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Greetings Curious Scroller,
If you've never landed in this part of cyber space before, you have taken a hard, fast plunge into the fiery depths of work hell. RHU is dedicated to giving the service worker a voice. If you are an angry customer, a corporate suite, a homophobic race-hater, and you don't like skull masks or swear words, this blog isn't for you. Click away now, before your ears bleed and your eyes explode.
I'm Freddy, Crypt Keeper of Retail Hell Underground RHU -- a place for service slaves to have a voice, tell their story, support each other, or just have a chuckle about the insanity of working in the 10th Circle of Hell! I'm also the author of "Retail Hell," the funny memoir about life as a handbag sales associate at an upscale department store! The sequel, "Return To The Big Fancy," has just been released in hardcover and e-reader and is available wherever books are sold!
Will the book tell me the proper way to leave a steaming pile on my boss's desk as I quit? You know cause that's the kind of thing you don't want to make a mistake on.
Posted by: Skittles | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 01:05 AM
The biggest problem I have here is my boss taking a stinking dump then shutting the door with the fan off. SO, when he leaves, and I'm stuck here all day, the stink just builds up until I need to use the facilities and get a face full of turd stink! Fan on or door open!!
(Fun Fact: In public places, it is super hard for me to even think about using their terlets - see Shy or Bashful Bladder Syndrome.)
Posted by: melmcl | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 07:24 AM
When I worked at Wal-Mart (yes, I'm going to use the name now since I don't intend on going back), they tried to tell me that I wasn't allowed to take a crap while on the clock. I made it a point to take a crap every single day after that.
Posted by: Ted the 'Flayer | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 07:31 AM
I never got the whole controlling your bathroom breaks policies. How the heck do they think they can get away with that? I've had bladder and kidney troubles since birth and am prone to infections. When I have to go I just have to go or I might get sick.
You can't control when you have to go to the bathroom or how much or what. We're not robots. Unless the employeer is providing you with adult diapers and a lot of baby wipes, oh, and powder, they should shut up and let you use the toilet.
Posted by: Jami | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 10:42 AM
jami i agree with you on that! i have bitched enough that my work will actually give be my breaks as they should in the 10min/30minlunch/10min format. they used to give it to me as a 30minlunch/20min because they thought it was easier, but i threw a fit when i had to go home one time on my lunch to change because when they finally sent someone out for me to go into the bathroom, i didn't quite make it. i even bitched with my union rep about it. boss got pissed, but i told her, "i don't know who the hell agreed to a 20 minute break and a lunch on an eight hour shift, but i sure as hell didn't. unlike most people, i kinda do have to go to the bathroom every couple hours and i would like my breaks in the traditional 10/lunch/10 from now on."
best thing is? except for one time where they forgot me, they have never made me do the old format for breaks.
Posted by: LaserSpawn | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 01:30 PM
@melmcl -- That's what's known as "turd terrorism".
@Jami -- I hear you. When I gotta go, I gotta GO, and I will come back and finish whatever I need to finish once I'm done and cleaned up.
@LaserSpawn -- I finally gave in and started carrying a full change of pants whenever I go out. (Though it seems like every time I -do- need those extra clothes, I've left them home...)
Posted by: WMDKitty | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 09:37 PM
Poo in the workplace? Seeing as how it all seems to be raining down on me at the moment, I can't say I'm particularly a fan.
In the more bathroom-related sense, hell, most days I don't get a bathroom break. Most days I don't even get to take an actual lunch--I end up working the reception desk just so the rest of the staff can actually escape.
Posted by: Little Writer | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 11:50 PM
I don't know how the author managed to make a 100+ page project out of taking a crap.
Posted by: Nocturnesthesia | Friday, October 12, 2012 at 09:38 PM