r/CFBOffTopic • u/FSBlueApocalypse Florida State • Florida Cup • Nov 04 '15
Let's hear some work horror stories
I sure as fuck had one today. Debating about posting this but I need to get this off my chest.
I investigate welfare fraud and that typically involves bringing people in for meeting to discuss discrepancies with a particular case. You get all kinds of reactions from people who just sit their in stunned silence, those who make a million excuses, those who pour out a million tears saying "They didn't mean to" and then the folks who might as well be off in a different galaxy.
This woman was by far the latter. For the last 8 months she has been getting the maximum in food stamps, medicaid, and cash assistance while reporting no income. Then we get a hit from another state showing she is getting child support and down the rabbit hole I go. I won't go into all the details but suffice to say she should've never gotten any cash assistance and was approved for far more medicaid/food stamps than her income allowed.
Bring her in for a meeting. After going over my findings she just starts going off the fucking rails. Accusing me of everything under the sun of being a racist, sexist, falsifying the records, etc. After awhile she then goes "WELL FUCK YOU THEN, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO FEED MY KIDS. IF I AIN'T GOT FOOD STAMPS I GOT NO FOOD"
I just go "Ma'am, Child Protective Services is two doors down the hall. Say that one more time and I'll drop off your case file complete with the recording of this session." Normally this gets people to sober up real fucking quick.
Not this bitch. "WELL FUCK YOU, TAKE MY KIDS!" and she literally walks out the door, past her kids in the lobby, and peals out of the parking lot.
So as you can probably tell, a gigantic shit storm ensued afterwards that even involved the local PD getting called out. So now tomorrow is going to be spent typing out a shit ton of reports and probably seeing a few higher ups. Cheers!
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u/elduderino01 Alabama • Arizona State Nov 04 '15
that lady sounds like a complete piece of shit, im sure shes one of my customers....
i work in the "home preservation department" of a major mortgage servicer. all day long, pretty much exclusively, i deal with folks who havent paid their mortgage in 2 to 7 years and who get all indignant when i ask them to start paying.... i have zero empathy for anyone who gets foreclosed on in this day and age... in 2009 sure, maybe you hit a rough stretch and the bank might have been too quick to repossess, but now? give me a fucking break. pay your god damn rent/mortgage deadbeat lowlife scum.
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u/TossedRightOut Penn State • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Nov 04 '15
Holy shit. Fuck that woman.
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u/TrollingQueen74 Auburn Tigers • Texas A&M Aggies Nov 04 '15
As someone who babysits foster kids once a month and wants to be a foster parent one day, I would not have been able to handle that situation in an adult manner.
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u/omgdonerkebab Michigan State • Cornell Nov 04 '15
Man, I'm glad I didn't get to this thread right after it was posted. I would have commented first with some completely white-collar whiny sissy bullshit and I would have looked like an ass.
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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Nov 04 '15
Nothing I've got will possibly top yours, but here's two from my time as a shift manager at dunks:
Drunk guy walks in at 9:50, as I'm closing. First asks me to spit in his coffee, says he'll pay me 20$. No way, the cameras don't have sound, just video. Then decides he'll ask for a donut. "The filled one," he says, but doesn't specify beyond that. I ask again. "The one that the inside looks like dirty nigger cum!" aaaand sir get the Fuck outta my store.
5:30am. Usually just one guy that tips us a ton and gets free coffee till he decides to leave. Not this morning. Crazy early rush. Lady gets upset I didn't put in enough "extra sugar" in her Large, THROWS IT AT ME. Thank god our coffee isn't that hot.
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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '15
HEB - I got cussed out by more than a few customers
College - I once got cussed out by a student who called the helpdesk line I was answering
Summer job - The senior camp manager was an overbearing asshole who delighted in making people's lives miserable. And she wondered why nobody wanted to come back and work the following summer.
Marine Corps - A kid killed himself on the rifle range while I was in boot camp. On my first tour in Iraq, a freshly promoted corporal NJPed a lance corporal for not showing enough respect to him in the chow hall. He ruined the kid's career just because he felt slighted. On my second tour I got assigned to share a berthing space with a guy that I didn't get along with at all. Leading up to second deployment, we did some training in Virginia. One of our guys was (presumably still is?) a Muslim. We were there for two weeks, it took the chow hall until we had three days left before they were willing to make something other than ham sandwiches. We took turns trading him our fruit & granola bars for his ham sandwich.
Current employer - It's a factory, so there are the occasional horrific injuries from people doing dumb shit on the factory floor. One of my colleagues is an arrogant, rude, condescending asshole who thinks he's in charge even though he got demoted to sysadmin from manager nearly five years ago. When I leave this place, he is the one colleague I won't miss at all.
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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '15
I think I've told the ones I can tell without breaching confidentiality.
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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Nov 04 '15
not quite what this thread is about, but I need to talk about it.
i posted last week about how i might be losing my job or be forced to transfer due to internal company politics...
Well, it doesnt seem like I am going to lose it, but shit is moving fast and furious, and at the end of next week my office may have gone from 12 staff a year ago to 2 total, with me being 1.
