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What's the worst job you've ever had?
I was a receptionist at a bank for 3 months right after high school and before I left for college. Ugh, I hate it so much!
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The summer after high school, a bunch of friends and I worked at a school supply factory...picking and packing orders. It SUCKED. I quit & went back to lifeguarding.
Why did I do it? The $!
When I was in college I worked for a real estate agent, cold-calling people to see if they wanted to sell their house.....ummm....NO!!!! CLICK!!
That didn't last long....I think about a month...then I went back to my dept. store cashier job....it seemed fabulous after the dang quasi-telemarketing.
Data. Entry. I was a temp one summer in college and it was awful...definitely gave me a reason to keep forging ahead and get my degree!
Dishwasher at a restaurant. Horrible. I started dating the head chef and got promoted in a hurry :P
Definitely working at a fast food place in high school. God Bless the people who work in fast food. The customers are so crazy!!
Reception - so BORING!
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My worst job was working at a pet store (oddly enough, the one I met FI at). It was a lot of fun unless the owner was working because she was my cousin and tended to be kinda hard on me.
Being one of those Greenpeace solicitors. I lasted two days, lol
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I decided to go to a college that my dad worked out. my freshman year he got me a job with campus dining. A couple of nights a week I would swip dining hall cards for students. And 1 night a week i would work in the campus "fast food" place, making sandwiches to order. I hated it so much..I would cry before going and have to come home and shower right away because I would stink. 2nd semester when i was suppose to go back...i just told my dad that i checked with campus dining but all the job were filled...Then I got a job in the bookstore.
OMG - I was a receptionist at a bank too! The worst job I've EVER had!!!
Clothing retail. I worked at Stein Mart right out of high school and it was the WORST thing ever...ugh so many old ladies come into that store!
Concessions at a local pool in highschool! I smelled like grease all summer long even after I had taken a shower. I would scrub my skin raw and still smell like a french fry.
OR
Working one month at build a bear in college. Selling underwear for stuffed bears and talking about "beary special friends" and a "pawfect outfit" drove me insane!
I still don't know which was worse!
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Laundromat.... nothing like spending already-95 degree days in a room with 25 overheating dryers-- temp up to 105 at least, washing other peoples' under-roos. Including Clay Aiken's under-roos. Ugh. Disgusting job.
That said, I don't mind doing my own laundry.
I worked at Tony Roma's as a host. It was awful. I came in to an opening shift one day and all of the doors were locked. I waited for a few minutes, but didn't see anyone inside. I called, the manager answered the phone from her office in the kitchen and then preceeded to yell at me for being late. Seriously?
I finally got fired because they expected me to know everything without any training - hmm, I'll take responsibility for the stuff I'm supposed to know from past jobs and instruction!
The job that replaced Tony Roma's was Disneyland. Not only the best job I've ever had (great people and great when you're in college), I met my FI there.
My first job, I would package hot dogs. Yup yup...
It was cold, I smelt like meat and I hate hot dogs so the gag factor was there.
It was good money for a student, but I only did it one summer.
Puke... lol
I worked at Build-A-Bear for a year in high school. Please don't say, "That sounds like so much fun!" It wasn't. It was absolute hell. It was especially rough for me because, unlike most people who would apply to work in a store like that, I don't like little kids. They make me very uncomfortable. But that just shows you how badly I needed a job at the time.
Haha, Bamboo -- thank you for vouching for how bad BAB is. Funny, I work for a charity now, and I recently saw a donation letter from BAB that including the phrases "beary happy," "lend a helping paw," and "bear hugs." AAAHHH!!!
In the summer after my first year in college I worked at a drycleaners in a really bad part of town. There was never any business and there were always shootings and drug deals outside. It wasn't unusual for someone to come inside seek either medical attention or police assistance.
One day I had 0 customers, and I fell asleep at the counter. I was startled by a noise, jumped up and broke my foot. It was horrible, and I was too embarassed to tell the owners what happened!
Working at a Vans shoe store. I lasted 3 months I think. Good thing I wasn't working for commission, because sometimes I had to spent almost a full hour with one 15 year old customer who couldn't figure out what they wanted.
Now that I have a grown up job, I kinda miss my fast food jobs (I had several). Not much responsibility involved, and not having to spend hours with each customer.
I have had several bad jobs. I worked in a mine as a manual laborer one summer; I worked as a gym receptionist/equipment cleaner while in college; and I was a telemarketer for a shady company cold-calling people for donations for a cause I am morally opposed to.
I am VERY glad to have a good job now, though!
Working in medical records. I'm sorry, but hospitals are full of the meanest, most rude, most unhappy employees I've ever met in my life, including the DMV and post office. Plus it was the most boring thing I've ever had to, ever, to make copies of peoples medical records on my feet all day. Even the customers were miserable and rude (with much better reason than the employees, obviously). Thank goodness I'm doing creative work now, its so much more rewarding.
Detassling!
In the midwest, most kids get stuck with summer jobs out in the fields, pulling tassles off of the corn. Heat + long pants & sleeves + miles of rows of corn = terrible way to spend your summer days!
Being a phone solicitor for my alma mater. I convinced myself that telemarketing for my university wouldn't be so bad, and people would be more receptive to my calls because they were alums--NOPE. I lasted at that job for about a month.
One of my friends in college could always make me laugh by telling a story about how his summer job in high school was a grave digger. Once he fell into an open grave and had to sit on top of the coffin for almost an hour before someone came to help.
