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No. 1993489
If mods think this is too similar to the employment thread
>>>/ot/1962884 they can delete it. I thought it would be nice to have a thread for discussing wagie jobs (retail, food, service sector stuff for a low wage) specifically.
No. 1994177
>>1994152pretty much exactly what
>>1994160 said. i worked in a restaurant when i was a teenager, they really don't care about your job history as long as you're personable. the only waitressing job i can see you needing to lie about your experience in order to land the job would be like a high end fancy restaurant, but even then i think they probably care more about your personality and appearance
No. 1994602
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This summer I'm gonna look into trade school. Not sure what I want to do yet, maybe electrical or welding. I just want to make some good money and not get into student debt. Union would be nice. I'm trying to get the hell out of healthcare, I can't do it anymore. If there's any blue-collar nonas out there with advice for me, I'd love to hear it.
No. 1994633
>>1994624That's fine I just want to have literally any kind of skill set. Rn I only have "prior experience" at jobs anyone off the street can train into within two weeks, plus a couple certifications relating to a field I no longer want to work in.
>>1994619I felt the same when I momentarily lucked into a low-impact semi office job. I realized everyone around me only worked maybe an hour or two out of the day and the rest was just fabricated busy work. Stressed me the hell out weirdly enough.
No. 1997154
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went to the bathroom after I clocked out this morning. as soon as I entered I made eye contact with a girl who I think is new, idk, only seen her once or twice. she had an extremely concerned look on her face then glanced behind her but didn't say anything, so I proceeded to my favorite stall 'cause I gotta pee. before I can close the door, I hear it. then I looked back at her to confirm I understood now. the person in the next stall just let out a snore. anyway, I shut the door and stuff, then I hear the lady from personnel who I had noticed walking this direction from a distance enter, then knock on the stall next to me.
>"is everything okay?"
>"!?- oh yeah, just diarrhea"
> "ok do we need to call anyone for you?"
> "oh no honey, I'm diabetic and all, just gotta get my stomach settled."
No. 2004571
>>1994602I work in construction as a project manager, working my way up the office lader. its cool but you basically only work with men.
If you want to work for a union I recomend the Elevator Union, they usualy have the highest salaries. Alternativly, I know you said you wanted to get out of healthcare but coding isn't a bad job.
No. 2009274
>>2009261>>2009261 kek I just replied to
>>2004926 "This environment always resulted in workplace bullying for me" before even seeing this post. The middle aged and up people have largely been awful at every wagie job I've worked, including the managers.
>>1994405When I worked fast food I found it extremely annoying that so many of the customers clearly had never worked a fast food job before
No. 2009359
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Anyone else have customers give them religious stuff? Got picrel today kek
No. 2009388
>>2009359Yes, I keep being given pamphlets about the rapture and how it’s definitely happening this time. I just chuck them out after they leave.
>>2009259That’s pretty funny, thanks for the recommendation.
No. 2009431
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>>2009402We get the same few (older) regulars paying in exact small coins every time. Loaded up coin purses, fat full of coins.
No. 2009533
>>2009274Yeah, I know it's "classist" to say this but anybody still working at a wagie job in their 40s is there for a reason.
The absolute worst managers when I worked in retail were the middle-aged moids who had a "business degree" from some shit tier college and wanted to wave their dicks around about how being a junior retail manager was serious business. The managers who had been promoted from the floor were usually a lot easier to get along with.
No. 2016120
>>2015358At a hotel I worked both housekeeping and breakfast service. One day I was behind the breakfast counter telling my coworker how this one hairy guest who was a regular left so much hair on his sheets I had to literally sticky roll them when I cleaned it as a stayover and I was thinking of just straight up changing the sheets because it looked like a dog had slept there when
suddenly a guest sitting in the lobby laughed and I realized I was speaking loud enough for everyone to hear me and I had even said the hairy guest's name and company and that was very likely a coworker of his sitting there! I wanted to die but it was very funny. I was also scared I'd get in trouble but nothing came of it.
No. 2016339
>>2016333I might come across as crazy but you need to snap at them. Most women get freaked out when you randomly start acting like an
abusive scrote out of nowhere. Then they start respecting you the way they respect the men they work with. I used to deal with bullies but in college I started screaming in people's faces and it works 100% of the time. You can do it for like just 5 seconds and it's enough. Also they're literally scared of body hair so just approach them while airing out your pits and they'll move out of your way.
