I started a job as an intern and was assigned to work for this guy. He introduced himself and said, "I was against hiring interns and am going to work to fire you as fast as possible." I had no idea what to do with that. He told me to wait in the office break room. So, I waited to be fired. Then a lady walked in told me she was another manager, heard our conversation, and was taking me into her group as she was short staffed.
I showed up at a job first day and didn't have their clothing on. Not once in the process did they say I needed to come in for shirts. The manager threatened to write me up for not coming to work prepared! OK, so give me a shirt and I'll quickly go put it on, problem solved. Nope, they had to order them. So yeah I got sent home. I never went back.
The one about the person being fired and then training their replacement who's already clocked in is wild. If I were the new hire, that'd be my first and last day at that business. Imagine the very first onboarding experience at a new job basically being a warning about how abruptly and viciously your employment might end.
Years ago I taught at a private school in the Middle East. It wasn't uncommon to have inspection visits from the Ministry of Education to observe lessons, so when the headmistress interrupted a class I was teaching with a young woman in tow I assumed that was what was going on. I sat her at the back of the class, gave her my lesson plan book and a copy of the text book, and then carried on. It later transpired that she was actually my replacement! I wouldn't have been as polite and friendly to her if I'd known the truth. I found a new job quickly which actually paid better, so in a way she did me a favour.
This is bringing up some really bad memories of a job I had one summer while I was in college. I interviewed for a job at a used car dealership and the woman that interviewed me asked almost no questions. She took a look at my resume, asked me to write out the numbers 0 through 9 on a sheet of paper, announced "you'll do," and took me over to meet the owner of the dealership. They asked me when I could start and I said tomorrow, which happened to be a Friday. They wanted me to be the receptionist and also do some data entry. That sounded good to me, right up my alley. I started answering the phones and immediately the woman who had interviewed me and was supposedly training me, started telling me that I was doing it wrong. Then she said she was going to show me how to copy a file on a car that was being sold and she had me watch how she took the file all apart and copied everything in it and then put it all back together. So I did the next one and I was starting to feel very nervous because she was just staring at me and I made some comment about "gotta make sure I get all the bits and pieces!" Kind of laughing, trying to lighten the mood a little bit. And she yelled at me, "yeah, you'd better get all those bits and pieces because they're very important!" The next day, which was a Saturday, she wasn't there, it was her day off. The owner's wife was there instead and she was lovely. She answered the phones and I sat in the back doing data entry, entering 2 years worth of check stubs into an accounting system. But there was one book of check stubs that was missing. The owner's wife and I looked high and low for that one book of check stubs, and couldn't find it. Sunday the dealership was closed and so I was back on Monday to continue on. I mentioned to the woman who was training me that I couldn't find that one book of check stubs and she went to the drawer where they were kept, reached in, and pulled out from the very top that particular checkbook, and said "well it's right here. Don't know how you missed it!" I'm actually shaking, just remembering this, because I was so upset, and this was 30 years ago. I heard the woman telling the owner "I don't know why she should get paid as much as me when she obviously doesn't know what she's doing." Somewhere in the middle of all that they also told me that I would be expected to clean the office and the bathroom, and I was also going to have the title of office manager. And I was going to be paid $0.25 over minimum wage. After being treated so poorly by this woman who was supposedly training me, I quit. I just couldn't take it. I worked there not even quite 2 and 1/2 days and I just couldn't take it anymore. Later I found out that she was being forced to retire and to train her replacement, and she was scaring off every single person that they hired. They tried to get me to come back but I said "no thanks. I've already found another job."
I showed up to a new job. They didn't specify a time, so I thought 8 a.m would be a good time. I got told they sent me a mail I was supposed to show up at 9.. I was completely confused.. I had checked my mails They sent this mail to my company account! An account I couldn't access before my first day of work, when I got my password at the company 😂
Had a similar fun story. Company sent me a laptop, with everything all set up, all I needed was the password for the disk encryption and keychain(password storage, think lastpass/keepass/xpass but handled by software on the laptop that communicated with their servers on auth to exchange passwords). Some bright spark had the idea to send the password to both to the keychain(which again I couldn't access until I got the password for both). My first day I spent 3 hours sitting around with a laptop I couldn't use waiting for IT support to resolve the ticket and communicate the details in a way I could access.
Had something like this happen to me too. They wondered why I didn’t show up to the first team call 😂 well I couldn’t access it. Decided to leave before my probation was done for a number of reasons
get over it b**ch i was new in hr and messed up. Wow you are such a karen. I already apologies to you at least 10 times already and you still share this online wow.
Okay mine is mildly silly. It’s a combination hiring and first day story. So for reference, I had filled out an application for the library a year before and even interviewed but one person was slightly better than me. But home life sucked as did the job market in that little town so I took to hanging out at the library to use the computers and eventually the wifi daily once they set it up. Computers and internet weren’t as commonplace then so I often chimed in to help other patrons since I didn’t have a lot to do, and the staff was far less experienced than me. One day the head librarian comes up behind me and is like, “I interviewed you for the library shelver job, right?” So I save what I’m writing and turn to talk to her, “Yeah.” “You still want the job?” “Yeah.” “Come to my office.” So I filled out paperwork and got a schedule. So the day I come in to work the one at the desk on habit started signing me in for wifi. I chuckled and came around the desk, “Not today! Today I work!” She lit up and was like, “About time! You already help out when you are here it’s about time you got paid for it!” A couple hours later I was walking to the desk after straightening up the children’s area and a different staff member had come in for their shift… and immediately started signing me in for wifi when she saw me so it happened again pretty similar to the first time!
I started a job as an intern at this company that improved soil quality with different strains of fungi. First day the boss told me to take the bags off soil inside and mix them up with the special fungi starters. 40 bags of 33 pounds of soil and mix two bags with 11 pounds of this starter. She told me that I could use this dolly if I needed to. While I was busy doing this task she came up to me and asked me where I had left the white containers that were supposed to be somewhere in the lab. I had been working outside almost the whole day up to that point, it was my first day and had never seen these containers she was searching for. Still, for some reason she was strongly convinced that somehow I got those containers lost... When I was done carefully mixing it all up and cleaned the buckets I had used, she told me to bring it all to the patch of grass across the road to lay down a garden there. By this time the soil was in barrels of 77 pounds each. So I took the dolly to bring them across the road. When I was done bringing all the barrels across the road, I went over to her to ask how to proceed, then she suddenly got mad at me because I used the dolly, that she previously told me to use. Because apparently it wasn't supposed to be taken outside. So I said: "I'm sorry, but you didn't told me that, you told me that I could use it when I needed it. And how was I supposed to get all those barrels across the road without it?" She replied with: "If you don't want to be here, you can leave!" So I took my backpack and walked out. Never came back. What a weird day that was.
I think you missed a point in the first story. Where you said they fired that person after their replacement showed up for their first day of work and they told the person being replaced to train their replacement. I'd have walked out right then.
Yeah, like wow, it's different if they've quit the position, but to demand them stay long enough to train their replacement, that would've been like adding salt to a wound.
If I was the replacement I would have walked out. If they are firing someone like that, I can only expect the same to happen to me one day. Unless I was desperate for the money, I'd simply say, "I don't think this place is a good fit for me," and head home to continue my job search.
Friend had this happen 25 years ago. Small firm hired him as the sole IT person. He turns up for his first day and the boss wants him to pretend he's just there as a 2nd IT staffer with the intent of firing the guy after friend has a grasp of the systems. Friend hoped out of there! 😂😂
I showed up for a first day and instead of calling my recruiter to let him know I was there, the receptionist kept emailing him. He never responded. I was sitting out there for two hours before she finally called back to the office only to learn he had called in sick that day and didn't tell anyone else that I was starting. He had attempted to email me, but had inadvertently sent it to my new work email to which I didn't yet have access. I had worked for this company previously, knew the recruiter and knew he was usually very organized. I came back the next day, we had a good laugh about it, and I ended up working there for nearly nine years.
I once told my manager that one of the new starters had been with us a couple months and id just learned they were still bringing in their own pens and paper because they didn't know who to ask for basic stationary. I was trying to raise how terrible the process was, how little they were supplied with the basics and how unsupported they felt. Instead the manager basically laughed at them and sent us a ton of pens. This was my first proper professional job and taught me the importance of checking in at the start!
