Pat's story is partially why I always treat people who work in retail to the highest level of politeness, having worked retail myself I know exactly how soul crushing it is.

"We'll talk about this on Monday." "Cool. Then we can all have a nice chat with the department of labor, too."

The BOSS is your enemy, in games as in real life!

Here's an odd a scummy possibly illegal thing my work does. We don't clock out for lunch. 30 minutes is automatically deducted from our hours wether we get a lunch break or not. Hospital work ftw. . .

I once had a job at one of my local Uni's libraries. Actually pretty sweet position that gave me a lot of hours, paid decently well, asked very little of me, the women who was my boss was super sweet, and most importantly they let you just watch videos on your laptop when nothing was happening (which was most of the time because its a fucking library in 2017). Then, the senior manager of the library, who was my bosses boss, decided that because of "library user feedback" we were no longer allowed to use laptops when we were on shift. As someone who had like ten hour shifts during the weekend, this was a fucking nightmare due to how boring things got. Now you may be asking "why don't i just read some of the libraries books", well because it was a LAW library filled with old boring law books written in the most boring way possible (and i was not a law major of any kind). And i couldn't bring my own books because it was "against library policy". Furthermore, we later discovered that this change was implemented not because of "library feedback" (because no such feedback existed), but because the reference department got jealous of how easy the student jobs were and wanted to make our time there awful. Jealous cunts pressuring the senior library manager to make student workers lives miserable.....what a fucking world we live in.

My God, Pat's boss seeing him walk by the shop on his day off and saying "we need you, come in" and then saying "we'll talk about this on Monday" had to be the most shocking part of Pat's stories.

"Through Let's Plays I gain money. Through Money My chains are broken." The code of the rising Zaibatsu.

Pat's "just do both" story reminded me of coming back from two months of sick leave in hospital at an old office job to discover that, while I was away, my boss had driven away the entire rest of the admin staff. So I, a not fully recovered admin assistant on minimum wage was told to handle my own job, the administrator's job, and the office manager's job until the boss got around to interviewing new potential staff. I would then have to teach the new staff how to do the higher paid office jobs until they got used to things and learned where all the stuff in the office was. But hey, he offered me 50 cents extra an hour!

Oh god, You all don't know how bad I needed to hear these stories tonight. It's always nice to know other people have felt the pain I have.

I'd be perpetually angry too if I had to put up with that bullshit job.

I work at a country club where management decided to spend like well over a hundred grand on these high tech golf carts that have BLACK SEATS. They bake in the sun all day and can get like dangerously hot. So stupid.

Woolie is becoming more powerful. His reboot pin has grown and is attracting smaller pins

"Hey, instead of 15 minute breaks why don't we just have 10 minute ones? We worked it out with the union and they said it was good and we'll give you a pay raise. I mean the minimum wage is increasing so anyone who gets signed on in a couple of months will make more money than you and make the pay raise for less break time pointless, but you don't know that. Don't worry we have your best interest at heart." ~My employers from my last job

Pat's retail experience is describing, almost word for word, my own retail experience. Fuuuuuuuuck retail.

Man, this makes me realize how good my retail job at Target was. Hell, when my manager asked people to work an extra day, he bought us drinks and Little Debbie cakes.

Mr. Boivin, get in, we need you here.

im surprised none of them had the ordeal of "well if you're sick you cant just call in like that, its [blank]'s day off and we need 4 people here". like if i understood the wording for that ridiculous policy, even if you had the most contagious illness, you have to come in for them to even decide if you shouldnt come into work. so remember, you getting sick through no fault of your own is you being deliberately rude to your co-workers

I miss angrypat, but I am happy he's happier....if that makes sense

The best part of retail is when you get used to skipping your half hour break because your department is so short-staffed that you don't have time.

Does anybody remember those personalty tests that they'd give you on a job application to make sure that you weren't going to steal money from the register? You know, they were about an hour long and asked stupid questions like "I'm a team player... Agree/Disagree." These things were harder to pass than the fucking MCAT. I'm not trying to get into Harvard here, I just want to make sandwiches and get $7.50 an hour. I guess the research shows that those tests work but I'm still skeptical. I took a test a long time ago to work at Panera and I got "yellow instead of green" according to the manager and that "the evaluation period will restart in 12 months". The only way to pass those is to demonstrate that you have no mind of your own and are not fit to make a cup of coffee without supervision.

