Comments on: One Uncool Ship

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:31:51 +0000

So….what is wrong with working with middle aged women?

By: Donald Urquhart

Donald Urquhart — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:14:03 +0000

This sounds like quite a stinker of a job, and I’m sorry you had to endure it. Sometimes I think jobs that are sweatboxes when they aren’t supposed to be are the absolute worst. Also, it’s sad that you were in such an untenable social position being the only young man among all those middle aged women. But out of it all, I think that them denying you unemployment by lying to the unemployment agency is the absolute worst. It’s really sad the lengths that companies will go to avoid having to pay unemployment at all. I know a restaurant manager that just tells people that they’re overstaffed at the moment, so he’s just taking them off the schedule temporarily. Then he never calls them back, but it’s carried as job abandonment instead of being fired.

By: tronner

tronner — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:57:40 +0000

I haven’t been in high school in many years, but do they have “quiet a few” business management classes in typical schools now? I’d like to think an MBA grad has had “quite a few” business mgmt classes, but I wouldn’t expect that of a high school student.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:40:54 +0000

Heaven forbid you were actually expected to work.

By: huh.

huh. — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:38:10 +0000

LMAO
It’s data entry, dude. what did you expect? You applied for a boring job where you do nothing but imput numbers all day and got exactly that. Why are you complaining? And then making generalizations about working in an office that are based on a job doing *data entry*.

By: K

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:52:00 +0000

I hope you appealed, b/c it sounds like they didn’t want to pay up!

By: Frau Blucher

Frau Blucher — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:48:07 +0000

it’s obvious you were in the wrong environment….but as efaneo said, you should be happy there was a no talking policy in that environment. Then it really would have been hell!

By: TheRestOfTheStory

TheRestOfTheStory — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:06:38 +0000

Working with MILFs in a hot sweaty room, or working with teenage girls making McNuggets? Is this shipping company still hiring?

By: efaneo

efaneo — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:46:18 +0000

I feel your pain, I also did data entry surrounded by middle aged women, unfortunately we didn’t have a “no talking” rule so I’d have to listen to them chatting about how their daughter’s uterus fell out while giving birth to their umpteenth 12 pound grand child and whatnot.

By: ellen

ellen — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:16:09 +0000

Well, there’s my daily dose of misogyny and ageism all in one poorly written package!