Worst jobs you had.

[Shoggoth2588]

so several hours of boring repeative work for a grand total of $35, thats like $3-5 an hour. Just to put this in perspective for international escapists that might think $5 an hour is good. I could get a job stacking shelves that would pay 18-22$ an hour or delivering pizza for $13+$2 per delivery. So i think on monday im going to go an apply at some supermarkets

...Do supermarkets pay that much for their stock crew? I'm working at Target now primarily as a flow member (ie; I stock shelves) but they only give me $8. They also give me cashier days but I make the same amount >.>

My worst job was actually my best paying one. I can't remember the $/hr rate but I was working at Best Buy and a combination of the people I worked with/for with the general stress involved in the work made me just walk the hell out.

People who read my other posts may also notice that I often ***** about Gamestop. This was a bad job too; no training, they would hold me LONG after my shift ended (closing shifts mainly), the main manager was a ***** (her fault, not the company) and I was actually losing money while I was there. They screwed me out of money/ hours by signing me out early and I didn't get a direct-deposit account so I had to rely on the card they used*

Spoiler: *

Gamestop employees don't receive checks, instead they are given a Comdata card. Even if you opt out for a direct deposit account, your first, final (and possibly second to third) pay-days are put on the card. The Comdata card can be used at very, VERY few places. McDonalds does not accept Comdata cards for example. When you get paid and go to withdraw money from the card, you will find that only certain ATM's are able to read/utilize the card. Also, since you're using an ATM you can only take out amounts that are multiples of 20.00. At time of writing, I've been an ex-employee of Gamestop since May and to this day, several months later, my Comdata account contains $18.33. Even if it did have $20, I would be unable to get hold of that since all ATM's have a service charge. In MD it was a $3 service charge, in GA it's $2 (on the ATM's I used anyway). So in essence, you literally have to pay a third party to get the money Gamestop owes you. Like I said before, you can opt to have a direct deposit account but even then it take 6-8 weeks for it to go through from the moment you give the manager your information. Any paydays in that time go onto the card. Also, if you quit or, are terminated the final pay is put on the card too as a final fuck you. Power to the Player (Gamestop being that player)

Best Buy was a really bad work environment but Gamestop outright fucked me.

 

[Stammer]

I got a job once as a cold-calling salesperson. The entire job was me sitting in a cubicle the size of a grade-schooler's desk (literally) in front of a computer that had no mouse (you had to tab and shift-tab lightning-fast to be able to input information properly) for about 5 consecutive hours.

And the whole damn time I was lying to the person on the other end. We were forced to read from the script they gave us and the script was a complete lie. I think the entire point of our company was to get spam email addresses and stuff.

And the people there... holy crap. Every freaking high school drop-out in the city worked there I swear.

I left after two days-- and one of those two days was training. I didn't even give two weeks I just basically said "yeah I'm NOT coming anymore".

 

[KaiserKnight]

i waws delivering the sunday paper for some time,try to do that with a usual tennage saturday night full of booze and dancing till 5a.m.

In my opinion that is a decent job but your choices in life made it hard. The job didn't require you to drink and party till 5am before you had to deliver the paper a few hours later.

For me its the current job I have. Another full time co-worker sits on his ass all day and has the attitude of 'I showed up, I will only work when I need to sell things then I will leave and get paid.' He will not clean, stock, order, organize, pick up after himself, follow policies placed by the owners, ect. I really would like the part time work to become full time instead, yes I have reported him to the owners but one owner whom has the biggest say so in the issues says 'I trust him and like him' even though he yells at him for doing nothing so often. In short he just doesn't want to higher someone new so its up to me to do everything here.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

IDK, that'd be a toss up btwn working at McDonald's and working in Internet Tech Support for Comcast Cable via Convergys Canada Inc. With the latter at least I got to sit on my ass for almost 8 hours, but I also had to listen to whiny, self-absorbed people who barely had two stones to knock together.

 

[Adellebella]

I'd have to say being a waitress, and then being a dietary assistant.

The waitressing job sucked not because of the job, but the customers. I worked on an army base, so when the privates would have time off, they'd come out to eat. I was 16 at the time, and would be harassed senselessly by these attention-starved boys. They'd dirty their soda's and wreck stuff just to get me to come back....endearing for a moment, annoying forever.

As for the dietary job....ugh. I think I hated it so much because they never gave us enough time to do our job. So there I am, in a hair net, trying to do something that would usually take 25 minutes and condense it into 5 minutes. I burnt my fingers and arms so much at the job, too.

Now I work as a Nurse Aid, and I love it.

 

[Summerstorm]

Hm... so far i had nearly ONLY bad jobs i guess.

Worked for example in a warehouse counting, sorting, checking and packing books. cubic meters of them every night. Pay was ok: 7,50? an hour; later, when i was supervising i even got 9,50?. But the crippling injustice and boring simplicity of the job took its toll.

Injustice: The dudes driving the machines got way more money and then it was decided that they wouldn't pre-package anymore so WE lowly workers had to do it. Result: They had about 3 hours work to do... we sometimes couldn't finish ours in 8.

At the moment i am working tech-support in a call center. Very harsh limits, low pay and such, but overall one of the best jobs i ever had... but some "customers"... INSANITY.

