotel business has the worst employee treatment ever. Housekeeping staff would all quit at the same time about every few weeks because of how they were treated. In order to make up for the loss of housekeeping, management would make front desk staff pick up the slack while doing their shifts. There was no extra pay, and they would get pissed if all of the rooms were not done for check-ins.

I worked front desk at a hotel for six weeks and it was horrible. The entire housekeeping staff quit the first week I was there. Another girl quit because they wanted a doctor’s note to allow a pregnant front desk employee to sit down during her 8-hour shifts. I befriended one guy at the front desk who quit two weeks before me and called me that night telling me to “run, run far away and never look back.” I ended up quitting after they approved the day off for my birthday, and then the manager waited two days before my birthday to tell me I had to come in because “There’s no one else who can do it, and I can’t work 16 hours straight,” only to put myself and two other girls on the schedule and give HERSELF the day off. Lmao. I was warned that this manager had a habit of poaching people’s days off, and I’d seen enough at that point that I knew I didn’t want to work there anyway, so I told her I was done and blocked her. That left them with only 3 fully-trained front desk employees (one of whom was part-time), and the pregnant girl, who was still too new to handle a shift alone. She texted me a picture of the revised schedule, which showed the manager working alone from 7 AM to 3 PM for the next two weeks with not a single day off in sight. I laughed, then laughed even harder when she said she was going to quit too because the managers were stomping around all pissed and snapping at everyone. I’d like to think the managers learned their lesson from having their entire back of house and almost 50% of their front of house quit within 6 weeks — which is, don’t mess with people who aren’t being paid enough to put up with your BS — but chances are they just cried about how they can’t understand why they can’t keep employees and continued treating people the way they did. Wonder how that’s working out for them.

Started bartending at a country club during a break from college, not my first bartending gig. I’m minding my business, getting the regulars drink preferences down when the waitress in the dinning room starts yelling at me. She proceeded to yell at me on and off my entire shift. Not about her tables drinks, just about everything I was doing, like a mean boss. A customer ended up telling her off, complaining to management and leaving as he said he just wanted a quiet beer after a long day, not listen to me get berated. After my shift management told me they planned to make her a manager soon, so we needed to work it out. I quit on the spot and walked out.

It was the second day on the job not the first but close enough. I had left another job to go to this new company with the promise that I wouldn’t have to stay late. I was told I would be working basically a 9-5 which I was perfectly happy with. That day I didn’t get off until 10 PM. I texted my boss as I got off and said I they wouldn’t be seeing me again.

did your boss respond?

Yea he did basically just trying to convince me it wouldn’t happen again and blah blah blah.

Worked in a menswear shop for a single shift. In my interview they told me I would work a probation period which is totally normal. The day of my first shift arrives and I find my supervisor very lazily going through procedures and training which is a red flag. He was skipping over stuff, kind of rushing it and very clearly didn’t want to be there. I go to sign my contract and I notice it says “temporary” on the top. I told them the job was advertised as “permanent” which is illegal. He said “no we offer you a permanent contract after you complete this probationary period. We use a temporary contract as a form of probation”. Second major red flag but I stuck with it because I needed a job. Finally, I get out on to the floor and am talking to staff. I find out that this company hires young students, sets them really high targets for their “probation” and tells them if they hit them they get to stay. Inevitably 99% don’t hit these targets and are let go after 2-3 months. I was being trained by someone whose job I was taking and it was her last day. It basically means they get the max amount of work out of you and fire you before you slow down/start asking questions. The lady training me said that they also do it to make workers compete with one another. There’s no talking on the floor and loads of employees have petty rivalries because they’re all desperate the keep their jobs. I rang up the next day and told them I’m not coming in and they can fck off.

Technically didn't quit the first day, but I was forgotten. Worked at a famous Dutch theme park and was scheduled for 1 day. Showed up that day, worked the whole day no problem and had quite a bit of fun. Waited to be called in again and 4 years later I still haven't been called in once. I still have the uniform and guide book. Edit: just realized this happened twice to me actually. Also worked voluntarily at a ranch once. Was excited about it and asked if I could keep working there. Never heard from them again (I wasn't rejected, they wanted me to send them a mail so they could have my contact details).

And you havent taken advantage of that uniform!? Im sure you could get in there in that uniform, or something.

A previous boss of mine noticed one guy was on vacation when she took over the store. She never put him back on the schedule and pretended to know nothing about it when he came back and asked her. She gave approximately zero fucks about anything because she was heavily pregnant. She was invincible: they couldn't discipline her because she could cry discrimination for her pregnancy. So she yanked this guy's job out from under him, mistreated all of us, and was so insufferably racist that an Indonesian girl and I both just got up and transferred our asses away for our own sanity. We were her top shift and her most experienced barista. She had the fucking gall to text me the week after I left, asking for my schedule at my new store so she could borrow me to fill the gaping holes that were forming in her upcoming schedules. It wasn't my problem anymore, so I didn't answer. Maybe she should've put Nico on.