No. 2016475
>>2016339Tempting advice, nona. I respect your system even though it seems like you developed it out of necessity and that's sad.
>>2016301you have to butt into the convo and remind them you all don't get paid to shave for work then pull your pant leg up and show your hair as an example. they could be jealous of your freedom and the time you save
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No. 2018098
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I got another one
No. 2018142
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This happened a few years ago but to this day it pisses me off. Tell me who’s in the wrong
>work as a check in/gate agent at the airport
>it’s busy as hell and there’s only me and one other girl checking in a flight of 200+ people, already running behind with lines almost out the door, because two of our other coworkers had to go to the gate to board a different flight
>third coworker, a boomer, who was supposed to be helping us check in passengers, was in the back on her phone the entire time
>literally for a good hour she was standing off in the distance just yapping to someone on the other line
>I texted my boss who was in his office about the lazy coworker and asked him to tell her to get off the phone OR get someone at the gate to help us
>she comes back angry asf, he must’ve told her it was me that complained because she starts screaming in my face, saying that she had family in puerto rico and she was worried about them because of the hurricane
Like ok? Why did you even clock in? Why didn’t you just stay home and try to figure things out from there? Am I being selfish or unreasonable bc I don’t really care?
I get that shit happens and I am not the type of person that makes a low wage job my entire life, but at the same time I feel like a cuck doing all the work while she gets paid to talk on the phone
No. 2018167
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I use to work at a popular fast food chain and while my experience there was better than most jobs I've had I could not believe how many customers would get mad about the stupidest shit. This white boomer couple even had the audacity to cuss out one of my teenage coworkers because the line was too long. This job made me hate boomers so much kek
>>2009392kek I do this too! My favorite thing I was given was a large pamphlet talking about how Jesus was actually black complete with a very nice illustration of a black Jesus on the back. I also like taking pics of religious and schizo rambling signs on the street and printing them out to paste in my journal.
No. 2018497
>>2018167I have to clean the tea canisters at the end of each day. I have 10 mins to do it. My boss asked me to do it 15 mins earlier than usual. I said no prob, since we were closing shop early.
This white women gets pissed at me because I am taking her teas away. It was exactly 13 mins earlier than usual. But technically 3 mins earlier to her. shut the fuck up bitch. She complained to my boss about me, but nothing happened. i hate these entitled customers.
No. 2026535
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They just keep coming
No. 2027334
>>2027333Samefag, she was also a rabid Depp supporter and would not shut her yapping during the trial. As I said,
hated beautiful and attractive women. The most attractive woman who worked there would only do 1 day a week as she had another job, had this arrangement for years before the barrel chested wall eyed little ogre showed up, and she was hounded every day about doing more than that until she left. After that she focused her dead-fish-on-ice-at-the-supermarket eyes on me and bullied me relentlessly until I left. As I said, 5 ft tall with the most pathetic short little T rex arms you’ve ever seen. I wish HR would let you solve disputes by fighting because I could have absolutely pummelled the living daylights out of her without breaking a sweat. It would be like one of those pathetic inbred little micropigs going up against a wild boar. Yet thanks to capitalism she was able to bully me into submission because I didn’t want to be belittled at work every day and I am a normal person who likes to resolve disputes and not live with constant conflict. So I found another job and left.
No. 2027337
>>2018142I’m sick of boomers. Can you imagine the tantrum she would have had if a millennial or zoomer coworker did the same? She’d never in a million years be sympathetic. I say fuck boomers, give them the same amount of empathy and understanding as they give us, which is precisely none
>>2018167I tell you what, there’s nothing I love more than going into a shop or restaurant and encountering a boomer at work. I always find something to chimp out on them for so that they know how it feels.