I worked for six flags for a summer in high school (6-ish years ago), and the worst ever was when they asked me to work on the second day of school. The guy that called was really confused too, I had to explain to him what public school was, and that half the workers at the park were in highschool. Then he asked how I was gonna come in the rest of the week, and I told him I quit. "You're aware you'll have to reapply if you want to work again?" "I'm not gonna work here again, thanks." Fuck six flags.

Listening it during corona is...yeah

Pat's rant about the biometric scanning in a grocery store reminds me of when my old job (also at a grocery store) brought that same shit in. SAME problems happened, of course.

My first job as a teenager was a goodwill greeter donation sorter. There were multiple times where women in evening dresses would walk in with drown paper baggies with damp ladies undergarment and evening clothes and give it to us as a "donation" and then speed out of the parking lot. Fully realizing how disgusting this was and not wanting to sort it I went to my boss about the issue. She basically said "sort it anyway you dumb kid." and I watched where those soiled unremarkables went afterwards....none of the clothes in goodwill are ever washed. They folded the soiled clothes and put them on hangers in the store after they dried and put them out for sale in the store .__. We also got dildos and the like with these sorts of donations and they were also put out on shelves among random obscure electronics because they dont want to throw it away...I hope anyone out there reading this is ruined in goodwill immediately because I have to bathe myself after just looking at one... *shudders*

Super Best Friends of the world unite, you only have your chains to lose, you have Za Wardo to gain.

When you spend more money in an attempt to save money with something that's inconvenient for everyone, you have achieved the top level of idiot boss.

The balloon. Gotta get the balloon The balloon. Gotta get the balloon The balloon.

I got a story for those willing to read it. The company I used to work for did what I to this day still believe is one of the dumbest and most greedy fucking versions of cost effective planning. Here’s what they did. They used to pay all the basic workers *well* above the minimum wage, which was about $15 or more an hour. And they could do this because this was the cruise industry and they make a lot of fucking dough so they can afford to do that. And then here’s what they thought, “why do we even pay our basic workers that much?” So then they proceeded to lower the pay down to $9. And a bunch of workers who had been there for years quit, went on strike, and so on. And then the higher-ups figured “fuck’em. Let’s proceed to phase 2 of the plan.” And this plan was to force these conditions onto their workers to the point where the previously mentioned outrage would occur so that they didn’t have to bother with the old guard anymore, and they can then proceed to do mass hiring events every summer after that for new potential people that had no knowledge of the previous events. So naturally the problem they caused would solve itself right? No. Because now new problems that weren’t there before arose. Like, “I’m barely given any hours in the week and I’m making fuck-all working here! This was not our initial agreement!” So eventually, some of those new workers would quit because they weren’t paid the amount that was worth the amount of effort they were doing for little to no hours. So guess what? More hiring events! Spend more money on more hiring events to get some poor saps in here! And pay extra to train them from the ground up! Here’s the reason why they previously paid $15 though. It was due to the amount of work they’d put you through. You handle thousands of people a day in person among other menial and incredibly important responsibilities to make the entire event seem like an incredibly well oiled machine every day that you’re there. Some days are a breeze, others can seem somewhat overwhelming, sometimes it *was* overwhelming. But that’s what that $15 an hour was there for. To keep you from quitting and doing some steady work whether it be part-time or full-time. But all that steadiness and peace of mind was thrown out the door when they went through with this idea. After they implemented this, I figured I could work there for over a year. Wasn’t worth it. If y’all came this far and got your own stories to share, by all means, share them. You know what they say, “misery loves company.”

I quit my job a couple months ago and I couldn't be happier.

