The Moment It Hit Me: I'm Not Paid Enough for This Crap!

When I was at work, I witnessed a grown man taking a crap in the customer parking lot. I was supposed to tell him to stop, but I realized I am NOT getting paid enough for this crap… literally.

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I had a customer throw a full-blown tantrum on the floor of a supermarket because we were out of red cabbage. This was two hours before we closed on Christmas Eve.

To top this off, she threw a bag of frozen bread rolls at me because I told her to have her tantrum outside.

| Lelexxia

My boss refused to evacuate her home when Hurricane Ida hit. She somehow managed not to lose power or sustain damage.

Meanwhile, I had to evacuate with a large group, and my apartment complex lost power and water for days. The day after the hurricane hit, she demanded we all traverse flooded roads so we could come back into the office. She threw a tantrum over the phone when I told her I wasn’t going back to an apartment without power or running water. I’m looking for another job right now.

| poser-inaparka

I was forced to do overtime to cover my habitually late co-worker. I always stayed late to cover, even when it wasn’t always easy for me to do. However, whenever I requested time off, my manager had the nerve to deny it.

Once, she denied the beach trip I had requested off months in advance. I finally had the courage to quit.

| assertor15

I worked at a high-end car dealership where the customers could be pretty demanding. One lady came in complaining that her car was making a noise, and I asked what kind of noise and where it was coming from.

She got defensive, saying that I should be able to figure it out. I told her very politely the car was not making the noise at the time and no codes had come up on the computer when we plugged it in. Then, she screamed, “JUST DO YOUR JOB AND FIGURE IT OUT!” and threw her keys at my face.

Luckily, I caught them, threw them on the ground, and walked to my manager’s office to tell him what happened and to request that he deal with her. He told me that difficult customers come with the job. I’d been yelled at, talked down to, hit on, and disrespected in so many ways at that job, but having someone chuck keys at my face and being told to “accept it” was the last straw.

| Gardengoddess83

My boss sent me out during my shift to buy him a smoothie. I did as he asked, and he threw a full tantrum when I returned because I got his order wrong.

I told him to get it himself next time and handed in my notice.

| corf3l

I used to work at KFC. One day, I was coming in for my afternoon shift, and the morning cook didn't clean up anything before she left. The kitchen looked trashed, and it was now my responsibility to clean it up

This was a normal occurrence. I'd leave morning shifts stocked up and perfectly clean every time I worked. I quit, then the manager quit not long after I left.

| RayTrain

For my IT job, I was on call 24/7. I often expressed how this was causing me a lot of stress, and my boss basically told me that I shouldn't be so sensitive and that I should find better coping skills.

After three days of no sleep and stress, I had a "cardiac event."

I quit the next day.

| hyteck9

At one of my first retail jobs, I was scheduled to work 30 days in a row without having a day off.

| TheObservatory

When I was working retail, I got a bad flu bug where I was throwing up and completely lost my voice.

I got a call from the manager saying that, even though I had called in sick, I needed to come in that day because the district manager was there. I was told that if I didn't show up, I could expect to lose my job.

So I got dressed, came in, and, within the hour, proceeded to get yelled at by the district manager for making a mistake on a receipt.

I saw red, resigned on the spot, and never looked back.

| ChargingBadger

I worked as a greeter at a restaurant in college. A woman came in and got wasted, then proceeded to projectile vomit all over the restroom.

The manager told me that I needed to clean it up, and I flat-out told him, "No, you don't pay me enough to deal with this."

He ended up cleaning it himself, lol.

| glitterlover123

I’m a delivery driver for a major pizza chain. The annual inspection was coming up for our store, so we had to get everything cleaned up.

There was a section of the parking lot where the concrete was crumbling a bit. So, I was asked to do a concrete patch on that part of the parking lot. I told my boss, “I don’t think so, and definitely not for $6 an hour.”

| wedge47

When I was a lifeguard, there was a banquet going on for the swim team. After the banquet, all of the kids came over to the pool. Imagine 60+ kids, all under the age of 10, to three lifeguards.

A good majority thought that, since we weren’t adults, they didn’t have to listen to us. I don’t know how many times I had to tell off kids for playing with our equipment. You can imagine our relief when our boss gave us permission to kick everyone out an hour later.

I liked that job, but days like that seriously took a toll on me.

