Your job?

[Shifty]

I work at a fucking hotel and hate my job. Although, I shouldn't complain. Job security/pay/benefits are all actually pretty good. I got into this shithole because I started doing dishes in the hotel restaurant when I was 17, moved up onto the floor taking tables and ended up bartending the big events we hold in our ballroom. New owners came bought the restaurant, I didn't like them, I quit and the hotel hired me immediately. I've done security, maintenance and now I work at the front desk, checking in every greedy cunt imaginable.

I'm thinking of applying as a correctional officer at a new jail they're building here. I think I heard someone here mention they were in that field. If so, would you care to PM me, as I have some questions for you!!

If this jail thing doesn't work out, I'm going to drag my girlfriend with me to South Korea to teach English. I don't know how much longer I can work in the hospitality industry.

SkyRaider22 is a correctional officer, I believe.

 

[Ace Bandage]

You're an English teacher?? Woah. I would not have pegged you for a teacher at all. What grade do you teach?

10th grade right now. I don't see myself as a teacher now either, but it pays the bills and the mortgage.

I wasn't always this jaded.

 

[Jack Davenport]

I am a doctor of sorts.

 

[Alyssa Rose]

I work at a fucking hotel and hate my job. Although, I shouldn't complain. Job security/pay/benefits are all actually pretty good. I got into this shithole because I started doing dishes in the hotel restaurant when I was 17, moved up onto the floor taking tables and ended up bartending the big events we hold in our ballroom. New owners came bought the restaurant, I didn't like them, I quit and the hotel hired me immediately. I've done security, maintenance and now I work at the front desk, checking in every greedy cunt imaginable.

I'm thinking of applying as a correctional officer at a new jail they're building here. I think I heard someone here mention they were in that field. If so, would you care to PM me, as I have some questions for you!!

If this jail thing doesn't work out, I'm going to drag my girlfriend with me to South Korea to teach English. I don't know how much longer I can work in the hospitality industry.

If there is one thing that I have learned from working as a front desk agent, it's that no amount of money can buy a person class.. Or manners for that matter..

 

[Hypergalaxy]

Web Developer and for the most part I like it. Gives me the freedom to travel and such.

 

[TheAdmiral]

I'm a secret agent cowboy astronaut millionaire

 

[lurkingdirk]

I work for myself and do a variety of things. Mostly, I produce both live and recorded music, which is quite an amazing way to make money. I also do quite a lot of writing - I used to be a tenured University Prof, but I had enough of that. Now I write in my field, and teach courses here and there by invitation.

But, just now I'm spending a lot of time trying to finish the renovation of my house. I'm sick to death of living in a construction zone, and I'm drywalling in the second-last room I'm doing. Kitchen is next, house totally finished before summer, I hope.

Things will get better Nikki.

 

[Death-Proof-69]

i'm a mechanic in a small tire and auto shop. i like the work i do as i enjoy fixing and improving things but i'm getting extremely burned out on where i work, the fact that the shop makes almost all of it's money off me while i hardly make shit really kills it for me haha...unfortunately during the winter up here it's almost impossible to find a new job.

 

[jlm555]

I work at a bar/restaurant as a food server/bus boy and sometimes I tend bar. It's not that great, but you have to take what you can.

 

[Harley Spencer]

I'm a full time restaurant shift manager. I love the people I work with, but most of the time, I hate my job. Having to deal with some of the customers that come in there and treat me like such a piece of garbage is the most stressful thing ever. Some people have no gratitude, consideration, empathy, common sense, or kindness in their hearts what-so-ever. It never ceases to amaze me.

 

[STDiva]

I'm a full time restaurant shift manager. I love the people I work with, but most of the time, I hate my job. Having to deal with some of the customers that come in there and treat me like such a piece of garbage is the most stressful thing ever. Some people have no gratitude, consideration, empathy, common sense, or kindness in their hearts what-so-ever. It never ceases to amaze me.

Every person, once eligible should have to work in the restaurant industry for 1 year. The world would be a better place.

 

[gunslingingbird]

Every person, once eligible should have to work in the restaurant industry for 1 year. The world would be a better place.

Fuck that! Three months was more than enough for me!

 

[Petra]

I put up with the shit that all of you nutjobs throw at me. And put up with Anders and Roald.

