That last story was hilarious. I had to wipe tears from laughing. "What is it that you do around here, exactly?" "I don't know." "What do you mean?" "Well, i just show up and walk around for a while." "And then what?" "Nothing." "What do you mean, nothing?" "That's it, really." "So you don't actually DO anything?" "Nope" "Surely there must be SOMETHING you do?" "Well, sometimes i play video games and eat candy" "I meant besides that" "Nope. I don't do a damn thing" That job sounds like a slacker's dream.
My brother worked on the construction of a power plant. There were two guys who would show up every morning and pick up a 20 foot 2x12 piece of lumbar and carry it around the job site. Nobody bothered them, because they always looked busy. They got away with it for 6 months.
the last one--totally plausible. watched a wally-world employee walking around with a pen and a clipboard, looking at stuff. 20 minutes later, same thing. curious, i asked him what he was doing. he grinned and said, "walking around carrying a clipboard and pen." what genius!
Haha... as a teenager i had an afterschool job at a large factory type bakery... I had what i called my "bit of paper theory" which was basically if you walk around with a bit of paper in your hand and you have a "this is the most important piece of paper in the world" look on your face absolutely no-one will question you. Not even my supervisor. When challenged to prove my bit of paper theory i proceeded to do it for my entire shift. My co-workers even tried giving my supervisor a heads up by asking him where i was today and he replied that i was off doing "something for management" and that he had seen me walking somewhere with a piece of paper in my hand. They just about died laughing the moment he disappeared around the corner. However the next day they all told me that yesterday sucked for them because they had to do my job all shift. I replied that yesterday was the most boring day at work ever and i would be glad to never do it again if they only promised to never doubt my audacity, tenacity and intelligence ever again. They never did and the 'bit of paper' was used as gift among us for the next two years i was there. As a reward for being a good co-worker or on someones birthday or something we would hand them a piece of paper. "Go on then.... we got you"..... It NEVER failed.
@@jimofaotearoa3636 sounds like a great little piece of advice for when someone just really needs a day to rest and reset with out have to lose pay. Glad you all looked out for each other.
Yeah, I worked for that place. Fist day up at the HR office, HR boss isn't in. Nobody else to talk to. Fortunately I knew I had applied for a position in the Garden and outdoors department so I went there. Two ladies stocking a shelf told me they knew nothing. Maybe I'd be useful watering live plants. So that's what I did. Got everything well watered, swept up leaves and fallen blossoms, helped a few customers lift things. Three weeks went like that, just guessing what I should do and never once met a supervisor, nor anyone else that worked in that department (plants and bags of things like mulch were brought in and placed by outside vendors). I helped customers choose bedding plants, find tomato cages and decide which shovel they wanted. After that three weeks I received word that my elderly father in another state was ill and needed me so I went to do that. Never met anyone to tell them I had to quit, never knew any of the other employees. Pay was direct deposited into my checking account. Weirdest job I ever had. Felt like the Twilight Zone.
It's really common in most types of engineering - you get called to meetings for input, you point out that it won't work because XYZ then get shot down and then at some point in the future the client/management realise you were right and it's cost them. Sometimes it's lucky and it's not much lost, sometimes... well.... not so good. You spend a lot of time shaking your head
Honestly, the kid that paced every aisle and knew where crap is, sounds like a good employee to have on hand. They can prob answer customer questions great
Man, I guess that would feel surreal. Having a job where NO one checks up on you or requires you to report to do anything. You would begin to wonder if it was actually real. If maybe you weren't real. I can totally see that. I had one single day at my current work, I was the only one in the room I was in. I think it was a holiday or something. A day where not a single person called to speak to me about anything and no other co-workers called over the intercom for me the whole day. I stayed at my desk literally the whole day having not spoken to a single person. My emails even weren't returned that whole day. I almost felt like maybe I was the only one there. And for a short time, I wondered if I was asleep dreaming it.
@@ML-yn9yu Turn over rates for big retail stores is pretty big. If it is big enough, no one will usually bother to care if you quit. They just call in one of the hundreds of applications they have lying around and replace you, then repeat the cycle. Those stores get boatloads of apps, no shortage labour usually, and anyone with a pulse can do it.
Kmart was an interesting job. First one, assistant manager in receiving. My boss quit, store manager brought in a "friend" that took over. Said she could handle all of it, and didn't need me around. There was just two of us to unload trucks and check it all in. I looked at her and said "Cool, bye." And walked off. The new manager was a first class Karen. Second time the boss went on a rant about how all his workers were worthless. Nearly everyone walked out. I never did get my last check. Store closed about six months later. But I did get to knock a Richard on his butt while working.
This is what happens when you don't value experts. We are having a hell of a time with that here in the US at the moment. Hundreds of thousands of people who have spent their entire life researching the human body with huge monetary incentives to prove eachother wrong all say vaccines are safe and effective? No, thank. I'll trust my gut, and some TV celebrity.
@@Lawsonomy1 I miss the nuns. When they ran the hospital the decisions were based on experience. Today some MBA who has never sat the triage desk hands down diktats based on spreadsheets that will kill somebody if actually implemented.
That last story sounds like Walmart. As someone who worked there in stock... well, it wasn’t THAT bad for me, but definitely was never taught how to do anything until right before I needed to do it.
The thought I had on the airport gate story is he should of had a recording of the meeting. Proving they refused to listen when he told them it wasn't going to work. The look on their faces would have been priceless when the recording was played back. Experts are real, they don't make this stuff up.
Recording won't help ... this is not rare in construction ... I've never been involved in something this bad, but I've seen bad enough to know this happens ...
@@JasperJanssen - the storyteller did nothing wrong, in fact probably saved his employer a ton of fine and penalties ... some engineer embossed the blueprints saying they were good, the blueprints were bad, this is all on that engineer ...
That kid miss out on a golden opportunity. Being paid to just walk around. No one ever noticed him? He could of just clocked on, leave. Then just do whatever for his shift. Come back. Clock out and go home. Hell, he could of clocked in. Leave. Go to his second job and work. Then when its time to clock out at job one. Go there and clock out.
Perhaps even better, he could have "assigned" himself to "customer service" as in if a customer asks where something is, he's the one to direct them. Since he already knows where everything is, it's a simple job. Personally, I'd probably work on a story in my head to write down later while I wandered around. Good exercise too. Would have kept me from getting fat.
You bet the last story sounds like something out of horror story. The retail guy was lucky to escape from _the backrooms_ after being stuck there for a month
The Terminal. Tom Hanks played a guy whose country had a coup while he was on a long haul flight, and because the government no longer existed when he landed, his passport was invalid, so he couldn't leave the airport, but he couldn't go anywhere else either.
"Manual HTML coding to simulate a CMS" Me: *screams in software developer But yeah I was actually in a very similar boat once. I was hired as an IT guy for a shady used truck salesman. He had a database set up in MS Access, but since I didn't even know what the hell Access was, I ended up typing all the addresses into the database manually. Years later I ended up working as an applications developer for a small business and also used Access. After desinging several rather complicated actual programs that ran on VBA-Access, I look back on those old days with so much cringe. But that's what you get when you pay a linuistics major minimum wage and expect pro-level app development.
