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You said deny the smell

One cannot deny seeing the source of smell though. Leave it be Hot. Leave it be

Kay
Here was a weird one today. Early morning some guy came in. My boss just would not stop staring at him. Any employee he walked up to after he left the boss came over an said "Be careful he is a psycho" The guy then proceeded to sit in the middle of the isle eating his food.
And here is by far the biggest WTF moment of my life. This guy is new to working with us,but not new to the place in general, It is 15 minutes till closing. No ne is coming in. Im closing stuff and getting things ready to close. I see the guy leaning backwards at the register with his earphones in. I say "Hey, can you help close?" he reply's "I am, im manning the register" Things get heated to where the manager comes in and stops it. She yells at me for telling him. Im sorry but arent you supposed to IDK work?

 Ouze wrote:

You aren't. It's both totally illegal, and the status quo for the call centers I and other family members have worked at in the past. They expect you to be ready to take calls when your shift starts, but to do so, you must spent 10 or 15 minutes getting your computer booted up and all your programs ready, which they tell you to do before you come in.

When I was canvassing for the Fund for the Public Interest we were expected to show up 2 hours before our actual start time, not including all the "optional" campaign activities, hence the lawsuit.

In my high school days, I embarked on the time honored role of lifeguard.

Some of the things I have dealt with include:

Tied-off, used condoms at the bottom of the deep end.
Mothers kicking one another in the face over their kids splashing.
Explosive baby diarrhea.
Being told 'next time get an adult' by a mother after I told her kids to stop running on the wet slippery concrete.

But my best story...and this is something of a favorite. It requires a little bit of background though.

Where I worked, all of the city pools had a guard office with the supplies and one of those supplies was a binder with photos of all of the known sex offenders in the area. Never said what exactly they did, just gave them a tier and photo, and our instructions were (if we saw one) to contact the police and keep them in sight. Okay, so far so good. One day, I am on break and another guard comes into the office and asks to see the binder. Now to this point, all the guards pretty much have treated it like a joke, so I think it is some new joke or prank, but they bring me out to confirm...and yes we have a registered sex offender hanging out in the pool. Awesome.

So we call the cops and they arrive quickly (had a station right across the parking lot). They pick the guy out and begin to escort him out. Now I have no idea what this guy is guilty of, but I will say this about him: he was being a sport about the whole thing. He wasn't making a scene, he wasn't drawing attention to himself, he wasn't fighting or anything like that. He just wanted to get his stuff and get out of there. And he was doing a pretty good job of it, aside from the police right near him. Everything was going smooth...

...until the guy's girlfriend comes up to bat for him. This woman begins screaming her head off at the police in a big time tirade. She gets to such a high volume that she yells out, loud enough for several hundred people at the pool and water park to hear (I swear I am not making this up):

"He's not a pedophile! He only raped a 13 year old!"

Jeez, Curran - that escalated quickly.

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:

 Ouze wrote:

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Also worked in a restaurant where the owner ordered you to show up 15 mins before your shift started, but not clock in until it started. He stole 15 mins from each employee, each day.

I don't feel sorry for you on this one. When I taught at my local union's apprenticeship school, that is one thing I would drill into new apprentices from day one: If you aren't at least 15 minutes early, you're late.

Did you read the part where he didn't get paid for this time in early?

Yes and I still don't feel sorry him. If you aren't early, you're late.

No, if your early... your early. If you are in the military then "on time/late" are relative terms defined by your superiours but I'm not in the military anymore. If you want me to be somewhere at a specific time you tell me that time and you pay me for that time. Period.

I think maybe we should move on from that.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
PrehistoricUFO, you're a saint. Seriously.

Nah, he's just Canadian.

If that happens in the NE US, it ends...ugly.

 curran12 wrote:
"He's not a pedophile! He only raped a 13 year old!"

O.o There are not enough mind altering drugs on the planet to make that statement okay in anyone's book... Jesus

curran12 wrote:In my high school days, I embarked on the time honored role of lifeguard.

Some of the things I have dealt with include:

...Tied-off, used condoms at the bottom of the deep end...Explosive baby diarrhea.

More reasons to not go to the public pool
/barf

gorgon wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
PrehistoricUFO, you're a saint. Seriously.

Nah, he's just Canadian.

If that happens in the NE US, it ends...ugly.

As someone that deals with people in New England on a daily basis, I completely agree with this.

 gorgon wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
PrehistoricUFO, you're a saint. Seriously.

Nah, he's just Canadian.

I feel like this is obligatory:

 Alfndrate wrote:

 curran12 wrote:
"He's not a pedophile! He only raped a 13 year old!"

O.o There are not enough mind altering drugs on the planet to make that statement okay in anyone's book... Jesus

In a weird way, I felt bad for the guy. He clearly wanted to get out without a fuss. Whatever he did in the past, he wasn't flaunting it.

 curran12 wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

 curran12 wrote:
"He's not a pedophile! He only raped a 13 year old!"

O.o There are not enough mind altering drugs on the planet to make that statement okay in anyone's book... Jesus

In a weird way, I felt bad for the guy. He clearly wanted to get out without a fuss. Whatever he did in the past, he wasn't flaunting it.

