Jobs you can't wait to quit.

[Rylot]

So as you can probably guess the job I currently have is giant pile of fucking horse shit and at this point I'm not sure if I'd be better off just quitting and living under a bridge. So I work as a security guard and it's shit. The job started off fine, but for the past three months I haven't had a schedule. The company lost a job site and since then they've just randomly called me to work. Sometimes They'll want me to leave for a job site that has already started. I never know more than a few days Today I was scheduled to work 7pm to 7am. So at 6:15 my boss calls me to reschedule for 10:30 tonight. I really can't wait to find something better.

I've also worked at a call center for AT&T which was a miserable experience. I was really happy to quit that one.

TLR Ever have a job you really hate/hated?

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

I used to work for a telemarketing firm. Now, in my defense, we never called anyone. Oh no. We were a company that took contracts with other companies to answer their toll-free numbers.

Want a travel guide to the state of [REDACTED]? Let me take down a name and mailing address and we'll send it right out.
Want to order a copy of the TV show you just watched? We can do that for you.

Dear God, I hated that job. The prank calls. The pissed offed competitors that hated the company we worked for.

Because of the company policy of employee stock ownership, I was informed that I could earn an extra $2000 dollars as severance pay if I stayed with the call center for another 2 weeks of work. I refused the money. It wasn't worth it and got the hell out.

 

[Tiger King]

I think most people had a fast food type job as a teen, I did.
There are no words to describe my hatred for that job. Every shift seemed to be nothing but 8 hours of getting screamed at by complete strangers and of course company policy is 'the customer is always right'.
Which is bullshit, especially when you see staff being physically threatened.
It's a good memory I have of screwing up the stupid hat I used to have to wear, throwing it against the wall of the staff room and finishing my shift for the last time at that place.

I am a bit worried now that I am in America that I will struggle to find a job and will have to go through all that crap again

 

[Rylot]

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Call center work is pretty much the seventh layer of hell. I'm not sure if the customers or fellow employees were worse.

 

[Dalisclock]

Kinda of on the tail end of this but I'm on my way out of the US Navy, mostly because a fair amount of the time I hated my life while at work. My main job I liked but I spent almost all my time at work, almost never got any sleep and was becoming angry and bitter. Then I worked as a recruiter, which is either a wonderful, fulfilling job that you want to do forever or a job you tend to loathe with ever fiber of your being and will never, ever work sales again if you can possibly help it. Yeah, I fall into the second catagory.

I'm not out of the Navy, but I've signed my discharge papers and am just waiting for the clock to run out until I'm done.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I worked at a Best Buy where they had no idea where to put me, no idea what to have me working on and, the managers were absolutely useless. I just couldn't deal with the place...if I could have figured out the computer system, I may have been some help to the customers who came in but aside from that I had basically no direction. I'm working in the back room of a Target now which is not horrible but for the work that I do, my pay is garbage...really need to find something else to do...

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I worked at a Best Buy where they had no idea where to put me, no idea what to have me working on and, the managers were absolutely useless. I just couldn't deal with the place...if I could have figured out the computer system, I may have been some help to the customers who came in but aside from that I had basically no direction. I'm working in the back room of a Target now which is not horrible but for the work that I do, my pay is garbage...really need to find something else to do...

Best Buy is notorious for that. They just place people in whatever department they want, usually without giving them any kind of actual training. There have been multiple times where I'm in the computer section and I'll ask an employee something and they'll say "please don't ask me any computer related questions, I don't know computers."

 

[TheVampwizimp_v1legacy]

I can't wait to be out of my current job. I'm a line cook at a moderately popular family restaurant chain. And I haaaaate it. People are SUCH cocks about their food. Something about having someone make their food for them turns ordinarily decent people into cruel-hearted sadistic bastards.

My schedule is absolutely unreliable, I never know when I'm going to be working. I work dinner shifts most days and thus miss all the social engagements my friends invite me to. My managers are good people but just bad at their jobs. And my fellow cooks are almost universally shitty employees and/or assholes. But most importantly, I just feel like crap all the time, and my miserable job is the biggest reason my life sucks.

The thing is, I gave notice last month, and I expected it to be a rapturous moment, but I just feel bad about it. I don't have anything against the managers there, so telling someone I like that I am essentially screwing them out of their best cook when they are already desperately short on kitchen staff just makes it all taste so sour.

God, this job is ruining my life. I'm so glad I'm leaving next week.