No kidding, I don't even have to work at an airport to know of the incompetence at the still unfinished and getting progressively more expensive airport "BER" in Berlin, Germany or the same with the big train station "Stuttgart 21"...
@David McConville You and me both. I used to work out on the ramp picking up pilots from cargo planes and driving them to the terminal. The Japan Airlines pilots used to race to their parking spots. Imagine two 747s full of cargo tailgating each other across the tarmac at the fastest possible taxiing speed. It was surreal. And rather cool, to be honest.
There are stories of people clocking in, leaving and then returning to clock out again at the end of the day....for YEARS..... Respect is due where respect is due.... thats some OG level hustle right there...
That manager was probably doing all the work for them and was too stressed to direct them all the time. This person found a job where he didn't have to do anything and still got paid. somebody had to run the store and it sure wasn't him.
My friends coworker never got scheduled so he could basically come in whenever he wanted and couldn't get any no call no shows my friend said he kept complaining how tiny his checks where because he hardly came in
I had a job like that. 3 managers, i would ask what to do and they would all tell me to go ask the next manager. In the back room there where couches setting on their sides. I would just hang out in the middle of them for most of the days
By the sounds of things, that store had such a large turnover of employees it probably didn't keep track of who was in or not. I am surprised it kept running if no one even knew that they had a new member of staff walking around for hours and didn't think to go looking.
That last story was great. It's also similar to a social science experiment. It's nicknamed the 'Bavarian Fire Drill', and it basically goes as thus; wear a suit, carry a clipboard and a pen, write things in shorthand, go wherever you want to go, and always look and move like you're supposed to be wherever you are. If you do it right, no one will question you or your authority. Bonus points for looking and acting like you're important. Occasionally stop at a locked door and ask someone in charge to open it for you. As long as no one asks you to explain what you're doing, you don't even have to lie. If caught, simply say your surprise inspection is done and that you have other places to be. I've never done this, but it's amazing how many people get away with it every year.
Is that what it's called? I worked for a security company that did something similar, but it was used as a test. They would send in a sharply dress man with movie star confidence, and the he would try to get to somewhere important (like the IT server room, accounting department or the big boss's office). The objective was to see how competent the security team was. Only the head of security would know he was coming. I was working a front desk (I was responsible for buzzing people in once I knew they were supposed to be there, it was a easy receptionist gig really), in walks the guy and he starts trying to talk his way in, and I'm not having any of it. He gives up, whips out one my companies ID badges and ask me to call down my boss, I complied. My boss comes down, chuckles and say, "First Hurdle, huh?" to which the guy replied "Did you have to put Cerberus on the front desk?" I was confused, but it was explained to me later. I think the whole thing was the reason I think that's why I was offered the night supervisor position a couple of months later (I of course took that with both hands, it meant a 25% pay bump).
@@chaosreaver3597 TV Tropes has a page about it, and there's an episode of Burn Notice that uses it, with an explanation. It's mostly a nickname and I don't know where it started or who started using the nickname, but it works great in movies if it's done properly.
@@lordgenerias Yeah, come to think of it didn't Chris Evans character in the film The Losers (a film so bad it loops back round to good) do something like that in the office scene. It comes up in alot of spy/heist/crime movies, I just never made the connection that it would work in real life probably because my only experience of it was an utter failure. But, I guess most people aren't as suspicious as me and don't have my security training.
I thought for sure that last person was going to go all Tom Hanks in "The Terminal" but instead... Meh... just disappointment. Personally, I'd have made that job into something creatively fun and contributing to the overall well-being of the facility until they either fired me or gave me specific direction. *You were your own boss on someone else's dime and you wasted it!*
I WANT THAT JOB! OMG! JUST, LIKE, WORK ON A BOOK IN THE BACK! DO A ART PROJECT! ASK A DIFFERENT PERSON TO GIVE YOU A TASK! BUT NEVER EVER GIVE THAT JOB UP!!!! DUUUDE!!!!
That airport story was just... wow. I worked at a number of commercial nuclear power plants. Even if one of the janitors had a question or concern, management treated it as if it came from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
if that last was true they are lucky he didnt go full scam clock in leave an the just come back to clock out then get a 2nd job 2 paydays easy way to get ahead or get your wish list fulfilled
Not like it would be much different since they didn't appear to be given work to do. They could have just decided to be the cart grabbing person themselves if they wanted to be a little more productive. Or simply been someone who helps find things. Monotonous but at least they wouldn't feel like they're in the twilight zone.
Very similar thing happened to me in a meeting about our nighttime warehouse loading when new software was being brought on. At the end of the meeting I casually said, "So what are we going to do about the fact that all loads need to be finished by midnight? We'll need more loaders and the salespeople will need to start getting their orders in at a reasonable time." Upper management looked at me like I was crazy and the software reps looked very uncomfortable. The bosses said that isn't how it works right? The reps hemmed and hawed for a few minutes but eventually admitted that the way the system was designed everything had to be done and run before midnight. Bosses never did fix the problem the remaining 3 years I worked there. Was a ton of money spent on a system they refused to have proper amount of loaders and to get the sales force to get orders in earlier I eventually quit as my health was rapidly going down hill from 70+ hr work weeks trying to make it all work.
I have coworkers who get paid to sit around on their phone and eat ice cream, meanwhile I'm just standing there flipping burgers and washing dishes, actually trying to be productive.
Become a janitor/maintenance guy, the trick is to look like you are doing something, it's easy! "yeah, I got reports that there was a problem with the coffee machine... *sip*" The hardest part, it learning all the different ways to lean against a broom; you have to have a look, that tells people "I have been at it for a while, just taking a short break". When you master the broom, you can expand your leaning onto almost any object of sufficient size! When you feel confident with your leaning, you can start experiementing with lying down, it's a wonderful experience!
The guy pacing the aisles sounds like my past Walmart job. Although I did have a job title as cashier that never changed they always put me in other areas i wasnt qualified to work in at all. Also whenever i asked something my boss just made up bs excuses. The last straw was making me push a 300 pound steel grill up steps by myself. After that I was so eff this job and never worked there again. Also they never trained me as a cashier. The only training I ever received was about two days of bs on a computer about how to smile at customers and thats all. Basically if you wonder why a lot of Walmart employees dont know anything chalk it up to the non-existing standard of training of employees.
If i had a dollar for every time i have seen a boss who thought a problem/problems will just sort themselves out somehow, i would be a billionaire! But have no fear, as a boss, they always have other people to blame when the problem comes to a head..... except for the bosses who assumed there will always be someone else to blame 'somehow'!!
the heads of the airport are working with the local politicians (where the money comes from) and the politicians need to complete the job as close to on time as possible. See Cuomo in NYS authorizing use of the new bridge over the Hudson saying that NYS would pick up any insurance or damages caused by the bridge not finished. Cuomo needed it opened on time to look good. Yes the Gov signed off letting the construction company off the hook for any accidents caused by the bridge not being completed, giving up safety for a photo op and the chance to name the bridge after his father (and having the gall to say it wasn't a political or personal decision). That's how they got to the decision to build the jet way in that position. That ribbon cutting ceremony was all that as important to the people with the purse strings after that, who cares if you need to shovel a few more millions into it. It will never make the paper so who cares and no one but the people at the airport will figure out why gate 8 is so rarely used.
