On-the-Job Annoyances That Make Folks Want to Quit

My job certainly has some annoyances.

But even on my worst days, I know that other jobs will have their own annoyances too.

The grass is always greener, right?

But some jobs are beyond annoying. As these posts prove, some jobs are the worst.

Here are 15 examples where people promise that their particular grass is not greener.

First, there’s dealing with kids. And their parents.

1. Fevers and sniffles do not make happy campers

Please leave snot-monsters at home.

I worked at an indoor play park, it was cool, because we could have fun after closing. But really annoying when parents broughttheir sick kids thereand didn't care.

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2. Grumpy parents need not apply

They suck the joy right out of everything, don’t they?

Working at a kid's play center was the worst. Parents are total a**holes.

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3. It doesn’t get much better when they grow up.

At least no helicopter parents, yeah?

Teaching high schoolstudents over the summer was an awful job. Some were great, but the ones that were bad were absolutely unbearable.

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4. And don’t forget the adults who act like children

They might be the worst ones of all.

My current job is the worst. I am receptionist for 400 of the most entitled a**holes ever!

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Then there are stores, where customer is king.

5. It’s hard to imagine it being worse than fast food

Unless you have a perverse love of putting the canned goods on top of the produce. ?

Being a bagger at a grocery store is a terrible job. People treat you like you're incompetent and worthless. They don't even treat you like a person. Even worse than fast food.

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6. That pretty much says it all

On the bright side, you could get all your shopping done without a second trip.

Walmart is literally the most annoying job ever.

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7. Definitely not the place to be if you like things to stay neat and tidy

Now I’m going to feel bad every time I take a box off the shelf.

Most annoying job ever? Working in a grocery store. Fixing aisles perfectly then coming back in less than five minutes to see that they are back to the way they were before.

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8. But I’d rather straighten the boxes than clean the toilets

I just literally can’t even.

Working Walmart overnight maintenance sucks. Someone once pooped in the urinal....

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9. Manual labor is definitely not fun

But still preferable to the bathroom situation.

The most annoying job I ever had was cart pushing for Walmart. Our mule was broken 80% of the year I worked there.

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And as annoying as it is to receive calls from telemarketers–just imagine how it must be for them.

10. Frankly it sounds terrible

Especially considering no one answers their phones anymore.

Worked in a call center for a large data storage and shredding company. No employee there was treated as a person. We were all treated like things, and told how replaceable.

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11. I mean, did this person work at the same place as the last person?

Because that has to be illegal.

I lasted one day in telemarketing, then had a seizure because they wouldn't let me take a food/water break or have my anticonvulsants on time. I left in an ambulance and never went back.

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Last, but certainly not least, are the odd jobs that don’t fit into a category, but all have their generl terribleness in common.

12. Imagine being a jerk to the person who’s supposed to save you

And imagine having to save them. “Still want that towel?”

When I was life guarding at a resort people would ask me the most ridiculous questions. Do you guys deliver pizza? Can I park there?Can I have a towel? How much to stay another night?

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13. I didn’t even know this was a job

It sounds pretty awful.
I wonder if it would be any better in a more appealing climate?

Selling meat out of the back of a truck door to door in the Arizona desert during the summer was the most annoying job I've ever had.

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14. When you gotta be a bouncer, and you don’t even get tips

I’ve never understood people being upset about being carded.
Like, how dare you think I look young?

Liquor stores are the worst. Gotta card everyone and they get pissed off. Then you have drunks who come in and you gotta deny them. Usually have to throw them out as well.

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15. Side gigs are hard work

Sometimes the money’s not all it’s cracked up to be.

My side job is stripping. It's good money but probably the most annoying job I've ever had...

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Those all definitely make me feel better about the little peccadilloes (as Moira Rose would say) that I deal with at my job. What about you? Tell us in the comments.

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A Person Taught Their Boss a Lesson About Why You Need To Warn Customers About Closing Time

It’s time to go!

Today we have an interesting story from Reddit about a worker who taught their manager a lesson that they’d be wise to heed in the future.

Take a look at this story and how folks on Reddit reacted.

Start now!

Proved to my manager that it’s better to warn customers of closing time

“I used to work at a store that was open until 2AM every night of the week, so as you can imagine, when 2AM rolled around I was always ready to get out of there.

Around 1:45AM, I would walk around and let each customer know individually that the store was closing in 15 minutes, and ask them if they needed help finding anything before then. I did this for about 4 months working there and never had a problem, other than the occasional super rude customer who would completely ignore me and keep shopping until like 2:30/3 or whatever.

Or occasionally, especially on weekends, drunk people would come in after 2AM and just ignore that we were closed, because we weren’t allowed to lock the door or turn anyone away.

Usually I was alone by 1:45 since business really slows down, but one night my manager was still there. When she saw me go and tell customers the store was closing in 15 minutes, she was p**sed. She told me I could NEVER tell a customer the store was closing. She said it was incredibly rude and put too much pressure on them.

Fast forward to a few weeks later. I have still been giving customers a 15-minute heads up, because frankly I don’t think it’s rude to tell someone your store is about to close, especially at 2AM. Here is when I see my opportunity.

A woman had come in around 12AM. She seemed pretty out of it, and was wandering around the store aimlessly this whole time, but occasionally bringing something to the counter, asking me to hold it, then coming back and asking me to put it back because she changed her mind.

I had the feeling she could spend all night wandering around the store, so I decided that this would be the one customer I wouldn’t warn about closing. 2AM rolls around and I say nothing, and I proceed to say nothing all the way until 4:45AM when she finally leaves the store.

I literally got a call at 8AM the next day from my manager, furious that I had closed the store almost at 5AM. I innocently told her that the woman was still busy shopping the whole time, and I remind her that it’s extremely rude to tell a customer that the store is closed.

