The worst job you ever had.
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Telemarketing. I was one of those people you hate. And I hated it. Every. Single. Minute. Lasted 3 1/2 months before I ran out of there, never to look back.
Close second would be New York Fries...fast food joint here in Canada. Job itself wasn't too bad, but my boss was CRAZY. Legit crazy...was refusing to give a woman with blonde hair her money back for a poutine she had ordered because she found a black hair in it. The only person working the fry station that day was my boss, who had black hair. I called her out on it (probably not the smartest idea), she FREAKED out on me and I quit on the spot.
I may complain everyone once in a while about my current job, but it is heaven compared to those two!0 -
The worst job I ever had was working in the Biology Building at Bowling Green State University. I had to incinerate all of the animals used for research and the ones in classes...like fetal pigs, cats, rats, mice. The fetal pigs were the worst because they were packaged with dripping blood, etc and I had to burn it all. The incinerator would only hold so much or it wouldn't burn and sometimes it took me days to get through one shipment. Pretty ripe by the end!!!!0
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I've worked as a cashier at Wal-Mart and IGA, and some of the customers are the worst. I had a guy call me every name under the sun because I asked to see his I.D. when he gave me a check.
The worst customer was one I had at Wal-Mart. I was working on of the express lanes, and I had this little counter rather than a belt. There was a man in line, but he was busy hitting on the woman behind him who was looking rather uncomfortable with the attetion. It was his turn, but he hadn't noticed so I said, "Sir?" He turned, obvously annoyed, and threw two big bags of seed on the counter and a blank check. I scanned the bags, put them in his cart, and looked at the check. It had all the necessary information, so I asked, "For the amount, sir?" Now, I had to ask this since you cash a check for up to $20 more than the amount. He looked at me and snarled, "Of course it's for the amount, stupid. Now shut up! I'm talking!" I just smiled. Anyway who has nothing better to do than to harass a poor Wal-Mart employee has a sadder life than me.
When I was teaching 5th grade I had a mother come into the school to see me. She had a glass of what I thought was just Pepsi until I caught a whiff of her breath. She was mad because I had written up her daughter. This woman actually got in my face telling me how she knew people and was going to get me fired. She even told me that I better be careful walking into the school of the morning because someone may just hit me with a car. Still, I loved teaching even if I hated dealing with some of the parents.0 -
I worked for a company that did billboards for the united states. this was right when the simpsons became big and that was the majority of our work. the boss was an *kitten* as i would soon learn.
i was there for a year and a half and was offered a job literally 2 minutes from my house at a golf course and $3 more per hour. i informed him of my 2 weeks notice and he went off on my. screaming for everyone to hear what an ungrateful son of a ***** i was and that i was a liar and a whole slew of other ****.
not even a month later he was in a speedboat race and wrecked his boat and was severely hurt. it took all i could do not to send a sympathy card calling him an *kitten* and this is what karma does to *kitten*
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my last job was for a health care staffing agency. i was the IT department for them which wasnt so bad. there was only like 20 employees. the owner was a complete *kitten* and the VP wasnt much better. my boss was replaced by an employee who worked there before me and she made it unbearable. i had to argue and basically threaten to quit over not getting a $300 bonus that was in writing should i stay more than a year (it was prorated and while i got the bonus they waited 4 months or so to give it to me). when they said it is "only" 300 i said well thats my car payment. just because i dont make 80-90K a year like you do doesnt make it any less important. She was pissed i knew how much she made, but hey, im the computer guy, i have access to everything.
the owner interviewed me while he ate pizza, the VP couldnt operate excel if she had to add 2 + 2. the server crashed one week and i literally ended up working 96 hours that week to get it all restored and when i said i needed one day off to attend a funeral for my cousins cousin i was told it wasnt that important and it was denied.0 -
I've never had a job I didn't love. There may have been aspects of the job that were less than desirable, but I just didn't focus on those, and looked at the good I was doing.
ETA: You can call me Pollyanna.0 -
Media Assistant (my current job) - I've never hated anyone and wished harm more than I do for my current boss. The work is dull and people are so fake.