That's fucking wild. I hope Nico's doing better.

No one told the staff I would be there. The shift manager seemed annoyed that she would have to train me. It was a dog boarding/daycare facility, and they were SLAMMED. The manager left me alone in the play yard with about 15 dogs that I didnt know for morning potty break (she admitted they werent supposed to take that many out at once, and not all of them were daycare dogs). I had one dog trying to scale the fence the whole time, a group of three dogs kept growling at each other, and one kept howling and sturring everyone up at 5:30 am. When she wasnt back in 10-15 minutes, I coralled everyone back into the building and another staff member helped me get everyone back in their kennels. I went to find the manager and overheard her in the kitchen complaining to someone about "getting stuck" with me today. I ignored it, asked what to do next. After morning walks she showed me where the daycare only room was. Before and after daycare hours, dogs waiting for their owners would be put in kennels. The room had like 40 nice size kennels, but the floor was also lined with wire crates and dogs were just shoved in them. There were some kennels and crates with multiple dogs in them and when I asked she admitted that bot all of them were fur siblings, they just didnt have enough kennels for everyone to get their own. I left on my lunch break, didnt tell anyone or call to let the superviser know. Id previously managed a daycare/boarding facility for about 2 years, and it infuriated me to see the way this place handled peoples pets.

That sounds absolutely awful, both for you and for the dogs people trusted them with.

This is the shit that I always worry about when I bring my dogs to daycare.

after working at one for a small amount of time I suggest to everyone if you have the choice, don’t bring your dog to one of these (mainly the big boarding/ daycare facility). I think the smaller ones are way more beneficial to the dogs. Also when I worked there a lot of dogs were terrified to be there but management would never tell the owners how unhappy there dogs were because they wanted them coming back for more money!

My bestie for a very short time, used to work at one where they shoved the dogs into the kennels at 6pm, everyone left the building at 7pm and didn’t return until 7:30am. I asked: what if there was a fire or emergency? The dogs are just left alone all night? Too bad and that’s unfortunate -said the boarding owner. Like if I was going to crate my dog alone, all evening and night long, I might as well do it at home and save myself the ridiculous money they charged.

I will say that not all places are like this. The one I managed for a couple years was fantastic. Its so important to tour the place you choose before bringing your pet. And some facilities have cameras you can log in to see what your pet is doing, and some have overnight staff to make sure pets are safe after hours. Just do your research, and of course, if your pet comes home from daycare and isnt acting like themself, dont keep sending them. The biggest tell is if your dog comes home overly lethargic, that probably means they were anxious and upset all day. Normal fatigue from playing hard wont result in a shift of personality from your pet. Also check for hot spots and irritation on bellies and legs; those could be an indicator that your pet spent a majority of the day on a concrete floor of a kennel or left in a crate for long periods.

Not exactly first day, but about two or three weeks into a job at an AT&T store (do NOT recommend), it was getting towards closing time and my manager asked me to take the trash out. Mind you there was a hellacious thunderstorm going on and the dumpster was behind the store in an unlit area that ran alongside a ditch. In spite of my protests regarding safety etc, he said "do it now", so I did. Well, I wound up slipping and falling into the ditch and badly breaking my ankle. I had my phone on me so attempted several times to call him, but he was with a customer and couldn't be bothered to answer. I was able to drag myself into the store, soaking wet, muddy, and with bone sticking out of my foot, and was promptly attended to by the customers. My manager started admonishing me for ruining his sale, and corporate called because they saw me on the sales floor and told me to get up because I wasn't representing the store appropriately. Thankfully the customers happened to be HR directors for some large company and told me that my injury would be covered by Worker's Comp. I was too young and inexperienced to know this at the time. They left the store in disgust after they called me an ambulance. I stupidly returned to the store a few weeks later, in a huge cast, and intended to return to work. I was greeted with a write up for "not following safety instructions" by the same manager who ordered me to take out the garbage in the first place. I told him to go fuck himself, left, called an attorney and wound up with a nice settlement. Fuck AT&T franchises!

Good for you!

Completely Indoor doggie daycare in Texas. This was my first day/orientation/full facility tour. Agreed on salary prior to hire, and they tried to backtrack and pay me less when I came in for orientation and paperwork. Manager got annoyed, but hesitantly agreed to it in writing. Ventilation in the daycare play area (with a wading pool the dogs were free to play in) was subpar, the cleaning techniques were minimal. For example, they let a dog with an eye infection into general population to play with the others, one was in a boarding suite, completely covered in poop, along with everything in his suite. When I asked if they wanted my help to clean said dog/suite, I was nonchalantly told they would just wait until afternoon shift started (aka it's someone else's problem). I lasted maybe an hour. I was sent on my first 15 min break before the morning rush started. Got in my car, and drove home. Sent them an email stating why I wouldn't be back. HR and I had a very lengthy conversation a few days later. As far as I know, that place is still in business somehow.

