1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Karen manager says, I don't care if it's illegal, you 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 1: drive when I want. Okayop, this is Okayop. I'm Samuel 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: Donner and I'm John Frank. We tell the funniest stories 4 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: on the internet. And John, have you ever worked, like, 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 1: you know, like a real job where you have to 6 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: like clock in and cluck out and like their shifts 7 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: and stuff done? 8 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 2: Dunkin Donuts? 9 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 3: Oh? 10 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 1: Really, yes, I worked a dunkin Donuts. How was your 11 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: dunkin Donuts experience? Uh? Terrible? 12 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 3: Ill? What was your What was your role? 13 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,959 Speaker 2: I was, Oh, gosh, even I don't even know what 14 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 2: my role technically was. They kind of how do you 15 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 2: do everything? You know, like you would run the register, 16 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 2: like help get stuff. And one time I was trying 17 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 2: to make coffee like really nice, and they pulled me 18 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 2: to the side and started berating me because they're like, 19 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 2: we do not care about niceness here. We care about 20 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 2: ruthless efficiency. 21 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 3: Damn. 22 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: John's trying to like make like the like literally in 23 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: the cups, like make the phone them all. 24 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,639 Speaker 3: And I said, They're like, John, just. 25 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: Give them the crap dounk don't nuts coffee and sund 26 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: them on their way. 27 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 2: My thought was like, oh, like, let me make like 28 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 2: this customer like really happy and like maybe that'll you know, like, 29 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 2: oh we got like a repeat customer or whatever, you 30 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 2: know what I mean. 31 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 3: But nope, I don't now I understand their business. I 32 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 3: got not. 33 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I dude, working for those like shift Uh we're 34 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: working for those companies where it's like shift oriented and 35 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: it's like you know, retail or food service can be 36 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: just brutal, and uh I have a story about exactly that. 37 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 3: Uh. 38 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 1: Oh, Karen manager says, I don't care if it's illegal. 39 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 3: You drive when I want. You want to earn this 40 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 3: minimum wage, break the law. 41 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: During my last few years of high school and early 42 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: university years, I worked part time in a supermarket. 43 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 3: At the checkout departments, of. 44 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: Course, you would see your fair share of Karen's, Richard's, Kevin's, 45 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: and entitled parents and titled kids, et cetera. But no 46 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: one in that store was more infuriating to deal with 47 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: than the most recently hired supervisor. She was the kind 48 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: of supervisor that would deny paid time off if you 49 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: did not give four weeks notice, despite all of our 50 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: contracts stating we would only need to give two weeks notice. 51 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: But then when you tried to give four weeks notice, 52 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: she said that was. 53 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 3: So long ago. I do not remember you asking me. 54 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. 55 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: At the time of this story, I had worked at 56 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,919 Speaker 1: the store for quite a few years, and every Christmas 57 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: season I would say the same thing to the supervisors. 58 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: I don't have any plans. I'm not leaving town, so 59 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 1: if you need me for extra shifts, just put me 60 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 1: down whenever you need me, just as long as I'm 61 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: finished by nine to thirty pm. 62 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 3: Which is pretty freaking sise. Yeah, like that great hard, 63 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 3: hard worker over here. 64 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: Clearly they knew I would not care if it was 65 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: any day of the week, just a four hour shift 66 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: or eleven hour shift. I was completely free with nope 67 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: lands totally flexible and able to work mostly whenever. Which 68 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 1: is kind of a sad statement too. It is I 69 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: have nothing going on in my life. 70 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,079 Speaker 2: But you know, I mean, if you like, like last night, 71 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 2: me and my girlfriend were saying, like, hey, man, if 72 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 2: you don't have a partner, this is a good time 73 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 2: to work a shift based job, because I ain't. 74 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 3: No one want to work today. Facts bro oh yeah true, 75 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 3: because we're having shortage. 76 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, and the work shortage Yeah, wait, wait, wait, what 77 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 2: were you saying Valentine's Day? 78 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 3: Oh tu, yeah, work away your sorrows. Yeah. 79 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: My only condition was that it be done by nine 80 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: to thirty. This was because I had not yet gotten 81 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: my full driver's license and it was illegal for me 82 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: to drive by myself without some kind of supervision between 83 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: the hours of ten pm and five am. The store 84 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: was opened from eight am to ten pm, so out 85 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: of those fourteen hours, I just couldn't work zero point 86 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: five of them. It was a good system, and it 87 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: led to me doing a lot of extra shifts, with 88 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: a lot of them being just last minute, but I 89 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: didn't care because I wanted to make some money. 90 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 3: Hey. 91 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: Early November, the new supervisor asked me about my December 92 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: and January availability, and I said the same old song. 93 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:19,720 Speaker 1: You can put me down for extra shifts as much 94 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 1: as you like, whenever, for any day, as long as 95 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: I'm done by nine to thirty pm. 96 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 3: She asked why nine thirty. 97 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 1: And then I explained to her about my driver's license. 