Worst Job You Ever Had - Page 6

Trinity11 · ‎11-16-2014

When I was 16 I worked as a summer volunteer at a camp for children with cerebral palsy. I worked 9 hours a day and got very emotionally involved with the children. I took it home with me and it upset me. I probably needed some maturity in order to accept that there wasn't any cure for these beautiful children.

straykatz · ‎03-09-2010

Worked as a dispute agent in one of the major credit bureaus....heavily scripted...not much you could say or were allowed to say. The constant screaming and yelling at me by those calling in got old pretty fast. The callers were not interested in learning how to improve their credit or be educated on how credit works...they simply wanted it removed even though in 99.9% of the cases it was their bad debt, their mistake, their missed payment, their unpaid bill, etc. As a credit bureau worker you do not simply remove info on a credit report...that info is only removed by the creditor who placed it there if they agree to remove it or they fail to respond to the dispute within the alotted time period then it is auto removed. Callers did not want to hear that and just yelled and screamed to get it off their report. It wore me out! I actually got belly aches that doubled me over in pain every morning just thinking about going to work to face another day of people yelling at me all day long. After careful consideration and discussion with my DH...I eventually quit even though I didn't have another job to immediately step into.

songbird · ‎03-21-2010

My parents wouldn't allow me to work when I was in college, except in the summer where I worked in college bookstore. All of my family is Academic oriented. My father was an associate professor of Math and Statistics. I broke tradition by working in a bank. Loved it For two years, then I went back to the university I graduated from and started working there. Now I'm at yet another university (I think it's an illness) All of my jobs were great. I never had a job I disliked. But when you count, I've only had 3 jobs in my life. When I get a job, I'm happy to move in. So no nasty bosses or nasty co workers. I'm a happy camper.

Vivian · ‎03-11-2010

Just after I earned my MS degree, I got an advising job at my alma mater. It seemed ideal until I met my boss, a young man who felt the need to prove himself by becoming a mean, spiteful, vindictive monster. There were several longstanding employees who reported to him. He treated them abominably. They quit. When I had the opportunity to change jobs, I grabbed it and never looked back. I really despised that first supervisor. At one point I told my husband that I wished the man were dead. Very sadly and ironically, within a year, the man died of a rare and virulent cancer, leaving a wife and two daughters. I admit I felt awful.

ALRATIBA · ‎07-15-2016

I've only worked in offices ... some good, some better, some best ... but none that I would consider the worst.

songbird · ‎03-21-2010

@Vivian wrote:
Just after I earned my MS degree, I got an advising job at my alma mater. It seemed ideal until I met my boss, a young man who felt the need to prove himself by becoming a mean, spiteful, vindictive monster. There were several longstanding employees who reported to him. He treated them abominably. They quit. When I had the opportunity to change jobs, I grabbed it and never looked back. I really despised that first supervisor. At one point I told my husband that I wished the man were dead. Very sadly and ironically, within a year, the man died of a rare and virulent cancer, leaving a wife and two daughters. I admit I felt awful.

Oh my that was sad. I'm sorry. Some supervisors can be great and some awful. Even where I work, I lucked out. Everyone of my co workers worked well with each others. We are all actually friends. Then I heard stories of trouble and tension in other departments and I just counted myself lucky. Even when people have a talent for a job and become a manager, the person turns out awful. Just didn't have the people skills to get along and respect your coworkers.

EatWell · ‎12-31-2012

When I was attending university, and worked in the men’s atheletic locker room. Quite an eye opening experience, if you know what I mean. Stinky,

DrKelli · ‎03-10-2010

I worked in H***before my current job. I believe that my boss was literally Satan himself. The man was a psychopath. I interviewed for the job in May. Was told in June thanks but no thanks. My friend was the HR manager there (also new to the job at that company). She told me throughout the summer they STILL hadn't hired anyone. (first red flag). In August, she called me to see if I was still interested--it paid a lot more than I was making and in addition to a drastic increase in salary, I would have a company car.

