Make It Up As You Go Along
My Very Worst Job was working for a lady who worked as rep for a major direct sales cosmetics firm. When I interviewed for this job, I was already working part-time elsewhere but I thought working for this woman on Saturdays at her home office would be great for some extra money. She seemed very enthusiastic and told me I’d be doing lots of things related to her business, inventory, sales calls, etc. I was excited about the opportunity and thought it would be something good to put on my resume related to the administrative field I planned to go into after college. What I didn’t realize is that she also included “light cleaning” in the job description.
This didn’t bother me at first, but it did bother the other girl who was hired to work with me. The first few Saturdays were spent organizing samples and customer information. I thought things were going a long swimmingly until one day this lady asked me to do one more task in addition to watching her young daughter. She first asked the other girl to vacuum the window sills. I kid you not! So the girl got to vacuuming, and was not thrilled about it.
I was then asked to clean the ceiling fan globes in the house. There was a ceiling fan in every single room of this two-story antebellum-style home! I spent the entire afternoon taking down five globes from each fan and washing them in soapy water and putting them back again. The other girl was in a word, pissed. The woman gave us no indication as to when she’d be home, so we were stuck there in the house waiting on her because we couldn’t leave her young daughter by herself. The girl I worked with said she had enough and she wasn’t coming back. I decided although this was all very bizarre, I’d stick it out.
That is until the next Saturday. I got up early, got myself ready and got to the house, only to find that no one was home. No note, no instructions, nothing. I decided then that I too had had enough, and wasn’t wasting any more of my Saturdays on this crazy woman. She eventually emailed me regarding picking up where we left off, but I declined to respond. That may have been unprofessional on my part, but it was hardly as unprofessional as this grown woman’s insane behavior.
Ugh, that sounds like my “first” job (which I don’t even count any more) where I worked at this man’s house on his home business, doing everything from updating his website to data entry to folding pamphlets. He paid us in cash, but rounded off so he could pay us in $100 and $50 bills. It was bizarre.
I had a job a couple of summers ago working at a car dealership part time in the office…the bimbo who hired me (she and her husband owned it) had me going in and cleaning up these storerooms that were all dusty and full of crap. This was not in the job description and i wasn’t exactly dressed for it…. She fired me after 3 weeks because i sucked at bookkeeping. stupid bitch.
Since when does a job as a rep include baby sitting? :/
What a stupid twat, not only for making you do this but leaving her kid with someone who was unqualified to look after children.
Seriously. How would she know if you two were competent to look after children? Just because you’re (I’m assuming) a female doesn’t mean you aren’t a perv.
I hate it when I work somewhere & am given a bunch of tasks that aren’t in the job description. One time I worked at a movie theater/restaurant (I should have learned my lesson with the other movie theater I worked at) when it was first opening. Instead of hiring professionals to clean, the owner had us come in on a Saturday before we opened under the guise of a meeting & made us wash the walls & assemble racks & vacuum. I’m debating whether or not to submit that entire story.
Boring. I had a job as a receptionist where I was required to swab ballrooms (it was a dance company) and clean toilets. Sure it sucked, but when you work for a small business or an individual, you end up doing what needs to get done. As long as she paid you for it, I don’t see what’s so bad about cleaning fans. It’s not an excuse to just not show and not return her calls.
I think the fact that she showed up for work and the EMPLOYER wasn’t even there and left no explanation or note was reason enough to be done with the job. Sounds like the lady wanted a maid but found a sneaky way to hire one. Lame.
The woman wanted a slave, basically. And everything was barely organized chaos. You don’t lie to someone and say they’ll be doing office work and then have them clean your house and look after your kid. That was hella shady. The OP was right to leave and never look back.