Yes planes have a fuel pump if not several. But that pump move the fuel from its internal tanks to the engine. Not from the fuel tanker into the plane.
That person could have probably been able to clock in, leave and hang out with friends or home and then come back in to clock back out. I wonder even without coming in how long it took them to notice they had an employee that quit?
I'm sure this says about me as a person... but... I'd cling on to that last job with all I had. You're paying me to show up, but you literally never bother to tell me what I'm supposed to do and practically never call me out on doing nothing? Can... can I get overtime please?
1st story - The higher up who approved and said "we will make it work" went to college, so they know better then the people who have to use said equipment/set ups. Or so they would like to think.
The airline story isn't suprising at all. Large corporations rarely hire management with practical work experience in sub fields like this. Chances are no one in the decision making process knew anything about the day to day regulations their industry operates under. They were just looking into profit margins for more jet traffic.
I had a job at a local Walmart giving away free samples of stuff. I didn't work for the store; I was an employee of a contractor company. None of the managers or employees checked up on me. I only rarely had coworkers with me, since they usually did other stores. My direct supervisor only came in at the very end of my shift once every few months. I manually entered my own start times, leave times, and break times. All I needed to prove that I was there was a photograph of the receipts for purchasing samples and photographs of my set up booth. When I didn't feel like doing anything, I'd set the booth up, buy the samples, take the pictures, and go to the break room to watch TV or read on my phone. Sometimes I'd go to the area allocated for my company's equipment and sit behind some convenient shelving. Hell, had I wanted, I could've gone home after taking the pictures, since I already had all the "proof" I needed of having been there. I never did _that,_ but some days I _wanted_ to.
That last story, I can imagine OP going back there a week later to show a friend, only to find the building derelict and a sign on the door saying that they had gone out of business 5 years before, whilst inside, someone else could be heard ... pacing, pacing and eating damaged candy... I'm not going to be able to sleep now 😖
The last guy totally blew it. What he should have done is gotten another job that has the same hours as this one. Then he should have gone to this job and punched in. Then gone to his second job, worked his shift, then headed back to the first job to punch out at the end of the day. Apparently you could have done that for years.
Most big box retailers have surveillance systems though so if someone had ever noticed he was en absentia, there would have been proof that he was playing hooky. At least by staying at the store he had plausible deniability for doing essentially nothing.
@@adriantallent8557 The point is that they didn't care if he was there or not. In a big company, who's going to notice one more paycheck if no one asks about it.
Don't punch through a door. I had a bit of a temper issue at times as a teenager (mostly because of an EK little sister who made my life hell, and framed me for everything wrong that she did, so I got punished for her crimes, as it were). I clearly remember one incident, and still have the scars to show for it. My sister had decided it would be funny if she trapped me in a closet in the dark. She'd let me think she had left, then as soon as I started to open the door and peek out to see if it was safe, she'd bodycheck the door into my face, throwing me across the closet, while she laughed cruelly and called me names. Well, I'd about had enough of it, so the next time she did that I tried to do just that: punch her through the door. Didn't work, as she dodged it, but I DID punch clean through. It didn't even hurt... until I pulled my arm back OUT of the door, and all those fresh new slivers of wood pointing outwards from the punch dug into my arm, leaving deep gashes all the way down as I screamed. There was a spattered trail of blood everywhere from the closet to the bathroom. It was spraying, and it didn't even hit the major arteries, just small ones. Next thing I know I'm on my way to the emergency room for stitches, with a towel wrapped around my arm. Like I said... I've still got the scars on my arm to remind me every day not to lose my temper like that, and to consider the potential outcome BEFORE I act on instinct or in anger. So yeah. Don't punch through a door. It's really not worth it.
@@mackaylacook148 Other than the scars to remind me, lol. I'm much more patient and don't act so rashly anymore, at least when it comes to anything that could cause harm. I actually think first "who could get hurt and how" when I'm upset. Still don't always make the best choice, but at least I consider them.
Man if I got hired for that job I'd just chill in the break room playing my nintendo switch until someone noticed. I'd probably end up fired pretty quick but who cares?
Dude had it made. why would you ever leave that job. I would have rode it out til probation period was up and went for a raise just to see how far i could go doing nothing. Like he had the perfect chance to stick it to the man. While destroying a Karen manager and participate in a epic social experiment and get paid for hanging out basically. What a absolute waste
This reminds me of the stories on the website clients from hell. They bring in the expert into the meeting and just ignore him telling them it won't work because they don't value expertise and just assume "it can't be that complicated" and a bunch of business people with no technical knowledge is all you need to run things.
Not even sure what I would do if I got a job and my only instructions were "find something to do." Maybe I'd just do nothing all day like the poster did, maybe I'd actually find stuff that I thought needed to be done in the story, maybe I'd just clock in and work on something completely unrelated. The poster could conceivably have gotten a double paycheck, one for being clocked in at the store and one for doing some other job on his laptop.
My bosses asked me to write some software. I recommended they buy some commercially available software instead. They said they wanted a custom job. I said, well, it took 100 people 5 years to create that software. I could do it, but it will take me 500 years. They just looked stunned. They ended up buying the software.
PR = Public Relations, not IT.Technically, the OP and the other student's job was suppose to be A: keep PR department computers working and accessing internet, B: Help with user-level e-mail issues, and C: upload PR stuff to the website as needed.
@19:30 It would have been fun if he had given his boss(?) from that job as a reference in the new one. Imagine what would have happened when someone else wondered who this person was that they had seen quite often at the store. They weren't sure what he did, but he was always there. They had him listed as an employee, but that was it.
there are some other things that can happen at an airport regarding fuel pipelines. a previous manager with the refueling company had to have airport security escort out a team of contractors who were trying to drill a hole in the tarmac. the only issue was that their plans/info didnt mention the 6" pipeline path that their set drill spot was set directly above. the previous manager knew where the pipe was and notified them, the drillers were belligerent. they got escorted and kicked off the property. no damage done but drilling a hole in a 6" pressurized active pipeline isnt pretty to imagine.
I have to say that my last workplace was better than most... I turned up on the first day to a 2 week follow this guy and learn from him about how to do things... Everyone who started at our workplace was assigned to a operator who you shadowed for 2 weeks. Basically you progressed up the chain of operators by training your replacement. The better you train them... The higher up you go. Only ever had one guy that started on a monday, the operator he was working with reported that he had gone missing 45 minutes into the shift... The guy had simply up and left. Clocked out and gone home. We also had a guy that came in, sat down on a pallet, read the newspaper circling jobs and then walked out after 4 hours of sitting, to go for a job interview. (he had literally been hired the week before and this was his first day.) Suffice to say he was told not to come back. Our employment policy at the company was 3 month trial period with contract offer available. If you were good... you got offered a contract and full employment. ( I did 2 weeks and got my contract. worked there 13 years.)