The next night when I went in for my shift, they had made the 15 minute warning a universal rule. We were all supposed to warn customers the store was closing, PLUS we were supposed to turn people away if they showed up after 2AM. Score!

Afterward I admitted to my other coworkers I had done it intentionally to show management how dumb their decision was, and I’m glad I did it because we never had to let another drunk teenager into the store after 2AM again.”

And this is what folks on Reddit had to say about this person’s story.

This person thinks they did a good job…and it’s always been a good idea!

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Another reader argued that the manager’s behavior in this situation is just plain odd. I think I agree. And there’s a safety issue to think about, too.

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This Reddit user said that this move doesn’t even make sense from a business perspective. You’re wasting money!

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Another reader called this a total no-brainer. Amen!

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Finally, another person said that the manager was totally clueless on this one and that their position defies logic. Yup!

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Have you ever taught your boss a lesson at work?

Or maybe a co-worker?

Share your stories with us in the comments. We’d love to hear from you!

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Guy Checks His Blood Sugar in Front of Co-Worker With a Blood Phobia. Is He Acting Like a Jerk?

Well, this story from Reddit’s “Am I The A**hole?” page sure is a weird one.

It involves blood, a disgruntled co-worker, and a phobia.

Let’s take a look at what happened and how folks on Reddit reacted.

AITA for checking my blood sugar at my desk when my coworker has a severe blood phobia?

“I (24M) enjoy my job and have two coworkers, Megan (25F) and our new coworker James (23M) who just started. The three of us each have our own office space, but because we have to frequently collaborate on work throughout the day we are often at each other’s desks.

I am a type 1 diabetic, I give insulin and check my blood sugar throughout the day as needed. I give insulin through a pump so that’s not an issue. Checking my blood sugar involves pricking my finger to draw a drop of blood, the blood gets sucked up into a test strip that is connected to a glucose meter, and the meter displays the reading. The whole process takes like 10 seconds.

I was checking my blood sugar in my office right when James walked over. Immediately, his face went white, he looked like he was about to puke or faint or maybe both. I was like, dude are you okay? He told me that he has a major blood and needle phobia and gets therapy for it.

I explained what I was doing and why it was necessary and he said it’s “freaky” that I have to MAKE myself bleed multiple times a day. He told me he never wants to accidentally walk in on me checking my blood sugar again because he could pass out. I said that if I’m checking my blood sugar and hear him coming over I can call out a warning like “give me a sec!”.

He said that won’t work, just knowing that I’m doing that just before he comes over is enough to freak him out, and that he would be stressed that I might not hear him walking over.

He told me I should check it in the bathroom from now on. I told him that I don’t think I should have to do that and it’s unsanitary. He said another option was if I only check my blood sugar at certain times, say 9am, 12pm before eating lunch, and 4pm, that way he’d know when to avoid me. I said these things can’t always be predicted, I’ll need to check if I feel my blood sugar going high or low.

He said he understands that I have diabetes but that he also has a special need (his blood phobia) that needs to be accommodated and that he doesn’t want to have to avoid me at work and only talk to Megan for fear he might see me checking again. He said he’ll talk to HR about this and that he’ll tell them that I refused to compromise with him.

That was last Thursday before the holidays, tomorrow I’m thinking of going to talk to HR before James does, but first I need to know that I’m in the right here.

So AITA for not being more accommodating of James’ blood/needle phobia and checking my blood sugar as needed at my desk?”

Like I said, this is an odd one…here’s how folks reacted.

This reader said that the man is not being an a**hole and that this is a health issue.

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Another person said that the co-worker is being unreasonable and, most importantly, is being very SELFISH. Get over it, dude.

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This Reddit user said that the man needs to talk to HR at his work because this is a medical issue and the co-worker can’t be a factor in where he decides to check his blood sugar.

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And lastly, this Reddit user said that the co-worker is being pretty ridiculous and the man’s situation can literally be life-and-death due to his condition.

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What do you think?

Is what this guy is doing really rude?

Or is it no big deal?

Sound off in the comments!

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Have You Ever Had a Co-Worker From Hell? Here’s How Folks Responded.

I know my answer!

I used to work with a guy who I’ll call “Jimmy” who was, without a doubt, the biggest scumbag I’ve ever met in my entire life.

He made every day a living Hell and, on top of that, he sucked at his job so he dragged the rest of us down with him.

Ugh, I’m so glad I never have to see that guy ever again as long as I live.

AskReddit users talked about the terrible co-workers they’ve had to deal with.

Let’s take a look.

1. OH MY GOD.

“I had a 50 year old colleague who would message women on sugar baby apps and rub one out over his trousers. Saw him blow his load in the open office. He sat next to me.

Kept on happening, reported it. He said he had a genital rash, but admitted to ‘messaging people on social media’. I got in trouble for my accusations.

Fast forward 8 months, he’s sitting opposite me now. He starts rubbing one out in the open office again. I recorded him. Showed my manager, and he was finally fired.

He was a c*nt, too.”

2. A real monster.

“Blonde monster peaked in high school.

Has been at her job too long, and tries to control everyone.

My job has a high turnover in this one office but they refuse to believe it’s her.”

3. Got a problem?

“She didn’t officially work at my store’s location.

She was supposed to be at another location training to be a manager there, but her predecessor was still working at said location and the upper management/boss didn’t want too many people working there at once. So she had to work at my store’s location instead.

As soon as she started, she had a problem with me. I don’t know why, I’ll never understand why. I suspect my resting b*tch face had something to do with it. She essentially bullied me from the get-go and when I told my manager about it, she claimed nothing could be done since the rude lady wasn’t officially under my manager.

