When I was a new babe in the working office world, I started working at a bank. They started everyone out in the Collections Department...basically calling deadbeats for past due bills. They claimed that this would build your character, if you were going to be giving out loans later. I don't know about that, but the situation sure made for a cast of characters that rivaled "The Office".I had a pregnant coworker threatened by a man holding an iron, when she went to his door to collect his past due payment (that's right.....our employer sent pregnant women out to collect door-to-door, but that's another story), I had to drive a hooker home after they repossessed her car, because none of the men would be alone with her. I also had a woman count me out $500 in cash in the worst crime-ridden neighborhood in the city to pay for her past due account. I fully expected to be jumped as I walked to my car, but thankfully was not.
We had no less than 4 different couples in the department having affairs, some married some, not. We had a gruff, biker repo man working for us that no one wanted to talk to, we were all scared of him...but we had to talk to him and pay him. That's just the tip of the iceberg...oh, and ALL the men in the department thought it was their right to go to strip clubs during working hours for lunch, often more than once per week....yes, it wasn't a women-friendly workplace. This was over 20 years ago.
But things haven't changed that much, have they? Tell me all about it.....
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