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No. 1202763

A thread for anons to tell stories and complain about the treatment and conditions of being a service worker, whether it be retail, food, or customer service. Have you got a horror story about a terrible customer? Is your boss a slimy piece of shit? Are your co-workers lazy good-for-nothings? Put it here! Service workers experience some of the most deranged of the population in their time, so expect some really crazy stories as well as the more mundane aspects of the job.

No. 1202767

Inspired by the current discussion in the vent thread. I could go on about this shit for hours, and I'm sure a lot of you nonnies could as well!

No. 1202777

I have so many but let’s start with an easy to relate one. Worked at a Mexican tequila bar for a bit was off for four days after working 12 in a row. Came back and none of the male retard bartenders had washed the three tier lime sponge, salt, sugar trays for margaritas and it was just full of larva. It was vile. Had to throw the sponge out and soak the whole thing in bleach. Fuck that place, there were so many problems. Will never get over people pronouncing it barba-cow tacos though kek

No. 1202786

Once working at a Tim Hortons a woman had come in asking for decaf, and it had just expired before she had come in (Tim's throws out any coffee that's over 20 mins old or some shit) so we were brewing a new pot. It takes exactly 5 minutes to brew a new pot so I let her know and she just lost it at me. Yelling and screaming that I don't know how to do my job, when the reason this was even happening was because I was doing my job correctly. The other burners were occupied and the soonest I could put the decaf on, I did. It was a busy ass morning. So she's yelling and I'm just so shocked I turn to my supervisor and we share a giggle for a second because her rage is so disproportionate. So now she's screaming that we're laughing at her. In all the time she had been ranting, while we're trying to serve others, the decaf finishes brewing and I give it to her only for her to taste it and say I made it wrong. At that point my supervisor asked her to just leave and handed her some money back.
Later on that same night, it's a lot slower, so my supervisor and I are over by the sandwich bar getting stuff prepped for the next day when this man comes over and tells us the most shocking thing… There is a woman pissing on the floor by the washrooms. Not only is she pissing, but she pulled her pants down and crab walked down the hallway that leads to the bathrooms, pissing all the way down the hall. He said he was so shocked he just stood there and watch her do it in silence and then she took off (idiot). We checked the camera, there isn't one pointing down the hall, but there is one pointing at the entrance and front of the hall, and it was THE DECAF LADY. She apparently was so pissed off, no pun intended, that she decided to come back and pee all over our floors so we would have to clean it up. The way it supposed to go is that you call a biohazard company to come and clean up shit and piss, but our boss wasn't about to pay for that so we were forced to clean it ourselves.

No. 1202792

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No. 1202801

>>1202786
I worked at a bar it was common practice if you served someone and they made a mess you cleaned it up. We had one guy who got banned for not just shitting in the urinal twice but shitting in the middle of the bar floor. Not even the bathroom. No bar floor. Nothing will make you hate people faster than the service industry.

No. 1202808

It doesn't matter how high they raise the wage for fast food workers, I would discourage anyone (mostly women because of crackhead creep moids) from working a soul-sucking fast food job. It's not just the managers that will make you want to kill yourself, but the customers will instill a hatred of humanity within you. People screaming at you because the cook put lettuce on their shit burger. People doing hard drugs in the bathrooms. Being creeped on by old, fat, drunken moids. It's a fucking NIGHTMARE. People will fucking RAGE at you in the drive thru because there's a huge line. They'll scream at you for things you have absolutely no control over. I don't want to a-log but fuck those trailer trash pieces of shit (the managers and the customers). Apologies for no actual story but the entire job was a giant shitshow, so.

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>>1202801
We had a homeless man on meth once hold up in the bathroom for who knows how long, spreading shit on the walls! You know who had to clean that up. This is the same Tim's by the way, heart of downtown.

No. 1202823

>>1202820
You know those are all service jobs, right? I don't get your point. I've had people throw boiling hot chili at me because their bread wasn't toasted.

No. 1202829

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>>1202809
Fuck Noni. I feel for you. It’s rough out here. You reminded me. Had a meth head swing a pool stick at me one time near Christmas at like 11 pm. Holidays bring out the crazies. He stripped his ass down to his tighty not whities first.

No. 1202833

Worked at an "upscale Italian" restaurant. One of our managers was an alcoholic who would skim off our wine and had a court-ordered Breathalyzer installed in his car. One day he drank too much and asked for a ride home because he couldn't start his car, but no one helped him because he was such an asshole. The other manager was okay, but one time he left his phone on the counter and I saw he was soliciting a prostitute and thought $200 was too expensive. Hated him after that.
I don't know if English language schools in Japan are considered service industry (it definitely sometimes felt like it), but one time we had a male student who would constantly talk about suicide. The school manager thought that if he talked to a woman he might feel better, so they literally made me go into a room with him and talk him down from suicide.

No. 1202835

Worked hotels, someone projectile shit up a shower wall in a straight line to a surprising height

No. 1202836

I know ~trauma~ is fucking overused but I’ve been out of the service industry for six years and I still panic thinking I’ll get yelled at for minor mistakes.

Anyway, my coworker once told a woman our bathroom wasn’t public (it was connected to the locker room with all our belongings) so she took a piss in the makeup aisle. Same coworker later removed my car keys off my key ring the same day she got fired for walking off with a bunch of tramadol.

No. 1202842

>>1202833
Holy fuck anon!! They needed to talk to his parents and send his ass to a professional, that is just insane. Also,
>thought $200 was too expensive
Why does that make me kek

No. 1202854

Thank you for making this thread anon. Man, I could probably fill up this whole thread with just my story times lol.

I worked at a gas station for 2.5 years. That job was straight up abusive. It wasn't a regular gas station, it was a Safeway gas station. Like a little kiosk at the end of the parking lot. It was small so they only scheduled 1 person at a time. We had a long list of duties, including

>touch and deal with hazardous chemicals, like if gasoline spilled we had to clean it up

>take out every single trash bag (there were six) haul them all to the back of the store at night in a rolling trashcan that they didn't fit in, then haul the trash can back up to the gas station
>people treated our trashcans like a public dump, bringing trash from their homes, putting rotting foods and other nasty shit in them. our trash bags were thin too so they were constantly ripping. and people loved to throw away their milky coffee which would always spill everywhere and get on my clothes. one time someone threw away a CAR BATTERY (which is illegal) and it ripped open the trash bag and landed on my foot
>then my boss would scream at me if the trash leaked and left stains on the pavement
>always be restocking products
>constantly be checking dates on all of the products
>clean every single pump once every shift
>count and recount hundreds of tobacco products every night
>count and recount fucktons of money every night
>clean the bathroom every night (the bathroom was supposed to be employee only)
>we were also told we had to convince customers to buy stuff, different items every week. they'd make us sign a paper saying we would try every week kek
>we didn't get breaks because where I live if you're allowed to eat on your shift you aren't entitled to breaks
>they'd only hire 4 people total, including my boss. if someone called out it would be a fucking nightmare

That's not even all. Did I mention we got paid $10.50 an hour, plus getting union dues taken out of our paycheck. We also did not get all of the same union benefits that people in the store got. Oh and the highest salary you could get at the gas station without being a manager was $11. Then I had to deal with cashiers constantly coming out and being like "Wow! Your job is so easy! All you have to do is sit out here all day! You must be so lazy lololol" when they got paid $14 an hour just to scan groceries and did not have to do half the shit that we did.