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I worked in recruitment, and my phone would start ringing around 6 a.m. and wouldn’t stop until around 10 p.m. It would also go off during weekends, and I even got calls on my personal phone when I was out of the country on holiday.

I lasted two years at that job. Even now, when I hear the Apple ringtone, I get a sick feeling in my belly.

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I started to pay close attention to weekly sales reports and did the math for my department. In a year, I made the company more than 400k in profit. I was paid about 30k for my efforts.

| Axenroth187

I was working at a restaurant, and the entire floor was covered in raw sewage. Most of it was cleaned up, but I had to clear the last remnants up, and I was not impressed.

| Martipar

I'm a flight attendant , and a passenger stopped me in the aisle and asked me what that “God awful noise was? Turn it off.” I explained to her I couldn't hear any unusual noise. She proceeded to get agitated by my response and began shouting, “How can you not hear it? It's so loud. I was planning on sleeping on this flight.”

I said, “Ah, the continuous humming? That would be the engines.”She begins shouting how she's never heard them on a plane before, and there is something wrong. I just walked away and realized I was not getting paid enough to deal with this crazy lady.

| grazedknee209

I hated having to babysit grown adults and remind them not to eat the groceries before I’d scanned them. They were priced by weight.

It was equally annoying to constantly tell them not to trash the displays and to respect our rules.

| ToastAbrikoos

I had one hour left in an eight-hour shift. I had just finished cleaning the bathrooms and put up a sign in front of the hall that said, “Bathrooms Are Closed For Cleaning.”

This guy walks in an hour before closing, looks at the sign and, before I can tell him to stop, he removes the sign and proceeds to enter my spotless bathroom. He leaves, and I go in to make sure it is still clean.

The man poops everywhere. On top of the toilet, in the toilet, on the sides of the toilet, this guy could have been a record holder for the messiest dump ever. The entire floor was also covered in water and toilet paper. I spent the next two hours scrubbing poop.

| Positivemelon40

When I worked at McDonald's, I found out we didn't get paid for closing. We got paid until the store closed, but if it took us an extra hour or two to finish cleaning, that was unpaid. On my first paycheck, I noticed I had a ton of missing hours. So when I asked my boss about it, she told me we only get paid until the store closes. So that night, I walked out when the store closed. They tried to guilt me into staying because "the other team members need me."

I don't work for free, sorry. Especially when I'm already making minimum wage.

| kadno

When I worked at Subway, I got change thrown in my face because a man was upset we didn't have meatballs.

Now, if I'm working, he'll come in, see me, and walk out.

| Mitchyrex

I work in childcare, and I was the only one watching a group of 14 four-year-olds. One of the kids puked, and I spent the next few minutes trying to keep the kids from dancing around the vomit while also trying to clean up the girl who puked.

Thankfully, another teacher came to help me out.

| LadyMassacre

I work in security, and one time I worked at a public TV event. My job was to keep people without passes out of a specific area, which was intended for those working behind-the-scenes.

But then word came from above that exceptions were being made for some supposedly famous child music group. I had no clue what they looked like, so four kids and their parents walked up, and I stopped them.

They began shouting at me, saying, "Don't you know who we are?"

I was just trying to do my job.

| Morganelefay

I was working the registers at a grocery store, and about an hour before closing, a customer came to my lane with two 48 cent egg cartons. She stumbles a bit, putting them onto the belt, and before I can react, the entire thing is on the ground.

The janitor had left already, so I got to spend the next hour cleaning up 96 broken eggs with nothing but paper towels.

| sangred0

I've been working retail at a small hardware store. My boss called me on my first weekend off in three months to ask me how to process a transaction because he had no idea.

| universalturkey

Had a guy come in [and] say he wanted a sandwich on white bread, when I asked what kind he looked at me as if I was stupid and said "meat."

I asked what kind, and he again looked at me as if I was a complete moron and repeated "MEAT."

At that point I lost it and just pointed down and yelled "WHAT KIND OF MEAT, MAN?" And he finally got it and with a dead pan look on his face replied "salaymi."

The way he pronounced salami made me want to jump over the counter and beat him mercilessly over the head with stale bread.

| Shake007

When an 8-year-old lied to his mother and had her call the school to complain, and then to my face the next day said, "I'm going to get you fired," all because he got tagged in the game we were playing.

