Doing "tech support" for Fedex was probably the worst.

Basically talking to idiots all day telling them to click the ship button or getting bitched at because whoever programmed their website was an idiot and it didn't work half the time.

1/14/2012 8:37:33 PM

FedEx's website pisses me off whenever I have to use it for work. I can't imagine having to be on the receiving end of people's frustrations.

1/14/2012 8:46:10 PM

democratic fund raising call center on hillsborough st

worst 4 months of my life

1/14/2012 8:48:55 PM

Hostess and waitressing at Mellow Mushroom by the DPAC.

fuck that place. And everyone that worked there.

1/14/2012 9:20:48 PM

^Why?

1/14/2012 9:21:39 PM

Never had any jobs I really hated, but probably Hardees was the worst. Mostly because of the other losers who worked there instead of the work itself.

1/14/2012 9:24:09 PM

asshole managers (except for one), pissy, miserable, bitchy wait staff. Loved the cooks though - cool people.

1/14/2012 9:31:28 PM

I worked in a deli/bakery at at grocery store in high school. I didn't really mind the work so much as the management. The manager had a bad reputation and was a complete bitch. She always tried to get in everyone's personal life, on top of being a dictator on the job. I remember I was warned that she always picked on the person hired to close (which happened to be me at the time), which turned out to be true. She would nit pick things like the floor being dirty after I mopped, even though I had to mop with a dirty mop head and she refused to get a new one. She would also leave me tons of work she was too lazy to do and then bitch to upper management when I was late clocking out. I would end up doing three fourths of the daytime work on top of my regular closing duties. I was never so glad to quit a job.

1/14/2012 10:41:23 PM

The one I just finished at Target. I've been looking for temporary/seasonal jobs because (at least if I'm honest) I can't get into anything long-term when I'm planning to leave with the Peace Corps in July. So when they offered me a seasonal "possibly longer term" job in the back room at Target, I thought, "Sweet!"

Fuck was I wrong. I've never dealt with a worse morass of incompetence and inefficiency in my life -- and I've been a substitute teacher at Garner High School. It's the only place I've ever worked where it seemed like they were making our lives difficult just for the sake of making them difficult. And customers...fuck a customer. Shit.

1/14/2012 11:32:02 PM

worked at kb toys in concord mills

1/15/2012 6:21:49 PM

Did landscaping work all summer one year in college. Basically I drove the dump truck to the jobsite because I was working with a bunch of 30-45 year old crack addicts who had all lost their licenses long ago for various offenses. When we got there I did all the shit jobs because I had no seniority. 8 hour days in NC heat moving wheel barrows of sod, digging trenches for sprinkler systems, laying pavers for patios, etc. We'd get tasks like "remove all these piles of concrete from where we smashed up a patio" or "unload these pallets of sod off the truck; oh by the way it's full of fire ants." It was backbreaking work and I hated it. And to top it off nearly every day a motherfucking snake would jump out of some pinestraw and scare the ever living shit out of me.

I really enjoy working outdoors now, but this wasn't normal yard work. It fucking sucked.

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1/15/2012 10:35:04 PM

if i could make the money/benefits i have at my current job by doing lawcare/landscaping, i would do it in a heartbeat.

1/15/2012 11:27:12 PM

I have a few

Walmart:
they expect you to break your back stocking shit and they determine how much you should have done at the end of the night, and they keep giving you other shit to do, then get mad because you havent finished the other job, conflicting orders from assistant managers who would then "forget" or deny they said that

Life Insurance:
OH MY GOD, i worked from 8 am till 12 midnight 6 days a week, they expected you to stay on the road all the time, going to doors, and trying to sell and get referals. granted, I did make insane paychecks some weeks, but others i didnt make shit. and all the while my manager just would up
and start cussing at me for shit that happened weeks ago or no reason at al

i hit my quota 3 months in a row and they promoted me to manager
I then recruited other poor saps to do the same shit i had been doing, most quit quickly and i got bitched at cause i wasnt a fucking tyrant over my people.

