thoughthorizon
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Always-honest said:
I had the very same experience. Considered leaving early, but decided to wait around and just eat strawberries instead of picking them.
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I had the very same experience. Considered leaving early, but decided to wait around and just eat strawberries instead of picking them.
onken
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This thread is absolutely tops, I love reading the posts here especially the ones about the pyramid scheme type things, well done everyone for having the balls to walk away from some of those people.
In answer to the thread, no but I did come close once. My very first job when I came to Japan was working in a restaurant kitchen in the countryside. Everybody was really kind but my god they worked us like dogs. Also my Japanese wasn't great to begin with and everyone used horrendous southern dialect which made things 10x harder. I would spend about 5 hours making salads and washing up at a sink which was about 2 foot lower than was comfortable for me. My hands and back were a wreck at the end of the first night and under literally any other circumstances I would have never gone back. But I toughed it out and they got me this little kneeling stool I could use so the sink was at the right height in the end. Still tough though, damn.
In answer to the thread, no but I did come close once. My very first job when I came to Japan was working in a restaurant kitchen in the countryside. Everybody was really kind but my god they worked us like dogs. Also my Japanese wasn't great to begin with and everyone used horrendous southern dialect which made things 10x harder. I would spend about 5 hours making salads and washing up at a sink which was about 2 foot lower than was comfortable for me. My hands and back were a wreck at the end of the first night and under literally any other circumstances I would have never gone back. But I toughed it out and they got me this little kneeling stool I could use so the sink was at the right height in the end. Still tough though, damn.
TheVampire
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After I left my first job which was an I.T helpdesk I got another job in I.T working in the same kinda stuff.
The job description wasnt that accurate and it was pretty much the same level helpdesk shit that I had been already doing for about a year in my previous job.
After about 3 days I knew I couldnt go back to doing the same shit and their case logging system, intranet, tips etc was so crappy.
I had calls and even the experienced people didnt know how to handle.
So I pretty much said FUCKTHIS and on day 4 made up some bs about how I got another job offer and had to start asap.
They said I couldnt just leave like that and wouldnt get paid for the days I had been there (but who gives a crap when the first 2 were just watching training videos)
So I asked to goto the toilet and never came back .
The recruiting company gave me an ear full and I heard one of the other guys I started with also quit soon after aswell
The job description wasnt that accurate and it was pretty much the same level helpdesk shit that I had been already doing for about a year in my previous job.
After about 3 days I knew I couldnt go back to doing the same shit and their case logging system, intranet, tips etc was so crappy.
I had calls and even the experienced people didnt know how to handle.
So I pretty much said FUCKTHIS and on day 4 made up some bs about how I got another job offer and had to start asap.
They said I couldnt just leave like that and wouldnt get paid for the days I had been there (but who gives a crap when the first 2 were just watching training videos)
So I asked to goto the toilet and never came back .
The recruiting company gave me an ear full and I heard one of the other guys I started with also quit soon after aswell
So, there is this game company. They were looking for a new main coder for their main project. We're talking about an older MMO here, so it was a live game with an old code-base. They found an experienced coder, and the first day at work he started looking into the code, because when you take over as a main-coder for a project like this, your first week is pretty much just going to be pulling in strings in the code and seeing what part moves. This guy didn't make it that long.
After having looked at the code a while of his first day, he literally cried out in anguish and ran out of the office. They never heard from him again.
After having looked at the code a while of his first day, he literally cried out in anguish and ran out of the office. They never heard from him again.
Bucket-o-roadkill
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this thread is fucking gold haha
I've actually done this, got a job working in a shitty little computer store. so Im there on the first day and i think about 3 people bought something and like 40 came back to return items. deadly serious. i learnt how to do returns before learning how to check out something. there's a store room out back nearly filled with perfectly decent items that are just opened because morons dont know what theyre doing so bring it back.
anyway so im there working with this other geek who's like 40 but looks like a nerdy college student from the 70s and the store gets quieter. time for a breather? nope. he begins to 'test me' on names and colors of ink cartridges for the printers. there are literally hundreds, I've barely had time to do anything due to customers returning things yet he thought it was amusing to make me look stupid by doing this. probably sounds to you like he was just pissing around but seriously, he was really enjoying showing his superior knowledge and even made feeble attempts to mock me infront of customers. hilarious! well i thought it was funnier the following day when he rang me asking where i was because i wasent there and it was busy as hell. hope he had fun 'holding the fort' that day..
