Sewing in a Sweat Shop
I worked a minimum of 10 hours per day, no overtime, never allowed any breaks except for 20 minute lunch. I had to used my car to do shipping off the clock but there was no money for gas or parking. …
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Crying into My Coffee
"How was it today? Not too many conflicting orders, hostility or confusion? Gooooood. I'm glad" Tip 1: if your hiring manager says this nervously to you at the end of your first training shift -- run…
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The Boss's Son was Stealing from the Company
I arrived a couple days early and called her to let her know. I went by to look at the apartment I would be living in...they were still working on it (just started it actually) It was over the 4th of…
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Driving a Wreck to Deliver Packages
Driving for a cheap contractor, First of all, I was driving a step van that needed front end work. Missing a kingpin to hold the front end assembly on. Trying to drive a vehicle safely down any road…
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Trouble in "Paradise"
1) the fact that the Resort is situated in a VERY SMALL ISLAND of the Caribbean is the first issue. You can tell it is Paradise, but to me that place was the end of the world. Beautiful Dive spots, a…
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I Even Had to Buy My Own Toilet Paper!
My first week, I was expected to know how to do everything from tracking a Porsche he bought on craigslist and got swindled on to burning DVD's of golf videos for his friends. The only upside was tha…
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Cold-Calling Sales Nightmare
I accepted the job offer for Sales Representative for several reasons: I believed it was going to be a Route Sales type of job--sort of like Coca-Cola/Snapple; I knew of the distributor from a previo…
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Apple-Polishers, Micro-Managers and Catty Women
Let me start by saying, I was warned before stepping into this firm. Many of my former coworkers from the last firm were employees fired straight from the one I just quit today, who all told me horro…
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I Kept the Time Card as a Souvenir
i reported "clocked in" at about 10 minutes to midnight and it was still 89 degrees outside. My job started at midnight so I was early enough to get some insight to the operation. I walked into the m…
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Working in the Killing Room at a Kosher Duck Farm
This was my first job that required me to pay taxes on a W2. It was the only job I could find as a 17 year old high school dropout that was in biking distance of my parents home, which allowed me to …
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Expected to Do the Work of Three People at a Failing Company
This was my first job out of college and, like most post grads, I was initially happy to have a job but that quickly devolved when I realized it was nothing but doing support for some of the most awf…
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Asked to Train My Replacement
The enrollment processor that had been training me, although a young woman herself, found out that she was terminally ill. She would only be with the company for a few more months. The idea was, she …
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The Print Shop from Hell
My supervisor was this horrible old lady control freak. I was hired as the shipping and receiving supervisor. My first day she was sent to train me on how to print shipping labels. Mind you, this com…
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Nightmare Job at a Car Rental Agency
1.Upon being hired I heard the first sniper shot from my rental office in Wheaton MD.This was the famous Wash DC sniper case. I knew it was a rifle and close, BOOM, not bang or crack. For 2 weeks I h…
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Companies Aren't What They Seem to Be
I was an assistant manager to a person that was not very reputable as I found out. When I started asking questions about what was going on that didn't seem right I was told it was none of my business…
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