I actualy realy like this system. It ensures highly competent empolyees, emedietly adds the new employe in the sosial hiarchy and provides motivation for everyone to do well.
The "twilight zone retail" story, as called by Eric Ling 2 days prior to my posting, should have had the manager reported for not telling the person that 1) he gets lunch breaks 2) giving the man a break 3) assigning the man actual work and 4) negligence.
Heard that " We'll make it work before ". Not as serious as this though, but humorous. They were re-designing the water treatment system, and the final pH adjustment tank was to be installed. The problem is that the tank was 10ft square and 4ft deep and that actual space where it was to be installed was 10ft wide x 4 ft deep x 1ft long. The place where they thought they could put the tank was occupied by a 20000 liter holding tank on 4 legs over a 5000 liter sump where the process water drained to before being pumped into the tank.The " plans " were made from what the maintenance VP thought he remembered what the space looked like. Nobody ever checked and the so-called plans had no detailed measurements and looked like a photo copy of a free-hand drawing on a paper serviette.
The 100 dollar bet would have been won by me too, but in a different way. The only way he could place me on the paper, then close the door and stand on it himself is if the door opens in his direction. Thus, I would simply push open the door, and he would be pushed off the paper. The rules said that was not allowed and would win by his "cheating".
3 hours after closing to clean up the Deli? I wish I had that kind of time to clean up when I worked in a supermarket deli. I was expected to be out AT closing time with all the cleaning done so I was waiting on customers while doing all the cleanup solo. We were not allowed to have a ring for service bell either since that made the store look bad so doing dishes meant stopping every few seconds to look around the wall to see if there were any customers at the counter.
Dodododododododo picture if you will...one man ...many isles...trapped in a space between boredom and bad bosses...stay with us as we venture in....the twilight zone!
Just because you are in a higher position than other people does not mean that you are smarter than everyone. A truly smart person is a person that can respect the opinions of everyone below them.
That last story sounded like it would fit as part of the backstory to Dane Cook's character in Employee of the Month. I could imagine him just pacing the aisles and playing all the games, before management noticed he was there and he had to build a clubhouse in the upper shelves to get away.
The last one the kid could've gotten away with anything. without being assigned a department means there was no one to train him or make sure he was doing what he was supposed to do. He could've clocked went home and only return to clock in and out for lunch and his shift and no one would've been the wiser.
My husband punched thru one of those flimsy doors.,,,,,,then complained for the rest of the day while he went out, got new, better door, carted it back, and replaced the damaged door. All i did was laugh at him.
Retail does that to you, especially when no one gives you anything to do xD I once managed to fall asleep and continue to check out customers for 20 minutes and no one noticed. It was literally so ingrained as an automatism that my sleepwalking self just proceeded to continue where my waking self left off.
I can just imagine some doofy looking teenager walking around in a store with shoes 2 sizes too large, eating candy, and following other people around like a lost dog. That just cracks me up! Hahaha how can a company be so careless?
My guess is that the manager thought someone else was taking care of his training and/or didn't realize that she was responsible for it. I've worked for places where "not my problem" goes a long ways towards creating situations like this.
You ask how the airport management could make such a hoirriblke mistake? Simple! They are business school graduates who have no idea what their business actually does. I worked in an urban ER that had the same problem when the nuns left and the "professional" managers came in. We constantly got policy directives that would kil patients if followed because not one of these idiots had ever held the business end of a bedpan. Somehow I find it comforting to know we were not the only victims of the business school obsession with profit over service.
I just love when upper management ignores the opinion of people that work on the same (or similiar) things everyday, and as such, they usually know everything that there is to know on the subject.
That last story was hilarious. I had to wipe tears from laughing.
"What is it that you do around here, exactly?"
"I don't know."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, i just show up and walk around for a while."
"And then what?"
"Nothing."
"What do you mean, nothing?"
"That's it, really."
"So you don't actually DO anything?"
"Nope"
"Surely there must be SOMETHING you do?"
"Well, sometimes i play video games and eat candy"
"I meant besides that"
"Nope. I don't do a damn thing"
That job sounds like a slacker's dream.
yea, that was my reaction too (even on 2nd runthrough).....it almosts sounds made-up tbh
Sounds like a badass part time job you get for extra cash on your real job
My brother worked on the construction of a power plant. There were two guys who would show up every morning and pick up a 20 foot 2x12 piece of lumbar and carry it around the job site. Nobody bothered them, because they always looked busy. They got away with it for 6 months.
the last one--totally plausible. watched a wally-world employee walking around with a pen and a clipboard, looking at stuff. 20 minutes later, same thing. curious, i asked him what he was doing. he grinned and said, "walking around carrying a clipboard and pen." what genius!
Dude, Grammar!
Haha... as a teenager i had an afterschool job at a large factory type bakery... I had what i called my "bit of paper theory" which was basically if you walk around with a bit of paper in your hand and you have a "this is the most important piece of paper in the world" look on your face absolutely no-one will question you. Not even my supervisor. When challenged to prove my bit of paper theory i proceeded to do it for my entire shift. My co-workers even tried giving my supervisor a heads up by asking him where i was today and he replied that i was off doing "something for management" and that he had seen me walking somewhere with a piece of paper in my hand. They just about died laughing the moment he disappeared around the corner. However the next day they all told me that yesterday sucked for them because they had to do my job all shift. I replied that yesterday was the most boring day at work ever and i would be glad to never do it again if they only promised to never doubt my audacity, tenacity and intelligence ever again. They never did and the 'bit of paper' was used as gift among us for the next two years i was there. As a reward for being a good co-worker or on someones birthday or something we would hand them a piece of paper. "Go on then.... we got you"..... It NEVER failed.
@@jimofaotearoa3636 sounds like a great little piece of advice for when someone just really needs a day to rest and reset with out have to lose pay. Glad you all looked out for each other.
Sounds like a typical management job to me...
Yeah, I worked for that place. Fist day up at the HR office, HR boss isn't in. Nobody else to talk to. Fortunately I knew I had applied for a position in the Garden and outdoors department so I went there. Two ladies stocking a shelf told me they knew nothing. Maybe I'd be useful watering live plants. So that's what I did. Got everything well watered, swept up leaves and fallen blossoms, helped a few customers lift things. Three weeks went like that, just guessing what I should do and never once met a supervisor, nor anyone else that worked in that department (plants and bags of things like mulch were brought in and placed by outside vendors). I helped customers choose bedding plants, find tomato cages and decide which shovel they wanted.
After that three weeks I received word that my elderly father in another state was ill and needed me so I went to do that. Never met anyone to tell them I had to quit, never knew any of the other employees. Pay was direct deposited into my checking account. Weirdest job I ever had. Felt like the Twilight Zone.
Whoah. How high level of incompetent managers is this? Lol
I cant imagine how a company like that makes money at all? Im honestly spechless...
Why quit? Just go and they'll just keep paying you. Probably would still be getting paid.
That is downright scary that a big company can show such incompetence and to think we as consumers pay for managements incompetence.