There's a million stories I could tell. But a notable was when our tobacco products kept going missing every day. Our boss would leave out notes for everyone because they'd schedule one person at a time. Anyway she kept leaving these nasty notes threatening to write up/fire the next person who was working when the cigarettes went missing, saying we were lazy and not doing our jobs etc etc. This went on for a couple months I want to say. After a while it just stopped out of the blue. A month or so later I asked my coworker if he knew why and he told me that our boss told him that there was some glitch making the report print the wrong number of cigarettes sold. So cigarettes were never going missing. And she never told me, and never intended to. I only found out because I asked my coworker. She never apologized for any of the rude notes she left.

I have plenty of other stories too. Like being sexually harassed. Stay tuned.

No. 1202857

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I feel like most people I interact with would rather I was a robot. Then I’d know all the answers and always say them in exactly the right way. Nobody would get it into their pea brains that I’m trying to be rude just because I’m socially awkward and slightly retarded. Then they could tard rage as much as they want about material things that don’t fucking matter and they’d never have to feel bad.
I don’t want to be like them. I want to be patient and understanding and I want to listen to people when they talk and not just talk over them. I don’t care if they respect me, I will always respect them. Unless they physically attack me or gob in my face or something. If they do that I will beat them in the head with a fucking broom and I will enjoy every minute of it.

No. 1202891

>>1202854
>if you're allowed to eat on your shift you aren't entitled to breaks
Where tf do you live anon

No. 1202895

I worked in a grocery store during the pandemic and it made me hate humanity forever. I don't even have any funny stories it's just sad. It's March 2020, we're on day 1 of the first lockdown, everyone is afraid and stressed out, and their first instinct is to come use essential workers as emotional punching bags. I'm terrified of getting the coof and bringing it home to my asthmatic housemate, and I have to go to work and have old men get in my face and scream and cough on me because the bakery didn't make St Patrick's Day cupcakes this year due to the general chaos. Humans are inherently evil.

No. 1202917

I'm glad I don't work in retail and in a call center anymore. For retail I had to work in the worst store in my city, people would routinely shit, piss, fuck, change their babies' diapers, steal clothes, etc. in the changing rooms. I was there part time so I haven't even seen it all, which is the most disturbing part, but on on of the days where I was never there a customer would always go to the changing rooms to try on red trousers and masturbate, when he got caught once and for all and got arrested my coworkers were the happiest people I've ever seen. Apparently he was on the local news. During my time at a call center I had the worst calls possible with the customers. My coworkers would get calls about how their customers cars' batteries died and they needed the most basic services only, while I had some of the craziest shit possible, such as one of my very first calls being with a dude with alzheimer who "lost" his keys, except his close friend and mechanic refused to give him new car keys and told me the guy's daughter stole the keys to prevent him from creating even more accidents than usual. Or some fag went to another European country with his daughter and didn't have his daughter's passport or ID card so we couldn't bring them back home by plane while his car got repaired, and he took literally 10h or screaming at me to get him a hotel or another car in the middle of summer to finally tell me he'd just go back to his parents' place by foot for the night on the same street as where he dropped his car. I could write an entire blog of retarded shit like this.

>>1202833
Did you go to one of these one-to-one classes school when you taught English in Japan? I always wondered how that was in these big schools. I taught French for a few months in small classes and one-to-one and I never had any issue. All the students were normal adults and very nice, except for two small kids who were perfectly fluent in French despite barely starting primary school because their parents were super rich ouiboos and wanted them to learn French despite the parents themselves not knowing French at all.

>One of our managers was an alcoholic who would skim off our wine

This guy seriously needs another job. I heard that bartenders and some people working in restaurants often become alcoholics because they drink on the job with patrons or to offer advice with which wines go well with the dishes.

No. 1202944

Working as a sushi waitress for a business ran by Koreans was absolute hell. And I know that it's a trope across the board that Koreans are abusive business owners because I've experienced it with two different families and know 3 other people who have similar experiences.
They love to have conniption fits for sport, steal your tips and humiliate their female employees by yelling at them for any small mistake, whether they are at fault or not, in front of customers and everyone.
Ofc customers don't usually take pity on the servers after they're humiliated and still continue to be rude their selves. Thank fuck I'm out of the service industry!

No. 1203148

>>1202917
>Did you go to one of these one-to-one classes school
I usually had 5-7 students per adult class. This person was actually in another teacher's class and kept making suicidal comments (ex. his teacher asked everyone what they were doing for Golden Week and he said "I'll be dead by then"). My school's manager thought it would be a brilliant idea if a woman would talk to him to make him feel more confident? But it was just sad and concerning, especially with the language barrier. Most of my students were fine though

No. 1203176

>closing at a pharmacy
>guy comes in at the last second and passes out in front of the checkout
>I call 911, while locking the doors a friend of the cashier walks in and says the guy was drinking at her dad’s house
>she tells me that the guy started trying to touch her but I shouldn’t tell the police because her dad will get in trouble for giving her alcohol (under 21)
>guy turns out to be homeless and I remembered seeing him in the store earlier in the day, opening food and eating it in the aisle
>EMTs pick him up to check for alcohol poisoning, I get stuck in the store by myself calling to report what happened. Left almost two hours after my shift was supposed to end

District-wise the worst thing that happened was a manager working an opening, and finding the dead body of a woman in the bathroom that had overdosed the night before.

No. 1203185

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I’ve worked the service industry in my teenage years and early adulthood in the early 2000’s. I think one of the stories that has stuck with me was when I worked at Walmart.

>facing the cans in the grocery section

>older man comes up to me
>tries to ask me something but his words are garbled
>”I’m sorry sir, do you need me to help find something?”
>he lets out a garbled “yuh plethy”
>”ummm thank you? do you still need help sir”
>hands me piece of paper
>”i live thin a cumunity home”
>ok?
>he makes garbled small talk while I work
>read the paper
>it has a phone number
>“Weh than talk on da ffffone”
>uhhhhh
>”You’re relly pithy. Maybe we than watch a mothvie. Iths ok if you donth teth me tho..”
>”Don’th call me, I wunt be able to thear”
>excuse me
>”I’m deaf”
>mfw an old deaf guy has been actively trying to hit on me for the last 15 minutes

I couldn’t help but start laughing in the break room at the awkwardness of it all. I had never heard a deaf person speak before and it felt strange and uncanny valley. Well, back to hell where I belong for making fun of a deaf scrote.