Thank you, Matthew.

| mermaidquesadilla

... The guy who threw his brand new iPhone 6 at me in an AT&T store because it wouldn't turn on. Claimed that the phone should last forever, and refused to charge it.

Chucked the phone at me and bolted. The phone hit me straight in the face.

Definitely the most painful customer that I've dealt with so far.

You never know when you'll have to play dodge-the-hard-object at work.

| natos20

[I] worked at Chick-fil-A, [and a] kid projectile-vomited after drinking orange soda. Two other kids in the play area also barfed after they saw the other kid.

I had to go clean it. It was all over the slide, floor, ugh!

To this day I don't drink orange soda.

| txplf23

I had a lady in drive thru when I worked at McDonald's ask me for a thick shake.

I asked her what flavor, and she said, "I said THICK SHAKE," really slowly.

I repeated the question a few times different ways, and she answered the same, getting more and more frustrated. Then she yelled "Are you stupid?"

"I told you I just want a thick shake!" When finally her friend in the car told her that I was trying to ask her what kind of thick shake, at which she laughed and thought the whole thing was really funny.

Sure lady, I LOVE being called an idiot because of your mistake. Don't apologize or anything. I'm just a lowly cashier, I don't have feelings.

| PaperbackWriter

I had an internship at the office of a member of Congress during the [Obamacare] debate and vote.

The phones rang nonstop, nearly all of the callers angry about one thing or another.

I thought not getting paid for that [bleep] was the worst thing ever until the office decided to rub it right in our faces by giving us a PayDay candy bar.

| starberrySundae

One day I was retrieving a group of carts when a shirtless man came towards me with a shopping cart of his own.

I thought he was just going to give me his cart to add to my group to take inside, but he instead rammed the side of my line of carts.

So I stopped, asking [bleep]. I tried to move the carts again, and he rammed them again.

I ended up leaving the carts in the middle of the street because whenever I tried to move them, he would just ram them again, while screaming nonsense at me.

At least he only targeted my carts and not me.

| thealmightybrush

I had to stand there while some lady told me I was incompetent for not being able to make her steak sandwich medium rare.

I was working at Subway.

| Marzelsloth

I work at Olive Garden and had someone ask me for "the fritta." We have Lasagna Fritta, Shrimp scampi fritta (classic or spicy), Artichoke fritti, and a chicken fritta topping for the Cucina Mia.

This was after her husband ordered “Chicken Freeda," which turned out to be Chicken Alfredo.

Then it turned into the "spaghetti fritta, no the raviolis..." and then points to the Lasagna Fritta picture.

What the [bleep]. You just read the menu. Tell me the exact name of what you want and stop trying to make stuff up.

| wonderpickle2147

I was a cashier once and had a regular, ordered the same exact thing every single day. He got up to the counter, and I told him his total before he even ordered, and he was super upset.

"How did you know what I even wanted?!?!?"

Because, sir, you have ordered the same thing every day for the last six months that I have been here.

That was the last day I ever sold him a Big Mac, lol.

| thatsbat[bleep]crazy

Wait, if I buy something at one store I can't return it at a completely different store?

A woman walked in to my deli store with a sandwich in hand, yelling at me because there was no meat on this sandwich.

Sadly she didn't buy the sandwich from me — she got it at Subway.

But she didn't understand that I didn't give a [bleep]. So she stayed and yelled until finally the store director had to come and escort her out of the store.

| Ogglett

I worked at a Kroger [supermarket] as a cashier when I was in high school.

I asked a customer for his Plus [rewards] card and reached my hand out to grab it, then turned away for a brief moment to unlock my register. I felt something wet and warm in my hand.

This guy had spit a wad of Copenhagen and a toothpick into my hand and said "I shouldn't need a damn card to get the prices advertised."

I emptied the dip into a bag of tomatoes he was buying when he wasn't looking.

| mammothtarantula

A few days ago I accidentally accepted a fake $50 while delivering some pizzas.

The next day I took out my real $50 to compare the two, and my manager snatched mine out of my hand and said, "Perfect. We're even."

I put my two weeks' notice in the next day.

| getoutofthepool

My salary divided by 52 weeks and 40 hours was pretty good.

Then I took my salary and divided by 52 weeks and 65 hours because that's how much I work each week.

