This Instant And Moment - 2023!

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GlitterBalls said:
I agree, retail has to be one of the most worst jobs you can do. I tend not to speak to people working/stacking shelves anyway, it's not difficult to find the stuff you're looking for and I don't see any other reason to ask them questions.
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sadly it is . when I was in my teens I worked as a shelf stacker for a local shop. It is as about as thrilling a job as being diagnosed with botulism. it is physically exausting and you are basically treated like a peasant on a medieval feudal system. The person I worked for had the people management skills of satan himself you were told to smile at the customers, otherwise your job would go to someone else.

I alway remember being told by my colleage back then 'smile like you are at gunpoint'

...so glad to discover a couple of years later the shop mysterously burned down ...hmmmn
 
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And people exist who would actually seek out and complain to their manager, potentially causing them some trouble at work, because they didn't smile at them, or get down on their knees and kiss their feet...

Doesn't matter what you do or who you think you are, you are no better than someone stacking shelves in Tesco. We're all people. Every person you see in the world leads a life just as full as your own, and none of them owe you anything.
 
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I applied to work at Tesco pre covid to earn some extra money but didn't get invited for an interview. I obviously got some of the multiple choice questions wrong in my application :o

Worst job I've had to date is cleaning at the local cinema/theatre. I helped my mum from the ages of 11 to 16 and had to clean the toilets, empty the bins etc. Mens were definitely the worst especially when the urinals weren't flushing correctly :(

One particular morning we had to clean up after a company had their office Xmas party in the grand Hall. Was such a mess we had to call the boss in for help. The boss delegated the hall to my mum and I plus the communal areas, my dad did the cinema and boss would tackle the toilets. Thank god he did because he said there was sick everywhere, all up the walls :( and there weren't any windows in there to ventilate it

I did such a good job of sweeping the cigarette butts from outside though that I got put on the payroll for that weekend :D
 
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Off white my eye: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-66157670

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Had to act as good uncle ‘ make sure the nephews birthday party dies not go out of control ‘ A day providing the most hyperactive children entertainment and supervising

Has to eat chocolate and marshmallow pizza for Lunch because my sister was feeding my nephew and his friends ‘ special’ foods for his birthday and that was all that I can eat

Feel sick as a pig now …
 
secretspy said:
Worst job I've had to date is cleaning at the local cinema/theatre. I helped my mum from the ages of 11 to 16 and had to clean the toilets, empty the bins etc. Mens were definitely the worst especially when the urinals weren't flushing correctly :(
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I really wish my fellow blokes would treat the facilities with a bit more respect in general. When you see chewing gum and toilet paper in the sinks you have to imagine these folk couldn't figure out what hole the triangle block goes in. "What is this mysterious device on the top of the cistern?" I presume they wonder... It's not bloody geocaching, you're not supposed to find one and leave one for the next person.
 
Lightnix said:
I really wish my fellow blokes would treat the facilities with a bit more respect in general. When you see chewing gum and toilet paper in the sinks you have to imagine these folk couldn't figure out what hole the triangle block goes in. "What is this mysterious device on the top of the cistern?" I presume they wonder... It's not bloody geocaching, you're not supposed to find one and leave one for the next person.
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Don't get me wrong, women can be just as bad but even at work there's a god awful smell that hits the hallway if you happen to be walking past as a guy is going in/out of the toilets.
There have been emails from reception because there were some blokes spitting on the mirrors and just recently someone trod in dog muck and then wiped it on counter by the wash basin :(

The worst I've seen in the ladies is bogeys on the wall or someone who's not flushed. (There seems to be a known toilet that people use so it's easier to avoid lol)
 
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secretspy said:
Don't get me wrong, women can be just as bad but even at work there's a god awful smell that hits the hallway if you happen to be walking past as a guy is going in/out of the toilets.
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You ain't smelled anything until you've had a patient unload their bowels during a patslide. Oh man, you can visit that ward again hours later and it's still hanging rancidly in the air. It's second only to a leaky deceased patient.
 
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Malevolence said:
You ain't smelled anything until you've had a patient unload their bowels during a patslide. Oh man, you can visit that ward again hours later and it's still hanging rancidly in the air. It's second only to a leaky deceased patient.
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True, but I was present when my dad had to use the commode in hospital and that was not pleasant at all :(
there was a nurse, me and my mum all helping because the thing was on wheels and then he was also leaning on something so I couldn't escape it. His blood pressure kept dropping every time he got up so he couldnt make it to the bathroom. He did try bless him but then he passed out on the floor and it took the nurses a good 30 mins trying to get the lifting machine thing onto him because of how he landed.

This is why I don't understand the logic of serving spicy foods like chilli and curry in a hospital lol. That's just asking for trouble
 
Malevolence said:
You ain't smelled anything until you've had a patient unload their bowels during a patslide. Oh man, you can visit that ward again hours later and it's still hanging rancidly in the air. It's second only to a leaky deceased patient.
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I remember coming back from HongKong on the 14 hour overnight flight.. top deck of the 747 in business class.. I was ill.. after a week flying Dubai, Bahrain (overnight due to storms caused a missed flight), Manilla (landed during a military coup so stayed the weekend).. I was almost comatose due to being so ill, only the salt sachet to replace the potassium etc stopped me from collapsing.. got on the plane at HK after running through the airport .. the air hostess seemed really concerned I must have stank the entire top deck out opening the toilet door.. I got to my seat, curled up and then passed out until breakfast was served about 13 hours later. Bit of respect for air staff that day onwards!
 
Talking of working in a supermarket, I worked at the first pet supermarket called Jolly's (early nineties).

Customer's being harassed by birds getting revenge was not unusual! Bitten by Cockatoo's and Cockatiels that made a break for freedom, roosted instore pooing on customers.

Trying to pick out (small) snakes and being bitten, some snakes were sizable, Tarantulas etc. The pet cemetery (freezer for food consisting of frozen chicks) which were microwaved in the staff room to warm them up before feeding time.
 
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