Super Best Friendcast Live: "Work sucks and jobs are stupid."

[@cypher1419]

Pat's story is partially why I always treat people who work in retail to the highest level of politeness, having worked retail myself I know exactly how soul crushing it is.

[@brigaderxxx]

you are one of the kind people... bless you

[@ronyncato7206]

Retail turns you into a person who truly believes that every single sapient being who enters your field of vision fits one of the following descriptions: 1) Savage primates that are the guests to the zoo, not behind the cage as YOU are. 2) Walking piles of annoyance who spew useless syllables out of the flapping holes in their face. 3) Thieves 4) Enemies. Just straight up enemies. Enemies whom it feels good to deny something they want if it conflicts with company policy.

[@Exel3nce]

Is it really that bad because i was planning to work in retail

[@cypher1419]

BeThomsen I really only speak for myself but I had this tub of shit manager that would view the entire store through a window from his office and bang on it when he wants your attention. I got accused of stealing $500 from the cashier, same as Pat being asked to come in on my day off. Dealing with stupid moronic customers and much more. You would probably have a better experience that either of us did, the only advice I could give you is to remember you rights as an employee.

[@Viewtifulyoshi]

It's... draining. Some customers just straight up don't see you as human and your bosses... let's just say the Zaibatsu weren't exaggerating in this video. Your patience will be tested. Good luck either way, man.

[@Dingalow]

My God, Pat's boss seeing him walk by the shop on his day off and saying "we need you, come in" and then saying "we'll talk about this on Monday" had to be the most shocking part of Pat's stories.

[@ms272885]

Also Pat's handling of the situation would have made the movie "Clerks" much shorter.

[@thunderborn3231]

and hes not alone it fucking happens ALOT. you dont shop and you dont eat where you work because at any moment they can just pull you into the back and say get to fucking work

[@thunderborn3231]

and lets be honest if anyone actually successfully put in a complaint that got noticed then they would find a reason to get rid of you and other companies would think twice about hiring you because your listed as a fucking snitch

[@Dingalow]

thunderborn 32 Boy fuck that. I guess I got off easy in my retail job because they never did that shit.

[@Mrcrazy80]

I'm getting anxious just reading about this shit. So glad I live in a country with strong unions.

[@chasewilson3693]

I once had a job at one of my local Uni's libraries. Actually pretty sweet position that gave me a lot of hours, paid decently well, asked very little of me, the women who was my boss was super sweet, and most importantly they let you just watch videos on your laptop when nothing was happening (which was most of the time because its a fucking library in 2017). Then, the senior manager of the library, who was my bosses boss, decided that because of "library user feedback" we were no longer allowed to use laptops when we were on shift. As someone who had like ten hour shifts during the weekend, this was a fucking nightmare due to how boring things got. Now you may be asking "why don't i just read some of the libraries books", well because it was a LAW library filled with old boring law books written in the most boring way possible (and i was not a law major of any kind). And i couldn't bring my own books because it was "against library policy". Furthermore, we later discovered that this change was implemented not because of "library feedback" (because no such feedback existed), but because the reference department got jealous of how easy the student jobs were and wanted to make our time there awful. Jealous cunts pressuring the senior library manager to make student workers lives miserable.....what a fucking world we live in.

[@Rockymann27]

Well, when you learned this, why didnt you lobby for the reference department to be treated the same as yours? You know, making it fair for everyone?

[@BusterKay916]

Sorry but I'll take "boring" over the stress of dealing with all of the cunts/assholes of the general public any day of the week. Not to say what happened to you didn't suck, but there are a lot of shittier jobs, namely any job that deals directly with the public, especially food service.

[@chasewilson3693]

@Rockymann27 I was a part time student worker and the reference department were all full time tenured veterans...which makes it even sadder. @Buster916 Oh i know, just sharing how shit jobs can become due to stupid bullshit because that is what this comment section is now

[@Pastelmelodies]

Buster916 I've worked both a fast paced, customer facing retail job where they didn't give a crap about your wellbeing/horrible customers and a 'boring', easy office job where they cared a lot about you... and I actually missed the retail job at times just because the days went fast and I always had something to do (even though I used to come home crying most nights)... It is a thing where a job can be so boring and feel so unfulfiling that you end up just as down about it as a stressful job, I've felt it. Literally having nothing to do at a desk for 6 hours can be soul crushing.

[@xkavarsmith9322]

Jokes on them. You have an arsenal at your finger tips. Find the section about workplace law and apply it to them.

[@jacobpohlabel4156]

"We'll talk about this on Monday." "Cool. Then we can all have a nice chat with the department of labor, too."

[@lordy2778]

Pat's "just do both" story reminded me of coming back from two months of sick leave in hospital at an old office job to discover that, while I was away, my boss had driven away the entire rest of the admin staff. So I, a not fully recovered admin assistant on minimum wage was told to handle my own job, the administrator's job, and the office manager's job until the boss got around to interviewing new potential staff. I would then have to teach the new staff how to do the higher paid office jobs until they got used to things and learned where all the stuff in the office was. But hey, he offered me 50 cents extra an hour!

[@kentalacrucia]

Lordy I will never fucking understand people who get excited at a 25 or 50 cent raise. Yeah sure it adds up over time, but it’s only 25 or 50 FUCKING CENTS!

[@erikstrasburg6411]

Here's an odd a scummy possibly illegal thing my work does. We don't clock out for lunch. 30 minutes is automatically deducted from our hours wether we get a lunch break or not. Hospital work ftw. . .

[@messeuravril540]

The BOSS is your enemy, in games as in real life!

[@dsg2v]

I miss angrypat, but I am happy he's happier....if that makes sense

[@louiesalmon3932]

*Glad Dummy is letting you go.

[@d4c467]

You could always mention John Leguizamo.

[@F_lippy]

It makes cents

[@LittleMountain90]

Happypat is, in many ways, more disturbing than Angrypat ever was.

[@HoChiMints2007]

happypat is cuter

[@TheOnyxRanger]

Pat's retail experience is describing, almost word for word, my own retail experience. Fuuuuuuuuck retail.

[@thunderborn3231]

everyones retail story...is it illegal? yes ...did they get away with it? yes

[@phonzeh]

Same here. I work for a Canadian grocery/dept store as well and I can directly relate to what he said. Word-for-word.

[@EyeBeZombie]

Retail is possibly the worst job in the world honestly your better off being a garbage man

[@CommunistPanda1776]

Clownman garbage men are government workers and get more money and benefits than the average retail employee, hell yes become a garbage man instead

[@gloverelaxis]

its not just retail, it's capitalism folks

[@ArcRay20]

im surprised none of them had the ordeal of "well if you're sick you cant just call in like that, its [blank]'s day off and we need 4 people here". like if i understood the wording for that ridiculous policy, even if you had the most contagious illness, you have to come in for them to even decide if you shouldnt come into work. so remember, you getting sick through no fault of your own is you being deliberately rude to your co-workers

[@Psycosis13]

Arc Ray No I have "you can't call off because we only have 4 people that work there and you're the only closer. In 3 years at my job I've only called off twice

[@talynhastime9343]

+Arc Ray Compounded with the fact that if you're say, working to support the family and your whole family gets sick, your house basically becomes a petri dish and it's only a matter of time before *you* get sick. Not to mention that if too many kids get sick, you may have to stay home to take care of them. Happened to my mother countless number of times where one kid got sick, got better, then another got sick, got better, and they were too young to stay home by themselves. GOD FORBID.

