The worst job you EVER had
 

What was it?

Oh the memories.......
 

Bank CSA

That mess was so stressful and mentally abusive, I never want to do it again. The whole "The bank is a laid back easy job" bit is a CROCK:mad:

Value City.

It's a retail department store that sells dang near everything dirt cheap. I worked in the back putting clothes on hangers and it was the WORST. I only lasted two and a half hours.

I was a waitress for all of 2 weeks. HATED IT!!!!!!:mad:

Worst Job Eva!
 

My worst job was at TJ Maxx. I was about 16 years old and it was so manual labor intensive...hanging and folding clothes...organizing the fitting room..and doing inventory. We couldn't leave the store at night until it was spotless...often keeping us an hour or two after the store closed. I was there for a short period of time...about two weeks. I thereafter worked at a department store during my senior year of high school where I earned commission and had more help in organizing clothes...I worked at Macy's and it was fun making "that good money" (for the time at least).

I worked as an "usher" at a movie theatre when I was 16. That was my first and worst job. I hated cleaning the theatres after a movie, i hated cleaning the snack area before we closed, and I hated having to wear that ugly little black vest with the red bowtie. I really hated doing all that for $5.15 an hour. The only good thing that came of me working there was the free movies.

shortest job in history
 

The job was advertised as a public relations specialist for a restaurant. Come to find out, it was door to door sales selling coupon books for a fast food chain. Lasted only 1 1/2 hours!!!

The worst job I have had was at a Human Service agency doing crisis intervention with families who were dealing with the welfare/foster care system. The people who ran the agency were the most unprofessional folks I have ever had the displeasure of working with. Right from the director to the other administrative heads below her position. When my boss hired a group of us to jumpstart a new part of the program, she also hired an interim supervisor who turned out to be the wicked witch of the west, broomstick up her butt and all. Everyone I was hired with slowly but surely quit, one by one..until none of us were left. That was one job that will never show itself on my resume lol

THIS IS A LONG ONE!
 

i answered an ad for a management trainee program that deals with missing and exploited children. I get to the place and they had a group seminar to discuss the different programs they do (like fingerprinting, going to schools to speak to the kids about not talking to strangers, working with local police departments, doing the "have you see me" mailings.... lies, lies). All of the speakers were well dressed, college educated, well spoken.... and they were looking for college grads to come in entry level and then work within the management trainee program to ultimately become manager at one of their branches... SOUNDS GOOD?

Well, those of us that were seriously interested in the position were invited to spend a day out in the field with a few associates to see what a day would be like. My day comes and im dressed semi casual (cause i dont know where we're going) and i walk in and the most CRACKHEADISH folks i'd every seen are splitting up the groups! They put me in a group of 3 ladies and we're driving... the whole time i kept asking where are we going, WHERE ARE WE GOING, and no one would say anything! Finally they pulled into a plaza parking lot (yeah this is a good spot) and proceeded to BEG PEOPLE FOR MONEY!

NO TABLE SET OUT IN FRONT OF KMART, NO BROCHURES STATING THEIR PURPOSE, JUST ASKING FOLKS FOR MONEY FOR MISSING KIDS! and the kicker was that they didnt get an hourly wage, just a percentage of whatever they BEGGED for that day!

I was like WTF? and since i didnt drive i was stuck. I sat my happy A$$ in subway for the rest of the day.

(did they really think that anyone that went to college for 4 years was going to actually WANT that job???)

To ClassyLady:
I loved Value City - but then again, I worked in the Loss Prevention department. Great job!!!

I reserve a place in my heart for hating Burger King. First jobs suck!!!

