our first jobs & your work horror stories! 

The audio cuts out in some weird places towards the end! Right around when they talk ablut Rachel and Mario

Paloma’s hair and outfit is sooo 🔥🔥🔥

Jess coming through with another insightful Jessism! When she said that men want a woman to emotionally regulate them at work like their wife’s do at home. 🤯

It seems like the audio cuts off around the 52 minute mark 😭 I want to know the story of Mario and Rachel lol

Your conversation about working with kids broke my heart a little. I've been a teacher for 7 years, and I'm burned out and going to be taking a break. It hurts to leave the kiddos, but education is so broken. Thanks for reminding me why I did it for so long. ❤❤

All these horror stories just reinforce how important unions are. This is your sign to unionize your workplace girlies!!

As someone who’s almost never been treated fairly in the workplace, it’s so refreshing to hear about the Schultzie business and how well everyone is treated but of course I wouldn’t expect anything else. I’d do anything to be part of a team like yours. Congratulations on such an amazing business, y’all should be soooo proud❤️

The #1 thing I've learned in my 30s and since becoming a SAHM and stepping away from my career is I will NEVER allow someone to mistreat me, speak down to me, NOTHING all in the name of $. Just bcuz your job title is above me, doesn't mean you, as a person, are.

omg as a college first-year figuring out their first summer job and then being a tour guide in the fall, this is such a well timed episode for me! i love you guys!!!

Not me absolutely sobbing at the birthday party princess story😭

I worked at Marshall’s and they didn’t pay me for half a day of work, then gave my check to a different employee and HR laughed at me because she gave my 5 day check to someone who worked 2 days. The manager sent me texts that absolutely call for a sexual harassment violation, but he claimed he was texting the wrong number. And they claimed to mail my final check to my school, which they didn’t, so I contact HQ and they said because I contacted HQ they could no longer mail my check to me. It wasn’t until I threatened to sue (because I absolutely would not work for free) that they finally claimed that they had my check and I didn’t attempt to pick it up. I no longer shop at any TJX store.

Oh my gosh the working with kids part really hit me in the feels, I was a long term sub for 1st & 2nd grade in 2020 and I remember talking to the kids one day before a long weekend about their plans and if they were excited and one little boy hugged me and said he doesn’t like long weekends bc he likes being at school more than home. When we had to close bc of the panini all I could think about was him 😔

1:06:21 thank you for this. I am a dance teacher and I love my students so much. The greatest gift in my career is getting to make lasting bonds with my students for many years and watching them grow up is such a blessing in my life. I think it’s so valuable for children to have trusting and caring adults in their lives who aren’t “obligated” to love them in the same way a parent is, but who is still sincerely invested in their well-being.

Haven’t missed an episode yet and I’m not starting now!!! Love this ❤

Just wanted to say, my husband and I are currently visiting my in laws in the Dominican Republic with our son and we are out in a pretty rural area with limited wifi but you best believe when I saw a new podcast was out I was going to watch!! Choosing this over Netflix, Hulu etc. ❤️

Thank you for shouting out teachers for a bit there, ladies! ❤ I’m a primary teacher and those littles need so much love. It is a hard job some days but it is by far the best job and so rewarding.

I’m finally getting to watch this episode now that I have a day off 😅 I’m a store manager, and hearing how horribly Paloma was treated when she was working retail really breaks my heart 😢 (and all the other submissions). I would NEVER treat my staff like that, regardless of the coverage we have (because if I don’t have the staff to cover a shift that’s on me not the associate who needs a day off). I know for a lot of my staff this job is a stepping stone, and I’m here to run my store as my job but for them as individuals I care about everyone they’re human beings with lives!! My favorite part of my job is seeing my staff grow as people, learn skills, graduate etc and as much as it sucks when they quit or leave I know it’s so they can go on and do bigger and better things, it makes me so proud 😊

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Sierra's sweater is sooo cute

Love that P is a planner girlie 💗 I, too, live and die by my paper planner! 😅 Do you have a favorite brand?

