Comments on: Dead on Arrival

By: efaneo

efaneo — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:30:30 +0000

BikeLizard: You have a nice imagination. Can you also imagine me riding to work atop a wild, fiery unicorn stallion that farts rainbows and pees glitter? That’s be awesome.

Funeral homes deal with dead people, if you don’t want to work with dead people, don’t apply for a job with a funeral home instead of applying, then complain about those creepy dead people the whole time. It’s dumb, disrespectful to the deceased and their loved ones (and guess what, you’ll be one and the other sooner or later) and takes away jobs from people who are actually willing to work for a living.

Shocking concept, I know.

By: Jade Lynn

Jade Lynn — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:19:43 +0000

The Vaaassstttt majority of stories and commentators here are actually pretty quick to sympathize with posters. I dont believe its fair for anyone to draw conclusions off this one post because I typically dont see too many people here being too critical.

As for the “its not in my job description” mentality, that WILL hold you back in your career. Think about a customer service rep you may have dealt with in the past who gave you an attitude like that and refused to help you. Its annoying and frustrating. Management wants people who are team players and take iniative and arent afraid to pitch in and take on additional responsibility if asked. Obviously it should be within reason and fall within the percieved scope of your skills and capacities, like asking the poster to help with embalming would’ve been completely unreasonable but being asked to take on a mundane administrative task seems completely reasonable.

Thandi – really? Cause I actually hang around the roommate site a lot and have my own posting on there and find that if anything people are more critical on that site as far as the commentors go, especially if animals are invovled in the story.

By: mystic_eye

mystic_eye — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:17:35 +0000

“Every job has things outside of a job description”

Ha, nope! The one time I had a job with a job description (which they put in after I’d been there for a year or more) said that I was responsible for all the stuff that was my job and then it said “assisting in department X when needed” for every department, and “Following the directions of X manager” for each manager.

Yup, that about sums up every job on earth right there.

By: Yawn

Yawn — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:33:02 +0000

@bikelizard Maybe learn to read? I’m sorry I didn’t specify we are CO-owners but I clearly said the OTHER owner lives 45 minutes away.
I wasn’t trying to complain. I was trying to make the point that the OP was complaining about being brought upstairs by this director who mysteriously makes them feel “uncomfortable” when there may have been a legitimate reason. Maybe the director even has an office up there as well. Or maybe OP could have mentioned that they didn’t feel it was appropriate to do business in the director’s apartment.
“1. Why should she have to write down the flower orders as a part timer? If she messed that up, feelings could be seriously hurt.” Sorry, but look at the bouquet, write down “vase with red roses” look at the card, write down “from Smith family.” This isn’t exactly PhD level stuff and sounds right up the alley of some sort of part-time assistant.
Please don’t jump down MY throat since I clearly didn’t submit that having to come downstairs to manage a business I CO-own made it MVWJ.
The bottom line is the OP is obviously extremely uncomfortable with working even in the same building as bodies and complains about very mundane tasks like recording FREAKING FLOWERS then quits in a very rude and unprofessional way.

By: Thandi

Thandi — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:09:33 +0000

I agree with bikelizard, the comments could have been better handled, they come off as really mean. it’s hard taking advise when the advisor is insulting your faults rather than helping you with a solution. Obviously something wasn’t right for the OP, that’s why she/he quit and that’s why she/he posted it on a site called MY very worst job.

It was my first visit (and comment) here today, I usually frequent the date and roomate sister sites, and after this I think I’m happy to stay away. Worse than a story on employment troubles is harsh negative comments related to employment

…wow, look mom I wrote an essay!

By: JoJo

JoJo — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:08:47 +0000

I think every job description I’ve ever had has included the line “additional duties as assigned.”

Yes, there are some crappy aspects about this job: unhelpful coworkers, limited training, a boss that makes you uncomfortable, but those are almost standard issue at ANY job.

By: hellcat

hellcat — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:05:21 +0000

OK BikeLizard, I’ll agree that no training is a problem. But how hard is it to write down flower orders? If nothing else you write down the type of flowers, who they’re for and who they’re from. If there’s some sort of system in which to enter the information, you hold onto it until someone can teach you how to do that. Not difficult. And I don’t know, I consider job descriptions to be a guideline – every job I’ve ever had I’ve been asked to take on additional duties at some point, whether it’s because of my good performance OR just because we’re short, I work there and they need my help. I don’t get a lot of say in it, it’s just part of the job – and that’s a whole range of jobs, from blue to white collar, full to part time, entry level to management. Point is, her tale of woe seems tiny because it IS tiny, not because we’re all miserable.

By: BikeLizard

BikeLizard — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:44:52 +0000

Oh, no, I’m not the poster, I just feel bad for her. Also, maybe the editors should be a bit more choosy in making sure the stories are horrendous. She mostly seemed grossed out by the fact that it’s a funeral home, but some things are unreasonable:
1. Why should she have to write down the flower orders as a part timer? If she messed that up, feelings could be seriously hurt.
2. As someone with employees, when I don’t train them, they make lots of mistakes. No training=really bad job, unfair to customers, unfair to employees. No training alone makes her story legit.
3. Job descriptions are just that. If employees do a good job, they are generally given more responsibilities, but they should be warned before hand.

Maybe all of you are suffering at even worse jobs, trapped by the economy, so her tale of woe seems tiny. This site used to be fun, but now it’s gotten really mean.

By: tronner

tronner — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:05:20 +0000

I think a lot of the comments here deriding the OP are made by professionals – those that have been working for quite awhile – not the high school students and trust fund babies suggested by BikeLizard. That is based strictly upon past comments they have made indicating their profession, not something innate about the comment.

I, for one, get a little tired of seeing the “Oh, you mean when you hired me I have to WORK all DAY?” attitude. When I see that behavior mimicked on a fun web site, I get a little cranky.

By: hellcat

hellcat — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:31:52 +0000

BikeLizard, the difference is that we weren’t judging the OP based on a typo, we were judging the OP based on the entirety of the letter that they wrote themselves, about their (whiny, entitled) opinion of an experience they had and chose to post. I think that’s a fair basis for judgment – that’s why it’s called the comments section, so we can comment on the letters.

Are you by any chance the poster? Because you seem really butthurt about this whole thing, and yet I haven’t heard anything from you about why this actually WAS a terrible job and not just a really whiny OP.