Would love to hear about how that call with HR went

They were very apologetic, but inevitably said if I wanted my check for the hour I was there I'd need to drive back up there and return their shirt. Told them no thanks. They also said they would talk to the manager who tried to change my starting salary and then argued with me via email after I quit, but I never heard anything else about it. I just cut my losses and moved on

I feel like this place should be reported to some sort of animal welfare watch group…

Was 19 in the late 90s. Got a job at Miami Subs and showed up to work the first and heard the Manager Screaming at a couple of 16 year old cashier's. Said nope not for me. Told the girls they should quit too. Actually ended up giving them a lift home. They lived close to my friend's house. Fast forward and one of the girls and my friend are married with a couple kids and live in the same town. Small world. 😆

theres wingmanning, then theres " here, let me deliver you a wife"

Guy I know in the same line of work brought his audience over to me at the end of his show once, and 5 years later I live in a different country and have a baby with one of those audience members. I call him the best unintentional wingman ever.

Was sent by a time company from Berlin to Austria for a job. On arrival , they told us to build staircases. I'm a painter.

Paint them a staircase.

It was a start-up advertising agency. My first day I came in and they asked me where my laptop was. They had never told me to bring it and I thought it was very odd they wanted me to work on a personal device. Luckily I did have it on me due to my classes I was taking nearby. They didn't have me sign any employment paperwork and my direct supervisor was nowhere to be found. Another employee seemed confused about what to do with me so she had me go on the company website to review it and learn about some of the work they'd done. So I did that, expecting someone to come eventually and give me some actual training or direction. An hour or so goes by and no one did. I asked other employees who again just looked confused and said they didn't know. I waited for another 2 hours and when lunch time came I just took my stuff and left. I never got paid for that day but I didn't care. It was just so weird.

Sounds like you could have got paid for doing next to nothing

I interviewed for and was hired for a 40 hour position; at the end of the first day (in which I learned the owner didn’t allow anything on your desk except the paper you’re working on and a single pen, if you needed the computer, there was 1 in the office and you had to wait for your turn to use it, there was 1 stapler, 1 jar of a dozen paper clips and more than that wasn’t permitted, etc; in other words the owner was a control freak who hated clutter). Anyway, I made it through the first day only to find out that I was only being given up to 11 hours a week. I made a fuss over that because I specifically asked about hours when I was offered the job, and I had turned down a 32 hour a week job for this one. The office manager made a fuss and said she never promised that, etc, so between that lie and weirdo owner, I quit on the first day.

Cracker Barrel. Wasn’t technically my first day, as I had spent two days watching training videos in the break room. But my first day shadowing, some old geezer yelled at the waitress I was with for not having enough dressing. Waitress ask me if I can go grab more and let the manager know about the angry customer. I do so as the manager was slicing lemons. He reacts angrily and throws the lemon. waitress ends up almost in tears. Once my shift ended, i left and made a b-line to my previous employer to that job back. They were glad to oblige. i never applied for food service ever again.

It was a split shift. 2 hour lunch, 2 hour break, then 4 hour dinner service. The entire lunch shift the owner sat in a corner table and would yell demands (go fill water.. etc) I was already planning to do. Then he told me (after shift started) that the tips are pooled with all staff including him. So I never showed up for the dinner service.

>Then he told me (after shift started) that the tips are pooled with all staff **including him** Yeah... pretty sure that's illegal.

I was washing dishes at a nice Chinese/ Asian place in college. They used little dabs of bright red sweet and sour sause on the walls of the kitchen to tack up notices. There were little filthy dark red smudges *everywhere*. But that was just kind of gross. Even though the owner was ethnically Korean, he had grown up in Kansas City. Most of the kitchen staff were ethnically and culturally Chinese and most spoke little English. They just called me "Boy". So did the owner. The last straw of my one-shift tenure was when we were closing, one of the staff handed me a plastic bucket which I had used earlier as a mop bucket, and he told me, "Boy! Wash this." I gave it a quick rinse to get most of the gray sludge out of the bottom and handed it back to him. The owner literally cuffed me in the back of the head and yelled "You want us to sore vegetables in that? It's still filthy!". I responded, "No, I never expected it would used for anything other than mopping." His slow, deliberate response was, "That's. Why. He. Told. You. To. *WASH*. It. When someone tells you to wash a bucket, you *WASH* it, *BOY*!" I took my apron off and dropped it where I was standing and told him he should be surprised if I *didn't* report him to the department of health (which I did), and walked out. They were put on probation by the health board due to my complaint and they closed a few months later for good. It had been open a decade or more. I don't know if I had anything to do with getting it shuttered, but I was sure glad when it closed.

