Worst job you ever had

[tcsparky]

I currently teach Physics, so working with teenagers has up and downs, but is never boring!!

I had two jobs that tie for worst, but in different ways. The first one was when I was in college, my senior year. I worked at a restaurant for my husband's uncle. He was super pervy. When a girl worked alone in the afternoons, he would call her back to his office, pull her on his lap, then fondle her. Being a college kid at the time, I didn't know how to handle it. My husband didn't believe that his wonderful, rich uncle would do these things. I found another job with better hours and more pay, and used that as an excuse to leave the family business. My husband and I divorced a few years later.

My other bad job was working in a school for a principal who was a bully. She drive most of the good people out her first year. Many people were suicidal and having breakdowns. Her higher-ups thought she was wonderful for "cleaning house." I left at the end of the year for a better work environment.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by tcsparky

My other bad job was working in a school for a principal who was a bully. She drive most of the good people out her first year. Many people were suicidal and having breakdowns. Her higher-ups thought she was wonderful for "cleaning house." I left at the end of the year for a better work environment.

I have worked for demon principals like this. All 4 sons and 1 daughter are now teachers, and my husband (also a teacher) and I have warned them that the happiest high school can be destroyed in less than a year by a psycho principal.

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by tcsparky

I currently teach Physics, so working with teenagers has up and downs, but is never boring!!

I had two jobs that tie for worst, but in different ways. The first one was when I was in college, my senior year. I worked at a restaurant for my husband's uncle. He was super pervy. When a girl worked alone in the afternoons, he would call her back to his office, pull her on his lap, then fondle her. Being a college kid at the time, I didn't know how to handle it. My husband didn't believe that his wonderful, rich uncle would do these things. I found another job with better hours and more pay, and used that as an excuse to leave the family business. My husband and I divorced a few years later.

My other bad job was working in a school for a principal who was a bully. She drive most of the good people out her first year. Many people were suicidal and having breakdowns. Her higher-ups thought she was wonderful for "cleaning house." I left at the end of the year for a better work environment.

Wow! This is crazy! I never have been able to understand how assholes end up in positions of power. They strive for those positions for that very reason, to bully people in lower positions. Drives me nuts.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

Wow! This is crazy! I never have been able to understand how assholes end up in positions of power. They strive for those positions for that very reason, to bully people in lower positions. Drives me nuts.

Because they don't act like assholes to the people who choose the administrators. They suck up to them.

[*winter*]

People at the top of professions are like senior officers in the military. They have all the education and book knowledge…but either 1) they’ve never actually done the job personally or 2) they did the job, but it was so long ago that they don’t remember the day to day details and how it REALLY was.

(Also true for a lot of Directors of Nursing…the only ones I’ve met who really got it were the ones who actually went on the floor to help out when we were short staffed. Amazingly, they were much more understanding after that lol!)

[PrettyBoy]

Some folks just want power but lack principle. I don’t respect people like that. I never have. I’ve always respected or not respected the person behind the title.

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by carnation

Because they don't act like assholes to the people who choose the administrators. They suck up to them.

I’m not sure how it is in the field of education but when one person is causing problems like that in peoples lives, at FedEx that would be a serious HR issue and would be dealt with immediately.

Originally Posted by PrettyBoy

Some folks just want power but lack principle. I don’t respect people like that. I never have. I’ve always respected or not respected the person behind the title.

I couldn’t agree more.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

I’m not sure how it is in the field of education but when one person is causing problems like that in peoples lives, at FedEx that would be a serious HR issue and would be dealt with immediately.

I wish! They're often really good buddies with their superiors. In one district where I taught, administrators had a wife-swapping group and they were pretty open about it because they knew they'd never get in trouble.