i notice the store closed down not long after, hardly surprising, i could tell they were fucked. they were bleeding money but the boss honestly believed sales of ink cartridges would keep them afloat when super markets sell entire fucking printers at a cheaper price. haha stupid dick. the boss and the nerdy employee probably work as shelf stackers at the supermarket now anyway, lol
I've actually done this, got a job working in a shitty little computer store. so Im there on the first day and i think about 3 people bought something and like 40 came back to return items. deadly serious. i learnt how to do returns before learning how to check out something. there's a store room out back nearly filled with perfectly decent items that are just opened because morons dont know what theyre doing so bring it back.
anyway so im there working with this other geek who's like 40 but looks like a nerdy college student from the 70s and the store gets quieter. time for a breather? nope. he begins to 'test me' on names and colors of ink cartridges for the printers. there are literally hundreds, I've barely had time to do anything due to customers returning things yet he thought it was amusing to make me look stupid by doing this. probably sounds to you like he was just pissing around but seriously, he was really enjoying showing his superior knowledge and even made feeble attempts to mock me infront of customers. hilarious! well i thought it was funnier the following day when he rang me asking where i was because i wasent there and it was busy as hell. hope he had fun 'holding the fort' that day..
i notice the store closed down not long after, hardly surprising, i could tell they were fucked. they were bleeding money but the boss honestly believed sales of ink cartridges would keep them afloat when super markets sell entire fucking printers at a cheaper price. haha stupid dick. the boss and the nerdy employee probably work as shelf stackers at the supermarket now anyway, lol
onken
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Actually I sorta have one more which I just remembered. I had my resume up one of those career sites and one day I get a mail from some sort of "consulting" company, saying I'd be a good match for a position. I think "what the hell" and after a brief mail exchange go down for an interview. It all looked kinda proper, they had a nice office in the financial district and the terms seemed good, reasonable minimum salary with commission on top. The problem was after 3 interviews and a written psych test I still had absolutely no idea what my job would entail, they just kept dodging the question or using management speak ("we need you to break the mould" "push the company forward" etc). Eventually they asked me to come back for a final interview and trial which if I passed I would be offered the job.
TL/DR it was some sort of high-class cold-calling gig where you would try and phish employee names out of a company to put in to a database where they'd be head-hunted (read: harassed) for positions in foreign companies. They had a big spreadsheet of internal department phone numbers of pretty much every big company you could think of (god knows how they got them) and I had to call them up and get names for the database e.g. "yeah I was speaking to a guy a month or so ago in the engineering department, stocky, short-hair, early 30s, can't exactly remember the name... began with a T maybe?". It basically just took advantage of people trying to be helpful and I felt awful doing it. I told them it wasn't for me and the boss got pretty mad, yelling that if I didn't stay I will have wasted his time. I just picked up my bag and got the fuck out of there. That was the most awkward 30 second wait for an elevator I have ever experienced.
TL/DR it was some sort of high-class cold-calling gig where you would try and phish employee names out of a company to put in to a database where they'd be head-hunted (read: harassed) for positions in foreign companies. They had a big spreadsheet of internal department phone numbers of pretty much every big company you could think of (god knows how they got them) and I had to call them up and get names for the database e.g. "yeah I was speaking to a guy a month or so ago in the engineering department, stocky, short-hair, early 30s, can't exactly remember the name... began with a T maybe?". It basically just took advantage of people trying to be helpful and I felt awful doing it. I told them it wasn't for me and the boss got pretty mad, yelling that if I didn't stay I will have wasted his time. I just picked up my bag and got the fuck out of there. That was the most awkward 30 second wait for an elevator I have ever experienced.
SlackAdjuster
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When I was young I fell into a hard spot and went to a temp agency. They sent me out to a Dirt Devil factory. I stood there for about 6 hours doing nothing but putting 3 Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner bags into plastic pouches. Over and over and over and over. I went on break, jumped in my Cutlass and got the the fuck right out of there.
I've only ever once wanted to outright quit the job I've had for years. Annually, there's this event downtown that I'm responsible for providing the internet for. Over the years, it's been getting gradually easier to do, as we no longer have to care about anyone claiming they want wired network across the street from any type of building, but last year's was the worst.
The event happens at a.. well, not a town square, but a square of sorts - there are huge old buildings on three sides, but they're too far to have wireless access points inside the buildings to cover the square. That's why we put up some access points in the "tents" that are there for the duration of the event. Each year we go through the motions of trying to assess what way is the best to get the wired net out to the square to broadcast, but mostly we end up with having to toss a wire, maybe a rope, out of a window, and tie it to a statue that's there, to keep it out of harm's way. It's not pretty, but we know it.
