Anyone got some weird work stories about work. Something they tell you to do and then they don't do it ? Strange ways of doing things?
I'll share my story with you.
I worked at this place for the last 2 summer. I was basically in charge running the whole show, Summer student gets to do everything right. We had a store normal convience size like 7-11, and then in the back we had a large warehouse with furniture. So I would watch the store and watch the warehouse. Sell products/furniture, load/unload furniture, supervise workgroups(5-9ppl), stock shelves. Yes, basically everything! There were only 5-6 people working there. What did the others do? Accountant did here work, Tech. guy did his computer work, and the others??? Dump everything on me.
Any who, so I was told by my boss to keep the cash key on me since I was responsible for the cash and it has been robbed onces couple years ago. So I kept it on me, then when I finished for the summer, I trained the new full-time person they just hired and then went back to Univ. Next summer I came back and what do I find? The key was just kept near the cash out in the open. So I would just leave it there also. Then the full-time person I trained quite in june so it was just me running the whole thing again. So I would leave the key there at the front and what do I hear? Always keep the key on you!! Other person never got yelled at, just me 🙁 So fine. Another thing keep your workstation and the front tidy. I always did this but still they kept mentioning it now and then. Then last week of Aug, I trained another full-time person and then went back to school.
Then I got a call that someone at work hurt themselves and they need help. So I offered to go once a week part-time and help for several hours. So I went there and the place was a mess! The front store was all messy, so was the back. The key was at the front, the cashier desk was a mess, customers came in and they weren't helped properly. I was always yelled at for not helping the customers. I'm the type of person that doesn't like bothering shoppers, you need help you call me.
Next week I came in same thing, warehouse is cleaner but the front store is a mess still, the key is on the person now, but customers walk in and they don't get much help.
What's really strange is that everyone seems so relaxed about this, it's like they don't care even the bosses. It's seems so natural to them like they are doing nothing wrong.
O man, I tell ya I was running the whole show and now they are crumbling. I bet ya sales are down also.
So any stories like this? How you were told to do things and then onces you leave they break the rules?
I work at a fast food resturant. Everytime you cook raw meat you need gloves on (bacteria and stuff isnt good). So one day I come in and I find the county superviser cooking...and i was like..why is he here? So I watch him for a second hes not cooking with the gloves on. I turn to him and say Isn't that unsanitary? He turns to me and sayss yeah, but Im a superviser so it's ok. I say but isnt that unsanitary? he looks uncomfortable (evendintly nobody had asked the question twice) and walked away.
Years ago when the economy was bad the company I worked for folded, but I managed to get a job managing a security guard company, so I have hundreds of stories. Once we had a site running a second shift of mostly part-time women. The guard, an old man, escorted the women to their cars when they finished work. He was the last to leave and had to flip 6 breakers to turn off the lights then lock the door. I showed him which 6 breakers to flip. Evidently he couldn’t remember which ones because the next morning I got a call from the boss at the facility. The old man flipped all the breakers on the board…about a hundred. I went over to the site and marked them with those little peel off blue dots, called the old man & told him just flip the breakers with the blue dots on them. He called back later and said, “I got to thinking…what’s them blue dots look like?” I had guards die on post, get into a gun fight at an armed account (nobody hurt), once one guy did get his head blown off by his sister using our gun, drive towmotors through walls, set buildings on fire, steal everything not nailed down and other assorted goofy stuff. Had one woman squat down & take a dump in a customer parking lot. He caught her in the act and told me, “If you think her face is ugly, you ought to see the rest of her!” Got out of that business ASAP!!!
Originally posted by masscathahah.
Years ago when the economy was bad the company I worked for folded, but I managed to get a job managing a security guard company, so I have hundreds of stories. Once we had a site running a second shift of mostly part-time women. The guard, an old man, escorted the women to their cars when they finished work. He was the last to leave and had to flip 6 bre ...[text shortened]... you think her face is ugly, you ought to see the rest of her!” Got out of that business ASAP!!!