No. 1203192

>>1203185
just sad. i know it's true that disabled or disanvantaged men are still shit but i can't help but feel bad

No. 1203202

>>1203192
I did feel bad when he came back and I hadn't texted him, he just had this sad smile of understanding why I didn't text him. Then I stopped feeling sad because I was 19 and he was at youngest probably in his 40's, and if he made the assumption his deafness was the reason I rejected him he's a retard.

No. 1203203

>lady walks in to order pizza
>asks me for specials
>I offer her a free booklet of coupons to keep and to help her pick out the best one to use
>She glares at me and asks for another cashier
>Manager comes and she tells her "I don't need anyone here trying to upsell me."
>She buys a pizza at full price vs having me help with a 5 dollar off coupon

No. 1203211

>>1203203
she didn't deserve the coupons

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No. 1203237

>>1202808
I do not understand how leftists argue that fast food/service is an essential job that needs to be paid more. More the reality that these kinds of jobs will always be fucking dehumanizing because of the very nature of them, they should be abolished since fast food and consumerism is slowly killing the world and society should be structurally reworked for people to participate in rewarding work that doesn’t make them feel like slaves assembling fake microplastic meat sandwiches and getting verbally harassed or even killed because you forgot to make a coffee right lmao

No. 1203351

>>1203185
This reminds me of something that happened to me while working at a thrift store lol
>be on cash, ten minutes to close
>group of adults come in
>say hi and tell them there's ten minutes to close
>none of them even look at me in response, rude as fuck but alright
>they immediately disperse to all corners of the store and begin shopping
>at five minutes I make another announcement saying we're about to close, again no one gives a fuck
>they're trying on clothes, testing electronics, generally acting like they'll be there all day
>supervisor comes out and makes an announcement telling them to come to check out
>no response
>she gets annoyed and goes to tell them personally to check out
>realizes when she talks to one of them that they're deaf
>she starts desperately trying to gesture for them to come to cash to no avail
>every time she corners one the others fuck off and keep shopping
>I'm laughing behind my mask because my supervisor is getting so pissed off
>literally a fat toothless lady (my supervisor) chasing five random deaf people around while waving her arms
>finally check them out ten minutes after close
>after they leave my supervisor goes off on a rant about how they weren't really deaf and were just faking

No. 1203352

>>1203351
Deaf people have had to 100% done this on purpose, they even coordinated an entire group of them. Deaf people aren't stupid but I don't doubt they can be insidious.

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>>1203351
Yeah, disabled people can be fuck heads too
>Had a mentally disabled man come in and try to pay with a bunch of change.
>There was a long line and everyone was angry about this dude paying with a pile of coins
>After I was done counting it all he smiled at me and opened his wallet
>flashed his wallet full of bills at me.
This actual fucking retard had cash but purposefully paid in change just to be a dick head. He would always pick up the money in the drive thru too and get in the way of the cars. Hope his ugly ass got run over tbh

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No. 1203390

>>1203351
Kek, the thought of deaf people going around just to be annoying and wreak a little havoc for the fun of it is kind of funny to me.

No. 1203455

>woman comes in looking for item with cat on it for a kid
>point her towards items with cats on them
>"that's not good enough"
>asks for some nonsense with a spiritualist bend
>oh you're one of THOSE
>why do we have to sell religtard crap on top of our secular crap
>continue perusing around, we don't have religious cat items
>find hello kitty item
>everyone loves hello kitty
>bingo!
>show her it
>woman recoils in horror and squeaks
>"oh honey, don't you know that hello kitty is evil!?!" she says to me like I am an idiot
>does not further elaborate
>inner idiot in me comes out and I start backing away from her slowly as I furrow my eyebrows and leave the aisle
>go to the backroom and let her check out with someone else
>later google hello kitty evil
>it's from a fundie panic chain email from the 00s that claimed hello kitty was chinese and developed with a dark satanic spell to cure someone's daughter of cancer
>religious people believe this shit

it's a more lighthearted one but by god it's a shocker some of our customers, particularly the creepy, religitard type ones, can function.

No. 1203459

Oh man, a family member of mine has a LOT of these from being a professional chef. Some involving celebrities, but most not. I can tell you that once, while sed family member was working at a famous hotel's equally famous restaurant, Robert de Niro had an insane girlfriend staying at the hotel. She ordered thousands of dollars' worth of room service from the restaurant, and completely trashed the room she was staying in (I think she stayed there for a month or longer). This was in the early 90's as well, so drugs were probably involved, too. Anyway, de Niro just paid for it all without a care.

No. 1203484

>>1203185
>>1203351
At least they're just costumers. Try working with a mentally disabled guy who smells like shit, sounds like a gorilla and acts like a 5 years old at best. I'm glad I'm done with that job because now if I ever work with disabled people they would be physically disabled and I wouldn't be unofficially assigned to them as a babysitter while being yelled at by costumers for existing.

No. 1203487

>>1203484
anon i think the word you’re looking for is “customers”
saying this with love not to be mean

No. 1203491

>>1203487
thx I'm ESL, just woke up and only slept 5 hours tonight.

No. 1203506

Kek I honestly have too many stories, there needs to be a public service announcement or some shit telling people to not treat service workers like garbage. People will throw a fit if you’re out of almond milk, or call you stupid to your face when you ask them to clarify a weird order. There’s a reason service workers have such a high turnover.

No. 1203540

Man I had a manager who would talk to me like a literal retard because she would say something rude quietly and I would ask what she said only for her to ask something like "can you go get more item anon?" but in a sarcastic baby tone. She went around the shop after one small mistake my coworker made saying "dont ask her, or her, or her, or him anon only me or another manager if you have a question" except I had customers waiting on me while she walked around publicly lecturing me. My other manager at the same place actively tried to sabotage my work by not giving my food orders on time, making them slow, not helping me with manager only orders like splitting checks or discounting an item. She would instantly help all the others but when it was my turn I was screwed with waiting 5-10 minutes while my customers became unhappy.

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>>1203484
>>1203491
Kek I read "costumes" and thought you were talking about having to work in a silly mascot costume. I have no experience but there was an expose here on how it's really hot inside the costume and the workers were not allowed to take a break regularly as to not break character in front of customers.

No. 1203829

My first job was a bagger at a grocery store. Every so often we got this customer in named Sunny. I believe he had a combo of Parkinson's and OCD. I would feel sorry for him, but he was a complete asshole to me. The first time I met him, I was out cart retrieving in the heat and he's having a meltdown because there are no more disposable cleansing wipes for the carts (which I could not replace because I had no idea where they were and a manager was not available). He berates me so badly just because I happened to be there that customers are stepping in to tell me I don't have to take this. He also freaked out when I went anywhere near him or "his" shopping cart and told me not to touch it. Every cashier would have to specifically sanitize things to his standards whenever he checked out.

