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I feel that everybody at some point in their life has cried at work. Whether it be a good or bad reason to cry, I believe that is a very big commonality everybody has had to deal with at some point in their lives. A few years ago I used to work for a call center for the biggest Section 8 program in the United States and got a lot of calls from elderly, disabled, low income people and literally everybody in between. One day I get a call from a very nice older lady asking how she can give her Section 8 subsidy to her teenage son. She then goes into how she will be dying soon from cancer and wanted to make sure she left her son with some kind of safety net, also didn't help that she reminded me of my aunt that died of lung cancer at 45. At this point I'm choking down tears as I ask a manager what was the procedure and even my manager looked like she was gonna tear up. As I'm finishing up the call and giving her the information I start crying as I say my goodbyes and I knew she must've heard me breakdown but I hung up the phone and just break all the way down. I'm full on inconsolable and I just cry for what felt like way too long. I still think about her to this day and wish her children the best. So what were situations you've cried at work?
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Mar 7, 2024 03:14
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never have, never will
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Mar 7, 2024 03:18
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I worked retail cell phones for 2+ years, and if I still had the emotional ability to cry, I would have. Sure as gently caress not from sympathy, but out of pure frustration. There's a certain subset of people that live for pushing strangers buttons.
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Mar 7, 2024 03:20
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When I was in the Army, we had a fun day of rappelling planned out (from the top of a very safe 30 foot tall wall. Well, it was very windy that day and my usually tolerable fear of heights kicked into overdrive when I got to the top. I cried and went back down. Didn't really get too much poo poo for it, which was a nice surprise.
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Mar 7, 2024 03:29
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I have a lot of times but I'd really rather not get into it. But yes OP, I have indeed cried at work.
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Mar 7, 2024 03:30
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I worked at a summer camp for many years and we were all hormonal teenagers/early 20-year-olds. I probably cried a couple of times over a girl but it wasn't really crying because of work. Never cried working the service industry despite working in some poo poo conditions for stupid rear end in a top hat owners - unless you count the 'primal scream session' I had with one of the bartenders in the walk-in fridge. Turns out it wasn't nearly soundproof or drowned out by the sound of the compressor; a whole bunch of servers in the break room were staring at us when we came out.
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Mar 7, 2024 03:34
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Does the regular complete mental breakdowns that I had working from home during COVID count? I did have a friend that worked for one of the call centers that actually processes the calls from the automatic emergency systems from cars in serious car accidents. Apparently there was extremely high turnover in large part because people would just randomly answer a call from someone actively dying in car accidents and would have to comfort them via phone until they fell silent and an emergency responder arrived to tell them they could end the call, that the person in the car was deceased
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Mar 7, 2024 03:37
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Almost two years ago, I was passed over for a promotion that practically the entire company was rooting for me to get. It all hinged on my boss who had the final say, and he decided to give the job to my complete dumbfuck of an idiot yes man brown-nosing coworker who didn’t even want the promotion in the first place. I was strung along for seven months in radio silence the entire time, and I was the only one out of three workers in our department that had applied, even going so far as to ask the other two guys if they were also going to apply to which they both replied no. Then the idiot shyly tells me he also applied three months into it of not hearing anything. Then he gets a text message four months later saying congratulations, he got the job while I was working with him. I didn’t say much afterward for the next two days and put in my two week notice that Monday. I don’t think anyone was expecting me to quit, because it threw my boss and the idiot for a loop, but the way the promotion was handled was underhanded and skeevy as gently caress. During all of this, I was not all there because I was still trying to process the death of my father at the time. He died the same day I had to come in for the interview for the promotion (I was taking some time off at the time), and I lost the chance to go to the hospital to say goodbye before he passed. That’s what soured me on the entire promotion fiasco. I finally cried at work because I lost my father and lost the chance to say goodbye to him because of work. I cried at work because I was hurt over the promotion. I cried at work because I actually loved my job and all the people I interacted with daily and really didn’t want to leave, but also gently caress that place forever because of my boss and dipshit coworker.
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Mar 7, 2024 04:06
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only once, last year after a phone call with my dr regarding maybe having cancer
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Mar 7, 2024 04:10
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Never. The Dick Sucking Factory requires us to be full clean room protocol to preserve our product's quality.
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Mar 7, 2024 04:15
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I dated a coworker who was very mentally abusive so yeah
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Mar 7, 2024 04:18
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Once grabbed a hot pan that just came out of the oven with my bare hands. I didn't end up crying, but every time I took something out of the oven for the rest of my shift I thought I was going to cry. That pan was fuckin' heavy and hot.
