So before my current job, I worked at Checkers for two years and 7-Eleven for five months and both jobs sucked so bad and I’m curious if any other people have similar experiences.
Starting with Checkers, my first ever job, It didn’t start out that bad, other than me fainting my second day, but as time passed I started to realize how shit the job actually was.
Firstly, there was little to no AC. It would work sometimes, but if it was too hot out it just wouldn’t turn on. Keep in mind this is in Florida, in a tiny building full of fryers and ovens, in the summer it could get to be 100+ degrees in that kitchen. We begged for the owner to get it fixed and he never did.
Second, there was a gas leak for months before the owner did anything about it. We told him about it as soon as we smelled the gas and he just brushed it off and said he’d deal with it when he had the money. Me and some other co workers tried anonymously reporting it to OSHA but they said they don’t deal with gas leaks and that that is the fire department’s problem. It took the boss coming and smelling the gas for himself for him to actually do anything about it.
And then there was everything else wrong with the place, boss making workers stay for hours in the middle of the night during a town wide power outage, the employees having to buy their own equipment because the boss took our equipment home and never gave it back, refusing to fire a creepy pedo that made all the girls uncomfortable, the fact that I’m 90% sure my manager was a cannibal, and that’s not even all of it.
And then you have 7-Eleven and omg.
It was definitely not as bad as Checkers but it was just ugh.
It was okay in the beginning, I didn’t love the job but I needed the money so I dealt with it.
That was until my boss moved me from one location to another a good half an hour away. I wasn’t to bothered by the drive but what really bothered me was the new boss and his wife (who also worked there).
They were football parents to two boys who they would bring to work and yell at constantly. Every other minute you’d hear, “SHUT THE FUCK UP!” From the back room.
The boss was just gruff and angry but his wife hated me for some reason. I have literally no idea why.
I wouldn’t do something I wasn’t told to do or do something I was never trained to do incorrectly and she would just go off on me.
She made me stay 45 minutes after my shift ended once because I hadn’t cleaned something (that I was never told to clean) and the entire time she was talking shit about me to my coworker who had offered to clean the thing for me so I could go home, saying shit like, “this is what she gets for half assing her job,” and, “I don’t know who she thinks she is but she needs to learn there’s consequences.”
Keep two things in mind, one, she wasn’t even on the clock she just came to take a pic of something for her husband, and two, I wasn’t getting paid for this extra 45 minutes.
After I moved locations my new boss couldn’t figure out how to enter me into the system, so I couldn’t clock in or out, I just got paid based on the hours on my schedule.
That is, if I got paid at all. Because I wasn’t in the system, my boss couldn’t send my pay check to my card, so I just wasn’t getting paid at all. The first time I asked him about this he brushed me off and told me it would be fixed soon.
A week later, when it still wasn’t fixed, I confronted him about it again. Rather than give me an actual answer about when I would be getting my paychecks, he just went into the register and handed me cash. No taxes taken out or nothing.
And he only gave me the cash for THAT week. I had to hound him to give me the rest of the money he owed me.
That’s the point where I quit. No notice, I just wasn’t gonna deal with it anymore.
I should also point out that I was working around 8 hours at both of these jobs and neither of them gave breaks. Unless it was a smoke break.