What Was The Worst Job You Ever Had??

[ClementUT]

The worst job I ever had was with this place called Southwestern in college. We were hired to sell 'educational books and materials' to customers door to door during the summer. They made the job sound good and money could be made...if you were willing to sell your soul.

1) We were sent to a bunch of remote spots all over the country. Our group was sent to Missouri and Kansas. Once there, we were responsible finding our own housing. They even gave us scripts on how to go door to door asking people if they would let our group (usually 3-4 in a group) live in their homes. Forget that craziness...I ended up staying at a friend's apartment in Overland Park where I'm from.

2) We were required to wake up at 6am and take COLD showers. I was like...are you serious?! They said a cold shower would make you more alert and help you make additional sales. Never took a single cold shower.

3) At 7am we were required to meet at a breakfast spot with one of the senior folks. No eating breakfast at home unless it was on Sunday morning.

4) At 8am we started our day knocking door to door. People would either open the door pissed off or not answer the door at all. Who the hell is going to buy hundreds of dollars worth of stuff from a door to door salesman at 8am?! I did that stuff for a week. So after breakfast, I would sneak back to the apartment and watch TV or get online until about noon. I would actually work from noon till about 6 before heading back.

5) The thing to remember is that we were basically told we had to work from 8am-10pm Mon-Sat. People were killing themselves running around with that giant bag of books. I made 3 sales a day working 5-6 hours/day and that was more than some people got working 14 hours a day.

6) Basically, all we could eat for lunch and dinner were PB&J's. Except that I'm allergic to peanuts and had to eat a soggy jelly sandwich when I went out.

The whole experience sucked balls. I did get to mess with a couple of females who were out there selling books too, but they pretty much eliminated all your free time. I left after 6 weeks even though I made some decent money. If nothing else, you learned how to survive on a hope and a prayer and maybe a soggy ass sandwich.

 

[UniqueStyles82]

Ive had various jobs over my lifetime but the one that stood out to me as the worst (and the reason I say I will never work in corporate america again) was when I worked as a management trainee at this car rental agency. My first branch manager was a straight up micromanager (nigerian dude) and he completely destroyed whatever camraderie that existed in that office. But worst than him were the customers (not all but some). You talk about sheisty, shady, and slick. You tell the dumbfuckers off the break " okay just be upfront and I will work with you as much as you are willing to work with me"...it was cool for some customers but others would just shake their head yes and absolutely find fucking ways to try to get over on you and then when another manager wants to shaft the shit out they ass , they come running back to you asking for you to help them out (among other asinine things customers did) ....I got principles and morals and that shit was fuckin with my conscience and it got to a point where it got to my emotions...That day came and I said fuck this shit Im out...

 

[doggish_098]

folding shirts on a sale table in a department store during my christmas break while in college. The more i folded the more got messed up and the pay sucked!!!

 

[Duende]

buuummmmmmp

 

[super_glue]

Sophomore in H.S.(1988) year I worked at a Winn Dixie in SC. Bagging fucking groceries. Racist ass supervisor, was an old hag ass white bitch. Now we were in the upscale area of my city. And I was the only black bag boy period. I did all the dirty work. Hell I was he janitor. When I did bag groceries, bitch made sure to tell the customers we( meaning I) couldn't take tips. One day I bounced in the middle of filling this muther fucka's bag, and threw my little red vest on the floor as I left.

 

[DickDastardly]

Telemarketer... that shit wore on my conscience because I only made sales to old people who didn't know wtf was goin on.

 

[Money Power Respect]

I had 2 jobs that sucked equally. 1st was working as an assistant for a Coroners office in the bay area. First day on the job we had to go pick up a body from a house. The lady had been dead for a week. She died sitting in her chair watching tv with one of those space heaters blasting right on her. The damn body basically disintegrated as we were moving her But I came back for about a week until I dropped a body on the floor and then they moved me right along

The next job was selling Kirby Vacuum cleaners. Going door to door at 9pm to sell a vacuum didn't necessarily go over well I know there has got to be a few more people on this board who has either bought one or sold one!

 

[face_kicker]

"Mac Genius" at the apple store. Co-workers who never came to work on time was my biggest issue. Working the day after thankgiving/christmas plus never having a full weekend off. I was yelled at everyday because of ipods and people not backing up their data then dropping their laptops. Management with zero computer knowledge making promises about technology that does not exist. Take everything that sucks about working retail but make the cheapest item $300 and the average sale $2k.

