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[Aluchem]

And that's legal? That would never fly here....

It's not legal, if you can prove that's why they sacked you they will get some pretty stiff penalties and you will most likely get a nice payout. Of course they don't SAY that's why they are sacking you.

I've never met anyone this has happened to by the way.

Oh yeah, last night someone got stabbed in the parking lot of the business next door Thank god I'm now on holidays for three weeks.

[Draelor]

But (I don't know about the UK, I think it's similar though) in Australia, part time workers (especially if they're labelled as "casual" or "non-ongoing") have different (and fewer) rights than full time "permanent" staff do.

[Victor Breau]

The rights that they have depend on how much they know about what their employer can and cannot get away with. I knew this guy who worked for 3 years for a guy who never gave him loadings or holiday rates and stuck him on a flat rate, when he left he took em to the ombudsmen and got a 50k payout. He previously earned 50k annually I just got into my field a short while ago, but I used to do odd jobs here and there all the time Done everything from working in a car park to checking tickets and retail Good: Worked at the Melbourne F1 race and got flashed by 4 girls who wanted to get access to the Fangio stand and they didn't have tickets Bad: Got pushed around while I was doing traffic control in a car park and fell down 20 meters and couldn't walk for 8 weeks. Met my girlfriend when I was doing valet work for a month in this hotel car park and she worked there. Lots of fun stuff happened (mostly girls involved), but the worst was when I had an argument with a customer who happened to be a famous boxer promoter/trainer and he got me sacked then harrased by his bodyguard and the fuckers trashed my car all within the space of 40 minutes I now work in a boring office and really miss all of it

[Virto Nex]

first car I ever owned that actually wasn't a junker from the get-go.

Even a brand new Geo Metro is a junker.

But about my job, I think I can win the contest.

I've been a door to door salesman for the past 4 or 5 years, and you would not believe the kind of houses I walk into. I've sold people who have piss and shit on the floor just sitting there, chickens, pigs, ducks, literally over a hundred cats living in the house (my friend sold someone who had multiple goats living in the house), naked people (old people with balls showing), people on the toilet, an actual hit man (yes, an actual contract killer), tiny houses with like 30 people living in it, drug dealers while they were making drug deals, back room whore houses, meth houses, weapons dealers, people with just loads of graphic porn on their walls.

I've been bitten by several dogs, had a gun pulled on me, been mugged, had teenagers throw rocks at me. I'm pretty sure I sold one guy TV service who was just squatting, and one really really creepy guy I think might have had something to do with kiddy porn (don't know this for sure, just got a really bad feeling about him, and he screamed pedo. I left that house asap, didn't even care about selling him.) I've had several times where I've walked into a house and just knew if I stayed I might get murdered, just the most fearful feelings I've ever had.

I've had nasty old ladies straight up offer to give me head or have sex. I've had customers underage daughters hit on me in front of their parents. I've had millionaires fail the credit check to get TV or an alarm system. I've sold people so fat they can't get off the couch.

Probably the worst thing I ever came across though was one guy who was going to die in a few months. As a door to door salesman you look at people as nothing more than a paycheck. In the end, their problems don't affect you, weather they're a pain in the ass and rude to you, the nicest person in the world, or in a terrible situation. You can't waste time with them because it directly affects your livelihood. But this one guy had no family or friends, and no money. He hadn't been able to afford TV for decades, and all he wanted to do was spend his last couple months watching TV. The poor guy was literally going to die completely alone. I spent hours with the guy just talking to him to try and give him some company, and in the end he failed the credit check for the TV, so I couldn't even give him that.

Why do I do this job you might ask? Because I consider a 30 hour work week (including travel to and from work) to be unbearably long, and I make 100k a year doing it.

Edit: I should clarify I haven't sold all of these people, but I have at least tried. Also, I thought of some more people I've met. I once walked into an apartment and opened the main door, only it wasn't an apartment complex, it was more a warehouse and about 50 feet away from me was a lesbian porno being shot. I met a guy skinning squirrels in his backyard, so hillbilly I couldn't understand a word he said. A few weeks ago I had to call the cops on a 50ish year old homeless drunk guy who was at a park harassing a bunch of 10 years olds. Just following them around swearing at them, calling them F-ers and such. I've had the cops called on my multiple times and gotten several tickets, though a couple of my friends have actually been arrested (they are WAY to pushy for the job). I've got pictures somewhere of one family I met who had a full blooded Grey Wolf as a pet. The thing was the size of a small horse and just growled at me and wanted to eat me. Thankfully it was in a big kennel so we were safe lol.

[Challenger70]

first car I ever owned that actually wasn't a junker from the get-go.

Even a brand new Geo Metro is a junker.

I hope that you contacted your dealer to let him know the crack he sold you is good Metro's might be 3 cylinders of puttering lols, but they are rock solid beasts that don't take crap from anyone.

[Virto Nex]

first car I ever owned that actually wasn't a junker from the get-go.

Even a brand new Geo Metro is a junker.

I hope that you contacted your dealer to let him know the crack he sold you is good Metro's might be 3 cylinders of puttering lols, but they are rock solid beasts that don't take crap from anyone.

I'll give you that, they do run forever. But I shy away from a car that two or three strong guys can just pick up.

[Rocinantae]

Well I work at Walmart. The craziest thing ive seen thats "out of the ordinary", was the guy that bought a muzzleloader shot gun and a bag of construction garbage bags.

[Aluchem]

The fact that you can buy a shotgun from walmart is a whole separate level of crazy

[Rocinantae]

The fact that you can buy a shotgun from walmart is a whole separate level of crazy

Thats not even a proper shotgun. Its a muzzleloader. You dont need a background check to buy one.

[Aluchem]

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