Everyone always keeps having an opinion about it, so I make my answer just shorter and shorter. At a point, two women are yapping to themselves about how it doesn't look pretty etc, and one comes over to me and goes "can you guys really do this?"
Me: "Yeah, we're from the networking department - we got this, no reason for you to care."
"Well, it's not really pretty"
Me: "Listen, I'm here to fix the network for this event, and this is the way we're doing it"
"Oh? Well, I'm the location director around here"
At this point I just think "oh, that's just fucking great". Just moments before I had wanted to tell this woman to scram, because I don't care about her comments of prettiness, and then she tells me this?
Then I had to go over all the other options we had already tried, rather irately explaining to her why it is a silly idea to have us do the exact same thing we've already tried, that ended up ruin the cable and would just be a way to invite failure, while trying to not do it too irately, because this woman was not above showing me that she had an opinion. Hours and hours later we ended up doing the exact same thing we had just finished doing when she interrupted. I know what I'm doing, so, just let me do my fucking job.
The event happens at a.. well, not a town square, but a square of sorts - there are huge old buildings on three sides, but they're too far to have wireless access points inside the buildings to cover the square. That's why we put up some access points in the "tents" that are there for the duration of the event. Each year we go through the motions of trying to assess what way is the best to get the wired net out to the square to broadcast, but mostly we end up with having to toss a wire, maybe a rope, out of a window, and tie it to a statue that's there, to keep it out of harm's way. It's not pretty, but we know it.
Everyone always keeps having an opinion about it, so I make my answer just shorter and shorter. At a point, two women are yapping to themselves about how it doesn't look pretty etc, and one comes over to me and goes "can you guys really do this?"
Me: "Yeah, we're from the networking department - we got this, no reason for you to care."
"Well, it's not really pretty"
Me: "Listen, I'm here to fix the network for this event, and this is the way we're doing it"
"Oh? Well, I'm the location director around here"
At this point I just think "oh, that's just fucking great". Just moments before I had wanted to tell this woman to scram, because I don't care about her comments of prettiness, and then she tells me this?
Then I had to go over all the other options we had already tried, rather irately explaining to her why it is a silly idea to have us do the exact same thing we've already tried, that ended up ruin the cable and would just be a way to invite failure, while trying to not do it too irately, because this woman was not above showing me that she had an opinion. Hours and hours later we ended up doing the exact same thing we had just finished doing when she interrupted. I know what I'm doing, so, just let me do my fucking job.
NEOPARADIGM
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Teh Hamburglar said:
It was one of those things where after you sweep the floor for two weeks, you move up to removing the plastic knobs from the toys. Then you get to do that for 10 hours a day.
Harry Dresden said:
Pay was decent, actually. Like $8.75 plus two hours of overtime per day, six days a week. So the checks would have been phat. (This was a good 12 years ago, to boot.)
I just couldn't hack the monotony.
DeaconKnowledge
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So is diving in to something you know you have a low threshold for. Most of these stories START with a 'It seemed shady, but I said 'fuck it' pretense.Freshmaker said:
Buddy of mine set me up for an interview editing wedding videos. Well I went to the interview, did a great job and apparently impressed the hell out of him. The odd thing was that it was his house, and he lived with his mom. 15 minutes after the interview he called me and said I had the job, to which I said sorry I just found another...
It was awkward as fuck.
It was awkward as fuck.
Worked as a headhunter for one day. My girlfriend was excited and was pushing me to work a normal (read: miserable) office job that pays high. I couldn't stand the work. Calling companies to get employee names so that we could call back later and try to coerce them into a new job... Hearing dudes tag-team these poor Japanese workers on the phone who barely speak English, convincing them it's the best job for them.
Some people enjoy the act of deception or persuasion. For me it just makes me feel dirty. Quit after a few hours. They didn't ask any questions or raise any issues, just said "okay, well the exit is this way."
Some people enjoy the act of deception or persuasion. For me it just makes me feel dirty. Quit after a few hours. They didn't ask any questions or raise any issues, just said "okay, well the exit is this way."
ChocolateCupcakes
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This except its called Vector now/where I live.Freshmaker said:
sasimirobot
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Found a job in Tokyo that paid out tips and gave you a dorm. Worked for 1 night, got the cash and crashed in the dorm for a week before anyone noticed...
onken
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odd_morsel said:LOL. Wow, exactly what I just posted about.Reading again sounds like it may be the exact same company. Is their name abbreviated EWC?
Haha small world. Don't think that was the name but I subsequently found out there's quite a few companies doing the same thing in in the Kanto region.
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