Damn...this sound exactly like Gamestop. That's the worst job any young person trying to make a life in retail should have. It was funny too, because I left Bally's Total Fitness (which was good, because I seemed to be the only ninja with legit memberships, and was making an extra $400 - $700 monthly just on commission). To this day I smile everytime I walk by a gamestop store.

 

[town528]

Roof Work! The only thing hotter is shoveling lava from a volcano.

 

[WhoDat]

I've only had two jobs my whole life, during high school it was at McDonalds to earn my own money for the prom and after graduation it was the Marines, I'm now civil service and it's still government.

No bad jobs for me.....why in the hell did I even come in here.......I'm out!

 

[BDR]

My first job was working for summer youth here in NYC cleaning nyc parks racking leaves and shit

but that was when I was 13, now my first legal real job was working at Target as a Target protection specialist (security at the front doors) man that was the worst fuckin job ever, I didn't give a fuck my uniform stayed fucked up

 

[WhoDat]

My first job was working for summer youth here in NYC cleaning nyc parks racking leaves and shit

but that was when I was 13, now my first legal real job was working at Target as a Target protection specialist (security at the front doors) man that was the worst fuckin job ever, I didn't give a fuck my uniform stayed fucked up

 

[BDR]

Man that shit was when I was 18

 

[WhoDat]

Man that shit was when I was 18

Sorry Bro!

 

[johniz]

This whole thread makes me fel like I'm listening to some long lost brothers.

Seems like any COLD CALLING--SALES--jobs are the worst. I've done that, food service, social service, warehouse, manual labor, professional BA Degree required job--Journalism. I liked damn near all my jobs. It's always the ASSHOLE with power that fucks it up for everyone, you know, the "If you got time to lean, you got time to clean" faggot.

People aka CUSTOMERS, suck for the most part. They always want to be babied yet have NO MANNERS!

I gotta say the sewer job sound like #1 worse, followed by SELLING, either door to door, over the phone, etc.

peace and keep 'em coming.

For those that never picked up their checks:
http://www.missingmoney.com/

And for those who THINK they have it bad, watch: "Swimming with Sharks"

 

[crazyace718]

Its a tie between

Lost my cool a few times on the checkpoint.

and

The hard part was calling th the office every morning before 10 and every night before 130. Then I had to travel across the city to go to their pointless meetings.

 

[sqush]

Man the worst jobs i had was working in a logistics company picking shit for delivery for Bjs wholesale etc.......! The worst job i had at a temp agency was driving to a list of gasstations late at night to card people who worked at the register.! I would ask for a pack of cigs and if they asked for ID i would give them a $5 voucher for gas if they didnt i would give them a red card and report them to a agency that tracked for selling cigs to underage people! What i did i pocketed the vouchers and quit ..................And still got my weekly check LOL!!!!!!!!!

 

[Studio718]

Worst job ever, huh?

Back in my country, Suriname.
I was about 15/16.
The " combine " as we called it would harvest the rice and throw it out from it's arm onto a tarp.
We would then get a scale and about 500 brown 75 or 100KG bags and fill them up with unprocessed rice.
Two guys would left it up ( the bag with rice ) and throw it on our shoulders and we would run-walk to the tractor on a piece of wood.

Now imagine living in a town where planting rice is everything and you as a shorty work at the rice mill.
Basically you go with the truck ( about 5 - 10 of us in the back ) early in the morning about 200 miles to some rice fields.
Sun, Rain, Mosquitos, what ever...it didnt matter.
Load about 500 - 1000 bags of "padi" unprocessed rice from the field to the back of the tractor.
Ride back ON THE BAGS OF RICE IN THE BACK.
we would actually lay/sit on the rice bags eating lunch..COLD ASS LUNCH and DRINKING WARM WATER, unless you had a cooler.
Then unload the 500 - 1000 bags of rice at the rice mill.
sometimes, I kid you not BGOL...the rice mill people would put a piece of wood or a skinny ass ramp from the tractor to the mill's storage area ( it's elevated in case of flooding ) and you'd have to walk back and forth with this damn rice bags on your shoulder.
Mannnnnnn, fuck yall and yall bullshit ass MC Donalds was the worst job I ever had.


