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[quote=Anonymous]I studied theater (acting) in college. A couple of years after I was struggling with restaurant jobs and the occasional modeling gig when a friend I was in a show with who worked (in sales) at a very large theatrical supply company told me they were hiring in their shipping and receiving area and that it paid okay and the hours would allow me to be free for rehearsals. It sounded great to me. I started the job and fwiw I am a great employee and pretty much always get promoted because I'm early, go above and beyond, am super reliable, etc. But ... at this job, I was overseen by the woman who was the secretary to the owners of the company. She was super mean to me, and about two weeks in she came back to see me on the loading dock area where I worked and, with the doors open to the sales area so everyone could hear her, started screaming at me about not having cleaned the bathrooms. She was all "Not once since you have been here have they been cleaned!" Well, yeah, because no one told me it was my job to clean them and I don't think that chore regularly comes along with shipping/receiving. She then brought me a bucket and mop and yelled at me to "Get in there and scrub those toilets now." To this day, I don't think cleaning the bathrooms had been the job of the shipping/receiving clerk in the past, I think she just decided to make me do it. Or, like I said, if it was part of my job, no one ever told me. Then about a week later the guy I'd been in the show with told me he wanted me to listen to a song he was using in a show and he came back to my area and gave me some headphones. I put them on and was listening as I packed some things up. Same awful secretary lady comes running back there and grabs them off of my head with a bunch of "This is a job, you are working, not listening to music" nonsense.

So, it was awful and humiliating. But let me be clear, cleaning bathrooms wasn't humiliating (although I certainly didn't want to do it), it was this stupid woman's treatment of me that was humiliating. And it was designed to be. I don't know what her problem was, I never did anything to her.

I quit after a few months, Ghosted. They deserved it. [/quote]

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