Not so much "ha ha" funny. . .
I was forced to work at a cattery/boarding kennels in the long lost days of Year 10, which is good because I love animals. But when the place is run by the foulest, stupidest people on the planet then a love for animals can't override the complete and utter despair you feel.
Handy dandy bullet point summary, because I am lazy:

- Was yelled at for not answering the phones even though I'd had no instructions on what to do if someone was making a booking
- A distressed cat had a tea towel flicked in his face repeatedly by the shit-for-brains blonde girl who was also working there. Making cats upset is funny apparantly.
- Frightened dogs were dragged around by their collars and told to either "f***ing shut up you f**kfaced dogs or I'll deck you" if they barked
- The kennels and cattery were freezing cold and the cats basically had a tea towel or a scrap of carpet to sleep on unless the owner brought something in
- A cat who was desperate to escape would climb the screen door on the outside run and eventually fall onto the concrete below, all while people laughed at her
- The foul owner let her equally foul family come in and paw at the animals with their grubby mitts, which included dragging the shy cats out of their cages and manhandling them
- I was called incompetant for not doing jobs that no one had told me to do. I said I wasn't a bad worker and was basically told that I actually was and was lazy.
- I was yelled at for taking three seconds too long to respond when called, despite the fact I had my head inside a cat cage and didn't hear the first time
- I was taken aside and told I was fired about 3-4 days into it
- Afterwards the owner admitted that she didn't like work experience students

The kicker? She'd made the contract with the school and could have terminated it a while ago, but they still accept students to work there.

You don't know long I've wanted to vent my spleen on this. And now I have. Yay!
(Blue Phoenix, Fri 11 May 2007, 17:35, Reply)