I love hearing people vent about horrible shit in jobs. I worked at McDonalds and the GM was Actually Garbage. Like, they reused schedules constantly, just scribbling out dates and putting in the next ones. Sometimes they wouldn't even have the next week's schedule until sunday of the same week. When I took my week off (that we were allowed to take) he fuckin reused the schedule of the week before i was out and tried to get me in trouble for "not showing up when scheduled" and tried to say I didn't ask for the time off even though HE SIGNED AND APPROVED THE REQUEST AND I TOOK A GODDAMN PICTURE. so glad i left lmao

Pat's story hit pretty close to home. I worked for Walmart about 10 years ago, and man, did they really want to make you work off the clock. I worked in Lawn and Garden, and even in a 24 hour store, that department closes at 10pm. There were so many times that they would ask me to close, but have me scheduled to get off at 10. So I'd wrap up at 10:30 and clock out then. So what they would do to make sure I didn't got above 39 hours a week, was take longer *unpaid* lunches. Like I'd have to take a 2 or 3 hour lunch here and there to "kill my overtime". Also, they told me "We'd prefer you didn't leave the premises during your shift", which actually I could be, and was a few times, reprimanded for leaving the shopping center for those 2 or 3 hours. So once in a while I was basically stuck in the break room for hours doing nothing.

24:19 I'll save you all the trouble of looking. Here's the best part of this whole conversation

I feel ya, Pat. Some of us ain't so lucky as to escape the soul-crushing machine of working in Retail. A manager I've worked under was one of the worst ever. He would frequently schedule people at the same time, have no employees to work certain shifts, and had basically a skeleton crew for the night shift. Even better, he clearly favored other employees, as there'd be Baggers assigned to a different department (for example, floral or produce) but still taking a slot on the Baggers' section of the daily schedule. "Of course, I assigned five Baggers tonight," would be what he'd say to the corporate, but maybe only two of those five are actually there to bag, the rest are in other departments basically doing fuck all while the rest of us deal with the onslaught of customers. (Ah, the customer, another rant unto itself) My favorite is when he would schedule employees (like me, oh, boy) to work shifts like SUNDAY: 9am-5pm and then MONDAY: 9pm to 7am. And no, that doesn't mean come in on 9pm on Monday, he'd make you come in at 9pm on Sunday. Meaning you'd get pretty much no sleep. Granted, this was really only during Inventory for the entire store (sigh, another nightmare under his control), but it didn't make sleepless 28-hour stretches any less difficult. The only solace I took under working under him was that even in the entirety of the company was it known how ineffective this manager was at managing a store. Dude would take 9 hours to do a full-store inventory while other stores I were sent to that were often bigger would take only five. Sigh... Man, I could rant about this for hours. I'm sure many of y'all can relate. - Awsm Chimera

I had to suffer through a recent year of a control-freak manager who watched our minutes like a HAWK. Also we had to stay quiet about her genius cost-saving methods (that ironically wasted MORE of her precious scheduled minutes for everybody, thus negating every penny she tried to save, and more on top of that in the long run) She wouldn't hear anything against them. She went on and on about open communication, but the second you even hint towards her having a bad idea, she'd get defensive and wouldn't listen. Whenever she wasn't on shift, we had to leave an email the night before for her to read in the morning so she could know everything we did while she was gone. If we clocked out late and forgot to explain why we were late in the email, she would erase those extra minutes we spent. Usually we'd sometimes be late clocking out because we had to help a new employee learn how to close, we had to finish a task so as not to leave it for the morning staff (because if we didn't, she would get on our case about burdening other employees to finish it, so it was a no-win situation, even if we truly were not given enough time to complete it), and to finish her monstrous email as per her demands. No wonder we clocked out late often. Sometimes we were even 15 minutes late trying to finish, and still got reprimanded even though we did everything she said. So yeah, if we forgot to mention why we clocked out late in the email, she would just take it upon herself to erase those extra minutes we took without telling us. Because according to her, if we don't explain what happened to cause us to go over closing time, then she could only assume that nothing happened. Really, she sat me down and told me this. And this is only the tip of the iceberg regarding the super shady things she did. I could write a book. I'm Albertan, so laws may differ from the Quebec ones Matt, Pat, and Woolie were talking about, but they've really got me thinking now, and I think I need to have a look over our own laws pertaining to this particular issue...

I hate the "you need to smile more" complaint, because aparently just completing my tasks for the day isn't enough anymore.