So one day the b*tch started bumping into me and saying “You have a problem with me? Let’s take it outside.” Etc. I was half her size, I’ve never fought in my life outside of sibling squabbles, and I have terrible social anxiety. So I went to the bathroom, called my S/O to come pick me up, grabbed my things, and walked out on my shift. I didn’t say a word to anyone and left her there alone during lunch rush.

I later learned from my friend who also worked there than my manager didn’t blame me, and officially, like on the papers, she said I left for “personal reasons”. She was a nice woman and I don’t blame her for not being able to do anything.

Upper management at this chain was very irresponsible and didn’t seem to care about that store location whatsoever (checks came in late almost every week, we weren’t allowed to have more than two people working in the store at a time, didn’t always have enough budget to order food/supplies, etc)

I’m never working for that man’s chain again. I may work for the same store, but I’m not going to work if it’s one of the locations that asshole owns.”

4. Personal shoppers.

“Girl I worked with when I was a personal shopper. She tried to get me fired a couple of times because she saw I was moving up faster than her.

We both got sent to work at a different location for a couple of months and she went around bad-mouthing me to anyone who would listen, so they thought I was a sh*t employee and she was amazing. I proved myself with my work ethic and they realized she was a liar and it definitely changed their opinion of her.

I ended up going to a different location and when she went back to our original location she continued to say horrid things about me. My co-workers took my side and called her out on her BS. She left not long after on a bad note with them.”

5. B*tching.

“Can’t go home unless I pass over my reports to the next person face to face.

One particular b*tch loves coming in late. Not 5 or 10 minutes late, I’m talking 25 to 30 minutes late.

Best part, she loves b*tching about how everyone is always on her ass for coming in late.

She literally lives 5 minutes walk away from work, so no one knows why she’s always late.”

6. One upper.

“This woman who was one of those people who always had to one up you.

Like if you cut your thumb off, she was just recently sawed in half.

She was constantly complaining and miserable and it was so draining.”

7. Yikes.

“Had a colleague who genuinely enjoyed seeing people not do well and enjoyed when people felt uncomfortable.

She was very manipulative, and is actually quite good at it. She would ask you questions and sympathize with whatever you’ve got going on, only to turn around and tell everyone what you just confessed to her.

After about 2-3 months with the company, if she hasn’t already somehow screwed you over, you’ve heard enough about her to know that if you don’t want the rest of the room to find out, then you don’t tell her.

Yeah, I’m talking about you Carolina.”

8. Get lost!

“She almost got me fired because she wanted to find the weakest looking guy to be her little errand boy.

When I told her politely to go screw herself, she told HR that I had been taking work out of her queue in the system.

It wasn’t a very good lie though, because why would I want to do more work than I have to? I even said this to HR in the disciplinary meeting.”

9. Jeez!

“He was in his 50s, had often uncontrolled diabetes, was 6’4″ tall. I was 24, and a foot shorter.

Normally he was a teddy bear but when his blood sugar got low he would get violent. He tried throwing punches at me for suggesting he get a coke from the vending machine in the hall (good thing he’s slow and clumsy in that state).

When we were in the truck together once, and it started making a weird sound, I wanted to take it into the shop and he insisted we didn’t need to by yelling at me and pounding his fists on the dash, but we were going to a remote area and I didn’t want to have to try and find help if the truck broke down and the radio didn’t work.

I had to call search and rescue on him once because he didn’t come back to the truck after doing a transect (biology job). You guessed it, he had low blood sugar and was not able to find his way back to the truck. He had no education or experience in biology, but he just couldn’t be fired from his job driving a plow. With his propensity to let himself get hypoglycemic, he couldn’t drive either.

So they shuffled him to the wildlife department because he had an interest in wildlife. I was basically his babysitter.”

10. Never forget…

“I’ll never forget the 22ish year old girl who spent hours of one shift telling me, with no prompting at all, about how she used to be a raging heroin addict but she was over it now and had become extremely religious.

She went into very explicit detail about her drug deals and the things she’d done to get drugs. My shy homeschooled *ss was stunned.

The very next day she got fired for stealing 20 dollars from the cash register.”

11. A nightmare.

“I work with a woman who is threatened by other women, especially if they are younger and have more education than her.

She consistently tries to discourage women from furthering their education, and constantly tries to get women she is threatened by fired.

She is a nightmare.”

Have you ever had a really terrible co-worker that made every day at work really suck?

If so, tell us all about them in the comments.

Thanks a lot!

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Off-the-Wall Reasons People Were Fired from Their Jobs

Going to work every day can be soul-sucking

But we all have to pay the rent, so losing your job is typically worse.

And then there are jobs like these, where getting fired almost seems like a blessing in disguise.

Here are 11 absolutely out-there reasons that people were given for being let go.

1. Trying to do the right thing

I mean. I feel like this is one thing that should be protected by law.

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2. Not being a team player

Look, if you’re not going to participate in team building activities…

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3. How dare you do the job I hired you to do

That will teach you to go the extra mile.

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4. You’re meant to be a robot

Grief should not compute.

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5. Honesty is not the best policy

This is what we call oversharing. Then again, maybe a good way to find new participants.

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6. Don’t worry, be happy

Especially don’t worry about losing your job, because if you do, you’ll lose your job.

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7. Don’t look, don’t speak, don’t think

This one is just crazy unless you asked them WHERE they were sunburned…

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8. Be the mannequin you want to see in the world

Don’t gain weight, lose weight, cut your hair, dye your hair. Stay exactly the same.

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9. Be yourself

Unless your boss doesn’t like who you are. Then be someone else.

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10. Above all, be on time

Zero tolerance. No exceptions. Not even for comas. Ouch.

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11. Do your best!

As long as your best isn’t better than your boss’s best.

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So many of these are just too much for me to even comprehend.