 

[Super Cyborg]

The worst job I had was Life Guarding at a water park for 5 summers. I had to stand in the Texas summer heat 40 plus hours a week from June to August/September, usually with little shade to help out most of the time. Some areas were better with shade, and some spots you were partially submerged in water or you were getting drenched in water. Despite not lifting, it was quite physically demanding and mentally exhausting at time, especially when 90% of the other Lifeguards didn't enforce the rules, many which if you didn't enforce and someone got hurt, you were liable. The 1000's of people that you dealt with who didn't treat you with any respect and refused to listen to you sucked. The 1st summer is the hardest, as they can tell you are new and will try to push you around. 3rd summer on, you don't get phased by much.

Despite the bad, I overall liked the job. You really got laughs out of the stupid people doing stupid things or asking stupid questions. Despite being a hard job at times, I could work as much as I wanted to (I think some state or federal law made it so we didn't get overtime, but I was getting $400 a week on $7.25 an hour, so I couldn't complain too much). Having the job allowed me to save money to go on a trip to Japan, as well as allow me other opportunities later on. Really taught me patience, increased my physical and mental endurance, taught me how to keep a straight face in most situations, how to handle stress, etc.

Best part was while the guests sucked, my bosses were all awesome people, and since I actually did my job to the fullest, they had my back. I still remember a guy twice my size at the time trying to scare me to let his obviously too small child to go on a ride (It was where you swung from a rope). Despite him trying to scare me by making his size comparison known, I wasn't phased. Before he could say anything else, three of my supervisors, all bigger than him, asked if there was a problem. The man took his kid and left without saying a word. They asked if I was okay, and stayed nearby for 10 minutes until they knew the guy wasn't going to come back to cause problems.

 

[lacktheknack]

I worked at a Best Buy where they had no idea where to put me, no idea what to have me working on and, the managers were absolutely useless. I just couldn't deal with the place...if I could have figured out the computer system, I may have been some help to the customers who came in but aside from that I had basically no direction. I'm working in the back room of a Target now which is not horrible but for the work that I do, my pay is garbage...really need to find something else to do...

Best Buy is notorious for that. They just place people in whatever department they want, usually without giving them any kind of actual training. There have been multiple times where I'm in the computer section and I'll ask an employee something and they'll say "please don't ask me any computer related questions, I don't know computers."

This worries me a bit... I just got HIRED at Best Buy and there's rumblings that I may be sharing shifts in the TV department.

I don't know TVs! D:

 

[Kolby Jack]

I'm in the U.S. Navy, and maaaaaaan can I not wait to get out. Don't get me wrong, I like the Navy as an organization, I just hate BEING IN IT. It's really not for me. I only joined because I had just dropped out of college and the economy was tanked. When I first signed up, the six year contract didn't seem like much, but 5 years in (and after having to sign an 8 month extension) I only now realize how long it is. I'm really starting to chafe. I thought getting my next promotion would help, but it didn't.

Luckily I think I've decided what I want to do when I get out, and I'll start working on that plan once I get back from my deployment (that I was voluntold to go on despite having made my intentions on getting out clear, making this a waste of a career opportunity).

 

[Gunner 51]

I work two jobs, one as a medical administrator in a rather large doctor's surgery which I rather like. (Even getting yelled at by angry patients who always want their prescriptions immediately. (But have always forget to ask for them before they run out...) However, it doesn't pull in the money I would like. So I have to work as a cleaner in the same building just to make ends meet.

But I absolutely loathe the cleaning job, you will never be made to feel so worthless. It's physical work, you're up to your armpits in poop and a lot of the patients have diahorrea. But there's three things that really grate me with the job.

1.) The district nurses are the most arrogant, rudest, narcissistic and messiest bunch of gluttons you will ever meet.
2.) I really hate doing complete sterilisations. But this is laziness on my part.
3.) People think you are invisible at best and at worst, will dirty things up intentionally just to watch you clean it up and smirk about it. (Oddly enough, it's the district nurses who are the worst for this...)

 

[Summerstorm]

So far... all of my jobs?

Let's see:

1. Quit my summer-job at a ("Don't know the english word for it") cultivating garden something? Had to trim thousands of plants a day and fill pots at a machine and such in a REALLY hot summer while having my boss scream at me for everything which did cost him money "WHY IS THE DAMN MACHINE NOT RUNNING?" - "I had too shut it off, the loading mechanism didn't take" - "DO IT RIGHT THAN!".
Quit my job when i was so tired that i took a nap at break-time. And pretty much cried when i woke up, because i knew i had to work that job for 4 hours that day, bleeding fingers and tired as hell. Also the boss used me to build new greenhouses. Have you ever worked the floor of a greenhouse in summer? I was drinking about 6+ Liters of water that day, my clothes dripping with sweat...

