I applied for a warehouse job and the interviewer loved me and my resume and said I was hired, I just had to fill out a basic literacy test. I was studying at university so it was a silly thing to ask but he said it’s just a formality; they have to do it.
One question said “describe yourself in three sentences”. I wrote something like “I am very punctual. I enjoy stacking boxes. I’m a self starter. I always do more than asked.” Get it? It’s four sentences but they asked for three. The fourth one being about doing more than asked. Funny right?? Yeah the interviewer called me back saying head office didn’t find it funny and I was disqualified for failing the literacy test.
I figured I dodged a bullet because it must suck to work for a bunch of people without a sense of humour!
Maybe writing two sentences would have been more than asked, since it would have been more concise. Who knows. I’m sorry that happened to you.
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Those people would have also fired you for failing the question because you weren’t fired, you just weren’t hired. I wouldn’t necessarily expect them to have a sense of humor but they’re basically saying you’re illiterate because you can write 4 sentences instead of 3, instead of just being honest about the fact that they’re gonna micromanage you and they can already see it won’t work out because you don’t follow stupid rules to the letter.
I shit all over the manager (figuratively) in front of everybody after one of their outbursts.
Full disclosure: This was at a fast food restaurant I applied for a job at with the intent of fucking with 2 of the shittiest managers I’ve ever witnessed after stopping for a burger one time. Did it on a whim and it was quite a bit of fun. 10/10, would recommend. Plus, I got paid to do it.
What does this mean, to figuratively shit all over someone? Like jumping on the counter and acting it out?
If you’re seriously asking, it means to show superiority.
I was serious, I’ve never heard it used in…that way is all.
So they said they are the better boss?
It’s more “showing them who the boss is”
I’m so disappointed in the fact that you didn’t literally shit over the manager. My disappointment is immesurable, and my day is ruined. (But the manager’s dignity would’ve been ruined if you did shit over him/her.)
I refused to return to office.
A hero
lol
I might be about to get fired for that one too lol
I told my boss that I was going to have to reduce my hours back to weekends only because college was starting back up again which meant I couldn’t do week day shifts, so they put me down for two mid week shifts and didn’t tell me about them, then they used that as an excuse to fire me.
I had several bosses like that until my favorite boss of all time. We worked retail in a college town and so she expected this. Every semester she would sit us down and have us write out our availability for the new semester, and then she would give us all set schedules. It made everyone’s lives so easy.
Managers like yours are just lazy and can’t plan ahead, it’s such an avoidable problem if you plan just the tiniest bit
I’m not a lawyer, but that sounds like classic “constructive dismissal”, which qualifies for unemployment in most states. Of course, you’d have to fight for it, which as a college student, would’ve probably been too expensive and time-consuming. Sorry about the shit boss.
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I’m in the UK and it was a dodgy cash in hand job at a chippy with no actual contract, so I didn’t really have any way to fight against it if I had wanted to keep the job anyway.
Even if I had a way to fight against it I was technically too young for the job and my car didn’t have the right insurance to do it because of that so I didn’t want any extra attention. I got through the college year and got decent grades though so it all worked out alright in the end.
I had a panic attack at work and a coworker heard me cursing through tears.
In fairness, I’m sure hearing variations on “fuck damn ass piss shit fuck fuck” over and over was annoying.
Man, fuck that coworker. I’m sorry that happened to you.
🥰 I got a better paying job after that - only downside is the commute.
I finally made a vague comment pushing back against my boss’s fucking unhinged conspiracy theories and shitty beliefs after being forced to hear him spout it for nearly a year.
“Wow, Wayne. I thought you were against the government regulating what people should do with their bodies. Huh… but okay.”
He turned purple, didn’t talk to me for the rest of the day, and never put me on the schedule after that.
Their entire business closed down a few months ago. I feel bad for were the ladies working there & my one co-worker. They were all part of the same church/religion, and they all basically cowered before Wayne. Wayne was an asshole who treated them all terribly. He was just mad that I didn’t let him treat me the same way.
They also didn’t want to give me more than 18 hours per week or raise my pay up from 12$ an hour for the highly specialized job I was doing.
Good riddance, Wayne.
Took too much unlimited PTO. All of it approved too. Idk.
The unwritten rule of unlimited PTO is like 2 weeks max but you’re gonna get the side eye if you even take that much. It’s just a scam because most people use less when it’s ‘unlimited’ and because depending on local laws they may have to pay you out for it in the event of separation of employment if it’s accrued.
I have a company that truly does mean unlimited PTO (with some rules of like okay come on don’t take 2 months off in a row or something crazy regularly), but I admit that is not the norm
Sounds like you work for a unicorn!
Oh I do, and it’s failing! Because of course it is! I expect them to be out of business within the year. (Currently job hunting and no matter what it’s going to be a step backwards back into corpo America)
You mind sharing what they do? It’s a bummer they’re failing, there need to be more companies that try new things like unlimited pto. I’d love to just go on a hike spontaneously without having to feel bad
The head of the chemistry dept didnt like me and my boss got sick of being told that it was illegal to have the hazardous waste on site more than a year and that the hazardous waste company should probably be sent out to deal with it so they compiled a list of things about me that annoyed them (nitpicking) until they were satisfied that they could fire me without consequence.
I got unemployment and wanted to leave for another job anyway so the joke is on them.
I have a bad case of Resting Bitch Face and I got fired from my barista job at Starbucks for not smiling enough and because I apparently “always looked like I wasn’t enjoying myself” while at work.
My “default” settings face just looks serious, sorry, I can’t help it.
In high school I worked in a call center doing telemarket research. They would monitor phone calls and your typing and grade you on if you entered stuff verbatim. I’d get in trouble a lot for using contractions when the person didn’t and small stuff like that. I’m sure there was some reason for needing to be precise but it was never explained. Oh well. I put up with it because it paid well 15 bucks an hour when minimum wage was 6 something and hours were 6 to 10 so people could work it as a second job.
Anyway it was senior year and I had a lot going on. Internship from 6am to 10am. School from 11am to 3pm then work 6pm to 10pm. Well I ended up getting some really nasty flu or something in February and my internship gave me the week I was sick off and the week after since we worked with primates and I may have been contagious. Work didn’t believe me but I literally had no voice and could only whisper, no way was I talking on the phone for 4 hours a night. But I begged and pleaded and they let me come back a few weeks later.
Well a week or two after getting better my grandfather ended up passing away. I just needed my Friday and Saturday shifts off at work and internship to drive up for the funeral. My internship gave me the week off anyways. The bosses at work called me in and told me they didn’t believe me thought I’d been lying about everything the past few months and told me to shape up or ship out. I chose to ship out.
They ended up calling me a week later and asking me to come but I’d had enough.
And I quote “I’m going to do you a favor. You’re just too smart. I’m letting you go.” This was like the 3rd day.
I needed a job, any job, so I took a position below my experience level at the time. I wasn’t very happy about it. Like I said, I needed the job.
The owner was an alcoholic. Her husband sent her to rehab. She came back hating men (both me and her husband). My wife worked for them at the time and we were getting a divorce. She fired me and kept my wife on the payroll
I’ve always managed to leave my career jobs before shit hit the fan, but I did get asked to not come back to one of my college tutoring gigs because I told the kid’s dad I didn’t like the IP phones he had installed on campus.
Company went through my email and saw that I was applying for a job at a different place. Fair enough I guess, dumb move on my part to use company email. I did get the other job though, so it worked out.
Refused to turn up to an unpaid yet compulsory training session while on my probation period. I think I dodged a bullet.