Now I don't make nearly as much as I wanted.

| goingrogueatwork

I used to work loss prevention at a store when I stopped some people for stealing. They ran out, and then five guys surrounded me with pipes and bats.

I fought them off and hurt three of them. I only got a few bumps and bruises.

Then about two weeks later I got fired for "fighting customers."

| imafitfatty

When I was 16 I worked at a supermarket at the cash registers.

One day a lady started yelling at me because I put cans of dog food upright in the bag, because apparently if she dropped them they would hurt her feet and that doesn't happen if they are laying in the bag flat.

Also about halfway through the transaction she remembered she had brought her own shopping bags from home and yelled at me for not reminding her, and then she threw them at me.

Hopefully her feet got crushed real good by those cans of dog food.

| bortnib

When a thick stream of sweat drained out of this girl's cellphone case.

I had to explain to her that her phone had water damage and that she shouldn't work out with her phone in her bra — all the while trying to be professional and not gag while cleaning the mess.

(I sold phones at Sprint).

| dryerfuzz

I'm the head cook. Today I picked up an extra shift, and had to stick menus in doors for hours.

I was so happy when I got kicked out of the complex, and just went home.

At least I made my normal salary.

[I was] working at a grocery store, at the time. I was stocking shelves when this old lady came up to me and asked, "Excuse me, where is the white people rice?"

I immediately pause and question what I just heard. I asked her to repeat, and once again she asked the same thing.

I mentioned to her that there is no such thing and that she meant "white rice."

After this, she got defensive, said I insulted her and reported me to my manager. My manager then proceeded to yell at me for belittling a customer. I quit a month later.

| redditsonurface

Worked at Disney for a year and a half. ...

Had parents tell me not to discipline their child when I told him to stop licking the handrail — all 40 feet of it. Like he applied his tongue to the beginning of rail at the top of the ramp and ran it the entire length.

Then afterwards I took some sanitizer and cleaned the whole thing. Probably the first time it had ever been cleaned.

| Tauge

When the children started spreading rumors that I made them "uncomfortable," and my principal launched an investigation.

Turns out I made them "uncomfortable" because I "made them" do the Macarena after a student asked, "Can we do the Macarena?"

| ieatglue44

I worked in an agricultural engineering firm in southern Wisconsin. A large part of our business consisted of separating the solids from liquids in cow manure to make fertilizer, reusable water, et cetera.

And then we started working with human waste.

And then I realized that $12/hour was not enough.

| yosho1108

I had an elderly lady promptly return to Best Buy, furious, because we allegedly told her she could browse the internet on her new laptop.

Come to find out, the laptop didn't just come with THE INTERNET preinstalled, and it was my fault the files weren't already in the computer. Just so you know, it is impossible to educate someone that computer illiterate.

She ended up leaving the store and abandoned her purchased computer — then came back again and demanded free help for her "inconvenience." I hate people.

| Smaddady

The first time this happened for me was at McDonald's. I was working while in high school and was closing Fridays (there until around 2am).

The next Saturday the manager sat me down during my lunch break and started telling me that he needed me to close 1-2 more nights per week, school nights. I explained that I was still in school and needed more sleep than that.

He replied with "I guess there isn't room for you on the McDonald's team."

I saw this as the veiled threat that it was and told him if that was the case, he could finish my shift (during the busiest part of the day). I went to the back room, changed, and left.

Not my story but this had to be one of them. I was standing in the queue for the movie theater, waiting to buy some popcorn. Middle-aged woman in front of me.

Woman: Hey, one medium popcorn with a medium Coke.

Cashier: Sure thing. (Cashier starts pouring up Coke.)

Woman: Excuse me, I would prefer if the ice cubes were on the bottom.

Cashier: That's ... not possible.

Woman: But I want it that way.

Cashier: I cannot do that, it's literally impossible.

Woman then grabbed the popcorn and walked away without paying.

| Alepale

I worked in an office and a new office manager was brought in. She put up playground mirrors around the office so that she could see us sitting at our desks without having to leave her office.

It was just absurd. I started looking for a new position that same day and thankfully found one very quickly.

That lady was cray cray.

| taniapdx

I used to be a board operator for an AM talk radio station. The job paid $6.75 an hour.

One day, our intern was going through the mail and opened an envelope containing a threatening letter and a bunch of white powder. She screamed. The program director called 911.

