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[–]Zednix 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I worked at a huge industrial/commercial distribution seller last year for a few months. They had such strict rules it was poisoning to work there. Everyone snitched on everyone. If you were there long enough they made you become an "investor" in the company. Not investing was a fast track to being fired. All the investor employees are required to report on all employees doing things outside the rules. Required to. They don't allow you to listen to music anywhere. Not even outdoors when you are working on landscaping. I was in the maintenance department, so our job covered a lot of random stuff like the normal building maintenance to landscaping and patching potholes on their properties.

Breaks are mandatory, if you miss the assigned timeslot for a break you can't have one. So, if you are busy with something and you miss 15 minutes of your lunch time, you only get whatever is left and get written up if you take your LEGAL amount of time for the break.

You get written up for having your phone on you. Written up for having your phone out, even if you are searching for part information on an item you are repairing.

Greggs Distributers is a horrible company to work for, unless you drink the cult koolaid.

[–]theFriendlyDoomer[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh my god. That sounds like a complete nightmare. How'd you get away?

[–]Zednix 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I got lucky and had a job offer come up for something adjacent to my trade. I booked it as soon as I could. That job turned out to be a dud and slowed down. Managed to find steady job last Nov.

Greggs is cancer, everyone who I have talked to about working there thinks that place is crazy.

[–]aThievingStableboy 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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