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When I was broke in college I met a dude who was a cashier/clerk at a porno store, and I kinda envied him because it sounded like a really easy job that paid like a couple bucks over the hourly minimum wage. Then he mumbled something about having to "clean up" the video booths and how it was the only downside of the job, and suddenly I didn't envy him so much.
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If someone is sufficiently vague enough idk how anyone finds out an NDA got broken
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Aug 15, 2014 22:13
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I traveled around the country selling magazines door to door. If you didn't make your sales goal you weren't allowed to sleep in the hotel that night. It was two rooms, one for the girls and one for the boys so odds are you weren't getting a bed either way. You got a little bit of the money you made every day, but not enough to go anywhere.They paid for all our rooms and food. We did have fun though, we drank and all got along it was a family and we learned to be great sales people. I got arrested sneaking onto an army base in biloxi to sell magazines and I think I still have a bench warrant for failure to appear. It was def. my worst job. I only lasted like 3 days in a call center though.
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Aug 15, 2014 22:26
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where did you sleep if you werent allowed to sleep in the hotel
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Aug 15, 2014 22:30
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working at the isis call center
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Aug 15, 2014 22:47
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baw posted:where did you sleep if you werent allowed to sleep in the hotel your mom's bed
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Aug 15, 2014 22:54
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LargeHadron posted:your mom's bed Hahahaha nice
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Aug 15, 2014 22:54
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haha wow. i did NOT see that one coming, lol
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Aug 15, 2014 22:55
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I spent most of my early 20's working help desk for various regional ISP's. One of them was on ok gig, was the Senior support tech, got paid $13 an hour and made 10% commission on all the service work i did. Even had a secretary for a short period who would occasionally suck my dick on lunch breaks because she thought i was a manger. The worst one though, i made $8.50 an hour. Now if i was just answering phone calls that wouldn't have been bad, but i was doing onsite service calls, fixing computers, and installing high end business class circuits ( T1s, T3s, SDSL, etc ). I saw no extra pay for any of these, but the boss liked to tell us if we did the most money in service work for the pay period, we would get the 32 hour shift for the next pay period. This guy was a real piece of poo poo. He would tell us that during our down time we should audit the failed login on the email and radius servers and call customers to help them out ( this was super loving creepy and really pissed customers off ). He would also make us come do yard work for him on the weekends.
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Aug 15, 2014 23:07
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Yeah, I've thought about it but I've been too lazy to track down any of my old supervisors to make sure I can make some of the stuff public. I signed more than one NDA while working there thanks to a couple really litigious clients. The shipping container story probably isn't kosher, for instance. unless your brain is fried from radioactive rat waste you can probably change the names of corporations to Acme and your bosses to "John Smith" or w/e
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Aug 16, 2014 00:14
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I've had a few lovely jobs, but the best stories were from staples when I was ~18. I was hired as an "easytech" pc tech. Since no one ever came in to a loving staples to get their computer fixed, I was basically a printer saleman and warehouse unloader dude. They would always make us grab these huge rear end printers and poo poo from the top decks of the warehouse shelving with lovely little ladders after making us watch safety videos showing how we needed to use special hoist ladders. I actually called osha on them because some dude DIED at a staples 20 miles away from mine from falling off one of the lovely ladders. We actually got the new ladders but I was transferred to anohter store right after that poo poo. The new store was great because I worked with a bunch of white trash kids - two ~18-20 year old girls with 5+ year old kids, a 20 year old girl in 10th grade, etc. I remember this one girl and her boyfriend got hired and they would just constantly get in arguments in the store. This girl came up to me one day and told me she was pregnant but didn't tell anyone else including boyfriend who kept getting mad at her asking why she didn't want any newports. A week or two goes by and she comes out to have a smoke break with me and I was like woah maybe you shouldn't, but she just winks and goes "oh I took care of the problem". She was super cute and got lunch with me all the time so that was cool I guess? Overall it was just awful because the store didnt even loving have internet, so I had to leech the panera wifi from next door just to fix pc's and download updates, but we only got in about 1 PC a week so whatever I guess. Swapping out price labels for an entire store worth of shelves is pretty mind numbing after a few weeks, there's gotta be a better way. The managers were all absolutely soulless sad husks of humanity, who were glorified babysitters to the constantly roatating crop of useless young employees. I used to love spouting as much bullshit as humanly possible to sell PC's and printers, I made it a game to never say a single factual statement when selling someone another portable DVD player, $75 2ml print cartidge or whatever the gently caress. Also worked at circuit city before that which was pretty bad but somehow not nearly as depressing as staples for some reason. Worst overall job was the state tax department, I don't even want to get in to that poo poo it makes me so angry, literally shaking etc.
