I worked in a machine shop for a little over 3 months, and it was full of some the worst work culture I’ve ever seen. I decided to work this job Since I’m going to school for electrical work, and I worked building very basic electro-mechanical assemblies.
The second I walked in my first day, they’re screaming homophobic slurs across the shop. I’m bi and I have a lot of gay family, but I just said fuck it, I want the work to get something better, even if just for the experience on the resume.
I fucked up for expecting different things to happen.
On top of school shooting and neo-nazi level jokes, in a crowded ass work space, I’m moving tons of metal, having to move shit without the proper equipment, almost getting hit in the face with metal constantly. In one instance, I had to block a co-worker from getting injured by a couple hundreds of pounds of piping falling, dude was bruised as hell after, but manned through it because he didn’t want to “make it a problem” at the time, just because the culture birthed at this company.
Just being put into so much overtime, I could literally just see that people literally made more mistakes and literally less product, and that it affected everyone’s lives and relationships.
This is all on top of the fact that I was making 17 an hour as an industrial cleaner/dishwasher, but 1 6 . 5 0 to actually produce a physical product. Overtime doesn’t make up for shitty pay, and don’t let anyone convince you otherwise that the time spent in your life doing it is worth it.
I’m sorry to myself that I thought I had to put up with that, but also sorry to the rest of the people that have to do this shit everyday. I honestly just got fed up with it, have a job lined up already, but don’t settle for people that just make you feel gross and uncomfortable being around them.