@@glennrishton5679 i'd love a job like that. but i trained as a welder, so it would be even more surreal. welding things at random lmao
It's really common in most types of engineering - you get called to meetings for input, you point out that it won't work because XYZ then get shot down and then at some point in the future the client/management realise you were right and it's cost them. Sometimes it's lucky and it's not much lost, sometimes... well.... not so good. You spend a lot of time shaking your head
Honestly, the kid that paced every aisle and knew where crap is, sounds like a good employee to have on hand. They can prob answer customer questions great
It shows that management were idiots for not utilizing him or even training him.
Last story: Imagine if a Karen comes to him.
Weirdly, not ONCE did a Wild Karen mistake him for an employee.
dam id love his job lol id do it just never think twice
If he was so bored why didn't he ask other employees if they needed help with anything.
Man, I guess that would feel surreal. Having a job where NO one checks up on you or requires you to report to do anything. You would begin to wonder if it was actually real. If maybe you weren't real. I can totally see that.
I had one single day at my current work, I was the only one in the room I was in. I think it was a holiday or something. A day where not a single person called to speak to me about anything and no other co-workers called over the intercom for me the whole day.
I stayed at my desk literally the whole day having not spoken to a single person. My emails even weren't returned that whole day. I almost felt like maybe I was the only one there. And for a short time, I wondered if I was asleep dreaming it.
That last story sounded a lot like my retail days. Technically I'm even still employed at a K-Mart that was torn down 5 years ago.
Do you still get a paycheck?
Oh god, I remember when I worked a k-mart. Lasted 2 weeks, and never came back. They never called me either to wonder why I was missing either.
@@ML-yn9yu Turn over rates for big retail stores is pretty big. If it is big enough, no one will usually bother to care if you quit. They just call in one of the hundreds of applications they have lying around and replace you, then repeat the cycle. Those stores get boatloads of apps, no shortage labour usually, and anyone with a pulse can do it.
Kmart was an interesting job. First one, assistant manager in receiving. My boss quit, store manager brought in a "friend" that took over. Said she could handle all of it, and didn't need me around. There was just two of us to unload trucks and check it all in. I looked at her and said "Cool, bye." And walked off. The new manager was a first class Karen.
Second time the boss went on a rant about how all his workers were worthless. Nearly everyone walked out. I never did get my last check. Store closed about six months later. But I did get to knock a Richard on his butt while working.
So Am I. I Never went back 19 years ago. 15 years ago the manger called for me to pick up a shift. Figure that one out.
Why should I listen to the person paid to know all about fuel safety?
My salary's many times higher than his.
hopefully you saved a lot of money for your commissary account at the federal prison your sent to. LOL
Executives: Promoted for ability to save money. Not understanding the issues.
This is what happens when you don't value experts. We are having a hell of a time with that here in the US at the moment.
Hundreds of thousands of people who have spent their entire life researching the human body with huge monetary incentives to prove eachother wrong all say vaccines are safe and effective? No, thank. I'll trust my gut, and some TV celebrity.
THATS exactly how many People think! Good comment here, Combat King!
@@Lawsonomy1 I miss the nuns. When they ran the hospital the decisions were based on experience. Today some MBA who has never sat the triage desk hands down diktats based on spreadsheets that will kill somebody if actually implemented.
That last story sounds like Walmart. As someone who worked there in stock... well, it wasn’t THAT bad for me, but definitely was never taught how to do anything until right before I needed to do it.
Yea that sounds about right. Sink or swim around here dude :)
19:30: HE NEVER REVELEAD IT TO ANYBODY THERE?!?
The thought I had on the airport gate story is he should of had a recording of the meeting. Proving they refused to listen when he told them it wasn't going to work. The look on their faces would have been priceless when the recording was played back. Experts are real, they don't make this stuff up.
"Experts are rich suits who have to justify their existence by making your job harder."
Recording won't help ... this is not rare in construction ... I've never been involved in something this bad, but I've seen bad enough to know this happens ...
The real wtf here is that the person telling the story wasn’t fired. Especially without recordings.
@@JasperJanssen - the storyteller did nothing wrong, in fact probably saved his employer a ton of fine and penalties ... some engineer embossed the blueprints saying they were good, the blueprints were bad, this is all on that engineer ...
Russ Crawford only if he can prove it. If there wasn’t anything written down, his company would’ve been on the hook.
That kid miss out on a golden opportunity. Being paid to just walk around. No one ever noticed him? He could of just clocked on, leave. Then just do whatever for his shift. Come back. Clock out and go home. Hell, he could of clocked in. Leave. Go to his second job and work. Then when its time to clock out at job one. Go there and clock out.
Perhaps even better, he could have "assigned" himself to "customer service" as in if a customer asks where something is, he's the one to direct them. Since he already knows where everything is, it's a simple job. Personally, I'd probably work on a story in my head to write down later while I wandered around. Good exercise too. Would have kept me from getting fat.
0:45 _"To fuel the pump into the aircraft"_
Are you sure? 🤣 🤣 🤣
You bet the last story sounds like something out of horror story. The retail guy was lucky to escape from _the backrooms_ after being stuck there for a month
What was the name of the movie about the guy (Bill Murray or Tom Hanks played him) that was stuck in a terminal? Lost in Translation?
@@tenhirankei I vaguely remember that movie. He used one of the mall phones for his phone number, I think.
The Terminal. Tom Hanks played a guy whose country had a coup while he was on a long haul flight, and because the government no longer existed when he landed, his passport was invalid, so he couldn't leave the airport, but he couldn't go anywhere else either.
@@MidasStorm yikes
It gets even worse when you learn that the Terminal was based on a true story. Look up Merhan Nasseri. He lived in an airport for 18 years.
"Manual HTML coding to simulate a CMS"
Me: *screams in software developer
But yeah I was actually in a very similar boat once. I was hired as an IT guy for a shady used truck salesman.
He had a database set up in MS Access, but since I didn't even know what the hell Access was, I ended up typing all the addresses into the database manually.
Years later I ended up working as an applications developer for a small business and also used Access.
After desinging several rather complicated actual programs that ran on VBA-Access, I look back on those old days with so much cringe.
But that's what you get when you pay a linuistics major minimum wage and expect pro-level app development.
I used to work at an airport. OP is 100% right about incompetence. It is ridiculous at times.
No kidding, I don't even have to work at an airport to know of the incompetence at the still unfinished and getting progressively more expensive airport "BER" in Berlin, Germany or the same with the big train station "Stuttgart 21"...
@David McConville You and me both. I used to work out on the ramp picking up pilots from cargo planes and driving them to the terminal. The Japan Airlines pilots used to race to their parking spots. Imagine two 747s full of cargo tailgating each other across the tarmac at the fastest possible taxiing speed. It was surreal. And rather cool, to be honest.
I was expecting the $100 bet to be won by hitting the guy with the door.
same
Ditto.
I agree. I wounder how many times he got hit with the door?
"fuel the pump into the aircraft" what?
Thanks for that laugh. xD
yeh, he trips up on the script occasionally. and, yeh, lol!
0:45 whoever wanted a time of this trip-up.
He makes too many slipups... It's not like the font is fucking changing size. Poor editor is all it comes down to
When I heard it I had to stop and double check that he really said at.
