Super Fun Job Discussing Thread of Corporate Excitement - General

Always try and give service workers the best I can. Having bussed and done dishwasher for a while, I always stack my plates/things the way the server would...and they come over to ask how everything is and half the time they're just like "oh, woah, holy shit" ....like it never gets done for them? I don't know, I like making it easy on you guys because I've been there and I've been with some shitty people.

I always try to do the same, but having never worked in these fields I'm a bit clueless as to how I can be helpful in that regard. Do you have any pointers/advice? I'm interested. The same goes for cashiers, I never know how I should organize my groceries on the conveyor for convenience. I mostly put identical items together and sort by type so I can easily put things in the fridge/pantry accordingly later, but I don't know if that's actually practical for them.

Honestly, the minutia like stacking your groceries, pushing in your chair, etc isn't what's crushing about it. I just have days where I just don't feel like I'm even seen as a human being. Just acknowledge the person you're dealing with. Please, thanks, and eye contact if you're comfortable with it. Literally all it takes, tangibly reduces that daily emotional attrition. Don't be on your phone, and please, please interrupt whatever conversation you're having when you're ordering something from a server or at a counter service joint. Service staff are trapped and have to pretend to be nice to you. Don't take advantage of that power dynamic. Be a regular, be a homie, and you'll get rewarded for it. Worth noting that a job's a job but there's a flow to bar/cafe/restaurant culture unique to the US, along with expectations about what you're owed as a "customer" and values regarding work that different in Europe that make it extra shitty here. Menus in the US are bloated with bygone fads and only ever grow to accommodate them further. Usually this involves borrowing an idea from an actual culture, increasing the portion size, ruining it in some way and then taking it too seriously. Craft coffee/cocktail/whatever bullshit is extra trendy right now and the more fucking pretentious it is the more they ask of their workers without adjusting pay and dumber the customers are. And I have a decent quality of life only thanks to tips that I have to get on my knees and kiss their asses for. At least where I am right now, it's either this bullshit or starve. I've spent a good amount of time in France and Italy and I've never seen someone walk into a cafe and spend three minutes looking at the menu trying to decipher what fucking hemisphere they're in that day.

I get that lol Management isn't so bad though, if you can deal with the massive amount of bullshit that comes with it I work for one of those "new companies with beer taps and open floor plans and huge benefit packages" :v:

Really for being helpful...I just stack like plates, and try and put all leftovers on the top plate with the silverware, that way they can dump it right in the trash and throw it in the dishwasher. Sucks when you don't have an automatic one and kind of just makes more work. Napkins and shit I'll usually throw into an empty glass so they don't have to touch used ones, and can just dump it. and @Ham , yeah, I know how you feel. A lot of people are all "just bring me my food" and shit, and they're total assholes. Usually (and I do this to other service workers too and they always do a double take lol) is when they ask how I am, I ask how they are. Just a tiny little bit of connection, but to some people it makes em' feel a little better. Many thank yous and if they ever apologize for anything I'm like lol no don't apologize, you're good. I'll compromise with like, "Oh, sorry I got your order wrong" or whatever or like, if I get something I didn't order I'll probably eat it, because hey, it's food, someone made it to eat and I'm not a whiny bitch. Same if I find like, a hair in my food, it's just....a hair. I'm not gonna die. I mean obviously I'll remove the hair but I don't care that much, lol. It happens.

After having worked the trifecta of shitty jobs (retail, service and call-centre) I lucked out and got a government job. Start in close to three weeks and so I'm just chilling until then. Never gonna forget how shitty it is slaving for peanuts though, hope to remain thankful.

I now have 3 jobs, Photographer, chef, and Abacus teacher. I have a home studio, but with photography, you never have a fixed job unless you work for a company, and I am my own boss. Because I usually get alot of free time in between shoots, I work part time as a chef in a semi fine dining/grill restaurant. Previously was a travel photographer, and it was really good to be paid on top of getting to travel and visit places around the world for free. But it got too boring seeing how lucrative the travel industry is today. Plus I like to do more portrait and fashion now. And with whatever leftover free time, I work from home, teaching Abacus for my mum's tuition. I get paid more than university graduates, so I can say that I have a very comfy life at the moment. I don't save alot because I spend most of it on developing new dishes at home for food shoots, fashion shoots, photography equipment, props and kitchen stuff. I live from home so its not an issue for me when it comes to rent. I also don't have a girlfriend, and I only go out with friends once in a while so I don't spend too much. I'm pretty happy I get paid well, but I still feel like I want to get a degree, because I feel like I miss out not going to Uni. Here's my site if you're interested. https://www.bangphotography.net/

Working retail on the side, was studying Graphic Design up until last week when a few sessions with a therapist made me realize I wasn't really interested by it and it explained why I was stressing out. Just had the idea to apply for the Canadian Armed Forces because honestly I just can't get that idea out of my head. Is the military chat thread dead or is it still going around?