When I was a kid (abt 12), my first job was guarding a herd. All the neighborhood kids wanted to do it because they could stay out at night and earn some pocket money. They'd often come and visit me at night. We'd build a fire and just watch the cows. 😆 The only problem was when some of the cows tried to run away. Then, I was all on my own. Luckily, I had my dog (a collie), who wasn't trained or anything, but he could still herd the cows.
Another informal job that I even got scolded for was farming. I was very young again. We had to pick the ripe poppy tops by hand. When my father found out what I was doing, he yelled that I even knew what poppies were used for. I replied that for poppyseed pie 🤷♀️ I knew nothing about opioids at the time.
My first day on the job as the accounting manager for a family owned business started out with them telling me the receptionist called in sick and I would have to work the swtchboard. No instruction, just sit there and answer the phones. It wasn't hard to figure out, but I started wondering when I would meet the team I was supposed to manage. The answer was never, because after an hour I was told "this isn't working out" and I was fired. It was pretty upsetting because I had gotten the job through an agency and was technically on the hook for the employment fee, but the employment agent just said, "Oh well, we didn’t think you'd make it anyway, those people are nuts. They gave the job to a nephew." Both the company and the agency are now out of business.
Love your stories. I had a "funny" one. Showed up for my first day and was greeted by the head administrator with "I thought we hired the other guy". Really made me feel welcomed to a job I was so excited to start.
Oh, almost forgot this one -- I think I pushed it to the back of my memory. I was hired by an IT company as a web developer; my manager had been especially interested in my ability to add/create "grarphical" web pages (this was long ago enough that you should be thinking "oval buttons" and "clickable images" rather than anything else). I get to my new cubicle and find I've been given a PC with a CGA graphics card. I honestly couldn't see most of what I was working on for almost a month before my manager remembered to push the IT crew to get me a more capable machine.
Shortest/worst first day I know of: I have a friend who was about to start a new job -- one for which he had expertise & experience in abundance -- after an employment dry spell due to local economic problems (nothing connected to him). He was just finishing breakfast & getting ready to leave when the phone rings. It's his new employer. They were rescinding the "offer" of the job because they just found out they hadn't won the new contract they had expected to win, and the only reason they'd hired him was because they didn't have enough staff for that contract plus ongoing contracts... so, sorry, bub, we've been yanking your chain, so long and good luck...
Employers (especially small and medium businesses, and the businesses that force zero hour contracts) are having hissy fits at the new Labour policy of enforcing rights including sick days, pension benefits and holidays from day one. Anyone who thinks that they can’t treat their workers like humans, and instead treats them like slaves, should be shut down without any reimbursement of assets or tax rebates.
During the summer of 1994 I was 19, and I am on a work abroad program from the U.S. to London. I had a hard time finding work, but eventually found a bartending job near Holburn station. They mostly catered to the business/yuppie crowd. They told me I'd be pulling pints and also making sandwiches. I had no experience doing any of this, but they assured me that I'd get training. I was to start the next day. That evening there was a torrential rainstorm in the city. Unbeknownst to me numerous tube station were flooded out. I got up early, got my proper attire on, and proceeded to make my way to the tube station near Finsbury Park. I waited, and waited...and waited. I had given myself two hours of extra time to make sure I was on time. It turns out it wasn't enough. All the trains were running incredibly late. I didn't have a mobile phone at the time, and I didn't know the number of the pub. I had to change trains at King's Cross and get to my destination from a different line. I ended up showing up about 30 minutes late. When I arrived the bartender on duty simply said 'you've been relieved'. As an American, I didn't know what that meant. I just thought he was relieved to see me. The owner came downstairs and told me I wouldn't be starting and he didn't tolerate lateness. I tried to explain to him that all the tube were flooded out. He didn't care. The job only paid £1/hour and I guess I was expected to earn most of my money through tips. Lesson learned.
drywall requires experience and practice on walls before ever attempting a ceiling, also requires specific tools and is generally done by at least 2 workers together with scaffold, not a ladder. It would also be against all health codes to do it with the kitchen open for cooking.
im pretty sure it wasnt drywalling it was just putting those cei;ing panels in. you know the ones you can just lift up and where in movies they always find something?
School/church -- literally a church that has a school associated with it. Basically private school. Catholic churches with associated schools are probably the most familiar. These schools can be kindergarten or pre-K or they can go all the way through high school.
I live in Southern California, and many churches host preschool, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten classes using the church's facilities. Other churches offer daycare as well. We live right behind a church with a daycare/preschool on its campus. Often these church-supported schools give discounts for church members and are otherwise open to anyone willing to place their children in Christian education.
My first day at a job. They had an all employee meeting. Told all the hourly people they werent getting raises, all the salary people they were getting raises. Too many angry people for a job i hadnt been at for a day.
Normally employers don't want employees to know who is and isn't getting a raise... so the ones that aren't can't demand to get the same treatment as the ones who are..
I've been ghosted just like the lady in story #2. Showed up for the first day and the doors are locked, lights off, and nobody answering the phones. They never reached out to me again either.
I’m in a situation right now where I’m not so much the new employee, but I’m dealing with a new boss. I’ve been in this job 5.5 years, but we’ve recently had new owners take over as of three weeks ago. As a result I’ve been put on ‘probation’ by them for three months and had my hours cut from 40+ a week to 17. SEVENTEEN!!!!!!????? I’m looking for another job! The new owners are a nightmare!
When I was 19 I got myself a second job at a paintball site as a game worker (be incharge and supervise each game on the different parts of the sites) as the first job no longer was enough hours (working only friday and saturday evenings), when I started I said to them if it's a Saturday I have to leave by 5pm to get to my first job they said "we usually finished about 4pm so it's fine" first day at that job worked from 4am and when it hit 4pm I got ready to leave. The manager said that actually they finishing time varies depending on the final works I.e. cleaning all the helmets and sorting out all the gear used (which was also not part of the job description) and ontop of that when I mentioned the owner said about finishing about 4pm they said "no they stop paying us after 4pm as a way to inspire us to complete all these extra work faster", they were paying minimum wage whilst my first was paying more so I just walked out just before 5 and went to my first job. Never went back and never got called back
When I asked how long it would take to finish all the extra work they said they usually leave the site about 9pm, like I'm not working 5 hours for free
@Lexduden i believed it was wage theft too and I said as much when they told me that. I realised at that moment that's why almost everyone working there were between 18 and 21. Most at that age would be considered Young and naive but I wasn't willing to accept it when I had a shift at my first job that was actually gonna pay for it.
I once got a job selling printer ink and paper on the phone. Some verified leads, some cold calling. There were 15-20 desks, each with a speaker so the manager roaming the room could hear every conversation, yelling, "What are you doing? Close, that sale!!" (etc.) Yes, it was a loud madhouse, with clients confused and angry about the commotion. I left after that first day.
A major global IT hardware provider (laptops/ servers etc) forgot 1 was starting in 2007. 40 mins I waited until they could find my manager. And it took them 3 months to get me a laptop 😂
It wasn’t on my first day, but shortly after being hired to small campus I was told by a colleague that I had just been told directly by my boss to collaborate with that ‘nothing personal, but I have no intention of getting involved with anything you are doing’. Several months later I was called on the carpet for slow progress on that front by the Vice Chancellor. In front of my boss I let them know this person had refused to cooperate. My boss objected, and said that wasn’t his recollection, but I just stood my ground. Later, not surprisingly, he didn’t support my application for promotion.
To answer your question about church schools, in the U.S. quite a few Catholic churches also have church run K-12 schools on their property. It seems odd that there was only one office for both though, as the school that I attended had an office in the rectory for church business and a separate office in the school for school business.
I started at a company in 2007, big international electronics manufacturer, I turned up at 8an, I sat in the waiting room for 4 hours before HR finally turned up to do the induction.
The church/school one got to me. How 'charitable' of such an organisation to fire someone then force them to train the replacement! I would have walked out with the person fired.
My first day in a new job in an operating theatre, I was told when I got back from lunch. I was told that there was a teenaged boy for a nice easy appendectomy. So I start sorting stuff out for that case, some one comes around the door from A&E on a casualty trolley. With a patient on it, with one of my opoes kneeling either side of his waist, with his right arm plunged up to his wrist, internally massaging his heart! They went into a different theatre, I still got my young lad. Poor guy didn't make it.