Good thing: Had some money

2. Video rental store: Pay was so low, i had to do double and tipple shifts to pay my rent. All while serving mentally unstable customers their daily porn (To be fair, all those total weirdos were at least entertaining) But try to throw out a group of teenagers wrestling between the displays

Good thing: -

3. Working in a warehouse, resupplying the packing/sending area. Two-and-a-half years of moving tons of books and stuff all night (Start at 22:00, end at 06:00 in the morning). Absolutely numbing work. At the start you get a list, than the packing begins. The worst thing: The guys driving the machines: less work, double the pay. Having to count and pack while those guys sat down drinking coffee and talked and play games for half the night... yay.

Good things: Pay was okay, i saw a lot of books and could get them cheap, could hear music/audio-books all night - I was strong as an ox, lost weight like crazy the first months.

4. Office helper for a logistics company. HOLY SHIT - Dat stress and those hours... just wow. Also totally not my work. I had no idea what i was doing there. Well, needed the money.

Good things: Nope.

5. Call center (It was either promotion to administration or quitting, got the promotion before i quit.)

So yeah, did a lot of weird jobs in the past. I did quit all of them, never fired. I can only take so much of those until i need some unemployment to regenerate it seems. Having trouble with work doesn't help though. (Pathological superlazy i guess)

 

[SweetShark]

I think most people had a fast food type job as a teen, I did.
There are no words to describe my hatred for that job. Every shift seemed to be nothing but 8 hours of getting screamed at by complete strangers and of course company policy is 'the customer is always right'.
Which is bullshit, especially when you see staff being physically threatened.
It's a good memory I have of screwing up the stupid hat I used to have to wear, throwing it against the wall of the staff room and finishing my shift for the last time at that place.

I am a bit worried now that I am in America that I will struggle to find a job and will have to go through all that crap again

Saldy the "the customer is always right" rule apply to all jobs [as far I know]
However another rule that apply is "The customers don't know what they want".
So knowing the above rule, you can easily manipulate your customers to select something you want. Of course you must find a clever way for doing that.

 

[DanteRL]

Worked at a bus station once, selling tickets and helping passengers with their luggage.And there was nothing positive about it. The company was amazingly shitty, I was only entitled to my complete 1 hour of lunch because I was a new employee, all of the others could barely leave their places to eat, and I've seen one manager telling a co worker that the only way to get anything for the extra hours that she worked, would be to sue the company. Pay also was bad as hell, and the routine even worse. A lot of the bus drivers would blame us for anything that happened, the passengers too. "Oh gee, bus is late on Christmas day? Got to be fault of this man behind the counter.".

We also had no security, the place was open and ANYONE could walk in, including some drug addicts that used to walk around there. And just to make sure that everything was hateful about it, there was a factory nearby that worked with animal fat, and from 11am to 15pm it produced a godawful smell that just lingered around.

3 months after quitting I got a job as an editor on a local TV show about videogames, writing reviews and stuff, so, yeah, that was nice.

 

[Parasondox]

Telephone Interviewer with a marketing research company.

Firstly it was zero hour contract which made things really difficult as they hired more people than they have phones. So if you weren't one of the first 30 people in line before you get in the office, you are fucked for the day and no pay.

Secondly, you have a 2 hour window on a Wednesday afternoon to book your own hours. Annoying part was no one picked up and it went to voicemail. If you don't get a call before 5pm, congrats, you get no work for the week and have to wait a whole week to book again.

Thirdly, the targets we had to meet was fucking stupid. Here is an example. You need to get 8 callers to complete a telephone fully. You have to only speak to those aged between 18 and 24 and have to be male. If you didn't reach that target in the space of 4 hours, the rest of your shift for the week will be cancelled. 18 - 24 year old males do not give a fuck about surveys and it would be really damn rare to get one. Trust me. Then you will get moments when the quota changes midway. "Only speak to mothers aged 25 - 30".

I hated that damn job and yet I didn't quit. They just didn't bother picking up my calls or calling me back when I leave them messages. You may be wondering why I just didn't go to the office in person, you can't do that because they will just say, "you can only call. We won't book you in person".

I got screwed over so damn much I felt depressed and insulted. They didn't care about the staff because we were just numbers to them.

