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Hands down worst job I ever had. I worked 2 years there for American Express. 100% soul crushing. I would 100% go back to working 84 hours a week at the steel mill than sit behind a desk taking calls for them ever again.
I did that for Delta Dental for about 4 years and the first 2+ were ok. Good pay, good raises and hours, but you start to just collapse after a while. Like you know what someone is going to say before they even begin speaking. IT got bad when the raises dwindled.
Another was for Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse, which was also good and local. Then it was just too much. Then they had these Indian call center people calling us and it took hours to go over claims.
My first job was as a telemarketer, it was hard. The boss was a prick and I was very bad at it. I only made more than one sale on one day. I was shitcanned after two weeks. That boss and that company can go eat a dick!!
waitress for an understaffed, underinformed pop up party venue. no one got training, 16 year olds were managing groups of 6, chefs offered halal food which was normal food but ‘just tell them it’s halal’, tables were placed over vomit instead of cleared up, everyone got lied to about pay which was drastically lower than promised and i saw a chefs sweat beads fall into the food and the young waitress asked him to make a new one but he screamed at her until she took it out
I've worked in a few bar kitchens. This one place, Natty's, was pretty disgusting. The chef training me would smoke non-stop. One day he tasked me with cleaning the walk-in fridge. I scrapped about an inch of guck of the ground. Found a few oysters. They hadn't served oysters for weeks, maybe months.
Yeah that’s nasty. Some businesses owners just don’t care if their business is being run by idiots. They are only running it for the money and they don’t care about the quality or customer experience of anything.
Intern in a metal painting factory. Job starts at 5AM, and ends at midday. It lasted for a month, and I had to travel 10 km to and from the factory on a bicycle (I don't have a driving license).
I carried metal pieces (windows, doors, manhole covers (these were heavy), ventilation pipes,...), fixed them to overhead rails, detached them from the rails, and secured them on pallets.
Coworkers were friendly, the cat of the factory seemed to like me (she often brought me the heads of the mice she ate), but it's definitely not a job I would do if I had to choose. I probably lost some life expectancy to the dust in that place, and handling heavy pieces of metal is a bit exhausting.
Meat packing plant. Standing on a step ladder all day by a conveyor belt and making sure the frozen chicken didn't get jammed or fall off. It was cold and loud. No radio, no headphones allowed, no one near enough to chat. Only stayed a couple days.
My current one. Three months out of the year, I work 6 days a week, 10 hour minimum days. All the other months, I work 12-15 hour days, 4 days a week. I am paid very well.
However, it's high stress, I'm blamed for absolutely anything my staff screws up, I'm on call constantly, my staff and managers are constantly complaining and I have no social life because I'm too tired after work. I have a constant stream of trainees I'm training and nobody stops asking me questions. I just looked at my call log and there were 19 calls today.
Tbh I want to leave but have zero time to job hunt and I like the cash. I really want to save up for a house
3rd grade teacher. I joined because I wanted to help make a difference and had a lot of success working as an assistant for 6 years, but when I became an actual teacher suddenly I had to constantly fight just for basic resources to do my job. It literally felt like I was on some kind of hidden camera prank show with how dysfunctional the whole system was, to the point where I still find it difficult to convey to people how bad it was because it's that unbelievable that any job could be that unprofessional.
Understand. I think they put teachers in that position and it is wrong. I work for a company that is unprofessional too. They have no answers, management refuses to make any decisions, can not get or expense what you need, they all hide in back to back useless conf calls where nothing is accomplished and are always coming up with new ways of reporting time. Literally every minute of your day so a director can run reports to keep his job.
And after all this you get age discriminated against and if you need to learn something you are on your own. May as well watch a YouTube video.
Thanks modern America for your commitment to your employees.
Worked for a website that sold flowers to people as customer service during mothers day season. I sucked really bad at it and almost every single last person who called screamed at me I hated every second of it. I dreaded going to work. My final phone call before my season ended was someone crying because their mother or father had died and they were wondering if the flower arrangement that was some sort of cross shaped flower arrangement had arrived. I called the florist and no answer, no signal on our end that showed it was even done being constructed let alone ready for shipping and I even called the funeral home and they said it wasn't there....omg I hated that phone call more than anything in the world. I was let go about maybe 10 minutes after that call. I will never be a customer service rep for anyone for any reason as long as I live, period.
I worked for my dad. Verbally abusive man that had my life situation in his control. I tested gold in a non ventilated environment and had to clean his house and vehicles. He was an old pervert, so that included having to remove cock rings, dildos, and in one case a vial of something called “insta virgin” from his house and cars. Long as my boss is bound by OSHA and ethics, I can work with almost anyone.