anyway, they gave me a chance to move out of state to a "Salary" job as a higher level manager,
luckily i had friends there and crashed with them. turns out it was commission as well, and the
"salary" was min wage less expenses. i came back to to NC after just a few weeks because
i hated that even more.

long story short, my 2nd week back, my manager started fussing at me for something i didnt even
do, i told him to fuck off and left. i also reported them for shit they were doing that wasnt
allowed by the dept of insurance, last i heard they pinned it on him and he took the fall

i was never so glad to quit a job, but then they tried to say i made more than they paid me
i took all my check stubs to the dept of insurance, and they "found" their mistake that they couldnt find when i kept calling

1/16/2012 8:32:53 AM

Oh man, i've had a lot of jobs i've hated. Right now i'm working out at Lake Johnson (some of you have probably seen me and just don't realize it), which can be super-annoying over the summer, but is pretty dead during the winter, so I read a lot. Working for the city at various parks has definitely been much better than stuff like:

- worked 3rd shift at target, stocking shelves, it was 10pm-6am. completely miserable. i don't know how people work 3rd shift and sleep all day. ruined months of my life, ha.
- i've washed dishes at probably 5 different places, all-together about two years of my life spent washing dishes to pay for school/rent.
- worked on several golf courses early on doing course maintenance, but mostly just got stuck weed-eating around sandtraps all the time. we had this heavy, collared shirt we had to wear and it was like 95 degrees every day, plus i got minimum-wage, which at the time was 6/hr. barf.
-delivery driver a couple of times. terrible for making money, i often broke even because people didn't tip worth a crap and gas was expensive with my shitty car.

There are more, but those are probably the worst. Overall, I really hate the food industry. washing dishes ten hours/day, that kitchen smell and feeling gets into your skin and clothes, ugh.

1/16/2012 2:20:55 PM

Quote :

"FedEx's website pisses me off whenever I have to use it for work. I can't imagine having to be on the receiving end of people's frustrations."

I'd recommend getting their software if you use Fedex very much. Seems to be less of a hassle and it has some better features.

1/17/2012 11:19:39 AM

Worst job I ever worked, by far, was selling cars one summer

1/17/2012 1:10:57 PM

Hmm.. Fresh out of undergrad, I was jobless and took an inside sales job. I quit after lunch on my 3rd day. I thought I could handle it, but talking on the phone all day is not for me.

I also worked at corporate Carquest for a year. The job had no metrics whatsoever and the manager, although incredibly smart, was completely hands off. So, he had no clue who worked hard and who just slacked off.

1/17/2012 1:12:36 PM

for 3 years as an undergrad I worked 30 hours a week at a pig farm.

My only tasks were to move the 400 lb boars from one cage to another cage to get the females 'aroused' and the other task was to shovel the 3 inches of shit from the bottom of the cages every 30-45 minutes so that another batch of pigs could hang out in there and shit some more. Not to mention while wearing coveralls and boots 2 sizes too big and it is hot as crap inside the piggeries.

if you haven't had livestock experience, the only thing that smells as bad as pig shit is chicken shit. The smell stays on your hands and in your hair ... basically you always smell like diluted pig shit even after 2 showers... Every weekend I would take 7 showers before going out with friends and bought expensive clarifying shampoo to help the smell...lol

1/17/2012 4:29:50 PM

Management at Sears (being a peon there wasn't so bad).

I... I thought it would go somewhere. I was woefully mistaken.

1/17/2012 4:38:01 PM

Order of worst...
(1) Vacation package telemarketer
(2) DirectTV Installer

Had to pay rent/gas somehow!

1/17/2012 4:48:48 PM

Didn't a bunch of TWWers sell pills over the phone years ago?

My worst job was at Eckerds back in my senior year of high school. Manager was a jackass. Left after 2 months. I hated doing the influential selling or whatever the fuck they call it. When they try to guilt/tempt you into buying whatever the fuck they have sitting by the registers. I remember it was right after 9/11 and Eckerds had some C.D. for sale that was put out in response to 9/11. We were told to push the hell out of the C.D. and pretty much tell anybody who said "no thanks" that they were un-American. Maybe they just didn't want to pay $19.99 for a C.D.