The Public Library
 

The summer after senior year, I worked in the children's section shelving books. HATED IT!! I mainly disliked it because a girl younger than me got to shelve the real books and do check outs and I was smarter than her. As soon as I would straighted/shelve a section, some kid would come, grab 20 books randomyl (PICTURE BOOKS) and only take 1 book so I would have to reshelve the mofos in ABC order. :mad:

Those were the longest 8 weeks of my life.:mad:

Tsk, Tsk, Tsk
 

Y'all, don't ask me why, but when I was 16, I took a telemarketing position at Fred Astaire Dance Studio. The job entailed calling people at dinner time to tell them they had just won free ballroom dance lessons IF they could answer three simple questions about Fred Astaire. Well, out of the 100 people I would call a night, maybe 5 wouldn't hang up on me. Out of those 5, only 2 would actually entertain answering the questions. I was so happy they stayed on the phone with me, I would give them the free lessons no matter if they answered the questions correctly or not. I think I only stayed at that job for like 3 weeks, but it was by far the worst one I've ever had.

I musta Blacked out these other ones
 

Thanks Bamboozled for reminding me :D

1. Last summer, took a job grading standardized tests. Now I can barely grade the papers for my kids that I see every day so I really don't know what in the BLUE blazes possessed me to work here. I sat next to 2 of the most annoying azz old azz people in the world. We sat on a computer all day but it was against policy to get on the InTERNET. :mad:

2. PIZZA HUT, late summer and early fall. 2 words: HATED IT. I know I talked about it in the how comes from back in the fall.

3. Phonathon @ Wittenberg.

This is, hands down, THE funniest post I have ever read on GC
 

LMPSCHO (laughing my processed S-Curled head off)

Did yall havta dance and chant "Hot-two, hot-two, ziggedy bing bong boom, hot-two"? with a styrofoam cup for change (a la Mel Brooks in "Life Stinks")

You're making this up, right, cause that mess was TOO TOO funny!

You could have used that last line of your above post as a rhyme to get some $$ (I was like WTF....I was stuck).

LOLOLOLOL. Pretty Poodle, you know you gonna get clowned royally for telling us that one--but we still luv ya anyway
:D

I'll post mine after I laugh at a couple more of yalls. Whooo!!

Honorable Mention in the funniest post category
 

LOLOLOL

That post was SO FUNNY.....

(HOW FUNNY WAS IT??!!)

....that I am actually going to use that as a wisecrack punchline the next time someone tells me that they are a PR specialist (modified based on the actual business, of course).

Now you got to be bulljiving with that story, cause that does sound like a joke someone would say on Comic View, albeit a funny one.

Keep em' comin', yall!!!

Re: THIS IS A LONG ONE!
 

YOU TOO?!?! I did that for like 2 days. The ONLY reason I stuck around for the 2nd day was becasue day #1 was easy. We did have a table set up in front of a grocery store with literature and people came up to us asked for info/gave money. That's second day? Straight solicitation. No handouts, no flyers, NADA. Fortunately the chick I was with the 2nd day was cool. She dropped me back off @ the office to get my car around noon and I never looked back.

My first job
 

Amen to all of the above.......except I got paid 4.75 (so sad):(

Some of y'all were on GC when I was working htere, but I worked at a law firm for the MEANEST, STINGIEST, SOULLESS people I have ever seen in my life!

I basically typed letters all day and at the end of the day packaged and sent out ALL The mail (all 100 or so letters).

My first day there they gave me two pens, and made me put my INITIALS ON THEM. IF I asked someone for a pen they asked me, "where is YOUR pen?" A ten cent pen!

My first week there I stayed late EVERY DAY. One day I was 15 minutes late and they actually docked my pay- even though they damn sure hadn't been paying me to stay late.

I lasted two and a half weeks exactly before I showed up to give them my keys and split.

It just went to show, you should never look for a job from a position of financial need because you will ignore your instincts and take it for the money, then when it's over you may or may not be in a worse position then you were to start with! Luckily I wasn't!

When you left did you have to give your two pens back or was that part of your severance package?:p :confused:

The worst job I ever had was as a Traffic Accident Researcher. It was one of those one year assignments which you were contracted by the federal government to go to accident scenes to measure skidmarks and chart fatalities in some counties. It was depressing, I was basically following the scanners or CB radios for accidents and some times of the year like winter time was brutal.

The worst!!
 