You have to wonder how a lot of them are legal.

What do you think? Do you have any crazy stories about getting fired? Tell us in the comments.

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Off-the-Wall Reasons People Were Fired from Their Jobs

Going to work every day can be soul-sucking

But we all have to pay the rent, so losing your job is typically worse.

And then there are jobs like these, where getting fired almost seems like a blessing in disguise.

Here are 11 absolutely out-there reasons that people were given for being let go.

1. Trying to do the right thing

I mean. I feel like this is one thing that should be protected by law.

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2. Not being a team player

Look, if you’re not going to participate in team building activities…

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3. How dare you do the job I hired you to do

That will teach you to go the extra mile.

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4. You’re meant to be a robot

Grief should not compute.

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5. Honesty is not the best policy

This is what we call oversharing. Then again, maybe a good way to find new participants.

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6. Don’t worry, be happy

Especially don’t worry about losing your job, because if you do, you’ll lose your job.

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7. Don’t look, don’t speak, don’t think

This one is just crazy unless you asked them WHERE they were sunburned…

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8. Be the mannequin you want to see in the world

Don’t gain weight, lose weight, cut your hair, dye your hair. Stay exactly the same.

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9. Be yourself

Unless your boss doesn’t like who you are. Then be someone else.

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10. Above all, be on time

Zero tolerance. No exceptions. Not even for comas. Ouch.

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11. Do your best!

As long as your best isn’t better than your boss’s best.

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So many of these are just too much for me to even comprehend.

You have to wonder how a lot of them are legal.

What do you think? Do you have any crazy stories about getting fired? Tell us in the comments.

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What Do You Think Are the Best Jobs for Lazy People? Here’s How Folks Responded.

Some people are born to be go-getters and some definitely are not.

At all. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

But those lazy folks need to work, too!

So what are the best jobs for lazy people?

Here’s what people on AskReddit had to say.

1. A total breeze.

“I worked at a Costco gas station in college.

I was literally just there to hit an alarm if anything bad happened. But it never did.

So I just sat there in an air conditioned shack for 8 hours a day.”

2. False alarm!

“Security jobs.

90% of the time you do nothing.

9% of the time you respond to false alarms.

It’s that 1% where real sh*t is going down that makes it a tough job.”

3. Sounds alright.

“Front desk hotel worker at night.

90% of your time you do about nothing and sit on your phone or computer.

5% of your time is spent talking to like the 5 customers you might see a night

5% of your time spent cleaning or doing paperwork.”

4. Sounds boring.

“Drawbridge operator.

They sit in the tower, watching boats go by and occasionally raising/lowering the drawbridge as needed by means of pushing buttons.”

5. Make it work.

“Process refinement.

A lazy person will find out how to do a complex task with the fewest steps possible.”

6. Takin’ it easy.

“A guy on the surveying crew has the job of watching a surveying GPS unit all day.

He gets dropped off with the unit, sets it up and sits there and makes sure it doesn’t get stolen and that the blue light is still on.

That’s all he does every day…”

7. Not difficult.

“If you can get a job doing Chat Customer Service, nothing I’ve gotten paid for is easier than that.

People chat me about their credit cards and I look up the info and chat them back.

It’s really not difficult at all and it’s nice to be able to help people with their bills!”

8. Think about it.

“Corporate America, mid range.

Work hard enough to find a job that you can do well, do it better than the worst people, but not so good where you’re the one asked to do all the bullsh*t projects. If anyone asks, always talk about how busy you are…but never miss a deadline or due date. Be consistent, but consistently lazy.

Bonus is that there a ton of jobs like this. Study up on your interview skills so you can slide into a new one when the opportunity arises because the only way you get a real pay increase is by moving jobs.”

9. Embassy jobs.

“Working for an embassy.

Had to go to the German embassy last year and let me tell you… none of them has ANY risk of running into an burn out.

I was the only one there, had an appointment AND no. 1 on the ticket counter. The embassy opened at 8.30 and it took them till 9 AM to look up from their screens and pressing the button calling my number.”

10. Easy money.

“When I was a teenager (currently in my 40s), fireworks were only legal to sell in my county for the weeks leading up to 4th of July.

So these vendors would come in and set up a bunch of plywood shacks in parking lots to sell their fireworks.

Now, there are several thousands of dollars of product in these shacks, which can be broken into by anyone who plays little league soccer.

For several years, I got paid $250/night –in cash– for 4 weeks straight to sit in my car in the parking lot watching one of these shacks from 10pm until 8am. If I saw anyone looked like they were thinking about breaking in, I was supposed to call 911.

Easiest money of my life.”

11. I knew someone was gonna say this!

“Representative or Senator.

Great pay and benefits, only work a fraction of the year, and you can keep the job even if you’re objectively terrible at it, so long as you have the right letter next to your name for the district/state you represent, because people are idiots who vote like it’s a sports team, without regard to actual policy or results.”

12. I’ll be watching.

“I know a guy who does a “call before you dig” type job.

When someone is doing work near his companies equipment, he drives out and watches them to make sure they stay away from it. Just watches.

He thinks it’s the greatest job ever.”

What do you think are the best jobs for lazy people?

Tell us in the comments!

Thanks in advance!

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People Talk About the Worst Job Interviews They’ve Ever Had

Let me set the scene for all of you out there: I was 16-years-old and my mom was really hassling me to get a job.

A friend of mine told me he got hired at the new Walmart in town, so I thought to myself, “hey, if he can do it, I can do it!”

Guess what? I couldn’t do it…

The interview was for a position in the stationary section of the store and the guy in charge of hiring people acted like I was applying for a job at NASA. It was the most ridiculous and most uncomfortable job interview I ever had…and I didn’t get hired.