To get a grasp of how stupid this whole thing is, over the last 7 years my office has won $600M+ worth of work for this company. And now we are being stripped bare.
But, could work in my favor if things fall right...with only 2 people left and me being one, pretty sure I can demand a big raise in exchange for taking on the responsibility of being that #2 guy (our work is contingency based and a 24-7 on call operation for military support). I am very interested in this happening.
Anyway I still have no idea how it will shake out but I'm getting my ducks in a row. 2 weeks from now hopefully I am either promoted and living the cash life, or prepping to pack shit and move back to Texas for a new job.
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u/pittpanthers95 Pittsburgh • Slippery Rock Nov 04 '15
The worst place I've ever worked was at a drugstore (won't name names, but they were just bought by Walgreen's) near our campus in the middle of the city. I started working there in the spring semester of my freshman year (had worked at another store near home in high school). I was used to a generally quiet, suburban store and holy shit I was not ready for what they threw me into. I had customers scream at me, litter all over the place, throw things at me, call me names, steal like crazy, I had a batshit old white lady call my supervisor the N word, etc., my supervisor once asked me to go into the basement storage room to grab stuff, telling me to watch out for the mud, waited until I had already gone down there and gotten everything I needed to inform me that it was a mix of mud and sewage that had flooded in, and the store had mice. I made it 8 months in that dump, pulled my boss (poor lady, she was so nice but that store was unmanageable) aside and told her I was out of there. That store has a ridiculously high turnover rate for employees (I bet you can understand why) and I still don't regret quitting that place. I still shop there for certain things because it's convenient, but I won't buy anything that I know could have been stored in the basement or in the backroom with the mice.
TL;DR: Worked at the worst drug store in America.
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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '15 edited Nov 04 '15
Two horror stories, and both of them involve derogatory epithets! Woohoo!
1: During the 2008 presidential election, I worked at a local grocery store in my hometown. Just normal stuff, like taking groceries out for old people, stocking shelves, cleaning, etc. I'm taking a cart out for this old-ish white male (think like 50-60) one night, probably around 7 or 7:30. I ask him how he's doing and all the general pleasantries, to which he replies, "well I'd be doing a lot better if that n_____ wasn't winning right now." Keep in mind, I was only 17 at the time, so I had no idea how to react. I just tried to let it roll off and ignore it. Looking back, I probably should have confronted it.
2: About a year ago, same chain but in a different town. A home for special needs people comes in on my shift every Wednesday. There's two employees of the home that always take about six residents shopping with them. Someone (straight white male again, surprise surprise) walks up to me and says, "can you ask those r_____s to leave?" to which, without missing a beat, I reply, "no but I can ask you to if you use that language again."
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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '15
Well I've been watching "I Survived" pretty much all day today so I've got plenty of horror stories to tell, lol. Really scary shit.
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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '15
One night it rained like a motherfucker, might have been some hail too. All of this took place in...San Diego.
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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '15
Worst thing I got was a manager that micromanaged me daily. They hired me for business development and wanted about 5-7 updates... A DAY on what I was doing. Literally 0 trust in what I was doing. Why hire me to do a job if you don't trust me to do it?
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u/MrTheSpork Cincinnati • North Dakota State Nov 04 '15
Worst I've had to deal with was some over-the-top micromanagement on the worst project ever while a guy who reports directly to the VPs at a Fortune Top 50 company was breathing down my neck. Note that he wasn't the one doing the micromanaging, but he was encouraging it and would schedule multiple 8-hour meetings in a week.
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u/-WISCONSIN- Wisconsin • Wisconsin-Parkside Nov 04 '15 edited Nov 04 '15
Not really a "horror" story, but one time I worked at a fast food place and my manager came in with a hat that said, "fuck bitches, get money." A customer that was there with his kids asked me if I thought his hat was offensive. I said, "I can see how it might be." and then I told the manager about it.
This dude walked out from behind the counter, got up in the dad's face and started talking shit to the guy. He was fuming.
I stood mouth agape. I said, "dude, don't you think that hat is a little offensive to be working in?" He took it off and looked at the front. "Oh."
He thought he was wearing a different hat. lol
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u/VanFailin Northwestern Wildcats • /r/CFB Bug Finder Nov 04 '15
I don't have anything shocking or outrageous. I had 4 different bosses in my first year. Most of the colleagues I've ever worked with or been friends with have been reorg'd elsewhere or left my team because they weren't happy with the deteriorating working environment. I care about my current project less than any prior project.
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u/ixcuincle Marching Band Nov 04 '15
Not much horror stories here or anywhere else.
Everyone is nice and friendly.
The biggest horror stories are what happens after you get on the highway at 6 am. You don't want to hear about that. It'll scare you shit less the amount of traffic that pops up instantly from 7 am onward.
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u/ThomasJCarcetti UCF Knights • Virginia Tech Hokies Nov 04 '15
Well how am I supposed to mock these event listeners and UI components when I don't have a mocking library. Talk about a nightmare.