Those are some pretty photos.

I work for a boss that my ex-co-worker described as "human monster" I work for a company owned by a non-Finnish couple and we offer interpretation services to a pretty large customer base ranging from social and health services to police, border patrol, lawyers and district courts and whoever happens to need my interpreters, mostly arabic, somali, dari and farsi just to name some examples. I work with people who speak languages you don't even know exist. Like 90% of the money ultimately comes from the government budget, and my bosses sure want to squeeze every last pen they can get through this somewhat ambitious, yet somewhat scummy and shady business they have developed at the same time - and it works, but it's stressful as fuck not only for our bosses (I've noticed) but for workers like me (only 4 of us.) While most of the business happens during normal work hours, we offer this service around the clock, every day of the year and we workers have to keep this thing running, not the bosses. More on that later. A very common way doing interpretation work is through phone, but I also send interpreters on missions around the capital-area and beyond, it's like commanding an army of somalis. So basically, you can call our company at any time, let's say you are a police or a nurse, you get an acute case, and you need someone who speaks somali on the phone asap because a somali-speaking customer just walked in on you. You call us, we'll just get some info (like billing address) and we get right to it, and we'll provide you the contact information of some more-or-less professional somali on the phone for just a minimum of $34 + VAT 24% for every 30 minutes of interpretation. How you spend this time is up to you, as long as you pay. Now what could be so bad about this? It's almost like a call-center, except you don't have sell anything. You get to speak (and also meet&joke for a minute) with so many different types of people. For a customer-service based job, it's actually kind of cool. You get to hear what kind of crime investigation a police needs an interpreter for, from drug investigation to illegal immigration etc. You also get to read district court subpoenas which are pretty interesting and nasty sometimes. And you get to speak to cute-sounding court secretaries and nurses. I've had tons of customers who have been happy at extremely fast service that we, and I am able to provide. For example, a woman border patrol agent called up one time and I was like what you need. Said she specifically needed a female interpreter who speaks turkish and persia (and Finnish obviously) ASAP on the phone for 2 hours regarding some investigation, and I knew exactly who to call (my fave somayah) and I was like I got you niggas, and I got her just that, and I got it fast. She was happy and impressed, I could hear it from her voice. There are these moments that make you feel good, but then you got bosses who want to remind you they are the boss and whine about some completely irrelevant bullshit to make you feel bad. Also that price for 30 minutes of interpretation ($34 + VAT 24%) is only going to make about $12 for the average interpreter, the rest goes p. much straight into my bosses pockets. And if you call us between 22:00-07:00 then the price of 30 mins is $34 + 100% + VAT 24%. Guess how much more the interpreter is going to make during these hours? Absolutely none. Many times an interpreter asks me "Am I going to get paid more for doing this work at 3AM?" and I'm like "Nope, it's the same. Take it or leave it." and then they usually take it, just woken up by me, at 3 fucking AM. Tiniest mistakes, saying a single wrong word to a customer or an interpreter, even conveying an idea that the bosses don't want to be conveyed to anyone, is sure to guarantee a scolding immediately. They monitor and listen to us (but they don't really admit it) and if you are late from a break for even 1 minute you might get a scolding too. We got a 30-min break sharp every day, so we work non-stop for 7.5 hours a day and if the bosses sense some slacking then they'll start making angry phone calls to us. Using wrong interpreters will surely guarantee a scolding, and while I don't want to use bad interpreters, my bosses simply don't like some of them for no reason. Usually there is a reason, but they can be discriminating in their own ways. Also befriending interpreters or even co-workers is bad, because apparently this can create the possibility of conspiracy against the bosses. They are cheap and they are paranoid. One time I went for a smoke with some pretty chill somali dude (which my bosses said not to do anymore after that single time.) I asked the somali how he feels about the job and he was like it's cool but more money would be nice. I said be patient, don't ask for a raise just yet. So the poor fucker went on and asked for a rise too soon and he got deactivated immediately and we were told never to call that guy again. I was thinking to myself like "Fuck.. why did I give him that idea.." - now I have just learned to try and avoid even the possibility of a raise coming up as a subject with any interpreter. Now more on that 24/7 thing. Every week, one of us has to be the unlucky one who is on "duty-call" - which means that they get a work phone and a work laptop with them outside of normal business hours, because frankly we get calls and orders at unusual times too. It's important to have that, because there may always be acute illnesses and obstacles regarding interpreters and then we have to react and not just leave our customers in the cold next day. However, we get paid $1.20 per hour outside of business hours. This doesn't mean that there is work to do constantly over the night and over the weekend, no no, so we get $1.20 every hour we sleep or jack off, but it's still quite little - or what do you think is the price of being on-demand, where you have to answer the phone even at 3AM (better wake up) or while showering? Certainly no partying that weekend. But it comes with interesting moments, for example I have smoked a joint while talking to police officers on the phone and offered them good service on really quick notice on weekends countless of times. What else.. what else.. Well, the work laptop is absolutely terrible, they sometimes trick/scam the interpreters for mistakes on our part and they don't even pay for our coffee. Fucking imagine that. Not even the coffee. Oh and, we've had about 15 workers who have started and soon after quit for various reasons, mostly because they just can't handle it. We used to have a core group of 5 people (me and 4 nice girls) and we saw so many people try the job and then quit soon after, and we were like "Pfft, could see that coming from miles away." We used to go for afterwork beers and some dinners as a group and despite our bosses listening and monitoring us, we would throw around some really dirty jokes and talk openly about dirty stuff like dating and sex life and all kinds of shit while working together in the small office, meeting the demand of hundreds of customers in need. But now, just a month ago, the last remaining girl of this "core group" quit, leaving me as the most experienced - and the most exhausted - worker remaining. I literally cried after I got home. Not like crying, but just a two-minute cry, you know? I don't know why I went on and shared so much about my job. I could go on and on with some certain bad days and bad stories, but I can't keep typing forever now. There you have it - a job that I HATE and LOVE at the same time.

