I’ve worked a lot of places in the last 3/4 years. I’m on my 3rd job since July. The worst job I’ve ever had was working at the zoo. I live in Oklahoma and it was the middle of summer. Temperatures were at 105° some days. Not only was it hot but it was extremely boring. Worst job I’ve ever had however, it was also the highest paying.
I remember when I was a kid, I wanted to work at the zoo since I had a huge love for animals. But I can't imagine working in that kind of temperature 😰 how did you do it? I've never worked at the zoo at my state though.
I worked at a memory care place kind of recently. It was a receptionist job and it was part-time. I worked Thursday - Sunday. At first it was a really cool job and the residents would walk right up to you and ask you questions. Interacting with the residents was nice, I immediately fit in really well with everyone and everything I had to do. It was my first receptionist job so I was stumped on working those high tech printers and they had this machine that would put stamps on letters that needed to be shipped out. I tooted my horn to them that I knew everything already because I really wanted the job when they interviewed me. But when I was there it took me a few tries to learn it (I was by myself most of the time so I did everything by myself).
But then I started not liking the job. What really did it for me was my boss sexually harassing me. He didn't like touch me or anything he just kept asking me questions about my dating life and he said I'm attractive and all that. I barely worked there for two weeks so it was really a strange thing to ask someone you barely know but also he's in a position of power so he shouldn't have done that in general. He would check me out right in front of me, look me up and down and say "mmmmm." Like he's barely keeping himself back.
I was working alone basically every day, I didn't know if this guy was some kind of rapist, it was scary. There was this one time I was in a storage room by myself I was getting sanitizer to restock the one at my desk. And my boss came after me to tell me something he didn't like that I did and it was just me and him in that room with no one around. I was so afraid I didn't know if he was going to try something. He stood infront of the door keeping me from leaving. But thankfully he didn't.
Then after all that happened with my boss and kept happening until I reported him. There were things I didn't like about the job that I just didn't want to put up with. Like the entire building would stink up with the smell of a residents diaper that needed to be changed. I've had residents that took a crap in their pants and walk up to me and talk to me. And the smell was just too much I couldn't do it. Obviously it's not their fault they're really old and they need help. But I can't handle smells like that. There was this lady who's nose was always leaking and she would walk near my desk and get her snot over everything until she would leave after like fifteen minutes of standing there. She never wanted a tissue for her nose. So I had to clean and disinfect everything and that happened basically every day. It was an eccentric place to work at. But I'm not blaming the residents or anything. It was just nasty.
Hard to say. But I worked at a fried chicken place before where the owner was so combative and "angry" I dreaded to see his Tahoe pull into the parking lot. I started at $8/hr and worked around 42 hours per week. For half the time I worked there, there were only 4 employees total including me. I ended at, I believe 9.50 an hour 5 months after I started. I gave my two weeks due to moving but ended up quitting early because the checks did not reflect any of our overtime hours or overtime pay. When we told the owner this over the phone he tried telling us we were doing the math wrong.
The working conditions were gross also. Unsanitary and nothing was cleaned properly or done correctly. For example, people would use tongs to pick up tenders or chicken pieces but not wear gloves. For dishes, we used pink soap for the washing sink and the sanitizing sink was water mixed with a small amount of bleach. This was how we washed all dishes including those with raw chicken residue.
Because of these working conditions, where there were typically only two, sometimes three people on staff at a time, it was hard to stay sanitary and keep track of things while managing a front counter and drive through and getting paid 8 dollars an hour. But I busted my ass most of the time anyway.
I was going to be one of rbc centura’s (now PNC) IT inventory workers. I had a few days training and was told guaranteed that I was going to have two weeks training before the IT inventory guy there would leave. Well after I think three days training, the SOB ups and leaves me high and dry on my own. Didn’t say good luck, bye, kiss my ass, Nothing! The bitch in charge Juanita - didn’t care that I was on my own, no one showed me how to receive deliveries, where to put things, etc. I tried as hard as I could and it was more headache and near nervous breakdown at times. I gave it a good try, gave it two weeks. But on the day I quit, I went to her office while she was on a call and I told her I was sorry but I quit. She held her phone away from her ear and it was like she was in suspended animation. She totally froze. I said thank you for the opportunity and goodbye. I backed out of her door and she was still frozen from shock. I turned in my badge and left. I felt so free! Probably the best thing I’ve ever done besides getting married 🙂👍
I worked for a couple weeks painting the inside of vacant apartments. It sucked.
