for those of you that did or do work, what are some confessions or interesting work related stories you have? for me, we had a guy say that the meat (i work at a fast food place) was 'bad' and insist that we cook him a new batch. the man proceeded to wait the full 30 mins that took, and before leaving told me a nearby girl who came into the store would be "a nice lady for me". dude wasn't rude abt anything tho. just fucking odd.
I was on a long shift and my brain wasn't working properly, so naturally I put the plastic dustpan and brush into the pizza oven stank the whole shop out, I am amazed that I didn't get fired
3 Name: EMTRN2026-04-06 17:10
honestly, one's brain does melt into goo doing wage labor so i understand lmao
4 Name: Anonymous2026-04-06 22:41
I used to work with a stocktaking company that was pretty horrible. Extremely petty supervisors that would follow you around like and treat you like a child. Literally every second there was tracked by a gun you carried down and you were constantly prompted to be more efficient. After working for 5 hours I asked when we were getting a break and was told "we legally only have to give you a break after 6 hours". When I decided that I no longer wanted to work there I started deliberately counting everything wrong, knowing that (and hoping) they can be penalised as a company for severe miscounts. I'd count as much as 50% less or more of most things. They didn't realise what I was doing for three weeks, at which point I was fired.
The grind mindset there was insane. People were obsessed with getting their efficiency score up when it was clear that the bar was set deliberately high to the point that it was virtually unattainable. No one ever met a single efficiency target while I was there, even the people who were obsessed and had been there for a while, yet people would constantly try to beat each other and brag about being 4.7% more efficient than the last guy. It felt like a cult.
I actually became one of the more "efficient" people there while I was miscounting, because it turns out you can count faster when you're just pressing random numbers.
5 Name: EMTRN2026-04-07 13:11
ugh, that sounds annoying as fuck >_< sorry u had to go through that dude.
for me, we had a guy say that the meat (i work at a fast food place) was 'bad' and insist that we cook him a new batch. the man proceeded to wait the full 30 mins that took, and before leaving told me a nearby girl who came into the store would be "a nice lady for me". dude wasn't rude abt anything tho. just fucking odd.