‘When I was 14, I worked at a grocery store where you couldn’t call out sick or get time off unless you arranged the coverage yourself. I called them from the hospital with a broken ankle and they STILL wanted me to arrange coverage or they’d expect me to show up. Lol’ -sherbertspinach
11.
‘No water at your desk. Mandatory lunch deducted but no lunch coverage.’ -PaulaNancyMillstoneJ
12.
‘I wasn’t allowed to wear a bandana or sweat band in an un-air-conditioned warehouse in hundred degree (37.7 C) weather because it could be gang affiliated.’ -chaosperfect
13.
‘My first job in a restaurant, I was 15, every night the owner had all employees dip their fingers in boiling water to build up heat resistance. Back then my parents told me good employees listened to their bosses so I just assumed that was normal. Now that I think about it, it was fucking insane’ -Bombadil3456
14.
‘Right now it is definitely the requirement that we use AI a lot’ -stupidfock
15.
‘We had to sit together as a team during our lunch break.’ -One_Primary4924
16.
‘I was working at a small newspaper with a bitchy editor. She decided that she didn’t want the reporters to eat lunch together, so we were assigned separate lunch breaks — and if we were going out, we’d have to write down where we were going so we wouldn’t overlap at the diner.
I couldn’t even take the intern out for pep talks.’ -reporterbabe
17.
‘Never talk to the chef. If you need something from the kitchen, talk to the expo, who will talk to the sous, who will talk to the chef.
This even applied to non-work related topics. I once had a conversation about the chef’s favorite football team that followed this rule.’ -Bigtits38
