NuclearBrainReturns
Matthew 4:1-11
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- Some of the coworkers view their coworkers as an extended family. It's quite clear to me that they don't have many friends or family outside of the work environment. On top of this, they also don't seem to have many other hobbies outside of working. I would say about 60% of the conversations between coworkers are about previous times they worked together in a form of "remember when" discussions about something funny. They don't talk about doing shit outside of work. Some of these people aren't even old or fat or ugly and yet they all seem to think like this. It's weird.
- The most lonely of coworkers constantly try to schedule work nights out where we will go and do something like drink at a bar or go see a movie. This wouldn't be a bad thing if there wasn't some desperate undertone to the request for us all to hang out after work. Like I said, they view us as some extended family and not as associates in a business. It's quite gross if you ask me.
- Customers are relentlessly aggressive and nasty about 1/3rd of the time. A lot are pleasant and patient but many are downright horrible cunts. The amount of abuse me and the other customer-facing people get on a daily basis is disgusting and you aren't allowed to speak up for yourself or you risk being reprimanded. They demand you do X,Y,Z instantaneously and get angry if you take one second too long than they are used to. I get it though, they have a real job to go to and service workers are dehumanised robots as far as they are concerned. But even still, I never treated service workers like this when I had a decent job/unemployed. I didn't view them as an automaton.
- There is quite a lot of theory involved with working in the service industry. It isn't just serving people food, they get you to go on a training course which takes a long time and there are a lot of tidbits to memorize. You get tested every month apparently (at my job) to make sure you are remembering all of the theory tests.
- There is a rigorous pattern everyone has to stick to in their role in order to have everything running smoothly. It runs like a machine. If one person isn't doing what they are supposed to be doing or there is a problem with equipment etc, then the entire shopfloor stops functioning. There is no room to be standing around doing nothing (physically as well as metaphorically).
- Some of my coworkers look as if they would be fun and NT but in reality they are zombified and have absolutely fuck all in their personal lives. Only a little more than the fat ugly losers that try to supplement real friendship with coworkers (planning nights out as I said). Such an environment completely destroys any hope of you becoming a man/woman of means. Someone with cool interesting things to do.
- That ties into how our contracts are structured. Each week we get different times we are working and so medium planning of personal life events are on hold. You don't know when you are going to be working the next week until the Sunday of the previous week. You are bound to the ever changing schedule.
It's fucking terrible. Don't ever do it. I am almost done with this job but need to get this months pay before I leave.
- The most lonely of coworkers constantly try to schedule work nights out where we will go and do something like drink at a bar or go see a movie. This wouldn't be a bad thing if there wasn't some desperate undertone to the request for us all to hang out after work. Like I said, they view us as some extended family and not as associates in a business. It's quite gross if you ask me.
- Customers are relentlessly aggressive and nasty about 1/3rd of the time. A lot are pleasant and patient but many are downright horrible cunts. The amount of abuse me and the other customer-facing people get on a daily basis is disgusting and you aren't allowed to speak up for yourself or you risk being reprimanded. They demand you do X,Y,Z instantaneously and get angry if you take one second too long than they are used to. I get it though, they have a real job to go to and service workers are dehumanised robots as far as they are concerned. But even still, I never treated service workers like this when I had a decent job/unemployed. I didn't view them as an automaton.
- There is quite a lot of theory involved with working in the service industry. It isn't just serving people food, they get you to go on a training course which takes a long time and there are a lot of tidbits to memorize. You get tested every month apparently (at my job) to make sure you are remembering all of the theory tests.
- There is a rigorous pattern everyone has to stick to in their role in order to have everything running smoothly. It runs like a machine. If one person isn't doing what they are supposed to be doing or there is a problem with equipment etc, then the entire shopfloor stops functioning. There is no room to be standing around doing nothing (physically as well as metaphorically).
- Some of my coworkers look as if they would be fun and NT but in reality they are zombified and have absolutely fuck all in their personal lives. Only a little more than the fat ugly losers that try to supplement real friendship with coworkers (planning nights out as I said). Such an environment completely destroys any hope of you becoming a man/woman of means. Someone with cool interesting things to do.
- That ties into how our contracts are structured. Each week we get different times we are working and so medium planning of personal life events are on hold. You don't know when you are going to be working the next week until the Sunday of the previous week. You are bound to the ever changing schedule.
It's fucking terrible. Don't ever do it. I am almost done with this job but need to get this months pay before I leave.