[@FullCircleTZ]

Arc Ray this is also why I don't eat at Jimmy John's.

[@Al-cy9qn]

Arc Ray That's one of the many reasons I hate my Job. DO NOT BE A LINE COOK. EVER. I'm still there because I'm good at it and they pay me decently. But I do not recommend it.

[@comingupooo]

I came to the conclusion a while ago of "You can't hire enough people to handle me calling out, that's a you problem, not a me problem."

[@blackdragoncyrus]

Mr. Boivin, get in, we need you here.

[@TheTygre]

Man, this makes me realize how good my retail job at Target was. Hell, when my manager asked people to work an extra day, he bought us drinks and Little Debbie cakes.

[@CoolYourGhoul]

TheTygre Man, fuck Target. I worked for them for a year, got out of Cart pushing to work the registers for another year, cross-trained for Electronics, Market, Backroom, Cashiering, and Floor, and they fucking cut all my hours because I didn't want to go back to pushing carts after a year of doing everything else around the store and filling in whenever someone called out. They didn't even have the decency to fire me, they just gave me eight hours at the register a week and told me more was coming. You can't afford tuition and rent off eight hours of work a week on minimum wage, so I told them to fuck off. Retail stores feel no obligation to help their workers. You're always just a number to them.

[@TheDandy99]

You had god tier boss

[@yersiniopestis2553]

"Hey, instead of 15 minute breaks why don't we just have 10 minute ones? We worked it out with the union and they said it was good and we'll give you a pay raise. I mean the minimum wage is increasing so anyone who gets signed on in a couple of months will make more money than you and make the pay raise for less break time pointless, but you don't know that. Don't worry we have your best interest at heart." ~My employers from my last job

[@John45363]

My job has 15 minute breaks and I take a 20 minute one every single time

[@xkavarsmith9322]

Because 15 minute breaks are required under various state laws. That's why.

[@yersiniopestis2553]

I did take 15 minute breaks on occasion only for my bosses to get pissed at me for wanting a reasonable amount of break time.

[@Yodio12]

You are my fucking spirit animal, that's real shit.

[@Rasmos]

Spooky Scary Skeletons I’m currently watching this video on a “15 minute break”. It’s been 25 minutes. Probably should get back

[@angelon3637]

I'd be perpetually angry too if I had to put up with that bullshit job.

[@magnumbadguy9354]

E N G E L S imagine the eclipse from Berserk but for 8 years. I can empathise with that pain.

[@TheGrizzlo503]

Woolie is becoming more powerful. His reboot pin has grown and is attracting smaller pins

[@nickbednarski7855]

Does anybody remember those personalty tests that they'd give you on a job application to make sure that you weren't going to steal money from the register? You know, they were about an hour long and asked stupid questions like "I'm a team player... Agree/Disagree." These things were harder to pass than the fucking MCAT. I'm not trying to get into Harvard here, I just want to make sandwiches and get $7.50 an hour. I guess the research shows that those tests work but I'm still skeptical. I took a test a long time ago to work at Panera and I got "yellow instead of green" according to the manager and that "the evaluation period will restart in 12 months". The only way to pass those is to demonstrate that you have no mind of your own and are not fit to make a cup of coffee without supervision.

[@CosmoDrazi]

Oh boy, do I remember those personality tests. Do enough of those and you know what all the landmine questions are. You know the ones that instantly fail the quiz. "I am willing to interact with the general public." I'm applying for the graveyard shift position in a stockroom specifically so that I have zero contact with the general public. "I find making friends a breeze." Did I mention that the stockroom position requires me to work alone for 8 hours? I'm sure I can make friends with Mr. Ladder and Mrs. Pushbroom. "I like being in charge of other people." Nothing says "aspirations for management" quite like applying for an entry-level position at the bottom of the ladder. "I have not lied on any of my responses." If I don't lie, I'd never even make it to the first interview. The only way for me to get an "acceptable" score is to lie my ass off. Eventually I realized that these tests are heavily biased toward Type A personalities because the managers want to hire someone who will replace them in a year or two. As the old saying goes "if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted."

[@sambeasley444]

Sounds like Myers Briggs, which I learned from business and psychology classes at University is wildly inaccurate for telling fuck all about anybody and shouldn't be used anymore, but because the world is fuck, EVERY job I've applied to has thrown one at me.

[@NameIsDoc]

Nick Bednarski having worked at a panera majority of people there couldn't make coffee on their own

[@gmkgoat]

I've taken many of those. Once I got asked straight up if I did cocaine. That was the point in my life where I knew I needed a better job.

[@Iancompetence]

I failed one to work at Wal-Mart a few years ago, glad I failed too. Anyways, I recall one question being more of an accusation, reading something like "You stole company merchandise: Agree or Disagree". Like, at least wait to hire me before treating me like crap, please.

[@Kickback2108]

"Through Let's Plays I gain money. Through Money My chains are broken." The code of the rising Zaibatsu.

[@Prnnce]

Super Best Friends of the world unite, you only have your chains to lose, you have Za Wardo to gain.

[@Znijik]

When you spend more money in an attempt to save money with something that's inconvenient for everyone, you have achieved the top level of idiot boss.

[@xRagingDragon04x]

The crazy part is, they're not looking at the long term, just short term. Where I work at the refrigerated table that keeps toppings cool keeps malfuctioning every 4 days. Its been doing this for almost 3-4 months now. I pitched in to my supervisor about getting a new table. His response? "A new table? No thats too expensive? Does the old one still work? Lets just make it work".... so every four days we have to call maintenance to come to the store, and pray that the table stays cold enough for toppings to stay cold, or else paying out of pocket money for ice bags to keep everything cold. I get that its cheaper to do this, really I do. But its also a huge fucking inconvenience to the staff and myself. In my head I so baldy want to tell this corporate douche "Congratulations on saving the company a little, on an investment that you'll eventually have to do regardless. Hope your bonus is worth the suffering and abuse we suffer from customers complaining that toppings dont look entirely fresh, when it isn't even our fault." Working retail or in the fast food business is a nightmare.

[@grabnaur]

@@xRagingDragon04x was the repairman doing there job? it's possible they were dicking around so they could get repeat business.

[@xRagingDragon04x]

I wouldnt know for sure, he's from the company so I'd like to think he's actually trying to get it fixed. But I think the table keeps leaking the coolant so he has to keep coming back to replace it. Its just a giant inconvinience all together

[@GlassbrainZ]

hahahaha you FOOL that is merely entry level idiot bossery

[@ElectricTyro]

I work at a country club where management decided to spend like well over a hundred grand on these high tech golf carts that have BLACK SEATS. They bake in the sun all day and can get like dangerously hot. So stupid.

[@ramen947]

BLACK SEATS

[@anluzdom6086]

Listening it during corona is...yeah

[@cthulhuhoops]

Pat's rant about the biometric scanning in a grocery store reminds me of when my old job (also at a grocery store) brought that same shit in. SAME problems happened, of course.

