Worst Job You Ever Had

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I can very well believe that, yes. Although, my experience was in the UK with a British family, so I feel more surprised, as one thinks of the UK as being somewhere where employment laws and worker's rights are more in the conscious mind of most employers. But then again, you still occasionally hear of violations going on behind closed doors here too anyway.

Anytime you work with individuals rather than large companies the potential for abuse will be higher. Large corporations have to follow the law to the letter because they face large liabilities (and loss of face) if they violate it. Smaller employers can get away with more since they are less noticeable.

Exactly. Everything is "behind closed doors."

The worst position that I had was for one semester in high school while I was in special ed. I had worked at a cafeteria in an expensive business district. My job was to wipe tables and re-stock water glasses and condiments for 4 hours each day. I was bored out of my mind next to having job coaches surveying me every time I turned around.

The career counselor, the autism specialist and other special ed teachers were aware that I had a year of experience at McDonald's. Yet they didn't care.

The worst position that I had was for one semester in high school while I was in special ed. I had worked at a cafeteria in an expensive business district. My job was to wipe tables and re-stock water glasses and condiments for 4 hours each day. I was bored out of my mind next to having job coaches surveying me every time I turned around.

The career counselor, the autism specialist and other special ed teachers were aware that I had a year of experience at McDonald's. Yet they didn't care.

I've only ever worked two jobs.

Laboring for a brick layer (my dad) which was absolute hell.

And patient watch at a hospital (security guard). Most mind numbing and insanity inducing job ever.

My worst job was working in a call center. Having to rush and being judged because I took 24 seconds too long on a call, at the same time I was having to read a stupid script that my customers would rarely follow or cooperate with, and more. It was a nightmare.

Customer Service rep for a managed care center for mental health services. VERY rigid. Every minute monitored and scheduled. only two 10 minute breaks a day and a half hour lunch. 10 minutes wasn't even enough time to drink some water, use the restroom and have a smoke. The penalty for going over was losing one of those precious breaks the next day.

I couldn't believe that was even legal. Sure it enough it was (and is)

I'd say the one I'm in now has to be the worst, worse than the dishwashing job or the job cleaning toilets. At least the poop there was honest poop.

I design websites, e-Books, and formatted emails at a large corporation. I get kudos (and a couple of industry awards) for my design and technical skills for which my clients love me, and my coworkers like me because I help them with their problems and answer their questions. My management could have been the model for Dilbert's pointy-haired boss, however. They tell me to ask them for help if I get into a jam and then when I do, they tell me how my problem is all my fault and list all the things I've done wrong in the past year, for which I'd already been reprimanded before. I got chewed out for half an hour yesterday when I asked my boss to ask me if I have availability in my schedule before assigning something to me. We're required to do a bunch of administrative and marketing work that we can't bill to clients, but have to do it on our own time because a certain percentage of our work has to be billable. The result is loads of overtime.

I was going to ask for disability accommodations (helping me remember procedures, coaching me in appropriate behavior, and managing my schedule), but now I just want another job. I'm scared spitless of going through interviews, though, or I would have left long ago. My blood pressure gets so high I can hear the blood rushing in my ears.

I'd say my worst job was in fast food, and the thing that made it bad was that I thought I was going to be a backup cashier, but instead I was expected to clean the building including the bathrooms, and that the most I was working was 6 hours a week, and at the end, I was only working one day a week. They never increased my hours, and when they laid me off, they didn't say right away that I was laid off, so I kept calling to ask if I was on the schedule, as they varied, and they were only made one week in advance. In the end, the way I was told I was laid off was to quit calling to find out if I was on the schedule. The reason I did that was that I was afraid of being fired because I didn't show up when I was scheduled.

Since then, I have avoided that former workplace and the only time I'm near it is if I'm getting off the freeway to go to the gas station less than a mile away. The location I worked at was right next to a freeway offramp, so at times, business was actually pretty good.

I'd say the "worst" job I ever had was the one I have now but at the same time I like it. I run an engraving machine (temporarily) for a store in the mall. The customers are okay some of the time but (especially during the holidays) people are incredibly rude. It makes me want to walk out of work or to slap these people (mostly women) who act this way. The other employees are cool, not typical mall girls so I don't have any problem with my coworkers or manager it's just the customers. It makes me hate society more seeing people act like that. The store I work for has only single coverage when the permanent employees are working. They don't get any breaks and are on their feet for more than 8 hours a day. I still can't grasp my head around the fact that people have to sacrifice their lives for a f*****g minimum wage job and then still have to have roommates.

I don't have to interact with customers AS MUCH as the permanent employees but when I do I feel like they can see right through me because I'm faking everything. We have to tell them their engravings look amazing every time, to every customer even if the engraving looks like crap. They also sell merchandise to people that is all scratched up. If the customer doesn't notice then it's their problem. Most of the stuff in the store is made in China and is very overprice.