This was the best podcast to hear on the day I put in my two week notice

Yep, that's reality. The lower you are the more they fuck around with you.

I was approached by a manager once for the 'we need you to come in on your day off' thing. Shockingly, I didn't go, and nobody cared. I'm _amazed_ I haven't gotten my ass fired yet, and I've been working for what, two years?

God I feel Pat's anger on a spiritual level. My time working fast food has filled me with an utter anger towards the world, but hell, I try my best to be kind to workers.

I admit I'm still fairly young so this will come off as "no shit," but I constantly have dreams about school. The common one seems to be "if you don't pass this class you can't graduate high school," as soon as I wake up for about 10 seconds I'm like "Oh shit I need to concentrate and" then I go "Wait, no, I'ma college graduate, that was a dream, okay"

I always loved that when I was working and I was young and easily intimidated I would be working in dish washer jobs in restaurants and more often and not the other washers would end up walking out, so that always became a situation of just do both jobs which is taken care of all the different scrubbing soaking washing wiping and maintenance jobs that go into dishwashing. And I know for a fact when I was working any of those jobs if I had asked "do I get paid for both jobs?" they would have responded with "do you want your job period?"

Was gonna share with my friend this whole section anyway. Saved me the time

That timer bullshit. Not working with Amazon again. So good to customers, so bad to employees.

Gather around boys and girls, and allow me to wax you a poetic. A poetic about someone very close to me, and their battle with a certain company named after a famous rainforest. Now, this individual signed up to be a delivery person. They would get up early in the morning, go collect the groceries from the company, and make his deliveries. He did this before going to his ACTUAL job. That's right kids; this was a second job that he had taken to make a bit of extra money. And you know what? He was pretty good at it. Until one day, he checked his phone to see what his deliveries for the day were, but his schedule was surprisingly empty. A few days passed, and the same thing - empty schedule. Finally he got an email from the company. He now knew why his schedule was empty - because he had been terminated for being late on his deliveries. Now you may be asking, "How could that be? Didn't you say he got up early to make those deliveries?" And you'd be correct. However, even though he would get there early, he still had to wait for the products to be ready for delivery. This would cause him to wait a long time, which in turn caused him to be late. Yet the company couldn’t be bothered to notice this discrepancy. All they knew was that he was being late. So they fired him. After a tedious appeal process, this person's position was reinstated about two days ago. Was he tired? Yes. Was he frustrated? Most definitely. But at the end of the day, he loved that job, and he's going to make sure to benefit from it as much as he can.

I should make an LP channel to escape work and make money that way

The wetnap thing is an especially amateur managerial move, especially when it's an environment like QA testing where a lot of equipment used for the job is communal and it's used by EVERYONE. It is a borderline NECESSITY to make sure that the equipment is sanitary, or else contagious diseases can be easily spread, not to mention for someone to do basic maintenance so that more expensive maintenance isn't necessary. Retail especially is a labyrythine mess of incompetent management. Shorting staff on pay, lack of maintenance, pushing sales on people who aren't buying...

burning dollars to save pennies.

I worked in an escape room company and whenever someone complained, regardless of it was a real thing that happened, they would put in crazy threatening rules. "If you set a room wrong you were immediately fired". We had rules that would contradict themselves if there was one person working you could be fired from not being in two places at once. We had four rooms, changing every hour with literally no budgeted time to put the rooms back together, people trashed those rooms and people were waiting to come in (only 2 people working). that meant that over an 8-hour shift on a Saturday night the last groups had a delay of over an hour sometimes because the time just kept building up. I'm still mad if you hadn't guessed XD

this is literally the definition of "penny wise pound foolish"

"You have to be in this weekend. You have to stay after on the main floor. We need you in early to run back stock. Oh, you're too close to overtime. Clock out and leave, or you're trespassing." It didn't take more than one of those for me to go "Nah, get fucked."

You have two gauges. One is "I really need the money" and the other is "I don't care if I get fired". Eventually "Not caring if you get fired" fills up as your patience drains. It overlaps the "Need for money" gauge and you either end up on "I'll do the job but I don't care if I get fired" which leads to great productivity or "I'll do the job and looks for a job on the side and quit immediately after I find anything else because fuck this job" which inventively leads to that employee randomly leaving once they find that job and leaving a huge gap during that week.