There are stories of people clocking in, leaving and then returning to clock out again at the end of the day....for YEARS..... Respect is due where respect is due.... thats some OG level hustle right there...
The manager says no buts. Why is she there then?
That manager was probably doing all the work for them and was too stressed to direct them all the time. This person found a job where he didn't have to do anything and still got paid. somebody had to run the store and it sure wasn't him.
@@padalan2504 "too stressed to direct them all the time." what do you mean "all the time"?
Manager: I'm too busy doing your job, to do my job!
My friends coworker never got scheduled so he could basically come in whenever he wanted and couldn't get any no call no shows my friend said he kept complaining how tiny his checks where because he hardly came in
I had a job like that. 3 managers, i would ask what to do and they would all tell me to go ask the next manager. In the back room there where couches setting on their sides. I would just hang out in the middle of them for most of the days
By the sounds of things, that store had such a large turnover of employees it probably didn't keep track of who was in or not. I am surprised it kept running if no one even knew that they had a new member of staff walking around for hours and didn't think to go looking.
...I can see the buddy just standing there looking up at the sky. "Here is your $100...can someone stop the birdies?"
That last story was great. It's also similar to a social science experiment. It's nicknamed the 'Bavarian Fire Drill', and it basically goes as thus; wear a suit, carry a clipboard and a pen, write things in shorthand, go wherever you want to go, and always look and move like you're supposed to be wherever you are. If you do it right, no one will question you or your authority. Bonus points for looking and acting like you're important. Occasionally stop at a locked door and ask someone in charge to open it for you. As long as no one asks you to explain what you're doing, you don't even have to lie. If caught, simply say your surprise inspection is done and that you have other places to be.
I've never done this, but it's amazing how many people get away with it every year.
Is that what it's called? I worked for a security company that did something similar, but it was used as a test. They would send in a sharply dress man with movie star confidence, and the he would try to get to somewhere important (like the IT server room, accounting department or the big boss's office). The objective was to see how competent the security team was. Only the head of security would know he was coming. I was working a front desk (I was responsible for buzzing people in once I knew they were supposed to be there, it was a easy receptionist gig really), in walks the guy and he starts trying to talk his way in, and I'm not having any of it. He gives up, whips out one my companies ID badges and ask me to call down my boss, I complied. My boss comes down, chuckles and say, "First Hurdle, huh?" to which the guy replied "Did you have to put Cerberus on the front desk?" I was confused, but it was explained to me later. I think the whole thing was the reason I think that's why I was offered the night supervisor position a couple of months later (I of course took that with both hands, it meant a 25% pay bump).
@@chaosreaver3597 TV Tropes has a page about it, and there's an episode of Burn Notice that uses it, with an explanation. It's mostly a nickname and I don't know where it started or who started using the nickname, but it works great in movies if it's done properly.
@@lordgenerias Yeah, come to think of it didn't Chris Evans character in the film The Losers (a film so bad it loops back round to good) do something like that in the office scene. It comes up in alot of spy/heist/crime movies, I just never made the connection that it would work in real life probably because my only experience of it was an utter failure. But, I guess most people aren't as suspicious as me and don't have my security training.
I thought for sure that last person was going to go all Tom Hanks in "The Terminal" but instead... Meh... just disappointment.
Personally, I'd have made that job into something creatively fun and contributing to the overall well-being of the facility until they either fired me or gave me specific direction.
*You were your own boss on someone else's dime and you wasted it!*
I WANT THAT JOB! OMG! JUST, LIKE, WORK ON A BOOK IN THE BACK! DO A ART PROJECT! ASK A DIFFERENT PERSON TO GIVE YOU A TASK! BUT NEVER EVER GIVE THAT JOB UP!!!! DUUUDE!!!!
That airport story was just... wow.
I worked at a number of commercial nuclear power plants. Even if one of the janitors had a question or concern, management treated it as if it came from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
if that last was true they are lucky he didnt go full scam clock in leave an the just come back to clock out then get a 2nd job 2 paydays easy way to get ahead or get your wish list fulfilled
Don't go from exploiting idiocy to lawbreaking, it's a bad step. Color inside the legal lines...
you have no idea how often people get away with it, tho.
Not like it would be much different since they didn't appear to be given work to do. They could have just decided to be the cart grabbing person themselves if they wanted to be a little more productive. Or simply been someone who helps find things. Monotonous but at least they wouldn't feel like they're in the twilight zone.
Very similar thing happened to me in a meeting about our nighttime warehouse loading when new software was being brought on. At the end of the meeting I casually said, "So what are we going to do about the fact that all loads need to be finished by midnight? We'll need more loaders and the salespeople will need to start getting their orders in at a reasonable time."
Upper management looked at me like I was crazy and the software reps looked very uncomfortable. The bosses said that isn't how it works right? The reps hemmed and hawed for a few minutes but eventually admitted that the way the system was designed everything had to be done and run before midnight. Bosses never did fix the problem the remaining 3 years I worked there. Was a ton of money spent on a system they refused to have proper amount of loaders and to get the sales force to get orders in earlier I eventually quit as my health was rapidly going down hill from 70+ hr work weeks trying to make it all work.
Get paid to walk around for 8 hours? Sign me up
I have coworkers who get paid to sit around on their phone and eat ice cream, meanwhile I'm just standing there flipping burgers and washing dishes, actually trying to be productive.
You get tired of the walking real quick unless you’re some walking nut.
Become a janitor/maintenance guy, the trick is to look like you are doing something, it's easy!
"yeah, I got reports that there was a problem with the coffee machine... *sip*"
The hardest part, it learning all the different ways to lean against a broom; you have to have a look, that tells people "I have been at it for a while, just taking a short break". When you master the broom, you can expand your leaning onto almost any object of sufficient size!
When you feel confident with your leaning, you can start experiementing with lying down, it's a wonderful experience!
@@benneburg This is a starter course in the art of lean maintenance.
@@benneburg 😆
The guy pacing the aisles sounds like my past Walmart job. Although I did have a job title as cashier that never changed they always put me in other areas i wasnt qualified to work in at all. Also whenever i asked something my boss just made up bs excuses. The last straw was making me push a 300 pound steel grill up steps by myself. After that I was so eff this job and never worked there again. Also they never trained me as a cashier. The only training I ever received was about two days of bs on a computer about how to smile at customers and thats all. Basically if you wonder why a lot of Walmart employees dont know anything chalk it up to the non-existing standard of training of employees.
Sounds like Meijer too.
If i had a dollar for every time i have seen a boss who thought a problem/problems will just sort themselves out somehow, i would be a billionaire!
But have no fear, as a boss, they always have other people to blame when the problem comes to a head..... except for the bosses who assumed there will always be someone else to blame 'somehow'!!
