When you started your current job, what most surprised you?

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Sour-rose · Accepted Answer

The deaths. How many people got killed or died because negligence or shortcuts. I'm a cargo agent so our teacher told us about how many deaths happened like-

On those cargo cars the airport people ride outside, the speed is 15. Two mofos wanted to play fast and furious and one went to fast and hit a guy and I think he got a fatal injury and the other went under the car and had his chest crushed. :c so the ones doing this was at fault and faced jail time

jennifer_bloom · Accepted Answer

At my old job before doing self employment work, I was surprised by how much my feet hurt during work shifts. Cause I did not do manual labour for years during my university career so I was surprised by the foot pain. Another thing was how overly nice or overly rude some of my co workers were. Some were far kinder then expected and others were disrespectful beyond acceptable levels. Both groups surprised me.

SteveSmith1985 · Accepted Answer

How goddamn chill it was. It legitimately takes getting used to. You need to learn... to dial it back by about 70% or so. If you want to be a keener, dial it back by 60%. But it takes new people at couple of months to fully be comfortable with how things are done. (and no I won't tell you where I work) 🙂

abc3643 · Accepted Answer

How happy I was and how I so easily "got it" compared to my previous nightmare of a job - one which I went to every morning nauseous because I hated and feared what was going to happen that day.

Potteplante · Answer

How calm I can be while I'm being assaulted.

blackgaletiger · Answer

I did customer pickup at a large warehouse. Customers were surprised how well we were being paid compared to Amazon workers and the fact that the facility was fully air conditioned

HighValue · Answer

While working in schools, I was surprised by how many women coworkers cheat on their husbands and boyfriends.

exitseven · Answer

I work in IT and I had been teaching for the last 7 years. I was pretty surprised at how much the technology has changed.

SnowedIn · Answer

How different it was from every other job I've ever had. Specifically the company culture.

MysticDevice · Answer

What surprised me the most was how dumb adults actually are. I was 19 when I started at the plant and that was when I realized that adults are not any smarter than highschool kids.

jamesgoldman · Answer

The sheer volume of business I see Guess my antique dealer dying, the jeweler retiring and the other dealer being focused on high end furniture/art than the scrap gold/silver/platinum trade

KostasKouvalis · Answer

How lenient they are. Not so much anymore, after the District Super Intendent came down hard on them. But when I first started before COVID, I'd never seen such a lenient company

Leopard23 · Answer

How much the women in the office hook up with anyone

BCRanger10 · Answer

I didn't think I'd like it at first, but I did.

Red-Blaze · Answer

The speed they wanted me to start working and close projects on a system I am not familer with

MrCommodore · Answer

The pressure of it caught me by surprise, decision making etc.

Wish4UrB00ty · Answer

First thing I was shocked by was how cool the people I worked with were.

AmeerX · Answer

The thing is if you work a job never take your degree too literally. You can be an engineer working in a sales job or a doctor working in plumbing.  Same happened to me

Jennz6 · Answer

Nothing because I have done this kind of work before

Still-alive · Answer

Just how many different restaurants making different cultural cuisines there are in my city. We pretty much got it all here lol

NostalgiaSenpi · Answer

Where it was located. I never heard of the town.

collie22 · Answer

I guess that people would say thank you and say my name

PointTaken · Answer

Nothing really. I have always fixed things and would expect odd ways machine's break down.

najekim · Answer

That the company does things it's own way that is contrary to industry standards.

studguy07 · Answer

I never expected to get my current after having a tech degreee.

Titlover01 · Answer

The fact the owner is there when most of the employees start

Agape93 · Answer

They agreed to let me work remote mostly

msc545 · Answer

How really useful and helpful my staff is.

CptSimonRiley · Answer

I'm still student 😁

AnusNdaPainus · Answer

That I can manage several clients at once

Nikki1989 · Answer

How many people would become friends.

SunnyRS · Answer

That how meticulous it was.

TrillXHippy · Answer

The cliques at work

TallAnon · Answer

How inadequate my team was

Paulychicagoluv · Answer

The idiots

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