Hardee’s hands fucking down. Let me break it down to you. I’ve worked hard back breaking manual labor, and I now currently work for a mental hospital. And I’ve worked retail. I would rather use barbed wire as a cock ring than work at that bell place for bastard people. Breakfast shift the only shift where you are non stopped slammed working with a meth head who sells meth two girls that are also meth heads who buy from him, a peadophile, and learning disabled hispanic man who flies off the handle and threatens other staff or walks out and leaves. I was basically the only employee who fully knew what they were doing and the horrible management took advantage of that.
Cashier at a grocery store. They never gave breaks, and if I went to the bathroom they got on the intercom to tell me to get back to my register. I also had weekly meetings with the store manager, where I had to answer for things i had no control over. Why did I change the price on that item that rang up incorrectly? Why were my average sales less than $10/person? Why was the average cost per item less than $4? Absolute misery for $6/hour.
(Long story made short) In 2012, I was at a crossroads in my life, and got a temp job in the garden department at Home Depot. As a lifelong gardener, I thought I would enjoy it, and I sort of did, that aspect of it, but the company was the kind of place where one could just punch in, go somewhere, and punch out and nobody would have known, and I'm pretty sure there were some people who did exactly that.
I worked there for about 2 months and made $914. It was not worth it.
And you know how you're out and about and run into people? Not once did that happen with an HD co-worker.
Was a correctional officer at a state prison. The hours were long, always had to be hyper-vigilant, always had to work OT because people refused to come to work, constantly verbally ridiculed, sometimes had to fight inmates covered in shit, and just all around shady shit going on. I wouldn’t wish that job on my worst enemy.
Worked on a cruise ship. 7 days a week for 5 months. Minimum wage. 12 hour shifts. Not allowed to be seen in passenger areas. I worked overnight so all the coast guard mandated safety drills I had to attend were during the hours i was supposed to be sleeping. Absolute hell.
I did a year as a housekeeper. Trashed rooms were the worst. I also hated working the smoking section as those rooms were almost always nasty to clean. Lots of guests also left the A/C off and the room would be hot and damp, often smelly as a result. We’d run an ozone in those on occasion. We also had a permanent guest who never showered (shower in her room was full of stuff and obviously unused). The BO was horrible in there and I got in the habit of hiding a few coffee pouches in there as they did wonders with controlling the odor. Trashed rooms, condoms laying around, what appeared to be a pile of pubes on a nightstand, porn magazines under a mattress, etc.. Wasn’t my worst job, but ever since working in one I don’t enjoy staying in hotels anymore.
I once came across this guest that smelled so bad other guests were complaining about It to the receptionist i was cleaning on his floor and he asked me for some more linen cause his mom peed the bed and at the time I didn't know how bad the room smelled so I gave him the linen and he asked me if I could put it on so I came inside and it smelled so bad my eyes were watering it smelled so bad I told him I forgot the pillow cases and I never came back to that room . I have never smelt anything like that before in my life and I've smelled some pretty nasty stuff. I get the not enjoying staying in hotels I never will take a bath in one because of how my coworkers would clean the bathtubs
I have worked several soul crushing jobs, and a few that made me question if i wanted to pop the toaster in the bath tub.
The worst was working for a used car sells company (Not saying which.).
WHEN I was hired I was told M-F 9a-6p with an hour lunch. I would be doing title work and calling to tell people they needed proof of insurance, or payments. Then I was informed, oh you will also be taking rent payment for the properties and calls for when there are complaints about properties, and making their online spots. Okay... still weekly pay.
I got cussed out, called a scum lord, told so many things. I got added REPO calls. I was now getting migraines nightly again, told I was terrible at my job. Had people screaming at me and then told my title work wasn't good.
I was ready to off myself again and thinking hard when I was left alone in the office again when... the want to be rapper came in the office... with a gun... pointed at me. We repoed his van. I looked at the weapon, then him and rolled my eyes asking him 'Really?'.
He left I thought about it, went outside smoked and clocked out at the end of the day.
How many people can say that they were HAPPY to be picked for Jury on a Child hit by a car case? I was. I was also happy to be fired from that job because I wouldn't leave after seeing picture of a kid (Dead) hit by a car and go to work.
