Downsides of Your Job.

The fact that this job could be a temporary job and work might tell me that they don't need me anymore after their store has calmed down after its opening.

I love this job and everything about it. I never want to leave.

Downside of the job is having people ignore my availability.

I have open availability except for Tuesday nights. I can work 8-4 on Tuesday, but I take the nights off for my poker night.

Except I've worked the last five Tuesdays.

I requested my boyfriend's birthday (Friday) off a little late and didn't get it off, which is fine. My boss said she might be able to get me the weekend off in exchange for my Tuesday night shift and I said fine. Later she came over and said she couldn't get me the weekend off, but she needed me to work Tuesday anyway.

To which I replied, "you do realize I take Tuesday nights off and this is the sixth week in a row it will be ignored". She asked if my availability request had gone through in the system and I said yes and she gave me Tues. night off after looking into it, but seriously? You're just going to be like 'oh, btw, taking your night off AND making you work the weekend'?

If they want full-time availability I damn well better be getting full-time hours.

I work for a professional football team, and both the people I work with and the team's fans are absolutely unbearable at times. For a 1pm game, you have to be in at 8:30am. It's not that bad, since you use all the time in between to do briefings and get to your posts, but then you're there until 6 or 7 at night. That's almost a 12-hour shift and you only get one 15-minute break.

Take yesterday for example. It was my team's first home game of the season and it was absolute mayhem. I relieved a guy so he could take his 15-minute break and he just left. Just went home without telling anyone so I had to do the rest of his shift which meant I wasn't getting my break until it was almost time to go home anyway. Another woman I was working with also left, so we were severely understaffed.

There's a catering company that works for the stadium and some of its employees are the worst. They have no tact and will openly hit on you/harass you, especially if you're young. Most of the people I work with are over 40, so if you're my age you basically have a target on your back. No matter how many times you tell your supervisors, they just write up an incident report but nothing ever comes of it.

I think the fans are the worst, though. I was running the elevators yesterday and stadium policy is that individuals in wheelchairs load first (which is also basic common courtesy). One woman asked if she could come on the elevator and I asked her politely if she could wait for the next one, since it was pretty crowded and I didn't want to make the people in the wheelchairs uncomfortable. She told me it was bullshit and that I could kiss her fucking ass. She gave me the finger as the doors were closing.

No matter what you do, everyone's so unappreciative and condescending. The only thing that makes it manageable is that it's only one day a week, sometimes only once or twice a month, and since you work since long hours the pay is good. I need that to pay my bills so unless I find something else, I have to deal with it.

Seeing so much suffering of others. Watching old people die, and worse, watching young people die. Seeing the baddest and the ugliest of humans, how they live, what they do to one another. The neglect of those you're meant to care for, blatant disregard. Cold-blooded attacks, the abuse. The six month old with a broken leg, the gang member beaten with a bat and set on fire, the brain-damaged child sat in front of the TV so long he had contractures and was covered in flea bites while his drug addicted mother collected a check. The disgusting things you see. And smell, good god.

Having to worry about getting an accident, being hit by a car on the side of the highway, or being attacked. Or being exposed to communicable diseases (fun stuff, I assure you). The stress that the decisions you make could impact someone's life (or chance at it) so much. The strangers you can still close your eyes and see....

Long hours, low pay, politics, the typical workplace BS. Nothing I'm not used to, or can't deal with. Downsides included, I still love my job.

The fact you always have to look busy even if you're not. No cell phones, one short break barely enough for a meal (and unpaid!), no music, no reading. You always have to mess with something. And dealing with people, children especially. Indecisive people, rude people, stupid people. It's just so damn tedious.

Seeing how some family can treat their family that's in need. Seeing the mess that some have to live in because no one can spare a bit of their time to help. When family try to say you aren't doing enough, when what they want us to do is against the rules and can get us fired. That I get paid 7.55 and barely have enough for gas to get back and to.

I work at a gymnastics gym, I coach and I work front desk.

The worst part of my job:

I work for a family member...
(which is miserable, mind you)
I hate the manager there.
I hate the people that I work with.
And the parents that walk in; are rude.

Yeah.

Would love to write about my job's downsides.

My boss goes hard every freakin' day. He runs his restaurant the way he wants to run it and he doesn't bend over backwards to fulfill all the customer's wishes. It's just a pain because a lot of customers are so entitled these days and they think that we have to do exactly what they want, then they go full crazy when we say no. After working at Starbucks where we just kind of kissed ass all day, I do like that fact that my boss doesn't.

The self-entitled people that come through. That is the big downside of my job. It's also hard to get days off because I don't like to take days off, because I like getting paid 200 plus a week.