After that experience, I avoided him like the plague. Another day he came once again to ask about the cart wipes and I just busied myself sorting through returns. Because I ignored him, he kept screaming that I have "RCI" (basically means I have my head in my ass) just for not wanting to deal with his insane behavior until he finally left. Just because you have a medical condition doesn't mean you're allowed to treat people like shit. I don't know why he didn't just get his groceries delivered if shopping was so difficult for him.

No. 1203875

I was harassed by the old man owner at my job at a family owned restaurant, but that didn't break me. Ultimately what did was coming into work one night and my coworkers were laughing at me, telling me to check the men's bathroom. It was literally covered in shit, liquid diarrhea puddles on the floor and smears on the wall. Of course I had to clean it up. I was panicking because I had no idea where to even start, but thankfully the nice dishwasher came to help me. After it was cleaned up, I kept smelling shit when I walked by the bathroom. I had no idea where it was coming from until I seated a table and realized there was shit stuck to the carpet underneath it. It stopped smelling because it dried and got stuck to the carpet. I made an excuse to move the people to another table, and then there I was picking up human excrement like it was dog shit. Fuck that job

No. 1203904

Once worked in a cheap used clothing store where a woman came to purchase pretty much all of one particular type of accessory that we had on display. These were cheap since they didn't really sell well, but one was a designer item that cost 10 times more than others. I asked her if she's okay with this while scanning the items, she says yes and made some comments that I didn't understand. Smile and nod, it's retail. I rang her up and we had a little celebration high-five with another staff member in the back for selling this expensive item. Lady returns shortly after to yell at me, saying that I am discriminating against her and implying that she is poor because she's wearing traditional african clothing. She came to say that I assumed she couldn't afford what she was buying because of her race and clothing. I had no idea what she was wearing. I tried to look out for her because we had a lot of people who would see their total and reconsider their purchases, or pick out items to leave. She called the manager to scream about me the next day and how she shopped there for 10 years and will not be returning (don't think the shop was open for 10 years nor did anyone know her). Since that interaction I've never tried to help a stranger in any way and I hope I never have to return to retail.

No. 1203957

I used to work at a hotel and I had a number of horror stories. I liked it vs retail though because I actually had some authority and was allowed to be a bitch to guests at times when they were putting up a fuss.
Only thing is I traded entitled middle aged parents for drunks, druggies, and hookers and other nefarious characters. I've had to call the cops several times on sketch behavior or disputes between johns and hookers. The grossest was two girls who looked age 19 maximum wandering around my hotel talking loudly about sex on their cellphone speaker. They didn't have a room. Then within an hour I got a book from this old black scrote. She followed him inside after. Then he checked out an hour later. Only the bed was touched so it's obvious what happened. He was the highest tier of member and mentioned he visits hotels often too so he probably just goes to hotels to fuck young girls. Fucking gross.

Another was a meth addict woman holed up with her kids. It disturbed me so much that I cried. The kids would have to get ready for school in the lobby because she was too busy being high on drugs in the room. Room was completely trashed when we finally kicked her out. I actually ended up going to the police after she got kicked out and sent pics of the needles in the trash and everything. I hope those kids are safe now.

Finally, I mostly avoided being hit on because I'm quite ugly but occasionally I'd get some scrotes that were drunk enough to give me the time of day. Was annoying as fuck. I had a Mexican construction worker up my ass for literally 4 hours and I was telling him in broken Spanish to fuck off.

No. 1203964

>>1203957
That sounds rough anon. I considered working in hotels but I don't think I could deal with the prostitutes and drug users. I hope those kids are safe.

No. 1203980

>>1203964
I can't vouch enough for hotel work, especially night shift, because you get paid to do nothing, but yeah. It does come with some bad parts, especially if you're working in a bad area. Mine was a 2 star hotel that was on the border of a drug adjacent town, so I got a lot of those types. My coworkers were all desensitized but that stuff weighed on me too. Apparently a year before I was hired there was an OD death there too.
If you wanna do hotel work maybe look for something more upscale? Though I'm sure that'd come with entitled clientele. But it'd beat seeing disturbing stuff at least.

No. 1204701

>>1203829
Damn, you know what? I'm glad he's got parkinsons. Fucker.
>>1203875
That is so disgusting anon, I'm so sorry. It's fucked up of your coworkers to just laugh about it. I've had to clean up shit as well unfortunately, but I was at least fortunate enough to have coworkers who helped.
>>1203904
That woman sounds insane, I hope you didn't get in any trouble about this??

No. 1205317

>>1204701
No, I didn't get in trouble, thankfully my manager understood my intentions. I felt very stressed about it at the time and stayed home for a week, thinking that all my colleagues will think of me as a racist.

No. 1206353

I worked at Claire's for a grand total of six weeks. It was hands down one of the worst jobs I ever had and I only got paid nine dollars an hour. I got 0 training to pierce ears, they immediately just threw me to piercing and the equipment was crap. It can't be properly sanitized and it was common for the piercing gun to get stuck and only pierce an ear halfway which always resulted in a crying kid I felt very sorry for. It was so bad that when I was alone, I would beg people to not get their ears pierced here and redirect them to a proper place even though I would get punished for not piercing enough ears. Management always sent us way too much crap, so much that we had to start storing products in our restroom because the stock room was overloaded. We weren't paid to go drop the deposit off at the bank at night and since I didn't have a car I had to carry a bag of money on foot at nearly 10pm. Nothing we ever did was enough, we were constantly under scrutiny from nitpicky managers. They didn't want me for the assistant manager postion so they hired someone who was overqualified yet only paid her 12 an hour. I don't feel sorry for her though, she was a huge bitch for me for no reason and smelled like rancid cheese.

There are a couple of customers I particularly remember from my short time working there. One was a mother of 4 who let her kids run amok in the store. As I was bagging her stuff her up, I realized I had forgotten to scan her promo item after she paid but was too exhausted to care (we could sometimes work from 9am to 9pm alone and unable to get lunch or even sit down because management would often check the cameras) and wanted her out of the store as soon as possible. She comes back the next day angry because she apparently didn't get a big enough discount on her items. Sis got a free item from me and still came back with her kids to make a fuss about it. The other is a little girl who ripped open a scented squishie and did not hesitate to take a huge bite out of it. Luckily her mom paid for it because I know most people would have just left it there. The final straw for me was a giant wall of text from my manager about what I was doing wrong while working. At that point I was done and told her I quit over text, but not before making her feel bad about pushing me over the edge. She apologized and I never went back except to drop off the key kek.