98 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: She nodded and walked away. Mid November rolls around and 99 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 1: the December schedule was released. I was given plenty of 100 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,679 Speaker 1: extra shifts as per usual, but you might have seen 101 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 1: this coming. I was scheduled for six days a week, 102 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: which would have been all goods with me, except for 103 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 1: the fact that five of them ended at ten pm. 104 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: Five five, the one thing she actually asked for, one thing. 105 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 1: You can even give her that gosh. I found the 106 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: supervise and as soon as I saw the schedule, I 107 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: reiterated that I cannot work past nine to thirty pm. 108 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: The conversation went something like this, But but you. 109 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 3: Can still work until ten pm. 110 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: I can't, or else I'd be driving illegally and I'm 111 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 1: not going to do that. Yes, but there are plenty 112 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: of all their ways that you can get home, Like what, 113 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: how have your family picked you off ball? No? No, 114 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: they're in and out of town on business. You can 115 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: take the boss. No, it arrives every hour, ten to 116 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: the hour. I'm not working until ten then waiting outside 117 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: in the dark alone until ten fifty. 118 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 3: What about Uber? I'm not working all day to spend 119 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 3: it all on Uber to get home. Uber's expensive and 120 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 3: it really is. 121 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: While you need to find what else to fill those 122 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: shifts for you? Ah? Nope, according to my contract, I 123 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 1: don't h Then she just walks away. I'm left there speechless. 124 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: Later to that same shift, when she was the only 125 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: supervisor around, she completely left me out to drive with 126 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: a horrid customer who could not use the self service 127 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: checkouts to save his life and took it out all 128 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: on me. 129 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 3: I hate those people. 130 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, terrible. We've all seen horrible people like that, but 131 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: this guy was particularly so bad. Coworkers, even those from 132 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: different departments, kept coming up to me asking me if 133 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: I was okay after dealing with that guy, not my 134 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 1: supervisor though. After I got home that day, I was done. 135 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: I sent out resume after resume and job websites. My 136 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: mentality was, if I'm going to get paid minimum wage, 137 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 1: I might as well do it somewhere better good for eup. 138 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 3: Yeah. 139 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 1: Within a few days I had a retail store asking 140 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 1: me to come in for an interview with and in 141 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 1: the next week I had my new job lined up 142 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: and was ready to go. So I went back to 143 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: the supermarket on my next shift and handed my two 144 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: weeks notice. All my other supervisors were gutted that I 145 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: was leaving. I'm not saying I'm some star employee, but 146 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: I was always keen on extra shifts, barely took sick 147 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: leave off was so chilled and was willing to do 148 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: a lot of the side task that no one else 149 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: wanted to do, like collecting shopping carts in the rain 150 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: or emptying rubbish bins. And I just knew how to 151 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: do a lot of stuff about the checkouts in general. 152 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: But I was also gutted I wouldn't be working with 153 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: them anymore. However, working with that one terrible supervisor hurt 154 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: more than working without the others, so I decided it 155 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: w was best to leave. The day I handed in 156 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: my notice, the bad supervisor wasn't working. I didn't see 157 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: her until a few days later, when she stopped me 158 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: near the back of the store around a few other coworkers. 159 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: I'm guessing she wasn't too happy she lost her to 160 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: Facto full timer just before Christmas rush. She seemed a 161 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: bit flustered, but she still had her fake smile on. 162 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: So I heard, you're leaving, so nah, me cheerfully. 163 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 3: Yep, just an under two weeks. 164 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: But you've worked here for quite some time. Any particular 165 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: reason why you're leaving so quickly? 166 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 3: Let me rack my freaking brain. 167 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: Me with the biggest grin I have ever had in 168 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:26,239 Speaker 1: my face. I already told you why I'm not working 169 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: those ten pm shifts. It was beautiful. Within a split 170 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: second of me saying that, her smile dropped and she 171 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: just stared at me speechless. This time it was her 172 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: turn to walk away. You don't quit bad jobs, you 173 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 1: just quit bad management. 174 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 3: Is that the end? That's the end? A wow, this 175 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 3: is that's awesome. 176 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: But for Opie, for going for Opie, dude, like having 177 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:57,559 Speaker 1: a bad manager is the worst, is the worst. It's 178 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:01,559 Speaker 1: the worst. It makes everything terrible. And so don't put 179 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 1: up with that anyone. 180 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,959 Speaker 2: And also and also, like OPI said, like, if I'm 181 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 2: working one minimum wage job, then like, especially in today's world, 182 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 2: like you might as well just go around until you 183 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 2: find what, you know, go to the highest bidder, essentially 184 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 2: go to the best situation. 185 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, or get a bunch of jobs and try to, 186 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: you know, negotiate a higher wage. Yeah, you know, op 187 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:25,599 Speaker 1: he probably could have gotten like a couple dollars an hour, actually. 188 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 2: Fifteen over here, but uh, people down the street offer 189 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 2: me eighteen. 190 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 3: So and I'm a hot commodity. What are we gonna do? 191 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 3: But you know what else is a hot commodity? 192 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: Oh? 193 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 3: That sweet sweet? 194 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: OKOPI subscribe but subscribe on YouTube, follow us on Spotify 195 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: and TikTok, and if we want to be a real one, 196 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: support us on Patreon. 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