All for the best, I think!

What’s the worst job interview you ever had?

Here’s what AskReddit users had to say.

1. First one ever.

“My first interview in my life was for a fast food place and I was way too honest.

Why do you want to work here?

“Mostly for the money. I like the food here too.”

What do you do on your free time?

“Video games”

Did not get a call back.”

2. No way!

“When he said I’ll give you extra hours if you bring me smokes every day, then put his hand on my leg and said his wife gives him passes to have fun.

I also got a speeding ticket on the way to the interview.

Was not my month.”

3. Time to leave.

“I interviewed for a project management position.

The interviewer describes the job: basically it was pure research and data entry of potential clients, then cold-calling them and documenting the results. The job ad mentioned exactly none of this but was an average project management job ad, else I wouldn’t have applied in the first place.

I asked what exactly was the project management part, and got told that could (could, not would) be down the road, maybe 2-5 years in, but really only maybe. I thanked them for the interview opportunity, we wrapped things up and I politely left.”

4. See ya later.

“It was my first “professional” law firm interview. I was SO nervous.

I had applied for a legal secretary position. The attorney whose name was on the door would be interviewing me so I was a nervous wreck. When he walked in the room, I stood up, introduced myself and shook his hand. He looked me up and down and said “yeah, you’ll do”.

I turned around and walked out without saying another word.”

5. Wrong company.

“Showed up looking good in my suit with a ton of knowledge on Capital Partners.

It turned out I had researched the wrong company named Capital Partners.”

6. Stress interview.

“Had a phone interview and the woman kept asking more and more intrusive questions, kept hinting I’m a total piece of sh*t who’s totally unfit for the job (it was the easiest job description ever) and jumping to conclusions about my life that were completely untrue.

For example I found out that being a freelancer who gets a lot of decently paid work each month is apparently living off my parents. She kept going on and on like that for quite a while before I told her to p*ss off and hung up. Didn’t really need that job too badly but it was in a different country so the trravel aspect was the main reason.

Years later I found out it was a “stress interview” which apparently is a thing. F*ck those people.”

7. Hell no.

“I went in to apply for an administrative assistant position and the guy kept asking me questions about liking kids and are my passports up to date…etc.

I was SO confused. Turns out what he really wanted was a nanny for his two young kids to travel with him and his wife back to India.

I was so p*ssed he wasted my time. I noped right the f*ck out of there.”

8. That’s weird.

“At an interview to be a county street sweeper, guy asks me if I have a girlfriend, proceeds to rant for 5 minutes how young people dont get married anymore.

Then he asks me what I want to avoid at the job. At the time I had no idea how to answer as I’d never been asked that in an interview before. So I ask him to clarify, to which he just repeats the question, over and over until he gets super angry that I dont know how to answer that, then asks me to leave.

To this day, biggest wtf interview I’ve had.”

9. Still salty.

“I was interviewing for a job in Houston, and lived in Austin, about 2.5 hours away.

I drove to Houston for the first round of interviews, and they said it went well and wanted to being me in for a final interview, so i drove there again. It seemed like it went well and they told me they had one more interview to conduct and would have a decision tomorrow.

So the next day came and went, I emailed the manager to ask if any decision had been made, nothing, waited a couple more days, left a voicemail, nothing. Then a couple days later, I just called the main number for the company and told the receptionist why I was calling. She was like “well, someone just started in that job yesterday”.

They ghosted me after I drove a total of 10 hours to interview twice. Still salty about that 11 years later.”

10. That’s bad.

“Had an interview, went well. I was offered the job on the spot and accepted.

The HR manager went to get the needed paperwork, came back 10 mins later and said “I must have forgot that we already filled this position. I’m sorry, but we don’t have an opening. I could call you if something opens back up”.

I said no thank you.”

11. Great job!

“I told them I couldn’t answer their questions, farted audibly out of stress and thanked them for their time.”

12. Sorry I wasted your time.

“Applied for a desktop support position. $15/hour advertised. A bit on the low side but I was out of work and needed to pay bills.

Sat down for the interview with two guys. Interviewer A introduced himself as the manager / network / project manager and introduced interviewer B as the server guy. Indicated he was looking for someone to bridge that gap between the two of them when things got buys.

He wanted someone who could take the overflow of work and handle project management tasks, network configs, server admin work, and handle the day-to-day desktop requests of the office. Cue my eyes getting as big as saucers.

I apologized and indicated I thought I was in the wrong interview. I had applied for a desktop support position for $15 an hour. His response, “Oh no, you’re in the right spot! It’s desktop support, and a few other tasks as we need to assign them to you. There was a typo in the job advert though. It’s only $13 an hour.”

I just stood up, grabbed my coat from the back of the chair, apologized for wasting their time, and left.”

13. Sir, yes sir!

“I had a skype interview with a private practice and the lady interviewing me literally made it sound like a stern military parent.

“You can NEVER be late” (mind you the job was an hour away)

“Even if you have a cold you can NEVER call in sick” (idk if this was meant for pre or post-covid)

“We’re a small company so you won’t have much of a work/life balance”

“PS our pay for all this dedication is only 3 dollars more than the measely pay your getting now”

Just a whole interview of Red Flags. And the last one was when the lady messaged me immediately after saying I got the job and had to leave my job at maximum, five days’ notice, regardless of me kind of bombing the interview and claiming there were other interviewees in line.

I could see why they were having trouble hiring people.”

Now it’s your turn.

In the comments, tell us about the worst job interview that you’ve ever had.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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What Was Your Worst Job Interview? Here’s What People Had to Say.

Have you ever been at a job interview and you know right from the start that it’s a bad idea and there’s no way in Hell you’re gonna get the job?

Yeah, I’ve been there, too! And those interviews are the worst!

