When You Realize A Job Isn’t For You Right In The Middle of Training

[BlackMajik]

This is before electric companies went to remote meter reading.
When I first moved back to Houston I worked for Centerpoint Energy.
Couldn’t find anything with my degree and I just needed a job.
So they gave you a scanner and you either had to jump fences to get to the meter to read it
Or knock on the door to see if someone was home and would they let you in through their back door/open their fence
Now before the job you had to be able to run I think 8 miles in under 15mins
I was a fat boy, 10 piece eating ass nikka then
Anyway they dropped us off at Memorial Park and if you are from Houston you know how big that fukking park is
While running I knew this was not the job for my fat ass but I persevered through
First two days was easy because I had a trainer and they did most of the work
Third day and I’ll never forget it
You are on your own and here’s a map of the neighborhood
Now this is in the middle of August in Houston where it may say it’s 90 degrees but with humidity that shyt feels like 110
And this was before iPhones and shyt where you could just use GPS
So imagine walking around in feel like 110 weather
One bottle of Gatorade for the whole day
Dropped off in a “nice”neighborhood and you are 6’0, 245 chocolate black man
Anyway the first half of the route was pretty easy
Didn’t have to jump any fences, no dogs and if there was a dog
It was friendly and just wanted pets/play when I walked in the back
Welp that shyt went to hell around 12pm
I got lost, nobody was at home, so I’m just jumping fences and doing double work because those meters were already read by someone else and I had to be done by 1pm
So I just started finessing numbers to get done and try to find my way back to the starting point to catch the van back downtown
Couldn’t even do that with that fukking mapquest bullshyt
Supervisor was driving around until she finally found me
Where the fukk were you
I was just finishing up the last meter
You are way too slow and I expect you to be better tomorrow
Coworkers
Me:
That night I threw all that Centerpoint shyt away and never again
Had a couple office gigs but they where through temp agencies
So if anybody has been through that process
Got on with the Post Office and was about to quit too
But I persevered through that
15 years deep but my body ain’t shyt
Even after getting in shape
Take care of your backs young brehs
Now I sit behind a computer watching other carriers scanners from 6-2 and do my side hustle whenever now

U had to run 8 miles in under 15 mins wtf

 

[concise]

Only once. I sat through a cutco knives presentation to be a salesman as a teenager and halfway through the presentation, the epiphany (and reality) was, how in the hell am I going to sell some damn knives and scissors for $250?

I had already paid my money for my trial set so I stuck with the presentation, went home, got clowned by my mom and went to find a real job.

Breh, I saw the Lamborghini outside and I looked around my fellow salemans, convinced I could outsell them and get my own in a few years. Had the shyt laid out in my head. Then it hit me, they said no cold calling, we had to get referrals. So I had to start with family and friends and acquaintances. Black people ain't buying that shyt, lolol. Only time in my life I ever got hustled like that.

Cutco suckered so many young people in the mid 00s.
I realized it was bogus when they wanted us to do an exercise, write down the names of all your friends and family ... then told us these are the people we'll start selling to and those people will give us our next customers.

I didn't see any Lambos when I went, mine was in an office in Brooklyn that was on top of an Italian pork store.

 

[BlackMajik]

Cutco suckered so many young people in the mid 00s.
I realized it was bogus when they wanted us to do an exercise, write down the names of all your friends and family ... then told us these are the people we'll start selling to and those people will give us our next customers.

I didn't see any Lambos when I went, mine was in an office in Brooklyn that was on top of an Italian pork store.

 

[Mr swag]

I was starting at a group home and they said come to the shower. They brought a client in and he started to undress. He hopped in the shower and the boss was like “just make sure he cleans his back and in between his checks”.

no one thought to tell me during the interview?

 

[Phantum]

In college I had a work study job at the college bookstore warehouse. It was a bullshyt job that was easy, I spent most of the day reading comic books.

The summer comes so I decide to take another warehouse job because I thought I was going to be easy




Them shelves were like 30 ft high


It was mostly locomotive equipment so it was heavy and expensive

Why is it so hot in here?

They had a loud ass bell to signal start of work, lunch time, and end work. I thought that only happened in the movies


I lasted two days

 

[BlackMajik]

I was starting at a group home and they said come to the shower. They brought a client in and he started to undress. He hopped in the shower and the boss was like “just make sure he cleans his back and in between his checks”.

no one thought to tell me during the interview?

Noooooo

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

U had to run 8 miles in under 15 mins wtf

Til this day I don’t know how my fat ass did it
We had practice runs the day before but still
I’m not religious but every time I’ve been desperate
I make it through
If god is real
Like my ma dukes says
He takes care of babies and fools

 

[peppe]

BREHS, temp agencies have fukked me over like this so many times

one job was for warehouse work, boxing promotional articles. Came there and the teamleader was like oh you not here for that your doing offloading trucks by hand


Stayed one day and saidddddd fukk this

 

[Malik1time]

He’s car salesman skit is hilarious

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Took a sales job one time for a cable company but via third party. shyt was a pyramid scheme. They had these people hustling and busting ass for 2 of the folks in the office to reap all the rewards. Old white bytch who owned the company showing up ready to go drinking and dancing in the morning. She didn't have shyt to do.

My trainer was busting his ass making sales to only get 35% of the cut. Hours were irregular extended and unpaid if you didn't make sales. They had these dumb ass employees travelling on their own dime to small towns renting hotels to sell cable . I peeped all of this first day. Then my trainer told me he had to work at the supermarket on the weekend to make ends meet after a full time week job. I damn near laughed in his face. I never went back.

 

[MECCA1000]

Waste treatment plant, 1st day of orientation a pipe bust and it was literally shot every where. The smell was the worst. The chemicals they use to break down waste was chewing my Timz. At lunch, I walked straight to the bus stop and never looked back

 

[Malik1time]

Bruh that feeling when u know u about to quit and your coworkers are tryna joke around with u

I be like "Uh huh nikka keep laughing u bout to be doin this shyt by yourself tmrw"

 

[BlackMajik]

I swear that shyt is the best feeling. I be intentionally slacking off knowing that tmrw I wasn't gonna be there and all my coworkers laughing at me are gonna have to bust they asses lol

 

[Born2BKing]

After leaving my job as a bill collector I started to run out of money so I looked in the classified ads and the first thing that caught my eye was an ad that said $2000 a week...of course I already broke out that calculator and got all excited. I got suited and booted, went to the office, and the red flags started flying; it was in some old ass building and the interview process was just too easy.

So I made it to the first day and it seemed mad cultist, the first day they played a gang of pop songs(I remember Toxic by Britney Spears ) to get everyone hyped up, and then the spiel...it was a door to door sales job I was willing to give it a chance until they mentioned that you don't make anything unless you follow through with a complete appointment. We all hop in the van and walk around a neighborhood aimlessly, and they show what we had to do... shyt was like one of them informercials had to clean a whole section of their house and shyt...and we had to be suited up too. I dipped after two days, pissed as fukk.

Peep this breh, good watch

 

[colicolicoli]

I’ve had jobs where I knew on day 1 of training I was gonna quit the first real week but stayed for the full month of training just for the easy paychecks