Why did you suck at your job?

Zaheer

Chaos is the natural order
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    In other words:

    What made you lose your last job? And if you still have your first job, what makes it so cool?

    If you've never had a job sorry I can't think of anything to include you. Amon will be here shortly to organize those not involved.
     
    I'm still looking for my first real job as I've been putting everything into school first, but I did get fired from a small job I had in high school selling concessions because I was accused of giving away free food to my friends(which I wasn't!).
     
    Before my current job I worked at a toy store that fired me after three days. Actually, I think this one was really unfair... Apparently not mastering my job in three days is grounds to fire me! I have a new, better job, but I'm still annoyed about it! I fantasize about my ex-manager coming into my current store so I can show her how good I am at my current job...
     
    My last job was only a six month contract, and said contract ran out. I was offered an extension, but I had to turn it down due to my rapidly deteriorating health...which sucked, because I really enjoyed working there.
     
    milk! said:
    Before my current job I worked at a toy store that fired me after three days. Actually, I think this one was really unfair... Apparently not mastering my job in three days is grounds to fire me! I have a new, better job, but I'm still annoyed about it! I fantasize about my ex-manager coming into my current store so I can show her how good I am at my current job...
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    Aw buddy don't feel bad! Everyone gets at least one job like that. Just appreciate the fact that one day they'll probably end up getting sued and go out of business.

    First job was Taco Bell. I technically wasn't fired. My Dad is terminally sick and lives across the country so I filed for FMLA leave and they told me no (FMLA is not allowed to be denied. In the US any employee in a company has a right to take up to 12 weeks of PROTECTED leave for any personal or family illness. I told my boss that I will work as long as possible but I was still going to go see my dad. Left and never went back.

    Second job was Chipotle. Again I quit. They refused to train people properly then punished people for not doing things properly. That is just something that irks me really bad (and its a very common issue in Chipotle.)

    Now I work at McDonalds.

    Fun facts: At Taco Bell and McDonalds I was surprised at how not nasty the food was. At Chipotle I was terrified because they do some disgusting shit.
     
    My last job I was made redundant from just recently actually, I had just completed a year there too. It was mainly due to lack of funding, budget freezes and what not.
     
    I practically had to leave the job I had before the one I have now.

    It was working at a riding school/equestrian centre, but because it was an apprenticeship they decided they had had enough paying me and wanted me to do it for free, so I said no thank you and left haha.
    To be honest it was a horrible and badly run place with plenty of Welfare issues and health and safety issues and a brown nose culture among most of the staff.
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    the only job I've lost was the one where the restaurant closed
    the last job I had I quit after six months because 1) they hired me for 16-ish hrs a week and by the end I was occasionally getting overtime 2) nobody ever took breaks because the direct manager would treat it as a severe inconvenience and be hostile to you the rest of the day 3) i never got a raise despite doing actually pretty much everything 4) the owner seemed to not give a fuck about the store and refused to make changes to improve anything and 5) HIGH STRESS ENVIRONMENT CLEARLY
     
    I've been lifegurding at the same pool for four years now. It's in a pretty bad neighborhood and it's cool getting to know the patrons. A lot of the kids have some hard lives and it's awesome to see them come to the pool and have fun every day. That pools a sanctuary for a lot of the kids man, who knows what they'd be doing otherwise. Yeah some of them have discipline problems but hell I'd rather be watching them then the privileged kids at the y taha
     
    I like that my job is extremely simple. I get told to do one menial task, then another, and so on. I'm usually on my own, which is a plus by me, and sometimes I get to burn things.


    Zaheer said:
    Fun facts: At Taco Bell and McDonalds I was surprised at how not nasty the food was. At Chipotle I was terrified because they do some disgusting ****.
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    At first I read this as 'not tasty' and I wondered why you'd be surprised. Haha.
     
    I was close to quitting my job before I moved, because my ASM (before he got fired) refused to do my transfer request. But I got an offer from a store here in Houston that promoted me to Key Holder, which allowed me stay instead.

    Before the discount store, I worked at a craft store. Within a week I was promoted to Front-End Lead which was pretty fun, until my manager at the time got replaced by a transfer, and started to lay off peeps, including myself. Was only there for two months. It was fun while it lasted.
     
    I still have my very first job, which was a tutor at a tutoring center. I've had it for about a year and four months now. It's not something I'd call amazing, though. Honestly, I would like to move on. I should have applied for summer internships, which I neglected to, so I'm gonna have to wait a little longer, but the reason I still have this job is mainly because getting another is so difficult. Getting a job, period, is difficult.
     