But, like my father always said to me, every interview, whether good or bad, is practice for the next one, so you might as well do as many as possible.

Still though…not a whole lot of fun.

Folks on AskReddit shared their worst job interview stories. Let’s take a look.

1. Humiliated.

“The interviewer insisted on knowing why I’d left graduate school.

Now, I had left graduate school because my advisor died in a car accident and the whole small department was thrown for a loop and no one seemed to know or care what was going to happen to me or my just started research project.

The *sshole interviewer wouldn’t even accept “My advisor died suddenly” and dug into the gory details until I was almost in tears (even intimating that I must have had “feelings” for my advisor.)

I couldn’t wait to get out of there and in my haste to leave I knocked some solutions off a cart (which had no business being in his office BTW) on my way out. I’d never been so humiliated in my life.

After that, I was sure I’d never get a job in science.”

2. Downsizing.

“Company was downsizing.

All employees in a specific yet exclusive division were fired and ordered to reapply for their position plus two other jobs in the company. You’d either get one of those jobs or be terminated.

The subsequent interviews were conducted with a manager and an HR person.

First interview in executive suite: Manager asks why aren’t you applying for this key supervisory slot? (I had listed it second on my list.) Me: I would prefer to stay in my expertise in which I won a National award. HR: I didn’t know awards like that existed.

Second interview: Current boss likes me for my existing job (for which I was heavily recruited from another company). HR: Wow, so you’re the guy who does this job? I had no idea a real person did it.

Third interview: HR person says he’s never heard of my division or that employees actually worked at night. I had listed this job in which I merely served as a minor manager as third on my preferences. Really didn’t want it but had to list three.

The results: I was retained but transferred to the third dead-end day job. My old award-winning job was given to an aging staffer who never worked in that position or had a clue. The supervisor job went to a brilliant colleague who wanted and deserved it.

I quit very soon thereafter and joined a bigger company with better benefits. Skill pays off.

After all that, my old company, seeing the error of its ways in lost production and general lack of ability, offered me a bonus to return.

Nope, nope, nope. And I’m returning the corporate knife you stuck in my back.”

3. Not a good one.

“I drove an hour away to an interview at 8:00 am. I waited outside the interviewer’s office until 8:30 am with no one to tell me where to go or where she was.

Finally, another employee walks by and I ask if they know where this woman is to interview me. They had no idea where she was, why she was late, and told me if she wasn’t there yet, I should leave because she probably forgot (…ok?).

I decide 45 minutes is the cut off (especially standing in a government building looking like a creep waiting. 8:45 on the dot she rushes in, flustered, wet hair, and in casual yoga pants.

With all the resurgence of patience I could muster, I greeted her and was met with a passive aggressive scolding of how the interview was at 9, not 8. (Uh… I tripled checked the email asking me to interview and it was 8. We had conducted a phone interview and she followed up with an email request to an in person interview at 8. I was 100% positive on this, I hate being late.)

Even with this, and i did say, “I’m certain you said 8 am, ma’am” she wasn’t having it. Conversely, she also went on about why she was late, surmounting in, she went to the gym and forgot her underwear to change into and had to stop at a store and buy new ones after working out, before coming to work.

She told me this. In the first 5 minutes. Why? I didn’t ask her!

Regardless, she looks at my resume, apparently for the first time, because she proceeds to tell me how it is unimpressive and my graduate studies should have yielded numerous publications after 1.5 years. (In my field, most don’t publish until after 3-4 years.)

Even still, she kept saying how I had “moved up the interview time”, showed me the work spaces and told me I “probably wouldn’t be interested in what they do there”. I politely told her I had driven, at her request, to be there and interview for employment, I was VERY interested. She waved me off.

As we left, I just tried to hold it together (I was very poor and very desperate for a job), thanked her, and she told me how great it is to work for the government, how good the benefits, the pension, the time off are. On and on. She said, “If you can find an opening working for the government, you should try to check it out and get hired on!”

I just looked her in the face and said, “Yes, ma’am, that was my hope with today’s interview. Thank you.”

And left.

And sat in my car and bawled the whole drive home like the desperate loser I was.

That was a low one, to be sure.”

4. What’s wrong with that?

“Was invited for an IT “helper” position when I was 17.

Would help fix computers for people at a shoddy PC fix shop.

They asked me “Whats the first thing you check if a customer calls and says their screen doesn’t turn on?”

I said “Well, you gotta check if they have it plugged into a socket”

They laughed and said thank you that will be it. Then led me to the door and gently pushed me out.”

5. Ugh.

“At an interview, they asked me, “If you could be any animal, what would you be?”

I answered “Otter” because you know, fun, active, and work well with their hands. They debated whether or not to hire me because of that answer because, “We only hire predators, never prey”, and they weren’t sure how to quantify an Otter because none of them had ever paid the least bit of attention to any sort of animal documentary or read biology or you know, visited a zoo recently.

God that job sucked hard.”

6. A twofer.

“Two of them.

1- the recruiter started to fold my cv into a paper plane during the interview. (Didnt get the job)

2- was pawned off unsuspectingly to the CFO of a company five mins into my interview with the CEO. The CFO had no idea what to ask so he went the “tell me your biggest flaws” way. I was so dejected that I said “you’ll have to hire me to find out”.

Interview ended five mins later. I spent 30 mins crying at my hubris and stupidity in the parking lot. Got the job.”

7. Not a good start.

“In a group interview, the interviewer crossed a line through my name on the list he had after I told him what I graduated in.

This was within the first 5 minutes of a 40 minute meeting…”

8. Rude.

“I walked in at 2:45 for a 3:00 interview.

At 4:00 I asked reception for the last time if I was going to be interviewed. Finally they showed up 5 minutes later.