I once started a job as a shunter.when I turned up, the depot knew nothing about it, and run g the main hub, around the corner. They told them that the agency lad I was replacing had to train me. He'd been doing it for 2 years, and the entire staff loved him. That was the most uncomfortable week of my life.
I had an interview on a Friday and got the job before I made it home - report Monday. I showed up Monday morning and the office manager saw me and said, "Oh my God! You came back?" Second thing she told me? "You're meeting with the county at 9." This was for an instructional coaching job at a school and I had no clue I needed to convince the county to not close us down.
My youngest brother was offered a promotion at a store across the country from where he lived. On his first day of work, he discovered that the guy he was replacing had never been fired and they expected my poor brother to do it for them.
Can you imagine their 'business plan'/s? I know, we'll hire a bunch of people to construct the place, and then...lol. I've vivid memories of working in the Southern US and can picture this, and the drug test stories, and the people. Bless their hearts.
that one sounds like identity theft 101. They probably managed to get some of her info "to fill the paperwork" and now she has to expect a lot of trouble
There are more than a few places in the US now trying to get away with it now. A lot of food processing plants are getting caught having teens clean the saw blades and other really dangerous equipment. And this isn't counting the states where they're trying to push through legislation allowing 14 year olds to serve alcohol.
I was nearly arrested by the armed MoD police when I turned up for a temp job in the kitchens at RAF Menwith Hill. I was due to start at 7 or 8 on Monday morning, having been given the job late Friday evening. The temp agency hadn’t passed on my details and didn’t open until 9. Having had to take a bus, train and taxi to even get there, I was then scolded for being late.
My worst first day involved me showing up to fill out my onboarding paperwork. I was hired for a retail management role that I didn't want and held out for every dollar i could get. When the h.r. manager saw I was making almost 40% more than her and she had worked there for 20 years she went off on me and stormed out. She told me to, "onboard my own damn *ss." It was hilarious and I wish i had paid attention to the red flags and fled immediately.
I have had many first day issues - on multiple occasions I have turned up at the right place and on early to be told they had no idea I was coming. 1 - I had to stay until gone midnight as it was stock take day and no-one told me ,so I was in my first day from 7am until gone 12am. 2 - I turned up and met a full new store team at our training store, we had all been told we had rooms booked at a hotel as we were going to be on site for a week. Guess what, no idea we were coming and no hotels, I paid for a massive room in a local "hotel" for those had wanted to stay and within the first week 90% of all our team had left before we had even seen our new store. 3 - I was asked to attend an onboarding week and stay in a hotel for a new role, arrived to find out it was a "dry" week (no alcohol allowed by us on site) to then find out they had changed my area I was going to manage to an area that was a 2 hour each way commute and the chap that hired me had left and my new manager was in the same training group as me and had no experience in the role or industry.
-School/Church- It means 1 of 2 things Either a School has been established by the Church and It belongs to the Church. -OR- The School is Renting Part of the Church Property due to the School Property being Too Small.
Law enforcement can convictions in some places. Usually it will be after a court hearing where it’s determined the person or business has be moved out. Eviction by bank is usually done by a bank officer.
I worked at a place where a lady turned up for her first day and literally no one in the office had been told she was starting. The line manager was off on long-term sick and the one up worked in a different part of the building. I stood at the door with her for some time trying to work out what she was there for bless her. I then trained her up on the job, and I'd only been in post for a week.
I got my first job in Sydney with News Corp. On the first day nobody spoke to me, apart from the HR person who showed me to my desk. For 5 weeks nobody knew why i was there, i never met my manager, i just kept collecting paychecks. Then they "regret to inform you that your position is no longer needed". To this day i keep wondering what position that was...
New country, new company, put on reception, person with me wouldnt tell me anything, as she wasnt at my interview?! Also temped alot, due to hubby being in Navy so moved around, people talk to you like you have downloaded all info in the first five mins you get there. Also youngster always treated you like you were dirt cause you were a temp!! Ahhh happy days
I had a job djing at sixteen, and was talking about it during a job interview for nurse training. One of the three interviewers, got really stuck trying to get me answer whether I took drugs whilst djing. I played utterly dumb. Didn't get in there. Nope, but I get free beer.
My sister was still a teenager when she showed up to work one day and found someone sitting in her place at the office. Only then did her boss tell her she was fired. The excuse the boss gave later for not giving her appropriate feedback that they weren't happy with her or had someone else starting was the boss 'didn't like confrontation' (this stretched to being willing to address anything, not just with her, it was a pattern). They eventually admitted she didn't sound confident on the phone, something that could have been addressed with some feedback or training. So unprofessional.
In my early 20’s I got a new job which required a week long training course be completed before the actual work started. I attended the full weeks training, then went to the office to get my schedule as instructed. They told me to come back the next day as the manager wasn’t there who did the scheduling. So I did, they weren’t there again. This happened for almost 2 weeks, being told to come back at various times. So by day 10 I got annoyed and stopped off at a pizza place I knew were looking for drivers on my way home (in my head I’d essentially not worked for 2 weeks of the month and wanted to earn some quick money to tide me over). Well the first company never got in contact ever again, the end of the month rolls around and I get paid over double what I would have earned had I worked the full month there. I was confused, so sent an email asking if they had made a mistake. I never received a reply, they never asked for the money back and I never heard from them again. I’m not complaining because who doesn’t like free money, but it’s a very strange way of doing business.
When I turned up for one job nothing was organised for my start. No desk, nothing. The manager then turned around and said I was responsible for setting up my own induction programme.
😂😂I got this job through a temp agency, it was a temporary job 1 or 2 weeks assembling shelving in a large brand department store (I was the temp for the subcontractor) work was night work so I arrive, ask the store manager to find the subcontractor to witch she had "no idea" and "no one is there to remove/replace shelving" and refused to use the intercom/ask her boss. So I get a hold of the agency get his number he arrives and she looks at him and said "he's not security cleared and not allowed to work". He was on the phone for 40min I and was sent home (after hours can't find out about this "security" clearance). I got the minimum 4hrs because they sent me away. Turn up the next day and there was no security clearance needed and there was 2 different teams of temps because most of the stock was still on the shelves😂 after that she didn't speak to any of us. Finished with the subby in under 2weeks but all the old shelving needed to be sorted, palletized and scrap steel in the steel recycling so they got me back for another 2 weeks.😂
1st day new company, meet me at x address. Ok. Owner/Boss is late, leaving me to deal with family at home. 30 mins later, the boss arrived. Ok, let's get started. They put me in a room by myself and say ok process the room for the sale? I have no clue what they meant but tried, no lunch, no breaks from 8:30 to 5 pm. Should have run. Fast foward 5 months fired me for not knowing how to do the job quickly? Never a comment in those 5 months, except how much they loved me, they appreciate me, and the dreaded "we r family here." In those 5 months, I learned/ figured out a lot of real shady stuff they were doing to elderly people and their estates.
School/Church means a private school thats held in a church. Usually the class ranges from pre-k to 3rd grade. Some go as high as 12th grade. My area mostly had Lutheran & Catholic School/Churchs.
Casually employed through a contractor to roll out computers in a public service department. The staff member who was supposed to be managing our team quit that morning - just didn't turn up - so we were all led to the desk of the guy who was now going to manage the team. He hadn't been told yet. Same contractor, same job. They weren't sure whether the job would go ahead, so they told us all to just turn up the next morning to see if they had work for us. I believe no-one did - I for one wasn't going to get ready for work and commute through rush hour just to be told to go home. Same contractor, different job - we were rolling out new computers for the Department of the Premier in South Australia. We had to copy the existing user profile onto a floppy (remember those?) and then onto the new machine. There wasn't enough RAM in the old machines so they were using virtual RAM and running so slowly that I suggested that if you dropped one of the machines out of a window, you'd have time to casually stroll downstairs in time to catch it. So, we took RAM out of one machine and put it in the machine we were working on just to make the process faster - the profile copied in miuntes rather than the hours it was previously taking. They didn't like that and they told us to put the RAM back into the defunct machine and to just let the copying process take hours. Didn't mind - we were being paid by the hour
I stopped the hiring process at a job midway through when I saw them treating the janitor rudely. If the "lowest" members of the staff are looked down on then I want nothing to do with them. I got a job as an electrician instead and have no regrets
school/church is likely catholic school. Some of the churches will actually run k-12 schools as private schools and teach their faith as part of the curriculum
My first day, no one showed up at the office. The first hour l was talking to the photocopier guy. The second person worked in the office but didn't know why l was there. 2 hours later, the managers came. They forgot the day l started. I didn't stay long at that job.
