I've had quite a few bad jobs.
I had one job working in a campsite restaurant/bar for two months over the summer. It was officially only a bar and when health inspectors turned up the door was locked. When they said they'd be back all of the food was moved to different places, including the staff quarters, and we pretended to be only a bar.
The boss was a complete and utter moron. His "motivation technique" was to shout at people.
There was one girl who the boss always sided with because he "liked her tits". This girl always played politics. She wanted the morning shift so she could go out and get drunk at night. Then realised the morning shift wasn't so great for staying out till 6am and then starting work at 7am. So she wanted my shift which was the evening shift and got it. Then she realised she'd have to carry heavy boxes so demanded to be moved again, and got what she wanted every time.
One time, on the busy night which was a Tuesday night when the mobile karaoke turned up, she wanted to go out, but we obviously had a lot of work to do.I'd been working my ass off all night, then it came to clean up time, I was going to go slower. But the boss walked in and she just happened to then make a comment about me not working hard. This is the sort of girl who almost never worked hard. So the boss told me off. Luckily his co-partner, who dealt with the diving side of the business, was there and I bitched about my boss and his business partner agreed. Life because a little easier.
Other than that I had an English teaching job with so many hours in a row it gave me a permanent headache that lasted a month after I'd quit the job.
I worked for a company during holidays and watched it sink and sink and sink as a business. They closed most of them down now, including the two I worked for. The bonus was that because I kept coming and going I kept getting put on the system and got given redundancy pay THREE times. I even managed get two bosses at one time from a different place who covered because we couldn't get managers, and they did everything in their power to make sure nothing good happened. All sorts of laws were being broken. Then another guy took over and they said if he managed to make a profit they'd keep the place open. He made a profit and they closed it down.
Current job I have is also pretty rubbish. I get told to do something that is so bad it's embarrassing. Mainly because I'm the only person in the whole company that has a clue what they're doing. I literally keep having meeting to tell my boss how to do her job.
But then I tell them stuff and they don't listen. Two weeks ago they came and said I had to do something. I told them it was a load of rubbish. So the boss said she'd go to the bigger boss. She didn't, she just got someone to make a slightly different plan, then came back, i said it was the same rubbish. So they had a big meeting, told me they'd listened to me and made changes. Then 2 hours before we had to put this into practice, they came and told me it was the same rubbish as it had been two weeks ago.
A week Sunday it's going to be very, VERY embarrassing when it all goes wrong. And I'll be like "I told you so you effing morons".
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