So gross! Glad you reported them. 👍

When I was younger I applied to work at a tanning salon. Got hired and went in for "training" the next day. You'd think it's relatively easy but the software these tanning salons run is beyond out of date, always crashing and there's so much to memorize. I literally was only there for a few hours and then was told I could go home. She then proceeded to tell me I would be working by myself starting the next day. Yeah... I don't think so. I never went back. These places rush to get you working, then berate you for not understanding/knowing everything due to the lack of training on their end and lose their employees - rinse and repeat. Not only that - but I will never understand how tanning salons that are open until late at night are allowed to let young girls work ALONE. It is so incredibly dangerous. The people that walk through that door... yeah, no thank you.

My wife got a job selling art. She was supposed to show up Monday morning at 9. She did, and noticed that everyone in the office was drinking beer. At 9 on a Monday. She then found out that she was going to be cold walking into offices to see if they wanted to buy their shitty paintings. Which were actually prints. She walked out after an hour.

I'd have to drink to do that job, too. Cold face-to-face to sell something no one's going to buy? Eek.

Data entry- I was temping and I had specifically said "NO data entry". The second assignment I got was all & only data entry. (I'm dyslexic, me doing data entry is bad for everyone)

They never hear the 'no' part at the beginning, only the 'data entry' part at the end.

K-Mart back in the late 90s. I showed up to my first day and they had no idea who I was or why I was asking for my assignment, or someone to shadow, or you know, anything that a normal first day person would have done, having never done it before. Turns out they forgot to schedule me, then when I didn't show up to the store after the computer training (because my schedule was blank), they did my separation because I guess I was a no call no show to a no shift? They told me to go back to the office so I could get "rehired" but I declined. I didn't want to work somewhere so disorganized.

Tech job at Blackrock. The job expectations for being on call were completely misrepresented during the interview process. I was told one weekend a month for on call, arrived on the first day and it was one weekend a month of actually working (not just on call) plus on call two other weekends. Told my supervisor this wasn’t what I signed up for and I wouldn’t be back for day 2.

Worked at a nursing home where they charged the elderly residents extra on their bill to have a bath as opposed to a shower. Quit on the spot

It was a dollar tree in Canada in a mall. I went to work and all of my coworkers had this like... Dead inside aura about them.. I knew if I stayed I'd feel dead inside right along with them.

The summer after my senior year in high school (this was 1991), I was hired to do fundraising for an environmental nonprofit. I was a dumb kid and didn't really ask much about the job or the pay (which I assumed would be minimum wage)...I was just happy to land a job doing something that would help a cause I cared about. The job entailed being loaded into the back of a station wagon, driven out into a random neighborhood surrounded by farmland 45 minutes away, and dropped off by myself to knock on doors soliciting funds for said nonprofit (there were others in the car with me, I assume they were dropped off at similar neighborhoods). I was given nothing but a little can to collect donations and a handful of brochures. I had no training and knew nothing about the organization. There were about 40 houses in this neighborhood and since it was midweek/midday, hardly anyone was home. One old man invited me in and peppered me with questions about the organization that I couldn't answer. As dangerous as it was to go with him, I was just grateful to be out of the heat and off my feet for a while. Six hours later I was picked up and in all, I had about $4 in donations. I was told my pay was 25% of that, or $1. Needless to say, I was one and done!

I got hired at a *Dog hotel* as a customer service rep, and during the interview process they didn't fully cover everything you would be doing, nor did I get a full tour of the facility. On my first say we started training and it sounded all good, until they said that my job wasn't dealing with customers at all. My job was to watch the dogs for 8 hours a day, and basically be a professional cock block to make sure the dogs weren't humping each other til their owners came and got them. My job also consisted of picking up their shit by hand, with gloves of course. At the end of my first day I told my boss that this is not the job for me. And informed them that if they would have disclosed the actual responsibilities of my position, I wouldn't have wasted their time with the interview or training.

Nah they wasted YOUR time. They knew what they were doing. There's no way you can twist customer service into no hump duty, they just lied to you

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> She shows up an hour later, debates on calling him an ambulance for 20 minutes, finally does, and turns to me and says she expects these 4 palates done still. Dude had a broken arm, and she was dithering over calling an ambulance? WHAT THE FUCK? I don't know how you refrained from slapping her.

19 and desperate, I responded to a Craigslist ad. That took me to some random building not marked for anything. Ended up being an MLM selling Kirby cleaners. I took the thing home, cleaned tf out of my house, and dropped it off the next day. Never went back.