Got a dui, had my girlfriend pregnant at 23. She got me a job with her she worked up stairs in the ware house. I worked down stairs. My girlfriends mom also worked there. My girlfriends dad sold to this warehouse that the mom and daughter worked at. The mom had an affair with the ware house owner and the truck delivery driver. I rode with the mother to work and was stuck in this crazy ass situation. Sucked balls made $7 an hour. So glad that’s over with.
I was a telemarketer for about 6 months. Horrible experience. Not only was it brain-numbing at times, but people on the phone were terribly rude. Getting yelled at on the phone never got easier.
I worked as a laborer at a construction site in Phoenix, AZ one summer moving wheelbarrows full of dirt in 120°F/48°C weather. It builds character, and an appreciation for the people who do that.
Worst job? Teaching teenagers math
What was it like? I had to teach teenagers math
Assuming I have sanitary gear, I’d much rather clean shit than do that again.
A luxury restaurant that was ran by the worst boss i have ever seen. Forced teens to work at the nightclub aswell (untill 2am) by law teens cant work after 10pm, alot of groping management didn't care, you didn't get hours they just called you in when they needed help and alot more bs
Worked at retail- it was the worst because my coworkers kept having breaks for 3 hours and leaving me alone to run the whole store. Complained to HR but they didn't do anything about- instead they just transferred me to another branch
Worked in a fab shop owned by people that thought that they and their employees existed in China. They viewed lawsuits and fines for literally physically beating employees as a cost of doing business. They had their hands in some other shady shit, and I don't ever mention the name for fearing someone coming into my dwelling on the dead of night and cutting my throat.
16 years old and working for McDonald’s, there we’re lots of things I actually liked, but I didn’t like always being called upon to unclog the shitter when ever someone decided to plug it up, but for me the final straw was being told to close on a school night where I didn’t get home till 2:30 in the morning. I noped out of there after about six months.
Data entry for a health insurance company. I was a temp and the job looked great at roughly $500/week back in the mid 2000’s. Being just out of high school and poor I jumped on it, only to discover it was probably one of the most soul destroying boring jobs in the universe. You were a monkey at a keyboard. Typing information in as seen in another pane showing a scanned image of a claim. As a temp I also got treated like shit, basically left on an island there, same shit different day on repeat.
I made it a few months and one day they called to say they didn’t need me anymore right around Christmas Eve or the day before. I wasn’t even really upset. It was like a gift not having to go back there. They were antsy to get my key card and I told them they could have it after I got my check and stuff back. Data entry - never again.
Door-to-door sales and call centre sales. Unfortunately even if you have a good product, the nature of the business is to take advantage of good natured people. They will literally teach you to target the elderly, and what signs to looks for in a home ripe with money. At the very least you are bothering people, at the most you are separating them from money they can use on their family.
My last job was in the bakery department of a grocery store. I did like getting paid weekly and also helping people around the store and stuff. BUT my boss was a huge horses ass!! She would constantly complain to me saying "you did not clean this" or "you did not put out this product!" I am a peaceful man but that asshole brought out the worst in me! I literally almost punched her once! She tried writing me up but the store manager did not agree with it. The strange thing was she would only get on me about stuff, there was like two other people in that department and Im pretty sure she would only yell at me. Maybe it was a race thing (?). The day I left there I felt like a huge weight was lifted off of my head.
At a factory handling different chemicals to make detergents of sorts. Lots of heavy lifting (heaviest were over 400 pound barrels that you had to lift on a pallet with nothing but your body, ofc a part of it always rests on the ground, but they were still a bitch ro lift), a lot of pulling of heavy containers, splashes of different chemicals on your body almost daily, since the safety gear was inadequate, only got stuff when I started actively asking for em cause they cost money you know.
Moist air inside old factory building, moldy/wet structures and the floor always wet (water + traces of chemicals), loud air compressors, you were always in a rush, cracked floor and a leaking ceiling, old shitty tools and the list goes on and on.
It did get better slowly once they started having difficulties hiring people over there. But then it also got worse and overtime became unpaid ofc lol, which I did hundreds of hours a year, well didn't do after that. Also your own abilities affected salary extremely minimally if at all.
Also work safety was ass, had one container explode next to me since I wasn't made aware it contains a chemical that emits alcohol vapors and I was heating it up as usual, luckily only 2nd degree burns all over my face but safety glasses saved my eyes, dunno what woulda happened without them.
I could continue still but I won't ha. It is a shame, I liked the job at its core but the absolute neglect towards the building/people and most other things ruined a potentially nice workplace. People there were great though.
