Issue 7 Contents

 

Bad Jobs

From dramaprincess@hotmail.comMon Aug 10 07:53:31 1998
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 16:21:25 PDT
From: Airika Actouka
To: whatever@whatevermagazine.com
Subject: boy, do i have a bad job story
Dear Whatever people:
My name is Airika ( sounds like "erica") Actouka, but everyone calls me princess. I live on Saipan in the Northern Marianas Islands. My first job was at the "Liberation Day Carnival." Since we are a territory of the USA, we celebrate July Fourth, but instead of calling it "July Fourth", everyone here calls it "Liberation Day." I don't. I was born in Hawaii and I like the Fourth of July. Anyways, I had to work in this kiddie booth called "Happy's Place." (Cheesy I know.) The first day I got there, the boss had forgotten that he hired me. He told me that he was drunk the night he signed me up. Then he told me that my designated job would be to be the coordinator of the games the kids would play. That meant that I would have to call kids over to the booth, take their money, explain how to play, then let them play, and then give them really idiotic prizes that i wouldn't want if i were a kid. The first night wasn't half bad. It was a friday night so all the little kids would come to play. Unfortunately it didn't stay like that. The second day I came into work, the boss had us clean the booth with raggy old towels and water that smelled like rotting eggs. We also had to put the toys up which took an hour or so. On top of that, the ground below us was bare. I was wearing white Fila sneakers and they were brown by the end of the night. Kids weren't coming to the carnival, not because of our booth, but because the carnival committee didn't advertise enough. Then the boss started drinking on work. He'd be drunk at midnight when our shifts ended and then he would try to con us out of money, becuase it was a "slow night." Slow night? I made over 200 dollars and he was trying to con me out of my four dollars an hour? (note: minimum wage here is only $3.05 ) Also, my co-workers were very annoying. There is no age limit when you start to work, so a couple of my co-workers were 12. One could not sing to save her life and would just burst into the chorus of a Hanson song. Ahhh!! It was torture. The really bad part of the job, was that 80% of the time, the kids would lose at the games and I would have to give then really stinky prizes like tiny toy cars that wouldn't roll and would be missing a wheel or two. Turning them away made me feel really guilty inside. I hate it when that happens. Well, i think that was a pretty awful job. Use it or not. Like it or hate it. Whatever.

~ciao~
princess


Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 21:45:03 -0700
From: "Brandi G."
To: whatever@whatevermagazine.com
Subject: Bad Job

My name is Karsira Fox and today while I was taking orders at Mc Donalds in Visalia the most popular girls at my school (Stacey James,Sandy Lee,Tiffany Ruiz,and Lisa Carson)each order a milkshake and fries.As if I was not already embaressed Lisa Carson and Sandy Lee yell ''Hey did you know Fatso worked here?"I was so mad.


From mmccarthy@voyager.netTue Jun 23 16:08:04 1998
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 21:11:43 -0400
From: michael
To: whatever@whatevermagazine.com
Subject: boo hoo hoo

i was harassed by mickey mouse in disney world when i was c hanging into my uniform. i pressed charges but lost.


From Clevelandfats@webtv.netMon Jun 29 09:08:38 1998
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 01:18:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Cleve.fats"
To: whatever@whatevermagazine.com

I USED TO BE A STRIPPER AND ONE TIME I DID IT WITH THE BOSS. HE WAS GREAT. BUT THE NEXT DAY HE CAME TO WORK WITH HIS WIFE. SO I BITCH SLAPPED HER AND HE FIRED ME SO I LOST MY HOUSE AND MY KIDS. BUT NOW IM A HOOKER ON FIFTH AVENUE.


From KURT-COBAIN@webtv.netMon Jun 29 09:08:01 1998
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 19:19:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: KURT-COBAIN@webtv.net
To: whatever@whatevermagazine.com
Subject: I have the worst job

I work as a teaching assistant for my school. I get paid practically nothing(minimum wage) and do all the work. The teaching assistants I work with run a hotel. We all come in everyday and work for 10 hours or so and only get a 15 minute lunch and it is cafeteria food anyway, and then we have to go to 4 hours of classes after or before work...depends on what time you go it. I work from 6am til about 3-4pm then I go to class at night from 6pm til 10 pm. It is hell....the managers treat us like crap and the guests are horrible! It really is the worst job a college kid could ever want!

His Site


From therage@mindspring.comMon Jun 29 09:09:24 1998
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:02:24 -0400
From: therage
To: whatever@whatevermagazine.com
Subject: Bad Job Story..

I was assigned by a temp agency to do a Windows 95 upgrade about 5 months ago for a local steel company..They "paired" with this total asshole who in addition to not doing a DAMN thing while there, persisted in trying to make my job/life HELL...Guy would unplug stuff you were working on, call you stupid, call EVERYONE stupid, take you tools and throw them through the air like knives at boxes full of NEW DELL computers, and on top of it, FART right beside you (or a woman) and then laugh about it..

I reported it to my immeadiate super, but guess who would up LOSING their job a month later?..You guessed it!..ME!..I was told I was nothing but a hardware/board swapper and that this other guy was the superior "software tech"..(the nimrod couldn't even do an XCOPY command or make a boot disk!)...

I thought about suing BUT HEH, this is a right-to-work state and anyway, the guy that "liked Fart Man" got canned himself about a month ago for "incompetence"...Life does sometimes dole out justice afterall..