At 38:22 why is there a quick subtitle about Rachel meeting her husband at work? Maybe I'll find out about Rachel later in the episode lol

15:50 Paloma: holds her fists up but no middle finger "FFFFFORGET YOU!" Riayn: F*ck it

Love you girls so much!! My work horror story was when I worked at McDonalds. My sister and I happen to work at the same location, different shifts, but sometimes they overlapped. I was around 15/16 so still pretty young, and she's a year older than me but has autism, so she sometimes seems younger than me. I had been thinking about quitting for a while because they were not accommodating to my medical issues at all. What pushed me over the edge was when the manager decided to yell at my sister in front of all the costumers and workers (I can't remember why, but I do remember it being something dumb.) That night, she cried to our mom. The boss wouldn't do anything to that manager, so I wrote up my two week notice (though I should mention I had a surgery scheduled for the next week, so it was more of a 2 day notice.) My sister ended up working there for another few weeks, but ended up quitting too.

I constantly struggle on whether I should change my whole life path because the only jobs I’ve ever liked were the one with kids involved and I CRIED when those jobs ended and constantly wonder how those kids are doing/if they remember me

permanent records are kept in the beureaucratic building (usually main office) of the school of a student. They start when you're enrolled in school and end when you graduate. The only thing that really goes on there are serious notes about behavior (suspensions, expulsions) and anything to do with your health/individualized education plan. They get passed from school to school when you transfer. Any teacher in the school can access them usually. Most schools have a sheet to "sign out" a permanent record any time it is viewed so they can track who's looking at it. (I'm a teacher and the only time I've pulled them is to create education plans/see if a student is being processed for an education plan)

53:24 audio cuts

Hi girls, I love your podcast so much. I am a bit older than all of you (still 20 at heart), but the topics you pick are so relatable. I had this job once where I worked for a woman and she put all her staff on monthly contracts and if you didn't perform well according to her standard she would just let you go, which was illegal at the time, cause if you worked for more than 6 months I think it was at a company it means there is a position available and she was suppose to give you permanent employment. She would also not employ overweight people as she said they are lazy. Another one was where I worked for a safety equipment company (quite a lucrative company) and they had lots of clients from overseas (I was in South Africa at the time) and I was put in to a Debtors roll where I had to call the clients and obviously ask when they will be able to pay and how much they will be paying - totally hated the job and the boss. He use to scream at me and swear me because there wasn't enough payment coming in and then turned around and said I'm making too many calls and it is costing the company money. He moved me to Reception only to swear and shout at me in front of my colleagues. I was in my early 20s at the time and I resigned after 2 years (don't know how I lasted so long) and he had me going out of there in tears. Because of him I studied HR and I know my rights now and will never ever let anyone speak to me or treat me like that in the workplace again.

Sierra I totally heard something about a Costco too😂😂😂

❤❤ Riayn’s ✨blonde✨❤❤

Hey just so you know the audio starts cutting out around the 53:00 minute mark.

My first job was 14/15 working as a busser at a restaurant and it was terrible. The thing that made me leave was similar to the first story you shared. But add alcohol to the mix and I was in very uncomfy positions as a young teen.

Omg love you guys so much best podcast ever 👏🏼😍

I once worked at a retail store (hardware, tools, etc.) with an extremely lenient return policy and someone returned a rusty, snapped in half shovel that we literally didn't even sell. This shovel was years old for sure, they claimed they used it "once or twice" and we checked and the only store that sold it was our direct competitor. Because of our return policy they got an exchange for a shovel we sold that was similar. It was ridiculous.

First job I was both hostess and waitress and was told I needed to split my tips with the chef in the back. I know better now!

work bestie >>>> work wife/husband

As someone who works in grocery store bakery this is accurate! It’s ridiculous how many times customers bring back an half eaten or more cake say it was bad, wrong or made them sick and get their money back. Why is that even allowed.

Love the sponsor woo!

My first paying job was in the concession stand for a minor league ball team. We got $2.00 a game plus a hot dog & soda. Granted this was in the early seventies. Best perk were the cute guys!!!

Great episode! Sierra, I love your pink sweater!

Did not expect to get teary eyed towards the end

"It's a collective" is giving foreshadowing

Ya'll this episode gave me the inspo to get up off my ass and f*cking work

Can attest to crazy nurses stories 😂 my sister is a nurse and her first week on the job she had a child come in who hadn’t had a bowel movement in a month, was taking laxatives and magnesium citrate etc so they finally gave her an enema and when she finally passed her stool it was too big to flush and my sister being the newbie had to fish it out and dispose of it 😂 honestly tho how amazing are buttholes? Like how can you pass something that big and it be like hehe I’m good 🫣💩

sierra where is your sweater from? As a pink girlie, I'm so happy you are a pink girlie now.

