What's The Worst Job You Ever Had?

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12 Oct 2009, 2:59 pm

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Subway. I think fast food in general is just the worst, judging by some of the other responses here. I remember one really awful day in particular that just did it for me: I was the opener, and the closer from the previous nite hadn't done even half of what they were supposed to do, so I had to play catch-up. Plus one co-worker came in late, another was a no-show, and we got slammed early and without let-up. We actually ran out of bread and I got screamed at by the manager when he came in, but hey I only have two hands! Can't be baking bread while trying to wait on everyone and answer the phone and take in deliveries at the same time when we're short a person and the prep work wasn't done the nite before like it should have been. Also, some of out customers would get psycho when you didn't put things on their sandwich in the order that they wanted it. What difference does it make? When you take a bite it all gets mixed up in your mouth anyways. Plus stupid things like the toilet backing up and not having time to get to it because of the line going out the door.


Yeah, I remember at Papa Johns. I was a supervisor and the closing manager one night forgot to shut down the computer system. I had to call his cell phone to get his password so I could close down the computer system so I could open the store. He was at school and he had the nerve to b***h me out for calling him at school


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12 Oct 2009, 3:41 pm

The one I got now, a damn cashier.



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15 Oct 2009, 8:08 am

Wal-Mart Electronics Sales Associate, worst by far. Having been one for 4 years, its a steady flow of stupid management, stupid customers, and stupid policies. The management was "all about the money" and not about the people, not to mention woefully ignorant of the merchandise being sold. They would also have a tendency to override policies (backed by federal law) just to kiss customer butt. The customers were just as bad in the dept since they expect YOU to know all and tell all so they dont have to think for themselves. This is where RTFM sees constant usage, and its really bad when you stay on the phone for 30+ min explaining red to red, white to white, yellow to yellow. Dont get me wrong, not all of them are like this, but it kills your day when one comes up and b*****s at you for not having a certain item. Their policies are then stupid because management never follows them. If a product is in the process of being stolen, Associates have to inform management and keep an eye on the person/people involved. Now, if that item is a $1000 TV, you have to move quick . . . but it all comes to a halt when management tells you, "We're in a meeting, dont bother us." Then the associate(s) get bitched at for letting it "walk out." Its one insult after another . . . and i have no regrets from giving them a 2 day notice before dropping that place like a bad habit.



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15 Oct 2009, 3:41 pm

Worst job I ever had was at Stop & Shop bagging groceries when I was fourteen. My mom forced me into it on the assumption that I would be able to do it since "special" people could do it. I was branded as "Special" right away mostly because I made the mistake of letting my mom talk to the main Supervisor and it just got worse from there. An ass of an assistant manager who insisted on talking down to me and calling me "one of those types" right to my face when I told him I was supposed to wait for someone to show me around the store. I was finally put in bagging with a snippy condescending cashier without any prep.

Bagging groceries is supposed to be easy and now I'm sure I could do it if I had too but back then with all the noise, the fast pace, and the constant movement it was an incredible strain. Naturally I had to deal with the cashier making comments whenever I made a small mistake or slowed down. The last straw came when I was told by a manager to take my break and less than five minutes later I was called to the podium where the same assistant manager proceeded to berate me in front of customers and my new coworkers about leaving my station. I'm not a violent person or terribly martial but if I'd had the same thing happen to me now I would have probably offered to take this guy out back and show him how "Special" I was.

As it was I was upset enough that I told the guy who had hired me I was quitting, walked out, threw my uniform shirt in the garbage outside, and walked home two miles in 90 degree weather (considering how out of shape I was back then it was not small feat). My parents pitched a fit about me quitting after just under a day and tried to get me to go back but I refused. To this day I still haven't told them exactly why I quit and it still bugs me when I think about it.



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27 Oct 2009, 10:44 am

Worst job for me was working as a cook at a sleazy deli/coffeehouse in Portland Maine that doubled as a money laundering operation for an NYC based Triad.

The original owner was decent, but in order to expand his shop he had to find a partner. The partner that he chose essentially turned what had been a great Jewish Deli/Coffeehouse into his sleaze empire. He had connections with the above mentioned Triad, as well as bought foodstamps and welfare checks, while his two sons ran a juvenile prostitution ring.

I worked there for 2 weeks and was fired for no reason at all other than the fact that I knew too much about their operation, and was subsequently stiffed on my paycheck. F**kers. :evil:

They also got what they deserved as I and many other ex-employees reported them to the Dept. of Labor as well as the Maine DHS. They were shut down, The sleazy owner and the rest of his family went to prison for various sundry charges, and the two sons had to register as Sex Offenders.


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27 Oct 2009, 2:43 pm

One word: Telemarketing.

I did that for two months when I first turned 16. Quit after a Saturday shift that started at 7am (we were two hours behind the east coast, and we started calling right at the legally allotted time of 9am). I came in with a massive sinus headache, and they sat me directly facing a clock, and put me on the call list that called the same people over and over again every 5 minutes for about 3 hours. Halfway through my shift I snapped and punched my computer monitor so hard I cracked the glass. The floor manager realized how stressed I was and decided to send me home early, while the main boss guy got confused as to why I was being sent home. (And I've just been reminded that the main boss was a creepy fellow who only got dates by buying alcohol for middle and high school girls and having parties in hotel rooms)



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29 Oct 2009, 1:09 pm

I once worked for a potting soil manufacturer. In the interview I was asked if I could move 65 pound bags of peat moss all day. I didn't like the sound of it but I said "ya sure" because I needed the job (8$ per hour). Turned out that they wanted me to cut down all of these pallets of bags that had been left outside for years soaking up water. They weighed more like 150 pounds, and the pallets were stacked over my head. I had to cut the plastic bag with a knife and then pick it up and shake out the contents so it could be re-mixed with other product. I could feel my spine disentigrating. I did it for a week straight and when they were all gone I was fired.



