The Job You Hated the Most

CrimsonBlaze

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Pretty much the job I have right now. There's nothing inherently bad about it, I just don't like how management is handled and the lack of structure. I have no idea how my firm was able to accomplish what they have because they have no schedule and the employees often taken upon themselves to get the job done.

Oh well, at least I get to work with attractive women for the majority of my shift.
 

AJvsRonin

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Geez this turned into an essay.

Straight after high school I didn't know what I wanted to do so I didn't go straight to college. My parents twisted my arm to work for their friends in their orchid business (which they were shareholders in). The job was boring as fuck, having to use little plastic hooks to pull the flowers so when they grew all the flowers were facing forward (more pleasing to the market apparently).

The staff manager was bat shit crazy and would make up complaints about me, I don't know why she just didn't like me I guess (after I left she went bonkers and destroyed stuff before rage quitting).

When I heard a news story about how people were complaining that the minimum wage hadn't gone up in like 5 years or something I heard somebody say how much it was and realised it was more than I was on. When I told my parents my mother said I should be happy with what I was getting and to not cause a fuss. Needless to say I asked for it and back pay for how much I was underpaid. 4 weeks later I got a cheque for $400 NZ (I'd been working there for only 3 months) and my pay went up so much I felt so happy and yet so sad at the same time that such a pittance could make me happy.

I eventually found out I was (except the owners) the only one who finished high school and was on the least amount of money, one staff member laughed when I said what I was on... and I wasn't the youngest, one guy was 16 and had dropped out of school.

Once when the bat shit manager was making another complaint and had to have a meeting with one of the owners I made a basic complaint about this and they told me I need to grow up of I wasn't going to go anywhere in life (he even referred to my occasional mentions of playing video games as part of my "being stuck as a child").

Looking back on it now I realise it was the cause but I ended up depressed and in a pretty bad place mentally. Just feeling completely helpless. If I left I was going to get booted out of home in one of the most expensive places to live in the world.

I left there a few months later, went to University,8 years later I now have multiple degrees and diplomas, I live in Australia, making more than my parents and the owners of that company combined, I play more videogames than I ever did as a kid, and I'm a god damn scientist who knows more about plants than they do.


That shit job still fucks with my head some times. A few months ago the company I work for had to work out my fringe benefit tax and I realised I get more in fringe benefits now than I got paid working at that job.

I guess the only plus side is it's firmly stamped in me just how important it is to give people fair pay, and that as much as they're lovely people, my parents are not above using their kids as collateral to prop up their business deals.
 

MiracleOfSound

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Waiter in a hotel. Ugh. 15-16 hour shifts kissing the asses of the vilest, rudest rich people on the planet.

Washing pots in the kitchens was actually less awful.
 

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Still has to be working in retail.

Being treated like an inhuman work-droid was soul-crushing enough, but it was next to a pub and was open until late so we often got all the violent drunks who were kicked out of the pub start kicking off in the shop when they were refused alcohol. As the only person with swinging genitals I was supposed to deal with them too, despite being built like a toothpick.
So many time I very nearly got punched in that place - the only reason I was never hit was a combination of drunk people's poor aim, a guy like Bruce Lee being our security guard (who was there twice a week, because people only steal or act violent on Wednesdays/Fridays), and pure dumb luck.

Hell, one time I had a fever so high I passed out in the middle of the shop and people just stepped over me to get in line. Fuck that place.
 

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SaneAmongInsane said:
She was also the legal guardian of her troubled little sister so she's trying to hold this job and make sure that kid doesn't go to jail and she would need time off and they'd literally stand and tell her "The companies needs comes before your needs."
Holy shit. We've had employees in that position. If the Managing Director hears of a situation like that he takes them into his office, works out what they need and custom makes a role for them so both sides are happy. Most recently we've had a couple of people suffer severe depression/anxiety problems with one guy attempting suicide. The MD just put him on bereavement leave (above and beyond the legal requirement) and sponsored his psyche treatments.

It makes good business sense as training new people a waste of resources and you're never gonna leave if your boss has got your back.


Maybe not such a big thing for high turnover retail stores but still...
 

Girl With One Eye

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Doing door to door sales was pretty brutal. At least with telesales you don't have to see the look of disgust on some peoples faces when they open the door and you ask if they want skytv.
 

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tippy2k2 said:
I can feel your pain...my worst job is easily Apple tech support (although not for Apple; it's an outsourced job).