Damn, man. That's rough. Shitty bosses are the worst. I just got a new supervisor at my job a few months ago and she's really nice and thoughtful. The previous one basically never worked with it and while at least he left us alone it made us feel like the store would go down the shitter eventually. Thankfully my new supervisor works with us 5 days a week and she's been fighting hard to get us the supplies that we need. Honestly nice coworkers and nice bosses can make even the shitties job enjoyable and vice-versa.

That's a really interesting read, thanks for sharing.

Out of curiosity, for those working a government job, what specifically do you do? Does it ever get boring?

i did an internship with the DoD for one summer related to computer networks, it was kinda cool. didn't get to do too much since i was just a student trainee. sometimes they didn't have work for me to do. the pay was kinda shit tho, but i expect that from public service. i got to travel for a bit too i work for a government contractor now, and i enjoy it a lot more, plus i get hella paid

I use to work on a production line, one Saturday my uncle asked if I could help lay sod since he was short on help. I agreed and spent 6 hours laying sod in 102 degree heat and I gotta say I my best day at that production never come close to how happy I was laying sod. Production lines kill your humanity, some days I would lay in bed and weep that I had to work there. So I had enough quit that job and got a job at my uncle landscape company. To this day I'm the happiest I've ever been with a job.

Working for IHOP in the middle of buttfuck nowhere North Carolina at night is probably the worst fucking thing i'll ever do. So basically most nights you'd walk out after working 6PM-2AM making 20 dollars in tips, and getting nagged at by bitchy female coworkers who refuse to close or do any work themselves. Oh did I mention the cooks are almost always high, making them fuck up orders and lower our tips even more. IHOP night shift fucking sucks. Oh and don't get me started on the hordes of Mexicans who roll in just before closing. Loads of Mexicans. Not being racist, that's all that comes in late at night. Party of 9? Gee I wonder what they'll leave. Oh that's right, 9 dollars for fucking bitchy needy customers who complain that their food took too long because of high cooks, or we didn't have the right hot sauce and go up looking for a refund when they decide "hey I don't have enough money to pay, let alone tip". Fuck that shit.