The worst job that I ever had was working at Woolworth. I got paid $4.75 an hour for the worst manager around ( it could have been b/c he was a manager at Woolworth.) Anyway, he was form the islands but he played country music on the intercom ALL THE TIME!!!!! He constantly yelled at the employees, especially in front of the customers to the point the customers would shake their head. He yelled at me once b/c I punched the wrong numbers in the regester ( it was manual) and I didn't figure it out the differnce quick enough. He yelled at me and then told me to move out the way so he could do it. And I swear if all the girls go together we could file for sexual harrassment b/c he would massage thier shoulders and rub thier backs and ask for hugs. I wasn't trying to hear that! :eek: you are not my pappy!! my job lasted for 2 1/2 wks. I was happy when he fired me. He claimed my productivity went down. We got,during rush hour, a whopping 15 customers prob. a total of 30/day, and I guess if my boss is constantly yelling at me morale would go down.

Rain Man - i WISH that was a joke! If there is anyone in the LA area that sees an ad for this (its based in Long Beach) DONT DO IT! it is a straight bust.

12dn94dst - at least they tried to make it look all nice and legit on the 1st day for you! i cant believe that folks actually WORK at these places!?

my worst experience was as a canvasser (read: door to door beggar) for an environmental organization during one summer in high school. I lasted about a month, but i left before i even got my first paycheck because i HAD to leave b4 i hurt somebody. They hyped us up in meetings, made us feel like we were "making a difference" and "saving the environment"... then someone would drive us out to the high-end suburbs and developments and LEAVE. we spent time walking door to door, soliciting donations, having people sign petitions, and disseminating information on the newest state and federal items up for vote concerning the environment, clean water, etc. That job was the WORST b/c it was my first experience with racism and sexism. Being a little dark-skinned girl with natural hair, i didn't fare as well as some of the other canvassers going door to door. Being female, the particular org. i worked with was male dominated so i never reall has an opportunity to "grow"... Did i mention i NEVER got paid... and this wasn't advertised as volunteer work? but alas, it was an experience, and i guess it helped open my eyes to the "real world."

My worst job was working at a frozen yogurt shop in high school. I hated making those dang waffle cones. My fingers were burned too many times. I never worked in any kind of food place again after that.

I took the pens with me. I mean after I had gone through all the trouble of initialing them.....lol

My Worst Jobs
 

I have had 2 horrible jobs:

1.) I worked at K-Mart for a worl for school credit program when I was in High School. It was a grip of us student workers. Most of them were lazy and did not do a darn thing. I, on the other hand, was (key word: WAS) looking to get hired permanently, so I took it upon myself to actually attempt to do some work. The store was in such a shambles though that any work you did only made a dent in what needed to be done. Y'all on my last day there they put me in the toy isle--THE WORST isle in the store!!! :rolleyes: :mad: That whole isle looked like World War III hit it--twice! :eek: Every time I would make some progress cleaning the isle, some dayum baddazz kid would come and mess it all up...That day I left and never came back (I kept the job for about 2 weeks)...

2.) The other terrible job I had was as a telemarketer at a call center on my campus. At first the job was all good--I was getting paid for the training and they had flexible hours so I was feeling it. But, once I actually started doing work--ALL HEYELL broke loose. We were suupposed to call ALUMNI of the university to ask them if they could donate some money to the school (mind you, some of these people had just graduated). We were also on the computer all day (or night) but did not have access to the internet. We had to memorize this entire speech, most of which you never got to recite b/c the person would hang up on you. Sometimes they recorded the conversations so that the supervisors could monitor your progress. Being that the nature of the job requires you to beg for money, I would think they would be understanding about you not getting too many donations when you just started to work there. BUT, NO, they had THE DAYUM NERVE to get a funky attitude with m and tell me I wasn't raking in enough $$!!!! :mad: :eek: After that, they switched me to another group, where I was calling PARENTS asking them for money! WTF?! :confused: Now you know no parents have $$ to be giving away for free when their child is a student at our university! And we weren't asking for no chump change either!!

I also left that job and never cme back (I called them and left a message saying that I'm not coming back after like a month and told them to not act like they were firing me either!)...

See, these are the reasons why folks go "postal"...