So children: stay in school *g*

 

[King of the Sandbox]

The worst job I ever had was when my Uncle paid me 200 bucks to tear down his old pig pens by myself... in the middle of summer... right after all the pigs were moved out.

/shudders at the memory of the smell

 

[Ashannon Blackthorn]

Security. Stand here for 16 hours. Don't do anything other than stand here. No books, radios, alone for all intents and purposes, and bored... rather gargle draino then do that job again.

 

[Drakmeire]

Sorry guys but I take the cake always.
I worked at a haunted house for 3 years. In my second year I was given the position of "shooting gallery zombie" meaning I had to put on padding and a mask, then get shot at by people with paintball guns for roughly 8 hours a night in the cold.
and yes everyone aimed for the crotch (which was easy to protect) or the head (which was less easy but not as hard to protect as the neck which you get hit all the time).
The worst night was when one customer got a raise and decided to spend $60 to shoot me with over 300 rounds of paintballs on full auto...Running away hurts more than staying still so near the end I just stood there and took it. That customer was the reason that my phone (which I forgot to take out of my pocket) had a shattered screen for a month until I got a new one
When I was given that position again in my third year working there I quickly resigned.

 

[Drakmeire]

I worked at Movie Gallery for a little over a year. Between having to stand for six hours straight with a bad knee and having to deal with rednecks who swore up and down that they returned Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (our most popular rental) on time, while our computer clearly showed it being checked in three days late, it was an interesting first job.

One of my favorite moments was when some guy came driving up in an old, beat up red truck with deer antlers mounted to the front. He hopped out without a shirt on and walked on in. Company policy was that all employees and customers had to be wearing shirts at all times, so I told him he had to put on his shirt. "Don't got one," he replied.
"Well, you'll have to leave then. I'm not allowed to serve anyone not wearing a shirt."
"Why the hell not? Y'all ain't got no food in here!" I chose to ignore the fact that I was actually standing in front of a shelf full of food.
"That doesn't matter, sir. It's company policy." He stared at me for a few seconds while the information settled in. He then threw his arms in the air.
"Fuck that shit! Fuck y'all! I didn't wanna rent none of your shitty movies, anyhow! Fuck y'all, I'm goin' to Blockbuster!" With that, he stormed back out and burned rubber out of the parking lot. I do happen to know that Blockbuster had the same policy as us, and the guy was likely booted out of there just the same as at our fine establishment.

Wow, do you live in my town?
Whoever said "The customer is always right" clearly never worked a service job. I was once punched in the face at my job. Haunted House actor BTW, see below, though that was no where close to the worse part of job, which is why I didn't mention it in my rant.

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

Probably working at a tyre place.

It was mainly the fact that the work was repetative as all hell, and it got boring real quick. Winter comes and suddenly business goes through the roof, so suddenly its HECTIC repetative crap. That said it wasnt that bad. Everyone kept giving me tips cause i was a girl

 

[jumjalalabash]

Worst job I had was volunteer work at a library. I handled the young adult & kids fiction area (place was between 5 middle schools) and literally did more work then anybody else there. The assholes even had the never to yell at me for going to the bathroom. Lazy bums.

 

[Wolf-AUS]

I used to be a clerk in a shop, selling cell phones. But the shop I worked in was more like an office, so I spent days just sitting there, doing nothing. Damn, that job made me miss my time in the military.

Miss it? Sitting around doing nothing is all we do! Sit around for lunch, sit around for knock off. Sit around out bush facing out. Sit around when we get back waiting to hand shit in. A constant flow of nothing!

 

[Formica Archonis]

Call centre, technical support. Callers sucked, shifts sucked more, management sucked most. Worked at it six months, was a decent employee. And then one day my boss told me I was "skipping too much work" and I'd have to stop missing days or face disciplinary action. My "skipping" was a scheduled 3 days per month of unpaid medical leave to see an oncologist because I'd just been diagnosed with cancer.

So all I got to say about that job is fuck you EDS and fuck the bloated rat you had running my department.

 

[Ruuvan]

Working as a cleaner; had the joy of experiencing both care home toilets (they're old and, more often than not, have other issues that stop the sheer disgustingness of the toilets being their fault directly) and private schools. I would work at the former over the latter, those prissy posh schoolgirls are feckin' rank! I mean, crap wiped on the walls of the cubicle?! COME ON! I do not expect that from private schools, no sir.

 

[Girl With One Eye]

I've done door to door sales and telesales. I don't think I need to elaborate.

 

[holy_secret]

What I'm doing now. 12 hours of work just sitting down and watching someone sleep.

It's annoying. It's boring. I wanna sleep, but I can't.

 

[xWestie]

Working at a fast food restaurant (can they even be called restaurants?). Too many orders while standing all day and nearly suffocating with the smell of whatever was cooking. Oh, and I got burnt twice by boiling curry sauce in one day. Not fun at all.

Ninja'd. McDonalds :c sadly I'm still in this job.
And the other day I burned my arm AND head.. they changed the bloody baskets they use for hash browns v.v one fell out the side and SPLASH! Not fun =/

Plus like said.. standing in one place for 7+ hours = not good for your feet...