slices of life

After reading several stories I thought it would be beneficial for most of the story writers to read what it’s like to manage a bunch of disgruntled and ungrateful men and women.
Being at the top means having to put up with lots of whining, constant asking for more money, time off, re hiring for those [...]

Ring Ring, hello… “It’s 5am, where in the sam hell are you!?!?” Oh, hey Bill. Don’t worry – I’m leaving now. Bill is my agent; he gets me all my jobs. Right now I’m on my way to do a shoot for some catalog.
Ya see, people think models have these glamorous lifestyles who do not [...]

My start pay $9.00 per Hour – Pick up Dead people to be Cremated from Homes, Hospitals and Nursing homes.
While I drive around in a van smelling the corpses sometimes with maggots > decomposing shit smelling bodies. Chasing doctors down to get death certicates signed when 8 out 10 times they don’t know what the [...]

(The speaker is Irish and visiting his old pub of employment in Munich, an Irish pub)
Once, I worked here…and I worked here for a long time. I used to walk down the stairs every day. And when I walked in here, my heart would fall…my heart would just die.
And it was very nice…I [...]

I work in a keller. Every day the people order and I serve them breakfast, lunch, apertifs. I came from Turkey. I’ve been here for 11 years in Zurich, Switzerland. I’m not actually Turkish, I’m Kurdish. In Turkey it is a bit hard for us. In 1988, I came [...]

In Norway you call it (being a dock worker) a sjauer…translated it means a person who makes loud noise.
There was a boat which sank and they towed it into harbor. They needed people to take things off of the boat and put them in clean containers. They were going to chop up the [...]

I am a cashier at a fast food restaurant. Getting their orders…umm…making sure
that…it’s like some silly stuff…making sure that their order is right. Ok…making
sure that they are satisfied on the product of…you know…the food…and the
quantity…whatever..whatever, whatever….that’s about it.
I took the job because I need money. I’ve been doing it for almost 5 months…6. I got
the [...]