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>>2026535My biggest wagie regret is not saving the D&D Chick tracts I found in the shampoo aisle…
No. 2028450
>>2027385nothing anyone says makes fucking sense
>I'm not tipping! tipped workers should just fight for a living wagecertain cities have tried this and all that accomplished was making shit so expensive, instead of just an extra few bucks as a tip (that you dont even have to give if service was bad) you're forced to pay damn near double for everything, could've just paid an extra 5 bucks but nope they wanted to be little cunts about tipping now they're paying 40 bucks for a small thing of pasta
>inflation control is liberal propaganda !!!most conservative politicans voted in favor of inflation control, similar to how they think animal rights are for pussy libs when its mostly conservatives demanding death penalty for animal abusers (rightfully so)
>businesses can't raise wages theyll go bankrupt and burgers will be 100 dollars!!!thats simply because no one holds them accountable for wage distrubution. just cut out the higher ups million dollar bonuses every other month and boom you wont need to inflate prices so your workers dont starve
>muh ebt, section 8, medicaid, WIC, etccorporations not paying their employees enough are the true tax leeches since they rely on the government to make sure their employees dont starve or go homeless instead of just paying them the min of whats needed to live, in fact walmart and other corps literally encourage their workers to apply to those things kek, why are so many places paying low enough that those workers even qualify for those things anyway? back in the day the only way to get those things is if you're a single mom working min wage, why the hell are so many jobs that require certifications and single person households paying low enough for people to qualify
No. 2028483
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Just here to say that I definitely don't miss fast food.
>managers are stoners that vape the fuck out of their office while two employees are scrambling to close the whole restaurant
>also got managers acting like they're above treating new employees with respect (acting like employee is a retard for not knowing everything even though they've only been working for two weeks)
>managers who think you must be an entitled brat for just asking for your check, after your shift on the mother fucking payday
>managers who give such little fucks about you that they'll ask you to come in for your second shift five minutes after a car accident, but then say that you're all a "family".
>managers who play favorites to the point where it's unfair (asking everyone if they want to go on break EXCEPT for you or another person)
>managers doing shit like that, and leaving you unknowing of why because all you ever do is show up, work, and leave
>bitch manager gets a good-bye party, so you have to stand there and pretend to like her because there's cake
>coworkers "coming out of the closet" AT WORK as if anybody fucking cares or couldn't already tell
>catty bitches who can't wait to tell their friends or the whole restaurant about how "bad" of a worker you or this other person are because you arrived a few minutes early instead of twenty
>trainers snapping and screaming into your ear in front of everyone because they're mad that their meek voices weren't loud enough in a busy restaurant
>coworker acting like it must have been you who's out of line, even though the redneck is screaming cusses, slurs, and jumping around like a shit-flinging monkey because he miscounted his own change
>teenage coworkers regularly trying to get anyone else to do their job, and getting mad at YOU when you politely tell them to piss off
>managers not letting you clock out on your own because they want to make sure you stocked first, even though that's exactly what you've been doing since you got there
>but will freely let their favorite employees leave whenever the fuck they want
>nobody is safe, everybody gets talked shit about no matter how nice they are in the restaurant
>customers coming inside the restaurant fifteen minutes before official closing just to order a cheeseburger and shit around instead of going in the drive-thru for that shit (do these people like to watch us clean?)
Ironically, it wasn't really the customers or the labor of the job that made me abandon doing fast food. IME, it's the managers, the coworkers, and the paycheck that will make or break how long you last. I don't miss any of those retards, they can kiss my fuckin' ass.
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>serving a boomer at fast food job
>POS is messing up and I tell him "oh, one second sir"
>Boomer moid replies "No, hurry up."
OOOHH I wanted to throw hot oil in his face so bad
No. 2028666
>>2027403Be the change you wish to see
nonnie.
No. 2029033
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Does anyone else work or use to work at Starbucks and have people reference your job like it's the greatest job ever, thinking it's fun and has great pay, without realizing it's still a dehumanizing fast food job? It pays barely above the state minimum wage where I live and the same as working at McDonald's and you still work with either teenagers or people who can't obtain a regular job. I've had salaried white-collar workers tell me they're jealous of my job.
Also ~75% of your coworkers will be sanctimonious virtue-signalers who believe everything shown to them by a social media algorithm without question.
No. 2029980
>>2027334i have a coworker like this, extremely misogynist and a male worshipper and hates pretty women while looking like cross dressing shrek (i won't compare her to fiona because fiona is actually cute)
there's this one girl who lives rent free in her head, she doesn't even regularly work with us but sometimes comes to do some shifts and yet she always wants to bring her up to insult her about something mundane she said, like how she want so take it easy next weekend or something else retarded. she'll be insulting the way people tie their fucking shoelaces, she's pettiest, most bitter pig faced little shit i've ever met. but only towards women, she legit once said "men are so lovely" like she's obsessed with men and sucking their dick.