Originally Posted by tcsparky (Post 2494700)

I currently teach Physics, so working with teenagers has up and downs, but is never boring!!

I had two jobs that tie for worst, but in different ways. The first one was when I was in college, my senior year. I worked at a restaurant for my husband's uncle. He was super pervy. When a girl worked alone in the afternoons, he would call her back to his office, pull her on his lap, then fondle her. Being a college kid at the time, I didn't know how to handle it. My husband didn't believe that his wonderful, rich uncle would do these things. I found another job with better hours and more pay, and used that as an excuse to leave the family business. My husband and I divorced a few years later.

My other bad job was working in a school for a principal who was a bully. She drive most of the good people out her first year. Many people were suicidal and having breakdowns. Her higher-ups thought she was wonderful for "cleaning house." I left at the end of the year for a better work environment.

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands (Post 2494710)

Wow! This is crazy! I never have been able to understand how assholes end up in positions of power. They strive for those positions for that very reason, to bully people in lower positions. Drives me nuts.

Originally Posted by carnation (Post 2494713)

Because they don't act like assholes to the people who choose the administrators. They suck up to them.

Originally Posted by PrettyBoy (Post 2494723)

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands (Post 2494724)

I’m not sure how it is in the field of education but when one person is causing problems like that in peoples lives, at FedEx that would be a serious HR issue and would be dealt with immediately.

Originally Posted by ChioLu (Post 2494727)

Telephone solicitation for carpet cleaning services. Only lasted two weeks as it was a horrible job. Met another person my first day on the job and we hit it off. She only made it three weeks. Just over a year later she became my sorority sister.

Originally Posted by carnation (Post 2494726)

I wish! They're often really good buddies with their superiors. In one district where I taught, administrators had a wife-swapping group and they were pretty open about it because they knew they'd never get in trouble.

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek (Post 2494731)

I totally forgot about the job I had at Auntie Anne’s Soft Pretzels. I think I was like.. either a senior in high school or a freshman in undergrad. But, I didn’t even last a full shift. I went to lunch and I didn’t come back. I learned how to make giant pretzels though. :)

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands (Post 2494736)

Lmao! Why didn’t you at least give a notice? Those pretzels are good as hell though. Did they at least give employees discounts on the pretzels?

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek (Post 2494737)

I don’t know, I just didn’t want to be there. When they gave me an apron and a sun visor with a picture of a pretzel on it, I was like… “I’m not doing this. I just can’t.”

No, the pretzels were free. I remember I took a “glazin raisin” pretzel with me to eat on my 30 minute lunch and like around 10 minutes into it, I left.

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands (Post 2494738)

Lmaoooooo!!!!! You told them that? I never had the raisin pretzels there. I always get the jalapeño ones. What were the raisin pretzels like?

CG you are funny as hell! Lol!!!

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek (Post 2494739)

No, I said that in my mind.

They’re like a regular plain pretzel with glaze and raisins on it. I like the glaze but I don’t like raisins so I picked the raisins out.