What are some of the things you have been yelled at work for

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What are some of the things you have been yelled at work for?

I have been yelled at for throwing things when pissed

I have been yelled at for screaming at co-workers

They did not like me monopalizing the fans durring a heat wave

I got screamed at for being unsafe around heavy machinery

For not bandaging a still bleeding wound

For changing a radio station

For talking too much

I was yelled at for getting sidetracked doing a job I was not suppose to be doing.

I often blow through my tasks and then spend my time hitting the random button on Wikipedia so get criticized for surfing too much. Later I go back and review my work correcting mistakes and then doing additional work, so often the discussion goes something like this:

"You spend too much time on the internet"

"Did I complete all my assigned tasks?"

"Yes, but..."

"Was the quality good?"

"Yes, but..."

"Did you like the additional stuff I did?"

"Yes, but..."

"I am not sure what the issue is if I am getting more than my share of work done correctly in a short amount of time?"

I got yelled at by management for telling my bully co-worker not to raise her voice at me. Both the owner and manager plus the bully, all three of them, ended up yelling at me in the middle of the office, and everyone else was staring in shock.

I once got yelled at for refusing to chase a shoplifter outdoors and confront her. My dad worked as a security guard once and chased shoplifters outdoors. One of them pulled a gun on him. Another one stabbed his partner in the back with a screwdriver. As if I needed an excuse not to do it, since it's not in my job description.

I also got yelled at for not coming in to work one day after getting into a car accident, even though that was the only time I didn't show up, and the other employees were always not showing up and never suffering any consequences for it.

If you're a masochist, don't pass up the chance to work in fast food. The managers are dicks who have an inflated opinion of themselves because they got to be in charge of something, even something as unimpressive as a fast food restaurant. Like cops, a lot of them get into it so they can go on a power trip and treat people like crap because they know they'll get away with it every time.

One incident that sticks out in my memories is getting yelled at for violating the rule of not letting people come through the drive thru on bicycles, a rule that nobody bothered to tell me about but insisted that they did when I pointed out that they hadn't. Also, the floor of Long John Silver's was just never clean enough for Mike the Asswipe Boss, as if anyone would care in such a trashy place.

I remember quite a few Catch-22 situations at my job as a clerk and stocker in a retail store. Every employee had the official job title of "clerk," but a more accurate title would have been "clerk, stocker, janitor, and a lot of other BS that wasn't in the job description." The Catch-22 was that employees were not supposed to leave their cash registers unattended, and yet whenever the manager saw one of us standing there with no customers in line, we would get yelled at for "standing around doing nothing."

My boss has no testicles, so he doesn't bother me anymore. I let him think he is in charge, but everyone there knows that they can push him around. His own son put him in a headlock once, and did he fire him? NOOOOO. Instead he fires his best manager because his son called him a n****r. Yes, he fired the manager for that. Impressive. Working there has certainly built up my confidence

At my previous job, I would get yelled at for the same things everyone else did. Sure, they would bug me more often because I was an easy target, and that's why I got fired, but nothing unique. Then again, they made up excuses for everyone. That has nothing to do with AS. That place wasn't all that bad when it comes down to it. There is a reason Wegmans is number 1 on top 10 lists of grocery stores.

Working at a Convenience Store, in retrospect, might not have been a good idea. When I was busy it meant dealing with the public. When they were not there I was bored.

Still I probably should not have changes the Slush Puppy dialog bubble from "Try a Slushee" to "Hi, I'm the anti-Christ"... and my additions to the "what to do in case of a robbery" instruction list were not really accepted either.

For being given a correction/suggestion and running-off to do it; not realizing the conversation wasn't over. The person giving the suggestion had turned and was speaking to my other coworker for at-least 5 minutes, when I decided to do it.

"Still I probably should not have changes the Slush Puppy dialog bubble from "Try a Slushee" to "Hi, I'm the anti-Christ"... and my additions to the "what to do in case of a robbery" instruction list were not really accepted either."

Meow1971, that's the funniest thing I've read in years! Tell us, what did you add to the list?

I cannot remember the exact wording as it was over 20 years ago but it was something on the order of removing an UZI from underneath the counter, firing short bursts and dragging the body back into the store while insisting "thought he had a gun". Not the most clever thing but it made sense at the time.

Over the 10+ years i have worked in my recent job, I have found that people tend to yell about something, but the reason for yelling is something else. They used to yell at me, and I tried to find out what was wrong and reason the thing out - with no avail. Beacuse I cannot read their nonverbal communication, I end up frustrating them beacuse I don't know that I should let them alone that moment. But they have learned to tell me in words, if they are having a bad day or are angry. That way, I can wait for a better moment and don't need to listen to that much yelling any more.