Worked in retail and started my career at UPS.
Doesn't sound quite as bad as a call center, but I have a couple stories.
I worked at Lowes right after college back in 07, any Philly people here, it is the one on 52nd and Jefferson...anyone that knows this part of west Philly knew this part of west philly had absolutely no retail stores for like a radius of 5 miles, just hood mom and pop shops...and it took years to make a shopping center. So everyone in the hood applied to get a job there even my recently college educated ass, because it was the start of the recession.
Obviously, coworkers fukking each other...a customer spit in one the supervisors faces and the supervisor grabbed a butcher knife, and went after the customer. People stealing shyt like crazy and loss prevention chasing them out of the store body slamming them and arresting them.
Me and one of my homies had planned on hitting Dorney Park on a Sunday with these 2 chick coworkers. Word got around the store that we were hitting a theme park up...half the fukking store called out of work that Sunday and showed up at Dorney Park. Store could barely operate and they lost a ton of business that day. They threatened to fire whoever organized it. But they never found out.
Mix in powered equipment with a bunch of hood nikkas with powered equipment with no real good training...myself included...people were putting forklifts through walls, dropping shyt from the top shelves...me myself, I knocked a fence over outside unloading a truck...
Short of being a celebrity, working in home improvement retail is one of the easiest jobs to meet women...there's articles on the shyt how easy it is. Let a bad chick walk in the store, nikkas would be thirsty as fukk...we would call a code blue or some shyt over the radio and say the department, and all the dudes would find some conspicuous way to walk over said department just to check the chick out.
Working at UPS was just borderline working at a jail. The few chicks that worked there would fukk multiple nikkas at the job...my homie wifed up some chick who was lowkey throwing it at me...she ended up fukking some other dude and getting my homie jumped on the bus to work one day. She got fired...shyt was crazy because she was a supervisor.
There were also a lot of mentally handicapped people working at UPS...because obviously it doesn't take much brain power to unload or load a truck...I was on the bus my first year, and dude was on the bus talking to himself and answering himself back in a female voice.
People would ship all kinds of embarrassing shyt through there...a box of dildoes burst open on one of the belts...a box of bullets burst open on the floor one day and one of the loose bullets no one saw got ran over by a forklift and and shot across the floor and hit the wall...
I heard a story about a time when they went on strike and the supervisors would go out and do runs in the package cars and tractor trailers, and to stop this...the union put road spikes on the street...not realizing that tractor trailer tires and package car tires are thicker and more durable so they did little to no damage to the vehicles...but when the second wave of union protesters came, they didn't move the spikes off the ground, they ended up blowing out a bunch of tires on the protesters cars...shyt was hilarious.
I got head from some older chick that was chasing me around for months...I wasn't even feeling her, but she came over to my area. I use to audit packages in the package cars and a lot of times it would just be me and 3 dozen empty trucks and no one else around. She came through sniffing around and we got to talking and one thing lead to another and my shyt was out...
The amount of drugs that flowed through UPS, my UPS in particular was crazy. People mailing drugs, drivers transporting drugs...
The UPS I worked at was at the airport, and there was a long ass bus ride to get there everyday...so people would pool at the train station waiting for the transfer to the bus...most of UPS is operating at night so the bus at a certain time of night would take a LONG time to come...people got paid weekly and they would get their paychecks Thursday night...well some check cashing company found out about this and had an armoured truck park by the station...800+ people would come through this station and bust their checks...the truck didn't even check IDs most of the time. Well...I ended up linking with some dudes that sold drugs to the UPS people that previously worked there. We would sit out there, make money, get high, listen to music and bullshyt...we weren't the only ones...shyt was like thirsty Thursdays on Oregon Avenue at 3-4 in the morning.
Don't get me started on the number of people that died at my building...people dying in trucks, people dying in the containers...a driver walking to his car just collapsed because his heart stopped...
I was there one day when one of planes caught on fire and had to land at the airport and shut it down...we had anthrax packages flowing through our building and the FBI had to come through...mail bombs...
You know what...fukk it...working at UPS had the most fukkery...