The Best and Worst Parts About Your Job

["Hollywood" Cactus Matt]

I work as a cook at a sports bar here in town called Longneck's. (if you're ever in the Holland, MI area, look us up - our ribs kick ass and the fajitas aren't bad, either!) Throughout the course of the day, I both love and hate my job, sometimes simultaneously. I thought it would be both interesting and therapeutic to make this thread to find out what other 'Crappers like and dislike the most about their place of employment; blue-collar, white-collar, or no-collar, if you have a job, there has to be both good and bad points, right?

I'll start.

WHAT I LIKE:

• I really do like cooking. It's relaxing for me to do - strange as that might sound - and I really do enjoy hearing, "Hey Matt, table 17 really liked that burrito you made; they wanted me to tell you personally."
  
  
• I generally get along with everyone; the restaurant manager, a guy named Hank, is pretty funny and doesn't let the stress of often-rude customers get him down.
  
  
• For the most part, the other cooks seem to know what they're doing, which means there are fewer mistakes for me to fix.

WHAT I DON'T LIKE[/b]

• When the ticket comes back asking for a steak to be cooked medium rare, I cook it medium rare, and the steak gets sent back because "it's not cooked enough." Medium rare means a warm pink center, not burned all to hell. Please, learn how to order.
  
  
• Part of the cooks' responsibilities is to keep the dishes cleaned and stocked; basically, during down-time, I'm also the dishwasher. Well, not only does this put me behind more often than not when I have a lot of other, cooking-related things to do, but it means I have to interact with my favorite kind of customer: the drunken belligerent one. You see, the bus tubs are kept next to the bar, so when the drunks customers see me come out of the kitchen, they think they can talk to me. They think that I'm not busy. They think that they are funny.
  
  I think that they are annoying.
  
  
• Mary. That b****. She sends an order back for a well-done steak; it's going to be at least seven minutes, and that's if I'm not cooking anything else. So what does she do? She comes back two minutes after her steak order is in and asks when it's going to be ready. "Come on, Matt! These people want their food!" Yeah, well, if they didn't want me to ruin a perfectly good piece of meat (I have a long-standing personal vendetta over any steak cooked darker than medium, and even then that's "too cooked") they should have ordered it medium rare. Stupid.
  
  
• Sometimes, even though I was just singing their praises about how competent they are, the other (day/lunch) cooks don't leave me with enough prep. I run out of vegetables, or the spicy chicken for the burritos is frozen, or the burger meat isn't thawed, something. It's annoying, but I make do.

OK, so that was my list. What about you?

[gsguy]

Worst:
-Bad management
-Application process is 95% online, 5% verbal interaction
-Online pysch test is impossible to pass on the first try
-Most eemployees clueless

Best:
-I leave in a week ;D

[Psy]

Freelance writing:

Pros:
I like to write.
When the money is good, it's very good.

Cons:
I hate deadlines.
Editors are mostly jerks.
The money is rarely good.
To get good money you have to build a portfolio with each and every market.
Most markets do not like to pay much for starters.
It's hard to get "in" with a market.
Competition with peers is cut-throat.
You have to work even harder to sell your work than you do to write it in the first place.

["Magic" Mark Hurr]

Walmart Stocking:

Pros - Clocking out

Cons - Clocking in

if it wasn't for the first dibs at Transformers, Marvel Legends, and WWE figures that palce would be total bs.

[Deleted]

Pros:
-I work with people I get along with
-Very relaxed environment
-Sometimes, I can be finished only hours after I go inn (like today)

Cons:
-I ain't climbing the ladder with this job
-It doesn't pay me a whole lot, so if I want something better paying, I better find something else

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

I....live off of Social Security. So I don't work. My pros and cons, however are:

Pros:

- No work
- Decent Pay
- More sleep
- I'm my own boss
- I create my work schedule

Cons:

- I hate my boss
- I hate my schedules
- The money stops coming June 2008.

[acressl]

I've been at Fed-Ex Ground for about a year now and in that time have went from being a nobody unload pup to a floating badass. I go where the problems are and I eliminate them.
Pros:
-I enjoy serious physical labor. The wrestling fan in me gets off on power lifting random heavy stuff and throwing it around.
-I enjoy the fact that people now depend on me and trust my judgement. Thus, bosses are not shoved up my ass and I'm free to go about it all as I see fit. I do what I want, so long as I am also able to do what they want.
-We just hired a lovely young lady I'm quite taken with. Smart girl. I forget about them. I haven't seen one in the wild in god knows how long. Only in captivity.
-The pay is halfway decent for me right now. $10.25. I don't have many financial obligations at the moment.

Cons:
-The shift absolutely sucks. 3:00 A.M. to about 7:30-8:00 A.M. It's a Tuesday to Saturday gig. Getting up at three never gets easier for me. Meh.
-There's an abundance of substandard employees that directly impact my situation. Though as I understand it, this is not a Fed-Ex exclusive. I know different people have different abilities and levels of understanding, I'm talking about the people that actually go into work with the mindset to do as little as humanly possible and perhaps even apply themself to figure out how to avoid, minimize or pawn work off on others. The hiding in the bathroom kids.
-Only getting about twenty-five to thirty hours at this time. It's literally just enough to scrape by.

All in all, it's not a bad job but it has it's flaws. Too many chiefs and not enough indians.

[gmanquik]

Working at a university dining hall...for a little bit longer.

PROS
-Decent money.
-Fairly easy work.