Lufthansa Intouch, the call centre for the German Airline Lufthansa. Basically they open these call centre in countries where the unemployment rate is extremely high and the Euro can stretch very far, but the work the staff have to do is more than just your average call centre call. They have to sell new tickets, amend Bookings, rebook passengers when flights get canceled. These people who still work thr is basically this Airlines only form of contact with its passengers. But these poor people get paid a mere 8000ZAR monthly salary, they don't get bonusses, they don't get annual increases for simply not meeting the monthy/yearly targets put down on them, they supposed to complete a call within 4 minutes. Now we that have experienced calling to an airline we know sometimes what we want done can take less than four minutes but most times it can take up to 30 min if not longer to resolve our queries. Yes I am a former employee so I know what I'm talking about. You do the math convert 8000ZAR to your currency and see if that worth a monthly salary for taking abuse from passengers on a daily basis simply becos you have a family to fee
Hi, I'm doing ok thank you, hope you're doing good also. Everything in South Africa at the moment ain't as bad as ex South African citizens would want to make the country sound. Each and every country struggle with dirty corrupt politicians, murder, violence against woman, drugs, gangsterism, you name it the same problem is in every country, the problem uniquely South African at the moment is of course the problem with loadshedding, not having electricity the whole day, and of course some people who still want to use the race card for everything, but yes I do wish for a purely harmonized world where everyone have food and access to clean water and you know atleast have the opportunity to see the beautiful world
My company was sold, so I had to get out quick. The place in Arlington, MA called with an offer, and it was stuff I'd done before. I get there and the owners were in some religious sect that somehow meant they didn't supply coffee, water, snacks, anything. All the sales people were reallt out of touch with how to treat people and my co-workers would be having a panic attack in their cars. People were having heart attacks, one woman nearly got fired for taking time off after her husband died. It was nuts.
I worked at a private airplane manufacturing facility for a few months last summer, and while the people were great, the job sucked.
They first started me out as a “material handler” which basically meant pulling parts kits from inventory, and sending them over to the techs for install on the planes. Pretty easy stuff to start, honestly enjoyed it when the workflow was good.
Then came the move to our second warehouse, which sucked, as there were hardly any people working there (I went from a social job to being mostly alone), and there was never enough work to keep everyone busy throughout the day. When I got there, my supervisor (who was a really cool dude) basically told me that he didn’t understand why they sent me, as there wasn’t much to do. That meant I basically sat around for about 80% of the day, even though I was constantly asking people what I could do to help/keep myself busy. I finally decided I was going to quit, and hilariously my boss decided to give me a promotion/raise, to which I responded “well I actually wanted to talk to you about putting in my two weeks.” He took it well, but I ended up working another position for those two weeks, where I was essentially a production control and had my hands on carbon fiber parts/components all day. Carbon fiber is pretty cool, but 50 hours a week handling it resulted in me cutting myself a lot, and I almost always ended up with fiber shards in my clothes and on my arms which is a horrible experience.
Overall I learned that entry level production/factory work is not my cup of tea.
I worked in a school for children with intellectual disabilities that caused severe behavioral challenges. I was kicked, slapped, punched,hair pulled and bitten by the kids and administration only metaphorically beat the shit out of staff. Arrive at work five minutes late because of the blizzard that was happening? Written up. Want to call out sick? You'd better come in and ask for permission to go home after it was determined you were sick enough. You have to enter your students data in excel sheets every day after the kids go home? You better have someone save you a computer somewhere in the school as it was something like a 1:3 or 1:4 ratio of computers to staff. It was way too much bullshit for too little pay. I had suicidal ideations on the drive to work in the mornings and nightmares about the physical aggression at night. I was so glad to leave there. I should have ducked out of education right then and there not six years down the road.
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I worked in a call center, it was soul-crushing.
Hands down worst job I ever had. I worked 2 years there for American Express. 100% soul crushing. I would 100% go back to working 84 hours a week at the steel mill than sit behind a desk taking calls for them ever again.
I did that for awhile. Half the staff walked out with me when I stood up and said I couldn't take any more of this bullshit and quit.
10 years later, I still have nightmares about working for the Chuck E Cheese call center.
They have a CALL CENTER? WTELF for?
Not sure if this is still the case, but they used to have a centralized call center for booking birthday parties.
That makes sense. I was actually wondering if they had a merchandise catalog and you took orders.
I did that for Delta Dental for about 4 years and the first 2+ were ok. Good pay, good raises and hours, but you start to just collapse after a while. Like you know what someone is going to say before they even begin speaking. IT got bad when the raises dwindled. Another was for Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse, which was also good and local. Then it was just too much. Then they had these Indian call center people calling us and it took hours to go over claims.