And as ironic as it may be, I hated the people that came through my line with coupons. The coupons would never scan and then I would have to stand there and read the damn fine print and finally tell the customer that they bought the wrong product.

1/17/2012 4:49:23 PM

i stood outside at a shopping center parking lot and gave away samples of some clear drink called Proformance

it tasted like shit so they probably went out of business...dude couldve been rich but he released the product like 10 years before the big vitamin water boom

1/17/2012 5:26:37 PM

Selling sheets of Pizza Hut coupons door-to-door in NC summer heat. Lasted all of a week.

Quote :

"manager was a complete idiot, had no idea what he was doing, kept us high school kids there late into the night even though it was against target policy"

Wow, I thought only Walmart did this. They didn't keep people under 18 after 11 on school nights, but they'd keep us late into the night on Fridays and Saturdays for 'zoning' (basically straightening up the shelves). The dumb thing is they never told new hires about it, they'd just wait until the end of their shift when they'd be like "I can clock out now, right?", then they'd say "first we need to get our zoning done", after an hour or so either another employee explained how it works or they figured it out on their own.

1/17/2012 6:32:58 PM

^^^lol I was at Eckerd at the same time. I was supposed to push flag stickers. I just let them sit at the counter; I never recommended anything.

1/17/2012 9:29:58 PM

I decided to work at a Preschool one summer while I was in college. I'd always been good with my nieces/nephews, plus it paid surprisingly well, so it seemed like an easy way to make some decent money. For some reason, they basically put me in charge of the 5-6 year olds.

I'll say this. Babysitting a couple kids who are related to you is one thing ... babysitting 30+ of them who are jacked up on Koolaid and Animal Crackers is another. Holy shit they were demons. I got kicked in the balls at least once a day.

1/17/2012 10:53:03 PM

Priming tobacco for two summers in high school. I was allergic to it so I'd come home and get sick. Definitely makes me appreciate my software engineering job

1/18/2012 12:06:16 AM

Quote :

"I've been a substitute teacher at Garner High School"

I'm sorry for this, I know my students go full retard when I am not here.


Worst I have had was working on the concession stands at the RBC Center during college. First night I was on the sausage stop and had no idea what I was doing. I almost didn't make it through my first shift. Usually I was at the dippin dots stand and would leave with what I am pretty sure was frost bite on my hands.

The only redeeming factor was being there for the canes cup run.

1/18/2012 7:56:19 AM

^I hear y'all have an awesome principal... how long have you been there?



I worked at the RBC center twice... first was the year it opened... I was a beverage runner for the luxury suites. That job was awesome... they would order a 6 pack of beer, we would bring it to them. (simple as that)

Got paid 9.50 plus tip share, plus whatever tips the people in the suites gave us (I was handed a hundred dollar bill a few times)... not bad money for what it was.

plus when we were done running beer, we pretty much could watch whatever the event was.




The second time i worked at RBC was TERRIBLE... this was the same year the canes won the cup. I was security, which basically meant i had to look in women's purses for little pocket knives and whatnot. only got paid 6.50 PLUS we had to buy our own uniform shirt for 25 damn bucks (on the VERY first orientation night, they gave us the shirts and told us later it was coming out of our paychecks... and then even LATER they told us we were only making 6.50)

I just stopped going to that job... no notice or anything... the only job where i've quit that way. (they kept calling me months later to work though!)

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1/18/2012 8:02:16 AM

Quote :

"oh dear god. I worked at radioshack for a few months, worst job experience by far that I've ever had."

Oh dear, sweet Paerabol... I know your pain.

1/18/2012 10:37:42 AM

hvac design engineer.

Long hours, no respect and no one is every happy with your job... it just becomes acceptable.

Keep in mind i used to do a bunch of manual labor jobs from brick mason to golf course maintenance.