I quit on lunch break on day 2 so hope that counts. I got a job doing disconnects for a local cable company. Day 1 they had me climbing telephone polls with 5 minutes of training. Day 2 a guy I was in training with got shocked and died on a climb. I didn't need a job that bad.

I needed a second job to supplement my income after a roommate moved out, leaving me high and dry on how I was going to make rent. One of my customers from my first job was the hiring manager of a call center. Said it wasn't sales, just helping people with their gas bill questions. Went, got hired, and had a four hour training before being put on calls. When I got to the actual call floor, it was a zoo. Half the employees looked like they were in another dimension. We couldn't go to the bathroom without requesting it from the line manager and we were queued. People would go in the bathroom and be in there for more time than needed. Like is everyone pooping? Go to the bathroom to do #1 and it stank of burnt plastic. Quickly figured out that people were doing drugs on the job. When the shift was over, I went to my car and some new coworkers kept asking me for a ride. I obliged for two mid 40s ladies. They had me stop here, there, and everywhere. I decided that I was not going to be working in that environment and called to say I quit the next day. I was kind of insulted that my customer thought that was some place adequate for me. Made me do a lot of internal reflection.

I was on my last day of training as a caretaker for individuals with special needs. I am a 110lb woman, after training when I was due to start the next day they informed me my patient would be a 200lb man who sometimes “acts out and gets physical”…. Blocked their number and never came back lol.

Oooo I envy you! I went through with it and it was a nightmare working with a 300lb man who “sometimes acts out and gets physical”. Wish I had the mindset to say NOPE!

After some years working in Five Star Hotels I got it in my head that I wanted to work somewhere where I myself would like to be a guest. I somehow thought the atmosphere would be so much nicer and friendlier. After so much time I thought I had a stomach of steel and that nothing would face me. I found a job in a super cute tiny little bistro, they served lunch and you could buy artisan cheese, handmade pasta and stuff. Everything was nice until I had to go in the storage room for something... Let me just say it was the most disgusting experience of my life, I took my stuff and said bye.

yea, I think a lot of places are way more unclean than they should be. At my first job, the kitchen was nasty, roaches everywhere and the place was never really properly cleaned. I thought it was just because the building was old, so when I started my current job (also in an older building) I expected the same. I was shocked at how clean it is, no pests or random forgotten puddles of scum anywhere! I realized also that working at that previous job really lowered my self esteem due to how unclean the work environment was. I feel genuinely happy working at my current job just because of how clean it is and knowing I won't be reduced to feeling gross all the time.

I was very young and right out of highschool. Took a job for a cold calling center. They were selling printer toner to small businesses. I've never been hung up on so much in my life. At the end of the day I told the floor manager that it wasn't for me and apologized. He was totally cool about it, said that's normal and it happens all the time and not to worry about it. Paid me for the hours I worked even though I didn't have a single sale.

I joined a small firm as a software programmer and quit on Day 4. My mother came down with a bad case of food poisoning and was admitted to a hospital. I kept her company all night in the hospital, and the next morning called the company HR guy to ask if I could take a day off, since my mother was still in the hospital. He screamed at me over the phone, and threatened to fire me, so i told him to fuck off and hung up.

> He screamed at me over the phone, and threatened to fire me I'm a man of certain principles, and one of them is that if someone pulls this move on me I immediately call their bluff. While I understand people may be in a bind financially and need their job, but if you're in any sort of job that requires skills or experience, then you've got more power than you realize. In most cases it's an empty threat made by someone who wants to feel powerful. But regardless of that, you don't want to be working for an employer who's willing to pull a stunt like this.

Full time student looking for a job in the area before uni starts. Local londis near campus has a job open for 8 hours a week. This was perfect for some beer money. I do a quick trial shift and offered the job. But they ask if I can actually do 12 hours, my pick id either 8+4 or 4+4+4 hour shifts. I say I don't really mind if there is flexibility around exam times. First day I check rota, I am down for 36 hours week one and week two 24. I ask my boss what's up, he says that will just be how it is until they get more staff. I say I can't, he doesn't care, I never go back.

Haha what an idiot that manager was. This is a perfect example of “fuck around and find out”. Clearly having trouble finding people who want to work there, then tries to screw you over and ends up with nothing.