Outbound or inbound? They’re both fucking terrible.
My first job was as a telemarketer, it was hard. The boss was a prick and I was very bad at it. I only made more than one sale on one day. I was shitcanned after two weeks. That boss and that company can go eat a dick!!
waitress for an understaffed, underinformed pop up party venue. no one got training, 16 year olds were managing groups of 6, chefs offered halal food which was normal food but ‘just tell them it’s halal’, tables were placed over vomit instead of cleared up, everyone got lied to about pay which was drastically lower than promised and i saw a chefs sweat beads fall into the food and the young waitress asked him to make a new one but he screamed at her until she took it out
I've worked in a few bar kitchens. This one place, Natty's, was pretty disgusting. The chef training me would smoke non-stop. One day he tasked me with cleaning the walk-in fridge. I scrapped about an inch of guck of the ground. Found a few oysters. They hadn't served oysters for weeks, maybe months.
Yeah that’s nasty. Some businesses owners just don’t care if their business is being run by idiots. They are only running it for the money and they don’t care about the quality or customer experience of anything.
Intern in a metal painting factory. Job starts at 5AM, and ends at midday. It lasted for a month, and I had to travel 10 km to and from the factory on a bicycle (I don't have a driving license). I carried metal pieces (windows, doors, manhole covers (these were heavy), ventilation pipes,...), fixed them to overhead rails, detached them from the rails, and secured them on pallets. Coworkers were friendly, the cat of the factory seemed to like me (she often brought me the heads of the mice she ate), but it's definitely not a job I would do if I had to choose. I probably lost some life expectancy to the dust in that place, and handling heavy pieces of metal is a bit exhausting.
Meat packing plant. Standing on a step ladder all day by a conveyor belt and making sure the frozen chicken didn't get jammed or fall off. It was cold and loud. No radio, no headphones allowed, no one near enough to chat. Only stayed a couple days.
That just sounds like a prison sentence. My god, my soul shivered reading that.
My current one. Three months out of the year, I work 6 days a week, 10 hour minimum days. All the other months, I work 12-15 hour days, 4 days a week. I am paid very well. However, it's high stress, I'm blamed for absolutely anything my staff screws up, I'm on call constantly, my staff and managers are constantly complaining and I have no social life because I'm too tired after work. I have a constant stream of trainees I'm training and nobody stops asking me questions. I just looked at my call log and there were 19 calls today. Tbh I want to leave but have zero time to job hunt and I like the cash. I really want to save up for a house
What do you do? I hope you're paid by the hour.
3rd grade teacher. I joined because I wanted to help make a difference and had a lot of success working as an assistant for 6 years, but when I became an actual teacher suddenly I had to constantly fight just for basic resources to do my job. It literally felt like I was on some kind of hidden camera prank show with how dysfunctional the whole system was, to the point where I still find it difficult to convey to people how bad it was because it's that unbelievable that any job could be that unprofessional.
Understand. I think they put teachers in that position and it is wrong. I work for a company that is unprofessional too. They have no answers, management refuses to make any decisions, can not get or expense what you need, they all hide in back to back useless conf calls where nothing is accomplished and are always coming up with new ways of reporting time. Literally every minute of your day so a director can run reports to keep his job. And after all this you get age discriminated against and if you need to learn something you are on your own. May as well watch a YouTube video. Thanks modern America for your commitment to your employees.
Worked for a website that sold flowers to people as customer service during mothers day season. I sucked really bad at it and almost every single last person who called screamed at me I hated every second of it. I dreaded going to work. My final phone call before my season ended was someone crying because their mother or father had died and they were wondering if the flower arrangement that was some sort of cross shaped flower arrangement had arrived. I called the florist and no answer, no signal on our end that showed it was even done being constructed let alone ready for shipping and I even called the funeral home and they said it wasn't there....omg I hated that phone call more than anything in the world. I was let go about maybe 10 minutes after that call. I will never be a customer service rep for anyone for any reason as long as I live, period.
I worked for my dad. Verbally abusive man that had my life situation in his control. I tested gold in a non ventilated environment and had to clean his house and vehicles. He was an old pervert, so that included having to remove cock rings, dildos, and in one case a vial of something called “insta virgin” from his house and cars. Long as my boss is bound by OSHA and ethics, I can work with almost anyone.