I reversed my car into the top salespersons car whilst leaving the car park on my firdt day. She'd had the car for 2 days. She'd ordered it months before and it was some kind of special colour, which meant it took ages to fix. She was driving a hire car for weeks afterwards. I got L plates as my secret santa that year.
school/church might mean either sunday school which is just class for kids to sit while the parents handle their stuff/lessons or their confirmation. or private school.
CHURCH/SCHOOL is run by a religion and crams their beliefs in with state required subjects. generally a strictly run "tow the line" atmosphere. Movie examples would include Bing Crosby in the 1950s "Bells of St Mary's" and Whoopie Goldburgs 2 more modern movies; "Sister Act" and "Sister Act 2"
My first job after school was a chef. Has been there about a year. Me and the agency shift were the last to finish so he said i could go and he would finish up. Came in the next morning and got chewed out by the head chef( also agency) because the pot wash was dirty, telling me to write me resignation. I just told him no, if he wants to fire me for not doing someone elses job go ahead, then i went to complain to the manager, then went home, needless to say he apologized to me the next day 4 days later we had a new head chef, not sure if that was related though.
In America, many churches own and operate small private schools. In some churches, the membership of the church is larger than the enrolment of the school, in some cases it is the other way around.
That 14 year old kid should sue that business for his injury and out the twat manager in the process. It wouldn't surprise me if they had stoves and deep fat fryers on the go while he was up a ladder. The level of managerial incompetence is astounding but doesn't surprise me.
I once worked for a mobile phone shop and it was one of the most toxic work environments i have ever been in. We had a narcissistic female manager who one day didn't come in leaving me waiting outside. I was happy to discover the guy waiting nearby the shop entrance when i got there was someone from their head office, as i hoped that they would see how their shop was being run. After hours of waiting the guy got hold of the manager who told him I had a key and the idiot chewed me out, 😂😂😂😂 toxic right up the tree. If he had any sense he would know i didn't have a key because i was hired through an agency. I heard a couple of weeks after i left that the idiot they chose to manage the place was one of the smackheads working there and the next time they sent someone to visit the store it was unmanned and he found all the staff downstairs with the new manager and a bunch of his smackhead friends smoking weed. Shite management is toxic in a business, just look at boeing in recent years.
I once started a sales job was told in the interview it was b2b no cold calling also asked what we were selling they said they will tell me in training showed up day on and was just given a list of numbers to call still don't know what I'm selling at this point I said this and that I was told it's not a cold calling job I stade the day didn't bother coming back after I'm still don't know what the sell
Some churches in America also run private schools and/or daycares on the church campus during the week. The Methodist church down the street from me does that.
school/church = Private school run by a church denomination with both the church and school on the same premisis. For instance, Catholic High schools are everywhere in the US and in certain areas are considered the best school in the area meaning a lot of non-Catholics will go there. There are also plenty of Elementary schools from various denominations everywhere in the US. These are all "Private" institutions, which means they do not receive the same tax dollars that public schools do but the kids all pay a tuition to attend.
Don't know that anyone has explained this to you yet, but it is not uncommon for protestant churches in the U. S. to run their own schools. Sometimes the schoolbuilding is located next to the church. Sometimes the school shares the same building.
In the US public schools are not allowed to have religious activities in the curriculum since they get public funding they are bound by separation and church and state. Privet schools are not restricted in this way. As a result may religious schools are privet schools. There are many religious schools that are operated by churches so it is not unreasonable to think that there is a church at a school in the US
"private school/church" means it's a private religious school that also has a church that does regular services. I actually live near one. Great big old community church with attached classrooms and school buses in the parking lot. We have separation of church and state (theoretically) in the US, so religious organizations like the Catholic Church create private schools so that they can teach religion in the classrooms because it's not allowed in public schools. Most private schools in the US are religious. No public school can be. There's a whole debate now about voucher programs, where public funds are used to give vouchers to poor kids to attend religious private schools on scholarship paid for by the government. Because private schools are expensive and not everyone can afford to pay $10k/year to send their kids to kindergarten, but it takes money away from public schools. But that's a whole different discussion.
Some churches have a private school as part of the church grounds. Big money maker. Supposedly, the cream of the crop. And I know what they were paid, and it was chicken scratch. Priest / Pastor was angry that the minimum wage increased. Paying minimum wage for the church secretary and teachers? If one wants top-notch teachers, one needs to pay a fair market price to do so. Again, minimum wage??? That is insulting. I have my personal opinions, and I will keep them to myself.
We have lots of schools run by churches in the UK, in fact some of the oldest schools in the country were established by churches before the government decided it was a good idea to have an educated workforce as industrialisation made everything more complicated. I went to a primary school run by a church. The thing it did best, was produce atheists.
We have Roman Catholic, Jewish and CofE Schools, run and financed by the state. I'm sure there'll be CofS ones. Quite a lot of religious British schools out there. Fees paying schools in the U.K.are rather confusingly called public schools. For some arcane historical reason. I'm having to reply in edit as I'm in comment jail for allegedly bullying someone.
I had no computer account when I first started. I had most of the day in classroom training, lunch with line manager, and then reading printed standard operating procedures.
Story 2 - seriously... if I would ever have an employee who feels "ghosted" within 23 minutes and posting about in on social media I would definitely reconsider if she's the right fit. There could be plenty of explanations without anyone being ghosted and unless there is a lot more "ghosting" story after those initial 23 minutes, this is absurd. We once had someone showing up for a job interview on a day when nobody expected him. He just mixed up the dates and was one day early. It was pure luck that I was onsite and could squeeze in the interview. Mistakes happen.
Unfortunately, thereare a lot of church/schools in the US. They are not subject to the same standards and regulatioms ad public school. Thst includes anti-discrimination laws. Gay students and teachers can be rejected. Some of them provide quality education and produce high performing students. Others are basically Bible school, teaching history and "science" based on Biblical philosophy. These students graduated with significant deficits.
I started a job as an intern and was assigned to work for this guy. He introduced himself and said, "I was against hiring interns and am going to work to fire you as fast as possible." I had no idea what to do with that. He told me to wait in the office break room. So, I waited to be fired. Then a lady walked in told me she was another manager, heard our conversation, and was taking me into her group as she was short staffed.
I showed up at a job first day and didn't have their clothing on. Not once in the process did they say I needed to come in for shirts. The manager threatened to write me up for not coming to work prepared! OK, so give me a shirt and I'll quickly go put it on, problem solved. Nope, they had to order them. So yeah I got sent home. I never went back.
The one about the person being fired and then training their replacement who's already clocked in is wild. If I were the new hire, that'd be my first and last day at that business.
Imagine the very first onboarding experience at a new job basically being a warning about how abruptly and viciously your employment might end.
and at a religious organisation to boot
Years ago I taught at a private school in the Middle East. It wasn't uncommon to have inspection visits from the Ministry of Education to observe lessons, so when the headmistress interrupted a class I was teaching with a young woman in tow I assumed that was what was going on. I sat her at the back of the class, gave her my lesson plan book and a copy of the text book, and then carried on. It later transpired that she was actually my replacement! I wouldn't have been as polite and friendly to her if I'd known the truth.
I found a new job quickly which actually paid better, so in a way she did me a favour.