[@Wanderer_of_Sol]

Pat's story hit pretty close to home. I worked for Walmart about 10 years ago, and man, did they really want to make you work off the clock. I worked in Lawn and Garden, and even in a 24 hour store, that department closes at 10pm. There were so many times that they would ask me to close, but have me scheduled to get off at 10. So I'd wrap up at 10:30 and clock out then. So what they would do to make sure I didn't got above 39 hours a week, was take longer *unpaid* lunches. Like I'd have to take a 2 or 3 hour lunch here and there to "kill my overtime". Also, they told me "We'd prefer you didn't leave the premises during your shift", which actually I could be, and was a few times, reprimanded for leaving the shopping center for those 2 or 3 hours. So once in a while I was basically stuck in the break room for hours doing nothing.

[@michealhudson5664]

That's weird, because I worked at the Home Office for a little bit and you HAD to clock out for lunch, and you could not do anything or even talk to someone about your work. If you were scheduled out at 4, you left at 4 no question.

[@Wanderer_of_Sol]

Yeah, that was a rule we also had. No work off the clock, and if we were on break and for any reason we didn't get a full 15 minutes (literally any small thing cuts a second out of that break) you had to start the break over and take another 15. These rules were largely ignored while I was there. You could technically leave at shift's end, but if you did you would be chewed out about it. Like very similar to Pat's story, they'd be pissed you didn't finish your work, even though you were told not to start closing until it was already your shift's end. At the end of the summer they moved me to unloading, and on a couple occasions we got a lot of large trucks back to back to back and I had to stay late. On those occasions I was asked to fill out a report stating that I "forgot to clock out" and they doctored my hours. A couple years after I left shit hit the fan and a lot of supervisors got removed. I might have looked suspicious that everyone on the unloading team all forgot to clock out on the same days. A lot of those issues might have come from the fact that I'm in a rural area. We didn't even have a dedicated store manager, instead we had someone who would float between our store and the next nearest one, which is about 30 miles away. Lot's of stuff slipped through the cracks at that store. My fondest memory is one of my supervisors doing donuts in the parking lot with a forklift that he had just used to roll one of the ornamental boulders back into place after a semi crashed into it and it rolled into the road. Which happened at least once every couple weeks. I'd bet you don't see that kind of stuff around the home office :)

[@michealhudson5664]

HA! That's badass! No, definitely did not see that stuff, lol. The building I worked at was awful. Just horrible atmosphere, just this swamp of people that you could tell hated being there. Wal-Mart is just a shitty company. No question.

[@comingupooo]

...how did you not just burn that place to the ground?

[@Wanderer_of_Sol]

Two things. 1. I only needed a few grand more to start my own business, so I suffered through it 2. by the end of the year that store was going to be closed, because they were going to open a super walmart across the street. So I would have been burning down a store that was going to close in a few months anyway And to be fair, that store was already falling apart. One time while I was still in lawn and garden we had a torrential downpour. The roof started leaking (or rather pouring) directly onto the register and shut the whole department down for the rest of the day. Two of our security cameras were missing and the orb case thing was shattered on one of them. At one point I had to chase a rat snake out of the mulch bag pile. The whole place was going to hell :)

[@AntiNihilist]

This was the best podcast to hear on the day I put in my two week notice

[@Ethzed]

ponquinful good luck man, congrats

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

My first job was so fucking bad I didn’t even give a notice, that chef can go fuck himself. Casually referring to employees as bastards and shit...

[@Grigori7]

Oh god, You all don't know how bad I needed to hear these stories tonight. It's always nice to know other people have felt the pain I have.

[@meteor22]

Before I got to the end of your comment I thought it was going to say " It's good to know other people had it worst than I did". I would lol'd so hard.

[@thunderborn3231]

worked in one of those walmart neighborhood markets we had huge sales became a training store all kinds of stuff. people would get the job work 2 weeks for their first check and quit. so the office stopped them from hiring people but didnt replace the ones quitting. i was over meat dairy frozen but the produce people the deli people and alot of the stockers quit so they just told us instead of being assigned to a department to just work every department when we were on shift. so you would maniacally have to run around the entire store constantly trying to stock shelves put out meat fill up freezers and milk and cut fucking meat for sandwhiches and cut corn or put out veggies and your the only person on fucking schedule in the back that night

[@thunderborn3231]

but as with every other fucking retail story ...is it illegal? yes did they get away with it? yes

[@LainWithSweetTea]

My first job as a teenager was a goodwill greeter donation sorter. There were multiple times where women in evening dresses would walk in with drown paper baggies with damp ladies undergarment and evening clothes and give it to us as a "donation" and then speed out of the parking lot. Fully realizing how disgusting this was and not wanting to sort it I went to my boss about the issue. She basically said "sort it anyway you dumb kid." and I watched where those soiled unremarkables went afterwards....none of the clothes in goodwill are ever washed. They folded the soiled clothes and put them on hangers in the store after they dried and put them out for sale in the store .__. We also got dildos and the like with these sorts of donations and they were also put out on shelves among random obscure electronics because they dont want to throw it away...I hope anyone out there reading this is ruined in goodwill immediately because I have to bathe myself after just looking at one... *shudders*

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

I mean, that’s shit, but as far as I know it’s commonly understood that you wash anything you get from goodwill before wearing it

[@rosado3D]

24:19 I'll save you all the trouble of looking. Here's the best part of this whole conversation

[@Mr_Meatbox]

Wander Tasogare 7 IT'S MY DAY OFF!

[@tailedgates9]

"We're going to talk about this on Monday." Seriously though, fuck that. Lol

[@Sirnayooo]

The balloon. Gotta get the balloon The balloon. Gotta get the balloon The balloon.

[@JAKX091]

Oh no! My balloon! *viciously mashing the jump button*

[@spartacus778]

I quit my job a couple months ago and I couldn't be happier.

[@MultiTsunayoshi]

So how will you eat from now on?

[@xAxLxExCx]

MultiTsunayoshi If he's smart, from the food the earth gives us. But that makes too much sense. Let's all work shitty low paying jobs and eat fast food and die! YEAH!

[@spartacus778]

I hated my job at the airport for long enough that I saved my money. I can be jobless for a long time.

[@jerrymcghoulberry355]

Good for you Fred!

[@davidvillarrius6313]

Fortunate Fred More power to you, here's to a better way to make money!

[@TheFuryHasCome]

I got a story for those willing to read it. The company I used to work for did what I to this day still believe is one of the dumbest and most greedy fucking versions of cost effective planning. Here’s what they did. They used to pay all the basic workers *well* above the minimum wage, which was about $15 or more an hour. And they could do this because this was the cruise industry and they make a lot of fucking dough so they can afford to do that. And then here’s what they thought, “why do we even pay our basic workers that much?” So then they proceeded to lower the pay down to $9. And a bunch of workers who had been there for years quit, went on strike, and so on. And then the higher-ups figured “fuck’em. Let’s proceed to phase 2 of the plan.” And this plan was to force these conditions onto their workers to the point where the previously mentioned outrage would occur so that they didn’t have to bother with the old guard anymore, and they can then proceed to do mass hiring events every summer after that for new potential people that had no knowledge of the previous events. So naturally the problem they caused would solve itself right? No. Because now new problems that weren’t there before arose. Like, “I’m barely given any hours in the week and I’m making fuck-all working here! This was not our initial agreement!” So eventually, some of those new workers would quit because they weren’t paid the amount that was worth the amount of effort they were doing for little to no hours. So guess what? More hiring events! Spend more money on more hiring events to get some poor saps in here! And pay extra to train them from the ground up! Here’s the reason why they previously paid $15 though. It was due to the amount of work they’d put you through. You handle thousands of people a day in person among other menial and incredibly important responsibilities to make the entire event seem like an incredibly well oiled machine every day that you’re there. Some days are a breeze, others can seem somewhat overwhelming, sometimes it *was* overwhelming. But that’s what that $15 an hour was there for. To keep you from quitting and doing some steady work whether it be part-time or full-time. But all that steadiness and peace of mind was thrown out the door when they went through with this idea. After they implemented this, I figured I could work there for over a year. Wasn’t worth it. If y’all came this far and got your own stories to share, by all means, share them. You know what they say, “misery loves company.”