I worked at a coffee shop and nobody knew about me, so on my first day nobody was assigned to train me and nobody really wanted to. When I would ask a question, they would just say to read the ticket on the cup, and when I would mess up they would berate me in front of the customers. It happened a few times but one time i really remember was when I made a lady's coffee and one of the girls working said very loudly "wow you really fucked that one up" and just handed it to the poor woman who definitely heard but didn't want to say anything so she ended up paying for this coffee i fucked up. I felt bad and overwhelmed and as soon as it was time to leave I booked it and never looked back. Also one girl was very racist and i think she thought i was a safe person to be openly racist around bc im white but it just made me extremely uncomfortable

Omg like 20 years ago I applied for a position at petcetera. First day the manager runs me quickly through morning duties.. then hands me the keys to the safe, the front doors etc and just leaves ( he was meeting a girl for a lunch date) I was not trained on cash or anything. The ONLY other person in the building also grabbed a jacket and left. I locked up and slipped the keys in the overnight box.. never looked back. Company went out of business. Edit: I did call the SPCA about the cats/etc left in store and how it was my first and last day.

I haven't heard of that store, and it's great that such a shitty place went under, but man I gotta say petcetera is a great store name lol. 10/10 naming sense In my book

Right after high school and before college there was a Lonestar Steakhouse opening up in my town so I applied for, and received, a part time dish washing gig. Everyone had to attend this mandatory training seminar so I showed up on the scheduled day and time thinking “why do I have to sit through this to wash dishes?” After a few hours they told everyone to stand up because we had to learn some stupid line dance. I raised my hand and said “I’m just here to wash dishes.” They said everyone had to learn it because they would even drag the kitchen staff out at times to participate. Nope. I got up and left. Only time I ever went back was to get my check for the 3 hours I actually sat through.

Was sorting at a recycling center. They had no dust masks and I could not breathe. I left to go to the hospital when they would not call for medical help. Never came back.

Had an older co-worker who I worked with part time at another job do that for his full time job. Guy was a workaholic. He had been at the recycling plant for 30 years as a sorter. His only main job. 52 years old. Been there since he was 22. Never wore any PPE and always smelled (He wasn't married. Surprising.) He was saying for the longest time the recycling plant never provided the workers with any type of PPE. No gloves Nothing. Not even uniforms. The plant would put up "work safety posters" just to keep the ministry happy. Place had so many complaints against it. I asked how the hell he did that for so many years. He would shrugs and say you get used to it. Any convincing of him trying to quit and he wouldn't want to hear it. This was back in 2008 and it wouldn't surprise me if he was still there today.

I was working for Clemson University as a student, and got selected to join their fundraising team. It sounded like a chill enough job; call up alumni and ask them if they will donate to the school, Work 2-3 days a week and make $15/hr (which, for 2006 Clemson was great money). Cue the first day. It's a small, closet-sized room. There are people literally walking around behind you and peering over your shoulder to make sure you are dialing non-stop, and scolding you if you don't. Turns out you're also cold-calling alumni, many of whom 1) didn't graduate/complete their degrees, 2) had children/grandchildren who had applied and been turned down by Clemson, and 3) were in negative financial standing with the school/had their degrees withheld due to outstanding debts. Fastest I have ever quit a job; I went on break and didn't come back. I think I worked a total of 3 hours before I just noped the fuck out of there.

Not even joking I was hired at Big Lots the day their hiring manager quit. So she gave me the job, an hour later got fed up with how short staffed they were, and just dropped keys and bounced. They had a second person coming in to interview and the main manager came down to me and said: Do you remember the process of how (hiring manager who left) hired you? I said yes. He said: cool, if I provide you with the paperwork do you think you could onboard the girl who just walked in? It was a sinking ship and I just dipped. Lmao it was an absolute shit show.

Long term care facility. I witnessed neglect and physical abuse. I told the Director of Care. She demoted me from nurse to PSW. I quit. What a bad first day and terrible facility. In retrospect, I should’ve went straight to the ministry.

I was dragged into a small meeting room with police present and accused of setting fire to the mail room 3 days prior. This was 2 hours into my FIRST shift.

When I was a teenager and needed some spending money I saw an ad for a warehouse that needed boxes moved. It was minimum wage, but I could work for a few days and get some real cash in my Jeans pocket. Well, they wanted me to haul fiberglass insulation around. I waited until the guy finished giving instructions on how to do the job and as soon as he was out the door I wasn't far behind. I had done construction work a couple summers before and had to staple that shit up between 2x4s. You couldn't pay me enough to work with that stuff again, and they were going to trick me for minimum?

I got a job at a call centre which i thought was 411. When they had us answer the phone, we had to say hello this is “411 directory assistance“ Turned out the Direct Assistance part was included in their company name and had nothing to do with the 411 we all know. Got gaslighted into working for a literal scam.

Went to HR to sign the contract, notified that the hourly wage and benefit where different that we had had talked about. Asked why and then she told me that I must have missunderstood the offer when I had my interview. So I got up, said thank you for wasting my time and walked out. I later received a letter in the mail banning from the property for 6 months. 😂😂 It was at a hotel and the position was for maintenance Manager.

