I bought dyslexia from a man in a pub
or at least he said it was dyslexia.

Imagine how pissed off I was when I found it wasn't dyslexia at all , but merely a tendency to detract from my point by repeatedly putting in the same irrelevant picture of a kitten!
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Thu 22 Feb 2007, 14:36, Reply)

Car Dealership
I don't often get ripped off, but when I do, it's pretty big rip off...

I worked at a car dealership for a few months. I needed to find a new job damn quick, and thought I'd give it a shot.

I was given training by an "outside consultant" who told us (a class of about eight blokes), halfway through the first day, that the training would cost $600.

Not to worry - I managed to work a deal with them whereby $300 would be deducted on my first two pay days.

We were bombarded with a load of promises: excellent pay plan - a quarter of the gross profit on each car, plus decent bonuses and spiffs.

Trouble is, you can't pay a percentage of a negative number. That's right, folks - they were taking a loss on pretty much every new car (and some used, too) and paying the salesmen "minis". The spiffs stopped the week I got there. And the bonuses were damn near impossible to achieve.

Did I mention the sixty-to-seventy-hour weeks? Oh, and the fact that you had to fight like a bastard to get ANYTHING sorted out ("A scratch on the door? Oh, I'll deal with it...later...")? And that no one's pay was right? I think I had one paycheck that was correct, and I was one of the lucky few.

There was a change of management while I was there, and that was only four months. The longest-serving salesman had been there just under one year, and he had seen a staggering FOUR management changes.

I worked out that, during four months of working my balls off, I had made less per hour than someone working on the counter at WalMart.
(Nardis, Thu 22 Feb 2007, 14:24, Reply)

I was sold this job.....
I was told that it was a friendly, people orientated company who really invested in their staff and their development. Now I find I'm working for a bunch of power crazed dictators who believe in getting blood out of their terrorised IT support staff and who pay the absolute minimum to the lower levels they can get a way with. And of course, because they get most of their people in young who don't know any better most of the poor barstewards in IT support are too demoralised and scared to look elsewhere for a job. Not me, I'm out of here...
(mrsfluffles Bitter & twisted? Probably., Thu 22 Feb 2007, 13:57, Reply)