This is very interesting to me. 'Back in the day....' ( I hate that expression, but love using it. :laugh: ) when I worked in the mill.... I spent most of my years there, working in the 'machine room' where the paper is actually made. It was a very 'military' style environment, where the machine tender, was the 'lead hand' and he was the top union man on the crew, and had authority over the rest of the crew... the backtender, was the next man down, he had authority over everyone below him, and so on down the line. Some of those guys were such @$$holes..... that i truly hated them. They thrived on making everyone's lives ( below them ) miserable.... and when they screwed up, it caused more work for us 'grunts.' There were several years, where I hated every day of going to work and I hated a couple of those guys I worked 'for,' so much, that I wished they were dead. Since they were a fair amount older than me, I assumed they'd die before I do, and I always planned to p*ss on one guy's grave, right after he was buried.
I've had so many people tell me, how hard it is to carry a grudge... but I always got some real satisfaction out of that hatred. It somehow was the reason I was still able to return to that job every day. I had the same feelings for my brother in law, after they robbed my dad blind for years, and then deserted him, after he had an accident and was no longer any use to them.
The weird thing is.... I just don't seem to be able to continue that same hatred that I did.... and it makes me feel old and weak.
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*ETA* I said for years while working there, and long after the place was gone, that the ONE thing the mill taught me, was how to hate.0 -
8 hour shifts, sitting at a conveyor belt, picking shell out of chopped walnuts. Mind numbing, Soul destroying. £1.87 an hour.
You win :flowerforyou:
I worked in a factory when I first left school. This was just one of the soul destroying jobs. We also had 'date pinging'. This involved emptying a box of chopped dates into a stainless steel trough, picking them up a handful at a time and dropping them. If they made a 'ping' noise against the metal, it was a piece of date stone...it was removed.....on to the next handful. 20kg boxes. 3 boxes an hour. 8 hour shift.
Then there was 'peanut nibbing'. Boxes of peanuts were emptied onto a vibrating grid. The big ones stayed on top and were shaken along until they fell off the end into a box. The small ones fell through the grid into a box. The medium ones lodged in the holes in the grid, you pressed a button and a huge guillotine shot under the grill and 'nibbed' (or chopped) the nuts in half.
A gory story to warn of the hazards of obesity or maybe just stupidity....we had a chap who was pretty big, maybe 300lb. He sat on that grid one lunchtime, to eat his sandwich and his mate pressed that button, just for a laugh, to make him jump. Unfortunately, the guy was wearing shorts and because he was so meaty, his legs had kinda squeezed through the grid so when the guillotine came across, it sliced of hundreds of little chunks of skin from the back of his legs. He bled profusively and had to spend three days in hospital and several weeks with his legs bandaged.
The peanuts were hosed off, re-packed and sent on to a very famous company for their Fruit 'n' Nut chocolate bar. Never eaten one since.
£1.87 an hour
i seriously just threw up in my mouth...0 -
I could say my current job, but (in reality) it was actually telemarketing during college. Such a miserable, thankless "profession". A close 2nd to that was food preparation, working at Boston Market. Nothing scraping coagulated grease from ovens with a razor blade each night we closed. :noway:0
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I have been treated badly by crazy customers at so many retail jobs (especially 4 years working in a supermarket), and I've been kicked and knocked down by clients with autism and other disabilities...but being treated in a rude and condescending manner by my boss (an attorney) at a law firm where I worked was at least 100 times worse than ALL of the other bad treatment combined. I guess when the person is not technically in charge of me, I can just let it roll off. But when an Hermes-clad, plastic surgery disaster is screaming at me on her iPhone I am ready to kill. I had to get out of that job.0
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The worst job I ever had was working in the Biology Building at Bowling Green State University. I had to incinerate all of the animals used for research and the ones in classes...like fetal pigs, cats, rats, mice. The fetal pigs were the worst because they were packaged with dripping blood, etc and I had to burn it all. The incinerator would only hold so much or it wouldn't burn and sometimes it took me days to get through one shipment. Pretty ripe by the end!!!!
My lab rat feeding job was at Central Michigan University... Woot woot, Mid American Conference.0 -
i worked in a paper mill during the summers between college semesters. i got the job there because my dad works there and they had a summer program for the college kids of employees. i was somehow put in "maintenance". right, makes complete sense for a college age female to work in maintenance in a factory. so i spent 8 hour days doing things like sweeping a never ending pile of sawdust blowing in from the wood yard, and getting hit on by old biker type dudes who kept porn magazines in their lunch boxes.
it was smelly, hot, and you could easily die while working there. there were areas of the mill that i was not allowed to go alone or without a gas mask/respirator. luckily, my dad worked in IT, so he had an office that i could escape to and i would often eat lunch with him.
you can see the wood yard pile of chips in the middle of this photo. yes, it's the yellowish thing that's taller than some of the buildings. you can imagine the excessive amount of saw dust it created for me to sweep. the guys i worked with called it "job security"
i got to wear steel toed boots and safety glasses everyday. sometimes ear plugs and a hardhat as well. very cute.