I also worked for a carpet installer for about a month. A friend and I had to pull up and remove the old carpets.
I worked with a moving crew on two jobs before quitting.
I got a job with a school district. My boss and I had to strip and wax every floor in a high school. The stripping, waxing and buffing was fun. But one thing the boss wanted was to manually strip built up wax next to the walls with scrapers. Kneeling on a hard floor and scraping all day was hard. I did a good job, though, and once all the floors looked like new, the boss got me a job being in charge of floor maintenance for the administration complex. All I had to do was sweep, buff and sometimes wax the floors. That was actually kinda cushy. So my hard work paid off.
I had some warehouse jobs, too. They were hard, but I managed to have fun doing them, and I quickly worked my way up to enjoyable tasks like driving forklifts.
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I would have to write it down and go over them all. Put it this way I have had some serious bad jobs. I have had jobs that were so bad one job started off with probably right at 20 or 30 workers one morning and by lunch time it was literally down to about 3 of us left before two of us me and another guy finally drug up leaving one man there. I really felt bad for him be probably had a family to feed and felt forced to stay there. The job was working in a toxic think sticky mess that stuck to everything including the shovel and slicker suit. Those were expensive heavy duty slicker suits and had to be replaced after lunch or break because once that mess got on anything it was ruined.
And that was at least close to the dirtiest of the jobs I did. I drug up due to the toxicity we were dealing with as did the other guys except for the remaining guy that stayed there. Then there were the dangerous jobs where I had close calls so close I thought when things happened it was over and though I was questioned why I didn't run I really thought that was the end. I was also injured several times on some of those jobs.
My current one, I work 55 hours per week for $2,800 a month. 4 days vacation per year, nobody can cover for me so I'd be back to a pile of work.
I just copy blueprints and put them on corresponding racks but less than 1% of jobs go into the building phase and of those, only 10% actually start building with an average completion time of 14 years. So it's very pointless and gives no satisfaction whatsoever.
No room for advancement, no health insurance, and no time off on most holidays. I get so little sleep that I find it hard to shower, get more than 5 hours of sleep or workout cause I'm so drained by the end of the day.
I'd need an additional $1,800 per month to be able to afford my own place but my parents said they'd put me on the streets if I quit so I've been stuck for 3 years. I'm so sick of it and I want to join the police academy but I can't get into shape since I have no energy, I have severe anhedonia and treatment resistant depression as a result of these office work conditions and I can't get to the gym cause I have no time or motivation.
I just want to die
Mm I've only had 3 jobs so far in my life. I guess you could say the "worst" one was walmart. Everyone knows how unethical walmart is and how they get away with a lot things. My time there really wasn't that bad though do I'm basing it off company reputation, oh and the walmart I worked for at the time was to cheap to fix their ac during the summer. We had co workers and shoppers passing out. My current job now is better than walmart, but there could be room for a lot of improvements.
u I worked as a materials coordinator at a car manufacturer in 2015. The company I worked for straight up lied to me during the interview. They said I'd have two months of training. In reality, I had two weeks of observing. A couple of weeks later, they fired me for "performance issues".
As much as they lied in the interview, they lied even more in my termination memo. They said I was trained to the standards and that I was given opportunities to correct my performance. I never got a written or even a verbal warning.
In a way, I was relieved because I hated the job anyway. It was extremely boring and I was stuck at a desk all day.
Delivery driver for a company named LSO. they...fucked my brain. I got fired and it was like the clouds disintegrated. Thing was the managers were idiots, didn't care about safety or boundaries, just do the job. I got lost in a town with no phone signal delivering packages. Which happened multiple times and they didn't give a fuuuk. Also the nail in the coffin was when I worked 11-7 AM with another job. I told my boss to PLEASE not send me out of our hometown. Guess what that fat, white son of a bitch did. :) And on the way home, i started hallucinating. The trees turned into heads... looking at me... I... christ.
So by accident, I bumped into a guy and didn't tell my boss because it was a MINOR accident. And it honestly wasn't a mistake... it was the best mistake.
I have not hated any of my jobs although I did quit one of them after only two months but that was for personal reasons. The jobs I have had are babysitter if that counts, server (waitress), hostess, a lot of volunteer or club roles, and now I work for a big corporation as a "project coordinator". My current job is the best I have had as far as pay and it is an office job but, it is the worst in that it is 40 hours a week every week and I can't wait to be done for the day. I like the people I work with but I watch the clock waiting for my work hours to be over. My other jobs I was so busy and usually only working a few hours at a time that it seemed to go faster, which I mean, I guess it did go faster since those were part time jobs.