Me and my coworkers used to get together during lunch and at the mandatory drinking session after work and plan about how to screw our Walmart manager, including such tactics as backing people up who needed to call in "sick", normalizing extended lunch breaks (they can't fire all of us and they can't hire too many illegal Mexicans without anybody noticing. Shout-out to my homies Jose, "Willy" Wilfredo, and Delascasas), negotiating snacks for people who the assistant managers force to not take lunch breaks, organizing mass absences that didn't look suspicious, and in general try to make our lives less miserable and making our manager's life miserable. We called ourselves the Retail Mafia.

Pats’ past retail experiences almost completely mirror my current retail experiences with the added “bonus” of upper management noticing I’m a “hard worker” which gives them the future okay to ask me to do sub-glamorous parts that they don’t want to do at the risk of them being fired because like me and everyone else who works in my store for longer than 6 months just doesn’t give a shit anymore as well as doing my job on top of that without any raise for fulfilling managerial duties with no formal training.

That was a fucking awesome/awful question. I squeeze my eyes really tight and hold them shut for like 30 seconds after I get into a traumatic memory cuz it Eternal Sunshines them out of your mind forever. I had to do this every story you guys told. I feel better, so thanks :)

And this is Quebec. The US state I’m in has no unions and is “right to work” meaning while I can quit whenever, they can come up with any BS reason and fire me. We get one 30 minute break for 7-9 hour shifts on our feet dealing with people (in person and phones), it’s absolute horseshit.

Note to corporate peeps. ALWAYS ask, before cutting something, "why do we have this?" And then follow it up, again always, with "what's the alternative cost?"

You think that's bad I had to test The Order 1886 13 hours a day, sometimes 15 to 17 hours 6 days a week and and on the 7th day 9-5 so I can work my other job for attendance so I wouldn't lose it. Don't believe me? Marques or Sir Percivals whole name is *INHALES* Joseph Marie John Paul Ives Roch Gilbert De Motier Marques de Lafayette... Nearly killed me. EDIT: Double checked and it's Marie Joseph Paul Ives Roch Gilbert Motier Marques de Lafayette MY BAD!

So real! It's encouraging to know that there is a future after the garbage.

Working for Safeway made me realize that companies will spend more money being shadey than actually pretending to care about their employees and providing liveable standards of work environment and pay.

I laugh to keep from crying.

Punished Pat has retail PTSD

I'm pretty sure that the moral of all of these stories is that the only reason that a person would take a job supervising minimum-wage employees is because they are sadists. The people who managed Pat's old grocery store would rather spend money on putting in fingerprint scanners to force their employees to take shorter breaks than do anything that would actually improve the efficiency and profitability of the store because they enjoyed the prospect of grinding their employees down more than the money they might have made by not doing that.

I worked a part time job as a weekend ride operator for a small amusement park: 10 AM to 8 PM, 30 min lunch (which you could only take once a supervisor had someone to cover for you, once i didn't get lunch until 6;30 PM), and if you wanted to use the bathroom same deal (one of the supervisors had to go and fetch someone to cover for you, so you had to hold it until they found somebody.) Plus the head supervisor was an ass, he loved to talk with his hands and would lower/raise them depending on who he was talking about pretty much saying "this is how important you are", goes without saying that whenever he talked about himself his hand was over his head, plus he never actually supervised anything and would just spend all his time in the park's main office, because according to him "i know you guys are doing your job, when i don't have to do mine" Then one day he said that part timers would have to start coming in 6 days a week, i asked about the pay and he said the wages and hours would stay the same, so not only would i have been working 60 hours a week, i'd still be getting part time pay needless to say i quit the very next day

"I have a dream..." - Pat Boivin, 2018

The finger print scanner reminds me of a time I worked overnights at a place and we had to tick off every task we were scheduled for. Were the systems any good? Of course not. It was far easier to just look at what you were expected to do and do it, then eventually go back to the system and tick it all off. One time we got a talking-to, and I had to explain I was tired because this was my second job on account of losing hours at my other job. Which got better when I suddenly started getting scheduled to right up to when I was supposed to be at my second job at my first job when this had never happened before pretty much right as I started my second job. And on top of all that, I'd started losing hours at my first job right as I moved out and needed the money to cover rent, which is the reason I took the second job. Eventually I got hours back at my first job and things were fine, but that was not my best month.