LOL That is great! I am glad you weren't stuck there permanently. I got a huge laugh picturing all of this, especially next to your lovely avatar photo where you remind me of Kate Middleton haha
I work in the offices of a manufacturing plant, which is not anywhere near as rough sounding as that place...and I can't even imagine working out in the plant with the guys.0 -
I had a temp job once in the summer between university years working in a factory that made stereo speakers. Putting all the little parts together killed your fingers plus it was mind-numbing and everyone ignored me. I think I lasted there one day & refused to go back.0
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Water specialist...according to my title.
You know those drawings for cars and such in the mall? Those little slips go to a big information center, and someone in your area will call you telling you that you've won a free vacation and a water test as a bonus. Then I show up, test your water, make you think your family is going to die if you don't buy a water purification/water softener system, then when you give me a hard time, I throw in a year's worth of houeshold cleaners, body wash, shampoo and other cleaners. Then, for enduring a 45 minute + presentation, I give you a 2 day voucher to one of our "exclusive resorts" which may or may not be within driving distance. The same "exclusive resorts" they send people to for timeshare presentations.
It was awful. I've been met at the door with shotguns, and very large dogs. i've been lost for hours because my directions included "2nd left at the soybean field".
The worst was it was commission based salary. I made 15% of the $4000 unit. There was a provision that if you did 40 appointments in a month without a sale, you would get a $2500 check, but the office never scheduled anyone for more than 30.
I did it for 2 months while I was on unemployment and then got a real job.0 -
Worked two summers at the only public pool in my area. It catered to three inner-city regions.
(1) We shut down 1-2 pools per day due to feces. Or vomit. I saw an adult poop in a pool once. One lady started her period in the pool. They didn't close it. I had to approach her and tell her. It was super embarrassing to tell someone "Ehem, ma'am, you have something on your leg."
(2) Somehow, people got HAND PRINT SHAPED poop stains on the walls. It was cinder block. I had to scrub until it was all out of the crevices.
(3) We were in a state park. Found multiple footlong snakes in pools, in the bathrooms, etc. There was a bat in the toilet once that flew up at someone while she was sitting down. And the 1.5' pile of bat feces on top of the lockers in the bathroom was terrifying.
(4) People are disgusting. Pads in the shower, pads floating in the pools, blood EVERYWHERE. Trash EVERYWHERE. Took an hour to clean some nights.
(5) Our break room wasn't locked. People walk in there and steal your stuff. Because they're ratchet.
(6) No shade. We worked 10 hour days, with 20 minute breaks every hour. We couldn't be on our phones on break. Had to sit on the side and watch the pool. Some days, with no shade, it got in to the 120's heat index. STILL wouldn't let us sit down.
(7) I got yelled out by countless people who weren't happy that I yelled at their child. For something like pushing another child down some stairs. Or threatening time out with kids were warned 3-4 times to quit running.
(8) Someone pooped right behind me on the pool deck once. Didn't tell me. Kept walking. Someone else stepped in it and tracked it across the pool deck. Yeah.
(9) CREEPY men who wanted me to go home with them. #FML
ETA: (10) There was NEVER chlorine in the pool. Even when we shocked the pools, the shock would only last a short time. The chlorine pumps never worked. Health inspector came, figured it out, made us shut down one of the pools. It was reopened the second he left. (NASTY). Also. I got screamed at REPEATEDLY for doing water tests and mentioning there was no chlorine in the pool to park ranger boss. He also tried to sleep with all the female employees.0 -
I'm not sure I can compete with some of these on the disgust factor, but the moral factor... I worked for a finance company, doing high-interest rate loans to people who couldn't afford to pay us back. I had to "repo" a dog one time that someone paid $800 for. When I went to their house to pick up the dog, they asked if I could come back when their 3 y/o kid wasn't home. I asked the lady to just give me $50 and we'd call it even, but she insisted on giving me the dog. Kid crying and holding her leg. Why would anyone think that they needed to spend $800 on a dog? and then decide to have it repo'd in front of their kid?0
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I had to add a job that was the best and worst.