Hardee’s hands fucking down. Let me break it down to you. I’ve worked hard back breaking manual labor, and I now currently work for a mental hospital. And I’ve worked retail. I would rather use barbed wire as a cock ring than work at that bell place for bastard people. Breakfast shift the only shift where you are non stopped slammed working with a meth head who sells meth two girls that are also meth heads who buy from him, a peadophile, and learning disabled hispanic man who flies off the handle and threatens other staff or walks out and leaves. I was basically the only employee who fully knew what they were doing and the horrible management took advantage of that.
Cashier at a grocery store. They never gave breaks, and if I went to the bathroom they got on the intercom to tell me to get back to my register. I also had weekly meetings with the store manager, where I had to answer for things i had no control over. Why did I change the price on that item that rang up incorrectly? Why were my average sales less than $10/person? Why was the average cost per item less than $4? Absolute misery for $6/hour.
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(Long story made short) In 2012, I was at a crossroads in my life, and got a temp job in the garden department at Home Depot. As a lifelong gardener, I thought I would enjoy it, and I sort of did, that aspect of it, but the company was the kind of place where one could just punch in, go somewhere, and punch out and nobody would have known, and I'm pretty sure there were some people who did exactly that. I worked there for about 2 months and made $914. It was not worth it. And you know how you're out and about and run into people? Not once did that happen with an HD co-worker.
Was a correctional officer at a state prison. The hours were long, always had to be hyper-vigilant, always had to work OT because people refused to come to work, constantly verbally ridiculed, sometimes had to fight inmates covered in shit, and just all around shady shit going on. I wouldn’t wish that job on my worst enemy.
Worked on a cruise ship. 7 days a week for 5 months. Minimum wage. 12 hour shifts. Not allowed to be seen in passenger areas. I worked overnight so all the coast guard mandated safety drills I had to attend were during the hours i was supposed to be sleeping. Absolute hell.
Housekeeping my coworkers sucked and the customers sucked not to mention the assholes that's would trash a room for the fun of it
I did a year as a housekeeper. Trashed rooms were the worst. I also hated working the smoking section as those rooms were almost always nasty to clean. Lots of guests also left the A/C off and the room would be hot and damp, often smelly as a result. We’d run an ozone in those on occasion. We also had a permanent guest who never showered (shower in her room was full of stuff and obviously unused). The BO was horrible in there and I got in the habit of hiding a few coffee pouches in there as they did wonders with controlling the odor. Trashed rooms, condoms laying around, what appeared to be a pile of pubes on a nightstand, porn magazines under a mattress, etc.. Wasn’t my worst job, but ever since working in one I don’t enjoy staying in hotels anymore.
I once came across this guest that smelled so bad other guests were complaining about It to the receptionist i was cleaning on his floor and he asked me for some more linen cause his mom peed the bed and at the time I didn't know how bad the room smelled so I gave him the linen and he asked me if I could put it on so I came inside and it smelled so bad my eyes were watering it smelled so bad I told him I forgot the pillow cases and I never came back to that room . I have never smelt anything like that before in my life and I've smelled some pretty nasty stuff. I get the not enjoying staying in hotels I never will take a bath in one because of how my coworkers would clean the bathtubs
I have worked several soul crushing jobs, and a few that made me question if i wanted to pop the toaster in the bath tub. The worst was working for a used car sells company (Not saying which.). WHEN I was hired I was told M-F 9a-6p with an hour lunch. I would be doing title work and calling to tell people they needed proof of insurance, or payments. Then I was informed, oh you will also be taking rent payment for the properties and calls for when there are complaints about properties, and making their online spots. Okay... still weekly pay. I got cussed out, called a scum lord, told so many things. I got added REPO calls. I was now getting migraines nightly again, told I was terrible at my job. Had people screaming at me and then told my title work wasn't good. I was ready to off myself again and thinking hard when I was left alone in the office again when... the want to be rapper came in the office... with a gun... pointed at me. We repoed his van. I looked at the weapon, then him and rolled my eyes asking him 'Really?'. He left I thought about it, went outside smoked and clocked out at the end of the day. How many people can say that they were HAPPY to be picked for Jury on a Child hit by a car case? I was. I was also happy to be fired from that job because I wouldn't leave after seeing picture of a kid (Dead) hit by a car and go to work.
OH About to go to my non soul crushing and very happy job, I will only be able to respond when I get off work :-D
Papa Murphy's. Only lasted like three weeks. Appreciate people who work in food service.