So so so excited for a new episode!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Haha when I was a lifeguard I flirted with everyone! 😂 also at my current job, I also flirt sometimes! Work flirting is my favorite haha. On the more serious side, I work at a preschool/daycare and some of the kids there have the saddest stories and really hard lives, and I just want to help them as much as I can to bring some stability to their lives. I love those kids so much and the day I leave or they leave, I will definitely cry.

11:05 wait... Harper wild only donates 1% of their proceeds? I mean that's better than nothing but wow that's barely anything unless they're a huge brand and I'm pretty sure they're not...

Former nordstrom employee here, and the return policy is great for customers, not so great for employees. Their pay was (at least 8 years ago) largely commission based, so I had days where I would be in the hole (my last day I had somewhere around $2000 in returns) and often the clothes would come back having been worn.

My big ooopsie was my first job making me pay when people would dine and dash. I had a group of men run up a 280$ tab and dash, 15 year old me paid the restaurant owners back for it, like a whole week of earnings

I'm excited about this sponsorship!

I would LIVE to see Sierra the ref

I’m noticing some audio 53:33 issues around this time stamp. I don’t know if anyone else had the audio cut out around here or not?

So I loved this episode I had a work HORROR story as well that I wanted to share. I literally almost died at work once. Before sharing I want to say, I was about 20 when this happened and I now know that I should've taken further action than just quitting but at the time I was so scared because I didn't have a back up job. Sorry this is such a long story. Storytime: I worked for a group home cargiving facility at the time and we had gone out to a park for an outing. At this park there was a festival with alot of bee products and honey which I am highly allergic too but I had never gone into shock over the smell so I thought it was fine. Long story short I started to go into anaphylaxis, I told my lead and his reaction was "use your epi pen and go back to work", I told him "I'm not doing that, I need to go to the ER and you need to find a replacement for me" he wasn't very happy with that and told me if I had used my epi pen he wouldn't let me leave and I have to wait for my replacement to come in so that's what I did. By the time my replacement got there I was fully in shock going in&out of consciousness and my throat was so swollen I couldn't talk at all. My lead came with my replacement to make sure I wasn't lying so I hand wrote a note asking him to drive me to the hospital, he said he "had more important things to do". So I drove myself, apparently I passed out in the little drop off area of the hospital, the emts had to get me out of my car and figure out was going on, I woke up while they were taking my vitals and was able to sign to them that I couldn't breathe and my throat was swollen by the international choking sign. They admitted me immediately and because of the stage of shock that I was in and how much epinephrine it took wanted to keep a 48hr watch on me. While in the hospital my boss reached out to me saying I have 24hrs to give them proof that I was in the hospital for an allergic reaction, so I had my husband drop it off and also in the note said "also this is my 2 weeks notice". I know I shouldn't have even given 2 weeks but I did because like I said I did not have a back up job at the time.

This was such a good episode!!😂

How can we join the group chat? I didnt see it in the description

Employers really do take advantage of young kids working. My first job was waitressing at the restaurant in my small town at 14, I got the worst hours (Monday and Tuesday nights) and had to work by myself and would only bring home $15 most nights. And my boss was so mean, to this day I never eat at her restaurants bc of how she treated me 😅

First job before a job, cocktail waitress at my grandparent's parties.... grandma made the drinks like half full... grandpa would walk with me to whoever I was serving and tell me "don't walk away til they give you a tip" I made like 25 bucks as a 4 yr old lol

Literally love you girls. Another great one❤

As a former Nordstrom employee it was so frustrating what we had to return especially since the full line store employees at the time at least were commission only and returns are a hit to the employee who originally sold it seeing something that was loved be returned would frustrate me so much

My first formal job was as a waitress and a small restaurant. I gave notice when it was time to go back to school. I was still on the schedule the week after I'd given notice for so I told them I couldn't work the hours and I'd given notice. That night my boss fired me without warning because someone ordered ice cream and I gave them too large a glass of water... I never tried waitressing again.