Here is your plan as an Apple call center employee

-"Hi, how are you today?"
-"Do you want to buy something? Warranty maybe? Come oooon, you know you want to..."
-"I'm sorry that your product is not working, I empathize with that situation"
-"Since I'm only allowed 12 minutes to fix your thing and just spent 5 minutes trying to sell you shit you're not going to want and convince you that I care, I will give you one basic step to take in order to try to fix your issue. Please call back once that step fails"
-Repeat

I was there long enough to become a T2 employee (if you call and the issue is really bad/the customer demands to talk to a supervisor, that's me!). For every one customer that legitimately needs a T2 employee, you get nine that are either:

A. Their problem should have never gotten this far. The T1 agent is an idiot
B. "Sir, I understand that you dropped it on accident, I'm still not replacing your shattered screen for free"
C. The T1 agent caused the issue (boy was that lady pissed when her Windows User ID got erased...)

Those customer's that actually needed my help was probably the only reason I didn't quit that job sooner. I do love the feeling of helping someone and I got my own phone number as a T2 employee, which allowed me to stay in direct contact with these people who legitimately needed my help. Nothing made me feel better than using my T2 powers to say "You know what, fuck this. This is something that should not be happening to you and I am truly sorry for the inconvenience. I'm getting you a brand new iPod".

The best part? I've heard that Apple is LENIENT on it's employees with their metrics and how they handle calls. Good God I'd hate to see a different center if that's the case.
Haha, yeah, Tech Support is an entity all to itself. Its kind of soul sucking. And I think we had similar experiences. I was expected to get customers to buy extra ink and extended warranties and new printers after I had finished with their issue. And my RPC(revenue per call) was one of the main stats they tracked us on.

I may have exaggerated a bit, though your stats can get you fired, they'll keep you around unless you are really god awful....call centers have a high turnover rate as it is, they can't afford to be firing people. Of the twenty new hires that I came in with, 10 months later I was one of four left. Clearly it was a fantastic place to work.

Would have loved to have T2 powers though! Wouldn't have had to wade through the process every time their printer needed to be replaced....Though dealing with incompetent T1 agents seems like it would be awful, I saw enough of those in my area. Just came down to no one giving a shit...

Though I suppose if I never worked there, I wouldn't have come out with gems like this.

Me: "Is the printer plugged in to the wall?"
Customer: "Why would I need to plug it in....its a WIRELESS PRINTER!"
 

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AJvsRonin said:
SaneAmongInsane said:
She was also the legal guardian of her troubled little sister so she's trying to hold this job and make sure that kid doesn't go to jail and she would need time off and they'd literally stand and tell her "The companies needs comes before your needs."
Holy shit. We've had employees in that position. If the Managing Director hears of a situation like that he takes them into his office, works out what they need and custom makes a role for them so both sides are happy. Most recently we've had a couple of people suffer severe depression/anxiety problems with one guy attempting suicide. The MD just put him on bereavement leave (above and beyond the legal requirement) and sponsored his psyche treatments.

It makes good business sense as training new people a waste of resources and you're never gonna leave if your boss has got your back.


Maybe not such a big thing for high turnover retail stores but still...
In all honesty, she probably wasn't very good at the job but I feel like if they didn't want her there they should of fired her a long time ago, not keep her around and constantly berate her.

Ohhhhhh and I don't forget the fat **** of a store manager there, she had no idea how much hardwork we'd put into it at night. I literally would end my shifts ready to collapse into bed the moment I got home, my body that physically worn out. I"m not overselling it. Image working a 10 hour shift only for the whole collection of you to be berrated by the managers because a can was placed in the wrong spot.

The man thing I've learned, especially in retail, is just to stand up for yourself. Give them an inch, they'll take an eel. More often than not the people promoted to management in these stores are terrible excuses for human beings.

I'm so thankful my current job has managers that realize that the big promotion they want isn't going to come and just maintaining what they is as about as good as it's going to get. It's a shame, because they're good people, they kind of people you'd WANT in a leadership role instead of the callous fucking corporate robots they put in there.
 

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being umemployed. it was only for 2 months, but god knows i effing hated it :mad:

then again i didn't have a job that frustrates me much (so far), so maybe i'm biased; but i guess anything's better than nothing
 

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MiracleOfSound said:
Waiter in a hotel. Ugh. 15-16 hour shifts kissing the asses of the vilest, rudest rich people on the planet.

Washing pots in the kitchens was actually less awful.
The worst jobs are the ones with long hours and ass kissing involved, ESPECIALLY if it's ass kissing the rich.

Mine would be my work experience, where I had to be a Teaching Assistant at a private school for primary school kids. Imagine a regular kid. Now 30. Now make them all rich and spoilt. Now imagine having a position of no authority but some how being supposed to get them to do stuff.

It's over now, but the memories will haunt me forever.
 

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AngloDoom said:
Still has to be working in retail.