1/18/2012 10:56:44 AM

working at the NCSU bookstore selling computers with Dijital and hotwolf3

1/18/2012 11:11:11 AM

Pool boy at a gay porn filming house

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

1/18/2012 11:35:04 AM

Mine is the best and worst job I have worked.

1/18/2012 11:37:54 AM

Quote :

"Worst I have had was working on the concession stands at the RBC Center"

I've been at the RBC Center five seasons now and it is THE BEST part time job I have ever had. Of course I work where I can make pretty good money at hockey games. I don't think I could stand working in The Eye or as an usher.

1/18/2012 7:24:19 PM

I had worked in concessions for a solid five years. For part time, it really isn't a bad job. Only part that would suck is knowing in advance when a week was going to be slow. Management was good about working around school schedules and everything. Got to at least be present for most everything that was going on..maybe couldn't see it all, but it was sometimes nice to just be in the building.

1/18/2012 7:48:44 PM

Asst. CSM at Harris Teeter

The job description sounded okay at the interview, but it was really nothing like that. I ran a cash register 90% of the time because the store only had a certain budget and had to cut others of other cashiers to provide hours for me.

Some of the problems I had with the job were:

1) Harris Teeter is obsessed with customer wait times. It sounds good in theory, but their efforts to decrease wait times actually increased them. When you were on a cash register, you were expected to bag for other cashiers when you did not have any customers in your line. This is fine, until you're in the middle of bagging an order for a customer and another customer hops in line. Rather than finishing bagging that order and bagging for the next customer, you had to immediately stop bagging (even if in the middle of filling a bag), grab the customer, and begin ringing them out on your register. 1 cashier and 1 bagger can get a customer checked out faster than 2 cashiers and no baggers. Wait times were only calculated up until the customer was the one checking out, so that's why this idiotic practice was put in place. You can imagine the dirty looks and comments I got when I would be in the middle of bagging up an order and just drop everything to grab the lone customer waiting in line.

2) There are no conveyor belts at the registers at the Harris Teeter that I worked at. The back pain was terrible after about 4 hours. This greatly reduced the speed at which the cashiers worked. Harris Teeter's position was that customers didn't like unloading their groceries onto a conveyor belt. They much preferred that the cashier unload and directly scan their groceries. This point directly conflicts with point 1.

3) During training at the regional headquarters, HT spent about an hour showing us the results of the research they had conducted on meals/breaks. They pointed out that while NC law did not require that employees be given breaks or lunches, HT had determined that workers were much more productive when their employees received breaks and lunches during their shift. We were told that for an 8-10 hour shift, it was mandatory that we take 2 15-min breaks and 1 30-min lunch. Everyday I would inquire upon arriving as to if the schedule had been made out for breaks and lunches. I would check my times, which would look something like: Start work at 10, break at 12, lunch at 2:30, break at 5, leave at 7. This never actually occurred this way. I would usually be sent to lunch after being there for 5 hours, and not receive any breaks, as they claimed I had already gotten a lunch and it wouldn't be fair for me to take a break when others (who only worked 4 hours total) still needed to take a break. So on non-busy days, there would be 6 cashiers standing at the end of their lines, waiting on customers, yet we couldn't work our breaks in during this time because only one person could be on break at a time.

4) I've never worked at any other place where the management had to take breaks/lunches on an assigned schedule with part-time/seasonal/call-in workers. In all honesty, if someone worked a 4 hour shift and didn't get a break, I didn't give a shit. I'm not saying that I have to have 2 breaks and a lunch every single day, but it just added to my hatred of the job.

5) We had computer training and written homework that we had to complete every week. Corporate told us that we got 4 hours of company time to work on it, yet every single week I would be held late the day before it was due while someone else recited what I was to write down. I didn't need 4 hours to do the work, but I wanted to do it myself so that I could read the 3000 pages of manuals that HT gave me.

6) There were no chairs in the cash office. It's not that big of a deal, but I never really understood the point of making someone stand for hours while counting money, using a calculator, and working on a computer.

