What's the worst company you've worked for and why?
Posted Mar 21, 2018, 1:29 AM UTC
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Toys r us.
They refused to let me take time off to go to a funeral, even though I submitted the request 48 hours in advance.
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Ironically, Toys R Us is now having its own funeral.
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And they aren't allowed to attend.
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I worked there during the holidays a couple of years. My second year it took them a month to schedule me correctly, and then they expected me to skip school and stuff for days that employees "must" work. Good riddance.
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I worked in the ER once as an EMT. I hated it and left within a week. I hated being indoors all the time but the real straw that broke the camels back was how we treated folks. Stick a dude with the flu in a room and make him sit there for 5 hours. Jesus Christ just go talk to him. He could be out the door in 5 minutes. Nah, that didn't feel right.
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Burger King. I was a hard and good worker but I was treated like less and the store manager fired me the day after telling me I was on a 3 day suspension. I was a very hard worker, can't remember what exactly caused the argument, but the manager on duty told me they can work without me. So I told him fine, and left.
Mind you, I was on the line (making orders), while taking orders over the headset, making them, ringing them in and cashing out the customer.
Fuck that guy.
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Insomniac music group. Beyond being complete assoles to work for, they also coerced and threatened my crew into signing release papers that prevented us from testifying on behalf of anyone who was injured or killed at their festival due to insomniacs negligence or oversight. I discussed it after the fact with a contract lawyer I know, and he was flabbergasted. Totally illegal to force employees into that contract, but at the time they told us that if we didn't sign, we would be fired and not receive pay for the 36 hours already worked or compensation for travel, per diem, etc.
Someone dies at pretty much every event they throw. The CEO, Pasquale rotella, lost his ability to throw events in Los Angeles county after a 15 year old fell to her death from a window. He then bribed a city official to the tune of $1,000,000 to have another event where a severely mismanged traffic plan caused two pedestrians to be run over and killed. The bribery was later found out when the politician was indicted for corruption, and Pasquale faced prison time for wrongful death and conspiracy. He's super rich, so he got off, and now his company cannot do business within Los Angeles county, so their events are thrown in San Bernardino and Las Vegas.
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I once got tricked to be a “manager” for Vector. I’m still ashamed. Lasted about 1 week
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What was it like?
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I worked for one evening for a company called Zenith Advertising. They brought me in with an online ad offering me great amounts of money for just 24 hours of work each week. They didn't say what exactly my job would be, but I figured it was worth a shot; I was going through a slow period at my current job and needed some more cash. It turned out my job was going door-to-door collecting donations for the Canadian Fentanyl Prevention Society, giving people boxes of cookies and calendars for each $25 donation. I only made five sales, and I found out after we were done that I would only get paid for sales, $8 per sale. Technically you could make a lot of money relative to the low hours...if you made like 10-20 sales each night. You're just as likely to make 0-2 sales. I made $40 for four hours of work. Minimum wage where I live is ~$14, and my current job pays $15. The next morning I texted my supervisor and said I wouldn't be back.
Oh, and just as I was telling myself "at least I helped a good cause," I also found out after the fact that the Canadian Fentanyl Prevention Society is basically a scam. So I spent an evening walking around in the freezing cold, ripping off nice people and making less than minimum wage. It wasn't my brightest moment, but I guess I learned from it.
TL;DR - Zenith uses misleading advertisements to get people to raise money for sketchy "charities." If you're living in Alberta and hear about them or the Canadian Fentanyl Prevention Society, steer clear.
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Dollar General.
Just a trashy work environment, every time. None of the employees want to work there, and to be honest I can't blame them. Working minimum wage at a cheap, corner store isn't exactly the dream.
And all the locations I go into have always been pretty nasty looking, the one I worked at just had all the plumbing in the bathroom exposed.
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WALMART and not for the reasons you are often told, the people I worked for were the meanest, most miserable, unhappy people I have ever met and they all seemed to feel entitled to treat their co-workers like crap! The managers were out and out liars who looked for every excuse to keep your annual job review at low to middle average and the costumers: Fat skanks everywhere, barf!
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Stanley Steemer. You're just a slave.
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A local bowling alley. Smelly, absolutely disgusting, hot, outdated, pin racking machines constantly breaking and malfunctioning. My job was to bus tables, wipe them all down as soon as they're cleared, stock one or two bars every hour and as needed, and deal with any front-of-house lane issues. I had one other person doing this with me. We'd split the 80 lanes. I'd walk about 12 miles per shift. Paid minimum wage. No flexibility for students. It was always packed too since it was the "nicest" bowling alley in the city for miles. It wasn't that bad if you were there to bowl though. Three bars, a not that bad pizza place, arcade, pro shop, the works basically. Employees got free drinks (pop/water) on and off the clock, and free bowling.
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Applebees, favor the drug addicts and habitual felons that never show up to work or are constantly 3 hours late or in jail all the time, but the guy willing to learn and work hard always get shit on. If you don't get fucked up on hard drugs at the local one I worked at, you won't fit in.
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Target.
"Oh. We aren't making sales, hours are cut. You were full time, now you have 12 hours. You were part time, you have 4 hours and we'll see if we'll even schedule you next week."
"We don't do 'cost of living' raises, just our once yearly raise where we give 9 cents to $1.50 maximum" (No one ever gets that, the highest I've heard was 72 cents.)
They used me as a store trainer for almost every single overnight operations position and I found out that the raised their opening pay and the seasonal temps and new hires were being paid more than me, the person training them to do their job..
They treat their employees like crap. Every single one of them, from seasonal temps to their leads and managers.
I worked for Target when they tried to come to Canada and I agree. The full-time staff were also hooking up with everyone and treating others like dirt.
I worked for Target for like a month a few years ago. Hated it.
This is every corporation, not just Target.
I know it all corporations, but working at target was the by far th worst in my opinion and the most outrage from fellow employees.
I worked at Pizza Hut, Red Robin, Sam's Club. They all do exactly what you posted. It might be a little different from store to store but they are generally all the same. Cut labor and get the cheapest products they can so they can make as much profit as possible to keep their shareholders happy.
Definitely.
I think it might also be my local location. Of the local stores fred Meyer is known for crappy rude customers, target is known for horrible corporate and crappy coworkers..