Asklemmy

Not sure if it counts as a first day, but a third interview had me gone. I was quite late and they told me I was out of the running. Reasonable enough, but the company was in the middle of a move, so this interview was in a different location across town from the first two, and the only indication of where it was taking place was a tiny sign stuck in the ground. I must have circled the parking lot 10 times.

It was for the best because I later learned the work conditions there were rotten.

I work in it company that support small business. a customer of ours has an employee demographic of about 90% women they had hired a marketing guy and I was setting up his work laptop around noon after talking with him about 10 minutes and getting his desk set up I knew this guy wasn't going to last long with him mansplaining how it was done back before Windows 95. The paperwork for his termination had already been started by 4:00 p.m.

Not at any workplace of mine but at school. We had a substitute teacher for a day in I think in our sophomore year. Teachers save the easy teaching sessions for when they can’t show up, which means all a substitute teacher has to do is occupy the class with a documentary or something from the handy dandy wheeled video projector and make sure everyone behaves. However, she got a substitute who didn’t understand a word in English. And again, doesn’t really seem like a problem if you’re just there to hit a few buttons. But she got us a documentary with, well, let’s just say wildly inaccurate closed captions that looked ripped from a 50 Shades of Grey AI crossover fanfiction.

We hired a receptionist who didn’t know how to use a computer. Couldn’t type or even use a mouse. This was at a small tech company maybe 20 years ago and she was 20 something at the time. She interviewed normally and I guess someone else wrote her resume. I don’t know if she thought she would just figure it out on the job? We did skills and typing tests after that.

On his first day, he came on to one of the women I worked with very aggressively and shortly after told another to "bring me a cup of tea, quickly" while on the way to a meeting.

He was escorted off the premises by several other members of staff a few hours into the day once all of his system access had been revoked.

I'm sad to say this, because I know what a bad rap this field gets already and I know so many lovely people who are part of it.... But, they worked in InfoSec.

We hired a person who lived hours away from our office. To save on hotel, he had the bright idea to spend his first work-week nights at a non-stop bar (open 24h/7). He showed up still drunk on his second day. We let him go on day 2.

I got fired before my first day. Well kind of.

So I was in college at this time and I had applied for and got hired at McDonald's. I had previous experience working at McDonald's in a different town. Not sure exactly what position it was anymore but something something lead I think. Anywho at the end of the 'your hired' talk the manager that did the hiring told me that the Christmas party was like that weekend and I should really show up to meet everybody. So despite not working a single day I show up for the Christmas party.

Well, her boss (the boss of the person who hired me) saw me and determined my hair was too long for a guy and fired me. He basically said that boys were to have essentially a 1950s men's haircuts if they were going to work for him... At McDonald's. I don't remember the specific words but I remember getting the vibe that he was very homophobic and that he thought long hair was somehow gay. So I was given the ultimatum of getting a proper men's haircut or I could be done. And despite not being gay myself I didn't want to work for some dude who just oozed homophobia, so I peaced out and told everyone I could at the manager of that McDonald's was a homophobic piece of shit.

For those wondering how long was my hair... It just barely touched the collar of my shirt, if it even touched. You know the 'broke college student who can't afford or remember when the last haircut was' look.

Well, I passed out at a warehouse because my supervisor wouldn't let me go for a water break in 100+ degree weather, and I got fired for "loafing."

Does that count?

A week or so in Flipkart, 2 new trainees were caught kissing on the top office floor. Fired at spot.