Obsessed with the green bra on Ryyy!! So cute

This reminded me of when I worked at the photo studio in the mall. When my manager accidentally texted me instead of his co-manager…SHIT TALKING ME. Like wow, oopsie. I just messaged him back saying “hey wrong person.” I don’t think I went back in after that.

My workplace relationship turned into my husband 😂

Favorite moments: 1) Working with all women and Stephen. 😂 2) all of your comments about teachers. As a teacher, I got a little emotional. 🥹

Riayn worked at menchie’s?? As in the froyo place simply nailogical’s car is named after?🤩

Love seeing y'all in these colors! 😉

The audio cuts out starting at 53:23 with Riayn.

What does PC mean?

My mom works as the head of HR in her company and her boss (the VP) sexually harasses her constantly. They ordered tee shirts for the company and he asked how many inches of cleavage she has showing. He always makes excuses to be alone with her. She won’t do anything about it because she gets paid well and needs the job. I help her out a few times a week and it’s heartbreaking to see.

I got fired from my first job after two weeks... That's my horror story.

I always thought the work husband/wife thing was just the person you worked with the most 😂 I didn't realize there was actual flirting involved

Isn’t it interesting that even in a female dominated industry, it’s men who are in management?

You guys are trashing workplace relationships mean while my bf and I met at work and he gave me the confidence to leave my toxic relationship and weve been dating for a year💀 I get it tho there are so many situations where it doesn't work and ik I just got lucky lol

I worked at CVS for 3 years in downtown huntington beach... Not sure you girlies have been down there #surfcity lol. ANYWAY there are some CRAZY people down there especially around 4th of July. I had this guy who idk this dude needed some help. He only spoke about his camera, he always asked me if I liked his camera and then would always show me and state this is my camera. Every time without fail. He would only come in to print his pictures, buy them and leave. But all of a sudden he got an attachment to me, it was getting weird. He started to come more often and would still print pictures, buy them and leave. He was way older than me probably could have been my dads age, I was only around 21 at the time... Anyway, I don't remember exactly what happened before this but he asked to take a picture of me and I just thought ok well if that means he goes away ok whatever sure. So this dude now has a picture of me behind the clerk stand and after that I just got the ICK. So after he left I told my supervisor what happened, we looked at his picture history on the kiosk he had a TON of pictures of just women that either looked like they didn't know their picture was being taken or looked very uncomfortable. So the next time I saw him he said hi this is my camera and whatever. I called my super and told him hey, I'm not comfortable being in here anymore with this dude. So he told me ok well I will call you up when he leaves just stay in the break room. OK cool, I go into the break room and take my 15.... 15 goes by and he hasn't called me back on the intercom. I'm like ok well I guess I can extend it to my lunch, 30 minuets have gone by at this point and I call up to the front to ask my super what is going on. This dude will not leave until he says BYE to me, he was circling around the store trying to find me. So my super asked me and was like I can kick this guy out of the store and he can't come back would you like that? So I said uh yeah I don't wanna deal with this. That was the time I had a stalker at CVS thanks for reading.

Im bummed because I got the verification message that I joined but I don't get any texts asking for prompts or like anything and I just want to know if anyone else is experiencing that

YESSSSSSS BEST NOTIFICATION

Anyone have any advice for feeling like you suck at every job lol

Yesssss 🎉🎉🎉

Just a heads up the camera are pretty out of focus. If you zoom in and focus on their eyes that should fix it.

Cool

Not 14 year old ref Sierra getting paid almost double what a registered UK nurse makes 😢

First!! ♥️♥️

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I don’t understand how you can talk about misogamy and sexism so much in an episode and then call someone a Karen. Yes, she was clearly a dick but when men stand up for themselves they never get given a name like that. I’m not a woman with a bob in my 50’s. I’m just a regular absolute on that shit feminist.

The disdain for middle aged men is too much. Should they just go off and live on an island?

Put your life at stake by calling the cops? Girl PLEASE…

The company I work for actually has a program called WIN - Women Initiative Network - where it highlights and raises up women in the workplace and it’s so great to have safe space like that in my organization

Petition for a group chat on WhatsApp because I can’t text you guys from New CC Zealand