I have been assaulted at work, robbed at knifepoint, and once was dragged down a station platform by a suicidal nutter who "wanted to take someone with me".
The joys of working as a shop manager, and for London Underground.....:D
I have been assaulted at work, robbed at knifepoint, and once was dragged down a station platform by a suicidal nutter who "wanted to take someone with me".
The joys of working as a shop manager, and for London Underground.....:D
Being made redundant. Seems to be a growth culture just now.
I have had it 3 times. Being hustled out of a building with many others is not fun.
Not even a bin-bag. 'Come back next week' for your things.
If you have a job, in these times, no matter how bad, put up with it.
If you like your job then that's a bonus.
I sympathise with you as my father and I have been made redundant and I miss my job a lot. I used to like getting up early in the morning and going to work and feeling that I have accomplished something.
For those in work cherish the fact you are in it as Robin rightly has said.
I've only done voluntary work so nothing apart from having rude customers blame me for the stuff being sold out, other people not turning up etc. Oh and ran a huge recycling bin into my ankle and twisted it the other week, it hurt for days :rolleyes:
I'm surprised by the number of armed robberies and things mentioned in here, I always assume shop work is one of the safest jobs around.
Being made redundant. Seems to be a growth culture just now.
I have had it 3 times. Being hustled out of a building with many others is not fun.
Not even a bin-bag. 'Come back next week' for your things.
If you have a job, in these times, no matter how bad, put up with it.
If you like your job then that's a bonus.
Really? Is that what it's like, I've never had it but always assumed they did it politely like when you left. :eek: Have seen a supervisor be made redundant from where I volunteer, and she was given a month's notice and a leaving party.
our old boss used to fart al the time
one day she was wearing a short skirt and farted and diarrea sprayed all over the floor that stank of fish
the work experience girl we had in puked all over the photocopier when she saw it
the boss went home and this old girl cleaned it all up and the poo had worms in it
My school work experience with a high voltage electrical engineering company, 5 years ago.
On the second day in, I went up to somewhere near Milton Keynes with the boss to activate a substation the company was installing at Honda.
Went into this room where the installation was situated. Coincidentally he told me to get out, just in case anything were to happen. He pressed this button to activate it, and it completely blew up! :eek:
He managed to get out but was quite badly burned! He had to go to hospital and I was stuck at Honda for a few hours.
Scared the shit out of me as well as put me off any career as an electrical engineer in the future!
What is the worse thing to have happened to you at your workplace?
I was asked to do things that I regarded as being highly unethical and unprofessional during the time of the Blair administration so I resigned and walked out - best thing I did.
This post is one of the funniest that I've read in a long time, talk about the domino effect!! Thankfully, nothing this horrible/amusing has ever happened to me, my experiences at work are all totally mundane after reading this.
Thanks for the chuckle, Miss Georgie.
likewise, I laughed so much I had to come back and re bump the thread
One young lad comitted suicide-he was only 19,a few years younger than me at the time-that shook everyone up. I shall never forget the phonecall from a workmate to tell me as it was my day off. The assistant manager had to tell everyone at the end of shift,Im not sure how long he knew for and kept it to himself.
Just being mentally tormented, questioning my ability a lot. A certain teacher who thought she was above me (all teachers do think they're above us [IT Technicians]), continually complaining to my boss saying I was too vague or ignoring her when she asked for something, which I never EVER did and my boss knew that, but I had just recovered from depression and it didn't help me in the slightest. I still think she saw me as weak and purposely chose me to pick on or bully.
Now, I do what the others do and just let her wait, give it her back or completely ignore her. She has her phases, more bad than good and she's ALWAYS complaining, she's one reason I would actually quit my job even though I love it so much.
For two years I had a useless boss who would stroll in at 10 finish at 5.15 (4.15 on a fri) who did NOTHING but be on the phone making personal phone calls.
Team meetings were riots....she used to assert her authority by having a go at everyone. Complaints made....nothing done.