As a summer job, I was a leasing consultant at a super crappy apartment complex on campus in college. The places were mediocre at best and the rent was crazy high. I think I was pretty much the only person in the office with half a brain, so I was able to make a lot of commissions. However, I always felt like a jerk when renting the people aparments, knowing that they weren't the best quality.
I actually quit the job 3 times. After each of the first two times, they offered me a raise and better hours, so I stuck it out. However, by the third time, I just couldn't handle it anymore. I didn't even survive the summer!
@ Miss Pinot Grigio: I am a midwestern gal and I had friends that detassled corn.
However, my job was just as terrible. I hoed sugar beets! Yes...an enormous farm field of sugar beets in the thumb of Michigan. Hoe in hand and whacked out weeds all day in the hot summer sun. Lasted all of one day and said "to hell with it."
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I too detasseled one summer when I was 14. Miss Pinot Grigio has it totally right. My (least) favorite part was in the morning wearing garbage sacks because the corn was wet from the morning dew. Then when everything was dry, you definitely had to wear long sleeves or get corn rash. One day, I stupidly rolled up my sleeves so I didn't get a farmers tan. Instead I got an idiot's burn. I ended up getting such a bad sunburn I had a blister the size of a quarter on my shoulder. No fun at all.
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I've never heard of this detassling business? WOW?
I worked at the Picture People for about a month after I graduated high school and I detested wearing that awful safari looking vest and answering the phone saying cheesy and extremely long salutations: EXHIBIT A was something like-'steam on in, our new train set is in here at the Picture People'...on an on something or other about sitting fees and setting an appointment... AND PS-you can't rhyme a word with the same word, Picture People!!! ::FROWN:: ::GRIMACE::
I worked as a legal secretary for about a year... I loved parts of it, but toward the end, I was working ALL the time. I would bring work home with me and draft court documents til I fell asleep with my laptop in bed. I was totally stressed out, and the guy I worked for expected me to draw up all these papers and wanted to be able to just come in, sign and then leave. I realized I wasn't getting paid enough to be putting myself through hell.
Worst job...being a receptionist at a bug/pest company. It smelled and was so dirty all the time. I quit after a week.
Oddly, my current project is at a landfill and even this is not as gross as when i worked at the pest company.
I worked at a department store in the shoe department. As much as I love shoes, I hated the job! Not to mention the stinky feet.....
I've never heard of this Picture People place. I'd probably call just to hear the long greeting. But I guess that would be mean, huh? So maybe I wouldn't.
Bumping this old, old thread because it's fun!
My worst job was working as a receptionist/personal assistant to the director of a nonprofit. She was an awful, awful woman. She refused to learn my name and pronounce it right, and was so demanding, insensitive and rude. And she didn't do ANYTHING. My job was basically to check her email, print it out and bring it to her in her office because she refused to use her computer. And then I stuffed envelopes, make her hair appointments, restaurant reservations, etc. I was basically her bitch.
Also, the girl who I replaced had left with no notice (I don't blame her) and then left the office and the digital files a total shambles.
I cried every night when I got home I lasted just a week. Luckily, another job I'd interviewed for called me and offered me a job so I just never went back.
I felt bad because it was a nonprofit that I did (and still do) believe in, advocate, and support. But I couldn't spend another day with that dreadful woman.
Waitress. Ugh, I hated it. I think I had to be the absolute worst waitress in the world. I don't know how I didn't get fired!
I worked at Picture People too.... and I couldn't handle having to use the "tickle stick" anymore... and that was the end of that! : )
I worked at a pig farm. I more specifically did a lot of AI. After work I would literally change clothes outside of my house because my clothes would smell so bad. I burned all my "pig farm" clothes after.
Custodian at an elementary school.
For three years, I got to scrape boogers off walls and desks, scrub toilets, dump drippy milk trash, sweep hallways, and perform a variety of other joyful cleaning exercises. My boss stalked me in the hallways and watched my movements over security cameras, and my coworkers freaked out if I left behind the tiniest dust mite.
I've also worked on my grandparent's farm planting cabbage at seven in the morning, but that was freaking awesome compared to the custodian gig.
I worked at Bath and Body Works over the holiday season. Soooo insane!
Surrounded by STRONG scents (headached waiting to happen)
Had to wear a random apron and occasionally a cheesy christmas reindeer antler headband :(
Had to upsale (we called it adding "French Fries") at the register when the line was already a mile long AND suggest that they open a charge card! Really people?!??!
Had to accost poor, innocent shoppers and slather them in lotion or spray them with perfumes...poor people...
I could go on and on...
I was a waitress. Some days I absolutely loved it and other days... I would leave in tears!
PLEASE be nice to your waitresses/waiters! That job is A LOT harder than it looks.
I love my job now, but it's hard to choose which is worse...
One was a job i had one summer during college working for a marketing research company, basically doing cold calling for surveys. "Wanna take a survey? NO. Ok." That lasted 2 weeks I think. The only good thing about that was I was young and could just blow it off and get something else instead.
The second is a job I just left last year. With my hard earned college degree it was essentially a data entry job. My boss was great but unfortunately there was nothing she could do to make it any better for me. She tried to help with some of the least interesting aspects of the job by doing some things herself. Unfortunately, the rest of my coworkers were horrible. It's hard to explain how bad it was without going into too much detail....I wouldn't want anyone to find this post. Anyway, I knew it was going to be a bad when I interviewed, and under normal circumstances I would have never accepted the job, but being laid off in a terrible economy pretty mcuh forced me to accept and subsequently was stuck there for over a year. :P
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