[@_sleepystarrynight_8119]

Poor guy, I"m frustrated no one responded to you. :( I don't have many great stories honestly, I have a spazzy side-manager I have to deal with some days, and every customer I see is awful unless they prove themselves to me, lol. But my job is overall decent, if not disposable the moment I (hopefully) get my shit together. Your story was great, so did the company never return to the normal wage? Are they now only surviving only on temporary short term employees?

[@CrossoverGameReviews]

I know this is 5 months old but I just read your story. Do you know if it was the same management or a different one? You'd think that the ones who implemented the original pay would remember why they did it when they decided on their "great" plan.

[@ManMadeGod4]

I started minimum wage and got promoted to the point of being near $5 over minimum. They raised minimum wage and my promotion now earned me $2.50 per hour over minimum. I pointed this out and they told me there was no legal obligation to change _my_ wage. Stuck around for maybe a month before I found something better and quit. I get the logic but also fuck you for thinking that.

[@TheFuryHasCome]

_ SleepyStarryNight _ I’m honestly not too sure. I may have a friend or 2 that are still there, but as soon as I left it behind, I was overall just done with anything concerning it. So I’ve never bothered to check in on it.

[@TheFuryHasCome]

Crossovers It was more than just new management, the part of the company that was responsible for handling employees and the like had been acquired by another company. And they put the idea into motion.

[@k.-flynn]

I worked for six flags for a summer in high school (6-ish years ago), and the worst ever was when they asked me to work on the second day of school. The guy that called was really confused too, I had to explain to him what public school was, and that half the workers at the park were in highschool. Then he asked how I was gonna come in the rest of the week, and I told him I quit. "You're aware you'll have to reapply if you want to work again?" "I'm not gonna work here again, thanks." Fuck six flags.

[@Royalname31]

I know this was a long time ago you published this, but is this guy seriously real? Did you have to explain what public school was? That guy deserves a slap, because holy shit.

[@k.-flynn]

@@Royalname31 I didn't have to explain it's existence, just what the first day for the district was. I even told him that half the park's workforce wouldn't be working today either and he seemed really skeptical. Six flags is involved in some super illegal work practices, not helped by the management too stupid to know the law. edit: forgot to mention that 18 year olds had the ability to sell alcohol (like Bud light and cheap wine) but 15 year olds could work the registers. And the drawer collection was at the staff entrance. And you had to get the money bag yourself. And carry it. Across the entire fucking park.

[@KnightCrown]

Was gonna share with my friend this whole section anyway. Saved me the time

[@akai1659]

The best part of retail is when you get used to skipping your half hour break because your department is so short-staffed that you don't have time.

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

I had to be told to take a break, because I tried to plan it around when I could turn my back and not see a rack of dishes instantly refill. When I got a break determined how hard the rest of my shift was

[@WTFisTingispingis]

I was approached by a manager once for the 'we need you to come in on your day off' thing. Shockingly, I didn't go, and nobody cared. I'm _amazed_ I haven't gotten my ass fired yet, and I've been working for what, two years?

[@jamesheichel6137]

AtticWarrior1994 you're probably a decent employee, those are hard to find nowadays. I work in a restaurant and never come in on my off days but because they need people who know the menu/regulars/etc. they won't fire good people, and beg you to stay if you try to quit. You should ask for a raise lol

[@JackPoppy]

Because they know that if they do fire you for refusing the optional extra hours, that can be used as a legitimate court claim, and they would end up having to pay you restitution, anyway. Holy run-on sentence, Batman.

[@LadyDecember]

I had to suffer through a recent year of a control-freak manager who watched our minutes like a HAWK. Also we had to stay quiet about her genius cost-saving methods (that ironically wasted MORE of her precious scheduled minutes for everybody, thus negating every penny she tried to save, and more on top of that in the long run) She wouldn't hear anything against them. She went on and on about open communication, but the second you even hint towards her having a bad idea, she'd get defensive and wouldn't listen. Whenever she wasn't on shift, we had to leave an email the night before for her to read in the morning so she could know everything we did while she was gone. If we clocked out late and forgot to explain why we were late in the email, she would erase those extra minutes we spent. Usually we'd sometimes be late clocking out because we had to help a new employee learn how to close, we had to finish a task so as not to leave it for the morning staff (because if we didn't, she would get on our case about burdening other employees to finish it, so it was a no-win situation, even if we truly were not given enough time to complete it), and to finish her monstrous email as per her demands. No wonder we clocked out late often. Sometimes we were even 15 minutes late trying to finish, and still got reprimanded even though we did everything she said. So yeah, if we forgot to mention why we clocked out late in the email, she would just take it upon herself to erase those extra minutes we took without telling us. Because according to her, if we don't explain what happened to cause us to go over closing time, then she could only assume that nothing happened. Really, she sat me down and told me this. And this is only the tip of the iceberg regarding the super shady things she did. I could write a book. I'm Albertan, so laws may differ from the Quebec ones Matt, Pat, and Woolie were talking about, but they've really got me thinking now, and I think I need to have a look over our own laws pertaining to this particular issue...

[@Mahathemime89]

LadyDecember from my perspective... any work must be paid... minutes or seconds otherwise... and im pretty sure slave labor... unpaid paid work is againsy any democratic or socialistic laws... im not sure about alberta and its laws but that seems super bad alone

[@Mahathemime89]

LadyDecember "My boss tells me that I have to be at work 15 minutes before my shift, but I don't start getting paid until I actually start. Can he do that? No. Any time you are required to be at work the employer has to pay you" quote from alberta federal law www.afl.org/your_rights#paid-anchor

[@coolboyyo654]

I love hearing people vent about horrible shit in jobs. I worked at McDonalds and the GM was Actually Garbage. Like, they reused schedules constantly, just scribbling out dates and putting in the next ones. Sometimes they wouldn't even have the next week's schedule until sunday of the same week. When I took my week off (that we were allowed to take) he fuckin reused the schedule of the week before i was out and tried to get me in trouble for "not showing up when scheduled" and tried to say I didn't ask for the time off even though HE SIGNED AND APPROVED THE REQUEST AND I TOOK A GODDAMN PICTURE. so glad i left lmao

[@taylorcharlton2039]

coolboyyo654 GM = Garbage Manager

[@chimarvarmidium1425]

yeah, nothing derails a campaign like a bad GM...