 

[DanielBrown]

Currently got four extra jobs. One I love, one I can live with and two I fucking hate.
Those I can't stand are a car delivery job and one as an unskilled worker(seems to be the closest English translation). The delivery job is stressful and very physically demanding. Getting a delivery with "2000 kg, six stairs, no elevator" wasn't uncommon and after that you still had to do at least three-seven more stops before the next shift(three shifts/day). On weekends, when I was usually called in, you always had to work a minimum of 11 hours. Usually I wasn't done until 11 pm and we start at 10 am.
Apart from this awful mess they also didn't give a fuck about the workers. Sick and exhausted workers were threatened or played to keep working and they made sure to tell me that if you pass on a job you won't be coming back for a long time. Two jobs and you're basically gone from the list.
Haven't been back since September when I got my second job, but they still call from time to time(feels good hanging up). Since it was my first job I didn't have a choice, however now I think I can safely say I'll never work that kind of car delivery jobs again. The only positive thing was the customers. On the whole they were fun to talk to and helped out when they were supposed to, but as you can expect I also had my fair share of complete assholes... Got tons more to whine about, but this post is getting messy enough as it is.

Don't have that much to complain about the unskilled worker gig to be honest. Fun work partners and a really simple job with a decent pay(considering the work). It can be very physical, but we mainly move in kitchens and closets to newly built houses and for that we have carts that take most of the weight. We're also work unsupervised, so you can imagine how that works!
It is, however, compared to my latest two jobs complete shit. Things are looking my way now though and it seems I might get to work full time at those two, so I won't have to go back there again either.

If anyone wonders I also work as an oil pump aerator assembler and metal worker. Just getting to work in doors was enough to make me a bit teary eyed.

 

[Just Ebola]

The worst job I ever had was working as a cashier and cook at a McDonalds. Just the screening process for getting the job is insane, they're probably more lax if you're trying to join some government agency. Three or so interviews, a ton of references, driving for two hours to a training site in the middle of the desert. All that just so you could get yelled at by obese rednecks for 8 hours a day.

When I started I was bounced around to three or four different locations (all in the middle of nowhere, and all at least 30-45 minutes apart) before the new location I was hired to work opened up. This was all more often than not before the sun came up. The management was a joke, they always backed the customer up when they were being aggressive or unreasonable, even when I was following company policy. One manager was a sadist who insisted on me stopping what I was doing, which was usually filling orders, to sweep and mop the floor, all while the maintenance guys were doing nothing. That would result in three other managers yelling at me for not doing my job and getting food out. Not only that, but they would tell me to fix machines that broke, of which there were many. So some days I would be trying to fix a deep fryer (somehow?) while the maintenance guys were once again in the back, laughing at me because I don't know what I'm doing.

Then the worst part: the customers. I've never felt such indignation in my entire life like I did working there. Most of them feel like they can talk to you like a dog just because you're standing behind the counter of a McDonald's. And they can, because management would do anything to avoid offending a hostile customer. I'm generally a pretty upbeat person, but working there really made me bitter for a long time.

And when I finally did quit, they grilled me to tell them the new place I had been hired to (probably so they could call and tell them I was unreliable and lazy or something). That's how vindictive and soulless they are.

The worst part is that I had a semi-decent job where I was friends with the manager and generally well-respected that I left to go work there. Because I wanted more money.

TL;DR: Fuck McDonald's.

 

[Burs]

My most Hated job is funnily enough the job I'm in at the moment.

While I'm starting my Nursing Degree I'm working as a Healthcare Assistant in my local Hospital. I'm used to the work, heavy lifting dealing with blood/sick/other body fluids, dealing with confused/aggressive patients, getting threatened by patients and relatives, dealing with death and generally facing the blunt end of hospital nursing.
Funnily enough, while I was working in a Acute Cardiology Ward I loved the job and everything above in which it entailed, because I was being kept busy and constantly learning something new; its when I moved to a Orthopaedic Trauma ward under the pretence of further developing my experience to take towards my degree that I started to hate my job.
Here in ortho I am typically dealing with only 10-16 patients on any given day and most of them will be self caring independent folks like you and I; all the jobs that require a fully functioning brain are performed by the nurses and other than muscle strain and bone breaks everyone is healthy so my 12.5 hour shifts are functionally empty and devoid of all meaning and I'm spending those many many hours doing sweet FA until I have to leave at 9 (PM or AM) to cycle home in the dark.