I've been lucky... I've never had a really bad job, one that I didn't like.
I was in a situation once, though, where I had to commute back and forth over 300 miles every week between home and my work location. The job was , interesting and paid well, but it was tiring going back and forth, and staying by myself in a small apartment during the week, rather than at home with my family.
So, after a couple years of doing this, I left that job and found one closer to home... no more long commutes.
worst job was working a McDonalds. The food was gross, and so greasy.
i was a cashier, but usually got picked by the ugly fat, man hating, woman manager to go clean the toilets and when some kid barfed on the floor, i had to clean it up.
i got workshifts normally when i was in school, then would have to remind again i cannot work those hours.
The assistant manager hated me.. she got me fired for not showing up for my shift.. hello, i was in school.
Taco Bell/Pizza Hut when I was 18. 2005.
I only lasted a month there, but I felt like killing myself every day.
I remember how SLOW time would move. I'd work from 8am to 5pm, and just going from 8am to 10am, two hours, felt like an entire day. Time moved SLOW in that job.
I've worked like 40+ jobs in my life; most lasting less than three months and to this day, that was still the WORST job I ever had.
Customer service of any kind. It's the entire reason why that filter between my mouth and brain is broken. Job Corps could be rough. But a lot of that came from the fact that the program is structured like a job top to bottom. So even when you where not in trade or class it could feel like you where still on the clock.
My first job, of course; minimum wage, lowest totem on the pole, endless dirty and smelly tasks, outside in the heat of summer and the cold of winter, and it was a dead end job.
If you’re playing your cards well, each job should be an improvement over the last. Some improvements may be smaller than others, but you’re doing it wrong if your next job is a downgrade. Ell oh ell!
Worst job I ever had was when I worked in a high end grocery store downtown. Not only was the job bad because of the way corporate watches employees like a hawk, but there was so much drama there. People sleeping with each other, gossip going around like wildfire about you and everyone else, and Karen customers who would complain about you just for dropping a pen. I quit after a few months. I loved a few of the people there I worked with but I just couldn't take it anymore.
Working at a movie theater/cinema and probably cause they were so damn understaffed, I had to work 10-12 hrs without a real break and got paid nearly nothing... I quit after a few weeks
a plastic factory you have put the parts together and in the boxes to and make you own boxes to.12h shift and the parts come every 7 seconds . It hot and oil get on the stuff. The machine brake all the time. people just do it for the money and if they stop paying the money people would run. if you work there you want kill you self new people get put on the fast machine. you got go fast all the time. the money dose you know good if you are dead.
The worst job I ever had was my first and only job. I worked for minimum wage for 9 hours a day 5 days a week. As a kid my dad would play the song "Working Class Hero" all the time by John Lennon and I never understood that until I started my first job. I saved up my money to start my own business and now I only work for myself.
I'll never be a proletariat again.
Doing hvac. Three different companies each worse then the last. Final one I installed 160 furnaces in a condo, all the ductwork & wiring. Finished December 16 and asked what to do next. Owner says oh I have to lay you off now but you can come to the Christmas party.
I would not call it the worst job I've ever had, but in 2007 when I was 17 I had a summerjob as a park manager I cut grass (usually with a brush cutter) for the municipality, sometimes with a lawnmower too... ohh man was it challenging and exhausting during rainy days.
It is more challenging nowadays to cope with myself than working though. I have gained some life experiences and perspective though.
I worked for a knockoff phone book company. My job was to go door-to-door and verify people's information. it was the middle of the summer in the South, so hot as fuck. They gave me a lot of streets in the hood, so no one wanted to give their information to me, if they spoke English or were even home. And one dude who did the same the job got robbed. The manager kept yelling at me because I wasn't making quota. Total bullshit for bullshit money
Any type of Corporate chain place. I found I had a miserable time. It wasn't the employees, it was always the supervisors and upper management thinking they are gods where they think giving a financially struggling employee a.50 cent raise is considered generous. Corporate management is sick in the head.
Im on my 4th job and all these mfs suck. I was only at one for 4 years. The other jobs will be lucky to see me 6 months. This new job straight awful but has awesome pay so im gonna enjoy it until i can't take it anymore