Within minutes, a HAZMAT crew was on scene, the FBI had a mobile lab on site to analyze the powder, and the building was under quarantine. ...

The station owner called me and told me I needed to stay and keep the station on the air. We were a local news station, after all, and this was most definitely news that needed covering.

He told me I would have to be the last one out, that that was my job. I owed it to our listeners to keep them informed. And, after all, if it really was anthrax, I had already inhaled it, so it wouldn't make a difference if I left now or in four hours.

It was in that moment that I realized my life was worth more than $6.75 an hour. ... So I quit.

(It was an inert, non-organic powder. They were never able to conclusively identify it, but we were all safe.)

| McWalkerson

I used to be an office manager for an excavation company. I was visiting a job site one day, and the owner of the company was the only one there doing work.

He asked me to get in the bucket of the excavator, and he would lift me up in the air to unhook a power line from a telephone pole.

I straight up said, "You don't pay me enough."

He responded with, "Fair enough, you get in the excavator and lift me up in the air."

I'd never operated a machine like this, and I have to say it was pretty terrifying having someone's life in your hands like that.

| vtaznj

I was an attendant at Chuck E. Cheese's, 16 years old, and making minimum wage. One part of my job was to wear the mouse suit and dance around for birthday parties.

It's important to note that the costume includes this giant mouse head, which severely limits your vision.

One day, I was going through the motions when I feel a tug on my cape. Then I hear an angry whisper, "I'm taking you down, Chuckie" and a couple other kids start trying to take me down.

Now, I wasn't a small kid, 6 feet and pretty sturdy, so I managed to swat them away and make it back into the dressing room. But I had bruises on my shins from being kicked, and parts of the costume were torn.

That was my last day as a walkaround character at Chuck E. Cheese.

| WillPE

I work at a cigar lounge, and I hate it when people ask me to light their cigar for them.

I mean, I'll help you — I'll cut it, I'll hold the match, I'll tell you if you need to turn it or relight it.

But please don't ask me to stick your cigar in my mouth and light it, then give it to you. That's like asking me to drink some of your whiskey, swish it in my mouth, then spit it into yours.

| MamaXerxes

When I was 13, it was bring your child to work day and my dad took me with him. At the southeast corner of the office was a "Break Room," children were entitled to sit there if they wanted to, [and] I went there to get the bitter hot chocolate with marshmallows.

Just then — a clerk walks in and asks me to serve him a coffee, I asked him why and he gave me the most weird look as if I had said something stupid and then he said "because you work here." I told him that I had come with my dad and he got really embarrassed.

Turns out that the poor fella was new and it was his second day.

| Flamingskullion

My boss informed me by email that I needed to be on call while my wife was in labor with our first child and that I would have to come in on the day my wife was to be induced in order to complete some "vital" tasks.

Needless to say, I responded unequivocally that I would not be there that day and I would not be responding to work-related messages while my first child was being delivered.

I don't work there any more.

| trenthamm

I was working in a retail hardware store as a cashier, and I once got asked by a customer where the wood was.

I asked him him what kind of wood he wanted, because we have plywood, studs, boards, etc. He then turned around kept yelling louder and louder, "THE WOOD WHERE IS THE WOOD?"

I pointed down one of the aisles, standing there in front of the aisles where we have all our wood, in stunned amazement.

| ShadowTemplar59

[I] worked at a bank. There was a guy with a negative $80 in his account (overdrawn). He kept arguing that he had $80 in his account.

It took an hour to explain to him the concept of going negative, even getting into some sort of "if Jimmy had 10 apples" scenario.

On the plus side, he DID get it finally. I could see the light shine in his eyes as he finally grasped what was going on.

| themonkeygrinder

[I] was flying a jet full of tech people to SXSW. Eight seats on the plane, and they were all full.

First thing in the morning, the passengers started having drinks. Two hours into the flight someone taps me on the shoulder and says "Captain, the toilet isn't working."

It was working just fine, but the tank was "at capacity." We could either land the plane and delay for a while, or they could hold it. Meanwhile, I had to pull on some rubber gloves, grab the knife from the bagel tray, and try to go Super Mario on the airplane's lavatory.

So there I was at 41,000 feet, plunging a toilet with a plastic knife thinking, "I'm too old for this [bleep]."

| Meisterspork