Before moving to the Netherlands, I worked juvenile corrections in Florida at a low and moderate secure facility. It was pretty interesting because there were no cells and the company's philosophy was to parent the kids vs. just lock them up and make them serve time. However, you had to be dedicated to it because unless you had a family of your own (and even then) we were treated like crap and had to work loads of double shifts and shit. I was just burnt out by the time I made the decision to leave the country.

Of course, I think the one thing it taught me was I can ignore about anything...which is good when you're stuck in an office with Roald 8 hours a day.

 

[Deepcover]

I'm a full time restaurant shift manager. I love the people I work with, but most of the time, I hate my job. Having to deal with some of the customers that come in there and treat me like such a piece of garbage is the most stressful thing ever. Some people have no gratitude, consideration, empathy, common sense, or kindness in their hearts what-so-ever. It never ceases to amaze me.

I feel you.

 

[Harley Spencer]

Every person, once eligible should have to work in the restaurant industry for 1 year. The world would be a better place.

Perhaps not an entire year, but at least a couple months. It's usually the people who haven't worked in restaurants before that are the biggest dickheads. People really have absolutely no clue what it's like. More than half the people that apply to work as a server at my current job put down $8/some odd cents as their expected hourly wage. Uh, no, wrong. Try $2/some odd cents. When I try to explain that to them, they don't understand. But that's the least of the problems about working in a restaurant! Ugh, I could go on forever about the shit I've been through.

You are so right though. The world would be such a better place. *daydreams about it*

 

[bahodeme]

I'm one of the computer guys for a print/bindery section. The job is not hard, it's just what it takes to do the job makes it hard. I used to work the evening shift and loved it because it gave me flexibility for finishing jobs. Now that I'm on the 1st shift there is a certain time for me to take lunch, plus there are more distractions (visitors, phone calls, etc.). Plus the group I worked with on the evening shift would go to where ever we are needed to help without asking. During the day, the thought process is (Insert Name) handles that or nobody told me that it needed to be done. Nobody told you when pay day is or which holiday falls on what day. But you seem to know this.

 

[gunslingingbird]

Perhaps not an entire year, but at least a couple months. It's usually the people who haven't worked in restaurants before that are the biggest dickheads. People really have absolutely no clue what it's like. More than half the people that apply to work as a server at my current job put down $8/some odd cents as their expected hourly wage. Uh, no, wrong. Try $2/some odd cents. When I try to explain that to them, they don't understand. But that's the least of the problems about working in a restaurant! Ugh, I could go on forever about the shit I've been through.

You are so right though. The world would be such a better place. *daydreams about it*

$2 dollars an hour?!? Where do you work?!? Indochina???

 

[lurkingdirk]

Petra[/URL][/B], post: 6493125, member: 114093"]when you're stuck in an office with Roald 8 hours a day.

Is it worse around Miss FreeOnes time? Does he actually bring baby oil into the office?

 

[Harley Spencer]

$2 dollars an hour?!? Where do you work?!? Indochina???

I live in America. Pennsylvania. Waiters get paid between $2 and $4 per hour. The $4 is more for the more private, less popular restaurants. $2/odd-cents is the more generic, common hourly wage. It's because the tips are supposed to make up for the rest, equaling out to either minimum wage or more, but it isn't always the case. The servers don't always make the money in tips and they suffer from it. They really do. That's part of the reason why there is such a high turnover for waiter(ess) positions- the money does not make up for the bullshit they deal with.

 

[Death-Proof-69]

I live in America. Pennsylvania. Waiters get paid between $2 and $4 per hour. The $4 is more for the more private, less popular restaurants. $2/odd-cents is the more generic, common hourly wage. It's because the tips are supposed to make up for the rest, equaling out to either minimum wage or more, but it isn't always the case. The servers don't always make the money in tips and they suffer from it. They really do. That's part of the reason why there is such a high turnover for waiter(ess) positions- the money does not make up for the bullshit they deal with.

do you keep all your tips or do you have to split them? up here wait-staff gets paid minimum wage ($7.75) but they usually have to give some percent to the bussers, kitchen, etc...i'm not sure if it's state law that they have to receive minimum wage or not but every restaurant i've known people to work at got at least that :dunno:

anyway, i almost always tip very well...it has to be blatantly shitty service for me to tip below 20%, i figure if i'm too broke to afford a tip then i have no business eating out