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My job is boring and I don't enjoy it in any way. Each 8 hour work day feels like it lasts for a week...
I don't wanna go! *pout*
I don't wanna go! *pout*
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"I don't want any part of your crazy cult! I'm already a member of the public library and that's good enough for me, thanks!"
~TechSmith 314
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I'll take that and raise you a job making less than minimum wage, with no breaks, in customer service (phone work). Let's trade!"Hi, this is Silver. How may I lose my self respect in order to cater to your over- inflated ego today?" --- Silver
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Isn't it illegal to earn less than minimum wage, being that it is, by definition, the minimum you can be paid?Quoth SilverOrb View Post"You can only try so hard to look like you are working before actually doing your work seems easy in comparison" -My Boss
CW: So what exactly do you do in retentions?
Me: ummm, I ....retent stuff?Comment
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It's also illegal to give no breaksQuoth Darkforge View Posthttps://www.youtube.com/user/HedgeTV
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I don't think it is. My cousin works at UPS and he doesn't get breaks, and you know the teamsters would have something to say about that.Quoth telecom_goddess View PostThe High Priest is an Illusion!Comment
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If in the US, that varies by state (for example: No breaks mandated *at all* in Louisiana). The only universal exception is if the workers themselves are minors.Quoth telecom_goddess View Post"For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
"The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
"Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
"There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
"Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
"Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
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"Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - meComment
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Seriously? That is unbelievable.....how do they expect people to work with no breaks?Quoth EricKei View Posthttps://www.youtube.com/user/HedgeTV
Great YouTube channel check it out!Comment
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In a borderline Fratching answer, which I'm asking now no one to follow up on in this thread, the answer is "different states involve different amounts of governmental interference in private businesses, so the states without those laws are simply expecting most businesses to be kind to employees without it being legislated."Quoth telecom_goddess View Post
NA, I actually like my job and I'll wake up once every week or two and go "I don't wanna go to work today," and it's a battle getting out the door that morning. I don't think I'd survive if I had to do that every morning. *big hugs* Stay strong, things will get better!Comment
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Quoth telecom_goddess View Post
It's shitty, but true. I work in a state that does not mandate breaks, and thusly, i get no breaks. I used to get a break, but my boss is a cheap bastard, and now we don't get breaks anymore. :sigh:Comment
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Hrm. I guess I should have clarified ^_^Quoth telecom_goddess View Post
I have never heard of ANY shop here that does not give people breaks anyway. for the most part, businesses are smart enough to do it of their own volition -- it's just that they won't get in trouble if they fail to do so."For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
"The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
"Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
"There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
"Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
"Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
"Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - meComment
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And I should add the ones that don't treat their employees well usually end up with the bottom-barrel people working there, as the good employees leave for better workplaces.Quoth EricKei View PostThe Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
"Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
Hoc spatio locantur.Comment
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Since the game store owner wouldn't allow me to come in for more than 3 hours a day, I didn't get actual breaks. Near the end of my stint there, I got to the "I dun' wanna go" phase...everything I was doing to improve things got sabotaged.Quoth EricKei View Post
At the shady computer shop I quickly figured that I wasn't even making minimum wage (for a tech)."I am quite confident that I do exist."
"Excuse me, I'm making perfect sense. You're just not keeping up." The DoctorComment
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I'm getting up an hour early to go in an hour early just to make sure all that stuff that needs doing gets done.
I don't wanna go! *cuddles pillow*"For the love of all that is holy and 4 things that aren’t but feel pretty good anyway" ~ GravekeeperComment
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My job bores me stupid. I look at various plastic medical doodads for 12 hours. I don't wanna go.
...But I would rather go here than back to Motel Hell. Every time I start clockwatching or thinking about how crummy my job is, I think back to the days of kissing tourists' asses for about five bucks less an hour than I make now, and that cheers me right up.Drive it like it's a county car.Comment
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I don't want to go to work tomorrow! The university football team is playing in some rivalry type game, and it's purported to be THE game of the seasn. We're talking tickets sold out in 3 hours, and there are people scalping them in ebay and craigslist for a killing.
so great, on top of the usual stupids I deal with, I'll have drunken stupids from the tailgates running around the store, wreaking havoc and going "zomg, stuuuuffffzzz!"
>.< I get to pull a 9 hour shift, and that's only if I'm lucky and get out of there on time, which I probably won't.
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