The first 6 months were great. My boss, Satan, treated me well and would listen to my suggestions. Then, after the two safety people that he didn't like were terminated--neither one by me--it was like I had served my purpose and he started doing to me what he had done to the two safety specialists. Nitpicking my work, yelling at me, calling me at all houirs or emailing me at 9 on Sunday night and expecting a reply. Then at Satan's Christmas party for execuholes only (I was part of the executive team), I was sitting with 5 other people who had come solo, and he walked up to our table and told us we had to move to other tables and split up. We didn't. To this day (it happened in 2013), my HR friend and I STILL laugh hysterically at this because you just know it ruined his life that we didn't move.

About a month after that, toward the end of January, he had a meeting with me and my HR friend and told me I didn't have the skills necessary to do the job. I have a master's degree in regulatory compliance and a doctorate in Safety Management and had worked full time in Safety for about 15 years by that point. I had started looking for a job anyway because I wasn't sleeping, had high blood pressure for the first time in my life and was starting to lose hair because of the stress. My friend was so embarrassed because I had worked with her on some pretty prestigious OSHA programs so she knew what my skill set was.

I got hired the next month at my current company and I made sure that I sent my resignation letter at 6 am on Saturday morning. About 3 days before my last day, he asked me about the safety meeting that was going to be held the following week and I told him, I have no idea--I won't be here.

He was awful

Lipstickdiva · ‎03-10-2010

My first job as a paralegal was pretty bad. I liked the actual work but my boss was a nightmare. We were in the basement of a building with the only way out being up a set of stairs. I'm pretty sure that was illegal.

He rented out an office to a very eccentic man who ran a business. He could never be bothered to show up and expected me to answer his business line, answer customer questions, etc. I don't even know what he did or sold. LOL

My boss would conveniently not come in on the Fridays we got paid so I didn't get my check until the following week and I cannot count the number of checks that bounced. The best was the day the electric company showed up and shut off our electricity because he didn't pay the bill. I got fed up, came in late one day to collect my things and told him I quit. He was dumbfounded. LOL The best though was the oddball that was renting space was there and I totally went off the rails on him. Poor guy didn't know what to say but it felt so good.

The only good thing that came out of that was I gained experience and that afforded me the opportunity to get the next paralegal job I had. One of the main reasons they hired me was because of my previous experience.

A couple weeks after I quit that job, my ex-boss called my house to tell me my final check was ready. DH answered the phone and asked if it was any good or if it was going to bounce like most of the other ones.

Cumbercookie13 · ‎05-06-2016

There were a few retail jobs I had in my teens and early 20's that were pretty awful, but I'd rather be a cashier than work at a call center, which I consider my worst experience.

I got hired to take personal check orders over the phone back in the fall of 2010. We had to stick to a script and we were forced to add an extra charge to their order in secret for EZ Shield fraud protection and UPS delivery. Calls were monitored and supervisors would come to us and reprimand us at our cubicles if we did not stick to the script and add the extra charges. Needless to say, customers were angry when we quoted them a different price than what they thought they would be charged from those little ad inserts. Then we had to tell them, in a script of course, about the benefits of fraud protection and UPS delivery (most customers used free bulk shipping which takes longer- but I used it for my checks and it came pretty quickly). Some customers took it, most didn't. I couldn't believe a company actually thought that they could get away with forcing employees to add extra hidden charges so blatantly. I told customers to order by mail or go online to avoid having the charges added, which was frowned upon, but at least I was saving the sale, and I helped a few place their orders online. The company also did mandatory overtime, which I can understand as there were two times during the year they did a big sale and we got slammed. But they only allowed bathroom breaks during lunch and the two 15 minute breaks. If you really had to go and your breaks were done with, you had to hold it until your shift ended. Lunch and breaks were also monitored, if you were so many minutes over, you were reprimanded.

My grandfather, whom I lived with, had gotten very ill at the time to the point he could not walk and needed 24 hour care. I had taken a few days off here and there due to him being hospitalized, which were approved, as I had the time, and arranging daytime care for him. I was pulled aside and told I was on the verge of being fired due to this even though it was approved time off. It was then I realized this place was not employee-friendly at all. A few weeks later, I gave my two-week notice. I couldn't deal with the deceptive business practices and the constant monitoring, and my grandfather's health and safety was more important. A lot of people left during that time, citing the main reason as feeling guilty about putting those extra charges on customers' orders. The funny thing is, I had worked at a Saks Fifth Avenue mail order catalog call center back in the late 90s', and it was never as bad as this one.