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25 Jan 2010, 1:37 pm

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Probably a tie between being a dishwasher at a busy breakfast joint and working at Pita Pit. Dishwasher was bad for obvious reasons, the other job was bad mainly because my boss was an angry psychopath.


Strangely I usually enjoy dishwasher jobs. The downside is, people think they can treat you like crap.



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25 Jan 2010, 4:42 pm

It's hard to narrow it down, but I think I'll have to go for the job I had over the summer when I was about 16.

It was in a stupid little drug store called "Sprouse-Reitz". The owner/manager was the meanest person I've ever met. Usually he wasn't there, thank goodness. When he was there, he'd sit up in his office, which had a window looking down over the store,, smoking his pipe. He was so horrible, I lived in fear of him.

There would be long periods of time with no customers, but I had to constantly look busy while stood at the register. If I was just standing there, looking out into the store, trying to learn where different items were, Mr. Carter would get on the intercom and chew me out for not looking busy. So every moment he looked away, I'd move the stapler a little bit, so I'd have something to straighten up when he looked in my direction. Or I'd Windex the counter top again, even though I'd been doing that for the past hour. It was ridiculous, but it kept him from going ballistic.

People would come in and ask for things that I didn't know what they were. Of course, not being permitted to look around the store, I had no idea. I tried coming in a few minutes early, so I could try to learn where things are, to avoid the humiliation of not being able to answer customer's questions, but it was just too scary being seen by the boss. Employees weren't allowed to "hang around" the store while not on duty.

To make things even more unpleasant, there was a popcorn machine at the register. At closing time, I had to clean the machine thoroughly. I would do my best to get it as clean as I could, but I would always get complaints from this b**chy, 18-year-old supervisor the next day that it wasn't clean enough.

We didn't get customers very often, but when we did, they'd come in about 10 at a time, and they'd all be in a hurry. There would always be someone who wanted to return something they'd bought with their credit card, or some other thing I hadn't learned how to deal with, and I couldn't leave the register to find the supervisor to help me. If I asked for help, she'd huff and puff, as if I were the stupidest person alive. The horrible boss, Mr. Carter, was nowhere to be seen at peak hours, which was a blessing.

I only lasted 3 weeks. The straw that broke the camel's back, as the saying goes, was one day when it was my turn to clean the restroom. This was the second time I had had to do it, because the the employees took turns. It was just a simple, one-toilet restroom for the employees. Both times, I cleaned it to the best of my ability.

The first time, everything was fine. The second time...the boss came at me in a rage, like he wanted to hurt me, and started shouting about how I didn't clean the restroom, blah blah, it's filthy! I was scared, but managed to squeak out, "I did clean it." He shouted, "You cleaned THAT one there, but you didn't clean THAT ONE OVER THERE!! !! !" It turns out this jerk had a little toilet for his own personal use, and no one had told me about it.

Well, I quit the next day. I just couldn't handle being yelled at like that all the time. I said it was just because I needed to go back to school.

Most other jobs I've had have been almost as bad, but rarely with a boss as mean as that.



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25 Jan 2010, 5:02 pm

Working as a petsitter. I worked for a large petsitting business and my boss would call me at all hours of the day and I was expected to be able to drop what I was doing and go out and do a job. It was horrible not knowing when I may have to answer the phone. Plus I had to sleep overnight at people's houses which made me extremely uncomfortable.



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25 Jan 2010, 5:16 pm

A fast food restaurant. The first day on the job two young ladies about my age started throwing pieces of broccoli and other food items at me from the salad bar, I think because I didn't talk and likewise couldn't relate with them at all. It was my first and last day on that job.



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25 Jan 2010, 6:52 pm

Meadow wrote:
A fast food restaurant. The first day on the job two young ladies about my age started throwing pieces of broccoli and other food items at me from the salad bar, I think because I didn't talk and likewise couldn't relate with them at all. It was my first and last day on that job.


What they did, that was ******* stupid. :x



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25 Jan 2010, 7:47 pm

Greshym_Shorkan wrote:
Meadow wrote:
A fast food restaurant. The first day on the job two young ladies about my age started throwing pieces of broccoli and other food items at me from the salad bar, I think because I didn't talk and likewise couldn't relate with them at all. It was my first and last day on that job.


What they did, that was ******* stupid. :x


Yea, it was stupid. I was pretty hurt and overwhelmed by it and was the last thing I needed to have to deal with on top of all the other challenges and struggles I had with being there, including sensory processing overload, to name a few.
Thanks Greshym_Shorkan for saying so. :)



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31 Jan 2010, 8:08 pm

Web developer, for a pornography website

on the first day at the desk where I was to work, there was a real shotgun placed in front of my feet.



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04 Feb 2010, 5:16 pm

bagging groceries.



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06 Feb 2010, 11:24 pm

Grocery store cashier..but actually ended up doing everything from scrubbing the metal freezers with a toothbrush and soap (no, I am not kidding) to pushing in heavy buggies in the snow to doing everything else possible. I needed money and was too young and stupid at the time to realize the supervisor was a sexist pig who treated us and his own wife like crap, and that the owners were snotty fakes who thought their employees were their personal slaves. Oh yeah, they also wouldn't play any other music except terrible wailing Gospel music. Sometimes I think I'd rather put up with sexual harrassment than to listen to gospel.