There were two people doing the interview. They were hostile. Rapid fire questions. Half of which had nothing to do with my experience. One kept asking me where I worked during such and such a time. Despite the other one looking at my application with all that info.

Then they told me that IF they hired me it’d be for a position below what I applied for. Much lower pay and I couldn’t take time off.

Finally they basically told me they’d be watching me like a hawk and if I did drugs I’d be fired and arrested. I have never even smoked pot. I stood up and told them this wasn’t for me and walked out.

It was bizarre. I felt like I was being interrogated for a murder investigation as the prime suspect.”

9. No, thanks.

“Job was for a vibration analysis engineer.

I knew how to do the job well. I knew the pay should be around 95k, and they stated 55k (in the interview). When I tried to discuss my point, they said, “don’t worry, there’s plenty of overtime”.

They also mentioned since they weren’t involved with many balancings at the moment, I would assist the cleaning crew with a lot of the cleanings.

I’ve never been so uninterested in a job in my life.”

10. Totally exessive.

“Five interview rounds with the last interview round being with the CEO all for an entry level customer service job.

During the last interview, the CEO said you weren’t allowed to get sick, and you weren’t allowed to leave at the end of the day until all of the work had been done. So even though the job was 8-4 the CEO said customer service reps often stayed until 6 PM or later.

She also asked if I would be comfortable secretly reporting to her about what the customer service team is up to. I declined the job offer and the company harassed me with emails asking why and what they did wrong.

Really glad I didn’t take the job.”

11. Let me ask you a question…

“In the middle of my interview, the manager asked me if my current workplace (that I was trying to leave) was hiring.

When I said I didn’t know, he asked if I’d be willing to drop off a resumé for him anyway.”

How about you?

What do you think is the worst job interview you’ve ever had?

Share your stories with us in the comments. Thanks!

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People Talk About Their Worst “HR Is Not Your Friend” Stories

A lot of us have our struggles with human resources at jobs at some point in our lives.

You might think they’re on your side as a working stiff when you’re young and idealistic, but if you’ve ever had a bad experience with them, you know they can be downright brutal.

Folks on AskReddit shared their “HR is not your friend” stories. Let’s take a look.

1. Huh?

“Pulled into a meeting with two HR reps in the middle of my shift. Taken to this really nice boardroom, which was confusing because I was just a grunt and this is literally floors above where I should ever be.

They sat me down and said basically what do you have to say for yourself. Me, still confused, tells them I have no idea what they’re talking about. Everyone is really quiet and serious and I’m scared sh*tless. And they say you know what you did, this is cause for termination, blah blah.

I’m literally thinking this is really excessive for being a few minutes late sometimes. I insist I don’t know what’s going on. One of them maybe realized something was wrong and flips open a file and says you’re xxx right? Turns out they got me mixed up with someone else who has the same name.

On the elevator ride down by myself I was still sweating. Don’t know what that other person did but man, HR does not play.”

2. Ripped off.

“I went to HR to report that my team’s manager was illegally shorting all of our paychecks. HR’s response was to adopt a new, company-wide policy addressing the paycheck issue and back-paying most people for a certain amount, and also to frame me for work avoidance.

HR and IT disabled part of my login account to a tool we used, and then fired me a few months later after failing to fix the problem and allowing me to actually do my job.

They tried to deny my unemployment claim afterward. Told the unemployment rep that they “had logs” showing that I did something to break the tool I don’t even have access to break in the first place. They also didn’t think to disable my email access in a timely manner, so I was able to back up all my emails with IT documenting exactly what went down.

Unemployment approved my claim and hit them with a major penalty to their insurance.”

3. Shady.

“HR ordered me to downgrade my three excellent employee reviews to satisfactory because management didn’t recognize their names. I got written up for telling my employees this.

HR denied that they told me anything, even though I had the emails from them documenting it. Totally worth it. My employees were excellent and got the raises they deserved.”

4. Stabbed in the back.

“HR hired consultants to run morale building employee input sessions.

Basically saying “We’re not from the company. You can tell us all the things you don’t like about working here and would like to see changed and we’ll put it all into a report for management. Don’t worry, everything is anonymous, we just need material for our report and you guys get to have your say in improving things around here.”

Turns out HR and the consultants recorded all the sessions and played the highlights for management. People were disciplined for criticizing the company or their immediate superiors and any shred of faith or trust in management that the employees may have had was instantly incinerated.

Managers now complain that they don’t know what’s going on in their teams because nobody tells them anything. I wonder why.”

5. Don’t go to her.

“I worked at a smallish company that grew big enough to hire an HR person. Her office was down from mine so in the mornings I’d swing by and say hi.

That turned into grabbing a cup of coffee she had just made, the into having a pastry and talking about life. I found that if I mentioned someone’s name in passing, a few minutes later she would spill the beans about that person’s life.

What work issues they had, health issues, family issues etc. I learned really quick any issues I had not to take them to her. She made it like 6months before she got fired.”

6. Speakerphone.

“I asked my boss for a desk phone with a speakerphone function because sometimes I need it at work to conference people on the phone with people in my office.

We had these old, yellow phones. So he told me to make a request to him and CC our office manager, and he’d send it to the HR department of our region via e-mail.

So I put forth a nice e-mail outlining what I am requesting, and why I need it for HR’s request. My office manager replies all and asks HR “per lazarus870 request, should I order the phone through the same channels I have used before or is there a new policy?”

HR responded livid. She demanded to know why I needed this phone (it was in the e-mail…) and then accused my office manager of going behind HR’s back in ordering phones before without approval.

My office manager told my boss, who called HR and chewed her out and I could hear yelling. My boss came out of his office and yelled at me, “See what you’ve caused?!” He was fired up but I know he didn’t mean anything malicious by it. I just laughed.