This is bringing up some really bad memories of a job I had one summer while I was in college. I interviewed for a job at a used car dealership and the woman that interviewed me asked almost no questions. She took a look at my resume, asked me to write out the numbers 0 through 9 on a sheet of paper, announced "you'll do," and took me over to meet the owner of the dealership. They asked me when I could start and I said tomorrow, which happened to be a Friday. They wanted me to be the receptionist and also do some data entry. That sounded good to me, right up my alley. I started answering the phones and immediately the woman who had interviewed me and was supposedly training me, started telling me that I was doing it wrong. Then she said she was going to show me how to copy a file on a car that was being sold and she had me watch how she took the file all apart and copied everything in it and then put it all back together. So I did the next one and I was starting to feel very nervous because she was just staring at me and I made some comment about "gotta make sure I get all the bits and pieces!" Kind of laughing, trying to lighten the mood a little bit. And she yelled at me, "yeah, you'd better get all those bits and pieces because they're very important!" The next day, which was a Saturday, she wasn't there, it was her day off. The owner's wife was there instead and she was lovely. She answered the phones and I sat in the back doing data entry, entering 2 years worth of check stubs into an accounting system. But there was one book of check stubs that was missing. The owner's wife and I looked high and low for that one book of check stubs, and couldn't find it. Sunday the dealership was closed and so I was back on Monday to continue on. I mentioned to the woman who was training me that I couldn't find that one book of check stubs and she went to the drawer where they were kept, reached in, and pulled out from the very top that particular checkbook, and said "well it's right here. Don't know how you missed it!" I'm actually shaking, just remembering this, because I was so upset, and this was 30 years ago. I heard the woman telling the owner "I don't know why she should get paid as much as me when she obviously doesn't know what she's doing." Somewhere in the middle of all that they also told me that I would be expected to clean the office and the bathroom, and I was also going to have the title of office manager. And I was going to be paid $0.25 over minimum wage. After being treated so poorly by this woman who was supposedly training me, I quit. I just couldn't take it. I worked there not even quite 2 and 1/2 days and I just couldn't take it anymore. Later I found out that she was being forced to retire and to train her replacement, and she was scaring off every single person that they hired. They tried to get me to come back but I said "no thanks. I've already found another job."
I showed up to a new job. They didn't specify a time, so I thought 8 a.m would be a good time.
I got told they sent me a mail I was supposed to show up at 9..
I was completely confused.. I had checked my mails
They sent this mail to my company account! An account I couldn't access before my first day of work, when I got my password at the company 😂
Sounds about right. I had printed reporting instructions put in the folder I received when I reported.
Had a similar fun story.
Company sent me a laptop, with everything all set up, all I needed was the password for the disk encryption and keychain(password storage, think lastpass/keepass/xpass but handled by software on the laptop that communicated with their servers on auth to exchange passwords).
Some bright spark had the idea to send the password to both to the keychain(which again I couldn't access until I got the password for both).
My first day I spent 3 hours sitting around with a laptop I couldn't use waiting for IT support to resolve the ticket and communicate the details in a way I could access.
Had something like this happen to me too. They wondered why I didn’t show up to the first team call 😂 well I couldn’t access it. Decided to leave before my probation was done for a number of reasons
get over it b**ch i was new in hr and messed up. Wow you are such a karen. I already apologies to you at least 10 times already and you still share this online wow.
@@shannonsprogressukSmart move.
Okay mine is mildly silly. It’s a combination hiring and first day story.
So for reference, I had filled out an application for the library a year before and even interviewed but one person was slightly better than me. But home life sucked as did the job market in that little town so I took to hanging out at the library to use the computers and eventually the wifi daily once they set it up. Computers and internet weren’t as commonplace then so I often chimed in to help other patrons since I didn’t have a lot to do, and the staff was far less experienced than me.
One day the head librarian comes up behind me and is like, “I interviewed you for the library shelver job, right?” So I save what I’m writing and turn to talk to her, “Yeah.” “You still want the job?” “Yeah.” “Come to my office.” So I filled out paperwork and got a schedule.
So the day I come in to work the one at the desk on habit started signing me in for wifi. I chuckled and came around the desk, “Not today! Today I work!” She lit up and was like, “About time! You already help out when you are here it’s about time you got paid for it!” A couple hours later I was walking to the desk after straightening up the children’s area and a different staff member had come in for their shift… and immediately started signing me in for wifi when she saw me so it happened again pretty similar to the first time!
That’s so cute ❤
I started a job as an intern at this company that improved soil quality with different strains of fungi. First day the boss told me to take the bags off soil inside and mix them up with the special fungi starters. 40 bags of 33 pounds of soil and mix two bags with 11 pounds of this starter. She told me that I could use this dolly if I needed to.
While I was busy doing this task she came up to me and asked me where I had left the white containers that were supposed to be somewhere in the lab. I had been working outside almost the whole day up to that point, it was my first day and had never seen these containers she was searching for. Still, for some reason she was strongly convinced that somehow I got those containers lost...
When I was done carefully mixing it all up and cleaned the buckets I had used, she told me to bring it all to the patch of grass across the road to lay down a garden there.
By this time the soil was in barrels of 77 pounds each. So I took the dolly to bring them across the road. When I was done bringing all the barrels across the road, I went over to her to ask how to proceed, then she suddenly got mad at me because I used the dolly, that she previously told me to use. Because apparently it wasn't supposed to be taken outside. So I said: "I'm sorry, but you didn't told me that, you told me that I could use it when I needed it. And how was I supposed to get all those barrels across the road without it?"
She replied with: "If you don't want to be here, you can leave!"
So I took my backpack and walked out. Never came back. What a weird day that was.
I think you missed a point in the first story. Where you said they fired that person after their replacement showed up for their first day of work and they told the person being replaced to train their replacement. I'd have walked out right then.
Fast forward a couple of years... at least you know when your losing your job, your replacement is waiting.
Yeah, like wow, it's different if they've quit the position, but to demand them stay long enough to train their replacement, that would've been like adding salt to a wound.
If I was the replacement I would have walked out. If they are firing someone like that, I can only expect the same to happen to me one day. Unless I was desperate for the money, I'd simply say, "I don't think this place is a good fit for me," and head home to continue my job search.
Friend had this happen 25 years ago. Small firm hired him as the sole IT person. He turns up for his first day and the boss wants him to pretend he's just there as a 2nd IT staffer with the intent of firing the guy after friend has a grasp of the systems. Friend hoped out of there! 😂😂
Also, the last sentence is, “It was super hard and awkward, especially because we were good…”. good what? Good friends?
I showed up for a first day and instead of calling my recruiter to let him know I was there, the receptionist kept emailing him. He never responded. I was sitting out there for two hours before she finally called back to the office only to learn he had called in sick that day and didn't tell anyone else that I was starting. He had attempted to email me, but had inadvertently sent it to my new work email to which I didn't yet have access. I had worked for this company previously, knew the recruiter and knew he was usually very organized. I came back the next day, we had a good laugh about it, and I ended up working there for nearly nine years.
I once told my manager that one of the new starters had been with us a couple months and id just learned they were still bringing in their own pens and paper because they didn't know who to ask for basic stationary. I was trying to raise how terrible the process was, how little they were supplied with the basics and how unsupported they felt. Instead the manager basically laughed at them and sent us a ton of pens. This was my first proper professional job and taught me the importance of checking in at the start!
When I was a kid (abt 12), my first job was guarding a herd. All the neighborhood kids wanted to do it because they could stay out at night and earn some pocket money. They'd often come and visit me at night. We'd build a fire and just watch the cows. 😆
The only problem was when some of the cows tried to run away. Then, I was all on my own. Luckily, I had my dog (a collie), who wasn't trained or anything, but he could still herd the cows.
Another informal job that I even got scolded for was farming. I was very young again. We had to pick the ripe poppy tops by hand. When my father found out what I was doing, he yelled that I even knew what poppies were used for. I replied that for poppyseed pie 🤷♀️
I knew nothing about opioids at the time.
My first day on the job as the accounting manager for a family owned business started out with them telling me the receptionist called in sick and I would have to work the swtchboard. No instruction, just sit there and answer the phones. It wasn't hard to figure out, but I started wondering when I would meet the team I was supposed to manage. The answer was never, because after an hour I was told "this isn't working out" and I was fired.
It was pretty upsetting because I had gotten the job through an agency and was technically on the hook for the employment fee, but the employment agent just said, "Oh well, we didn’t think you'd make it anyway, those people are nuts. They gave the job to a nephew." Both the company and the agency are now out of business.
Love your stories. I had a "funny" one. Showed up for my first day and was greeted by the head administrator with "I thought we hired the other guy". Really made me feel welcomed to a job I was so excited to start.