[@AfroMetalMizu]

I should make an LP channel to escape work and make money that way

[@LuxOverHeaven]

AfroMetalMizu we ALL should. And then we all subscribe to each other, and say "fuck you" to the system.

[@STOPPEDINCOLORADO]

If you guys ever do that, you better not be fucking lazy and make sub par content.

[@TheStrxggler]

I wish I was funny and talented enough to that.

[@iller3]

That would have worked before KZbin started slashing Monetization by 70%

[@davidvillarrius6313]

We should, but not everyone is entertaining.... It's not easy gaining an audience and keeping them. It's not labor intensive physically (depending on your content) but it is still a difficult job in its own way.

[@TheSimpleMan454]

"You have to be in this weekend. You have to stay after on the main floor. We need you in early to run back stock. Oh, you're too close to overtime. Clock out and leave, or you're trespassing." It didn't take more than one of those for me to go "Nah, get fucked."

[@thegitgudneighborhood]

I feel ya, Pat. Some of us ain't so lucky as to escape the soul-crushing machine of working in Retail. A manager I've worked under was one of the worst ever. He would frequently schedule people at the same time, have no employees to work certain shifts, and had basically a skeleton crew for the night shift. Even better, he clearly favored other employees, as there'd be Baggers assigned to a different department (for example, floral or produce) but still taking a slot on the Baggers' section of the daily schedule. "Of course, I assigned five Baggers tonight," would be what he'd say to the corporate, but maybe only two of those five are actually there to bag, the rest are in other departments basically doing fuck all while the rest of us deal with the onslaught of customers. (Ah, the customer, another rant unto itself) My favorite is when he would schedule employees (like me, oh, boy) to work shifts like SUNDAY: 9am-5pm and then MONDAY: 9pm to 7am. And no, that doesn't mean come in on 9pm on Monday, he'd make you come in at 9pm on Sunday. Meaning you'd get pretty much no sleep. Granted, this was really only during Inventory for the entire store (sigh, another nightmare under his control), but it didn't make sleepless 28-hour stretches any less difficult. The only solace I took under working under him was that even in the entirety of the company was it known how ineffective this manager was at managing a store. Dude would take 9 hours to do a full-store inventory while other stores I were sent to that were often bigger would take only five. Sigh... Man, I could rant about this for hours. I'm sure many of y'all can relate. - Awsm Chimera

[@genoman3]

I hate the "you need to smile more" complaint, because aparently just completing my tasks for the day isn't enough anymore.

[@danielmaster8776]

"You need to learn some manners." *Briskly walks away before you can say something back*

[@andieallison6792]

So happy I can wear masks at my job so I don't have to worry about that.

[@TheFuryHasCome]

I had that shit at my old sales job. I remember everyone was called up individually to the main office to be told criticisms and to give criticism about the company. They told me to smile more because I should be grateful that I had that job.

[@panoruryu]

God I feel Pat's anger on a spiritual level. My time working fast food has filled me with an utter anger towards the world, but hell, I try my best to be kind to workers.

[@Hades-fs7mv]

Yep, that's reality. The lower you are the more they fuck around with you.

[@ShyRanger]

I admit I'm still fairly young so this will come off as "no shit," but I constantly have dreams about school. The common one seems to be "if you don't pass this class you can't graduate high school," as soon as I wake up for about 10 seconds I'm like "Oh shit I need to concentrate and" then I go "Wait, no, I'ma college graduate, that was a dream, okay"

[@T4silly]

I get those too... Similar ones. I think there are varying ones.

[@skolkor]

I have dreams about having t go back to school and finish courses, but part of it is due to an unfinished bachelor thesis that's been haunting me for years.

[@kainzor100]

My mom pulled me outta high school when i was young to "home school me" needless to say she didnt teach me shit for years and id have constant nightmares realated to schools and stuff because i was worried i was gonna end up homeless or some shit by not being able to pass high school

[@TheComedicPCGamer]

ShyRanger same fam. I've had dreams where I'm in my grade school or high school but taking college courses. I would forget about a class that was in my schedule for the entire semester and a week before school ends I'd remember it existed and freak out if I failed the class or not. I get this dream because I had a teacher who would cancel class as much as she would come in to teach so most of the time I would not go because all the assignments were online. I passed with a b+ but I honestly can't remember how much I went to that class vs how much I didn't. It fucks with me. I hate it.

[@LadyDecember]

I've been out of high school for 10 years now and I STILL have school-related stress dreams! The most common one I have is that I've lost my schedule and I have NO idea which class I'm supposed to go to, and I'm terribly disoriented, wandering the halls, trying to remember, or digging in my backpack to try and find my schedule but no luck. The dream usually ends with me being at the end of the school year and suddenly realizing that I never showed up to my science class all year because I didn't know it existed and final exams are coming up! Waking up from those sucks because I'm still in that panic state where I think the dream was real and I'm like, "Oh shit! I gotta get to science class! I gotta go to the office and ask them to reprint my schedule!" Then reality sets in and I finally realize, "Wait...I'm 29 years old..."

[@smgeezus7186]

I always loved that when I was working and I was young and easily intimidated I would be working in dish washer jobs in restaurants and more often and not the other washers would end up walking out, so that always became a situation of just do both jobs which is taken care of all the different scrubbing soaking washing wiping and maintenance jobs that go into dishwashing. And I know for a fact when I was working any of those jobs if I had asked "do I get paid for both jobs?" they would have responded with "do you want your job period?"

[@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany]

The wetnap thing is an especially amateur managerial move, especially when it's an environment like QA testing where a lot of equipment used for the job is communal and it's used by EVERYONE. It is a borderline NECESSITY to make sure that the equipment is sanitary, or else contagious diseases can be easily spread, not to mention for someone to do basic maintenance so that more expensive maintenance isn't necessary. Retail especially is a labyrythine mess of incompetent management. Shorting staff on pay, lack of maintenance, pushing sales on people who aren't buying...

[@ScorpioTheScorpion1503]

Gather around boys and girls, and allow me to wax you a poetic. A poetic about someone very close to me, and their battle with a certain company named after a famous rainforest. Now, this individual signed up to be a delivery person. They would get up early in the morning, go collect the groceries from the company, and make his deliveries. He did this before going to his ACTUAL job. That's right kids; this was a second job that he had taken to make a bit of extra money. And you know what? He was pretty good at it. Until one day, he checked his phone to see what his deliveries for the day were, but his schedule was surprisingly empty. A few days passed, and the same thing - empty schedule. Finally he got an email from the company. He now knew why his schedule was empty - because he had been terminated for being late on his deliveries. Now you may be asking, "How could that be? Didn't you say he got up early to make those deliveries?" And you'd be correct. However, even though he would get there early, he still had to wait for the products to be ready for delivery. This would cause him to wait a long time, which in turn caused him to be late. Yet the company couldn’t be bothered to notice this discrepancy. All they knew was that he was being late. So they fired him. After a tedious appeal process, this person's position was reinstated about two days ago. Was he tired? Yes. Was he frustrated? Most definitely. But at the end of the day, he loved that job, and he's going to make sure to benefit from it as much as he can.

[@SugarMicebyAB]

So real! It's encouraging to know that there is a future after the garbage.