I can understand wanting to just get on with life, his actions sounded okay, his girlfriend's actions (and thus her statement) weren't okay. I could see how someone would feel bad for the guy. My 11th grade English teacher had a relationship my senior year with a 17 year old student. He lost his job, his ability to teach, and nearly his life (he attempted suicide a day or so after this all started). He was a fantastic teacher though, he was (before this incident) one of the reasons why I wanted to go into teaching English. He took my love of reading books and helped shape that into analyzing and tearing books apart. It just sucks that he messed up one time, and was sentenced to a few years in prison. Though, ever the educator, my teacher got let out early because he worked with the prison he was at to start a program to help the inmates get their GEDs so they could move on and eventually get into college.

I remmeber when I used to work at mcdonalds, I had to train some new guys,

as I was training them on how to refil the syrup for the coke machines, I explained to the kid
"take the empty bag off the hose, put a full bag on the hose, throw out the old bag. then press the middle button and you are good to go."

he went to change it, came back 10 min later, and asked
"which button is the middle button?"


there are three buttons arranged like this

0 0 0



the next day, I put him on the burger making line, and an order came through for a plain hamburger.

he promtly put ketchup and mustard on it, but luckily I caught it and told him "hey, that burger is supposed to be plain, so no condiments on it ok."

he said "ok" and prompty wiped off the ketchup/mustard on the edge of the garbage can, and proceeded to assemble the burger like that.....

I just shook my head and remade another one myself...

that kid worked there for years too

 curran12 wrote:
In my high school days, I embarked on the time honored role of lifeguard.

"He's not a pedophile! He only raped a 13 year old!"

Great.... Now I've got "Stand By Your Man" stuck in my head.

I had a temp job at a university where I assisted students with filling out their student loans (first job after graduating 2 years ago). The process can be a bit foreign to kids fresh out of highschool, even more so when you have all the craziness of starting university at the same time.

However, some people are completely clueless. Unless a student was flagged in the system for something... the process was simple..... confirm your income hasn't changed since you applied, sign in a few spots, tell me how much of the loan is going towards paying for that semester and then I put the difference in your bank account - the average student took 3-5 minutes.

But then you have the special people that earned several thousand dollars that summer (never declared it when they applied) and start bawling their eyes out when I tell them they are no longer eligible for the loan. Then the people who sign and "date" the bottom of the form with their birthdays - I'd say 1 in 5 did this. Also had people yelling at me because I wouldn't give them their loan because they had no ID on them.

It actually go to a point where I could tell how the student was going to do with the loan process based on their major. Engineering students = very smooth process but lots of questions, business students = in and out in 3 mins, sociology and early childhood education = completely clueless, had to call their parents to ask how much of the money to allocate to where, cried when they screwed up something big (no offense to anyone who studied those lol, but the stereotypes were accurate about 75% of the time)

When I worked at the local GW store, I was renown for always being on shift when the really crazy/stupid crap would happen... Things like;
- A "chemical leak", (re: moronic contractors playing with glue solvents when they shouldn't have), that forced a 5 hour evacuation while the Fire Department & Hazmat teams brought in their cool toys to clean things up.

- The Eastside Mario's trying to burn the mall down... was pretty cool seeing the 3 fire trucks, a pair of buses and about a dozen or so police cars that showed up!
And this all because one of the kitchen staff told a front-of-house staffer to turn on the salamander oven... which empty, aside from the grease that obviously hadn't been cleaned out properly!

- "Snowmadeggon"

- The construction crews snipping our internet lines 3 f***ing times!!!
The worst being the first time when they did it 6 days prior to Xmas... And then our computer crashed, meaning the final Saturday before Xmas, we had to ring through every sale with hand-written receipts and take credit cards via the ancient 'yank-and-crank' hand device.
Mind you, we printed out what had to be the most awesome Z-Report in GW history, as due to how things worked, we were apparently something like $7k in cash short on our till!

- The D-Tox store above us had their water heater explode overnight... and turn our entire LotR wall into a gently cascading waterfall.

- God threw a lightning bolt at us.
My manager said this was the single most epic phone call he'd ever received. And his boss simply laughed when he heard about it and said if we weren't Burlington he wouldn't have believed it possible, but apparently we were a special kind of fethed-up!

Luckily I missed out on the ultimate kiddie poop of doom though as I was at a tournament that weekend... Even the pro carpet cleaners who were called in to clean up our store were nearly floored by the smell.



None of this however compares to the horror stories of being an on-ice minor hockey ref... That's a job that can literally scar you for life if you haven't got an iron will and skin of admantium!
One of my buddies actually received a death threat from a coach.

One of my buddies actually received a death threat from a coach.

you have no proof it was me!

 Ouze wrote:

 gorgon wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
PrehistoricUFO, you're a saint. Seriously.

Nah, he's just Canadian.

I feel like this is obligatory:

"I'm not your friend, buddy..."

 Frazzled wrote:

One of my buddies actually received a death threat from a coach.

you have no proof it was me!

There were no wiener dogs involved... So I'm inclined to believe you - this time!

Besides, I'm not sure you Texans understand that some games are simply better played on ice while wearing the equivalent of modern plate armour & stainless steel blades that can open throats & sever major arteries... (too damn busy thinking legalised physical assault on grass is good enough I suppose?! )

 gorgon wrote:

 Ouze wrote:

 gorgon wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
PrehistoricUFO, you're a saint. Seriously.

Nah, he's just Canadian.

I feel like this is obligatory:

"I'm not your friend, buddy..."

"I'm not your buddy, pal..."

Oh i noes about da hockey. Its the only time Canadians can get downright rude.