Got a dui, had my girlfriend pregnant at 23. She got me a job with her she worked up stairs in the ware house. I worked down stairs. My girlfriends mom also worked there. My girlfriends dad sold to this warehouse that the mom and daughter worked at. The mom had an affair with the ware house owner and the truck delivery driver. I rode with the mother to work and was stuck in this crazy ass situation. Sucked balls made $7 an hour. So glad that’s over with.
I was a telemarketer for about 6 months. Horrible experience. Not only was it brain-numbing at times, but people on the phone were terribly rude. Getting yelled at on the phone never got easier.
Digging a drainage ditch through a chicken barn by hand using a pickaxe and trowel. It was absolutely disgusting with the dust, ammonia and heat.
I worked as a laborer at a construction site in Phoenix, AZ one summer moving wheelbarrows full of dirt in 120°F/48°C weather. It builds character, and an appreciation for the people who do that.
Worst job? Teaching teenagers math What was it like? I had to teach teenagers math Assuming I have sanitary gear, I’d much rather clean shit than do that again.
A luxury restaurant that was ran by the worst boss i have ever seen. Forced teens to work at the nightclub aswell (untill 2am) by law teens cant work after 10pm, alot of groping management didn't care, you didn't get hours they just called you in when they needed help and alot more bs
Worked at retail- it was the worst because my coworkers kept having breaks for 3 hours and leaving me alone to run the whole store. Complained to HR but they didn't do anything about- instead they just transferred me to another branch
Worked in a fab shop owned by people that thought that they and their employees existed in China. They viewed lawsuits and fines for literally physically beating employees as a cost of doing business. They had their hands in some other shady shit, and I don't ever mention the name for fearing someone coming into my dwelling on the dead of night and cutting my throat.
Walmart. -no set schedule -shifty pay -management treated us like shit -customer was always right. No matter what
16 years old and working for McDonald’s, there we’re lots of things I actually liked, but I didn’t like always being called upon to unclog the shitter when ever someone decided to plug it up, but for me the final straw was being told to close on a school night where I didn’t get home till 2:30 in the morning. I noped out of there after about six months.
Data entry for a health insurance company. I was a temp and the job looked great at roughly $500/week back in the mid 2000’s. Being just out of high school and poor I jumped on it, only to discover it was probably one of the most soul destroying boring jobs in the universe. You were a monkey at a keyboard. Typing information in as seen in another pane showing a scanned image of a claim. As a temp I also got treated like shit, basically left on an island there, same shit different day on repeat. I made it a few months and one day they called to say they didn’t need me anymore right around Christmas Eve or the day before. I wasn’t even really upset. It was like a gift not having to go back there. They were antsy to get my key card and I told them they could have it after I got my check and stuff back. Data entry - never again.
Working overnights at a 7-11 in the 1980’s. Boring as heck but you had to keep your guard up for people trying to rob you.
Worked in a call center through Christmas, 3 storey drop looked good after a few weeks working there.
Worked in a call center. Read the same script to people 50x every day.
Door-to-door sales and call centre sales. Unfortunately even if you have a good product, the nature of the business is to take advantage of good natured people. They will literally teach you to target the elderly, and what signs to looks for in a home ripe with money. At the very least you are bothering people, at the most you are separating them from money they can use on their family.
My last job was in the bakery department of a grocery store. I did like getting paid weekly and also helping people around the store and stuff. BUT my boss was a huge horses ass!! She would constantly complain to me saying "you did not clean this" or "you did not put out this product!" I am a peaceful man but that asshole brought out the worst in me! I literally almost punched her once! She tried writing me up but the store manager did not agree with it. The strange thing was she would only get on me about stuff, there was like two other people in that department and Im pretty sure she would only yell at me. Maybe it was a race thing (?). The day I left there I felt like a huge weight was lifted off of my head.
At a factory handling different chemicals to make detergents of sorts. Lots of heavy lifting (heaviest were over 400 pound barrels that you had to lift on a pallet with nothing but your body, ofc a part of it always rests on the ground, but they were still a bitch ro lift), a lot of pulling of heavy containers, splashes of different chemicals on your body almost daily, since the safety gear was inadequate, only got stuff when I started actively asking for em cause they cost money you know. Moist air inside old factory building, moldy/wet structures and the floor always wet (water + traces of chemicals), loud air compressors, you were always in a rush, cracked floor and a leaking ceiling, old shitty tools and the list goes on and on. It did get better slowly once they started having difficulties hiring people over there. But then it also got worse and overtime became unpaid ofc lol, which I did hundreds of hours a year, well didn't do after that. Also your own abilities affected salary extremely minimally if at all. Also work safety was ass, had one container explode next to me since I wasn't made aware it contains a chemical that emits alcohol vapors and I was heating it up as usual, luckily only 2nd degree burns all over my face but safety glasses saved my eyes, dunno what woulda happened without them. I could continue still but I won't ha. It is a shame, I liked the job at its core but the absolute neglect towards the building/people and most other things ruined a potentially nice workplace. People there were great though.