I think this one will take the cake
 

Believe it or not, my non-professional jobs were ok compared to my worst job which was professional. To give you an idea, my non-professional jobs included:

Litter crew member at Ohio State Fair
Electronics sales clerk at Harts
Register clerk at Super-X drugstore (that job was MAD boring, but not the worst)
Sales clerk at Lazarus
Assistant manager at frozen yogurt shot (not a bad job)

But here's the kicker:

I got a job as an accountant at a one-man bookkeeping and tax service in a working-class suburb. The owner, lets call him Jim put me through HELL and was a cheapskate to boot. Case in point, his office was a former motel, where the front office and one of the former motel rooms were part of his business and the remaining motel rooms he rented out to folx for about $100/month.

Anyway, every time I made an error, no matter how small, he would get mad and cuss me out, saying stuff like "YOU STUPID $#!T, HOW COULD YOU DO THIS??!!" or "From now on, I'm gonna call you Stupid Man, cause what you did was stupid").

I couldn't even disagree with him without him throwing a tantrum. Example, I called a client three times and got no response and I asked why the need to call a fourth time. He threw a tantrum and I said, "Fine, I am calling him right now. Are you happy?" Jim replies "But you're fighting me every f[ornicat]ing step of the way!" We can't even agree to disagree.

Well, on two occasions he hired a second assistant. One was a 48-year-old woman and one a 30-something male. While he didn't throw tantrums with them, neither of them stayed long. The woman lasted 8 weeks, the man lasted six days. By sheer coincidence, they both walked off the job at about 10 am by leaving a handwritten resignation note and bounced). On 2 independent occasions, mind you.

Well, aside from me working from 8:30 am to about 7 pm every day, even after tax season and having to hear his bulljive lecture before he gave me my measly paycheck every pay, I managed to last 9 months. On my last day, it was the last straw.

Here's what happened. Picture it, August 27, 1999 at 9:08 in the evening.

I worked 12 hours to get a client's books ready. I had to call them to clarify a simple item on their books. I had to document all questions and responses when we call clients. Well, I got my answer and got them done. I get ready to go home and I was TIRED. Jim calls me in his office and asks me why I had to call a client to inquire about a simple matter. I responded that this client tended to goof on simple things such as this and I didn't want to assume anything. The rest of the conversation went like this:

Jim: I don't think you know sales from cost.
Me: Yes, I do.
Jim: I don't think you do
Me: (getting tired of his bulldrop) OK, fine, I don't
Jim: Well, now as your boss--
Me: Hold up, the LORD is my boss. If you don't like the way I do things, I quit!
Jim: WELL THEN GET THE F[ORNICATE] OUT!!!
Me: Bye!

Well, I make occasional visits to his office and I even gave him and his staff candy canes and Christmas cards at Christmastime. But he still makes lame excuses that he is busy and gives this fake, contrived, dung-eating grin that I know all too well is a front.

But I went through nine months of pure HELL for that job and I will NEVER go through something like that for pay again.

Re: Re: THIS IS A LONG ONE!
 

Yall were lucky to have tables set up. We just went business to business, store to store.The white lady who was with us tried to make herself look good in front of us by asking someone who "looked like" he didn't have any money for a donation. What made it worse was I saw a story about of the missing children on the tv(he was located). I told the lady and she wasn't even interested!!!! That's how I knew it was time to step because what they were was just for a paycheck.Not to mention the horrible pay. I didn't even show up after I had been told I was hired.Those 2 days of orientation were enough for me!!!

My, you guys crack me up. The worst professional gig I had was my second journalism job. Had a bad boss who turned on me six months in. Dude ran up on me while outside the office and screamed at me. I quit (this was 13 years ago) and worked temps. In those days, I made enough to pay my $350 a month in rent and eat, too.

I have another job to put on blast. I received a letter in the mail stating that they needed college students for a customer service job. They promised $14 per appointment and guaranteed pay. Come to find out the job was for selling knives. Who do you know wants to buy knives? I didn't even show up after I found out I was hired.

ttt
 

Time to add some new worst jobs to the thread and to (re)laugh at some of the old ones.

C'mon, newbies: What was your worst job?