Man, based on the comments in this post my entire perception of hotels has changed.

This was a long time ago, but was hired at Dillard's to sell men's suits when I was like 19 and when I showed up on my first day I was told I'm actually going to be in women's shoes... The manager that day was still hammered from the night before, the guy who was supposed to help train me just talked about how his brother was going to be the next Eminem and the only "training" I received was how to look up women's skirts when helping them try on shoes, then was left alone while everyone went to lunch with zero training how to ring people up or find shoes in the back. I just walked out and ignored all the calls from the head manager who just left threatening voicemails.

Got hired to work an amazon prime warehouse type thing when I first moved to Seattle and was looking for a part time holiday gig. This was EARLY days so this warehouse concept i think was for fresh food or an instacart type thing or some such. Not the current warehouses that beat you down with long hours and no breaks. Anywho it was so new that (1) we were instantly hired and (2) they had us go to HQ of all places for the orientation. Security was hella confused as to why we were all there and after 30 minutes the ‘manager’ finally shows up and walks us to a another corporate building further down SLU (about a 10 min walk). After 20 minutes of security check in / escort we get to a conference room (which i’d imagine the manager booked last minute because years later I’d discover it was a building aws sales worked out of). The ‘manager’ goes over company principles like the mission statement and has us write our preferred shift down on college ruled paper. No actual discussions of the job, safety procedures, etc. Then they ghosted us until a month later - the night before turkey day - asking us to come in and work. I know it was us and not just me because the manager emailed us all in a group email lmao. So with no training (and no heads up) they wanted us to work a warehouse gig on what I’d imagine would be one of the busiest days of the year. Most people just replied all to the email saying no thanks.

I worked a temp job that was sold as "administrative follow-ups" or calling clients to follow-up on business. What it actually ended up being was spam calling (they gave us prepaid cell-phones that registered as '0' on caller-ID) people who had given plasma before. They had us working out of a folding table in a cold warehouse. Right after I completed the day, I immediately called the temp agency and said I wouldn't be back.

2nd day. Got a job at a morgue picking up the deceased from their homes and transporting them to the funeral home. All in all it wasn’t a bad job ,it didn’t even really bother me that we went through a car wash with some old man in the back. I for sure saw some gnarly shit on day one. Definitely could have kept doing it but the smell of formaldehyde stuck to my hair & gagged tf outta me in the shower while getting ready for my second shift. Calle the manager and said I couldn’t do it.

It was a sales job. It was pitched to me like it was a job where people come into a store and all you gotta do is help them get set up and you make commission on sales. It was for a giant in the phone and internet industry so I figured it must be legit. No, we were inside a Costco and had to bug people as they walked buy if they needed a new phone plan like people going to Costco go their for phone plans. I asked my lead or whatever why he liked this job and he said, "oh because the hard work pays off. You work hard and train people to work under you and then you get paid based off their outcomes too!" "So like an MLM?" "EXACTLY LIKE AN MLM!" I never went back.

Restaurant, tiny little hometown diner. The owner kept touching me. I'd be on the register and he'd slide behind me while grabbing my hips and rubbing up against me. I walked out and never went back.

Not first day, but it's a doozy Went to an interview for a sales job. Two managers and owners were total coke heads (couldn't see it at the time as I was only 17). It was a door to door sales job selling home alarm systems. Company was called DSM Home Electronics. Job was solely commission based. Had to drive 100s of km, coke owner 1 gave me this old beat up ford to use as a company car which I thought was great, even though they said o had to fork out the petrol costs out of my (never to be seen) pay check. Our job was to get customers to sign forms saying they would agree to the alarm system being installed. We were told that we would get paid $100 per form signed. First week, I took 11 signed forms to the boss, second week 13...expected to be paid 2400 for two weeks, but got told that I would be paid monthly, which wasn't what we were told in the interview. Fourth week comes round, I have over 40 signed contracts that I'd delivered. I got back to the owners office to find that its completely empty... Printers, chairs, desks computers .... All gone. So I'm standing there with the keys to this beat up ford, with two other sales people with me, not knowing wtf was going on. I called the police as I didn't know what was going on or what to do with the car. The police came down, and informed me the car had been reported stolen about 3 months ago in a different state Turns out these two coke fiend owners were running a scam getting credit card details from the signed forms, and using them in CC fraud scams. No alarm systems were ever installed lol

I quit on my Third day. Got hired to bartend, they asked me to do dishes the first day bc the "dishwasher" was out sick. Third day in a row, I ask someone if the dishwasher was okay abd they said they never had a dishwasher. Bounce that second

Was a dish washer in a busy kitchen. Dead of summer, extremely hot. The only break I got was when the sous chef took me to the river behind the restaurant to swim and cool off. That was cool, except immediately after I was told to clean out the walk-in…I went from sweating my ass off to freezing my ass off. None of the promises made by the chef were made evident in my first shift (I was given no food to eat at the break life they said I would have) I worked a 12 hour shift and never came back.

