What's some of the worst jobs you've ever had?

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My shortlist of some crappy jobs I had when younger. Train ticket conductor; 2003 Seafood restaurant dishwasher; 2003 Cold calling sales for a call center; 2004 Taco Bell/Pizza Hut; 2005 Wendy's; 2006 Subway; 2006 College work study job at the finance department; 2007 Paid intern for WWE in New York; 2007 Parking lot attendant; 2008 Custodial work for a company called Team Clean; 2009 Selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door; 2009 Selling knives door-to-door for a company called CutCo; 2009 Selling home energy packages for a green energy company; 2010 Cold calling sales for a dietary company called YOR Health; 2010 ( It was an MLM scam ) Cold calling sales for a service called Z-Linked for an SEO company called Zurvita; 2010 ( I had one extremely rude asshole who called me during his golf game and tried to say I was incompetent at my job, even though he was wrong; he still expected me to hire him and use him and I immediately shredded his resume ) Concert security; 2011-2013 ( almost got fired due to Katy f*ckin' Perry thinking I looked "too negative" ) Executive protection services (bodyguard work); 2013 Bank armed security guard; 2014 
 
 That's just the major ones I lasted at for a month or more. I hated almost all of them.

Fuentes · Accepted Answer

Working at a shitty call center for Verizon, I can say is my worse job.

The people bitch about everything, I did customer service for a year and then switched to tech support for another year it was easier more people were willing to work with you cause they wanted their phones fixed or replaced. but for the customer service side was horrible, the people that called in were so mentally ill. The team leads were all kinda annoying cause they switch every few moments for shiftbids. I only had two good ones & one dumb airheaded bitch who wanted to fuck me, but didn't know anything about the job and she obviously became a lead because she was a bad little Latina chick but she was dog shit stupid. I honestly could not fuck anyone that stupid.

So it use to piss her off when I would ignore her & never come up and talk to her and ask for help lol she could not separate the fact she was my boss and we were at work lol the only reason I stayed at the job at the time cause it paid really good & I knew how to kill the surveys, so bad customers never got my survey, and i would replace peoples phones without being dinged by it just by hitting the wrong device sent checkmark, because when it goes back to the warehouse they scan it as wrong device hahahaha.

Which made the job really easy and my Stats were always green across the board in tech so I always hit the extra 300 dollars bonus every other week. My last team lead was a gay dude who loved black men, I had to QUIT and I did with a quickness after that he was so annoying and I'm sure I had a sexual harassment case but I wasn't gonna do that I was already tired of the job he just solidified it & i just left hhhahaha.

IceCreamSandwich · Accepted Answer

That would have to be my first job, working front of house in a very busy fast food place.

No coworkers liked me except two people, and it was weirdly more like a highschool clique environment than highschool, including petty behavior like gossip and power plays. In fact once I got in, had to leave cause I got sick, and one particular manager wouldn't let me because they thought I was faking. Then they got called over by a customer because I passed out in the dining room and got a concussion. So at least they didn't do that again.

But shortly after that I was fired because of customer complaints. I got several of those throughout the year because I forgot to smile, or assumed two customer's relationship was different than it was, or didn't respond to something they said because it wasn't a question. So it makes sense I got fired. I obviously wasn't built for that type of customer service, but was also too young to work back of house at the time. Honestly I'm shocked they kept me around for a whole year. The turnover for that place was insane.

midnightmoon05 · Answer

No sure… I never dislike or hate any of my jobs. I just did my work.
beofre 10, I picked up metals, cardboards to sell for Pennies to buy myself snacks to eat.
* I worked in my belated grand uncles restaurant..: I didn’t care if I got paid. But he did paid me even though I was only 11 years old.
-* worked as a babysitter because my friend didn’t want to do it anymore. I used to get really tired after school and would fall asleep while watching the kids. I was about 12 or 14 years old.
* worked at a place where I folded table clothes * worked in a supermarket as a cashier * worked in an office learned about the corporate world (a HS work/school program). paid was pretty good. Once it ended.. I worked in the socal security office filing paper work between rows and rows of tall file cabinets.
* college I got a job teaching Chinese, money was very good * then I got into retail, worked in the Gap and Strawberries.
* my second year of college, I got my career path. And been a teacher since.
* my boss is horrible and always putting letters in our files… sure i got one or two…but I don’t really care.
I have a diff. Attitude about jobs, people..*** don’t ever take it home. *** don’t ever let it get to you.
part of living happy.

exitseven · Answer

I worked for a managed service provider. I was hired to supervise the technical staff, there was about 30 techs and engineers. There was an atmosphere of paranoia in the place. You always felt like there was somebody watching you. Some days I would come to work and somebody would be gone and nobody would know what happened to them. If I asked one of the techs to do something they would complain to my boss and I would have to explain. My boss would schedule a meeting with me and then not show up. I figured if they wanted to pay me to sit in an empty conference room and look out the window who was I to argue. I used to come in at 8AM and count down the 240 minutes until lunch. Then after lunch I would do the same thing until 5 o'clock. I was glad when I found another job. I was there for 7 weeks.

Dinklex3 · Answer

Whao whoa whoa.

Paid intern for WWE? That sounds fun af, whylat made ot crap?

Working at the diningb facility at my college. didn't enjoy smelling like grease mats. Because I was a "good" worker, i was never chosen to leave early.

anonanonanonomys · Answer

Night auditor. I honestly liked the work but I was the only employee in the building and I was sexually harassed and followed to my car multiple times. I was constantly scared someone was going to sneak into the back at 3 am and physically assault me.

HighValue · Answer

Security Guard. Each of those jobs I had were very boring.

I also didn't like working at Home Depot. Most of the other employees hid, including the manager and it was only me helping customers un store, loading concrete, etc. and collecting carts, while one person did the whole loading dock on his own, and one other person was the only one working the register. 7 other employees all hid in their cars and in the break room each day.

TrueConfection · Answer

Omg. I did that same stupid knife job in Philly!!!

Looksnicholas · Answer

Firstly, Sir @mcheetah, you deserve my applause. Just reading those first from 2003 onwards, I mean wow. Respect.

Definitely service jobs, any type, I'd say are the worst I've ever had, but also, I keep coming back to them. I guess it's the kind types of people are why I want to do a job well. That's why they make up for the majority of people who aren't, so kind at all.

Apulu_Imback · Answer

Student... I wanted to be a music student! Study doesn't suit me well!

msc545 · Answer

As a young teenager, I worked in a burger place as a cook for about an hour.

JesseJayNeak · Answer

I don’t know 🤷🏾‍♂️

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