CONS
-No opportunity for advancement
-The students/customers are bigger slobs than usual
-Cliques, cliques, cliques!
-Ungrateful, backstabbing co-workers (the whole lot of them, not just one or two)
-Long drive, including up a mountain
-Bi-weekly checks, that are often lost somewhere in Pennsylvania; thank god for direct deposit.
-Health coverage is available, but the rates keep going up and up, far too expensive for even the most diehard worker to get and keep
-Very stressful on the arms and wrists; working more than 5 days in a row is begging for carpal tunnel syndrome
-Never, EVER enough help! Often times, you can walk in and find 8 managers, and 2-3 actual workers, leaving all the work to the 2-3, even during a huge 2000-person rush.

I'll be leaving in a couple weeks, so I'm not too concerned anymore

[Limey]

Pros:

-Good money.
-Friendly people.

Cons:

-I work in a giant ****ing fridge.
-Long hours, forcing me to keep in the giant ****ing fridge.
-Strain of lugging around heavy boxes and pallets in the giant ****ing fridge which means I could either take off layers and get a chill or keep layers on and drown in my own sweat. There's no middle ground.


*Sigh*. I wish I was back in Uni.

[Viking Snad]

Pros

I don't work.

Cons

I don't work.

[Matt Rogers]

Unemployed Author:

Pros:
- Choose my own hours
- Work from home
- Creative Freedom

Cons:
- No Money.

[Klutch]

Pros:
the hot chicks
the repoing
upcoming promotion

Cons:
the long hours
the idiotic customers

[Mattification]

Bouncer:

Cons:
- The Abuse
- The Danger

Pros:
- The Chicks

[Harmonica]

cactusmatt said:

I work as a cook at a sports bar here in town called Longneck's. (if you're ever in the Holland, MI area, look us up - our ribs kick ass and the fajitas aren't bad, either!) Throughout the course of the day, I both love and hate my job, sometimes simultaneously. I thought it would be both interesting and therapeutic to make this thread to find out what other 'Crappers like and dislike the most about their place of employment; blue-collar, white-collar, or no-collar, if you have a job, there has to be both good and bad points, right?

I'll start.

WHAT I LIKE:

• I generally get along with everyone; the restaurant manager, a guy named Hank, is pretty funny and doesn't let the stress of often-rude customers get him down.
  

Wait wait wait... Is your manager Hank Scorpio?

[Wolfpack Bitch]

I work for an inventory company

Pros :
~ pick and choose my own schedule for the most part
~ I have seniority so I count wherever I want to
~ money is good because of the seniority
~ highest ranking non- office person in the district
~ work somewhere different each day

Cons :
~ no steady hours. I can work anything from 15 - 70 hours in one week.
~ benefits suck
~ company is under new ownership and they're micromanaging the HELL out of us
~ never know how long an inventory will last. Could be there for 3 hours or 13 hours. Work till you're done.

[humanoid]

I sell cars.

Pros: Very little actual work, great money.

Cons: People are idiots, straight commision so a bad month can be really bad.

[Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action]

I work at a family owned video store, we own two of them.

Pros:
- I am the manager, and my only boss is my grandfather
- This place has a very "Get your job done and you'll be okay" type of atmosphere. We're not the kind to stay all over someone (me in this example) just because they aren't ALWAYS doing something so long as what needs to get done gets done.
- It's more like working with friends rather than co-workers.
- Free movies, no late fees.
- The good customers that you can get to know on a personal basis.
- We got the internet and are allowed to use it, I'm at work right now actually.
- I get bonuses if we do good enough in a week, however we haven't done that good in a while.
- I get paid for my 40 hours no matter what. If I miss a day because I'm sick I get it, if I take a day off I get it, etc etc.


Cons:
- Being his grandson he expects more out of me than others, so I tend to be the only one to hear any griping.
- With two stores and a current grand total of 4 employees (including me and my grandfather) it's VERY hard to take any time off.
- I almost have to be a bar tender/shrink to some of the customers because they come in here and talk about everything like I've been their best friend for umpteen years.
- Not really any room to get a raise as bussiness hasn't been great for a while now.
- Being the manager means I have to keep track of a LOT of stuff, and in different ways. Believe me keeping up with an inventory of 8,000+ movies that are always coming and going is no picnic. And dealing with some of the people that have those movies isn't either.

[Chucklehead,baby!!!]

my old job at kmart


LIKES

hot girls coming in with barely anything on

short days

always have extra shifts

some customers actually will tip me.


DISLIKES

ghetto/trailer trash of all colors coming in with their food stamp card with $1,000 on it and complaining about prices. if its free money,why would you b**** about it?

racist people that come in and dont want to be helped/rung up by anyone other than someone of their own race.

people who put things in lay away and dont come get them.

the crazy guy who'd come in the store and be found in the bathroom with his meat on the hand dryer and saying "im just trying to dry off" when he gets asked what hes doing by management

how the management was so racist they'd peg me for the thief even with a spotless record while the poor lil innocent white girl walks out with $2,000 of her register money and is never heard from again.

dumb thieves.

people who hand you obviously fake money and expect you to take it.

[Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action]

acealive1 said:

racist people that come in and dont want to be helped/rung up by anyone other than someone of their own race.

That is crazy. I don't even see how even if someone felt that way they could work up the nerve to state that. People are ridiculous.

It reminds me of one guy I should have put in my Cons list. At our other store that I only work at once every Blue Moon this one guy comes in EVERY DAY and he is one of the most racist guys I have ever had the displeasure of talking to. I'm like, just because I'm white doesn't mean I want to hear your crap guy. Usually we got him in check and he doesn't say mess, but when I'm there he's knows I'm not the normal guys so it's his time to spout off. I really hate it.

[drclaw]

snoodles said:

Pros

I don't work.

Cons

I don't work.