Gas Station Co-Worker QUITS on my 1st Day… so I try to Give Away GAS for Free so I can Go HOME
Am I the Jerk?
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🗓️ 24 March 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Gas Station co-worker quits on my first day, so I try to give away unlimited gas for free so I can go home. |
| 0:08.3 | Here's what happened. |
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| 0:14.8 | This was back in, I want to say around 2005, before the proliferation of smartphones and things |
| 0:21.1 | like that. |
| 0:22.1 | It's about the time I worked at a gas station slash convenience store for one whole day and ended |
| 0:27.3 | up as a manager and a district manager's worst nightmare. |
| 0:31.2 | I'd taken the job not two days before and was told to show up at 7 |
| 0:35.4 | a.m. on a Monday for training. No big deal, right? The manager certainly seemed |
| 0:40.3 | stable enough at the time, but I suppose that's what they say about all the |
| 0:44.2 | crazies. So I show up at 7 a.m. bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and ready to get to |
| 0:49.5 | work. I'm immediately introduced to the young lady who's been tasked with training me by the manager. |
| 0:54.6 | The manager spends the first 20 minutes of my shift not training me, but ranting and rambling |
| 0:59.6 | about how she just worked a double graveyard and how she's bushed and how this place just |
| 1:04.8 | sucks or dry you get the general idea then she reiterates that young lady's |
| 1:09.7 | going to be with me all day training me step step, and is then gone in a puff of smoke. |
| 1:15.7 | Gone home to get some much deserved sleep, leaves her home number on a scrap of paper behind |
| 1:20.6 | the counter in case of emergencies only sensible enough. |
| 1:24.5 | So we get down to business. |
| 1:26.3 | Young lady shocked that I'm already somewhat registering computer literate, and so takes the opportunity |
| 1:31.9 | to abandon me in the back room, doing a few hours of computer |
| 1:35.5 | training that I gather is supposed to encompass the entirety of my day. |
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