Being treated like an inhuman work-droid was soul-crushing enough, but it was next to a pub and was open until late so we often got all the violent drunks who were kicked out of the pub start kicking off in the shop when they were refused alcohol. As the only person with swinging genitals I was supposed to deal with them too, despite being built like a toothpick.
So many time I very nearly got punched in that place - the only reason I was never hit was a combination of drunk people's poor aim, a guy like Bruce Lee being our security guard (who was there twice a week, because people only steal or act violent on Wednesdays/Fridays), and pure dumb luck.

Hell, one time I had a fever so high I passed out in the middle of the shop and people just stepped over me to get in line. Fuck that place.
Fast Food is no different. Everyjob I've had sucks but I work at a Tim Hortons now and holy shit those people couldn't care less about you.

I was out changing the Garbage bins and some of them go along the path to the Drive Thru. We keep Cement Blocks in the bins so the wind doesn't blow them away but some of them are on a slanted piece of side walk, so they'll just fall over if they are too full. One day I had to pick one up because it fell and some ***** nearly ran over my foot. She couldn't wait 15 secs for me to move out of the way. She yelled at me after because her car touched the garbage bin.
 

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I worked at a video store for a while. Not nearly as bad as some places.

- Dealing with wndless hordes of people who think I knew everything about every film.
- Dealing with people getting stacks of thirty films and asking to put through only the films they haven't seen, like I have some sort of magical memory machine and I'm going to waste such a miraculous device delving into the mind of some dullard with shitty memory.
- Putting up with cops abusing me relentlessly because I wouldn't give them free new releases.
- Working ten hour shifts with a girl (who was of legal drinking age, mind you) who listened exclusively to One Direction and Justin Beiber, and played them loudly over the store speaker non-stop.
- Listening to the demo tape of my boss' shitty band.
- Listening to my boss ranting about how scared he is of people pirating the record that his shitty band will probably never record.
- Dealing with people who're drunk, high, and tripping. Late at night.
- Explaining rudimentary mathematics to people who think they're better at simple sums than a specialised computer made specifically to do mathematics.
- Giving advice to stoners who think I look wise.
- Dealing with angry customers that don't realize that 'tomorrow' doesn't mean 'next week.'
- Alphabetising and sorting the children's section.
- Explaining how guitar pickups operate to my boss, who cannot comprehend a magnet.
- Listening to my boss pretend to understand Plato. "Well, there are, like, things, and then there are, like, other things, sometimes. That's why I put these in this pile. That's the gist of what Plato said." ACTUAL QUOTE.
- Running the store alone because my boss/manager needs a few hours to non-work related stuff that he pays himself for anyway.
- Running the store alone whilst I'm still being trained.
- Pretending to like the ridiculously dull friends of my boss.
- Pretending not to think my boss was a bit of a tosser.
- Not realising that my workplace breached government regulations until it was too late to report them.

Talking smack about customers with my colleges was all right, though. Man, they loved talking smack.

captcha: talk turkey

Akytalusia said:
captcha... stop evolving self awareness. you've really been starting to scare people. >.>
 

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...or, Best Buy, where I was made to do work I wasn't trained in with inadequate training and management who had no fucks to give about what I could do compared to what I wasn't trained to do. I think Best Buy was the worst experience honestly since I was able to stick it out at Game Stop for a few months. Not so much with Best Buy which I ditched before the 90-day mark.
For the love of God, THIS. A million times THIS.

I worked as a cashier at a Best Buy store when I was in high school. If I wasn't being yelled at by customers who had bad experiences in other departments, I was being yelled at by my managers for not pushing enough magazine subscriptions (nevermind the fact that I was averaging about 15 or so per night, well above the rest of my coworkers who were at about half of that). It sucked, so I quit.

Fast forward a few years, I've just graduated from university, and I'm stuck looking for a crappy job until I can find something in the area that actually makes use of my degree. No one's hiring. No one but Best Buy.

This time I'm working at a different Best Buy store as a Portable Electronics Sales Associate. I was hired specifically to work in media (music, movies, video games). After a few months, management got the goddamn brilliant idea to shift around all of the employees in Portable Electronics to different sub-departments so that we could be more "versatile." They spring this plan on us completely out of the blue, offer zero additional training, and are too understaffed to have another employee act as a mentor. Instead, they asked us to learn the department on the fly, or on our own free time (unpaid, of course).

My first relocation? CarFi. I know a pretty good amount about navigation systems, which is good, because that's pretty much like 90% of what that department sells. I know nothing about car stereo systems though, and I have no interest in learning about them because I don't care about them. So whenever I had a customer come in looking at stereo systems, I was stuck either hiding from them, bullshitting them, or redirecting them to our already over-worked install bay guys.