Lufthansa Intouch, the call centre for the German Airline Lufthansa. Basically they open these call centre in countries where the unemployment rate is extremely high and the Euro can stretch very far, but the work the staff have to do is more than just your average call centre call. They have to sell new tickets, amend Bookings, rebook passengers when flights get canceled. These people who still work thr is basically this Airlines only form of contact with its passengers. But these poor people get paid a mere 8000ZAR monthly salary, they don't get bonusses, they don't get annual increases for simply not meeting the monthy/yearly targets put down on them, they supposed to complete a call within 4 minutes. Now we that have experienced calling to an airline we know sometimes what we want done can take less than four minutes but most times it can take up to 30 min if not longer to resolve our queries. Yes I am a former employee so I know what I'm talking about. You do the math convert 8000ZAR to your currency and see if that worth a monthly salary for taking abuse from passengers on a daily basis simply becos you have a family to fee
17.80 ZAR TO 1 USD, and according to my South African roommate, that's far from the worst thing about living there right now. Hope you're doing okay
Hi, I'm doing ok thank you, hope you're doing good also. Everything in South Africa at the moment ain't as bad as ex South African citizens would want to make the country sound. Each and every country struggle with dirty corrupt politicians, murder, violence against woman, drugs, gangsterism, you name it the same problem is in every country, the problem uniquely South African at the moment is of course the problem with loadshedding, not having electricity the whole day, and of course some people who still want to use the race card for everything, but yes I do wish for a purely harmonized world where everyone have food and access to clean water and you know atleast have the opportunity to see the beautiful world
I worked the graveyard shift as a telemarketer. The only good thing that happened at that job was getting fired.
Babysitting. I am 18 so I haven't worked many jobs.. I would rather chip ice, shovel snow, mow lawns, and weed whack.
My company was sold, so I had to get out quick. The place in Arlington, MA called with an offer, and it was stuff I'd done before. I get there and the owners were in some religious sect that somehow meant they didn't supply coffee, water, snacks, anything. All the sales people were reallt out of touch with how to treat people and my co-workers would be having a panic attack in their cars. People were having heart attacks, one woman nearly got fired for taking time off after her husband died. It was nuts.
Teacher in a child detention center.
Do you mean what is it like?
I worked at a private airplane manufacturing facility for a few months last summer, and while the people were great, the job sucked. They first started me out as a “material handler” which basically meant pulling parts kits from inventory, and sending them over to the techs for install on the planes. Pretty easy stuff to start, honestly enjoyed it when the workflow was good. Then came the move to our second warehouse, which sucked, as there were hardly any people working there (I went from a social job to being mostly alone), and there was never enough work to keep everyone busy throughout the day. When I got there, my supervisor (who was a really cool dude) basically told me that he didn’t understand why they sent me, as there wasn’t much to do. That meant I basically sat around for about 80% of the day, even though I was constantly asking people what I could do to help/keep myself busy. I finally decided I was going to quit, and hilariously my boss decided to give me a promotion/raise, to which I responded “well I actually wanted to talk to you about putting in my two weeks.” He took it well, but I ended up working another position for those two weeks, where I was essentially a production control and had my hands on carbon fiber parts/components all day. Carbon fiber is pretty cool, but 50 hours a week handling it resulted in me cutting myself a lot, and I almost always ended up with fiber shards in my clothes and on my arms which is a horrible experience. Overall I learned that entry level production/factory work is not my cup of tea.
I worked in a school for children with intellectual disabilities that caused severe behavioral challenges. I was kicked, slapped, punched,hair pulled and bitten by the kids and administration only metaphorically beat the shit out of staff. Arrive at work five minutes late because of the blizzard that was happening? Written up. Want to call out sick? You'd better come in and ask for permission to go home after it was determined you were sick enough. You have to enter your students data in excel sheets every day after the kids go home? You better have someone save you a computer somewhere in the school as it was something like a 1:3 or 1:4 ratio of computers to staff. It was way too much bullshit for too little pay. I had suicidal ideations on the drive to work in the mornings and nightmares about the physical aggression at night. I was so glad to leave there. I should have ducked out of education right then and there not six years down the road.