I worked for a medical pre-certification company. People/hospitals would call us to authorize procedures and hospitals stays. When I started working there as a receptionist, I quickly learned it was a great group of women who were all very close. They promoted from within and there were lots of sisters, parent/child employees. The owner started the company in her basement and grew it to over 5 locations and 200+ employees. She gave each employee 3 paid half-days off to use each summer. It was fantastic and I actually looked forward to going to work each day..
When the owner hit 70, she decided to sell the company to retire. The man she sold it to owned a company that designed computer programs for hospitals. He was pretty charming at first so I have no doubt he made lots of promises of taking care of her company. As it turns out, wanted to use our company as a guinea pig to test a system he wanted to sell to hospitals. He was an immigrant to the US and from a culture that has very little respect for women. Within the first 6 months, almost half of the employees were fired. I witnessed him call a woman a slur for Hispanic and told her she was too fat to work for him.
He bought brand new office decor and conference room furniture, as well as a company range rover (they already had one and he and his wife drove $70k cars). Our paychecks stopped being deposited. Every got fed up and switch to paper checks, many days he wouldn't bring them on payday, a few times they would bounce. He switched paydays on us 3 times and to this day there is still a full week that we were not paid for. I had some medical and dental bills come back as out of pocket and found out insurance had refused to pay as the premiums had not been paid. He took money out of my check for almost a year and pocketed the money rather than applying it to our policies.
I was thankful when I got this job and was able to send him an F you email and walked out. He tried to withhold my last paycheck and when I threatened to sue, he told me he was going to fire me eventually anyway. I got the last paycheck but never got back any money he stole from my benefits.
Enough employees eventually turned him in that he went bankrupt paying fines to many state and federal employment agencies. I was pretty happy to learn that. Most of us women have had semi annual gatherings and meet up for dinner. All of us stay in touch. There are a few who still have not replaced jobs and it is sad to see them struggle. Miss the original place a ton!0 -
When I was 13 worked at a racehorse track, the job was a lot of fun. But I had to help with the horses being put down, that was so sad because I spent a lot of time with the horses.
That's something I wanted to do for a long time, and I love horse racing, but the sport is so dangerous for the horses it makes my heart hurt.
(And to think I'm in Emergency Medicine now for PEOPLE. Psh.)
Ahhh, yes. The difference is that many (most?) of the calls you respond to are self-inflicted by the human you are trying to save (morbidly obese heart attack victim, drunk-driving MVA, domestic violence / fight victims, etc ) Humans often put themselves in harms way and make REALLY stupid decisions. Yes, many accidents are just that...and you feel really bad for those folks (I do, anyway) but MOST people....very little empathy because there seems to be so little personal responsibility anymore.
I can remain pretty "professionally distant" with most patients....something I was never able to do as a vet tech and zoo keeper. Most injuries to animals occur at the hands or, or due to the negligence of, humans....and that used to just piss me off to no end. It's why I'm not a veterinarian now.
I agree completely. I have a stomach of steel for human related mishap, but I see and animal in pain and my world falls apart.0 -
Paperboy. Little to no pay, worked 7 days a week. People that didn't pay for their paper still got to complain about not getting it and rack up negative "complaints". I'm not surprised at all that kids no longer deliver them...0
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I have been treated badly by crazy customers at so many retail jobs (especially 4 years working in a supermarket), and I've been kicked and knocked down by clients with autism and other disabilities...but being treated in a rude and condescending manner by my boss (an attorney) at a law firm where I worked was at least 100 times worse than ALL of the other bad treatment combined. I guess when the person is not technically in charge of me, I can just let it roll off. But when an Hermes-clad, plastic surgery disaster is screaming at me on her iPhone I am ready to kill. I had to get out of that job.
Working for an attorney for me too. Mine was a male. He and his wife were awful. They killed my self esteem for a while. The best part was at our firm holiday party when he got drunk and pilled-up and tried to pull my dress off. Other than him, the work was mind-numbing. Scanning documents into the server for 7+ hours a day. So glad I quit!0 -
Debt collector for a lending company. I hated it. The company was a predatory lender. Most of my accounts were elderly people who only had income of less than $1000 per month and they had been signed up for this loan by a door to door account rep with a monthly payment of $400-$500. I sucked at this job. When people told me they couldn't pay that payment and buy their meds, I told them to buy their meds and hung up. I couldn't handle it there.0
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