Work Sucks *stories*

[Admin_2]

Majority of people don't like their jobs and would rather be doing something else. Here are a few "work sucks" stories...if you don't like your work, a good thing to do is to find another job or just laugh at it all.

"A drunk customer last night called my female co-worker "sir." I had to spend the next 2 hours reassuring this 50 year old woman that she didn't look manly (she does), and listen to her tell me over and over that she has tits.

- Anonymous

Once when I was interning for a state representative a constituent called and yelled at us because it wasn't raining enough. He thought the state should cloud seed over his neighborhood because all of their plants were dying.

- Amy, Southwestern University

I work at Best Buy, and the amount of UNBELIEVABLE stupid questions/requests that I get are borderline unforgivable to the point where I want to give up on humanity. Case in point, A guy walked up to me with a Canon ink cartridge, looked me dead in the eye, and asked if it was a webcam.

- Otto, School Not Given

I waited on a woman who was breastfeeding her kid while drinking a Heineken. Later, when I went to clear the table and collect the tip, all I got was a dirty diaper that she left in the booth after changing the baby at the table.

-Greg, School Not Given

The company I work for paid a feng shui "expert" ten thousand dollars to come instruct us what colors to paint the building, and now they can't pay me my weekly salary for 8 weeks.

- Javier, School Not Given

I used to work at Olive Garden near Disney World. Tourists would come

in and get pissed because we couldn't speak Italian.

-Jake, Alabama

I got robbed, at gunpoint, while working at Little Caesars in high school. F*ck pizza, pizza.

- Dan, School Not Given

I worked at a nursing home to get through college, where there was a patient there who was there for being obese (over 500 lbs). About 2 times a day, he'd drive his Rascal into the bathroom (that was literally 4 feet from his bed) and go poop. After, he'd flick on the help light which meant somebody got to go wipe his ass for him. And more often than not, that'd be me. And he'd say "get in there, get real deep" whilst I was doing the ass wiping. Finally, we gave him a stick with a wash rag on it and told him to do it himself. The original Comfort Wipe.

- Anonymous"

Do you have any funny work stories that can be shared?

[toma]

I used to work at Olive Garden near Disney World. Tourists would come

in and get pissed because we couldn't speak Italian.

-Jake, Alabama

lol.. I always get in situations like this in Italy.

btw..

I love my work.. really, I do! :*(

[digitalcat]

worked as a taxi driver...

Client stumbled drunk into my car muttered a neighborhood and passed out.

When we got to the area I couldn't wake him up to get the exact address, so I went through his pockets and found his ID.

He lived no where near where he said to go. I took him to the address on the ID. When I told him the fare he started to protest, I mentioned that I could just drop him off in the ghetto not to far from here.

He paid the fare and left.

No tip.

[iBatch]

MONDAY is always the worse day of the week @work.

Spending a long 10hrs in a madhouse dealing with HUMAN. In the last minute ready to go home shut yourself from the outside world... Someone walk straight into me and said U ***** ruined my daughter life.

[Admin_2]

I once worked with the Thai government...for 3 years.

nuff said.

:roll:

[PowerPoof]

I once worked with the Thai government...for 3 years.

nuff said.

:roll:

More details pls....

[PowerPoof]

I once worked with the Thai government...for 3 years.

nuff said.

:roll:

More details pls....

And still wondering how could you deal with them for 3 years...amazing!

[Admin_2]

I worked for the Thai ministry of finance for a few years. For the first year, I got a lot of good stuff done, and my team made some good progress. We set the rent structure for Suvarnabhumi, structured some of the financial plans for the new BTS lines, and structured some smaller public/private projects.

When we wanted to take it to the next level in the second year...things slowed down...a lot. They moved us to some education reform projects, which was initially very interesting and challenging (to say the least). The education system here is a monster. A monster that doesn't want to be moved.

A lot of "show" was done to let everyone know what we were doing. We held huge teacher training sessions with 500+ teachers in Chiang Mai, and of course....all the TV cameras were there. We were installing a large part of our program (called Brain Based Learning, or BBL), and the teachers were loving it. We felt like we were making great progress.

All the while, we were still keeping up with the BTS, highway, etc. projects. Things were moving at the typical government pace...slow...slowly but surely. Then...Thaksin got the boot. All projects stopped, new projects never got past the front door in the MOF, and almost nothing has happened since that day. My mentor advised us to get out, which was the right move. He moved back to work in the states, and has been watching the government do whatever it has been doing for the past couple of years. It's really sad as he loves this country more than most foreigners do, and was really helping as a senior advisor to the MOF.

Every country's government moves at a snail's pace...it's just the way things work when there is no competition and people get comfortable in whatever position they are in. Contrary to what a lot of people say, there are some really smart... incredibly smart Thais working in the Thai government. It's not their fault that things don't get done, it's the entire system's fault.

Supposedly, BBL is still alive and barely kicking around Thailand...hopefully it catches on as it is a great program.

[toma]

btw.. I'm the owner of a fountain in Shamal/Afghanistan.

I were busy at a construction site and a government employee came along (+60, big-hearted and adorable).. said something in a pashtoon accent I had never heard before.. I didn't want to be insolent and didn't ask him what he said.. 5 min later a co-worker told me that I bought a fountain.. poor him, he didn't want to fleece us, he just didn't know that the building had it's own source of water supply.