My second relocation? Digital Imaging. Cameras. I've never, in my entire life, owned a camera. Seriously. The only cameras I've ever owned were built into cell phones, and even then, I've never actually used them. I have no interest in photography whatsoever. I don't want to take pictures, and I don't want pictures of me taken. This is the absolute worst department in the entire goddamn store to put me in - and in our particular store, it was also by far the busiest. I called it quits right then and there, and vowed to never go back to that hellhole.
 
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"Energy sales advisor"

I didn't even get the job proper as I didn't even sit through a day of the training course, had I lasted a week I would have banked an extra £500.
The job was insufferable.

First of all it's just telesales and it's nothing fancy, you're given a sheet with all the energy prices and you're told to call up people on a computer list and read to them a pich and give them the most expensive package.
You're told to do that because it earns the company the most money and you get the most commission from it.

I don't know about you guys but I felt totally shitty trying to sell people energy plans with another company, lying to them about what is cheaper because I'd get more money.
I had three energy bundles sat infront of me that I could have sold and everyone of them was cheaper than the one I was told to do so.
Not only that but their entire "catalogue of unregistered" customers was as far as I was aware, a list of numbers we had to call and try and con people into a new energy agreement.
Not a single customer I called didn't have an energy agreement with their own service provider, I hated having to say

"According to our records, you don't have an energy service provider and I'm calling to sort that out for you".
Especially when they tell me they've been there for three years and that they're already on a plan.

It was the most unsatisfactory job and not only that but I was sat next to a guy who made a sale on every call. Every, damn, call.
I got to lunch time and went home, fuck that place.
mine is somewhat similar to yours, i worked for first data, which they did 3rd party card activations/deactivations and card fraud for bajillions of banks, and on top of that for bank of america we had to try to sell them a fraud plan on top of activating their cards..

SAME THING, the guy next to me would sell like 800 cards a month, with one huge ass smile on his face, and while i could do it, almost as good as him, i felt awful and i knew for a fact it was shite service that no one needed, and we had to do it in a deceitful way where we outsource connected them to someone else...

on average, took about 600 calls per shift, literally non stop calls for the whole damn time..barely made 7.55 an hour, fucking hated it, the managers were the biggest pricks in the world about always sounding like the friendliest person in the world and never hanging up on people.

i counted one time, in one day, i recieved 13 death threats right off the bat, without any type of conversation yet happening..i swear we had the worst customers in the fucking universe.
 

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Sky Call Centre the technical department. The training was terrible, you pretty much got thrown on the phones after 3 weeks. Not knowing how to work the live system correctly and you only got someone to help you for the first couple of days. It was truly horrible, pretty much everyone started the call by shouting at you and I even had someone threaten me. Lets just say I only stay for about a month and a half, lucky for me my local blockbuster was hiring. It still wasn't great but a million times better than sky.

My current job, I have very mixed feelings about right now. Wished I had stay at my previous jib in Nando's which is a Portuguese Chicken restaurant. The company treated the employees really well, tips were good and the rest of the staff were fun to work with.
 

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I thought that my summer job selling tickets at the Crayola Factory was pretty bad, but that was before I worked at Halliburton. Paid over 100k a year and I still quit in utter contempt in less than a month!
 

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the one you go to 5 times a week all day long just so you can pay for a place you only go to for sleeping because you have to go to work 5 days a week all day long
 

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I've had 9 jobs during my life (I'm 23), and none of them really sucked.
If I really had to pick one, it'd be when I worked in an ice cream shop.
You see, we baked our own ice cream cones in this quite small store, and since we had a lot of customers, we baked a lot of cones. We had this wheel set up that could bake 8 cones at once, and it would get hot, around 45-50 celsius, and combine that with a lot of sugary stuff such as ice cream, whipped cream and jam... I'd get quite sticky after a day at work.
But, the management was awfully nice, the salary was amazing (10.50$/hour, as an 14 year old kid)and I could get as many hours as I pretty much wanted.
 

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When I was 19 I got a job working at a grocery store called Pink N' Save. (Roundys Corp)

Anyway I didn't blame them for the shitty customers or the crappy hours (worked all Christmas break). I did blame them for cleaning up human feces that was all over the stalls and walls and for the 6.50 an hour pay to do such activity. Granted this was back in 2005 when 6.50 an hour could get you a nice box or top roman.

To make a long story short I was fired after I stole the rotisserie chicken they threw out at the end of the day. I was unaware that they take inventory of the ones they threw out.

They fired me, fined me 800 dollars and that was the end of that.

Fuck retail stores... I worked at walmart a while after that. Dealt with the same bull shit. Won 650 dollars in a class action lawsuit with them though.