I got a new job after I had my first job for like nearly 6 years. I didn't super like the place and it got worse over time. Constantly short staffed. Constantly over analyzed our work when the work was just fine. But my new job is really great, everyone there is nice and chill. My boss/2nd in command has never said anything bad about my work, and I've even gotten compliments. Plus I will eventually get paid time off, which is great because I could almost never get a day off at my old job. Plus my boss came to me a few days ago and he said I'm the prime candidate to take over for someone leaving in december at another location. Same job but I'll be alone instead of with people. I'm only concerned that I'll get less hours. tl;dr: I took a big leap of faith and landed in a good job. Even if it doesn't really pay enough to live off of.

I weld aluminum boats at the 3rd largest aluminum boat business in the United States. It's some good work with great benefits like a whole week off for Thanksgiving, two for Christmas, and one for the 4th of July week all paid for plus holiday overtime pay. Workers are a bunch of good ol' country boys but they aren't completely retarded so that's nice. I don't think it's going to be a good place for the long-term but I've learned a lot already being there and appreciate it nonetheless.

I work for a space company. I actually just had a payload launch to the ISS for use by astronauts this past weekend. I've worked on numerous NASA research contracts relating to in-space manufacturing technologies, helping secure the potential for humanity to have a long term presence in outer space or on other planets. But it fucking sucks and I'm leaving. I've recently been moved to a contract that I can't even really talk about but it suffices to say it's not for NASA, and it's something I morally object to. I'm tremendously overworked and underpaid. I make 60% of what I could be making in my area (Seattle), and I've already managed to almost double my salary this year alone (last September I was barely able to pay rent on a place I split three ways). They have me writing an entire simulation engine - something literally damn near the scale of a commercial product like STK (or similar in scale to a regular game engine) alone. I've requested the hiring of another software engineer multiple times, but that's not happening lol. The culture is toxic and my CEO regularly bypasses my managers to give me requirements to generate visualizations or data products for the customer the day before it's due, which is a mountain of stress. He's also disrepected and shat on my work in front of customers and a large chunk of the company, with me present. It all sucks. It's been a real bummer, as this started out as a dream job but those jobs kinda died right quick. I keep trying to interview places, and I should be getting jobs. I'm damn good at what I do, but mostly only cus I work on it my free time too and am always trying to get better. I almost got hired at a big tech company here - they said my answers to the verbal questions in interviews were "literally among the best we've ever had". But, I struggled in the coding portions - which all tested me on stuff I would've learned in uni. If I had a degree and hadn't dropped out out of necessity. I studied for my interviews, but the material they asked me about was completely different than the material they said I should study (also, it was for a graphics position and they asked me embedded low-level C questions lol). So they told me to come back in a few months and try again (how much fucking growth do they think I can do by January?? why not just give me the onsite and see how I do in-person instead of over the phone? its frustrating as fuck) I have one more interview next week the day before I leave for vacation but holy fuck I gotta get out of this current job. I was so burnt out last week and exhausted to the bone that I got home and laid down on my marble floor for twenty minutes, then had a weird like anxiety attack where I got all shaky and felt violently ill. I took the end of that week off and tried to use a long week to relax, but god I'm fighting back what feels like severe burnout and it sucks. I dunno how I'll make it another few months, so I've just been applying everywhere I can

Something I posted in WAYT. I volunteered to work at a different post office three hours away and said I'd be willing to work there from last Tuesday through the day before Thanksgiving. I knew it was going to be bad but this was a shit-show. When I was given the LLV (that mail truck you see everywhere) for my route I discovered they left a jump seat in the back (Used either by a trainee for on-the-job training or a supervisor for inspecting a route) It took up a lot of room and couldn't be removed by myself since it was bolted to the floor. I asked the manager for someone to remove it and he said it would be done by the next day. It wasn't. Also I was working more than I ever had in Concord. The first day wasn't too bad; it was a bit over 9 hours. Second day: 10 hours. Third: 11. On the forth day due to a storm the Amazon packages we were supposed to deliver didn't arrive. Although we'd be delivering double the Amazon packages the next day, this day's deliveries should be simple and quicker than even the first day. I was working over twelve hours. This, along with the toxic attitude of the workers, the fact that another person who volunteered to help deliver mail actually couldn't because union, and the jump seat that stayed in the back of the vehicle for those four days, did me in. When I was done working that day I told them that I give up and I was headed back home for good. So instead of the nine days I was supposed to work out of town, it was only four.

People computer no work, me walk to computer and fix.