Inspired by Koobie's thread--

Post anecdotes of hilarious / experiences in working in the corporate world. (Need not be anti-corporate if you are afraid your boss will come on here and read it). Also applicable given the recent higher rate of unemployment are job search / interview experiences, or, if you are on the other side, interviewing experiences (bad applicants, stupid new hires, etc)

Superstore is retarded.
Nobody follows procedure because it's stupid and nothing would get done, **** just gets made up on the fly.
Also never, ever buy anything premade from them, good chance that someone forgot to change gloves when they made it.

We've had a couple of "how did you get your degree" applicants. We had someone beg to us to get him the job. One of the few moments I was scared for my life. We turned him down and I was afraid he'd spray us down with a semi-auto.

This isn't really about the corporation itself, but when I was an intern at an amusement park this past summer, I had the privilege of overhearing a conversation while I was in the bathroom.

We were sponsoring "A Walk in the Park" - a fundraiser for pediatric cancer research that morning. So this woman is in the bathroom changing her niece's diaper or something, and this guy is standing just outside the women's bathroom trying to pick her up. Sketchy enough to begin with. Then I overhear this conversation:

Guy: You're good at that [changing diapers presumably]
Girl: Well I used to have a child
Guy: Used to?
Girl: She died.
Guy: Oh. [pause] So, uh... so you do put out then.

O_o I pretty much froze because I had no idea what to do with myself.

I have the privilege of working in a fabric-covered box with little contact with the outside world so I don't really have any stories.

I had some good times when I worked at Home Depot. I'm pretty sure I've posted them here at one point or another in a similar thread.

Nothing to do with the actual company, just it's customers. But some policies did make you go :huh:. But mainly just what you'd encounter anywhere: stupid people.


But it's also surprising how how ignorant some companies can be of what their employees are getting away with. If they only knew ....

What are these?

If the company can afford it then just imagine how much it gets away with.

Do you mean like cutting through red tape with a fat wallet? Or something else?

Can't really think of what else they would be getting away with other than bypassing a few legalities. Hardly criminal compared to what some employees do.

Safety violations that lead to horrible accidents. Discriminatory policies. Etc.

That's not really getting away with it though. Everyone knows about those.


No one knows about the **** I stole.
woops.

You make it sound so benign. The entire reason they are able to 'cut through the red tape' as you put it is because they pass their true cost of production off to anyone they possibly can, raping the earth for a nominal, subsidized fee.

My work makes water treatment chemicals. We buy from a facility that has chinese laborers (in china of course) doing the work that electric solenoids do here. Not a joke.

Those must be some super expensive solenoids.