C'mon - you know you want to anyway. I'm collecting job related stories for an upcoming website. I reserve the right to use your submission on my site (feel free to include your name and a url). I don't care if you're a burger flipper or a ceo - just tell me what sucks about your job in general, your workday, your boss, etc. I would prefer at least 2-3 paragraphs, but if you can make a quick and interesting rant, go for it. Grammar is not important, and these do not have to be PG rated. Profanity is encouraged . Please PM me your entries. My favorite entry wins you $25 paid via PayPal. The winner will be posted in this thread. If I get enough decent entries I will award additional cash prizes. The deadline to get your entries in by is Friday, 3/23. PS - If you feel like the contest is too long or the prize isn't high enough, let me know. This is my first attempt at holding one.
I wrote for a satirical website for over a year, I am definitely in. However, I will only enter if submissions aren't done via PM, but are done by posting them here. That way we know it's legit. edit: I can provide an excellent already written one by someone I know for an additional $10.
Ok, based on feedback I'm changing the rules so you MUST post your story/rant here - no PMs. Should be more fun that way, anyhow. School rants are ok, too.
Ok here is one and im no writer so sorry.lol I was formely a Cable guy for comcast cable and one of the worse parts of the job would be having to go to house that were either just in the ghetto or very un-kept. One time specifically i found myself on a utility pole of a house in a very poor neighbor hood, the house adjecent to the house i was working on seemed to be acting as a local pharmacy outlet for all of the neighboring blocks. Well i am up on the pole for about 20 minutes before a couple of the "store keepers" of the local pharmacy come out to tell me that if i dont climb down the pole they are removing my ladder. Apparently they though that i might of been some type of pharmay undercover agent. I climbed down questioning my logic of not having climbed up with my nextel, not having it to radio support climbing down seemed like the only option. After about 10 minutes of what seemed to be a backwards DEA internship interview a couple of the store clerks began to wander away un-interested in my amazing day job, altho one did not believe me (even with the company truck and tools). Told him i had to finish to take off and he stood and watched, was pretty creepy to have someone at the bottom of your 28ft ladder when your on a utility pole, but i was not trying to disrupt the local business. Not the best rant but first
Looking forward to your submission . PM me a small sample of the already written one if you and I'll consider your offer.
Being a teenager for the last three years has been worse than hell for me. Having to go to school every day of the week and then only having two days off really takes it out of you. Homework and teachers are constantly getting on my nerves, and most of the time, I don't even want to take it anymore. Somtimes, I just wish that if it all ended, I would be much happier. On top of that, I always have my mom nagging me to death. "Clean your room" and "Throw out the trash", it's like i don't have a life. Let my room stay dirty. It's fine the way it is. I can find stuff in it easier. We are all most comfortable in our "niche" so why not let me be comfortable in my room the way I want to. After that you got friends, parties, girls. It's just too much for one person to handle. You hear adults complainign about how hard their life is, but they don't even take us into account. We don't get to vote, we cant have a credit card, hell we can't even drive without a parent or when its past midnight. It's like the laws are made to put people like me down, so that we can't rise to the top. Then, they expect you to go to college, and become a doctor or something. They don't even think of what i want do, or what the whole teenage community wants to do. Society has set its laws in writing for us, and we can't do a single thing about it, except break away from it all. That is what we all must do. ~Hades Oh, i was kind of lazy to pm (well i wasnt lazy, but i didnt read the whole post, so i posted and then so the pm part)
I don't see anything in the rules stating that we can't. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Or you could just say "what the ****" - still gets the message across. Unless you're like Samir from Office Space and you say stuff like "son of a ass"
Explicit content Damn it I want a fucking good paying job! They got me flipping burgers at Burger King? I've been working there for so long I remember when he was a Prince! For $5.95 an hour?! What the fuck man? I've got children to feed! Ok...I don't claim them but still...the principle remains...I want a fucking good paying job.... Every fucking day...hello welcome to Burger King may I take your order? And the fucker responds yea hold on for a second. Bitch know your order before you pull up! The manager pisses me off too. She definitely gets the Bitch of the Year award. She fucks other workers in the place, but when I want just a LITTLE bit of head in the bathroom....I GET A FUCKING PINK SLIP! WTF!!!....but I digress...I want a fucking good paying job....fuck.....*falls asleep*
Nice rants everyone - I see some things that are all too familiar here (especially the ones about design).
Not a rant as such but does anybody else work beside some stupid people? Like, there's this one girl and she's lovely but we were talking about a dolphin ornament she had on her desk and somehow the conversation got on to tuna and how dolphins sometimes get caught in the nets. Now, initially she was surprised that tuna were big fish as they come in such a small can and when we were talking about dolphin safe tuna she asked "Has tuna always been called tuna?" We looked at her and wondered what she was talking about, before replying pretty much yeah. She then went on to say "What?! Even when it was made from dolphins?" Then there's another girl who came out with both of these in a day. Firstly she was talking about exercise and asked "How far do you have to go to walk a mile?" Then when talking about what she will be doing later she asked "What time will it be at 7 o'clock?" Both are blonde, dunno if that means anything
And the winner is... DustyDog with a damn fine rant. Thanks to everyone who entered. Winner has been sent PM.