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Thanks for all the advice and shennanigans guys, it did cheer me up.

But lying here in bed with the boyfriend still at work, a stinking cold and having been told this evening that although the interview I went on this morning was perfect and couldn't be faulted, someone else had more experience and was offered the job; I'm still dwelling on this.

I worked shit hours serving drinks I can't afford to rude, drunk people over horrible deafening music

Before that I worked for a management team who wrote a list of what they didn't like about each member of staff and then accidentally pinned it to the notice board.

Before that I worked minumum wage deep cleaning the campus halls of residence - a DISGUSTING job where I dealt with food that had been left to rot for months, maggots, earwigs, bathrooms coated in mould. And on top of that we were all housed in 3 adjoining flats on campus, so whilst all my friends went off to their hometowns and on holiday I was stuck in a place where the only person I knew was my boyfriend who had been put in the next bedroom to me and was cheating on me.

I've worked evenings and weekends at Sainsburys whilst doing full time A Levels and I've worked every hour of the day as a fucking elf in a busy shopping centre over christmas.

I have never worked a job where I didn't have to deal with arseholes or health hazards and I've never been paid more that 25p over minumum wage and I have always given it my all. I work as hard as possible in every job I have ever done regardless of my personal situation and regardless of how shit the job is. But none of this seems to matter, I still end up with a complete cunt for a manager who doesn't give a shit that I really was trying to do my job properly. And its not like I can go into a job interview and just say to them, I know this is a basic job that any idiot can do, but with me you really would be getting someone so painfully honest and hard-working that I would always do my best regardless of how menial the job is and thats really what you need. Partly because its inappropriate and partly because no one would believe it.

Sorry, I know its a huge self pitying rant but this has really just been the icing on the cake this month and its pushed me over the edge (plus I decided that I was going to treat myself to the thorntons chocolate box I keep walking past in the supermarket and forbidding myself to get and when I got to there tonight they were fucking sold out)
 
You are clearly articulate and intelligent, based on your posts in this thread. Have you gone to agencies and looked at office work they may be able to put you forward for?
 
Maybe you're too nice and too eager? If people can walk all over you, they will. People often have a sadistic streak, especially those employing casual staff, so if you're a bit 'three bags full, Sir' people will piss all over you (as you've noted).
 
blooper said:
Maybe you're too nice and too eager? If people can walk all over you, they will. People often have a sadistic streak, especially those employing casual staff, so if you're a bit 'three bags full, Sir' people will piss all over you (as you've noted).
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And if you talk back they fire you because there's no shortage of people to take your place. :(
 
bluestreak said:
Bosses who steal from their staff, either for their own profit or even worse, to boost the company coffers, are subhuman scum who deserve to be hung up in cage in public squares to starve to death, if they survive the merciless attentions of passers-by.

That means you in particular, Ian who ran the Cross Keys in St Albans when I worked there.
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You worked in that slopbucket?

((((bluestreak))))
 
red rose said:
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I came away really shaken and upset. He deliberately paid me with a note he knew was fake so that either I would be essentially docked for the note I had accepted or I would have to come in for him to ridicule me after I was told that everything had been sorted and was ok.

If that sort of thing every happens to me in future (at another job, I'm obviously not going back to that one :mad: ) what can or should I do? :

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That is one of the shabbiest things I've read an employer do. :mad:
 
I hope you've not told them that you won't be turning up for your next shift. I know it's not much but leaving the twat short staffed for at least a night gets back at him just a little bit. :D
 
jonnyd1978 said:
I hope you've not told them that you won't be turning up for your next shift. I know it's not much but leaving the twat short staffed for at least a night gets back at him just a little bit. :D
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....or drop a case of very expensive brandy in the cellar...WHOOPS! butter fingers...sowwy....silly me. :)
 
ViolentPanda said:
You worked in that slopbucket?

((((bluestreak))))
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Great learning curve mate. I learnt a lot about how to rip off punters, break up fights without getting your face mashed in, and about how JD Wetherspoon operates on a system that encourages staff to rip off suppliers, punters, their own staff etc etc.
 
Its the one next to KFC.

I had actually handed in my notice before my Saturday shift because of all the rude or nasty customers. I hadn't heard about the stabbing but two weeks ago someone smashed the front window at 5am and came in whilst the staff were clearing up, and I see the police out front so often.