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Mar 7, 2024 04:27
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The General posted:Once grabbed a hot pan that just came out of the oven with my bare hands. I didn't end up crying, but every time I took something out of the oven for the rest of my shift I thought I was going to cry. That pan was fuckin' heavy and hot. Oh yeah actually I did something like this. We'd grill brick the flat-top when it was piping hot at the end of the night, and I slipped and palmed it. Worst burn I've ever felt, it left blisters on my fingers and one the size of a golf ball on my palm. After my shift, I sat at the bar with my hand in a deli container full of ice and the pain just wouldn't go away. I may have actually cried, yeah.
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Mar 7, 2024 04:39
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Thankfully I had already been working the oven for 5+ years when I did that. Didn't blister or anything, just really loving hurt that night and kinda hurt for for awhile longer.
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Mar 7, 2024 04:47
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One time the stock dropped a lot in one day and I teared up a bit
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Mar 7, 2024 05:06
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My first job was at a call center. The people were such assholes and I was having anxiety attacks. I didn't actually cry at work but I did take a break and go out to my car for a bit to try to calm down. Getting a better job helped a lot I was very fortunate. About to be unemployed again after 7 years though I think our company is going down in flames at the moment. Missed payment on a loan the company took lol. They'll have to have an angle investor, leniency from the lending firm, or file for bankruptcy and reorganize and soon. I think I'm ready to move on anyway this job is getting too stressful. Wendigee fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Mar 7, 2024 |
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Mar 7, 2024 05:13
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Do you get paid for crying? No? Didn't think so, IDIOT>
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Mar 7, 2024 05:13
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I would approach my boss with tears in my eyes, and I began "sir ..."
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Mar 7, 2024 05:17
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Thesaurus posted:I would approach my boss with tears in my eyes, and I began "sir ..." you must be a big guy, straight out of central casting
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Mar 7, 2024 05:18
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Linux Pirate posted:Do you get paid for crying? The times I've cried at work were on the clock though Thesaurus posted:I would approach my boss with tears in my eyes, and I began "sir ..." Lol
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Mar 7, 2024 05:22
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İ have cried at every job I've had. Also I've had some really poo poo jobs. Most recent paid cry: my sweetheart was in a bad car accident and I had a full loving breakdown in an empty office upon hearing about it (he is okay). Most terrible: i was working housekeeping at a hotel and was taking the garbage down the elevator at the end of the night. The bag split on me right as the door opened in front of a Korean tour group. İ teared up as soon as the doors closed again. They weren't mean about it or anything but the shocked stares really capped off a poo poo day (all the days at this job were poo poo). Cried in front of the dumpster while covered in trash, cannot recommend. One time i ran over my toe with a pallet jack and cried involuntarily for 15 minutes. Adrenaline is the damnedest thing.
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Mar 7, 2024 08:11
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when i ate too much hot sauce op
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Mar 7, 2024 08:35
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usually once every couple of months for various reasons, but it's become less frequent because i've gotten better at keeping my emotional distance
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Mar 7, 2024 08:38
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Yes, every time I look at my coworkers' code. And sometimes when I look at my own. 
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Mar 7, 2024 09:40
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biggest cry was at a call center; sweet middle aged woman's voice and cadence was a not-bigoted version of my mom who I had gone NC with and who at that time had been dead for about six weeks. I was receiving some training as a refresh course so my boss let me walk off for ten minutes; the most privacy I could find was to walk down a disused dead end hallway. I proceeded to drag a bookcase away from the wall to create a v-shaped pocket to go about my business, which lasted for six minutes. I don't recall the rest of that day.
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Mar 7, 2024 10:03
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if you cry off the clock you are only cheating yourself
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Mar 7, 2024 10:21
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Twice, both times death-related. Once at my previous job where my uncle was in hospital and I got a message from my mum to say that he'd taken a turn for a worse so if I wanted to see him one last time now would be it. I told my supervisor very hurriedly and teary-eyed that I had to go say goodbye to my uncle and took off from work. To everyone's astonishment he bounced back for another couple of weeks before passing away. The second time was at my current job where in the morning I got a message from my partner to say that her cat had died in her sleep overnight. I'd spent some time over at her parent's house where the cat lived before we moved in together and I loving loved that cat. Had a little cry in the loo before composing myself and coming back to work. I work in adult social care so I've had to create some emotional boundaries due to the circumstances some people live in, I don't think I'd manage otherwise.