Oh, almost forgot this one -- I think I pushed it to the back of my memory. I was hired by an IT company as a web developer; my manager had been especially interested in my ability to add/create "grarphical" web pages (this was long ago enough that you should be thinking "oval buttons" and "clickable images" rather than anything else). I get to my new cubicle and find I've been given a PC with a CGA graphics card. I honestly couldn't see most of what I was working on for almost a month before my manager remembered to push the IT crew to get me a more capable machine.
asking the 14 year old kid to do drywall had me laughing out loud
In the UK the Health & Safety Inspectorate would be all over the business for asking an untrained 14-year old to do that job.
Shortest/worst first day I know of: I have a friend who was about to start a new job -- one for which he had expertise & experience in abundance -- after an employment dry spell due to local economic problems (nothing connected to him). He was just finishing breakfast & getting ready to leave when the phone rings. It's his new employer. They were rescinding the "offer" of the job because they just found out they hadn't won the new contract they had expected to win, and the only reason they'd hired him was because they didn't have enough staff for that contract plus ongoing contracts... so, sorry, bub, we've been yanking your chain, so long and good luck...
My current company does that to people a lot 😞
Employers (especially small and medium businesses, and the businesses that force zero hour contracts) are having hissy fits at the new Labour policy of enforcing rights including sick days, pension benefits and holidays from day one. Anyone who thinks that they can’t treat their workers like humans, and instead treats them like slaves, should be shut down without any reimbursement of assets or tax rebates.
During the summer of 1994 I was 19, and I am on a work abroad program from the U.S. to London. I had a hard time finding work, but eventually found a bartending job near Holburn station. They mostly catered to the business/yuppie crowd. They told me I'd be pulling pints and also making sandwiches. I had no experience doing any of this, but they assured me that I'd get training. I was to start the next day. That evening there was a torrential rainstorm in the city. Unbeknownst to me numerous tube station were flooded out. I got up early, got my proper attire on, and proceeded to make my way to the tube station near Finsbury Park. I waited, and waited...and waited. I had given myself two hours of extra time to make sure I was on time. It turns out it wasn't enough. All the trains were running incredibly late. I didn't have a mobile phone at the time, and I didn't know the number of the pub. I had to change trains at King's Cross and get to my destination from a different line. I ended up showing up about 30 minutes late. When I arrived the bartender on duty simply said 'you've been relieved'. As an American, I didn't know what that meant. I just thought he was relieved to see me. The owner came downstairs and told me I wouldn't be starting and he didn't tolerate lateness. I tried to explain to him that all the tube were flooded out. He didn't care. The job only paid £1/hour and I guess I was expected to earn most of my money through tips. Lesson learned.
a pound an hour in 1994?
We don't do tipping economy over here matey, you were getting scammed
@@thebladeofchaos well, it was a business pub and I think there was some tipping, but I'm pretty sure I dodged a bullet.
Tell me the 14 year old is an OSHA violation.
drywall requires experience and practice on walls before ever attempting a ceiling, also requires specific tools and is generally done by at least 2 workers together with scaffold, not a ladder. It would also be against all health codes to do it with the kitchen open for cooking.
im pretty sure it wasnt drywalling it was just putting those cei;ing panels in. you know the ones you can just lift up and where in movies they always find something?
School/church -- literally a church that has a school associated with it. Basically private school. Catholic churches with associated schools are probably the most familiar. These schools can be kindergarten or pre-K or they can go all the way through high school.
Clear thru university in the case of Rockhurst High School and Rockhurst University in Kansas City, MO USA. Run by the Jesuits.
This, and most of the times they are on the same property
I live in Southern California, and many churches host preschool, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten classes using the church's facilities. Other churches offer daycare as well. We live right behind a church with a daycare/preschool on its campus. Often these church-supported schools give discounts for church members and are otherwise open to anyone willing to place their children in Christian education.
Catholic schools go all the way through college/university.
and we have some in England just rare
My first day at a job. They had an all employee meeting. Told all the hourly people they werent getting raises, all the salary people they were getting raises. Too many angry people for a job i hadnt been at for a day.
Normally employers don't want employees to know who is and isn't getting a raise... so the ones that aren't can't demand to get the same treatment as the ones who are..
I've been ghosted just like the lady in story #2. Showed up for the first day and the doors are locked, lights off, and nobody answering the phones. They never reached out to me again either.
Can you sue for that since they have personal information and all?
I’m in a situation right now where I’m not so much the new employee, but I’m dealing with a new boss. I’ve been in this job 5.5 years, but we’ve recently had new owners take over as of three weeks ago. As a result I’ve been put on ‘probation’ by them for three months and had my hours cut from 40+ a week to 17. SEVENTEEN!!!!!!????? I’m looking for another job! The new owners are a nightmare!
When I was 19 I got myself a second job at a paintball site as a game worker (be incharge and supervise each game on the different parts of the sites) as the first job no longer was enough hours (working only friday and saturday evenings), when I started I said to them if it's a Saturday I have to leave by 5pm to get to my first job they said "we usually finished about 4pm so it's fine" first day at that job worked from 4am and when it hit 4pm I got ready to leave. The manager said that actually they finishing time varies depending on the final works I.e. cleaning all the helmets and sorting out all the gear used (which was also not part of the job description) and ontop of that when I mentioned the owner said about finishing about 4pm they said "no they stop paying us after 4pm as a way to inspire us to complete all these extra work faster", they were paying minimum wage whilst my first was paying more so I just walked out just before 5 and went to my first job. Never went back and never got called back
When I asked how long it would take to finish all the extra work they said they usually leave the site about 9pm, like I'm not working 5 hours for free
I'm pretty sure that's considered wage theft.
@Lexduden i believed it was wage theft too and I said as much when they told me that. I realised at that moment that's why almost everyone working there were between 18 and 21. Most at that age would be considered Young and naive but I wasn't willing to accept it when I had a shift at my first job that was actually gonna pay for it.
"Done firing him? Ok. Let's renegotiate my salary and contract." "No?" "Ok then I quit." **back to my job, which I haven't quit yet**
I once got a job selling printer ink and paper on the phone. Some verified leads, some cold calling. There were 15-20 desks, each with a speaker so the manager roaming the room could hear every conversation, yelling, "What are you doing? Close, that sale!!" (etc.) Yes, it was a loud madhouse, with clients confused and angry about the commotion. I left after that first day.
I get the impression the manager saw Glengarry Glen Ross and still hasn't lost the boner he got for Alec Baldwin.
A major global IT hardware provider (laptops/ servers etc) forgot 1 was starting in 2007. 40 mins I waited until they could find my manager. And it took them 3 months to get me a laptop 😂
It wasn’t on my first day, but shortly after being hired to small campus I was told by a colleague that I had just been told directly by my boss to collaborate with that ‘nothing personal, but I have no intention of getting involved with anything you are doing’. Several months later I was called on the carpet for slow progress on that front by the Vice Chancellor. In front of my boss I let them know this person had refused to cooperate. My boss objected, and said that wasn’t his recollection, but I just stood my ground. Later, not surprisingly, he didn’t support my application for promotion.
To answer your question about church schools, in the U.S. quite a few Catholic churches also have church run K-12 schools on their property. It seems odd that there was only one office for both though, as the school that I attended had an office in the rectory for church business and a separate office in the school for school business.
School/church. Some churches operate their own private learning institutions on the same pemises.
I started at a company in 2007, big international electronics manufacturer, I turned up at 8an, I sat in the waiting room for 4 hours before HR finally turned up to do the induction.
The guy farting, was the best
The church/school one got to me. How 'charitable' of such an organisation to fire someone then force them to train the replacement! I would have walked out with the person fired.
My first day in a new job in an operating theatre, I was told when I got back from lunch. I was told that there was a teenaged boy for a nice easy appendectomy. So I start sorting stuff out for that case, some one comes around the door from A&E on a casualty trolley. With a patient on it, with one of my opoes kneeling either side of his waist, with his right arm plunged up to his wrist, internally massaging his heart! They went into a different theatre, I still got my young lad. Poor guy didn't make it.
Number 1 happened to me. I showed up to start a new job without knowing that the guy I was replacing was getting fired that day. It was…awkward
I once started a job as a shunter.when I turned up, the depot knew nothing about it, and run g the main hub, around the corner. They told them that the agency lad I was replacing had to train me. He'd been doing it for 2 years, and the entire staff loved him.
