Erica Belletete
One of my worst on-the-job experiences might be when I was a waitress. We were required to have all plates of food on a large serving tray and carry them above our heads. I had a large table with about eight people. That meant eight plates of food above my head with zero strength in my delts and to top it off I had to take two steps up to the seated area. Well, you guessed it. My arms gave out at the most ideal time and all the plates of food came crashing down right at the feet of the awaiting table.
Here's your food. We now serve it to you on the floor, like dirty animals.
Scott Lawrence
As you all should be aware by now, I previously worked at IHOP. Outside of the pancakes, the Country Fried Steak was popular. Yet, every time someone ordered it with gravy on the side, the cooks would forget and put it on top. If you're a patron of this International House you deserve better. They would always send it back and the cooks would just wash the gravy off in the sink. Then, to keep it classy and refined, the cooks would throw the steak back in the fryer before re-plating it.
American laws have no jurisdiction in the international waters of IHOP.
Taylor Andrew
When I was head of Operations at a middle school I had to clean up the following: vomit by a water fountain, a kicked can of Ajax that filled the main hallway with a toxic cloud, a fresh middle school urinal poop, and the remnants of a 6th grader's self-induced bloody nose that was smeared all over the Principal's office - all during a 20-minute break during state testing.
I required no more testing that day. I was done.
Joe Boettcher
In college, I worked at a call center doing tech support for Gateway computers. The number one goal of management at this call center was to make the calls as short as possible, not necessarily to help people solve their problems. This resulted in absurd tactics like callers frequently being directed to reformat their hard drive because it would end the call and then they'd call back later to become the problem for a different support tech. On one occasion after I'd been on the call floor for about 2 weeks, I answered a call from an elderly lady who had received a replacement power supply and had no idea what to do with it. Over the next hour, I painstakingly helped this sweet grandma physically install a power supply into her computer tower. The entire time, I was getting dirty looks from my manager, who would continuously walk by and point to a watch or make some other gesture for me to end the call. Miraculously this lady's computer booted up and worked like a charm.
All good things come to those who wait. I quit the next day.
Michael Hutzel
Having worked a few later shifts at Walmart I can confirm that the famous People of Walmart website is not made up. People lose their minds. Maybe, it's the everyday savings. Maybe, it's the fluorescent lights. Scholars are still studying this. Even the best of us are not immune to Walmart's effect. People such as Marty Stuart entered three sheets to the wind and left maybe only 2.5 sheets to the wind. Look, after vomiting that much in a few plastic bags and stashing them in the back corner of the store, you have to think it was all downhill from there.
It clearly blew his hair back.