But I'd offered to work the shifts that I'd already been rota-ed for and I finished my Saturday shift on good terms with all the other staff, they even asked me to stay and offered to let me work the front bar every shift where its quieter if I'd stay.

I've handed in my CV all over the place and I'm registered on a bunch of job-hunting websites but I hadn't thought of agencies. I'm giving myself today off and I'll sort out the agency stuff on Monday, thanks for that suggestion.
 
Current user rating: 4.9/10 (rated by 28 users)
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Dropped down 0.7/10 since this thread started so continued effort should wipe this place off the scale.

Time for my comments maybe?
 
are many pubs such shit places to work in :confused:

i worked in one once where every time the till was short they tried to make the bar staff who worked that shift pay the shortfall from their wages. is that legal? :mad: and when the minimum wage went up the manager said it didn't apply so we wouldn't be getting an increase :rolleyes:

eta: good luck with the job hunting red rose, you can do so much better :)
 
red rose said:
I've worked evenings and weekends at Sainsburys whilst doing full time A Levels and I've worked every hour of the day as a fucking elf in a busy shopping centre over christmas.
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:D ((red rose)))

As G2 said - you seem pretty bright.

I run a recruitment business (and before the chorus starts about wicked recruiters....we're the nice/nicer guys). We're very specialist, but if you want to pick my brains on general interview techniques, letters, CV stuff, references etc etc, feel free. PM anytime.

No matter how bleak your prospects may seem, nor how badly you've been burned by your previous working experiences, there is always hope. Promise you. :)
 
I worked in a pub in East Finchley where the punters used to write their names on the notes before handing them over, so often were they short changed at the bar. '£20? Are you sure, mate? Have to wait till we've cashed up at the end of the night. We've met your type before.....'.
Absolute bloody policy.

I might have suggested that one.
 
Love this kind of thing (careful now) and now know more (horrid) stuff about this pub than I di before the thread was started. I never go to Woolwich but if I did I might not pop in this place for a half :)

4.6/10 as things stand

:)
 
red rose said:
Thanks for all the advice and shennanigans guys, it did cheer me up.

But lying here in bed with the boyfriend still at work, a stinking cold and having been told this evening that although the interview I went on this morning was perfect and couldn't be faulted, someone else had more experience and was offered the job; I'm still dwelling on this.

I worked shit hours serving drinks I can't afford to rude, drunk people over horrible deafening music

Before that I worked for a management team who wrote a list of what they didn't like about each member of staff and then accidentally pinned it to the notice board.

Before that I worked minumum wage deep cleaning the campus halls of residence - a DISGUSTING job where I dealt with food that had been left to rot for months, maggots, earwigs, bathrooms coated in mould. And on top of that we were all housed in 3 adjoining flats on campus, so whilst all my friends went off to their hometowns and on holiday I was stuck in a place where the only person I knew was my boyfriend who had been put in the next bedroom to me and was cheating on me.

I've worked evenings and weekends at Sainsburys whilst doing full time A Levels and I've worked every hour of the day as a fucking elf in a busy shopping centre over christmas.

I have never worked a job where I didn't have to deal with arseholes or health hazards and I've never been paid more that 25p over minumum wage and I have always given it my all. I work as hard as possible in every job I have ever done regardless of my personal situation and regardless of how shit the job is. But none of this seems to matter, I still end up with a complete cunt for a manager who doesn't give a shit that I really was trying to do my job properly. And its not like I can go into a job interview and just say to them, I know this is a basic job that any idiot can do, but with me you really would be getting someone so painfully honest and hard-working that I would always do my best regardless of how menial the job is and thats really what you need. Partly because its inappropriate and partly because no one would believe it.

Sorry, I know its a huge self pitying rant but this has really just been the icing on the cake this month and its pushed me over the edge (plus I decided that I was going to treat myself to the thorntons chocolate box I keep walking past in the supermarket and forbidding myself to get and when I got to there tonight they were fucking sold out)
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Join the Army. You could be taking it all out on brown people who no-one cares about just six months from now.

And on 15kilopounds or thereabouts with free boots.
 
I think I used to drink in that pub - it was horrendous! RR you have my full sympathy! I think belushi may be able to confirm and remember some horror stories
 
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