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24:20 this is why I sometimes sit bolt upright in the middle of the night, because something somewhere made a sound kinda similar to a radio that I used to have to carry for five years at my old job.

Glad I work for a private company, margin driven corporations sound like nightmares.

23:30 When i first heard this I was confused cause ive never heard of this kind of thing happening and for the past year ive had one every other night. I cant believe the amount of confusion and fear that gives me.

These experiences and stories told are invaluable to people watching this who prior to seeing the video have had little to no working experience

If anybody lives near Fenton, MO don't buy anything from the Gravois Bluffs Shop N' Save. They never ever want to get rid of the black mold in the areas where we work and prepare your food. The fingerprint thing is super real as well. Because that's better than fixing the garbage compactor.

I actually had a near breakdown during work listening to all this, because you can’t escape retail bullshit. And this just put me over the top.

The worst that's happened to me is that my work made *me* pay *them* one time because I "had been overpaid every month for an entire year" by a mistake in the business office. The result was that I needed to give them back the money I was overpaid. My paycheck was never the same anyway so I didn't question what I got paid - I never noticed. This happened at the end of the year, so in total I owed them over $700 - which I could pay in full by Dec. 31, or make payments which would've totaled $900+ because it was the start of the new year and somehow that affected the amount. What a Merry Christmas that was

I worked at a Walmart a year ago for a few months. Believe it or not, it was completely miserable! One of my favorite things that the supervisors would do would be that they would change your schedule after you receive it, and then not tell you. If you were lucky, you would come in on a day that had been rescheduled as an off day. More likely, you would NOT come in on a day that was rescheduled as a work day.

One day I'll have a job. Right now my occupation is "college student."

I work at GameStop and it's a great time. Co-workers are great people and we play games together. Been playing Monster Hunter with them a bunch. Very rarely we get the unruly customer but maybe it's where we're located or just the people being cool.

My boss when I worked retail used the cameras that were on to spy on employees and actively avoided using it to stop theft. Granted; I shouldn’t have been hatching eggs in Pokémon, but when is someone steals several outfits and two tool boxes IN COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SIDES IF THE STORE what is more important to watch?

I'll just copy/paste (with minor edits) from another video Pat had PTSD about his old job: So [back in August], I quit my job at a restaurant. I was sick with a 101.x fever and told them the previous day that it might be a good idea to find someone to replace me. I call again an hour before my shift to confirm that I shouldn't come in. They tell me to come in anyway. After a brief argument, I agree to come in while still lightheaded. I later had what I can only describe as a panic attack where I had to leave NOW. I didn't think I could even drive, so I called a relative to pick me up. The next day my fever was at 102.7. There was no way in hell I was willingly going to work. So I called again saying I shouldn't come in. They told that I either need to a doctor's note FOR A FEVER or find someone to cover for me. My response was they either find someone to cover for me or I quit. I never got a phone call back that day. They called again a few days later asking me back because I was one of (if not the) most reliable employee they had. I demanded a raise, but they'd only give a 25 cent raise starting September (just over two weeks) because of a franchise policy. I was already being paid the same as the new people (they raised the base pay five month before) after working there for almost three years. I found the offer pretty insulting. (Additional follow up comments to replies) [My manager] didn't know me very well because she had been transferred to my store recently and we rarely worked at the same time. I don't think she understood who she was dealing with. - I was surprised I got a call back[...]. Though I was often teased by the shift managers that I am not allowed to go on vacation. And when the few times I did leave for an extended period of time (it was never a problem as long as I requested it two weeks ahead of time) everyone would be absolutely grateful when I got back. - [I didn't go to the hospital] Because I'm a stubborn SoB. That was actually the worst of it. The following cold lasted over a month. I finally did go to the doctor [and got anti-biotics after the cold lasted a month].

