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So bees, what would you consider the worst job you ever had?
Mine is a toss up between babysitting in high school for a family with 2 kids M-F from 3pm-7pm..and I got paid $60. Seriously!! I even knew then I was being ripped off. These kids were monsters too, they would act out scenes from pokemon on the trampoline..NAKED!!! So awkward..
My other horrible job was at Forever 21. Seriously, the worst job EVER!! I was a keyholder there and the hours were especially terrible for retail. I worked there before anyone knew we were heading into a recession and the owners/district managers tried to blame us that we werent making sales. Also I was working in an outdoor mall and got the most HORRIBLE eczema like rashes up and down my arm. That was the longest 2 months of my life. I eventually got tired of my manager talking trash to the high school girls about me and threw my keys at her and walked out.
Mine was working as a waitress at Johnny Rockets.
The managment was a stickler for making happy faces with ketchup and us just dropping everything that we're doing as soon as a specific song came up so that we'd do our dancing and singing number.
I'm a very soft spoken and it was very difficult for me to carry my voice in a restaurant.
This place was gross.... I had seen several roaches while working there. (Crawling close to food) Some customers even saw the roach and the manager had to give them a free meal.
Finally... the hours sucked! Even though the restaurant closed at 11PM... I'd come home close to 2AM because we had to stay and clean after hours.
Call center working for boost mobile its a pre paid phone so aparently that means no one has to be nice to the workers... I hated having to take those stupid calls and the fact people would call in trying to give fake card numbers I would want to scream at people some times your card number is 16 numbers long and never starts with a 1,2,6,7,8,or9 and people who dont even know where to find the routing/checking number on a check...
Call center customer service for JC Whitney Automotive. Never knew a person would get so mad over getting a seat cover late :/
Working at a shoe store in a mall - it was so mind-numbingly dull, it was unbelieavable. I used to write out how long my shift was in 15-minute intervals and cross them out just so I'd have something to do. I would internally cheer whenever a customer came and prayed that they'd be demanding just so I'd have something to keep me occupied. I knew I had to quit after I started hating shoes. Never working retail again ever unless I absolutely have to.
Strangely, I found that job worse than working at a video store where some woman let her kid vomit all over the Children's Section DVDs (thanks lady) and where we once caught a man with uh....his hands down his pants in the Adult Section as he browsed the titles (why he couldn't just rent one and do that in the privacy of his home I'll never know). Oh and the adult DVDs that came back sticky... yeah... that sucked.
Working at starbucks during uni.
'Can I have a grande, skinny, wet, one shot, sugar free caramel latte with whip...?'Argh!
I became a tea drinker shortly after I left.
@MsNarwhal: My worst job is actually Forever 21 too.
It was awful. I only worked there for 3 weeks and then couldn't take it anymore. I was the only white girl that worked there that wasn't management and so I constantly had the other employees calling me rude racial slurs. The company policies are terrible. The store is always a mess and you are there until 1am because you have to straighten every rack. Our DM was a huge bitch. Ugh. Nope. I was working there as a favor to an old manager of mine from Victoria's Secret who had just taken over the store as Store Manager, but I went in a told her I was sorry, but I was bailing. From what I heard, she bailed shortly after that too.
Mine was being a lifeguard at a community pool. Okay, before you say anything, yeah it was a pretty cool summer job - I got to sit outside in the sun all summer. We got breaks every hour. And free food at the snack bar? Score! I may have gained 10 lbs each summer. BUT this became the worst job ever when the poop bandit appeared. Yes, someone, not a little kid, kept pooping in the pool. Multiple times (10 or so?), over a period of a couple of weeks. Every time someone pointed out the poop, the pool had to be shut down for 24 hours, and a lucky lifeguard had to go underwater and retrieve the goods. Since I was head lifeguard at the time, that lucky person was usually me. So, poop patrol was my worst job EVER.. I did not get paid enough for that sh*t (literally).
Working in a fast food chain restraurant on the counters just taking orders, pressing till buttons and handing them their food - awful and stressy!
I certainly appreciate anyone who does it for a living now! It's hard and fast paced, and just repetitive.
Working at a particular deli for a month. They treated me like I was their slave.
I was interviewed and hired on the spot. I explained to them that I go to school on Tuesdays and Thursdays (at the time) so I would like those two days off. The job was from 4-8:30. Not bad for a college student who would work 4-5 days a week just for extra cash. Anyways, they agreed to give me off those two days. Well here came the problems:
I worked at Payless in college. It sucked- mostly because of the customers. I had people scream at me over a $9 pair of shoes. Nice.