[LakeGeneve]

We set the rent structure for Suvarnabhumi, structured some of the financial plans for the new BTS lines, and structured some smaller public/private projects.

All the while, we were still keeping up with the BTS, highway, etc. projects. Things were moving at the typical government pace...slow...slowly but surely. Then...Thaksin got the boot. All projects stopped, new projects never got past the front door in the MOF, and almost nothing has happened since that day.

Interesting on the BTS front.

Extensions have been on the drawing board since the BTS opened in Dec 99 but BTSC did not have the funds. TRT released their Mass Transit Policy in Spet 04 (using essentially OTP & MRTA plans) for 7 lines & then went to the Feb 05 election with plans for 11 lines (3 BTS exts, 6 subway lines and 2 SRT lines) with an impressively challenging timetables for all lines to be completed by the end of the decade. (That was never going to happen but half completed within the same period would have bee great).

However, nothing progressed after the sweeping election victory. As usual, after all the election commitment to gets tenders and construction underway quickly, pollies started to position themselves for their cut of the funding cake. In mid 05, Taksin wanted to implement a policy of nationalisation in relation to the BTSC and so began an extended period of an impasse as the BTSC was attempting to restructure its debts and stay private. The BMA under Apirak stepped in and funded the two current extensions (Wong Wian Yai and Bearing) - both a pragmatic and political decision.

You know what was going on from the inside of MOF but from the period Feb 05 to when Taksin was deposed in Sept 07 it appears to this casual outside observer that sweet FA got done on the BTS ext front (as well as the other mass transit lines).

Thereafter, the coup govt twice announced a smaller 7 line plan (the same lines) but did not tender one line during its 15 month period. The Samak govt also did not tender any line during its tenure. Only this year has the SRT Taling Chan line been tendered and the Purple line (a gravy train for the Newin group) was also tendered. Both would have been completed by now under the original TRT 05 timetable

People have complained about traffic in BKK for decades yet the one obvious easy and economically sound remedy is not implemented (partially because pollies never actually get stuck in traffic). Policy makers who should bang competing & dysfunctional dept/agency heads together to expedite construction, end up farting around, making lots of much ado about nothing noise and eyeing off a slice of the construction money!

[LIEBE]

i've been working with both thai and foreign military.

thai counter path always see that i'm still a girl and civilian but (sometimes) foreign counter path never see me as i am.. they thought i was train as military. then i had to do the same as military do. it was sux but after those things has done.. it was great experience.

[Admin_2]

We set the rent structure for Suvarnabhumi, structured some of the financial plans for the new BTS lines, and structured some smaller public/private projects.

All the while, we were still keeping up with the BTS, highway, etc. projects. Things were moving at the typical government pace...slow...slowly but surely. Then...Thaksin got the boot. All projects stopped, new projects never got past the front door in the MOF, and almost nothing has happened since that day.

Interesting on the BTS front.

Extensions have been on the drawing board since the BTS opened in Dec 99 but BTSC did not have the funds. TRT released their Mass Transit Policy in Spet 04 (using essentially OTP & MRTA plans) for 7 lines & then went to the Feb 05 election with plans for 11 lines (3 BTS exts, 6 subway lines and 2 SRT lines) with an impressively challenging timetables for all lines to be completed by the end of the decade. (That was never going to happen but half completed within the same period would have bee great).

However, nothing progressed after the sweeping election victory. As usual, after all the election commitment to gets tenders and construction underway quickly, pollies started to position themselves for their cut of the funding cake. In mid 05, Taksin wanted to implement a policy of nationalisation in relation to the BTSC and so began an extended period of an impasse as the BTSC was attempting to restructure its debts and stay private. The BMA under Apirak stepped in and funded the two current extensions (Wong Wian Yai and Bearing) - both a pragmatic and political decision.

You know what was going on from the inside of MOF but from the period Feb 05 to when Taksin was deposed in Sept 07 it appears to this casual outside observer that sweet FA got done on the BTS ext front (as well as the other mass transit lines).

Thereafter, the coup govt twice announced a smaller 7 line plan (the same lines) but did not tender one line during its 15 month period. The Samak govt also did not tender any line during its tenure. Only this year has the SRT Taling Chan line been tendered and the Purple line (a gravy train for the Newin group) was also tendered. Both would have been completed by now under the original TRT 05 timetable

People have complained about traffic in BKK for decades yet the one obvious easy and economically sound remedy is not implemented (partially because pollies never actually get stuck in traffic). Policy makers who should bang competing & dysfunctional dept/agency heads together to expedite construction, end up farting around, making lots of much ado about nothing noise and eyeing off a slice of the construction money!

The biggest issue while I was in there was whether or not outside (international) funding would used, or whether BMA could get the funding on their own or not. They all saw it as a money losing project, but yet it needed to be finished...and yes, pockets needed to get filled.

Obviously I won't give details, but it's amazing how nonchalant people are about paying for contracts...sometimes even 100% of the contract price (that one I never understood, and never really bothered to ask about).

Basically, the more time that they spend wasting time (or farting around), the better for those involved. They either keep getting their salary, or contract workers get extended contracts with no questions asked.