As someone who work in retail i understand Pat's pain. At my work the equipment room that has all the scanners and walkies is locked up by a high tech secrurity door that requires a manager to open it and you are required to sign off on everything when checking in or out. The first week its implemented we could instantly tell it was gonna be rough as everyone is getting ready to leave butno one is upstairs to unlock the door so you have to wait 10 to 20 minutes for the manager whos in the back to come up.

"Get in, Pat." I've had similar experiences to him after working retail for years. I eventually got a better job where I could watch this video at my leisure. I never looked back.

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I got fired from my job at a warehouse last year, and the girl who was working as receptionist and scheduler (2 separate positions) had to soak up all my duties (receiving clerk). I honestly don't know if she still works there. I would've quit.

Man, I sympathize with Pat so much here. I worked at Duane Reade for only 2 and a half months back in 2005, but it was probably the most soul-sucking experience I had outside of the 3 years of absolute hell I had in middle school before that. Absolutely everything surrounding my short employment time there was negatively charged -- I actually had a heartburn episode on the very first day while I was waiting for the train and thought I was having a heart attack and had to go to the emergency room, and about a week and a half later also while waiting for the train, I farted (or at least I THOUGHT I farted) and accidentally shat myself. THAT'S how bad the job was: it induced a heart-attack-like heartburn and a shart that literally caused me to be terrified of farting to this very day nearly 13 years later.

24:20 Pat's "Hey we need you" story. Hyena Woolie ensues.

Fucking...bio...metrics

I worked retail as a summer job while in university. Applied as a stocker but nearly every other day i also had to help unload freight trailers. Boy i tell ya, the store i worked for had LARGE TRAILERS (Cough* Mal-Wart) If we didn't unload the whole thing and pull pallets out to the sales floor by the end of the day we'd have to stay overtime and then get it cut by taking long lunches; which would make us stay late again. Legally we could leave, but technically we could be reprimanded due to "not obeying superiors" and then after strike 3 we'd be fired.

I once worked a 16 hour shift, and the next morning my boss got mad at me for being 20 minutes late.

Freaking bathrooms are the worst, especially in buffets

To this day, I still get nervous around noon because of how fucking awful it is to work at a McDonald's on the side of the highway during the lunch rush. It literally got to the point where the lunch rush dragged on so long I had to tell my boss, "Yo, if I don't use the bathroom right now, I am going to shit my pants". And then my boss yelled at me for going to the bathroom to puke. Fuck McDonald's, and fuck food service.

I used to work in retail. One place we got half an hour for lunches. a new store manager decided that if any member of staff needed to use the bathroom while not on break it would immediately knock 15 minutes off their allocated break time, regardless of how little the time was they were in the bathroom.

God the story of the boss wanting to open at 7 and having people scheduled to come in at 7 displays a complete lack of understanding of how businesses work

Low-key, this whole segment is the most right they ever were.

I just changed jobs from a big multi to a smaller multi, because in the big multi had management turning on us student workers real quickly.... This segment hits so close, im happy

I always come back to this particular video every few months because I remember having a good laugh, which I do, but always come out angry, upset, and frustrated at the end of it hearing the bullshit these guys had to go through. ESPECIALLY with Pat's horror stories, I don't know how that man didn't just explode from anger.

Came back to this video because I recently started working at Food Lion and you literally Cannot leave at the end of your shift until a manager LETS you leave meaning that you pretty much have to leave everything perfect even if it's a busy day where customers are constantly fucking something up. Food Lion is actually terrible bro

That's $15 USD a night that they were saving on labor but probably around $25-30 USD a night they were losing on newspapers getting stolen alone, not to mention the other shenanigans.

I'm never doing office work again, but at the same time everything else pays like shit or requires a degree I don't have

Evergreen content indeed

28:45 Woolie's tiny, whispered "fuck" here always kills me

I worked at a grocery store. I had extremely basic training and no one taut me how to do anything other than stack shelves. And when I asked for help with anything else the first thing they say is didn't someone teach you. Also every other day before I left, one of my 3 bosses would ask me to do over time. Now I know I wasn't a good employee and I was slow at my job so a couple times she asked, I just said no.