HR had to apologize to office manager for accusations. Turns out, after everybody yelled their f*cking lungs out for an hour, the speakerphone I needed was literally free and we had boxes of them in storage. I had it for a month before HR rolled out new fancy phones that were actually expensive and convoluted, requiring training to set up and use…

At the company picnic we had to wear f*cking name tags and I had never met HR lady face to face and she came up and said, “Oh we haven’t met, what’s your name?” and I was trying to hide my nametag but she read it and didn’t seem happy to see me.”

7. A terrible place to work.

“At my last “real” job before striking out on my own I had an exit interview with the HR lady who was actually just someone who was friends with the company president who was filling in because the actual HR lady with a degree in HR and everything quit.

A lot of people at this place quit. It was a terrible place to work with out of touch management and delusions of grandeur limping along building websites for a business niche that was mostly old people who thought the Internet was magic.

During the exit interview she asked why I was leaving. I told her I liked my coworkers a lot, but hated the company. She got this exasperated look and got genuinely upset, and told me that she’d been getting that same line from everybody else who quit and had their exit interview recently.

It boggled my mind that they could hear the same thing over and over again from so many people putting in their time until they could go on to something better and not stop to think they should change something.”

8. Creeper.

“I worked in the bakery at a Fred Meyers for about 6 months when I was freshly 19.

There was this like 45 year old guy in meat/seafood who was super creepy and all of the women in my department and even one woman who was previously in my department but was moved to another TO GET AWAY FROM HIM warned me about this man from day 1.

Somehow, any time I was on my break, he would “be on his break too” and he’d follow me into the break room and try to flirt with me the entire time.

Not only did he follow me on my breaks and lunches, but if I had to walk to another part of the store to get anything he would run to catch up to me and walk with me, he followed me to my car a few times after I got off shift and the scariest time was when I was closing by myself and he came into the back of the bakery and kept following me around the long table, trying to grab me while telling me how much he liked me and how badly he wanted to be with me.

I told him no and to leave me alone CONSTANTLY while managers just shrugged and said “that’s just how he is”. My boyfriend threatened him when he got off work one time hell even my father came in and threatened him because NO ONE was doing ANYTHING.

The final straw for me was one night when I was closing alone again he came into the back area and followed me into the freezer and tried to kiss me and he grabbed my *ss. I pushed him and f*cking ran to the closing manager who also functioned as HR. He said he’d “watch the store footage” and talk to me the next day.

Next day comes and he pulls me into his office and says that he saw the video and saw this man stalking me inside and outside of work and that he “talked” to him about his behavior to which the man responded that it was just a “misunderstanding”.

I replied that this had been going on for months and I wasn’t going to take it anymore and he had the f*cking NERVE to tell me that “He just does this to all the new girls. As soon as another girl gets hired he’ll leave me alone.” I told him he was a bastard and quit on the spot.

Turns out the creep was the brother of the stores owner who had been to jail in the past for s*xual assault and R*PE but was now “cleaning his life up”.

9. That sucks.

“I reported s*xual harassment to HR at a large international company when I was 21.

They notified my harasser (an older VP) before I even made it back to my desk.

I was fired a few days later, despite an excellent performance review the week before he propositioned me.”

10. I believe I deserve a bonus.

“The HR/Payroll manager at a small hospital I worked at had a bad habit of not paying out the sign-on bonus that was paid out incrementally in three payments through the course of a year and sign on bonuses for picking up extra shifts. After repeated request to be belatedly compensated, I took it to corporate who addressed my issue immediately.

A couple weeks later I was terminated on what amounted to a technicality where I forget my badge one shift and my relief was late to take over sitting with a patient, causing me to receive more points against me than if I had called out for that shift.

When I was called in to receive my notification, the director of nursing was shocked but ultimately not much she could do.”

11. Fender bender.

“A co-worker accidentally backed his company truck into my personal car while it was parked. He alerted me and our local manager immediately, we took photos, filled out the incident report, yada yada yada.

Everyone in our office was in agreement about what happened, that it was an honest accident and the company’s insurance should cover the cost of fixing my car.

Then the HR director got involved. First he tried to get me to assume liability since it was my personal vehicle that “caused” the accident. My car was parked in the parking lot and I was inside at my desk when it happened. When I pointed this out he backed down and said he would file the claim.

Next I got a call from a hostile insurance adjuster from my company’s insurance demanding that I provide my insurance information or they would be pursuing legal action. It turns out the HR director had filed the claim saying that I had run into the parked work truck with my car and tried to flee the scene but was witnessed by a co worker who reported me.

I informed the adjuster what had actually happened and emailed her the photos and signed incident reports and witness statements that we had filled out and she changed her tune pretty quickly and said she would get back to me.

The next day I get a “settlement agreement” from HR asking me to accept $1100 for repairs and to sign a form releasing the company from any further responsibility. I had only just dropped my car off at the body shop and hadn’t even gotten the estimate back yet. I declined and was told that I either had to accept their offer or be out of luck.

At this point I reached out to my own insurance and told them what had happened. As I went through the sequence of events I could hear my agent getting almost giddy about all the blatantly illegal tactics HR had tried on me. In the end they processed my claim and pursued my own company’s insurance through subrogation. He also mentioned that they would probably be seeking additional damages due to falsification of statements in the initial claim. Don’t f*ck with USAA.

In the end the damage ended up costing over $4,000 to fix but I didn’t have to pay a cent, not even my deductible. I don’t know if the HR director experienced and consequences, but there was a comment in our finance VP’s year end report about needing to “reduce extraneous costs due to reporting delays and inaccuracies in liability claims.””

Have you ever had any bad experiences with human resources at work?

If so, please tell us all about it in the comments.

Thanks in advance!

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