Everybody gangsta till the design flaws mess everything up
Oooo it’s Jakey time. I’m ready for my story. Imagine if Jake read on Audible. Also, I love how he really gets into the stories.
the heads of the airport are working with the local politicians (where the money comes from) and the politicians need to complete the job as close to on time as possible. See Cuomo in NYS authorizing use of the new bridge over the Hudson saying that NYS would pick up any insurance or damages caused by the bridge not finished. Cuomo needed it opened on time to look good. Yes the Gov signed off letting the construction company off the hook for any accidents caused by the bridge not being completed, giving up safety for a photo op and the chance to name the bridge after his father (and having the gall to say it wasn't a political or personal decision). That's how they got to the decision to build the jet way in that position. That ribbon cutting ceremony was all that as important to the people with the purse strings after that, who cares if you need to shovel a few more millions into it. It will never make the paper so who cares and no one but the people at the airport will figure out why gate 8 is so rarely used.
Fuel the pump into the aircraft? 🙄🤣 Have another drink occifer! 😁
Call me stupid but planes do have a fuel pump or am I stupid
@@matthias18 no he said fuel the pump instead of pump the fuel 😂😂😂
Yes planes have a fuel pump if not several. But that pump move the fuel from its internal tanks to the engine. Not from the fuel tanker into the plane.
@@matthias18 airplane fuel pumps are measured in 20-100 gallons per mlm minute. Not 800 gallons per minute. Maybe if the plane is hypersonic
Planes also have special fuel pumps to move fuel from one tank to the other to even weight distribution FYI.😲
That person could have probably been able to clock in, leave and hang out with friends or home and then come back in to clock back out. I wonder even without coming in how long it took them to notice they had an employee that quit?
I'm sure this says about me as a person... but...
I'd cling on to that last job with all I had. You're paying me to show up, but you literally never bother to tell me what I'm supposed to do and practically never call me out on doing nothing?
Can... can I get overtime please?
Oh, you already are.
1st story - The higher up who approved and said "we will make it work" went to college, so they know better then the people who have to use said equipment/set ups. Or so they would like to think.
I feel creeped out and anxious after the last one. Strange.
Like being stuck in limbo.
Same it was weird
The airline story isn't suprising at all. Large corporations rarely hire management with practical work experience in sub fields like this. Chances are no one in the decision making process knew anything about the day to day regulations their industry operates under. They were just looking into profit margins for more jet traffic.
I had a job at a local Walmart giving away free samples of stuff. I didn't work for the store; I was an employee of a contractor company. None of the managers or employees checked up on me. I only rarely had coworkers with me, since they usually did other stores. My direct supervisor only came in at the very end of my shift once every few months. I manually entered my own start times, leave times, and break times. All I needed to prove that I was there was a photograph of the receipts for purchasing samples and photographs of my set up booth. When I didn't feel like doing anything, I'd set the booth up, buy the samples, take the pictures, and go to the break room to watch TV or read on my phone. Sometimes I'd go to the area allocated for my company's equipment and sit behind some convenient shelving. Hell, had I wanted, I could've gone home after taking the pictures, since I already had all the "proof" I needed of having been there. I never did _that,_ but some days I _wanted_ to.
That last story, I can imagine OP going back there a week later to show a friend, only to find the building derelict and a sign on the door saying that they had gone out of business 5 years before, whilst inside, someone else could be heard ... pacing, pacing and eating damaged candy...
I'm not going to be able to sleep now 😖
The last guy totally blew it. What he should have done is gotten another job that has the same hours as this one. Then he should have gone to this job and punched in. Then gone to his second job, worked his shift, then headed back to the first job to punch out at the end of the day. Apparently you could have done that for years.
Most big box retailers have surveillance systems though so if someone had ever noticed he was en absentia, there would have been proof that he was playing hooky. At least by staying at the store he had plausible deniability for doing essentially nothing.
@@adriantallent8557 The point is that they didn't care if he was there or not. In a big company, who's going to notice one more paycheck if no one asks about it.
Don't punch through a door.
I had a bit of a temper issue at times as a teenager (mostly because of an EK little sister who made my life hell, and framed me for everything wrong that she did, so I got punished for her crimes, as it were).
I clearly remember one incident, and still have the scars to show for it.
My sister had decided it would be funny if she trapped me in a closet in the dark. She'd let me think she had left, then as soon as I started to open the door and peek out to see if it was safe, she'd bodycheck the door into my face, throwing me across the closet, while she laughed cruelly and called me names. Well, I'd about had enough of it, so the next time she did that I tried to do just that: punch her through the door. Didn't work, as she dodged it, but I DID punch clean through. It didn't even hurt... until I pulled my arm back OUT of the door, and all those fresh new slivers of wood pointing outwards from the punch dug into my arm, leaving deep gashes all the way down as I screamed. There was a spattered trail of blood everywhere from the closet to the bathroom. It was spraying, and it didn't even hit the major arteries, just small ones.
Next thing I know I'm on my way to the emergency room for stitches, with a towel wrapped around my arm. Like I said... I've still got the scars on my arm to remind me every day not to lose my temper like that, and to consider the potential outcome BEFORE I act on instinct or in anger.
So yeah. Don't punch through a door. It's really not worth it.
Damn that's horrible, I hope you're alright
@@mackaylacook148 Other than the scars to remind me, lol. I'm much more patient and don't act so rashly anymore, at least when it comes to anything that could cause harm. I actually think first "who could get hurt and how" when I'm upset. Still don't always make the best choice, but at least I consider them.
@@ArtemisKitty that's good at least, hope all goes well for you in your near and far future
That last one was like a script for a John Malkovich art film/dark comedy.
On the door one I kind of thought he was just gonna smack the guy in the face with the door.
Slowly going mad “working” retail...
Man if I got hired for that job I'd just chill in the break room playing my nintendo switch until someone noticed. I'd probably end up fired pretty quick but who cares?
The last story was like some twilight zone/ creepypasta story
That last story reminded me of the tom hanks film where he couldnt leave the airport and just paced around the place.
OP was lucky to have that first job. They got eat free candy.😆
Tania Bams yeah but can you say diabeetus 😂
Dude had it made. why would you ever leave that job. I would have rode it out til probation period was up and went for a raise just to see how far i could go doing nothing. Like he had the perfect chance to stick it to the man. While destroying a Karen manager and participate in a epic social experiment and get paid for hanging out basically. What a absolute waste
Wow. What a job. They could have called this job product survey and customer assistant.
That last one was... BEYOND bizarre.
This reminds me of the stories on the website clients from hell. They bring in the expert into the meeting and just ignore him telling them it won't work because they don't value expertise and just assume "it can't be that complicated" and a bunch of business people with no technical knowledge is all you need to run things.
Not even sure what I would do if I got a job and my only instructions were "find something to do." Maybe I'd just do nothing all day like the poster did, maybe I'd actually find stuff that I thought needed to be done in the story, maybe I'd just clock in and work on something completely unrelated. The poster could conceivably have gotten a double paycheck, one for being clocked in at the store and one for doing some other job on his laptop.
My bosses asked me to write some software. I recommended they buy some commercially available software instead. They said they wanted a custom job. I said, well, it took 100 people 5 years to create that software. I could do it, but it will take me 500 years. They just looked stunned. They ended up buying the software.
$75.00 for a new hollow core door . $100.00 for professional installation . You still
Owe $75.00
PR = Public Relations, not IT.Technically, the OP and the other student's job was suppose to be A: keep PR department computers working and accessing internet, B: Help with user-level e-mail issues, and C: upload PR stuff to the website as needed.
