Funny/Fun work experiences or fun Jobs...

[Chaka-Z0]

If you can call having to go out and gather shopping carts in all kinds of crazy weather interesting

It does get kinda interesting when you have to fight 80 mph wind gusts at the same time

Me and my bois used to get them all in a super long snake, like 50+ of them, and do it in one go. I must say the drivers in the parking lot weren't happy we were blocking the whole damn parkway though.

[Womble]

I've shared some stories from my work as a travel agent in the past. There's one every week or so.

[jelgate]

Me and my bois used to get them all in a super long snake, like 50+ of them, and do it in one go. I must say the drivers in the parking lot weren't happy we were blocking the whole damn parkway though.

I remember doing that in college. Nothing drove me crazier was the customers who couldn't bother to put the carts back in the cart corrall

[Chaka-Z0]

I remember doing that in college. Nothing drove me crazier was the customers who couldn't bother to put the carts back in the cart corrall

What puzzled me the most was the people that went out of their ways to pull their carts over the concrete blocs, and drop 'em in the ditches. There's a special place in hell for such people.

[Annoyed]

What puzzled me the most was the people that went out of their ways to pull their carts over the concrete blocs, and drop 'em in the ditches. There's a special place in hell for such people.

I don't get putting them in the ditches, but I can see locking the wheels in the concrete parking lot barriers.

It prevents them from being blown around by the wind and hitting other cars.

[Gatefan1976]

We had a superstorm last night, got to work last night and the roof had collapsed in the health and beauty aisle and at the meat case.
Going to make stocktake interesting

[Annoyed]

We had a superstorm last night, got to work last night and the roof had collapsed in the health and beauty aisle and at the meat case.
Going to make stocktake interesting

Gives new meaning to the phrase "Cleanup, aisle 12".

[mad_gater]

Me and my bois used to get them all in a super long snake, like 50+ of them, and do it in one go. I must say the drivers in the parking lot weren't happy we were blocking the whole damn parkway though.

When I first started this job about 1 1/2 years ago I could get enough cart straps to daisy chain together and I could do 50+ carts by myself. Can't do that anymore as my back eventually started complaining about me doing that

trying to push or drag them through accumulating snow and slush is also really fun

[Gatefan1976]

Gives new meaning to the phrase "Cleanup, aisle 12".

Pretty much man, it was a total mess.
The bosses were saying "oh, it's ok", and every actual worker was saying they are screwed for days
Naturally, they tried to call me in to work today.
They failed.

[Annoyed]

When I first started this job about 1 1/2 years ago I could get enough cart straps to daisy chain together and I could do 50+ carts by myself. Can't do that anymore as my back eventually started complaining about me doing that

trying to push or drag them through accumulating snow and slush is also really fun

This reminds me of a part time job I had in Jr. High school at a grocery chain.
This was back in the 70's, when the women's movement was surging forward at a furious pace.

It occurred to me that only the MALE employees were sent out for cart duty, or to load groceries in customer's cars, or for other unpleasant outdoor tasks in January.

I brought this to the attention of the employer, who obviously didn't have a good answer to that question.

I was shown the door shortly thereafter.

This was my first, but certainly not the last exposure to the hypocrisy of women's claims to wanting "equality"

[mad_gater]

This reminds me of a part time job I had in Jr. High school at a grocery chain.
This was back in the 70's, when the women's movement was surging forward at a furious pace.

It occurred to me that only the MALE employees were sent out for cart duty, or to load groceries in customer's cars, or for other unpleasant outdoor tasks in January.

I brought this to the attention of the employer, who obviously didn't have a good answer to that question.

I was shown the door shortly thereafter.

This was my first, but certainly not the last exposure to the hypocrisy of women's claims to wanting "equality"

yeah but the cashier assistant job means I get plenty of exercise....and it means I don't have to interact much with the customers (kidding....most of the customers I interact with at whole foods are pretty friendly)

[Franksixer]

It doesn't get better than this... Oh, I would have killed that guy, on the spot.



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Oh believe me I wanted to kill the guy on the spot, except he was my Superior at the time and I was so tense and stressed, that I couldn't do anything except experience EXTREME RELIEF... I had been thinking I was going to die for the past few hours LOL... All of my adrenaline just dropped.... They call it an adrenaline dump, it's like you turn into mush... No energy, odd feeling.. but RELIEVED is an understatement! But I look back and I laugh my butt off... lolol when I tell that story in real life people are so tense & invested.... and when I tell them what the guy leaned in and said to me... Their faces are PRICELESS!

And I Got your message, sorry, I was away for a day or two! Check your PMS I responded..I accidentally sent two of them because I screwed up and forgot to write an important part that I didn't include in the first one.. I spaced out.. so I apologize they're split in two.. so you might want to read them both before replying. instead of replying twice... Just giving you a heads up! LOL

Talk to you soon,
-Frank

[Franksixer]

Well, I think we now know why you enjoy life.

Well come on...I think a lot of people are entertained by the not so bright lol... And if you can't laugh at yourself then what fun is anything? But yeah you're pretty much got me pegged LOL

Thanks for the reply brother,
-Frank

[mad_gater]

Well come on...I think a lot of people are entertained by the not so bright lol... And if you can't laugh at yourself then what fun is anything? But yeah you're pretty much got me pegged LOL

Thanks for the reply brother,
-Frank

I'm a NYS-licensed massage therapist....one of my instructors at massage school told a story of when he was the patient for a student qualifier (qualifying a student to work on the general public in the student clinic)...the student in question legit tore my instructor's one calf muscle really bad and he was on crutches for like several months...needless to say that student didn't pass

I failed my first try at the qualifier too but they let me have a second chance because all I did was mess up a lot of procedural stuff....so one of my other instructors drilled the procedure of how to work on a patient in the clinic over and over until I finally had it down pat and felt confident enough that I knew what I was doing....that guy though was just a real piece of work who probably had no business even trying to learn it.

[Franksixer]

I'm a NYS-licensed massage therapist....one of my instructors at massage school told a story of when he was the patient for a student qualifier (qualifying a student to work on the general public in the student clinic)...the student in question legit tore my instructor's one calf muscle really bad and he was on crutches for like several months...needless to say that student didn't pass

I failed my first try at the qualifier too but they let me have a second chance because all I did was mess up a lot of procedural stuff....so one of my other instructors drilled the procedure of how to work on a patient in the clinic over and over until I finally had it down pat and felt confident enough that I knew what I was doing....that guy though was just a real piece of work who probably had no business even trying to learn it.

For some reason the first time I read that I thought it said that he Ripped his calf muscle in half! I was like OMFG! That is insanity! LOL! But yeah sounds like he was a piece of work, and had no business trying to learn your profession at all, that must have been incredibly painful.. and extremely inconvenient... WOW... some people man....BTW: I'm in NY too! I wanted to PM you to tell you where in New York but you have PMs disabled...

Screw it! Staten island! my friend!

Thanks for sharing @mad_gater. Nice to see a fellow New Yorker on the board!
-Frank