7) I wasn't hired to be a cashier. I had a real problem taking orders from high school students who worked at the customer service desk. Also, the other front end associates hated me because I was hired into this job at double what they were making after X number of years with HT. Even the other Asst. CSM made significantly less than me, and he had been promoted from within after 5 years with HT. I can understand their anger, but that's something they need to take up with HT, not me.

8) HT had some stupid, and probably illegal, policies. We couldn't smoke in front of the store, which was ok, but even when we left HT policy off the clock, we were threatened with "documentation" (their form of a write-up) if someone saw us smoking. In fact, any time we did anything that HT didn't like (such as having a check returned even though our system said to accept it, scanning items too slowly even though the back pain was unbearable for anyone after 5-6 hours, getting hurt by lifting even if designated lifting procedures were followed, etc.), we were threatened with documentation.

9) We were constantly put into impossible situations. We had to ask every customer if they found everything that they were looking for. If they didn't, we were required to go and look for the item. We had to ask the customer this question while we were ringing them out. If customers began to line up while we were away looking for an item that we didn't have, we were threatened with documentation. If we simply apologized for being out of the item, we were threatened with documentation.

Another example of this would be manufacturer coupons. Many times a customer would come in with like 6 coupons for 6 different items. We were only supposed to accept 3, even if the coupons were for different items. Every single time the customer would respond with "They aren't all for one item. It's six different items." If this occurred, we had to call another member of management, who would always agree to accept the coupons. We were then threatened with documentation for providing poor customer service. If we just ignored the 3 coupon policy, we were threatened with documentation for ignoring HT policies.

[Edited on January 18, 2012 at 9:43 PM. Reason : 10000 characters]

1/18/2012 9:42:29 PM

10) And this is probably what made me realize that my employment at HT was not going to last long. As the Asst. CSM, it was my job to handle all customer service issues on the front end. One day, a friend of our district manager came into the store to purchase some specialty cheese. We were out of it so she couldn't get it. The DM heard about it and called the store, talked to a Co-Manager, and told her to find the cheese and deliver it to this woman who would be eating dinner at Ray's restaurant in Cary between 730-9. The Co-Manager was informed of this around 4:00pm.

I came back from lunch one night at 7:30pm and 3 customer service clerks and this Co-Manager were gathered behind the desk trying to figure out where this Ray's restaurant was. They told me to take over on register 4 because they were going to send that cashier to purchase this cheese and take it to this woman. Being the Asst. CSM, I told them no, and that I would deliver the cheese. The Co-Manager got money from the cash office and told me to purchase no less than a pound of said cheese, but to not go crazy about it. She told me that they were holding it at Whole Foods on Kildaire. By the time I got all of the instructions, it was close to 8:00pm.

I was ready to leave, but suddenly the Co-Manager said, "we need to add some flowers! and a bow for the cheese!" If I wanted some stinky cheese and HT was out of it then I would have had to wait for a truck to come in, go to another HT, or just not get it. However, the district manager was black, and as I would later find out, the customer looking for the cheese was a white woman. It was almost too obvious, but being the only person with a college degree working that night, I'm not surprised that I was the only one who noticed.

We went over to floral and grabbed a poinsettia and a package of bows. The Co-Manager opened the package of bows and handed me one. What was going to be done with the other bows? Were we really going to send them to claims? We're already taking money from the store to buy groceries from a competitor. This money would have gone to our bonus checks.

We started making up a sign to stick in the poinsettia when a customer walked up. He wanted a rose wrapped. Rather than call for an associate to come to floral and assist this guy since we were in a time-crunch, the Co-Manager proceeds to help him. She doesn't know how to do it so she takes instructions from a cashier over the walkie-talkie. Why not just have that person come and do it? See #1.

She asked me if I had good handwriting and I told her that she should write on the sign. She told me to just do it, so I did it, even though I wanted to ask her if she had a brain. I already knew the answer to that question so I just wrote out this retarded message about how much we appreciated this woman's business. Once I was finished with the sign, and the rose was wrapped, it was 8:30pm. The Co-Manager took one look at the sign and said "I'm gonna have to rewrite this." At this point I figured Whole Foods would be closed by the time she was done acting like a Co-Manager at Harris Teeter. She rewrote the sign and I was on my way! It was not 8:33pm.

