Hello.
I thought a thread about interesting, sad, funny, good or bad stories from previous or current jobs could be interesting. It could be about a previous boss, superior, or colleague, that you hated, or just a funny story from a previous or current job.
Here's mine to start the ball rolling.
MY FIRST ever job, I was 18 years old. Working weekends at a restaurant for air traffic controllers. I wasn't warned about what my job would be before I started, I just got into it cos of a mate. My job duties ranged from making eggs (so scary at the time cos the customers were watching) to cutting meat (so scary cos I was a skinny little thing and it would take ages, again in front of the customers), to cleaning tables, to washup.
Anyway I was washing up one day in the back area, and the boss came out and said it was break time. I came out to the area where we served food (we took our food from there when there were no customers on our breaks).
I saw there was actually a customer still there so I stood back and didn't go to get my food, being the professional little **** I was. However a work colleague was busily taking food, while a customer was also ordering her meal.
The boss came out, and clearly saw us both. Yet he bloody called me over into the back area and started to lay into me about taking food while there was a customer there. I protested my innocence but he wouldn't have it. I looked over at the actual idiot who had been taking the food, and he said nothing, the [Poor language removed], he let me take the rap. I didn't think to point the finger at him because I'm nice and shy. The boss then went one step to far, (I had a little beard) and shouted 'and next time, shave, DON'T COME TO WORK LOOKING LIKE A TRAMP'. The irony was the guy who actually had been taking food had a massive beard, ten times bigger than mine.
I lost the plot at this point, and my rage took over. I laid into the fat [Poor language removed] and swore at him like there was no tomorrow before being told to leave. I think I called him a ****in [Poor language removed] [Poor language removed]! I wanted to punch him. Not only was he blind, he was an arsehole, talking to me like that.
The next day, Sunday morning I went to work as usual, but was banned for security reasons from the whole site. I couldn't get in. A manager called me that night and I started crying, as she told me I'd been sacked.
Still makes me angry to this day as I look back. Funny though.
I thought a thread about interesting, sad, funny, good or bad stories from previous or current jobs could be interesting. It could be about a previous boss, superior, or colleague, that you hated, or just a funny story from a previous or current job.
Here's mine to start the ball rolling.
MY FIRST ever job, I was 18 years old. Working weekends at a restaurant for air traffic controllers. I wasn't warned about what my job would be before I started, I just got into it cos of a mate. My job duties ranged from making eggs (so scary at the time cos the customers were watching) to cutting meat (so scary cos I was a skinny little thing and it would take ages, again in front of the customers), to cleaning tables, to washup.
Anyway I was washing up one day in the back area, and the boss came out and said it was break time. I came out to the area where we served food (we took our food from there when there were no customers on our breaks).
I saw there was actually a customer still there so I stood back and didn't go to get my food, being the professional little **** I was. However a work colleague was busily taking food, while a customer was also ordering her meal.
The boss came out, and clearly saw us both. Yet he bloody called me over into the back area and started to lay into me about taking food while there was a customer there. I protested my innocence but he wouldn't have it. I looked over at the actual idiot who had been taking the food, and he said nothing, the [Poor language removed], he let me take the rap. I didn't think to point the finger at him because I'm nice and shy. The boss then went one step to far, (I had a little beard) and shouted 'and next time, shave, DON'T COME TO WORK LOOKING LIKE A TRAMP'. The irony was the guy who actually had been taking food had a massive beard, ten times bigger than mine.
I lost the plot at this point, and my rage took over. I laid into the fat [Poor language removed] and swore at him like there was no tomorrow before being told to leave. I think I called him a ****in [Poor language removed] [Poor language removed]! I wanted to punch him. Not only was he blind, he was an arsehole, talking to me like that.
The next day, Sunday morning I went to work as usual, but was banned for security reasons from the whole site. I couldn't get in. A manager called me that night and I started crying, as she told me I'd been sacked.
Still makes me angry to this day as I look back. Funny though.