I actually applied for another job...she refused to release me. Nearly walked out..felt like punching her but thought why should I have a minor crinimal covinction under my belt. I was also accused of breaching confidentiality by disclosing a girl who came to cover was writing suicidal notes. I was looking out for her...what if she did something?! It was not client details.
We got a new boss in Sept 2011...brilliant. The old boss got a promotion!
A sample of delights in my current job - several occasions of torrents of verbal abuse, being pulled into a room by a customer and pushed up against a wall (swift knee somewhere resolved that!), being threatened at knife point, twice have had someone climbing over the receptionist desk screaming that they would kill me whilst the police laughed on the other end of the phone, had an almost empty bottle of Courvoisier thrown at my head so they could 'fk me up and teach me some fkn manners', several death threats, I've been stuck in work at the polices request for 4 hours as we'd had to evict people and they wouldn't move from the front entrance as they wanted to teach us a lesson, and all whilst trying to smile politely. I work in a hotel btw, leaving on Sunday though thank goodness!!
My last job, I got robbed at gun point, and I thought that was bad at the time! Pah!
My worst experience was actually working in a call centre - I felt like a tiny cog in a machine - everything was rushed and competing against other teams - one of the managers was the loud tie unfunny jokes type, sorry couldn't a***l**k and laugh..... Hated the place, only place I've worked where I was watching the clock immediately I got in. Every night I went home and cried - then I just left a note on my desk and never went back - best thing I ever did. I walked right out of the machinery
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The joys of working as a shop manager, and for London Underground.....:D
Sounds terrible :eek:
Oh and worse things than that too.
I sympathise with you as my father and I have been made redundant and I miss my job a lot. I used to like getting up early in the morning and going to work and feeling that I have accomplished something.
For those in work cherish the fact you are in it as Robin rightly has said.
I'm surprised by the number of armed robberies and things mentioned in here, I always assume shop work is one of the safest jobs around.
Did he live? Really? Is that what it's like, I've never had it but always assumed they did it politely like when you left. :eek: Have seen a supervisor be made redundant from where I volunteer, and she was given a month's notice and a leaving party.
What happened after that, did he get arrested? Well I presume it was a he.
Sorry for all the questions but I'm curious
On the second day in, I went up to somewhere near Milton Keynes with the boss to activate a substation the company was installing at Honda.
Went into this room where the installation was situated. Coincidentally he told me to get out, just in case anything were to happen. He pressed this button to activate it, and it completely blew up! :eek:
He managed to get out but was quite badly burned! He had to go to hospital and I was stuck at Honda for a few hours.
Scared the shit out of me as well as put me off any career as an electrical engineer in the future!
I was asked to do things that I regarded as being highly unethical and unprofessional during the time of the Blair administration so I resigned and walked out - best thing I did.
likewise, I laughed so much I had to come back and re bump the thread
It was some initiation ceremony and part intelligence test.
Things that bad at your place then
I know it's an old thread but yes he did.
I'm sorry, but that made me laugh. Not because you had your trousers pulled down, but just the way it was worded.
Never got over it ,really..
Now, I do what the others do and just let her wait, give it her back or completely ignore her. She has her phases, more bad than good and she's ALWAYS complaining, she's one reason I would actually quit my job even though I love it so much.
For two years I had a useless boss who would stroll in at 10 finish at 5.15 (4.15 on a fri) who did NOTHING but be on the phone making personal phone calls.
Team meetings were riots....she used to assert her authority by having a go at everyone. Complaints made....nothing done.
I actually applied for another job...she refused to release me. Nearly walked out..felt like punching her but thought why should I have a minor crinimal covinction under my belt. I was also accused of breaching confidentiality by disclosing a girl who came to cover was writing suicidal notes. I was looking out for her...what if she did something?! It was not client details.
We got a new boss in Sept 2011...brilliant. The old boss got a promotion!
My last job, I got robbed at gun point, and I thought that was bad at the time! Pah!