vw addict

does your screen name have to do with the color of your skid marx? Maybe that was the problem.

Das Stig

never understood this logic... I don't see how "hey look at these pointless, ****ty jobs I've had recently" is preferable to an explainable gap in your resume.

twobadfish

I doubt it, if you failed to realize wearing spandex in the workplace is not cool. It's cool that you have no shame or modesty, but come on man.

himespau 

Yeah, but there are definitely times when having a paycheck is preferable to not having a paycheck.

JoshuaaXDD

I dress terribly for work. I'm at supervisor at a gym and I will go off dressed in street clothes, when I should be dressed in slacks and a button down. Right now I'm dressed in slim jeans, a hoodie, and nike 6.0s with polkadot shoelaces. I leave the door riding my fixed gear with my messenger and a beanie.

HandsomeRyan

I'm so sorry. When I was younger I worked in a call center for an appliance company that rhymes with 'hirlpool' and it was terrible. Incompetent coworkers, rude customers, and terrible hours.

I got another job, turned in a 2 weeks notice of which I worked maybe 3 hours before clocking out, gathering my things, and leaving my ID badge on the desk. Never looked back.

Scrodzilla

Wait...we're talking about a super hero outfit and not just regular tight pants???

JoshuaaXDD

I wear so many different things to work haha, I've written up an employee for wearing a hat that said chronic on it.
In an environment of a call center I wouldn't be too strict about dress, tight pants isn't an issue to me as long as it isn't obscene.

rustybrown

And I was wearing this.


Nah, just regular fitted pants.

Butthash

(Refer back to my solution) I swear to you, it works!

Scrodzilla

Oh, ok. I would have very politely told them to **** themselves.

RunningPirate

You could have just offered to take them off - see? Tight pants problem solved! 'course it creates a "junk on the office chair" issue, but that's another set of HR rules.

If you really wanted to push it, you might have a case for them to at least compensate you for the day off. If this was the first "offense" (it was, wasn't it?) then it would have been more appropriate to send you home to change and allow you to return. I mean, it sounds like you weren't wearing a Borat-esque mankini (you weren't, were you?) But to send you home, sans pay, and not allow you to return, is a bit much. Further, this begs the question of whether their dress code pushes the line of actually mandating a uniform of some sort (which they might have to pay for).

Parabolous

When I worked in a veterinary clinic the staff of course had to wear scrubs and I wore black scrubs (rebel in the medical industry) until a clients animal was euthanised and I was called "devil" by the client. Of course working in a clinic, if any of you know, I found it to be more hilarious than castigating.

I digress. For what you went through that sounds pretty ridiculous. If you care about the job and keeping it then certainly get on their good side but if you're looking at revenge then I suggest the Kris Kross method clothes with the exception of tight pants and a shirt with a picture of the 'hang in there' cat.

CharneK

Walk in on an off day with your skinniest pants on, it will desensitize them to your "work" pants level of skinniness.

xavier853

The problem with me, which you might also have, is that I am so skinny, larger pants make me look like I have no form to my body at all

rustybrown

Yeah, same boat. 125 pounds of definition.

I like the desensitization technique. Will execute.

Or reverse tapering over time. Yoga pants by the end of the month.

jdgesus 

yoga pants right now

CharneK

Liquid latex.

Butthash

Four days until the month is over.... it is the end of the month, get to it buddy! Pics or it didn't happen!

cc700

first off call center means there's no way anyone outside the company will ever see you = all they're doing is seeing how strong your will is and how much **** you'll put up with = how moldable you are. call centers are all about breaking personal skill and implementing 'sales' scripts and worthless marketing procedures that aggravate customers.

second off, stopgap resume filler IS the explanation for a resume time gap. do this job, put up with what you want to put up with, deal with them as best you see fit, and then don't put it on your resume.

responses i got from companies with resumes that included my irrelevant ****ty jobs: 0
times i had to explain that i was working random ****ty jobs that actually turn out to be relevant and completely quells potential employers concerns about gaps in my resume: still working there, but i did get the job...

seriously. do what you gotta do and do what you love. if you need the paycheck, tell them that you expect a warning before they send you home without pay.

otherwise you give them the impression you'll work there at their expense and you don't care if they send you home or not because you don't need the money or other reasons. none of which will help you.

I'd totally go to HR and complain, stating that you didn't know there was a 'pants tightness' qualification on the dress code and had you known you would have worn baggy pants. obviously, word it more persuasively and in your own way.

if you don't need the money, which is the message you give them by taking this like a prison bi**h, then consider working at a job that doesn't suck so much or just do what you want... start a business or make things you want to make and sell them. even if it fails, you'll be served far greater by that experience in future interviews for the job you really want than "oh i worked at a call center and they never paid me because they didn't like my pants." and you could be the next blicks of _____ if you succeed.

any potential employer is going to be WHOLLY uninterested in the stupid bull**** that happened to you at your other jobs. they have exactly no interest in how crappy companies run their s***.

what potential employers care about is WHAT YOU DO ABOUT IT. if you come in with a gap in your resume and you explain it by saying you got railed by a ****ty company and did nothing about it, that tells them a lot about you. it also tells them you're a lazy c***.

their next question is always going to be "and what did you do about it?"

and your answer had better not have been "took the day off to get toasted on my roomie's couch then complained on an internet forum."

DGozinya

Wait, didn't I see this on a beer commercial recently?

Butthash

BFSSFG IS a beer commercial...

rustybrown

Word.

Good call on the deletion of this job on the resume. I was thinking that it would help in the career search, showing that I can hold down a job and am desirable as an employee. But considering the relevance of the position applied for, it may pop up in a few tailored resumes. Likely not. It's not really screaming "hire me."

Corporate BS is corporate BS. I'll take that three day weekend. Not going to invest much effort in a temporary job. Only temporary, because there are no plans for the long haul here. I have already let HR know of my dissatisfaction with their policies in a professional, polite manner. Basically, stating it was BS.

I'm just kind of running off the mantra "It's easier to find a job when you have one."

Greyryder

Just start wearing muumuus at work.

twobadfish

How could your bulge be more than the Hoff's bulge if you're only wearing jeans?

Pics or gtfo