No. 1206407

I worked at a department chain that's recently had a lot of locations shut down it was god awful. "Training" was watching a quick video then expected to perform perfectly on the register, we were expected to harass customers to sign up for credit cards and I actually had hours removed to the point where I went several days without eating because no one wanted to sign up for credit cards. Open availability was expected even though I got paid 100 a week. I only worked in the service industry from 18-21 though. Weirdly enough the only time I made more than 150 a week in the service industry was when I was a delivery driver

Restaurants are shit tier too and never take concerns seriously. I worked at a "mom and pop" one who gaslighted me because I wanted something down about another employee watching me shower then refused to allow me to get a promotion while promoting other employees while I was struggling to eat

No. 1206619

>>1206353
>We weren't paid to go drop the deposit off at the bank at night and since I didn't have a car I had to carry a bag of money on foot at nearly 10pm
I'm so glad nothing happened to you nonna

No. 1206650

I will never forget the time a woman cussed me out (I was visibly underage, cashier) because a bag of plant stuff was 4.50 euros instead of 4 euros kek. My colleague was lovely and calmed her down, came back to me and said 'only retards come in here', I don't miss that job but god I miss her. That other woman probably had some things going on in her personal life but imagine screaming at a dumb teen for the price being a whole 50 cents off. I will never understand why people give retail workers a hard time, haven't most people been there, working a shitty job for 9 hours a day for barely any money?

No. 1206671

>>1206353
I considered applying to my local Claire's store because I'm just that desperate right now. The whole piercing bit is an issue for me, because I know the issues with their methods. (pretty passionate about tattoos and piercings here)
Your story is appreciated.

No. 1206897

>>1206353
>I would beg people to not get their ears pierced here and redirect them to a proper place
Wow a friend of mine has told me this exact same thing. I did get my ears pierced at Claires as a kid and thankfully they healed just fine but fuck man.

No. 1206901

>>1206897
NTA but my first piercing is from Claire’s and the right side is crooked kek

No. 1206914

I'm always a little surprised at the retail/fast food manager stories. You'd think they'd be understanding to their employees but it seems like a role that just attracts the most pathetic petty tyrants. Then again employees in those jobs can also be pathetic assholes too so maybe they just get burnt out

No. 1206993

I spent some time working at an Urban Outfitters location. Being in a tourist spot, it genuinely sucked a lot of the time, but at least it helped me break out of my shell. At worst though? The company sucks. The clothing quality also tends to suck (sucks most in the out from under house brand). What I hated most was the policy of having to be "checked out" after clocking out from my shift. Every time an employee left the building our bags and pockets had to be checked, and we couldn't leave until then. It was awkward, sure, that'd happen at the front door in full view of customers, but I can get over that shit. But as a sales associate, you have to track down one of the many managers to check you out of the building. And they were often busy. So you'd wait, in the store, off the clock. I gave up one day and walked out. Another day, after close, all the sales associates had to wait for the manager to be done with whatever she was doing, and she informed a newer person that if she kept wearing pants gathered at the ankle (think joggers/sweatpants), pant legs would be checked too. wtf dude? if you're going to all that trouble to steal a couple pairs of cheap ass undies in a store with plenty of cameras, you earned it.

No. 1207005

>>1206993
same anon, but while there were plenty of awful customer interactions, it's obviously the "checking out" thing that peeved me. one day the manager I tracked down asked if he could see inside the small pouch on the front of my bag, so I loudly stated "Oh, sure Steve, here's all my tampons!!" (name changed for anon reasons, but I promise it's just as generic)

No. 1207026

>>1203351
>>1203380
Omg this reminds me of working at a bar a few years back.

>busy-ish night, a guy from my primary school comes in with his friends

>Haven't seen him in years, though I remember he was an awkward nerd with thick glasses because he was pretty much legally blind
>also told me he had a crush on me when we were kids doing dance classes (ballroom specifically, we were randomly partnered and I had to dance with him while he professed his love for me when we were 11)
>Anyway, this moid is DRUNK, he's knocking things over, slurring his words
>I go up to my manager, knowing he's blind, but saying we need to cut him off
>He goes up to order another drink
>she tells him she can't serve him, offers water instead
>guy brings out his walking stick and places it on the bar and tells her he's just blind
>as if blind men can't be obliterated
>she has to persist and they engage in this awkward exchange of her saying he's cut off and him arguing he's just disabled
>I'm watching from afar and laughing at his pathetic attempt
>eventually gives up, goes back to his table defeated

No. 1207041

>>1207026
Samefagging but I worked in the service industry for nearly 10 years so I have a lot of stories. One of my favorites was this:

>Worked at a roof top bar

>Had some of the most entitled rich customers I'd ever seen and I'd worked in fine dining before
>Woman comes in with her friends, I'm taking their orders
>She asks for a rosé, no biggie
>deliver her drink
>she calls me over after a few minutes
>"why is it flat?"
>I'm staring at her, genuinely puzzled as to what she means
>"Sorry? The rosé?"
>"Yeah, my rosé is flat."
>I explained to her we just opened the bottle, and it's definitely not off, it would take a few days for that to happen
>She insists that it's flat so I go to the bar and taste it myself
>it tastes fine so I come back and tell her we can get her something else
>She says she's had a lot of rosé in her life and it's always bubbly
>that's when I realise she wanted a sparkling rosé
>mfw she didn't know that most rosé is not carbonated
>mfw I had to explain to her that most pink wine is, in fact, flat.
>she goes on a rant to me about how this isn't how rosé should taste, she's never had pink wine like this, etc
>I'm just standing there with 4 years of wine knowledge under my belt, smiling and trying my best not to throw it on her face
>take it back to the bar, put soda water in it
>hand it back to her and give up for the night
>get fired a week later for my "attitude"

No. 1207062

I waited tables for a year in college. The money was surprisingly good (because everything was overpriced), but the staff and customers were insufferable. I was still pretty shy so I got walked over a lot, but that happens a lot in restaurant work.
I waited until our busiest night on Saturday when I had at least six full tables and walked out. It was so busy I don't even think they noticed me leave until all the people started complaining. My manager was also fired a month later and I saw him waiting tables at a different restaurant

No. 1207134

>>1206993
Clothing retail is another level of hell. They really do treat us like inhumans or criminals.

No. 1207138

>>1207041
You did everything right. I hate entitled customers so much

>>get fired a week later for my "attitude"

fuck retail. I got fired from H&M because i asked a lady to please not sit on the jeans display table. I tried to guide her to a seat in the dressing room waiting area but she told my manager I thought she was too fat to sit on the display and I was extremely rude to her. fucking bitch

No. 1207252

I worked at Barnes & Noble in the cafe for about six months and it was just awful.