[@therealDannyVasquez]

That was a fucking awesome/awful question. I squeeze my eyes really tight and hold them shut for like 30 seconds after I get into a traumatic memory cuz it Eternal Sunshines them out of your mind forever. I had to do this every story you guys told. I feel better, so thanks :)

[@Digsidian]

That timer bullshit. Not working with Amazon again. So good to customers, so bad to employees.

[@Cooldrew100]

Yeah, that's why I don't ever order stuff from Amazon unless it's the only way to get it. Jeff Bezos has like $200,000,000,000 while his employees are passing out on the floor.

[@comingupooo]

Fuck Amazon and fuck what they did to Seattle. Literal fucking ivory towers for them while everyone who can't afford to live under a roof in the disgusting housing market they created gets to live in the fucking gutter.

[@TomboTime]

Hey guys. Congrats on hitting 700,000 subs!!! The fact that you guys don't have TONS more for how long you've been around, how much you've influenced the medium of Let's Play and how much you've contributed to both the indie game scene and the welfare of animators is absolutely criminal. Thank you guys are putting so much effort into making a variety of entertaining shit, for empowering smaller creators and for making sure your stuff is as high quality as possible on a regular basis. This is why you' always have been and always will be . . . THE HYPEST CHANNEL ON KZbin!!!

[@benbraddick7786]

I worked in an escape room company and whenever someone complained, regardless of it was a real thing that happened, they would put in crazy threatening rules. "If you set a room wrong you were immediately fired". We had rules that would contradict themselves if there was one person working you could be fired from not being in two places at once. We had four rooms, changing every hour with literally no budgeted time to put the rooms back together, people trashed those rooms and people were waiting to come in (only 2 people working). that meant that over an 8-hour shift on a Saturday night the last groups had a delay of over an hour sometimes because the time just kept building up. I'm still mad if you hadn't guessed XD

[@tylerritchie2736]

burning dollars to save pennies.

[@MrSpyhere]

this is literally the definition of "penny wise pound foolish"

[@Unknown989uk]

23:30 When i first heard this I was confused cause ive never heard of this kind of thing happening and for the past year ive had one every other night. I cant believe the amount of confusion and fear that gives me.

[@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany]

Me and my coworkers used to get together during lunch and at the mandatory drinking session after work and plan about how to screw our Walmart manager, including such tactics as backing people up who needed to call in "sick", normalizing extended lunch breaks (they can't fire all of us and they can't hire too many illegal Mexicans without anybody noticing. Shout-out to my homies Jose, "Willy" Wilfredo, and Delascasas), negotiating snacks for people who the assistant managers force to not take lunch breaks, organizing mass absences that didn't look suspicious, and in general try to make our lives less miserable and making our manager's life miserable. We called ourselves the Retail Mafia.

[@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany]

The main point of the Retail Mafia was that we did all of this stuff in secret and without it looking like we were cooperating, because Walmart makes being part of a union a fireable offense: davis-firm.com/walmart_vs_labor_unions/

[@_sleepystarrynight_8119]

wow that's great

[@Puckosar]

@@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany being part of a union is a firable offense... that is hilariously evil. To an almost cartoonish level.

[@Gamegeneral]

24:20 this is why I sometimes sit bolt upright in the middle of the night, because something somewhere made a sound kinda similar to a radio that I used to have to carry for five years at my old job.

[@jgarfunkle]

You think that's bad I had to test The Order 1886 13 hours a day, sometimes 15 to 17 hours 6 days a week and and on the 7th day 9-5 so I can work my other job for attendance so I wouldn't lose it. Don't believe me? Marques or Sir Percivals whole name is *INHALES* Joseph Marie John Paul Ives Roch Gilbert De Motier Marques de Lafayette... Nearly killed me. EDIT: Double checked and it's Marie Joseph Paul Ives Roch Gilbert Motier Marques de Lafayette MY BAD!

[@mexicangoose6461]

jgarfunkle You suffered that much for that shitty game? You sir are a hero.

[@rageinryan185]

Pats’ past retail experiences almost completely mirror my current retail experiences with the added “bonus” of upper management noticing I’m a “hard worker” which gives them the future okay to ask me to do sub-glamorous parts that they don’t want to do at the risk of them being fired because like me and everyone else who works in my store for longer than 6 months just doesn’t give a shit anymore as well as doing my job on top of that without any raise for fulfilling managerial duties with no formal training.

[@midoriaikawa6973]

You have two gauges. One is "I really need the money" and the other is "I don't care if I get fired". Eventually "Not caring if you get fired" fills up as your patience drains. It overlaps the "Need for money" gauge and you either end up on "I'll do the job but I don't care if I get fired" which leads to great productivity or "I'll do the job and looks for a job on the side and quit immediately after I find anything else because fuck this job" which inventively leads to that employee randomly leaving once they find that job and leaving a huge gap during that week.

[@AwesomePolarBear]

I work at GameStop and it's a great time. Co-workers are great people and we play games together. Been playing Monster Hunter with them a bunch. Very rarely we get the unruly customer but maybe it's where we're located or just the people being cool.

[@XxNin10dohgamerxX]

yeah I'd agree. I work in retail and I don't like working there because it's not really what I'm trying to do with my life but, my managers and co workers are chill enough that it's not that bad. Not to mention I'm getting paid so it's worth it atm

[@davidvillarrius6313]

Omega Zane If you weren't being paid I would be concerned.

[@lv.2073]

Omega Zane SAME THO

[@tigerfestivals5137]

A Generic Name idk, I've heard enough horror stories of gamestop to think thay they also have similar bullshit at many locations. It's good your specific location isn't bad though.

[@JaXonSlade]

Gamestop rarely hires though :/

[@watuhboy]

I laugh to keep from crying.

[@lisledre]

And this is Quebec. The US state I’m in has no unions and is “right to work” meaning while I can quit whenever, they can come up with any BS reason and fire me. We get one 30 minute break for 7-9 hour shifts on our feet dealing with people (in person and phones), it’s absolute horseshit.

[@CaylexT]

I'm in Ontario (Quebec's neighbouring province) and while technically a job can't fire you without probable cause, they overwhelmingly do anyway because anyone they don't like can be fired for a "bad attitude" and there's no follow-up.

[@andieallison6792]

Where do you live? Where I am we have 15 min breaks every two hours and one 30 min break.

[@Fa11inglightofficial]

I used to work in retail. One place we got half an hour for lunches. a new store manager decided that if any member of staff needed to use the bathroom while not on break it would immediately knock 15 minutes off their allocated break time, regardless of how little the time was they were in the bathroom.

[@JustinJTime]

Which is actually illegal to do.

[@TheNecrotimer]

I worked a part time job as a weekend ride operator for a small amusement park: 10 AM to 8 PM, 30 min lunch (which you could only take once a supervisor had someone to cover for you, once i didn't get lunch until 6;30 PM), and if you wanted to use the bathroom same deal (one of the supervisors had to go and fetch someone to cover for you, so you had to hold it until they found somebody.) Plus the head supervisor was an ass, he loved to talk with his hands and would lower/raise them depending on who he was talking about pretty much saying "this is how important you are", goes without saying that whenever he talked about himself his hand was over his head, plus he never actually supervised anything and would just spend all his time in the park's main office, because according to him "i know you guys are doing your job, when i don't have to do mine" Then one day he said that part timers would have to start coming in 6 days a week, i asked about the pay and he said the wages and hours would stay the same, so not only would i have been working 60 hours a week, i'd still be getting part time pay needless to say i quit the very next day

[@FanimusMaximus]

I actually had a near breakdown during work listening to all this, because you can’t escape retail bullshit. And this just put me over the top.

