Whats your REAL job?

[Mnemjian]

I dunno. I'm an introvert, and after dealing with customers over the phones for 5 years, I'd be happy 1) never touching a phone again, 2) never having contact with unknown people again.

:-)

Yeah, I kinda second that... at least the unknown people part. But I do think that people who are mean enough to say something like that to a person are just trying to make themselves feel better about their own crappy existence...


Also I didn't mean to offend anyone who does happen to work behind a computer or anything like that I miss those days myself! I only meant to offend those who are jerks to other people for no reason

[Racket_Man]

Just ask them this:

If all of us service staff went and got "real jobs" then you'd have to flip your own burgers/ring up your own groceries/draw your own beer/etc, now, wouldn't you. How about I do my job, you do yours, and we go about our day?

^-.-^

I get the phrase in this context now more than ever being a delivery driver. I started out in food service then got my BS degree after my daughter was born and went in on to a "real job" I quickly got tired of the corp crap ie. the micromanging, the huge egos, the rivalaries, the kindom building, the infighting, the gianormas waste of cash brain power and resources,etc.

after a while the "big bucks" was just not worth it anymore. for the most part I like doing delivery as it (mostly) pays the bills and leaves me (most of the time) with money left over. So I guess I have a real job

when the statement is made to me I give the same responce, except in my case I would love to add "and you would have to move that giant fat ass of your off of the couch and actually do some work yourself to get that pizza/wings/soda"

I hate that saying more than anything.

Being a cubicle jockey is not all it's cracked up to be.

same here been there done that. I did the cube farmer thing for 12 years. also heard the phrase "Sorry we are letting you go. ya know it is a business/economic decision. nothing peronsal you see right????" yeah RIGHT

[tropicsgoddess]

Ugh. That's so demeaning. Sure people in the customer service industry (whether it be call centers, restaurants etc.) earn less and deal with a lot of crap, but these days, people should be grateful to have jobs instead of being in the unemployment line. If I could and if I wanted to be a bitch about it, I'd ask them "What's YOUR real job then?"

[infinitemonkies]

Could you imagine the chaos, riots and panic that would ensue if everyone making minimum wage were to pull a 1 day general strike?

It would be like a combination of christmas/the rapture for anarchists; cities, entire civilizations would go down in flames!

[Kristev]

I have my own way to deal with these "Why don't you get a real job" jokers. The last cretin who said that to me bothered me when I was off the clock, but had only been off for about twenty minutes.

I simply told him, "This is just temporary until I get my movie deal. You see, I'm a novelist," at which point I grinningly gave him my business card, which contains information about my four novels, "And I am too important to be bothered by you." With that, I walked off. I was off the clock, what could the CSM's do about it?

It may have been rather rude on my part, I admit, but it certainly countered the insult and left me the victor, didn't it?

Though the idea of everyone who is at best minimum wage going out on strike for one whole day is certainly warrented nowadays.

[Bunny the Veggie Slayer]

The few times I've had this I always used the same reply.

"I actually get my degree in proctology at the end of the month."




After all I've been handling irritating arseholes for years now. I MUST be qualified.

[TheSHAD0W]

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[Sunflash]

Could you imagine the chaos, riots and panic that would ensue if everyone making minimum wage were to pull a 1 day general strike?

It would be like a combination of christmas/the rapture for anarchists; cities, entire civilizations would go down in flames!

That would be pretty awesome to watch, actually.

[EvilEmpryss]

Hell, I've been in a city where the sanitation workers (garbage collectors) went on a one-day strike.

It was NOT pleasant.

[Jester]

I've told this story before, but I'll tell it again. My friend Popcorn is a bartender, and some of his friends used to occasionally ask him that question. "When are you going to get a real job?" Finally one day he snapped, and basically told them, "Look, you asshole. I HAVE a real job. I love what I do every day, and I actually make more than you do at your "real" job. So piss off." They pretty much shut up about "real" jobs after that.

Myself, I have never, EVER held a real job. I have been a bartender, waiter, busser, food runner, cook, disc jockey, magician, restaurant manager, call center representative, and retail clerk, but I have never, EVER, had a 9-5 office job that these nitwits consider "real." And frankly, I have had a much more interesting, enjoyable, and fun life than most of them. So, as my friend Popcorn might say, these people can fuck off.

I do find that as a bartender I get this particular derision less than I did as a server, probably because most people, no matter how stupid, are not stupid enough to fuck with the person who is controlling their alcohol.

I'm about to go back to school for a career in the restaurant industry...

Silly question: why go to school for a job in the restaurant industry? You don't need a degree to do this. Even management. Seriously.

"Maybe one day you kids could work here...you'll learn resonsibility, dealing with the public and how to save money because when you work here you won't be making any money...".

Yeah, she was a rude wench, but to her credit, at least she was showing her kids that that kind of job is respectable and teaches responsibility, or something like that. She was misguided, and said it in a very inappropriate manner, but at least she didn't use you as an example of what NOT to become.

[Aethian]

Was talking to my coworkers about this and one of our clerks had a guy come up to him to pick up a package during the course of the short converstation the guy proclaim that it was unfair of him to have to come and pick up his package.

It was a package he had to sign for, it was apackage I personally had attempted with no one being home.

The guy then proclaimed with his nose in the air that he, "had a real job he had to be at during the week."

So what was our clerk doing there so the guy could pick up his package?

[MoonChild2007]

The cool thing to do is when a customer says that, walk away from the register leave them standing there with the groceries still on the belt. Have them say, "hey aren't you going to ring me up". "No, I am finding myself a real job ring it out yourself see ya!"

[Midorikawa]

The cool thing to do is when a customer says that, walk away from the register leave them standing there with the groceries still on the belt. Have them say, "hey aren't you going to ring me up". "No, I am finding myself a real job ring it out yourself see ya!"

Haha. Epic. :-D

[Jester]

So what was our clerk doing there so the guy could pick up his package?

Apparently being underpaid to deal with an arrogant contemptuous condescending rectum-licking fuck monkey.

Not only is that a real job, I think it may qualify for hazard pay.

[Amina516]

Apparently being underpaid to deal with an arrogant contemptuous condescending rectum-licking fuck monkey.

You know...im not liking this mental image im getting at the moment. It burns.