That was a seasonal job, I would do construction.
Let me tell you something about construction in a 3rd world country.

Cement is mixed with a shovel, water bucket and a wheel barrel.
We were building a rice mill from scratch.
Every morning at 6 am about 50 of me and my friends would hop on the back of a trailer and drive 2 hours to some rice field construction site.
We would eat what ever we brought from our home.
( I'm getting teary eyed as I type, because I took alot for granted since I came to the states at 17 )
My grandmother would sometimes give me a bowl with rice, and 1 or 2 fried eggs, with a frozen plastic bottle of ice.
We'd then crack jokes ( the best part of the job ) and then get placed in groups with different tasks.
I did it all...
Here were some of the tasks:

Brick maker:
You had to make 100 - 200 bricks for a day pay.
You'd take your shovel, wheel barrow, water bucket, brick forming cast and a piece of wood and walk your ass to this big stone field out in the hot sun.
Go and get about 10 - 20 loads of sand.
get about 50kg bags of cement.
walk to well and get water with the water bucket.
mix the cement and cent and start making bricks.
The problem was that you'd have to mix small amount of cement, sand and water because it would dry up quick if you mix too much.
You'd then take the mixed cement with your bare hands and fill the brick making cast all the way to the top and hit it with your piece of wood.
You'd then open it very carefully and every now and then your fucking beautifull brick would break...OH MY FUCKING GOD.
Repeat untill you have 100 - 200 ( depends on what kind of brick you're making...Cinderblocks or the solid ones )
the next day you'd kick the dried up block lightly so that they get lose from the cement floor and stack em up in the storage area.

Cement Mixer:

Here in america you'd just call a cement company and trucks move into action.
In suriname back in the days It would be 2 - 5 guys with shovels.
a truck would dump the sand and the small rocks.
The manager would tell us how much we needed ( he was very good at calculating how many wheel barrel of cement was needed to create a wall )
we'd get the sand ( about 30 - 50 wheel barrels ) get the rocks ( about 10 t0 15 ), get the bags of cement and get the water with the water bucket from the well or reservoir.
and we'd start to greate little volcanos in the dumps of sand ( lets say 4 wheel barrel of sand, and one wheel barrel of rocks in the " volcanos " opening )
add water and cement and start mixing, we'd then scoop it into the wheel barrel and the poor guy behind the wheel barrel would have to push it up ramps and shit up to where ever it would be dumped into wooden casts.
I've seen many of my friends lose their balance and tip over with the wheel barrel full of mixed cement.

There were tons of other shitty jobs at this construction site like sweeping the complex after they were finished mixing cement, digging holes, taking nails out of wood that was used to build scaffolding only to be assorted by length and size for reuse.

cutting the metal rods that they use on the floor before they pour cement.
You'd have to cut, tie and bend these fuckers in the heat/rain of a tropical country.

shit was cool though. it was all we knew and we enjoyed doing it.
Shit we would get depressed on days when they told us that they didn't some people.

I grew up on a farm, so imagine hopping into a pig's sty with about 100 pigs with a hose and "printa" broom ( a broom make of the hardest part of a coconut leaf ) and sweeping pig's shit.

Have you ever milked a cow at 5 am? not 1 cow, but about 10 cows? have you ever been bitten by a " cow fly "? ( big ass parasitic fly that drinks a cow's blood )
as a shorty me and my grandmother would wake up at 5 am, gather the mother cows tie their two rear legs, get some grease with a bucket and milk them.
I'd then have to fill up 1 liter bottles and ride my bicycle around town to deliver milk and pick up empty bottles...lol

have you ever planted rice? ( not like how the asians do by inserting baby rice sprouts into a swamped area )
we'd have bags with the soaked unprocessed rice ( when you soak it, it splits and gets an eye and a root )
then we'd walk in knee deep water about 10 of us about 2 meters apart from each other and sow.
after a few weeks we'd do this with the fertilizer.
later they introduced airplanes and other machinery so that job was eliminated when i was about 10.

Then I came to america and had jobs that other would bitch, cry and moan about.