[@diegoanglada8378]

These experiences and stories told are invaluable to people watching this who prior to seeing the video have had little to no working experience

[@UrobourosZero]

Working for Safeway made me realize that companies will spend more money being shadey than actually pretending to care about their employees and providing liveable standards of work environment and pay.

[@ethans7588]

If anybody lives near Fenton, MO don't buy anything from the Gravois Bluffs Shop N' Save. They never ever want to get rid of the black mold in the areas where we work and prepare your food. The fingerprint thing is super real as well. Because that's better than fixing the garbage compactor.

[@forbiddenspatula4243]

I worked retail as a summer job while in university. Applied as a stocker but nearly every other day i also had to help unload freight trailers. Boy i tell ya, the store i worked for had LARGE TRAILERS (Cough* Mal-Wart) If we didn't unload the whole thing and pull pallets out to the sales floor by the end of the day we'd have to stay overtime and then get it cut by taking long lunches; which would make us stay late again. Legally we could leave, but technically we could be reprimanded due to "not obeying superiors" and then after strike 3 we'd be fired.

[@kainzor100]

ClassyMexican brother i fucking feel you thats my job is unloading trucks and i feel you we are sheducled for 4 hours i mean doesnt sound like a bad gig for a full time student but then we get 1000+ item truck of home improvment aka heavy shit everynight with only 3-4 people and than yell at us if were not done when the asshole night stock people come in and come to the back and not help and just act all annoyed

[@kainzor100]

And we had to deliver all the pallets out to the floor too some times you could end up with 50+ fucking pallets of stuff coming off these trucks all in 4 hours which spoiler alert it rarely ever gets done that early unless we have a small truck like 600 items or something like that

[@thunderborn3231]

classy how about those fucking times when you only needed 1 but they put it at the fucking back and your their first stop

[@LuckyBastard12345]

ClassyMexican Yeah cap team 2 is a pain at least I was able to listen to music

[@forbiddenspatula4243]

Since i worked in the summer nearly every other week we'd get tons of pool chemicals and A/C's. Not on pallets either so we had to lug those out and put them on pallets manually. At least it was a good work out is what we'd say by the end of it.

[@DarkStarInsomniac]

The finger print scanner reminds me of a time I worked overnights at a place and we had to tick off every task we were scheduled for. Were the systems any good? Of course not. It was far easier to just look at what you were expected to do and do it, then eventually go back to the system and tick it all off. One time we got a talking-to, and I had to explain I was tired because this was my second job on account of losing hours at my other job. Which got better when I suddenly started getting scheduled to right up to when I was supposed to be at my second job at my first job when this had never happened before pretty much right as I started my second job. And on top of all that, I'd started losing hours at my first job right as I moved out and needed the money to cover rent, which is the reason I took the second job. Eventually I got hours back at my first job and things were fine, but that was not my best month.

[@TheAzureEnd]

"Get in, Pat." I've had similar experiences to him after working retail for years. I eventually got a better job where I could watch this video at my leisure. I never looked back.

[@dispnin]

I worked at a Walmart a year ago for a few months. Believe it or not, it was completely miserable! One of my favorite things that the supervisors would do would be that they would change your schedule after you receive it, and then not tell you. If you were lucky, you would come in on a day that had been rescheduled as an off day. More likely, you would NOT come in on a day that was rescheduled as a work day.

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

Isn’t Walmart like.....SUPER anti-union?

[@KSabot]

Glad I work for a private company, margin driven corporations sound like nightmares.

[@k.-flynn]

KSabot ...they're all private companies

[@Darkcomet222]

My GOD, that wake up and freak out Woolie talked about is so real! I still freak out about my thesis from Grad School. I finished in June in 2017...it will never go away!

[@CrossoverGameReviews]

When he mentioned that, I was reminded of my dreams of when I'm in school. The thing with my dreams of school however is that of all the dreams I've had, I'm always never in the actual classroom or actually doing any kind of school work. It's always either before school starts and my dreams always ends before school actually starts, during school hours but I'm never in any classroom, or after. Though I do sometimes dream of knowing where homeroom is but never knowing where every other class is due to lack of a schedule and always panicking about where I'm suppose to go or even do. I probably have these dreams because I never cared for school and now that I'm 30+ years old, realized school was a waste of time.

[@RigmaroleHM]

The worst that's happened to me is that my work made *me* pay *them* one time because I "had been overpaid every month for an entire year" by a mistake in the business office. The result was that I needed to give them back the money I was overpaid. My paycheck was never the same anyway so I didn't question what I got paid - I never noticed. This happened at the end of the year, so in total I owed them over $700 - which I could pay in full by Dec. 31, or make payments which would've totaled $900+ because it was the start of the new year and somehow that affected the amount. What a Merry Christmas that was

[@zombyjano]

I always come back to this particular video every few months because I remember having a good laugh, which I do, but always come out angry, upset, and frustrated at the end of it hearing the bullshit these guys had to go through. ESPECIALLY with Pat's horror stories, I don't know how that man didn't just explode from anger.

[@scorpion12590]

As someone who work in retail i understand Pat's pain. At my work the equipment room that has all the scanners and walkies is locked up by a high tech secrurity door that requires a manager to open it and you are required to sign off on everything when checking in or out. The first week its implemented we could instantly tell it was gonna be rough as everyone is getting ready to leave butno one is upstairs to unlock the door so you have to wait 10 to 20 minutes for the manager whos in the back to come up.

[@goldenboy9748]

Punished Pat has retail PTSD

[@CptKirby]

I'll just copy/paste (with minor edits) from another video Pat had PTSD about his old job: So [back in August], I quit my job at a restaurant. I was sick with a 101.x fever and told them the previous day that it might be a good idea to find someone to replace me. I call again an hour before my shift to confirm that I shouldn't come in. They tell me to come in anyway. After a brief argument, I agree to come in while still lightheaded. I later had what I can only describe as a panic attack where I had to leave NOW. I didn't think I could even drive, so I called a relative to pick me up. The next day my fever was at 102.7. There was no way in hell I was willingly going to work. So I called again saying I shouldn't come in. They told that I either need to a doctor's note FOR A FEVER or find someone to cover for me. My response was they either find someone to cover for me or I quit. I never got a phone call back that day. They called again a few days later asking me back because I was one of (if not the) most reliable employee they had. I demanded a raise, but they'd only give a 25 cent raise starting September (just over two weeks) because of a franchise policy. I was already being paid the same as the new people (they raised the base pay five month before) after working there for almost three years. I found the offer pretty insulting. (Additional follow up comments to replies) [My manager] didn't know me very well because she had been transferred to my store recently and we rarely worked at the same time. I don't think she understood who she was dealing with. - I was surprised I got a call back[...]. Though I was often teased by the shift managers that I am not allowed to go on vacation. And when the few times I did leave for an extended period of time (it was never a problem as long as I requested it two weeks ahead of time) everyone would be absolutely grateful when I got back. - [I didn't go to the hospital] Because I'm a stubborn SoB. That was actually the worst of it. The following cold lasted over a month. I finally did go to the doctor [and got anti-biotics after the cold lasted a month].