Annoying impatient little kids. Having to set up heavy ass shit for the laser tag games. Driving far for parties. The fact that the company is home based, so my bosses are husband and wife & and they're creepy AF. Standing around for two hours when kids don't want to play, or having to re set up the gun display cause kids don't know how to put things back in their place...somewhat neatly.

I've only work two shifts..and I'm quitting this weekend. So not what I can do right now. HOPEFULLY my interview for another job goes well tomorrow.

perf.:

Having to set up heavy ass shit for the laser tag games.

But it has to be worth it. Laser-tag is the closest we'll ever come to the Battle Room from Ender's Game.

Long hours and no breaks, almost always getting sick with whatever the children have, screaming and crying, but hey, that's the life of a nanny for ya! :) I wouldn't trade it for anything, though.

@ pyrite pirate

It would be had it not been for the fact that it's a weekend job, I need to save up for a place :/

@ perf.
Oh, that's terrible. Weekends are for fun, not work.
I hope you get that over with soon, then.

I have a rather long list.

incompetent people who love to rip clothing off the hangers and just leaving it on the ground, taking things off the tables and just throwing it back there, trying on clothes and just leaving them on the ground, over the hooks or just on top of anything close by.

I had a rather stupid manager who was filling in for my regional manager. We had our VM and basically I was told to flip the store around (Full price to the front and sale towards the back) that was it. I found out on the day that there was a directive that this stupid manager should've sent through to our stores.

I currently have to drive an hour and a half because I was asked to care take a store that is absolutely dead.

Other than that, I love my job. I love basically all the people I work with (besides one) my manager is amazing and I adore him. I have a lot of fun, but retail is very stressful sometimes.

The fact that they're getting rid of lifestyle shifts. I can't work specific days because of university but that doesn't seem to matter. I think my Ops Manager just wants everyone on set shift patterns, he doesn't really care enough to check that your shift pattern suits your lifestyle as the old shifts did. Tying into that, the fact that scheduling don't seem to approve any request for holidays any more. Your request either gets confirmed straight away or it doesn't go through at all and you can be waiting right up until that day to find out if you're off or not. It didn't used to be like that either, that's the worst part.

Also, the new lights. I'm getting rather sick of leaving the building with severe headaches caused by how ridiculously bright they are.

A total downside to my job is me being the only reliable person within the small department I work in. Mainly because there are two other girls who work afternoon/night shift in the deli and, even though it's basically their one and only shift that week, without fail they usually call in sick. Not in the same week - one of them seems to do it one week and the other does it the next week. And it doesn't happen every week, just once in a while - maybe every two weeks or so.

But still. I'm the only one they actually call to cover the shifts (pretty much making me feel guilty if I DON'T take it), so that's really starting to get to me. The money is a huge plus, but the fact that these girls are still allowed to work there, despite what they're doing, is beyond ridiculous.

Working in retail, definitely those customers. Anyone who works or has worked in retail knows exactly who I'm talking about. I work at a garden center/greenhouse/nursery/florist, and when I first started, I didn't know diddly about plants. Now, almost 2 years later, I have a bit more knowledge under my belt. People (usually men, no offense to men) seem to believe that because I'm young (I'm 22, not 14...) and female, it means I don't my stuff when I hear questions about it. Orchids? I could tell you a lot about orchids. Mulching? Yeah I can handle that too. Yet I get a few people who request to see/speak to a male if he's around. Then I have the customers that believe they're entitled to discounts because they spend $250 on shrubs. In this industry, $250 isn't all that much. Yet people still have the nerve to ask for discounts, even when I tell them A) I don't have the authority to give discounts and B) people come in that spend $500-$1000 every week that don't get discounts. If I gave someone a discount for spending $250, I'd have to give everyone discounts and that would be bad for business.

Then I had one customer, an older man who called just before we closed to order flowers for the next morning, a Sunday. We don't typically deliver Sundays unless it's a funeral or a wedding, but since he wanted wrapped roses, my manager said it was fine. This guy was an absolute jerk and I wish I hadn't taken the phone call. He was nothing but rude to me while I was taking his order. Every time I take any kind of order, I always repeat the customer's information back to him to make sure I've got everything, what he wants, date of delivery, etc. He had the audacity to tell me to hurry it up. Not to mention, when I clarified that his address was the same address as the recipient, he responds, "Well, yes. She's my wife, though I doubt you'd know anything about that." EXCUSE YOU? I have never wanted to cry when dealing with a customer, but I had to bite back tears when talking to this ass.

Anyway, story time's over, but there are my complaints for working in retail. But, let me just end it by saying the good customers definitely outweigh the bad.

My coworkers and the truckers leased on with us are unbelievably racist. I hate it but if I speak up I lose my job.