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Aug 16, 2014 00:38
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Don Tacorleone posted:unless your brain is fried from radioactive rat waste you can probably change the names of corporations to Acme and your bosses to "John Smith" or w/e Several of the scenarios are pretty unique. Those are the only ones I'm worried about. Even my dog, who has like half a functioning neuron, could do internet detective work and figure out who was involved.
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Aug 17, 2014 17:03
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Just gotta change the chemicals involved and write a whole book
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Aug 17, 2014 17:14
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Support Worker for young adults with severe autism. I have a nice scar on my arm from one of them biting me pretty hard. Lasted about 2 years but it was physically and emotionally exhausting.
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Aug 17, 2014 17:15
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Supernorn posted:Support Worker for young adults with severe autism. I have a nice scar on my arm from one of them biting me pretty hard. Lasted about 2 years but it was physically and emotionally exhausting.
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Aug 17, 2014 19:36
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It's my job to sort all the "i'm gay" posts into two piles; actual homosexuals on the left and just ironic meme-users on the right There is only one actual pile (the left one)
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Aug 17, 2014 19:50
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Supernorn posted:Support Worker for young adults with severe autism. I have a nice scar on my arm from one of them biting me pretty hard. Lasted about 2 years but it was physically and emotionally exhausting. I also did this job and left when I realized a single punch to the throat from one of them wasn't worth the barely-above-minimum wage
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Aug 17, 2014 19:51
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naem posted:I was a stockboy at a target one summer during college. A truck would pull up and this huge fat woman would scream her rear end off at 12 grown men and would literally shove you to get you to move faster. We had to put things on carts and run out to the store and shelf them in about a 1/2 hour before opening. so you made a mess out of a dangerous situation so a fat lady could yell at a bunch of 20 somethings and potentially fire them for doing a bad job?
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Aug 17, 2014 20:10
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Retail at sears. The dressing rooms were filled with pube shavings, poo poo, and piss. About 3 -4 days a week. Also someone smeared poo poo all over the men's bathroom walls once.
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Aug 17, 2014 20:23
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Al Borland posted:Retail at sears. The dressing rooms were filled with pube shavings, poo poo, and piss. About 3 -4 days a week. Hmm, I have pretty good idea who that someone was.
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Aug 17, 2014 20:28
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Worked in a call centre. People are hell. Telling people they've been the victims of fraud but because they didn't protect their PIN they're liable for vast charges of fraudulent spend is lovely and I never want to do it again. Too many goddamn people crying over the phone.
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Aug 17, 2014 20:30
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yes i'm sure that was very tough for you
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Aug 17, 2014 20:35
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Hogge Wild posted:Hmm, I have pretty good idea who that someone was. Shhhhh. I had to create work for myself somehow.
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Aug 17, 2014 20:37
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Innerguard posted:Worked in a call centre. People are hell. Telling people they've been the victims of fraud but because they didn't protect their PIN they're liable for vast charges of fraudulent spend is lovely and I never want to do it again. Too many goddamn people crying over the phone. that sounds pretty awful. How exactly does one protect their PIN?
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Aug 17, 2014 20:38
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Al Borland posted:that sounds pretty awful. How exactly does one protect their PIN? don't tell people your pin, no birthdays, tell the person reading over your shoulder at the atm to gently caress off really the big one is no birthdays
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Aug 17, 2014 20:39
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Robo Reagan posted:don't tell people your pin, no birthdays, tell the person reading over your shoulder at the atm to gently caress off Makes enough sense.
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Aug 17, 2014 20:41
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Al Borland posted:Makes enough sense. Don't write it down and carry it with you in your wallet / purse / whatever. I know the theft is obviously traumatic and much worse for the person being the victim, obviously, but goddamn. It was heart wrenching to have to tell people they were going to have to pay for it.
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Aug 17, 2014 20:44
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My first job was making potatoes at McAllister's Deli. It paid 8 dollars an hour and I was the only english speaker in the kitchen. I thought I was loving rich and bought tons of stuff from blurofinsanity.com. Worst job was probably running that crossfit gym in india. man what was i thinking.