[@runsinbackground]

I'm pretty sure that the moral of all of these stories is that the only reason that a person would take a job supervising minimum-wage employees is because they are sadists. The people who managed Pat's old grocery store would rather spend money on putting in fingerprint scanners to force their employees to take shorter breaks than do anything that would actually improve the efficiency and profitability of the store because they enjoyed the prospect of grinding their employees down more than the money they might have made by not doing that.

[@comingupooo]

It's called Manglement for a reason.

[@coolduder1001]

I worked at a grocery store. I had extremely basic training and no one taut me how to do anything other than stack shelves. And when I asked for help with anything else the first thing they say is didn't someone teach you. Also every other day before I left, one of my 3 bosses would ask me to do over time. Now I know I wasn't a good employee and I was slow at my job so a couple times she asked, I just said no.

[@SivTheScribe]

24:20 Pat's "Hey we need you" story. Hyena Woolie ensues.

[@vincentrusso4097]

Fucking...bio...metrics

[@SoaringLettuce]

Vincent Russo "Biometrics... Damn."

[@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany]

Raiden hates biometrics too XD Also, I thought it was "Biometrics... Crap"

[@SoaringLettuce]

BLACKIESBOY DANG IT

[@angelon3637]

Biometric scanners over how fucking fast can you chew at lunch time

[@jman4091]

My boss when I worked retail used the cameras that were on to spy on employees and actively avoided using it to stop theft. Granted; I shouldn’t have been hatching eggs in Pokémon, but when is someone steals several outfits and two tool boxes IN COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SIDES IF THE STORE what is more important to watch?

[@roondar6141]

God the story of the boss wanting to open at 7 and having people scheduled to come in at 7 displays a complete lack of understanding of how businesses work

[@ItThunderbolt]

By far the best section of this podcast

[@nicholasfields4884]

SUPER BEST LABOR RIGHTS FRIENDS

[@manticorephoenix]

Evergreen content indeed

[@jazzjupiter9545]

I got fired from my job at a warehouse last year, and the girl who was working as receptionist and scheduler (2 separate positions) had to soak up all my duties (receiving clerk). I honestly don't know if she still works there. I would've quit.

[@talynhastime9343]

My favorite part about these sorts of conversations is when someone says "Hey, the system of capitalism and what it demands of its people leaves many exploited, dissatisfied, and used up like paper towels", you get lots of "clever" people who reply with "Enjoy your bloody communist revolution!" or "Communism doesn't work", as if anyone suggested such a drastic change because no, thety didn't. It's like if someone complained that the school's cafeteria didn't label what contained nuts and gluten because of allergies and someone replied with "Oh, I guess you want us to burn down the whole school then!". No, you failed abortion, we didn't. What is it about this society that we are so resistant to tweaking obvious problems? Do you even know the history of capitalism in America? We didn't used to have unions at all. People would work, lose an arm, and get paid $50 if the employer was feeling generous and just hire a new person. No respect for human safety and health. We changed that in capitalism with an actual system of worker's compensation. It used to be that jobs would not even considering hiring women because (among other things) they would eventually get pregnant and have to leave for a time. Now we have maternity leave. If you see there are problems in a system, then you change those problems. It's so typical of people to assume that people are suggesting we destroy an entire system and implement another system instead of improving upon the system we had before. What's stopping is us misguided fear and the worry that it'll cost a few thousand dollars more, as if we already don't spend enough on useless things and failed business ventures and shitty advertising.

[@k.-flynn]

Talyn has time "minimum wage jobs are only for teens" is a lie specifically designed to ignore all these problems in one sentence.

[@ArgusJord]

To be fair, your original quote of what someone usually says also kinda _forgets_ to mention any of these proposed fixes. It's really just saying "man, capitalism sure does suck for the majority of people" without offering the alternatives, so *of course* people are going to respond with "well it sure does sound like you're suggesting the extreme opposite." I'm not saying your point's not valid; I actually agree with you, shit's fucked for the little guy. But when your response to these other comments are "let me tell you why American capitalism is terrible because of its history," again, without giving solutions for the present, _are you really expecting people to not think you're a communist?_

[@k.-flynn]

Jordy Morty "you haven't given any alternatives duh" is a lie specifically designed to ignore all our proposed solutions in one sentence.

[@comingupooo]

You're asking for critical thought from those sorts of people. That's a pretty tall order.

[@SuspiciousBee]

I just changed jobs from a big multi to a smaller multi, because in the big multi had management turning on us student workers real quickly.... This segment hits so close, im happy

[@CULTCATHERINE]

Came back to this video because I recently started working at Food Lion and you literally Cannot leave at the end of your shift until a manager LETS you leave meaning that you pretty much have to leave everything perfect even if it's a busy day where customers are constantly fucking something up. Food Lion is actually terrible bro

[@FunkBastid]

I once worked a 16 hour shift, and the next morning my boss got mad at me for being 20 minutes late.

[@Samm815]

One day I'll have a job. Right now my occupation is "college student."

[@CrouTheBlackwing]

28:45 Woolie's tiny, whispered "fuck" here always kills me

[@GameNubQuin]

I worked at a New Jersey grocery store and our union was also like problematically strong. Employee morale was very low but no matter how bad a job we actually did, the worst they would do is transfer you to a different department to be someone else's problem.

[@felabugg1]

To this day, I still get nervous around noon because of how fucking awful it is to work at a McDonald's on the side of the highway during the lunch rush. It literally got to the point where the lunch rush dragged on so long I had to tell my boss, "Yo, if I don't use the bathroom right now, I am going to shit my pants". And then my boss yelled at me for going to the bathroom to puke. Fuck McDonald's, and fuck food service.

[@Rozothoth]

This is why I do freelance art now. I don't make as much as when I worked for a cleaning service, but it feels so good to not have all that stress on my shoulders. I remember going 2-3 days without sleep to clean apartments and restaurants because my boss was too cheap to hire more employees. I also remember having, on more than one occasion, people who had shit stuck to their carpets and tile, one of those being human shit in their closet. Did that for 5 years.

[@tr0ll00l]

"I have a dream..." - Pat Boivin, 2018

[@silverroddo1468]

I worked as a dish man and they wanted me to work as a short order cook on Sundays, because the regular cooks wanted the sunday morning off. So, since this kitchen was in a casino, it has extra security. That meant i had to sign out a key from the electronic key locker with my employee card, but i didn't have clearance to open that key locker. So, i figured i'd get clearance, simple right? Since i work this short order job once a week, so in my mind, a week is plenty of time for the higher ups to give me a higher clearance for my employee card. Well, eff me, no new card issued, the kitchen was locked until a security guy who happens to show up (the security office is next to the key locker AND the kitchen, by the way) and he gets me the key to open up. Meanwhile i waited 30mins, and i had to still get the kitchen prepped. Needless to say, i quit that job. Didn't ask for a layoff, or even cited Just cause, because eff that place. Oh, i had awful co-workers. Eff them too. But i'm still a cool guy though.