>Get hired by pasty fat middle-aged general manager who seems unimpressed by me but desperate

>Within one week of working there I am now the second-most senior barista
>Cafe manager is man in his 50s who has sexy comic book art on his locker, collects Funko pops, and is super bitter about losing his former manager position at a restaurant and having to work here instead, takes it out on the college kids who work under him
>He screams at me in front of customers, I cry in the back and he comes in sheepishly to apologize because a nice lady reamed him out for being a dick
>We go through a new hire every single week, he keeps scaring people away with this behavior
>Actually get really good at the job and enjoy it, my customers are actually pretty chill, only have a handful of bad eggs in six months
>Coworkers and managers on the other hand are making me dread work every day
>Find out general manager who hired me is closeted gay man who hires twinks he wants to fuck (there was a whole email scandal lol)
>Realize that's why he treats his female employees so shit and lets the men get away with everything
>Neckbeard coworker gets crush on me, constantly makes fun of me when he sees me because he doesn't know how to flirt
>He literally glares at my husband every time he comes to pick me up
>I start college back up, my schedule changes
>Pasty gay manager is big mad about losing my availability, makes jokes about me not needing to go to college because I'm dumb, asks me what 2 + 2 is in front of everyone, makes feminist jokes
>In college, they call me repeatedly during my three-hour afternoon classes and leave multiple guilt tripping voicemails
>Other male manager I haven't mentioned yet leaves one where he's eating and burping into the phone, says I need to come in because one of the twinks ratted me out that I took a mental health day
>Come in next day, neckbeard coworker rhymes my name with a derogatory word and aforementioned manager wheeze laughs at it
>Get paired up with female coworker who usually works the book side, she gets mad at me for not doing stuff her way instead of the way I was trained, screams at me
>All next shifts with her she gives me the silent treatment, then all my other coworkers stop talking to me as well
>She's the daughter of one of the most beloved employees and BFFs with our one female manager, so god knows what she told them
>After a whole shift where no one said a single word to me I decide to quit the next day
>Show up, pasty gay manager says "Oh good, our new hire ghosted us so I need to add you to the schedule more"
>Hand him my two weeks
>He flips his shit, starts throwing crap around
>Last day of work I get a performance review, they try and get me to stay for a measly 25 cents more an hour

Please buy your books off of Amazon so B&N goes out of business kek. Funnily enough I saw the female manager out in the wild a few months ago, she had quit since then, and she apologized to me for everything that happened there, which was really nice of her. She had a lot of problems with the pasty gay manager valuing the other male managers over her and making homophobic jokes about her and her wife, she also got paid way less than the male managers. Just a total shit show and I eagerly await the day the store here closes.

No. 1207264

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Ive been in service since i was 18. I bartend now but the worst one was when I used to hostess at a buffet at a five star hotel.

We were the only hostesses on property that didnt get tipped out. And our uniform looked VERY similar to this despite most of us being under 25 and attractive (they definitely hired a type)

We were very busy during the holidays. It was common for us to give out oj because dumbass customers constantly brought diabetic family members to wait in line for 2-3 hours for a table.

One christmas were working hard to get customers sat and having people with larger parties wait to the side while we push tables together.

One woman is frustrated that her party of 6 has to wait longer and has the galls to give me the ol’ “for god sakes, ITS CHRISTMAS!”. I couldnt hold back any longer, glare at her and say “i know its christmas. Im here…working…on CHRISTMAS” i dont think she responded after that kek

No. 1207569

>>1207252
Sorry you had to go through all that nona. I hope your current job is treating you much better.

No. 1207643

Worked retail when I was 18 and my coworkers were mostly middle aged to senior aged women who had been working there since the store opened. The ageism was extreme and anyone under the age of 40 was treated like shit. I was typical muh social anxiety autist so I was an easy target for most of them. But one woman in particular was the worst.
>60+ dollar store Jamie Lee Curtis crossed with Meryl Streep in Devil Wears Prada with eyes of a wolf, resident mean girl of the old hags
>Doesn't need to even work this much, is retired elementary school teacher (somehow) with a working hubby
>Multiple complaints about her bullying from younger workers, some even quit because of her
>Slap on the wrist each time because she was close with the managers
>Store absolute garbage system where regular cashiers have no power to do things like remove items from a transaction or void, this means you have to call the front end cashier to do it for you
>Always worked same shifts as her so she was the one I had to report to.
>Went out of her way to treat me like shit and made it very obvious she disliked me from the start
>Gossiped and talked shit about other young coworkers as well, for the most petty shit too, like being "too friendly"
>Assistant manager's daughter frequently visits and brings her baby
>All the hags including her would leave their registers to gather round to squee about the baby, leaving us other younger cashiers to do all the work
>Glared daggers at me and act like I was inconveniencing her when I had to call her over to do anything or to take customers because it's getting busy
>Grandkids visit on occasion and it's like Jekyll and fucking Hyde with how she treats them vs me and other coworkers
>One time I have to call her over because I'm short on change
>Kind of a tard about math so I hesitate a bit to figure out what bills to give her in exchange for coins
>"Well anon, are we just going to stand around staring at each other or did you call me over for a reason? Stop wasting my time"
>I freeze and go silent as she does what she needs to do and leaves, am about to cry
>My customers comment on it and ask if I'm alright, trying to calm me down
>One day I have enough and I tell the head manager, who is a fucking dick
>He tells me this isn't the first complaint he's had but that she's too good of a worker to do anything about it so I should get over it
>Some young girl gets hired and for some reason this bitch loves her and dotes on her constantly
>Will be beaming ear to ear whenever she calls her over for something, and her face drops whenever I need something
>Made a few off-handed comments about how I should be more like the new girl or would tell stories about how amazing and talented she is
>Months later she has a stroke and is out of commission for a few months
>Manager says we have to sign a get well soon card
>I am the only one who doesn't sign and I hope she noticed
>Get put on other shifts and never have to see that miserable witch again


Bonus story, recent talk about bpd skinwalkers reminded me of a cow from same job
>First day of training her she tells me her ex boyfriend raped her and gave her syphilis
>Says she's had two abortions as a teen
>Will not stop oversharing about her life and makes me super uncomfortable
>Brings her boyfriend into work and he just flirts with her at the register and managers do nothing about it
>Since I'm boring she eventually gets sick of talking at me and attaches herself to our other coworker our age, a lesbian
>She starts imitating all her mannerisms
>Tells me that she has a crush on lesbian coworker and wants to make out with her
>Comes out as bi
>Always see her following her close behind wherever she goes, it's creepy as shit
>She joins a sex toy MLM and brings her supply to the store for some unknown fucking reason
>Talks about how awkward it was having to get bag checked end of shift and the scrote manager seeing her sex toys
>Continues to bring her supply in anyway so she gets attention

No. 1208014

>>1207643
Damn nonna, I don't know why but there are so many workplaces where older women will nitpick and exclude younger women. Is it because we don't yet have the confidence to stand up for ourselves? Is it because they're power tripping and don't have much else going on?
Also, family businesses SUCK. It's supposed to be an honest, small business, but it's a great excuse for nepotism and cliquey behaviour, because this person knows that person and you're an outsider. Seriously, if one of the insiders has a problem with you, then they can start any rumour and it will be believed. I hate it so much.