1st was with the summer youth program in 1998.
Me and two other guys got picked to work at this plumbing supply in queens, called C & G plumbing.
The owner worked us. we did alot of bullshit from snow removal to rearranging the whole warehouse all for minimum wage.
I liked it thou, it was my first job in the USA and I was proud of myself.
after the program ended they actually kept me and that became my first official job.
I would have to cut pipes in the back from 1/2 inch to 6 inches in various lengths.
load and offload the trucks, pull orders, restock bins, sweep, take out trash, run to the store etc etc etc, they treated me like family thou ( well at least his wife and daughters )

I finally quit one day and held other various " counter man " jobs at other plumbing supply ( owned by some racist jews, his fucker would actually curse us the fuck out when we did something wrong ..old 60 year old fucker )

Today I am self employed and when I look back I am kinda glad I had these " shitty jobs ", because they made me into the man I am today.

 

[Tony Soprano]

And for those who THINK they have it bad, watch: "Swimming with Sharks"

Yeah I saw that movie a couple of times. A person can only take so much abuse before they go completely bat-shit.

 

[kwazdog]

Covert International reconnaissance counter-Intel offspring "commandeerer"

sucky job...kinda messy!!!

 

[850credit]

Home Depot "Corporate" in Vinings Ga. They start you off in the "Big House" to train for 2 weeks and make you feel like you've arrived...then you find out you'll actually be working in the slave quarters aka the call center sweatbox down the street.

The job was something like "Operation Support Specialist". In reality you manage contractors schedules and make sure THEY get paid (thousands) while you get something like 15 an hour.

The shithead first line supervisor would call you out in front of the team if you made a mistake like embarrassment is the best form of motivation. Then he would talk all day long about having us work for his bonus so he could buy a Suburban.

Plus it was one of those gigs where your schedule changed weekly so you had to call in and take whatever hours they gave you...and best believe you would be working weekends.

I lasted 2 weeks in training and 2 weeks on the floor. Got my 2nd check and ghosted...figured I'd rather take my chances driving rideshare and hit my 401k if necessary.

Got hired back at my old gig and almost done with college with tuition reimbursement now. I would have rather worked in an HD store than that "corporate" position!

 

[spider705]

Shit the one I just left...

Asshole boss, LONG hours (15 hours per night on average) and monthly incentives that could be taken away for essentially no good reason.

When I had to be restrained from punching my boss in the throat I knew I had to get up outta there. Fortunately I did and am in a much better situation.

 

[furlough]

When I was 18, I took a job as the "custodial engineer" at a peepshow. I was young and it sounded good, but the 9 bucks an hour should have triggered something. I fixed basic stuff, and when 12am came............they gave me a mop, and a bucket, and said I have to mob up customer "trash". When I saw all the "trash" that nasty ass customers leave...........I told my boss that I would clean it after my break. I went on break, and I am still on it. I didn't even go back for my check.

 

[LennyNero1972]

Let me see:

Any restaurant job is shit!!!

Six flags in ATL as a delivery clerk, seemed ok at first,then they tell you you have work in damn freezer for 8 hrs at -30 below. They gave us suits, but I kept getting one WITHOUT GLOVES after that I said MUTHAFUCK THIS job!!!

Last job I had this year working as a power company contractor. sounds like it was a cool job right!!!!! WRONG!!!! The job only paid $10/hr. we had to use our own cars (if they got damaged had to come outta pocket), we had to pay for our own hotel room( for a decent one it was at least $200 bucks), our food etc; they reimbursed us for the expenses but that was money always going out of our pocket. So to sum up the most we could make was$850 minus hotel, food, car repairs and other job related expenses, you were lucky to walk away with $300 a week. Now let me get to the actual job!! We had to check power company poles and equipment to update maps for the company, problem was we had to go on folks property unannouced mainly due to time limits and out on the most crazy terrain swamps, thick forests etc:. So we often had to deal with hostile dogs, bitchy customers, harsh ass terrain, and always the possibilty of being shot (once someone fired a warning shot behind my back) and wild animals. All this WITH NO HEALTH INSURANCE!!! SHIT WAS too expensive almost $400 bucks per month!!!!! Then we had an asshole cracka boss who looked out for the white boys, but shitted on niggas whenever he got the chance. Ahhh I could go on. I got fired thankfully in July. I'm still Ok as far as money(had a stash), I'm trying to get my old job back at the airport, I got a friend who's a manger now to hook me up. Only reason I took that power company job because I thought it would lead to getting on with the power company full time, good pay benefits the works, but I then found it was a fucking dead end all over again. Oh well hopefully 2008 will be better.