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Aug 17, 2014 20:46
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FizFashizzle posted:My first job was making potatoes at McAllister's Deli. It paid 8 dollars an hour and I was the only english speaker in the kitchen. I thought I was loving rich and bought tons of stuff from blurofinsanity.com. did they poop every squat? or did your gym get raped?
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Aug 17, 2014 20:47
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Zzulu posted:Afghanistan more like afGAYnistan lol thats not a pun. its true to life. afghanis hate women and love to dress up little boys in dresses to gently caress
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Aug 17, 2014 20:50
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dontcareaboutname posted:did they poop every squat? or did your gym get raped? It was right next to a construction site, and workers live on site in like 10x10 foot tents made from whatever. whole families without water, sewage, power, etc. they would poo poo in plain view across the street. I stopped having members run because the workers would masturbate when women ran by. They burned trash every morning so it smelled like burning cardboard. People would come to us begging for water. it was p bad man.
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Aug 17, 2014 20:50
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Quickscope420dad posted:I also did this job and left when I realized a single punch to the throat from one of them wasn't worth the barely-above-minimum wage Yeah, I had to make my own way to the hospital because there was nobody available to take me. That's when I knew they didn't give a poo poo about the employee as long as the resident was okay. Also the pay was insultingly bad, and they wondered why their turnover was so high.
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Aug 17, 2014 21:10
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FizFashizzle posted:It was right next to a construction site, and workers live on site in like 10x10 foot tents made from whatever. whole families without water, sewage, power, etc. Wait what Can you make an ask/tell thread tia
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Aug 17, 2014 21:31
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I hosed your mom once. I lasted two days.
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Aug 17, 2014 21:33
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Christoff posted:Wait what There's a huge thread in the log cabin. Curry, curds and crossfit
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Worst one was a call center, obviously. Selling solar panels. We had one girl who was talking a bit and being cheery-- the bitch supervisor took her into her office and fired her right there. I just chit-chat with one of the other dudes there and left, then never showed up for my second day. Never even went back to collect my pay from that one day. Just straight-up wrote it off. But call centers are cheating. Second Worst would probably have to be a tie. The first was working "security" on city-area film sets for a Disney movie-- I had to just sit around various sets at night and make sure no one was loving around on them, which was a bitch since I was also working during the day. You'd think "well why not just sleep it off then?" and I did eventually pass out one or two nights but was summarily found by one of the higher-ups who proceeded to give me poo poo, although for some reason I wasn't formally fired; they just stopped calling me and by that time I had the other worst job. The other worst job was as an admin assistant for a middle management company whose job it was to check out the background credentials of MDs applying for hospital jobs and making sure they weren't lying on their CVs or Resumes. If you think you know what it's like to feel like a peasant piece of poo poo, try having to pore over packet after packet of high-earning high-achieving intellectual heavyweights who seem to have accomplished more by 21 than you will have by 40. I lasted about a month there before I quit, the rigid routine of workflow finally just broke me down, especially since I was barely making enough to cover my utilities.
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Aug 17, 2014 23:01
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Shonuff posted:When I was broke in college I met a dude who was a cashier/clerk at a porno store, and I kinda envied him because it sounded like a really easy job that paid like a couple bucks over the hourly minimum wage. I worked security at a porno theatre and it was a p sweet job. I spent all day talking poo poo to the clerks and the girls who worked there and got to push guys around if they got rowdy and the 'cleaning up' at the end of the shift involved half-heartedly pushing a mop around and emptying the wastepaper baskets in each of the booths which really isn't that gross when you've got gloves and proper protective gear to wear. Sometimes a hobo would come in and poo poo all over a booth or a junkie would come in and bleed all over everything but we had a specialist cleaning crew who we could call to deal with that sort of poo poo. When I was in college I worked as a bar-back and had to clean up the toilets when someone puked in them and, honestly, cleaning spew chunks out of a urinal with a slotted spoon in a hot, sweaty nightclub toilet is way worse than mopping a bit of jizz off the floor of a porno video booth.
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Supernorn posted:Yeah, I had to make my own way to the hospital because there was nobody available to take me. That's when I knew they didn't give a poo poo about the employee as long as the resident was okay. Also the pay was insultingly bad, and they wondered why their turnover was so high. Lol sounds like we worked at the same place TEACCH & PROACT SCIP?
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I wish to read more about Indians making GBS threads around Crossfit boxes, but within the Safe confines of gbs
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