That was the most uncomfortable week of my life.
I had an interview on a Friday and got the job before I made it home - report Monday. I showed up Monday morning and the office manager saw me and said, "Oh my God! You came back?" Second thing she told me? "You're meeting with the county at 9." This was for an instructional coaching job at a school and I had no clue I needed to convince the county to not close us down.
Did you just cut it off, or did the rest not post?
That last story was a good one. If I were that man, I would have winked when asked, "Are you going to hold it?" 😉
@1:50 a lot of private schools are run through churches
My youngest brother was offered a promotion at a store across the country from where he lived. On his first day of work, he discovered that the guy he was replacing had never been fired and they expected my poor brother to do it for them.
That second story. In the US OSHA would have been all over that employer. You do NOT give minors dangerous jobs.
Can you imagine their 'business plan'/s? I know, we'll hire a bunch of people to construct the place, and then...lol. I've vivid memories of working in the Southern US and can picture this, and the drug test stories, and the people. Bless their hearts.
that one sounds like identity theft 101. They probably managed to get some of her info "to fill the paperwork" and now she has to expect a lot of trouble
There are more than a few places in the US now trying to get away with it now. A lot of food processing plants are getting caught having teens clean the saw blades and other really dangerous equipment. And this isn't counting the states where they're trying to push through legislation allowing 14 year olds to serve alcohol.
school/church sounds like a private religious school type situation
I was nearly arrested by the armed MoD police when I turned up for a temp job in the kitchens at RAF Menwith Hill. I was due to start at 7 or 8 on Monday morning, having been given the job late Friday evening. The temp agency hadn’t passed on my details and didn’t open until 9. Having had to take a bus, train and taxi to even get there, I was then scolded for being late.
School/church sounds like a private religious school that also has a church attached, which neighborhood families use on Sunday
My worst first day involved me showing up to fill out my onboarding paperwork. I was hired for a retail management role that I didn't want and held out for every dollar i could get. When the h.r. manager saw I was making almost 40% more than her and she had worked there for 20 years she went off on me and stormed out. She told me to, "onboard my own damn *ss." It was hilarious and I wish i had paid attention to the red flags and fled immediately.
told you to what?
I have had many first day issues - on multiple occasions I have turned up at the right place and on early to be told they had no idea I was coming. 1 - I had to stay until gone midnight as it was stock take day and no-one told me ,so I was in my first day from 7am until gone 12am. 2 - I turned up and met a full new store team at our training store, we had all been told we had rooms booked at a hotel as we were going to be on site for a week. Guess what, no idea we were coming and no hotels, I paid for a massive room in a local "hotel" for those had wanted to stay and within the first week 90% of all our team had left before we had even seen our new store. 3 - I was asked to attend an onboarding week and stay in a hotel for a new role, arrived to find out it was a "dry" week (no alcohol allowed by us on site) to then find out they had changed my area I was going to manage to an area that was a 2 hour each way commute and the chap that hired me had left and my new manager was in the same training group as me and had no experience in the role or industry.
-School/Church-
It means 1 of 2 things
Either a School has been established by the Church and It belongs to the Church.
-OR-
The School is Renting Part of the Church Property due to the School Property being Too Small.
Law enforcement can convictions in some places. Usually it will be after a court hearing where it’s determined the person or business has be moved out. Eviction by bank is usually done by a bank officer.
In the states here. School/Church would be a smaller parochial school, which is usually on church grounds in extended buildings/rooms.
I worked at a place where a lady turned up for her first day and literally no one in the office had been told she was starting. The line manager was off on long-term sick and the one up worked in a different part of the building. I stood at the door with her for some time trying to work out what she was there for bless her.
I then trained her up on the job, and I'd only been in post for a week.
I got my first job in Sydney with News Corp. On the first day nobody spoke to me, apart from the HR person who showed me to my desk. For 5 weeks nobody knew why i was there, i never met my manager, i just kept collecting paychecks. Then they "regret to inform you that your position is no longer needed". To this day i keep wondering what position that was...
New country, new company, put on reception, person with me wouldnt tell me anything, as she wasnt at my interview?! Also temped alot, due to hubby being in Navy so moved around, people talk to you like you have downloaded all info in the first five mins you get there. Also youngster always treated you like you were dirt cause you were a temp!! Ahhh happy days
I had a job djing at sixteen, and was talking about it during a job interview for nurse training. One of the three interviewers, got really stuck trying to get me answer whether I took drugs whilst djing. I played utterly dumb. Didn't get in there. Nope, but I get free beer.
Never had to wee in a cup!
My sister was still a teenager when she showed up to work one day and found someone sitting in her place at the office. Only then did her boss tell her she was fired. The excuse the boss gave later for not giving her appropriate feedback that they weren't happy with her or had someone else starting was the boss 'didn't like confrontation' (this stretched to being willing to address anything, not just with her, it was a pattern). They eventually admitted she didn't sound confident on the phone, something that could have been addressed with some feedback or training. So unprofessional.
In my early 20’s I got a new job which required a week long training course be completed before the actual work started. I attended the full weeks training, then went to the office to get my schedule as instructed. They told me to come back the next day as the manager wasn’t there who did the scheduling. So I did, they weren’t there again. This happened for almost 2 weeks, being told to come back at various times. So by day 10 I got annoyed and stopped off at a pizza place I knew were looking for drivers on my way home (in my head I’d essentially not worked for 2 weeks of the month and wanted to earn some quick money to tide me over).
Well the first company never got in contact ever again, the end of the month rolls around and I get paid over double what I would have earned had I worked the full month there. I was confused, so sent an email asking if they had made a mistake. I never received a reply, they never asked for the money back and I never heard from them again. I’m not complaining because who doesn’t like free money, but it’s a very strange way of doing business.
I have installed drywall ceilings so I know it's hard work. To expect a 14-year old kid to be able to do it is absolutely insane. 🙄
And in an operational kitchen? That was insanity
When I turned up for one job nothing was organised for my start. No desk, nothing. The manager then turned around and said I was responsible for setting up my own induction programme.
😂😂I got this job through a temp agency, it was a temporary job 1 or 2 weeks assembling shelving in a large brand department store (I was the temp for the subcontractor) work was night work so I arrive, ask the store manager to find the subcontractor to witch she had "no idea" and "no one is there to remove/replace shelving" and refused to use the intercom/ask her boss. So I get a hold of the agency get his number he arrives and she looks at him and said "he's not security cleared and not allowed to work". He was on the phone for 40min I and was sent home (after hours can't find out about this "security" clearance). I got the minimum 4hrs because they sent me away. Turn up the next day and there was no security clearance needed and there was 2 different teams of temps because most of the stock was still on the shelves😂 after that she didn't speak to any of us. Finished with the subby in under 2weeks but all the old shelving needed to be sorted, palletized and scrap steel in the steel recycling so they got me back for another 2 weeks.😂
1st day new company, meet me at x address. Ok. Owner/Boss is late, leaving me to deal with family at home. 30 mins later, the boss arrived. Ok, let's get started. They put me in a room by myself and say ok process the room for the sale? I have no clue what they meant but tried, no lunch, no breaks from 8:30 to 5 pm. Should have run. Fast foward 5 months fired me for not knowing how to do the job quickly? Never a comment in those 5 months, except how much they loved me, they appreciate me, and the dreaded "we r family here." In those 5 months, I learned/ figured out a lot of real shady stuff they were doing to elderly people and their estates.
School/Church means a private school thats held in a church. Usually the class ranges from pre-k to 3rd grade. Some go as high as 12th grade.
My area mostly had Lutheran & Catholic School/Churchs.
Casually employed through a contractor to roll out computers in a public service department. The staff member who was supposed to be managing our team quit that morning - just didn't turn up - so we were all led to the desk of the guy who was now going to manage the team. He hadn't been told yet.
Same contractor, same job. They weren't sure whether the job would go ahead, so they told us all to just turn up the next morning to see if they had work for us. I believe no-one did - I for one wasn't going to get ready for work and commute through rush hour just to be told to go home.
Same contractor, different job - we were rolling out new computers for the Department of the Premier in South Australia. We had to copy the existing user profile onto a floppy (remember those?) and then onto the new machine.
