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[American Horror Story]

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[Beverly Hills, 90210]

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[Homeland]

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[Skins]

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[Signs]

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[Downton Abbey]

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[Epic Rap Battles of History]

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[orange is the new black]

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[The Swapper]

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[Rune Factory 4]

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So I work at a toy/ baby store and this year the lead up towards christmas has been ridiculously bad. It seems like our head office has ordered too much stock and at the same time cut the staff budget so we've got more stock but less staff hours to work it in. It's so bad you have to climb over mountains of boxes in the storeroom just to get around and we'd be screwed if we get a visit from health and safety because all our fire exits are boxed in by pallets. To make it worse we have christmas sales starting but all the sale items we need are buried somewhere out the back so we're losing sales as well.

:0 a baby store?

I mean. I'm sorry, nonny. Retail sucks. Hope you get through it okay.

I work for my cousin who owns a sewing/knitting/hobby-ish supply store. Like 95% of their sales are online. I am in charge of Amazon fulfillment. So I spend 8 hours every day packaging items. Sometimes (in the case of bobbins or stabilizers) packaging hundreds of the same items over the course of the week. It isn't always hard work but it is mind numbing. So. Mind. Numbing. Sometimes my brains just goes offline after the 30th stablizer bundle.

On the bright side, the most "money" I have handled at once was when I packaged 40 of these.

I wish they offered incentives for recommending them to people. I'd blow all the other employees out of the water.

Why is the last line your comment highlighting when mouse over it? What is this witchcraft?

Not magic. I forgot to close my coding. :p

*shiny eyes* Those are beautiful.

I handle them like I am handling a baby. Pretty sure a box of those is worth more.

We're understaffed 24/7 callcentre, our employers refuse to hire more people until January and people are dropping like flies

We have 2 people leaving in the next week. Someone left last week

We are incredibly understaffed and cranky and it's only going to get worse in Christmas when people's annual leave kicks in and there's less people around

Taking a complaint about our decreased customer service yesterday was the highlight of my day (as complaints go it was a lovely conversation as I wasn't the person being complained about)

Just

understaffed tired stress

Last year I didn't have a working heater in my office until I think February. High temperatures in my neck of the woods at that time of the year are routinely single-digit Fahrenheit (like -15 C?) and I was seriously freezing my ass off, to the point where I was unable to type due to fingers being too stiff. Then they gave me a tiny electric space heater, which blows the fuse for the entire hallway whenever the pottery wheels next door are running, so I can't use it for major periods of the day.

This year I'm buying a thermometer, documenting the hell out of everything, and making an OSHA complaint if it gets that bad again.

I work for a small, family-owned business so there's this "mom and pop" sort of vibe where everyone thinks we're all friends (we're not) and that that gives them the right to pry into my personal life. The good points actually far outweigh the bad so I deal with it, but man, I'd really love a little more professionalism.

My boss thinks she is well educated and has good manners.

That's a little hard to believe since she likes to pee with the door to the restrooms open, and the clients can hear every.single.sound she makes. Refuses to change even when everyone had told her repeatedly to stop doing it. :/

Sort of a half workplace rant, half looking for job rant.

So a position opened up at my dream company for a job I was completely qualified for. This hasn't happened since I started looking there, so I quickly scraped together what was necessary to apply and sent it in. Then a friend of mine who has a good bit of pull at the company gave me a recommendation completely of their own accord (I felt bad asking for it so I didn't). Dream job, dream company, dream chance.

It's been two weeks.

Before anyone asks, this isn't the type of job where I can call and pester. It's a very large international company and if my phone call even makes it past the receptionist, it'll end up in voice mail wasteland.

I tried so hard to not get my hopes up, but here I am, hopes dashed. I've pretty much given up on ever getting a job there, even though the company has been a major part of shaping me into who I am today. I just wanted to give back, you know?

I know I should keep hoping and keep trying, but I am so completely and utterly miserable at my current job that I can barely muster enough energy to get out of bed in the morning. I've broken down crying on Sunday evenings. The environment is so completely toxic but there's something about me and my work and my resume that's keeping people from even giving me one call back. And believe me, I've tried.

Yes, yes, unemployment's high and I should be thankful and all that. And I am. I just wish it wasn't killing me slowly too.

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