“60 Shocking First-Day Stories: What Made These Employees Walk Out for Good?”
I got this job cold calling local businesses to sell them printer toner subscriptions. Weirdest, most awkward job prospect I’ve ever encountered.
* Came in at around 4pm. Place was an empty room with a desk against one wall, a PC, and a phone. Owner had an office in the back.
* Owner has me put together his office chair for him.
* Watch him try to write an email, he can barely write a coherent sentence.
* Finish the chair. Then instructs me to pull up a program on the PC and call the numbers, ask them if they want to buy toner subscriptions.
* Um, ok.
* Spend the next three hours awkwardly calling places, asking if they want to buy toner. No script, no product descriptions, no printer models, completely flying by the seat of my pants.
* Many ask if I will install it for them. IDK. No one on either side has any idea what’s going on.
* I leave, immediately text that I’m not coming back.
* Owner texts back that I’m not qualified for the position.
* Never got paid for the ~four hours.
I came in to be one of 4 retail managers for a museum with 4 stores. While training me I overheard multiple associates (who I would be managing) swearing and yelling at customers. Then one of the other managers training me to log the safe yelled and screamed at me that I didn’t know how to count cause the safe was $1 short (we later found the dollar on the floor behind the desk she had been counting at) then the district manager above me spent the entire day sitting at the cameras listing reasons to write up associates which included: seeing the outline of a girls phone through her back pocket even tho she never took it out, an associate going to the bathroom twice during his shift (they were only permitted one break apparently), and an associate not asking literal children to donate to the museum.
Great first day. Even better last day.
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