So I don’t wanna come off as depressing but the non-funny answer is when I had to leave work early bc my Mom was passing away from cancer🥺, sad answer aside onto funny answer lol, probably 2nd worst moment at work for me was when I worked Door2Door in the Southside of Chicago activating Free Gov phones and I had a gun pointed at me😂I had a gun threatened like 4-5 times throughout the job but the actual gun out spooked me, I just said in the most polite voice “I apologize and I will most certainly take you off of our list” like I get it, Door to Door people suck but it was a free phone and you could just say no. Anyways sorry for the rambling, what kinda shitty jobs have yall done and what would you say were the worst moments?
Really sorry to hear about your mom OP, I hope you’re doing ok <3
It all blends into one grey paste of shit for me, there are a few moments that standout of violence inflcited on others by managers, peoples limbs getting severed through machinery or sexual harrasment by people in positions of authority over 16 y/o women but I dont feel like trauma dumping today.
Thank you, it was over a year ago by now so I’m doing good 😊👍, tbh a little gun-toting sounds like small potatoes compared to what you saw. The broken limbs alone is worse than anything I saw.
It aint a contest comrade, im away from the hard times now in a social sciences adjacent role where im able to help people everyday and I can work from home, im not going thru it anymore save for the trauma associated with life before I hit 30, I certaintly have never had someone pull a gun on me!
Yeah I mean I wasn’t super afraid of it, maybe I should’ve been tho. It WAS one of the more crime heavy areas of Chicago, picture the areas that you’ve heard about in rap songs, not O Block tho, luckily nobody I know was ever sent there
I had a job working at a shelter for human trafficking victims for a while. The stories those people told me were just gut wrenching.
If I had to choose one that affected me personally I’d choose the moment one of the criminals linked to the above mentioned ‘industry’ came to our place and threw rotting raw flesh all over the building. It was some sort of revenge thing. One of the worst smells I ever experienced and it took weeks to get out.
Or the one time some dude with an axe came to our place to actually kill someone. I was behind bullet proof glass at the time so he couldn’t smash it but the thought of almost being killed if it weren’t for a piece of glass is something.
Another contender is the time I was guiding a group of young guys who came from a difficult upbringing. One of them got stabbed to death due to a beef inside the drill rap world. That was hard too.
Can’t really choose between the three of them. Equally bad if you ask me.
I have always worked in some form of customer service, which has all kinds of…fun moments. Highschool through university I worked in restaurants. Got the full gamut of rude customers, customers rolling in thirty seconds before close, etc. Had a customer try to pay us in cocaine once, which we do not accept as legal tender.
I am in [luxury] hospitality now and have had to deal with all kinds of entitled jerks and celebrities. Including some heads of states that I have very strong negative opinions about. The mid tier CEOs are the worst though, because they think they are far more important than they actually are. Had a guy call the police while he was checking out because he didn’t want “a foreigner” handling his luggage.
Saved us the effort of blacklisting him, because the police obviously escorted him out instead.
Lol the payment in cocaine is cracking me up, I wonder if he did the math in his head as to whether the amount of coke he handed over was fair given the market value plus tip. At that point I guess the small amount of coke that would be your tip would be entitled to you😂
Lol when I was working front desk at a gym there was always this one asshole who would make a huge fucking mess in the sink, washing his goddamn phone. And this asshole would always do this shit when I was actually in the fucking bathroom cleaning it at the end of my shift as if I’m not right there. You see me cleaning motherfucker the least you could do is not make a goddamn mess.
Probably less severe than getting a gun pulled on you but that was certainly the worst for me, next to nearly getting into a fight with a manager for trying to make me take full responsibility for two dogs that gotten into a fight when the rules said I shouldn’t have been out there by myself. I quit that very same day lmao I was about to throw hands with this dude.
Washing his…phone?
That’s correct, he would wash his phone in the sink along with his hands, and it always made a huge fucking mess 😑
Giving my 200% for a full month and then learning that I was being shit talked behind my back by my bosses that had let the situation deteriorate to the point that I was doin 10h+ days for a full month. Like at the very least have the decency to not be overheard.
When I suggest people they go ask for a rise and they refuse because they dislike the boss to the point that they’d rather never talk with him than exploit him.