My first job after college. I graduated in Nov. and my loan payments started in May. By April I was getting desperate, finding a job was so hard with the recession. I finally found a job 1 1/2 away from me...at a call center. I was supposed to sell auto insurance over the phone. All people cared about was the number next to your name on the wall, we were undertrained. I spent the whole day getting yelled at by strangers on the phone, people are SO much more mean over the phone. If you were not meeting your numbers (which I almost never was because I am not pushy) they expected you to stay late. They hated that I never did but I was already putting in 12 hour days. It was such a poorly run business. I was miserable and became depressed. It lasted 5 months and I got layed off which was the best thing that could have happened. A month later I got my current job which I LOVE.
Working at Marshalls.... no matter how many times I folded those sweaters people would always come and throw them around
I worked as a hostess in a large chain restaurant as my first job...it wasn't horrible every day but I have a lot of respect now for people working in restaurants! It was so much harder than I thought it would be, and honestly, I was not very good at it.
Customers would get incredibly angry over everything. On my first day I sat a woman by herself and she mentioned she was waiting for someone. Her friend must have come in when another hostess was seating and the friend was convinced she was there first and didn't want to look around for the rest of her party. The first lady realized they'd been seated separately while she'd been waiting and she absolutely bit my head off. She was screaming at me for 10 minutes and I had no clue what to do, especially since it was my first day.
I was awful at taking to-go orders, too, It was so embarrassing--I had a college degree but I couldn't seem to take the phone order while putting the orders into the computer. People would ask for the total and I'd panic because I wasn't done, and I was forever running to the kitchen with corrections to the many mistakes I'd made inputting the orders. I would get incredibly stressed out about it, haha--probably more stressed than I ever get now over my full time job!
The only amazing thing was during Sunday brunch, at the end the hostesses would get to take turns eating from the giant pan of caramel rolls...that almost made it worth it, but not quite!
Old Navy. It wasn't so bad when I was working the logistics shift (unloading the truck, unwrapping merch, stocking the sales floor). I could usually get away with being the one to open and sort the merch into carts for the rest of the team to stock. The only crappy part of that was that the logistics shift was 4am-1pm, because 4am was when the truck came.
But I HATED working a regular sales shift, especially closing, because no matter how often we went through and cleaned up, the clearance section was ALWAYS knee-deep in clothes by the end of the night. And when they have the 50% off clearance sale? Shoot me. It would take us hours to hang everything back up and fold it. And the customers at our store were so freaking rude.
And they worked my schedule just enough so that I couldn't qualify for F/T hours, because there was a corporate-mandated limit on how many F/T employees each store could have, and we were already at that number. So I would usually work 35 hours a week so that I wouldn't be F/T, and therefore couldn't get benefits. Even though I usually ended up working O/T anyway.
I liked most of the people I worked with, but that was it.
I have to say my college program internship at Walt Disney World. Now, the whole internship (outside of work) was a blast! I was cross trained in two positions at the Magis Kingdom, I worked at the Columbia Harbor House as a busser then I was up at the front of the park working as a park greeter.
My job at the Columbia Harbor House was horrible, cleaning up after slobs was not fun at all. People would leave their trash on the table, half eaten food, spilled drinks, smashed french fries eveywhere. And I worked Thanksgiving/Christmas...you'd think that people would be nicer since it's a holiday..oh hell no! They were awful! Then we would have to put the trash down this machine called an avac which smelled awful and when it would get backed up we would have garbage everywhere. This was of course behind the scenes so it wouldn't ruin the "disney magic"
The front of the park was even worse. I remember so many times when the park would be filled to capacity and I had to turn people away they would swear at me and try and jump over the turnstlye! I worked on Christmas Day, and of course the park was filled to capacity within the first hour, I had a guest push me and swear at me...Merry Christmas! Oh and when guests that were staying at the Disney hotels would come to the park for extra magic hours and they're tickets wouldn't work and I had to send them back to their hotel to get new ones..that was fantasic!!! lol. I will say that the whole time on the internship I learned A LOT about people and customer service but for making 6.45 an hour plus disney making us pay rent for having to live on their property no thanks!