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Mar 7, 2024 10:31
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Yes every time when i ran out of dicks to suck
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Mar 7, 2024 11:53
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Whenever I’d go to a customer’s house and the dogs or cats who would always come greet me all of a sudden weren’t there anymore.
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Mar 7, 2024 12:01
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I almost cried once when I got yelled at and fired (wet eyes). I have to say I felt like crying many times because I had to go to %#&# work, and after that when I had to stay there for hours straight, all too often doing poo poo I didn't much like, and all too often under bosses I didn't much like. When I was really, really sad I'd take sick leave, but I did tend to use up my sick leave allowance pretty quickly.
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Mar 7, 2024 12:22
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I had a bitch supervisor at costco that was constantly negging us closers and saying what failures we were anytime we didnt perform 100% One night I was scheduled to leave at 8, and the next day she pulled me aside and started berating me in front of everyone how it was my fault that the people that were there 8-10:30 didnt do a good job at closing. I am not a supervisor, i am a low level worker like everyone else in my department but she insisted that i perform the duties of a supervisor without the pay. we argued about this for a few minutes but goddamn did she make me feel so humiliated and demeaned about something i wasnt even present for that i ended up crying in the janitors closet. she would later accuse me of trying to steal cookies from my department which prompted a huge internal investigation that had me extremely loving upset about losing my job despite not having done anything wrong. i ended up calling the regional manager and used the words "hostile work environment" and then loving quit. at this age i really do think i deserve better. DamnitGannet fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Mar 7, 2024 |
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Mar 7, 2024 12:37
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Can't, I play baseball for a living
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Mar 7, 2024 12:38
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I worked in a callcentre. They have dedicated crying rooms these days, but back then i got yelled at by a manager who was an idiot and I went to the toilet and cried my eyes out for 20 minutes. Looking back I should have walked back and quit immediately, I very much regret not doing so. I tell myself if it ever happens again I need to be brave and do that. I will never work at a callcentre again.
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Mar 7, 2024 12:39
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I've cried twice at work, both times because I found out a friend had died.
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Mar 7, 2024 12:58
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Never cried at work. When I realise i'm getting stressed out or some poo poo, I just remember "I need to stop caring", and then I do.
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Mar 7, 2024 13:03
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10 years ago I got laid off along with about 50% of the company. We were sitting in our cubicles and people were starting to get phone calls asking them to head to the conference room to meet with HR and to bring anything they wanted to take home with them. It was just rapid fire, person after person, jumping around the entire building. There was a woman in my department who had just started 3 weeks earlier and had moved her family to Pittsburgh for the job, she rightfully started bawling and that was when it really hit me, too. A bunch of us started hugging and crying, it was really surreal. I calmed myself down just in time to get the call, headed to the conference room and met with an HR rep who had no idea who I was but handed me a big packet of information, told me my department was one of the ones being eliminated, and then called a security guard to escort me out of the building. I was still in my early 20s and was nowhere near as jaded as I am now, the whole experience really broke me for a while.
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Mar 7, 2024 13:46
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its my last day at my job and im crying because im not clicking on the things im supposed to be clicking on for my boss 
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Mar 7, 2024 14:28
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Lawrence Gilchrist posted:biggest cry was at a call center; sweet middle aged woman's voice and cadence was a not-bigoted version of my mom who I had gone NC with and who at that time had been dead for about six weeks. I was receiving some training as a refresh course so my boss let me walk off for ten minutes; the most privacy I could find was to walk down a disused dead end hallway. I proceeded to drag a bookcase away from the wall to create a v-shaped pocket to go about my business, which lasted for six minutes. I don't recall the rest of that day. I guess the morel of this thread is never work at call centers
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Mar 7, 2024 14:45
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I was an administrative law judge in public assistance. So people denied food stamps and Medicaid, people kicked off programs for failing to meet work requirements, and people denied a specific services by insurance providers all came to me to ask me to reverse the decisions. There were a lot of very tough ones but the only ones that brought tears were parents breaking down in hearings. A lot of them simply made too much money to get public assistance, but it was obviously not enough to make ends meet. Some of them made a lot of money but needed to buy medication costing thousands of dollars a month or more. Very upsetting
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One time I almost cried, I worked retail a bunch of years ago and was just super miserable. There was this deaf lady that was incredibly sweet and anytime she was around I always made sure to help her. One day I spent a lot more time than usual to help find a computer and when we finished she hugged me with the most kindest motherly hug I've ever had and felt like I was gonna start tearing up in the middle of the floor.
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