No. 1208809

>>1208014
Older women that have “aged out” of male attention feel the need to congregate together in the workplace and assert their dominance over the younger women. Whether it be spite or jealousy it’s all the same. Oftentimes they are in loveless marriages and have few real hobbies outside of gossip, and doing photoshoots of their yorkies in costumes can only take up so much of their time. Work for them is all they have, and they have to feel like they can talk their way into some place on top of the social hierarchy. They think being older automatically makes them more intelligent and valuable. This doesn’t account for all the sweet older ladies you will meet obvs. Just that “type”.

No. 1209190

>>1208014
It wasn't actually a family business but a regional retailer, but it went under a few years go now. Their business practices were so retarded so it was a long time coming. Though I think the location I worked at was one of the first stores of the chain to open so they basically were as close-knit as family business. I drove by the empty building and just laughed to myself. Guess you gotta retire now, bitches!

Some other stories and comments from other old coworkers to me from the same job:
>Pool my savings together with one of my close internet friends and take a vacation abroad to visit her
>Try to keep this vacation time a secret, but all my coworkers find out because they gossip
>Get a few comments such as:
>"Anon how can someone with your salary afford to travel?"
>"What? You're traveling on your own? Oh no that isn't good, you need to get someone to go with you like your mom to make sure you're ok
>I am age 21 at this point, by the way

>Meet a new coworker who asks what town I'm from

>I tell her
>It's a historical small town where nothing really exists and you have to drive to another town to do anything like shop for groceries, etc
>She says how she loves my town and how pretty it is
>I say yeah it's nice but there isn't much to do
>She immediately accuses me of being a young kid who isn't satisfied unless I have something like a night club to go to, how people like me can't appreciate the history and little things in life
>I tell her I literally said that because I have to drive a fucking town over to get my damn groceries or any fast food, that I do not care about the nightlife or cities
>She says nothing and doesn't even apologize

>Buy an easter egg chocolate on my break

>Asst. Manager comments on how fattening it is and how when I get to be her age I need to take better care of myself

>As said in OP, I'm 18 years old at the time of hire, 21 when I finally quit.

>I took this job because I wasn't ready for college but didn't wanna be full NEET
>Asst. Manager always makes some offhand comments about how I should "really go back to college", acting as if I'm much older instead of just taking a gap year
>I complain to another coworker about her nosiness, and I guess her daughter, the one mentioned in my previous post, got pregnant in her 20s and never went to college, so she projects this insecurity onto all the younger people who aren't in school

Oh my favorite one too
>Store mostly plays oldies hits from the 50s
>Regional management comes in saying we need to start playing more current music to appeal to the youth
>Coworkers take great issue with this and bitch about 'my generations music' even though I listen to shit like anime music
>One day I'm working and the DNA cover of Tom's Diner, a song literally released in 1992, comes on
>Dickhead moid manager walks by me as it plays
>"Seriously, anon? Do-do-doo-do? That's what you call music now? I swear you kids do not know what real music is proceeds to go on a tirade blaming my generation for bad music even though this song came out the fucking year I was born


So yeah. Fuck old people. I did have some really sweet older coworkers who were nice to me but the catty old bags far outweighed them.

No. 1226131

so one of the managers at my work was pregnant. a few days ago she couldn't make her shift because she was having contractions and couldn't find a cover so they fired her. the day they fired her I overheard my boss (who is a 22 year old woman) being like "I told her if she can't find a cover, I'm going to count it as a no-call-no-show"… okay but how is it a no call no show when you know she can't work?? she's having FUCKING CONTRACTIONS what's she supposed to do??

she worked with us over a year and she was consistently 15+ minutes late, I know they threatened to write her up at one point over it but they never did. I wondered if they were actually firing her because she was late all of the time but if that were the case why not fire her one of the trillion other times she was late, not when she starts having contractions? the whole thing doesn't make sense, I feel like there might be more to the story that I'm unaware of. she left a final message in crew (the app we use to communicate, there's a group chat) I saw part of it but when I clicked on it it said "message deleted by admin". a coworker told me she had a screenshot but she never showed me.

we got a new DM (district manager, basically my boss's boss) a couple months ago who is fucking insufferable, I have no doubt he played a hand in this. I'm bummed out because I liked that manager, I'm also really disappointed in my boss. I don't think my old boss would have allowed that to happen.

No. 1226144

>>1207643
The ageism towards younger employees is so real and it can get so ugly and demented sometimes. Applying at a store where everyone is an oldfag (especially as a woman because these types of retail ladies love to shit on younger women but coddle young male employees) is never worth it. My current retail workplace is still pretty shitty but it's nowhere near as bad as other places were because the median age is like 25.

No. 1226147

>>1208809
I almost never "hi scrote" but you sound extremely fucking scrotey or pickme-ish.

FYI the reason there are often mean older women in retail management positions is because they have the personality type that thrives there. they work up the ladder because they like being bitchy and bossing people around not to mention retail is an incredibly hostile environment so usually the genuinely nicer people leave. I worked for a younger woman who acted the way you're describing, there's just a type. the male managers have treated me horribly as well. I'm dead serious when I say that when I worked at walmart, the store owner - a man - threatened to write me up for not being "cheery" and "excited" enough with customers. not all women's behavior revolves around male attention.

No. 1226457

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I worked at a La Quinta hotel for 2 years. Our worst guest was a fucking biohazard but my manager didn't give a shit because she paid so much to stay there long term.

>morbidly obese with diabetes/lymphedema who smelled like straight up shit

>extreme hoarder whose room was full of groceries and empty food containers
>found out her van looked the same
>owned a small dog who was covered in matted hair and smelled like shit
>human and dog shit/piss covered the floor and bed
>had to wash her sheets in a separate washer because of the shit
>her room was rotated amongst the housekeepers because no one wanted to do it
>literally had to wear 2 masks and make a hazmat suit from trash bags to enter her room
>firemen out every other day to pick her ass up off the floor

The sad thing was, this lady was really nice. She was just mentally ill as fuck. I ended up reporting my manager and her to the fire marshal after they refused to go into her room after she fell because it was such a bio/fire hazard. My manager was pissed but tried to play it off like she decided to kick her out because she felt oh so bad for us housekeepers. I don't think she ever found out it was me though.

They spent a fuckton redoing that room after she left because the floors and furniture were ruined. Even then, the room still smelled faintly of shit and guests never stayed in that room for very long because of that.

I hope that lady is getting the help she needs, wherever she is, and a huge fuck you my manager.