Side note: I still LOVE Disney even though I know everything that goes on behind closed doors :)
I am going to have to say Circle K over night shift. OMG. Horrible. Dangerous, dirty, just plain nasty. Had a customer puke all over the only bathroom on Cinco de Mayo....FML. I would struggle to stay awake every single night.
Absolutely terrible.
@missfroggy: DH worked as a night manager at a gas station when he was younger, and once had a gun pulled on him. His favorite story, though, was when a guy walked in and lit a cigarette. DH told him "Sir, you can't smoke it here" and the guy goes "You mean you sell cigarettes, but you can't smoke in here?" to which DH replied "Sir, we also sell condoms...." He has a ton of ridiculous stories from working there.
But the vomiting part reminded me of my MOH. She worked at Starbucks for a couple years, and one night, it was just her and one other barista, and they noticed that someone had been in the bathroom for a while. They knocked on the door, and the person wouldn't come out, and neither of them had a key. So after like 2 hours, they called the cops to break the door down (their store was right across the street from a police station). They find a homeless woman crouched in the corner in her own excrement on the floor. And the shit wasn't just on the floor, it was ALL OVER the floor, and the toilet, and the walls. She said it looked like a brown bomb went off in there.
They took the woman away, but a coin flip decided that MOH had to CLEAN that entire bathroom that night. So gross. We were staying with her at the time, and she came in, white as a sheet, and proceeded to spend the next hour in the shower.
First job after college graduation. My student loan payments were hurdling towards me and I got really desperate. I applied to jbos in a different city and finally got a call to work in a call center for a power company. I got the job and DH had to find a new job and we had to move to a new city. After two months of training we got put out on the floor and I found out how much I hated it. People were so rude when they called, always upset, always trying to cheat the system, screaming about how high their bills were because they kept their thermostat at 60 degrees in 90 degree heat. It was ridiculous. I would call DH on my breaks in tears, come home crying. To make matters worse he hated his new job too so I had all this guilt about leaving our city to move so I could actually have a job. Finally after a month of actually doing the job I quit and two weeks later was hired at my current job which I LOVE so much. DH quit his job a few months later and now we are so happy we moved but that first few months here were hell.
A factory that makes plastic cutlery, cups etc...at first the job was super easy, piece of cake got paid really well.
THEN
the machine I use to work on in the brand new building broke down and it was gonna take 2-4 months to get in and fix.... so they sent me to an older building to work a totally different job.... The old machines are over 30 years old... worked when they want to and the building itself was really old and run down.It had NO air conditioning so in the summer it would often get 125 degrees in there with the heat outside and all heat from the machines inside. They would have you running 4 machines which spit out 185 cups a minute. You had to watch the machines to make sure they are working- make sure the ink wells stay full inside the machine- tape together boxes- load the cups in the box once they came through the bagger- tape boxes, add print label, stack boxes for pallet driver- checking 10 cups from all 4 machines every hour for holes, bad print etc..... ALL AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was seriously impossible to keep up. I would come home crying cause I was so hot and exhausted and mad that I couldnt keep up so I quit. WORST JOB EVER.
I HATED being a waitress. I was horrible and felt bad for my customers. The restaurant I worked in was a great place to work, but waitressing just isn't for me!
Mine was cleaning bathrooms for Fed Ex. It was one of the first real jobs I had and my supervisor was a terrible lady who would always appear like she was doing nothing, and try to keep me on my toes. I did so much back breaking work and only got minimum wage. I only lasted there for about 1 week before quitting.
Working at a grocery store- worst ever and I absolutely hated getting carts. And being yelled at by customers- it wasn't my fault!
Now this other one- I actually enjoyed the job- taking care of a 3-6 month old for the summer. However I worked 40 hours a week 30 minutes there 45-1 hour back for $120. They were old family friends and I was under the assumption that it was kind of a favor and it was under the table. Then at the end of the year they try to tell me I need to file for self employment so they can claim it on their taxes. Umm no, I didn't save for that- I was a college student, plus I didn't make my own hours- according to law nanny's should be paid at least minimum wage and just like any other job a portion of my taxes should have been put away. I was pissed.
Long story short- won't make assumptions anymore and will require better wages if I ever do that again.