As I was leaving the store she yelled at me, saying "YOU HAVE TO HURRY! THIS WILL BE A BIG PROBLEM IF SHE IS NOT AT THE RESTAURANT!" I'm not the one who waited 4 hours to start on something that was clearly important enough to the district manager to steal money from a store in his district. If she had told me at like, say, 4:30pm, I could have gotten the cheese, prepared the decorations, put on a condom, and waited until 7:00pm.

I arrived at Whole Foods in full Harris Teeter management attired. I asked some Cary High associate where the cheese counter was and made my way to that location. I told the woman behind the counter that I was there to pick up a cheese order for Harris Teeter. She handed me a bar that weighed 0.4 pounds. I told her that I needed two more and she said that was all that they had. I was specifically instructed to get no less than a pound, and that Whole Foods was holding a pound for me. I called HT 15 times before someone at Customer Service finally answered. HT policy is very strict about answering the phone within 2 rings, and the store was not busy that night. I explained to the Co-Manager the dilemma and she told me that I was supposed to get a pound but to take what I had and hope that it would be enough. She told me to ask the woman if it was enough and if it wasn't to inform her that we could get the rest tomorrow. Again, if I had known of this mission earlier, I could have gone to more grocery stores. At this point, it's 8:48pm and I don't have much time left.

I jumped on 440 and raced to Exit 101. I booked it down Buck Jones to Ray's and hopped out of my car. I burst through the door like I busted into the movie theater during the midnight release of Troll 2. The host asked if he could help me and I walked right past him. I was told to enter the restaurant part and go to the left, look for a man named Angelo who had white hair and was wearing a blue shirt, and to announce that I had a special delivery for this woman. Do you know how many old men with white hair were wearing blue shirts that night? None of them, however, were this Angelo fellow, so I was beginning to fear that they had already left. I decided to walk into the bar and look around. I was approached by a waiter, so I told him that I was looking for Angelo. He told me that Angelo was the bartender.

Coincidence? Idiotic Co-Manager who fails at taking directions? I'm not sure, but Angelo was like 25-30 and had black hair. I told him that I had a delivery for this woman, and at that moment she spoke up at the table next to us. There was no person with white hair and a blue shirt at this table. I gave the woman the cheese and the flowers and told her that we appreciated her business. I also told her that we would be able to get more cheese tomorrow if that wasn't enough. She said, "no, this is fine. What a wonderful surprise!" The mood was very jubilant, everyone seemed in good spirits, and I felt that whatever goal the district manager wanted to accomplish had been accomplished. I thanked them all, wished them a wonderful night, and then proceeded to leave. They ALL tried to tip me, which would have been at least $30 by my naked eye count, but I refused, told them that HT was committed to providing total satisfaction to their customers, and left.

When I returned to the store, I inquired as to where the Co-Manager was so that I could tell her the good news. One of the customer service people tried to put me back on a register, but I refused and said that I needed to speak to the Co-Manager. She was back in receiving, so I made my way back there. Upon seeing me, she immediately asked, "how did it go?" I replied, "it went well, I think they were very.." and she interrupted me. "Does she want anymore cheese? Was it enough?" I stated that she seemed happy with the cheese and did not need us to get more for her. I then attempted to again tell the story, but she immediately cut me off, and said, "Did you even ask? You didn't ask. You didn't even ask her. I'll just talk to the district manager about it tomorrow." I didn't get a chance to tell her again that I did ask and that no more cheese was needed. She told me to go back to the front and I resolved at that moment to find another job.