Man thanks for big upping this one I had just remembered writing this years ago, I didn't remember exactly when man time flies.

 

[godofwine]

NOW THIS is a thread you bump @playahaitian

Threads like this with stories and input that people will continue to give input.

I will add one tomorrow

 

[playahaitian]

NOW THIS is a thread you bump @playahaitian

Threads like this with stories and input that people will continue to give input.

I will add one tomorrow

Thanks Ok then I'll be sure to inform you every time someone bumps an old thread and you can critique them on whether its appropriate or not too.

 

[godofwine]

Thanks Ok then I'll be sure to inform you every time someone bumps an old thread and you can critique them on whether its appropriate or not too.

Dude. You my guy, but you do that shit all the time and you know it.

 

[Muttley]

working for UPS as a supervisor during christmas...did that shit 1 night...they forgot to tell me that supervisors not only supervised the crew, they also worked (twice as hard)

i got sick the night before so i almost collapsed i was so sick....3am to 8am....never again

I can cosign this BS. Worked one month as PT supervisor Plant Engineering at UPS in the control room, mofos MICROMANAGED the phok out of you down to the minute on your break. Monitor activities on five different computer screens, mechanics contacting you on the phone, and they wanted you to document every downtime for the conveyors on your shift and why it happened etc for $22/hr in 2019.....worst job and company I ever worked for and never recommend. I didn't give a two week notice, just came in the next day 10 minutes before my shift started and turned in my badge...fok them

 

[ShortyCumStain]

Word.

 

[850credit]

Word.

Man I thought you were actually gonna share a story

 

[WorldEX]

I had 2 jobs that sucked equally. 1st was working as an assistant for a Coroners office in the bay area. First day on the job we had to go pick up a body from a house. The lady had been dead for a week. She died sitting in her chair watching tv with one of those space heaters blasting right on her. The damn body basically disintegrated as we were moving her But I came back for about a week until I dropped a body on the floor and then they moved me right along

The next job was selling Kirby Vacuum cleaners. Going door to door at 9pm to sell a vacuum didn't necessarily go over well I know there has got to be a few more people on this board who has either bought one or sold one!

I did telemarketing selling these fuckers, left after one week, did not collect my cheque.

 

[BornJamerican]

I did telemarketing selling these fuckers, left after one week, did not collect my cheque.

Same but I only did one day.........
The worst was working for a storage company. Some lady wanted to put her piano in storage so myself and this big bodybuilder looking dude pull up to the house in a box truck. We had to take the legs off the piano and put it into a crate then put the crate on the truck. I was no help, fresh out of HS weighing about a buck thirty. He wanted me to hold up one side of the piano while he took the leg off. Needless to say that piano hit the ground. After we got it on the truck and drive off I told him to stop at Burger King. I went inside and walked out the side door. Fuck that shit. I wasn’t built for it

 

[lionelzeus]

Mine is nowhere near as spectacular as it wasn't so bad as much as it was tortuously boring.......Telemarketing.

It was an after school job I had in which we contacted credit card holders about opportunities for Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance around the time most families are settling in for dinner (yep got cussed out on occassion). It was already a challenge as far as the subject matter....."Well ma'am if you happen to lose an arm or a leg or both rest assurred knowing you'll still have some 'piece' of mind...". I was bored to tears.....the office building was bland as it gets and I watched the clock every minute compounding the boredom. When it was time to go I was just glad to have made it through another day. To make matters even worse (for those that enjoyed/were good at it/depended on it as a main source of income) they would tell us at different times we couldn't make calls/system down and we would have to go home. Finally they said they were laying off and I acted slightly dismayed but was truly relieved.

They didn't pay worth a damn but that one year helped me save up about 1-2k which FAMU ate up in one semester with the out of state tuition fee. I have a respect for telemarketers so I don't hang up on them like a lot of folks I know....But I could never do that again.

Wow I did the same job it was Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance for AMEX lmao! The job was awful but it wasn't the worse job I ever had. But they damn sure didn't pay anything unless you made some sells lmao.