My worst job was at a daycare. I LOVED the kids. The owner, not so much. She had camera's set up with the feed going to her house, so she would sit at her house and watch us. Then calling if we did something she didn't like. For example, one of the kids fell and started crying (he was 2) so I picked him up to console him, she literally called as I was picking him up to yell at me for it. Apparently, it's against the law to pick up kids at a daycare. I said "how do you put babies on the changing table!?!?!" Her response "They crawl up the stairs" That's safe! Uggg Needless to say, I called in for a meeting with her, let her have it, then walked out so her large arse could work!
@hthesken: I have never heard that you can't pick up kids- that sounds silly.
@2bMrsG: I actually have a similar job right now, I LOVE it. I've been there almost 2 months. I clean offices at night. The bathrooms are pretty terrible, but I make my own hours. It's easy work. Only one time I had someone shat in the trash can AFTER filling the toilet and NOT flushing. My boss said that if it happened again, he was charging extra and I was getting a bonus! SCORE!
@accorn: I agree. I actually called in to local colleges and asked if that was true, it of course wasn't. There wasn't much I could do though. She owned the place. It closed down shortly after I left.
Grocery store check-out clerk, for sure. Beep beep beep BEEP BEEP BEEP. I heard it in my sleep. Sooooooo boring. And we got yelled at for talking to other employees. I'm sorry but you hire a bunch of teenage girls to check and a bunch of teenage boys to bag. What do you think is going to happen?! I hated it. Only lasted like 3 months.
After that I worked in restaurants (host or server) at 3 different places for the next 5 years and it was sooo much better. I'm always surprised when people hate restaurant jobs because in my experience they are better money than most anything else you can do while going to school, you get to work and chat with a bunch of other people your age all day, and the job is just not that hard.
My worst job was working for a married couple who ran their own business. They accused me of doing drugs (I didn't), they refused to train me, the wife hated me and the husband was a doormat. It. Was. Horrible.
I lasted a month. Towards the end I just stopped working. I told the wife "If you don't want to train me, I'm not sure what I am still doing here." So she fired me and I got unemployment and enjoyed my summer off 
My family still laughs about it!
It's funny bc I've worked retail and been a waitress which are both horrible jobs, but my worst job by far was my second 'career' job as a business development manager for an insurance company. The corporate culture was so bad, you wouldn't even believe me if I told some of my horror stories. It was a total boys club top down and people only got promoted if they knew the right people, it did not matter if you did a good job at all. The managers were all total jokes and so self-important and constantly went on power trips that involved calling an employee into their office, closing the door and berating them for something totally mundane. I used to be so scared to go to work, especially for my 9:00am monday morning meeting every week.
There were so many secrets there. Everywhere you looked there was a closed door meeting and I feel like if things started to get 'normal', the managers would have a closed door meeting then come out a week later and announce a bunch of changes that didn't make sense. Like they would take my best clients away from me for no good reason and give them to some other employee. Just to show that they could. There were so many pointless positions, people who literally didn't do anything but probably got paid over $200K. Just because they knew the right people..
Oh and events were the worst. I would constantly have to go to all-night events and be the last one to leave or else I would get a long talking-to/berating the next day from my manager. There were at least 2 events a week and they were always with different customers so people would stay out until at least 1:00am. It was a total nightmare!
AT my current job, I am getting paid 20% more and treated like a human being. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world!!
i worked in the storeroom at goodwill for three months. the people i worked with were nice enough, even the managers, most of the time. (except for the store manager, lol. she was a total b*tch.) the job itself SUCKED. we had to take the donations and sort through them, pricing whatever could be sold and chucking the rest of it (except for the clothes...apparently they do something with the clothes they can't sell, recycle it somehow). it was awful. it wasn't uncommon to open up a trash bag only to find that the person who "donated" it got the trash bag with their clothes in it mixed up with their actual trash. you'd come across all sorts of gross things. someone donated a bag of clothing that had maggots in it. i mean, how dirty does the stuff have to be to get maggots? it was NASTY. and it was hard work too. at one point we had a pile of donations literally to the ceiling (and it was like a 25' ceiling, being the store room), and the store manager came in to bitch us out about it daily about how we had to "do something about it" because it wasn't safe and she'd get busted if a surprise inspection was pulled. well sorry lady, we can only sort through it so fast, and there's only so much room back here. plus the stuff was HEAVY and we were constantly hauling it around. me being taller than everyone else (there wasn't a single guy that worked there), i usually got elected to do most of that. i hated that job.
I worked at a payday loans place, similar to Money Mart.
WORST.JOB.EVER.