No. 1226482

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>Be me, bakery worker
>Left due to school but work during seasonal times because they love me so much
>Training a meek girl who is nice but not assertive
>Man orders 70$ worth of things
>Girl asks if he wants a plastic bag, he says OF COURSE I WANT ONE, I GOT 70$ WORTH OF SHIT in a rude way
>Where I live, plastic bags cost around .15 cents
>She tells him nicely it will cost .15 cents
>He loses his shit and starts yelling
>I approach him telling him it's the law, usually I don't care and give free bags but he's been rude about it
>He starts yelling at me, I yell back
>Gives me this look
>He tells me he's gonna hurt me and stares me down
>About to lose my shit and fight him
>Manager comes in, takes my side and tells the man to meet him outside
>Manager is 6'5 buff black guy, customer is 5'5 fat hairy old fuck
>He then calls the police explains what happens and leaves angrily qith his refund
>Police call us back and they are like "uhh…. does he not know it's law? well whatever just bar him from store"
>All this happens on my last day of work.

No. 1226537

this is absolutely nothing compared to most of the stories ITT, but i am unironically triggered by people asking where i'm from after years of hearing that question working in food service/retail. it usually went like:
>have completely normal cashier interaction with customer
>they cut me off as i'm ringing them up with a "so where are you from?"
>answer with birth city (large US city)
>"no I meant where are you REALLY from?"
>then i am put in the awkward position of either insisting that i really am a natural-born burger or explaining that i have immigrant parents because apparently my sperg voice and general social awkwardness seems like a foreign accent
>not even a POC, just a weapons-grade autist

the funniest/stupidest examples of this were this old asian guy with a heavy accent asking me if i knew how to speak english because i couldn't understand what the fuck he was trying to order, and me answering some old scrote's annoying accent question with "it's a speech impediment".

No. 1226562

>>1226482
Wow this was a rollercoaster. I'm so glad that you had such a good manager but what the fuck. For spending so much it's insane he was that pissy over a small charge. At that point you know it's a power thing

No. 1226568

>>1226537
samefag, just got reminded of an actual horror story
>work in a 'luxury' carwash one summer because a few of my hs friends already work there and i needed the cash
>place is needlessly expensive because they offer customers complimentary (alcoholic) drinks and the interior is tackily upholstered corporate-chic
>also has a ridiculous turnover rate because management and owner sucked ass
>my job was customer service rep, aka college kid with a digital payment device running up to cars in 100°+/30°+ weather grabbing their 'orders' like it's the fucking chik-fil-a drive-through and also general dogsbody when the detail guys were swamped, which was often
>sometimes they would let me man the cashier station for people who just wanted to go through the carwash tunnel, which was also outside
>"uniform" was weirdly sexualized: technically it was a polo in company colours for male and female CSRs, but the female version was much more tight-fitting and would show midriff if you raised your arms over your head, plus female CSRs were practically encouraged to wear really short shorts
>female CSRs were also aggressively hit on by gross old men
>one time some fat old scrote got buttmad at me for using 'the wrong colour sharpie' on the receipt/ticket that goes on the windshield to tell the carwash guys what services to perform
>would not let me complete his fucking transaction until i printed out a new ticket and scrawled some shit on it with the 'correct' sharpie, all while barking instructions at me
>tells me "just helping you do your job, sweetie"
>hispanic managers and detail guys absolutely did not respect me because i didn't suck up to them and was bad with customers but good at plugging away at shit like vacuuming and washing carpets aka "mens' work"
>younger detail guys ended up literally dumping their work on me so they could go flirt with the other female CSRs
>oh also you were paid on commission and got yelled at if you didn't sell enough expensive details, if you sold too many expensive details, or if the manager was just having a bad day
>owner, a creepy bald old white guy who resembled a shrink-wrapped reptile, liked to pop in during busy hours and do inane tasks like sweeping up in the middle of the vacuum aisles (outside) while there were a shitload of cars and workers trying to vacuum them
fuck that place

No. 1226624

>>1226457
Hello fellow hotel nonnie. That's horrible and disgusting. Hotel work is really just never ending horror stories and so much money gets lost from people soiling linens and mattresses. I also had a designated poo room that was always blocked off. Anyway here's one for the road:
>Guy is freshly out of jail and his mom won't let him back home, so she gets him a hotel room
>Girlfriend stays with him, she is drunk off her ass 24/7
>Police need to be called nearly every day due to domestic arguments between them
>Guy never leaves the room but has to be brought to the hospital a few times
>Housekeepers go to clean and the sheets are covered in shit
>Find out guy is dying of liver cancer and is just drinking his life away with his gf
>Look him up
>He's a war veteran with PTSD and a huge violent criminal record, including an incident where he killed his mom's cat
>Woman keeps drunkenly calling the front desk trying to order pizza and telling me to pay it for her when he arrives, but she passes out before she can give me her money
>Delivery dude shows up and I just turn him away
>Keep finding the woman's credit cards and ID by the ATM, she probably dropped them while drunk
>She keeps talking to me and saying how she's a model and for me to look her up
>I do, she's been arrested several times for drunken misconduct
>Guy eventually gets taken to the hospital a third time and we kick him out
>Room is filled with junk, suitcases full of their crap and there's literal shit everywhere
>We clear everything out for a deep cleaning and store all the unsoiled stuff in our back room, with the ultimatum that if they don't return in a few days we're trashing it
>Moid's mom wants nothing to do with it, rightfully so
>I go on a deep dive investigation of everything in the pile
>Folders full of his criminal records, some listing the woman as the victim of domestic assault
>Find a few journals from the woman
>Entries are full of gratitude exercises, saying she finally left him, then saying that she can't leave him, etc, it's all really bleak and sad
>Find a few rehab documents of her, she's been struggling with alcoholism for years and it seems she sticks with him due to shared pain
It was like finding clues in a video game and I felt gross after. Felt really bad for the woman and I hope she gets help. But fuck the moid, I hope he's dead by now so she can be free.

No. 2057288

>>1226457
I had a man kinda like that in the hotel I worked at who was very ill and basically trying to kill himself with alcohol and his illness in his room. it was like he had just decided he was gonna die there. he was drinking heavily which he was NOT supposed to do with his condition and he would ask for packets of salt (just salt) from the hotel cafe that I'm fairly certain he brought back to his room and ate plain to try to trigger his condition (I don't remember what it was but a lot of salt was also a no-no.) he was smoking in a no-smoking hotel and burning holes in the mattress. the front desk had fucked up at some point and allowed him to start paying in cash each day one night in advance which was crazy because he was trashing the room and there would definitely need to be extra charges applied and there's a reason we did not allow cash advance payments at our property. I think he just didn't want to pay for any extra nights after he died. We always did wellness checks on him if he didn't leave the room that day. I don't think he cared that the housekeepers were gonna find his dead body… it was just like you said, the housekeepers would rotate through it and always in pairs because it was too much for one person. he became a long-term guest so the rules for kicking him out changed and it was a whole thing. I appealed to the GM for help and like a week later he was gone, I don't know what they did to get him out of there I was on vacation when he left.



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