    My first and only job has been the one I've been placed at for co-op as a junior web developer working for the government. Only aspect of the job I'd complain about would be needing to sit there for hours on end every week and I'm the type of person to get anxious and restless when I sit for more than a few hours. Not to mention that I worry about the lack of exercise I get on a daily basis since I barely have time. Otherwise, everything operates rather smoothly, flexible hours and I enjoy web designing. Albeit creativity might be restricted because of compliance and accessibility issues. As long as I haven't done anything worth firing me over then I'm a happy camper.
     
    I wasn't downright sacked from my last job which was at a factory, but I rather left for personal reasons. I was having extreme trouble with cooperation plus it didn't help I often found myself being in altercations, with me as the subject. The workers there were very rude to me, and didn't understand my inability to work in groups, which a lot of the work was centralized around.
     
    I was a work study student for my college to begin my working life. With how that works, I was only able to make however much money was awarded to me in terms of financial aid, and that ran out on me after a while, and I had to stop working. The college lost a lot of money this way, so a few of my other colleagues with the same position of me also got laid off. However, eligibility could come back for us all in the next school year, and we could be called in to work if we wanted to.
     
    The only jobs I had in the past were summer jobs during college, and I didn't get fired from those. Rather, they were summer positions, and now that I've graduated, I've moved on to full-time employment. I guess the only difficulty could be seen as a financial situation on their end (i.e., they had the resources to hire summer people, but they weren't looking for anyone to work full-time), but that still doesn't really count.
     
    I never got fired from a job. My last job I did pretty much everything I could in the building, except work in the office. Which was something I actually really, really wanted. Thinking back, I probably could have asked the operations manager if I could, and I'm pretty sure he would have said yes since I think he really liked me. I started off a loader and consolidator. Then I moved into picking, which was something I was really, really fucking good at. I would always do well above the standard. I eventually lost that job, though, because we got bought out by a larger autoparts store and they decided to close down the warehouse.

    Now I work at a casual dine in restaurant. I think I'm a really fucking good employee there too. Got approached a few weeks ago about a shift manager position, to which I accepted. And I'm about to start training for it this week. Really excited about that. It's not something I want to do the rest of my life, but I'm pretty content there now while I focus on going back to school and improving my future.
     
    I've only had one job through a life skills program. I was bagging cookies at the junior high school. There were two reasons why I had to quit the job. See, I have bad or weak shoulders. One of my shoulders, my right one is very weak compared to the other. Each and every day, the aides would tell me to go faster and faster. When I did that, it threw out my shoulder and caused me pain. Plus, I was going as fast as I could at the time. It was almost like they expected me to go speedy gonzalez fast, which really pissed me off.

    So, because of the pressure on my shoulder, I had to quit. The reason I don't currently have a job is because I have far too many learning and developmental challenges to hold one down. That's why my dad had me put on disability income.
     
    I've never lost a job in the "fired" sense. I've worked summers and the like, but I've always left on my own terms because I was going back to school or whatever. I guess I can talk about why I was bad at the jobs I've had, though! Maybe if I'd been there longer these things would've gotten me fired idk.

    1) Hostess/Phone operator @ a Chinese restaurant: I don't like people or small talk so I was a horrible hostess. I hate phones, so I hated being a phone operator. I'm super thankful for this job, though, because it got me over my phone anxiety at least. I was supposed to only sit by the phones when there were calls to make or if they rang and do the hostess job otherwise but... yeah, I usually just sat by the phones drawing or doing sudoku puzzles that I'd written out ahead of time hahaha.

    2) Data entry/office admin: I worked too quickly and ran out of work every single day, whoops. It was a desk job where I had internet so sometimes I would just browse the web a lot so I would work slower. One summer when I did this, I averaged about 150 posts a day on PC WHOOPS. Still got rid of the office's paperwork backlog within a few weeks and was faster than any other assistant they'd had, though. B) Once I tried to keep IRC open but that got noticed by the big boss and I got in trouble so I stuck to browser stuff. :'(

    3) Lab assistant/more data entry: This was in the same company as 2 so another department (quality control) hired me to deal with THEIR data entry backlog one summer. Then one of the lab workers went to China for a month or two so I had to take over for her and I was suddenly doing all this labwork. I was awful at this because most of the important work was done first thing in the morning and I had to come in at like 7am which meant I had to get up at 5:30 and I was NOT all there early in the morning. Also I had to go get samples from the beer tanks and I'm this tiny little thing with no strength so carrying like 5 big jugs of warm beer back and forth from the brewery floor to the lab...... yeah. Sometimes I'd literally have to stop people working in the brewery to get them to pour me beer because I couldn't reach the tap lmao.

    First job was shit but I loved the other two jobs. Easy and mindless... I could listen to music or audiobooks all I wanted and still feel productive. Good times. B) Also free case of beer every week when I worked at the brewery. Nice.
     
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