You got paid more, based on if you had return customers that would pay back their loan and take out another in the same day. It was terrible.
I felt like a loan shark, and it broke my heart to be giving people payday loans for 2000 dollars - when their weekly check was that much, but because they had to come pay back their last loan, and it cost them 2000 to pay that back.. their entire cheque was gone... and they needed another.
I couldn't hack it anymore. It literally made me sick at night. Worked there for 2.5 years during my Undergrad.
@CorgiTales: I agree...I loved serving. Less hours, time flew by and great tips. Couldn't make that much money doing anything else at the time. (Well legally, anyway! lol) I loved it.
Worst job was working for a focus group company. I had to cold call people and ask them if they wanted to participate in an upcoming focus group. I either got screamed at to never call them again or I had to ask them a bunch of screening questions to see if they could be in our focus group. BORING! "How often would you say you use......1)Always 2) Sometimes 3) Rarely 4) Never.....oh my gosh, I wanted to just shoot myself. LOL I only stayed there 2 months!
@Nicoley1985: Ewwwwwwwww, the poop bandit!!
My worst job ever was at a PJs pet store when I was maybe 18. I was put in the puppy department, despite my dislike of dogs (I'd applied to "small animals") and it was the worst place I've ever worked and a real eye opener. The animal abuse that goes on in pet stores was enough to make me write a disgusted letter to the manager and get the hell outta there in less than a month. The smell....and the sick animals...and then the SECRET sick animals kept in "the back"....the small animal babies being taken from their mothers after only a couple of days and being left in a cold, starving pile (again, in "the back") to become snake food.....ugh. That part was so horrible and I cried. Some of the girls used to take the biggest (but still way too tiny to be away from it's mother) baby rats and try to hand-raise them but they usually just died. They locked up the cage in a wooden box after I wrote my letter so that no one could see it anymore.
:'(
I think it's a tie
1. Working for a summer camp run out a private girls' boarding school. To put it in perspective- the tuition for the school was more than what I pay now for private university (I think it was 40k when I was at the camp). The staff were mostly ex campers/students and most had entitlement issues. I was a barn assistant and I had instructors dump their lessons me because they couldn't "handle it". You had to be a legal adult to teach and I was 17, not that they trained their instructors to teach regardless. I ended up with emotional scaring because of an incident the last night and caution anyone thinking about that camp from going there. The camp I volunteered at taught girl scouts more in a Saturday than what the girls learned in the 3 weeks they were at the other camp.
2. Working at Hershey's visitor center. I worked in the 3Dtheatre where people would dump dirty diapers and half eaten food (we don't allow food or drink). I was bitten and punched, and not always when dressed up in costume, sometimes it was in normal people clothes! I was also regularly called a man/boy. The manager was pretty awful and never answered emails so we would get scheduled for days we shouldn't have been.
I did get to see how genuinely stupid people can be- we argued with a lady about how to get to "Chocolate World", we were standing in the lobby where it is on a giant sign in lights hanging from the ceiling, on the floor in a mural, and on the speakers as you walk in.
I worked at a cancer research lab at a university and my job was to care for 350 cancer-ridden, oozing, exploding rats.
When they died (sometimes they exploded from built up gasses) I had to bag and tag them.
I had to walk half an hour, go through security and have a secret password just to get INTO the place. It was horrid.
When I took the job I had no idea about all the other "stuff" that went on in that lab. i was just happy to be making 2x minimum wage out of highschool, and to be working for a famous doctor.
WORST.JOB.EVER.
An Oncologist here in town. He was the definition of a 2 year old tyrant.
I was hired on as the MA and then found out I was also the Medical Records manager. I was there 3 mths, and it's the only job I've left where I gave no notice... just an "I won't be here tomorrow here's my hand-written letter of resignation"
He and his NP used to have yelling matches down the halls while I had patients in the room (no joke).... One day he'd come in all happy and fine, and the next he would be throwing charts at the girls in the office. It was TERRIBLE!... I was not allowed to work on Fridays b/c they closed clinic early... even though we had literally multiple reams of paper worth of records come in daily (sometimes a foot stack)... always double patients... and was required to not file records until AFTER we closed "clinic". <-- and this was a task I was not aware of until AFTER I was hired.
Lets just say that I was there longer (in that position) than anyone else they've EVER had... they have a listing every 6 weeks or so, and everyone I worked with then has since left thankful that they survived.
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