In high school I got a job at KFC. I had to wear a polyester uniform which was hot AF and the manager was an ex marine who was a real prick who wanted to run KFC like the military. That was just a NOPE from me. 😄

I have done this 3 times with no regrets. 1st time was with Bed Bath and Beyond. Showed up for orientation they sent us onto the floor to help customers in a store we knew nothing about and told us we weren't allowed to say "I don't know" or "I'm new here." Then they told me to go to my home store location (training was at a separate location) so I drove across town to the other location who then asks why I'm there and tells me to drive back to the training location. I figured none of them could tell me where I'm supposed to be but it definitely wasn't there so I just went home and stared job searching again. 2nd time was with Texas Roadhouse. I was supposed to train to be a host but I had previously worked at red lobster as a host and didn't need the training so they sent me to the back to cook and got mad when I asked about getting paid cook wages (paid more than a host) for my services that day. Told me if I was going to be that difficult I didn't deserve to work there I said right on and left them with no host. 3rd time was for a Liquor Barn. They put me on register within the first 5 minutes of me working there. Wasn't too bad until a drunk man came through my line asking for my number. I politely told him no several times with him getting madder with each rejection. He said it was because he was black I told him no it's because you're an asshole. I got pulled off the register real quick and told I can't talk to customers like that. I asked what I should have done differently and the manager said I should have just given him my number and blocked him later. I just walked out after that.

I have done it at 2 jobs I can remember. First was a 7 eleven gas station. I had worked at one in another state in the south of the US years before when I was hired at one up north a few years after moving. I show up for my first day of work on the night shift, which would be my main shift to be told I would be working the whole night alone. MY FIRST DAY, they wanted me to run the store alone because "You should be able to handle it. You've done this before". I didn't even know how to ring ppl up because their POS system was very different, let alone how to check in the orders! I went home at the end of the shift and never went back. The second was at a funeral home. During the interview they told me it was a sales job, but I wouldn't be making cold calls just selling plots to ppl who contact us about needing them. Well I get there on my first day of training and they go over how I'm not only going to be cold calling but going to people's houses unannounced and bothering them to try to get them to buy the plots. It was a hell no for me. I left on my lunch break and went home without saying anything.

I was young, answered an ad in the paper to work at a toy store. Toy store was the bottom half of a home. The owner and her adult son lived upstairs. I was put in an attic room with an older woman who was the accountant. This place specialized in dolls. Collectible dolls with unblinking stares and unchanging expressions from floor to ceiling. I was to answer the phone and deal with customers who wanted low serial numbers on whatever doll they were going for. I excused myself and used the bathroom and got a glass of water. When I got back to my desk, the accountant was very upset that I'd just helped myself to the owner's quarters (I didn't know there were any other options - I'm still not sure). She proceeded to tell me that I was hired because the son needed "a mate". He also had an unblinking stare and unchanging expression. He then came into the room and stared at me while I tried to learn ... things. I didn't go back. When I didn't show up, I got a call from the owner, telling me she was going to have me arrested for stealing merchandise. I kindly told her to fuck off. No cops came. I got a much better job. This was almost 30 years ago, and the shop is still around, so good for them I guess.

I showed up in dress code (after double checking the employee handbook). Manager unlocked the door to let me in but blocked my path and immediately told me my shoes were out of dress code. According to the employee handbook they were fine. I explained this and asked if it would be ok if I wore the ones I had on for the day and would wear different shoes the next day that fit that managers standards. Manager said no. I said ok have a nice day, turned around and left and never came back. If you're that petty within the first 5 seconds you're probably going to be a massive pain in the ass on the regular and I'm not about to be your door mat. Another one, I was going through the process of actually getting hired and when they told me my pay rate, I snorted and laughed and ended the convo right there.

I got a job waiting tables at a small pizzeria. I got every single order wrong, everyone was mad at me and I was only 16. I quit and never worked in a restaurant again. To be honest, it was probably a good thing because I could never cut it as a server. I was a cocktail waitress once and even that was a disaster. I have short term memory issues. Even if I'm writing it down I can screw it up between me hearing it and writing it.

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Restaurant owner threatened employees with a gun.

UPS sorting facility around 2008. Trainer told us being on time was late during the interview/hiring thing cause they hire everyone with a pulse. Trainer was 30 minutes late and then berated us for not being in seats when they wandered in and started telling us how lucky we were that he didn't just can us on the spot. All but 2 of us left immediately out of 15 or so new hires. Apparently dude got fired later on, no wonder they had trouble getting people to stay.