I was working two jobs during my entire employment with HT, and a couple weeks later the two schedules conflicted, with HT not being agreeable to work me a standard first or second shift (I never asked for nor wanted Sat/Sun off, just 7-4 or 8-5 or 3-11 or 4-12). My other job was only open 10-9, so working 11-8 or 10-7 5 days a week at HT meant I'd get virtually no hours, and they were adamant about working at least 30 hours a week. It finally reached the point where I'd be a no-call/no-show at one of the jobs, and it wasn't a difficult choice on which one to choose. HT called me about 10 times, leaving a voice mail each time. They called my mother, who is listed as the emergency contact, but rather than simply inquiring if I was sick or hurt, they asked her why I hadn't shown up to work and if there was some sort of problem with my job. It seemed unprofessional to me, but it didn't surprise me. The same thing happened the next day, except they didn't call my mother. The last voicemail I got was from the Front End Specialist for the region, who first told me that if I didn't show up that day that I wouldn't be able to work at HT anymore, and that he would be at my store until 8:00pm waiting for me to come in and talk to him about whatever problem I was having.

1/18/2012 9:44:45 PM

11) My final point is that the pay sucked. I didn't apply to work at HT. I was recruited by a recruiter. I made it very clear to the recruiter that I had a job already and that I was looking for $35-45k in salary. I told her that I was fine with the salary being closer to $35k as long as there was a bonus that would push it into the 40s. She told me that an offer would be made in this range.

I spoke with a regional trainer who told me some nonsense about what a great place Harris Teeter is to work, and then asked when I could meet for an interview. I told him a day, which he said was fine, and he told me that he would either set one up for that day and email the location and time, or he would call me and let me know when the district manager was available. He never emailed me or called me, yet he did manage to email the recruiter to tell her that I did not show up for my interview. I told the recruiter the exact story and she set up an interview for me the next week.

On my way to the interview, I received a call from the district manager who told me that he was hung up at one of the stores and wanted to know if I could meet him at another store. He said he wanted to meet at HARRIS TEETER AT STONEBRIDGE SHOPPING CENTER in CARY. He said it was near Ten-Ten Road. I told him that I knew where it was and that I would head there. I walked in, told someone at customer service what I was there for, and they got the store manager. The store manager took me into his office, asked me a few questions, and then asked me how long I had been cutting meat. I told him that I had never cut meat before and he said that they didn't have a job for me then. I told him that I was supposed to meet the district manager, to which he replied, "oh shit, the district manager is coming here?" He told me to wait on the bench outside of his office, so I did.

About 40 minutes later my phone rang, and it was the district manager asking me where I was. I told him I was sitting outside of the store manager's office at Stonebridge. He asked me who the store manager was, I told him, and then he told me that I had gone to the wrong store. I was at the HT at Stonebridge on Ten-Ten Road. I was exactly where he told me to be. He then gave me the address of another store, which I plugged into my GPS and began driving.

I arrived at the location and there on the sign was STONECREST VILLAGE. I realize it's a similar name, but I hadn't made a mistake. I went into the interview where he began by telling me that I needed to follow directions more closely and that he was right on everything but the name. I wanted to tell him that he was flat-out wrong, but I just said, "well, at least I know where all the HT stores are now in case you ever need me to fill in somewhere." We did the interview with the store manager, and the district manager left in the middle of it.

About a week later I got an email from the recruiter saying that HT was going to make an offer. The regional HT trainer called me the next day and offered.. $32k. That's not in the range that I told the recruiter that I had to have, and I expressed this to him, but he said that I needed to go through a couple weeks of training and that within 3 months I would be moved to another role due to my education and work experience. This was acceptable to me at the time. After being on the job for a week, I went into the HT intranet and looked at my employee file. I went to look for other jobs to get an idea of where I might be headed (I was placed at a training store) and that was when I noticed that I couldn't even apply for another job until 8 months had passed. The job training, which would take even the dumbest person on this message board only 2 weeks to learn, was actually 15 weeks.

I've gotten several offers in the $30-35k range since then, but I already make that. I don't know if I worked there long enough for the recruiter to get paid, or if she got paid when I got hired. Either way, it was a terrible place to work.

I know it's long, but some of you probably get bored at work.

tl;dr - harris teeter sucks

1/18/2012 9:46:06 PM

Holy words, Batman

I will say I always thought it was weird when cashiers there would stop bagging midway through an order and walk away. Now I know why they do that lol.