The absolute worst job was when I worked for the Postal Service from May to July of 2001. I was a remote encoder. This meant that for 4 hours I would sit and type in zip codes and addresses. While the pay was good ($13/hr), everything else SUCKED!!! For one, you could not talk AT ALL while working. You simply had to concentrate on the B&W computer screen and the mail image on the screen. Second, you could bring a walkman, but only after your speed was above a certain level. If it went below the level, you went back to not having headphones. In order to break up the monotony (sp?) you took a break every 55 minutes. The first break was 5 minutes, the second was 10 minutes, and it alternated back and forth. Oh, and the worse thing, two words: MANDATORY OVERTIME. This job was during the evening hours from like 6-10 PM. If it was slow, they would let you go without asking. But let the mail be backed up and you were forced to stay without asking. I'm sitting here getting mad as I type. :mad:

ttt for all the newbies
 

What was your worst job? (ttt)

My absitively posolutely WORST JOB EVA!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Sheeeeeeeeeyyouuuuuuuuutttttttt.
 

LS, not to make light of your situation, b/c I am sure that it was nothing short of pure hell, but my questions to you is this:

Did your boss refer to women as c**ts and n***er whores?
Did your boss call you a dumba** and stupid s**t, and motherf***er?

If he did, than I will gladly pass the crown from Jim to Simon
in an instant, no questions asked.

Dag, lemme finish this post, cause I'm gettin' pissed off just thinkin' about it.

Re: Sheeeeeeeeeyyouuuuuuuuutttttttt.
 

I know that was a learning experience for you, but.......unless you were underage and didnt know better (even then you were supposed to tell your mother and let her come to the office and act the fool while she gave him the AINT NOBODY GONNA CUSS MY CHILD BUT ME speech) you were supposed to lay hands on him and cast out his cussing demon. After that you should have prayed. Seriously though, I hate it when punks try young people because they think they can get away with it.

Re: Sheeeeeeeeeyyouuuuuuuuutttttttt.
 

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Rain Man
LS, not to make light of your situation, b/c I am sure that it was nothing short of pure hell, but my questions to you is this:

Quote:

Did your boss refer to women as c**ts and n***er whores?

No, he just always told me that he didn't like stupid people and that the other secretaries that worked in the office with the other agents were stupid bitches. He said they were stupid b/c all they were there for was to get a salary, and he wanted me to grow and get bonuses from him and his partner selling homes.
He did call me stupid and unfocused on a number of occasions, and with the tone he used, these three terms you mentioned were definitely on the tip of his nasty Jewish tongue. I could feel it and see it in his eyes. Also, he and his partner spoke Hebrew many times, so I would have absolutely NO clue WTH he was saying about me to his partner in front of my face. At least your boss spoke only English. I was dealing with bilingual mofos who spoke a language that was COMPLETELY unfamiliar to me.

Re: Re: Sheeeeeeeeeyyouuuuuuuuutttttttt.
 

I started reading this thread because I thought the subject was cool but now I have to comment.

Obviously, I don't know you or your situation, bosses etc, but in my personal experience there are horrible bosses of all races, religions, orientations. Not all Jewish people are nasty, cruel, or bad. I know plenty Jews and the ones I have met are decent, good people. It's sad to hear you had such a bad experience but I have to disagree with what you wrote about it.

I'm not looking to change your mind because you obviously have your reasons and opinions but I just wanted to communicate that I don't agree with it.

Re: Re: Re: Sheeeeeeeeeyyouuuuuuuuutttttttt.
 

Dear KATwoman:

I understand your point of view, and accept it as just that. I know that there are good and bad people everywhere, and they come in different shapes, sizes and colors. But in my post about my WORST JOB EVER (these being the operative key words ;) ), I was merely explaining my circumstances and why this particular job was my worst one ever. As far as I'm concerned, all I did was answer the question posed in this thread.

Back to the ranch: RM, did I mention that they were from Palestine and considered most potential homebuyers "stupid fcuking Americans?" I think that they were also directing that comment at me whenever they felt like lashing out, but I digress. :rolleyes: