“60 Shocking First-Day Stories: What Made These Employees Walk Out for Good?”
I started the day at 7am at a little technical workshop where we repaired electronics.
At 8am, I had learned that all 3 co-workers where there for 1 month max, and the teamlead resigned yesterday and I was to follow her up.
At around 9am the wife of the big boss waltzes in, verbally assaults the co-worker next to me and tell him if she ever sees him with headphones in again she fires him on the spot.
She doesn’t even greet me. I let it sink in.
11am I decide to explore the facility on my own, since no one is showing me around. I learn there is no breakroom, only a shoddy toilet outside. You are supposed to eat your lunch in your car/outside.
And to my absolute horror.. that there is no coffee machine on premise and people who brought one saw them destroyed.
At 12am I walk into the boss’s office, I say I have never seen such a s****y workplace and he just has to pay me from 7am tot 11am and I’m out.
Fought for a month with him and had to send a lawyer to get what I was owed because he wouldn’t pay me unless I finished my workday. Which I wouldn’t have been able to in those conditions.
Funny story is, since that day my first question in any job interview was: do u guys have a coffee machine. It’s my, do they care about their people kind of thing. If the answer is no, I walk. I did it twice to flabbergasted recruiters.
I worked for a publishing startup in 1992. Our job was to put folded magazines in screen doors across west Omaha.
I had a drivers license, so I got to drive the van for the “runners” and drop off bins at intersections for the runners to restock.
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