Worst Job You've Ever Had

[Mister Benoit]

Alright well this is pretty straight forward, I just want to have an idea of what everyone considers their worst job.

I'd have to say it's my current one, although the pay isn't bad and the environment is alright, I work for the incredibly dodgy company that many of you have probably run into online.

When you go to download a file and it says it has like 4 of them, a full version, 100%, express or w/e and you click on them then they ask you to sign up and pay. Well I work for that company, turns out you can type absolutely anything in their searches and it'll say it has super fast downloads. They're called "Sponsored Results" and they're just ad space.

Also they just sell a re-skinned version of Limewire and they "sell" Utorrent. It's pretty ridiculous quite frankly.

So I either refund people, get people to update their java to work with the new version of our "Limewire" or walk people through how to use Utorrent all day. They also have their own PDF Software but it's pretty junky and tech support that really blows.

So whats your worst job?

 

[Smurfy 0151]

I was a janitor...in a retirement community...yeah...

 

[02y211]

I had a part time job as a...well don't know exactly what you'd call it..packer of pies and danish pastry? Anyway they were frozen ones mind you so it would eventually hurt your fingers/hands, also incredibly monotonous and boring.

 

[EuanMack]

WHSmith.....never,just never again

 

[TeutonicKuja]

Well at present i've only had one 'proper' job so by default it'll be that

Being a 'domestic assistant' at a hospital can suck sometimes...good pay mind though

 

[Lizmichi]

I worked at a damn arcade...... during spring break last year. IT WAS HELL. Didn't help that they gave away prizes too and I was the poor thing that had to count the tickets, well not count more like weight them thank god. I had a line for most of the afternoon and my boss telling me to work faster. I was just hired for that week of hell then let go. I filled in for when other people couldn't come in to work or didn't want to. I got very very sick and was down for a week or so from that and I hardly get sick. Didn't help I got in trouble because I didn't tell them every time I couldn't work or when I was not in town. Never working an arcade again. Was throw to the wolves basically.

 

[JokerCrowe]

I've only had two jobs. And the one I'm at now is pretty fun, so I guess my first job is the worst job I ever had. I worked at a retirement home. T'was not fun.
All I did all day was basically read and hang out with old people. which I guess was ok, but it was booooooooooooooorrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnggg. Just sayin'.

 

[Monshroud]

I worked at ConAgra foods for 4 days as a Computer Tech. The facility I was working at has a Slaughter house, which you can smell all over the campus. The Slaughter house smelled like meat and ammonia. The 2nd day I worked there on my drive home I was wondering "What is that smell" and soon realized that it was me. There was this film of yuck on my skin and clothes. When I got home I took all my clothes off and just dropped them in the washer, then jumped in the shower.

2 days later I left. There was just no way I was going to smell like that every day.

 

[ExileNZ]

Well I do remember working night-shift as a shelf-stacker. The guy running the place was, apparently, a very nice guy, but being ground-crew I never met the bugger and apparently his business sense was shite. Didn't help that he accidentally doubled the order over Christmas, either.

Hellloooo 4am (even as night-shift we were *technically* supposed to finish at 11pm).

In all honesty though, that was heaven compared to this one job I had as an IT tech. Sounds great, right? Well, I started at ground-level but I got better with the on-site training-
Oh wait, what training? My boss was almost never there, and whenever he was there and I finally had the chance to ask a question he'd just give me another question. And then another. And another. And he was patronising about it. And he kept calling me out for extra hours. And it went on like this for two months.

And the arsehole never paid me.

Worst. Job. Ever.

The worst part is, I'd done the same job with a nice, professional and wholly competant guy and it was possibly my best job ever, so it just goes to show it's not the work but the people that make a job.

 

[rddj623]

I worked for a machine shop for 3 years, which in and of itself was actually really interesting work, the problem was my boss. He was just not a good boss. Mean, way more responsibility then the pay was worth, if he ever did you a favor he felt you owed him a disproportionate amount in return. He is a brilliant machinist. No doubt there, just can't run a business worth a hill of beans. He drove away our biggest, most stable customer by screaming at their engineer because he's a hothead and reacts without thinking. Half a million dollars a year disappeared after that. Of course he is too proud to even think he might have caused that to happen, and still has no idea why that company stopped doing business with him. Le sigh. As another example, I was gone one summer teaching English in China and while I was gone he went through 3 people who were trying to take my place. They just couldn't deal with him. I am very glad to not work there anymore.

 

[Notthatbright]

Call Center for Marketing Surveys. 90% of the people I called yelled at me. I would have yelled at me too.

Still, beats unemployment. I bet if they made it a requirement that unemployed people do call center survey work for the government, We'd save billions a year.

 

[Meggiepants]

I worked at McDonald's for a couple years as a teenager. It was an awful job.

It didn't help that they had to hire armed off-duty policeman on Friday and Saturday nights.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Worked as a driver for Dominos until mid March this year. I had to reduce my hours as I was working towards a teaching qualification, the boss, who'd said it was fine months before (several times) decides to give me grief about it. This capped off months of disrespectful treatment and ignorance of worker's rights. So I left. Didn't even deign to tell them, let them figure it out for themselves.

 

[Mister Benoit]

Another pretty bad job I had was working at a 3rd party alarm center which is basically a place where small time alarm companies can contract this place to take care of their customers in case absolutely anything happens.

The problem with the job was that we were in a room with no windows, on a custom OS that only allowed you to open the work software and you worked with the same 3 people every night. Also you'd only get 2 15 minute breaks through it all.

 

[squid5580]

Torn between pig farmer and carnie. Both jobs sucked.

 

[Marter]

Working as a babysitter. Dealing with children who didn't want to listen to you. Luckily I only had the job for one night. (New Years)