@19:30 It would have been fun if he had given his boss(?) from that job as a reference in the new one. Imagine what would have happened when someone else wondered who this person was that they had seen quite often at the store. They weren't sure what he did, but he was always there. They had him listed as an employee, but that was it.
there are some other things that can happen at an airport regarding fuel pipelines. a previous manager with the refueling company had to have airport security escort out a team of contractors who were trying to drill a hole in the tarmac. the only issue was that their plans/info didnt mention the 6" pipeline path that their set drill spot was set directly above. the previous manager knew where the pipe was and notified them, the drillers were belligerent. they got escorted and kicked off the property. no damage done but drilling a hole in a 6" pressurized active pipeline isnt pretty to imagine.
I have to say that my last workplace was better than most... I turned up on the first day to a 2 week follow this guy and learn from him about how to do things...
Everyone who started at our workplace was assigned to a operator who you shadowed for 2 weeks. Basically you progressed up the chain of operators by training your replacement. The better you train them... The higher up you go.
Only ever had one guy that started on a monday, the operator he was working with reported that he had gone missing 45 minutes into the shift... The guy had simply up and left. Clocked out and gone home.
We also had a guy that came in, sat down on a pallet, read the newspaper circling jobs and then walked out after 4 hours of sitting, to go for a job interview. (he had literally been hired the week before and this was his first day.) Suffice to say he was told not to come back. Our employment policy at the company was 3 month trial period with contract offer available. If you were good... you got offered a contract and full employment. ( I did 2 weeks and got my contract. worked there 13 years.)
I actualy realy like this system. It ensures highly competent empolyees, emedietly adds the new employe in the sosial hiarchy and provides motivation for everyone to do well.
Gotta just love the "Peter Principal" at work , especially when it comes to aircraft.
That retail story was some Twilight Zone shit
The "twilight zone retail" story, as called by Eric Ling 2 days prior to my posting, should have had the manager reported for not telling the person that 1) he gets lunch breaks 2) giving the man a break 3) assigning the man actual work and 4) negligence.
19:30: HE NEVER REVELEAD IT TO ANYBODY THERE?!?
Heard that " We'll make it work before ". Not as serious as this though, but humorous. They were re-designing the water treatment system, and the final pH adjustment tank was to be installed. The problem is that the tank was 10ft square and 4ft deep and that actual space where it was to be installed was 10ft wide x 4 ft deep x 1ft long. The place where they thought they could put the tank was occupied by a 20000 liter holding tank on 4 legs over a 5000 liter sump where the process water drained to before being pumped into the tank.The " plans " were made from what the maintenance VP thought he remembered what the space looked like. Nobody ever checked and the so-called plans had no detailed measurements and looked like a photo copy of a free-hand drawing on a paper serviette.
The 100 dollar bet would have been won by me too, but in a different way. The only way he could place me on the paper, then close the door and stand on it himself is if the door opens in his direction. Thus, I would simply push open the door, and he would be pushed off the paper. The rules said that was not allowed and would win by his "cheating".
when they said we will make it work they meant we will abuse our authority to try to force them to refuel here. didn't work.
That last one sounds like my ideal job.
That last one felt like a Seinfeld episode. Doing nothing all day.
3 hours after closing to clean up the Deli? I wish I had that kind of time to clean up when I worked in a supermarket deli. I was expected to be out AT closing time with all the cleaning done so I was waiting on customers while doing all the cleanup solo.
We were not allowed to have a ring for service bell either since that made the store look bad so doing dishes meant stopping every few seconds to look around the wall to see if there were any customers at the counter.
0:34 "Type-A personalities" This is *literally* cigarette ad bullshit.
Dodododododododo picture if you will...one man ...many isles...trapped in a space between boredom and bad bosses...stay with us as we venture in....the twilight zone!
Just because you are in a higher position than other people does not mean that you are smarter than everyone. A truly smart person is a person that can respect the opinions of everyone below them.
was thinking Franz Kafka for that last, surreal one
my mans in the last story didnt go to work he freaking astral projected there
Coming to a theater near you, *Surrealtail* Beware the back isles. There's no one to hear your internalized screams. Rated M for Midlife Crisis
The last one was the origin of the endless Ikea.
That last story sounded like it would fit as part of the backstory to Dane Cook's character in Employee of the Month. I could imagine him just pacing the aisles and playing all the games, before management noticed he was there and he had to build a clubhouse in the upper shelves to get away.
Twilight zone retail, not quite horrifying but unsettling to no end.
Yup that would have made a great Twilight Zone episode. I cant believe OP lasted that long wandering the aisles, I'd go nuts the first day.
That last one was incredible. Tho s this was a near horror for the person, it would be the dream job for a lot of people.
Damn, who was that Battalion Chief, Wallace Boden? 🤣
Chicago fire reference, nice!
Plot twist: The airport workers who approved the new gate later went on to design the 737 Max.
The last one the kid could've gotten away with anything. without being assigned a department means there was no one to train him or make sure he was doing what he was supposed to do. He could've clocked went home and only return to clock in and out for lunch and his shift and no one would've been the wiser.
My husband punched thru one of those flimsy doors.,,,,,,then complained for the rest of the day while he went out, got new, better door, carted it back, and replaced the damaged door. All i did was laugh at him.
12 minutes in and I've had 5 adverts? Knew there was a reason I preferred rslash
the last dude completely disassociated with the world and went on auto pilot
Retail does that to you, especially when no one gives you anything to do xD I once managed to fall asleep and continue to check out customers for 20 minutes and no one noticed. It was literally so ingrained as an automatism that my sleepwalking self just proceeded to continue where my waking self left off.
How do you have an employee doing nothing for so long and not notice?
Following people and waiting to see if they notice.😆
Thought the last one would have a more exciting ending.
Like the Manager lady trying to berate OP, but gets chewed out by her bosses.
That last story would honestly make such a good movie if they made it a psychological thriller. Hollywood or Netflix get on this.
never worked there,
but that last one sounds like Walmart.
I can just imagine some doofy looking teenager walking around in a store with shoes 2 sizes too large, eating candy, and following other people around like a lost dog. That just cracks me up! Hahaha how can a company be so careless?
My guess is that the manager thought someone else was taking care of his training and/or didn't realize that she was responsible for it. I've worked for places where "not my problem" goes a long ways towards creating situations like this.
He might as well have clocked in, went home and clocked back out after 8 hours. 😂😂
You ask how the airport management could make such a hoirriblke mistake? Simple! They are business school graduates who have no idea what their business actually does. I worked in an urban ER that had the same problem when the nuns left and the "professional" managers came in. We constantly got policy directives that would kil patients if followed because not one of these idiots had ever held the business end of a bedpan.
Somehow I find it comforting to know we were not the only victims of the business school obsession with profit over service.
The dad could have just opened the door and hit the guy with that. Not to mention that would force the guy off the paper as well
I just love when upper management ignores the opinion of people that work on the same (or similiar) things everyday, and as such, they usually know everything that there is to know on the subject.