Finished reading it. That cheese story had me cracking up. Sounds like some shit out of a Kevin Smith movie.

Quote :

"if you haven't had livestock experience, the only thing that smells as bad as pig shit is chicken shit."

Truth

[Edited on January 18, 2012 at 10:11 PM. Reason : a]

1/18/2012 10:02:33 PM

Quote :

"However, the district manager was black, and as I would later find out, the customer looking for the cheese was a white woman. It was almost too obvious, but being the only person with a college degree working that night, I'm not surprised that I was the only one who noticed. "

I don't get it...

are you saying that the black chick was trying to impress the white woman because she's white??

[Edited on January 18, 2012 at 10:19 PM. Reason : ]

1/18/2012 10:19:28 PM

Wat

1/18/2012 10:50:26 PM

No, the district manager was a man. He was just after the white wimmenz. I mean, I don't really know, but this was way beyond giving someone something for free and refunding their money. I mean, we purchased groceries from a competitor. I probably should have provided some backstory, but the talk about him in the store usually centered around how much he liked the white women. I only worked there for a short period of time, so I'm just going off of what the other associates said, which is why it was a little surprising that no one seemed to realize why we were going to such great lengths over some cheese.

[Edited on January 18, 2012 at 11:25 PM. Reason : backstory]

1/18/2012 11:19:59 PM

Wow. Somehow I just read all of that.



Oh wait.

1/18/2012 11:28:44 PM

Ahhh, gotcha.

1/18/2012 11:33:44 PM

State Oz, your story reminds me so much of any retail ever. Horrible sector to work in. Absolutely horrible.

1/19/2012 10:41:42 AM

ha i read the [words]... I wouldn't have thought twice about peacing out of that bitch.

1/19/2012 12:38:49 PM

Ugh... everyone's have a half-asses forum discussion, minding their own business...

...then bitches want to ruin it with 10,000 word reports on a shitty job.

1/19/2012 3:04:50 PM

Well, now he learned his lesson

If shit is weird during the interview, forget about the job being a good palce for you.

1/19/2012 3:58:19 PM

Quote :

"Did you volunteer or get paid for this?"

i got paid, it was the one on hillsborough st

1/19/2012 4:00:17 PM

I was the head of security at the ER for mary washington hospital for about a year.

the worst part of the job was always having to have an extra uniform at the office, in case i got bled on, spat on, puked on, peed on, and yes, even shit on. all of these happened quite regularly.

i also had to open up the morgue and take bodies out of their bags for families that wanted to view them post-mortem. kinda creepy, and not at all something i liked doing, but hey, someone's gotta do it.

then there's the whole "dealing with families who are suffering incalculable loss" thing. I once got in trouble because a Doctor told me not to let a Mother in to see her 7 year old daughter, who had died on the stretcher from the ambulance to the er bay. When the Mother came in, seeing the looks on everybody's faces, she knew exactly what happened, and she just broke down next to me, pleading and begging me to let her see her "baby." Who the hell am I? I let her through.

Pissed off the Doc, and he said he'd get me fired for it, but my response was "i let a mother see her dead child. you keep a bottle of vodka under your desk. let's see who gets fired first."

Never heard another thing about it.

Ended up getting fired from the job about a year later because I asked for a day off - i had a job interview at the local jail. I was granted the day off, and when i went to the job interview, my interviewer said he knew my boss at the hospital, that he had called, and that i might want to go talk with him after my interview. So I did the interview, and swung by the hospital. My boss basically said "WTF why would you be looking to leave here?" Keep in mind i made 10 bucks an hour and got shit on, literally. So I told him I needed to further my career, etc. He said "well, your time off was never officially approved, so you no-call no-showed today, aaand you're fired."

Went from that into Executive Protection, got to meet celebrities and had a blast... then went back to college to finish up.

Anyways, ER Security. Worst job ever.

1/19/2012 11:25:53 PM