There wasn't enough RAM in the old machines so they were using virtual RAM and running so slowly that I suggested that if you dropped one of the machines out of a window, you'd have time to casually stroll downstairs in time to catch it. So, we took RAM out of one machine and put it in the machine we were working on just to make the process faster - the profile copied in miuntes rather than the hours it was previously taking.
They didn't like that and they told us to put the RAM back into the defunct machine and to just let the copying process take hours. Didn't mind - we were being paid by the hour
I stopped the hiring process at a job midway through when I saw them treating the janitor rudely. If the "lowest" members of the staff are looked down on then I want nothing to do with them. I got a job as an electrician instead and have no regrets
In the US churches can frequently also have/run a private school. Sometimes the whole k-12, sometimes just k-8.
Pretty much every place I worked at, the first week there was someone having a shouting match with the boss/manager..
school/church is likely catholic school. Some of the churches will actually run k-12 schools as private schools and teach their faith as part of the curriculum
My first day, no one showed up at the office. The first hour l was talking to the photocopier guy. The second person worked in the office but didn't know why l was there. 2 hours later, the managers came. They forgot the day l started. I didn't stay long at that job.
I reversed my car into the top salespersons car whilst leaving the car park on my firdt day. She'd had the car for 2 days. She'd ordered it months before and it was some kind of special colour, which meant it took ages to fix. She was driving a hire car for weeks afterwards. I got L plates as my secret santa that year.
school/church might mean either sunday school which is just class for kids to sit while the parents handle their stuff/lessons or their confirmation. or private school.
I did my fair share of washing up in various hotels in town. Never a job that was going bug me about walking out.
New manager was on holiday the day I started and hadn't told anybody was about to go back home after 2h when I finally found somebody who could help.
OY M8! WOTS THAT PLAY BUTTON IN THE BACKGROUND
CHURCH/SCHOOL is run by a religion and crams their beliefs in with state required subjects. generally a strictly run "tow the line" atmosphere. Movie examples would include Bing Crosby in the 1950s "Bells of St Mary's" and Whoopie Goldburgs 2 more modern movies; "Sister Act" and "Sister Act 2"
I would have refused the position with that person getting fired
My first job after school was a chef. Has been there about a year. Me and the agency shift were the last to finish so he said i could go and he would finish up. Came in the next morning and got chewed out by the head chef( also agency) because the pot wash was dirty, telling me to write me resignation. I just told him no, if he wants to fire me for not doing someone elses job go ahead, then i went to complain to the manager, then went home, needless to say he apologized to me the next day 4 days later we had a new head chef, not sure if that was related though.
In America, many churches own and operate small private schools. In some churches, the membership of the church is larger than the enrolment of the school, in some cases it is the other way around.
Sheriff departments can deliver court orders and serve legal paperwork. The cop may have posted the notice.
Some churches have their own private schools on their grounds. I think that's what they might have meant.
That 14 year old kid should sue that business for his injury and out the twat manager in the process. It wouldn't surprise me if they had stoves and deep fat fryers on the go while he was up a ladder. The level of managerial incompetence is astounding but doesn't surprise me.
1:50 a private school attached to & run by a church.
I once worked for a mobile phone shop and it was one of the most toxic work environments i have ever been in. We had a narcissistic female manager who one day didn't come in leaving me waiting outside. I was happy to discover the guy waiting nearby the shop entrance when i got there was someone from their head office, as i hoped that they would see how their shop was being run. After hours of waiting the guy got hold of the manager who told him I had a key and the idiot chewed me out, 😂😂😂😂 toxic right up the tree. If he had any sense he would know i didn't have a key because i was hired through an agency. I heard a couple of weeks after i left that the idiot they chose to manage the place was one of the smackheads working there and the next time they sent someone to visit the store it was unmanned and he found all the staff downstairs with the new manager and a bunch of his smackhead friends smoking weed. Shite management is toxic in a business, just look at boeing in recent years.
I once started a sales job was told in the interview it was b2b no cold calling also asked what we were selling they said they will tell me in training showed up day on and was just given a list of numbers to call still don't know what I'm selling at this point I said this and that I was told it's not a cold calling job I stade the day didn't bother coming back after I'm still don't know what the sell
A school/church is a congregation that has a parochial school combined.on the same grounds.
Some churches have there own private schools.
Some churches in America also run private schools and/or daycares on the church campus during the week. The Methodist church down the street from me does that.
When it comes to labor laws, the us is a wild place isnt it Ben? Arent you glad you're in the Uk?
school/church = Private school run by a church denomination with both the church and school on the same premisis. For instance, Catholic High schools are everywhere in the US and in certain areas are considered the best school in the area meaning a lot of non-Catholics will go there. There are also plenty of Elementary schools from various denominations everywhere in the US. These are all "Private" institutions, which means they do not receive the same tax dollars that public schools do but the kids all pay a tuition to attend.
Don't know that anyone has explained this to you yet, but it is not uncommon for protestant churches in the U. S. to run their own schools. Sometimes the schoolbuilding is located next to the church. Sometimes the school shares the same building.
There are catholic schools as well.
In the US public schools are not allowed to have religious activities in the curriculum since they get public funding they are bound by separation and church and state. Privet schools are not restricted in this way. As a result may religious schools are privet schools. There are many religious schools that are operated by churches so it is not unreasonable to think that there is a church at a school in the US
3:42 repeating "or whatever".. how did she get hired?
"private school/church" means it's a private religious school that also has a church that does regular services. I actually live near one. Great big old community church with attached classrooms and school buses in the parking lot. We have separation of church and state (theoretically) in the US, so religious organizations like the Catholic Church create private schools so that they can teach religion in the classrooms because it's not allowed in public schools. Most private schools in the US are religious. No public school can be. There's a whole debate now about voucher programs, where public funds are used to give vouchers to poor kids to attend religious private schools on scholarship paid for by the government. Because private schools are expensive and not everyone can afford to pay $10k/year to send their kids to kindergarten, but it takes money away from public schools. But that's a whole different discussion.
Some churches have a private school as part of the church grounds. Big money maker. Supposedly, the cream of the crop. And I know what they were paid, and it was chicken scratch. Priest / Pastor was angry that the minimum wage increased. Paying minimum wage for the church secretary and teachers? If one wants top-notch teachers, one needs to pay a fair market price to do so. Again, minimum wage??? That is insulting. I have my personal opinions, and I will keep them to myself.
They meant NINE o'clock. No one proofreads.
We have lots of schools run by churches in the UK, in fact some of the oldest schools in the country were established by churches before the government decided it was a good idea to have an educated workforce as industrialisation made everything more complicated. I went to a primary school run by a church. The thing it did best, was produce atheists.
Glad to live in Germany. Drug testing is illegal without reasonable suspicion.
So is hiring a 14-year-old.
We have Roman Catholic, Jewish and CofE Schools, run and financed by the state. I'm sure there'll be CofS ones. Quite a lot of religious British schools out there. Fees paying schools in the U.K.are rather confusingly called public schools. For some arcane historical reason. I'm having to reply in edit as I'm in comment jail for allegedly bullying someone.
But they are not churches/schools like a private convent school would be?
@@nicolad8822, usually smaller, I think. Nice small class sizes.
I had no computer account when I first started. I had most of the day in classroom training, lunch with line manager, and then reading printed standard operating procedures.
Story 2 - seriously... if I would ever have an employee who feels "ghosted" within 23 minutes and posting about in on social media I would definitely reconsider if she's the right fit.
There could be plenty of explanations without anyone being ghosted and unless there is a lot more "ghosting" story after those initial 23 minutes, this is absurd.
We once had someone showing up for a job interview on a day when nobody expected him. He just mixed up the dates and was one day early. It was pure luck that I was onsite and could squeeze in the interview. Mistakes happen.
Unfortunately, thereare a lot of church/schools in the US. They are not subject to the same standards and regulatioms ad public school. Thst includes anti-discrimination laws. Gay students and teachers can be rejected.
Some of them provide quality education and produce high performing students. Others are basically Bible school, teaching history and "science" based on Biblical philosophy. These students graduated with significant deficits.
The thumbnail is horrendous. I could do better in MS Paint with a blindfold on.