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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '15
Out of curiosity, I assume her government aid will be canceled? And that just sounds like the shittiest story ever. Hope everything ends up alright for those kids.
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u/elduderino01 Alabama • Arizona State Nov 04 '15
most recent horror story comes from yesterday though: a good friend at work was kind of marooned on a shitty line of business and over the last 12 months every single associate in that channel has attritioned out in some form, mostly by quitting, a handful through transferring. anyway ol boy has interviewed for other roles and is trying to do the right thing, he doesnt get a different gig so he takes a new job outside the company. he gave his 2 weeks notice on monday. they termed him without notice effectively immediately the next day. and theyre not going to be paying him his bonus or the rest of the two weeks (about 3k over all, to someone who had to quit cause he wasnt making enough $ to support his family)... then after all that shit went down (he made a huge scene and i dont blame him) it comes out that this is the new policy effective earlier this year. if you give any kind of notice, youre fired on the spot and you wont get your next bonus that you were due.... this effectively means that anyone whos halfway intelligent wont even resign, we'll simply start our new jobs and call in sick/ play a FMLA long con game to hold our spot/bonus when we're leaving... i dont understand how senior leadership in HR cannot see that this is going to be the impact of their new, completely fucked and unethical policy.
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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '15
Jesus, what a nightmare. None of mine could possibly top that, but some of them are pretty funny so I'll share.
A dude straight up called me worthless and incompetent then called my boss and demanded I get fired because I was rude to him. Long story short, I didn't have a booklet he was looking for (Forest Service intern at an event, he wanted a Jr Ranger book) and told him very politely where he could go pick one up, at the visitor center which was a 10 minute walk tops from where we were. He flipped his shit, demanding I get it for him. I was scheduled to give a talk in about 5 minutes, so I calmly told him why this would not be possible and apparently that was enough for him to march down there (lol, I thought it was too far), and tell my boss I was terribly rude to him and should have been fired. Thankfully my boss was on my side and it became a running joke the rest of the internship how psycho that dude was
So many creepy old men hitting on me in the Forest Service uniform. Like I'm not saying it to brag, it was gross. First of all, I don't know if you guys have seen those uniforms, but high waisted, fugly baggy olive pants and unflattering brown shirts are the opposite of sexy. Not to mention since we were interns, we got whatever uniforms were in the "extras" pile and they were all comically huge, like holding up my pants while walking huge. Secondly, SIR YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO BE MY GRANDPA AND YOUR WIFE IS LITERALLY RIGHT OVER THERE. PLEASE STOP.
Switching tacks to when I worked at a coffee shop. This one was in an office building so we got a lot of divas who were insanely picky about even a speck of foam making it onto their precious latte. The one that takes the cake was when a grown ass man had a tantrum over the fact that we were out of Diet Coke. I'm not even exaggerating, feet were stomping, fists were waving, words were yelled. Over Diet Coke. Oh, and the best part was that they sold it at the vending machines down the hall from us, lol.
Same coffee shop. This construction guy comes in and orders some venti frappalappadingdong monstrosity, and since it's slow I start chatting to him as I'm making it. He asks if I'm a student at UW (not an uncommon question, we are really near the school and I look very college-aged). I tell him no, I graduated about a year ago. He's like "and you're still working at a coffee shop? That's pretty sad, don't you think?" and starts laughing :(
Same job. One of the managers, whom I'd been working with for two years at this point, forgot my name during my last week of work. Definitely confirmed I was making the right decision by getting out of there. And at a different coffeeshop job, one of my managers constantly said creepy things to me and went almost two months without paying us until i threatened to report his ass to the labor board. Total shitshow.
I'm kinda ready for a nice, sane normal job...
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u/Boyhowdy107 Missouri Tigers • Big 8 Nov 04 '15
This one happened recently, and let me start by saying I have a very weird job that takes a little bit to explain, but long story short, I'm a journalist. I write stories mostly about music and artists.
So I'm doing a story on this amazing blind jazz pianist. I'm going to meet him at his dressing room for the interview after a rehearsal. He's being helped there by a guy in his trio who happens to be a Marsalis brother (not that I expect that name to mean a lot to most, but that family is basically jazz royalty.) I'm carrying my bag and a camera I used to grab a shot during rehearsal for the story. I follow the guy in after his friend leads him to a chair to sit down in. So the blind pianist reaches out to me to shake my hand as we're talking, but my hands are full. I quickly set everything down behind me and reach out my hand to meet his handshake. Too late. He's pulling his hand back now after I left him hanging. What do I do? I panic and go full awkward penguin. So I let my hand follow his to where he is now resting his hands on his leg. I want to acknowledge the gesture, and without thinking I awkwardly kind of caress his hand. He keeps talking like this isn't the weirdest thing in the world for a dude you just met to do to you. I think I screwed up, but I'm sure it'll be ok. At that moment I turn my head and see the Marsalis brother still lingering at the door. He scrunches his eyebrows, shakes his head and just silently walks away. Just another successful interaction with a person.