TheAntichrist
12.20.20 | include a juicy story and why it was the worst job you ever had |
widowslaugh123
12.20.20 | I used to fuck priests |
loveisamixtape
12.20.20 | trick question every job is bad |
ChoccyPhilly
12.20.20 | Call centre for a sketchy business. I lasted a week. |
Colton
12.20.20 | Worked at a grocery store pushing carts. Was brutal being out in the cold for 6 hours at a time in the winter. Would have to run my hands under warm water. Plus I worked with this coke dealer and had to deal with his stories all day long. One time I straight up slammed into a car with a stack of like 6 carts. Wasn’t my fault though, he turned into me without looking and I was going downhill so couldn’t stop. Miraculously, no damage. Also worked at a shady packaging factory in 2018. They paid me under the table. I left because the people were shady as hell and they ended up getting charged with human trafficking last year. |
Colton
12.20.20 | There was also the time when as a waiter at a retirement home, we had to deal with this guy who would constantly go up to this woman and demand she come back to his room with him. He would get very angry and borderline violent over it. Turns out he thought she was his wife who had died 4 years prior. We had to explain to him that his wife is dead and this other lady barely knows him. Eventually they got together lol. Still probably are unless one of them passed. I’ll find out when I go back
Sorry for rambling |
Trebor.
12.20.20 | Worked at one of the busiest Costcos in the US and it was a nightmare. Mostly because the management was abusive but yeah interacting with 1000 strangers a day really takes its toll |
Mort.
12.20.20 | working in a chain pub kitchen in the uk that is notorious for being cheap as fuck and a bit grotty. managers were rude and abusive. witnessed one of the long time line cooks just leave one day after the kitchen manager chewed him out for being shit. he tried to explain his mum was seriously ill and thats why he wasnt on top of his game. she patronised him along the lines of 'oh boo hoo you have to work and your mums ill'. he walked out and never came back. i stopped turning up for shifts shortly after. I think abusive management will be the main thing in this thread lol |
ieatbabies795
12.20.20 | I worked at an Armenian market and the guy that hired me was a douchebag
I felt like he was maybe racist, he would yell at me while I was working “cmon Pablo!” “Pick up the pace Fuentes” “Hurry it up Pedro!”
He pulled me aside one day to vent about one of his female workers telling me how she’s such an idiot and says “you know a woman’s mind doesn’t work like ours, they’re not capable of being creative..”
I quit after one week |
BookoftheFallen
12.20.20 | I used to work in a miserable office. It was completely silent. No one spoke to each other or looked at each other. I could go months without anyone even saying hi. Offices are terrible in general. |
Sharenge
12.20.20 | anybody ever make a living jerking off punks under a bridge for $15 a man? |
gryndstone
12.20.20 | my retail nightmare at GameStore was actually tolerable until I got a Q-Anon replacement boss |
gryndstone
12.20.20 | Plandemic-ass bitch I came in early to work one time and he started spoutin off his bullshit about children being harvested for adrenochrome and I realized he was fucking retarded |
Scoot
12.20.20 | working with ammonia for $16.90 CAD an hour
ammonia is a life-threatening refrigerant that can kill you in seconds if a pipe bursts |
Colton
12.20.20 | "I used to work in a miserable office. It was completely silent. No one spoke to each other or looked at each other. I could go months without anyone even saying hi."
sounds amazing are they hiring? |
ieatbabies795
12.20.20 | Holy fuck |
unclereich
12.20.20 | worked for Salvation Army and ran a donation site. people ideally were supposed to come with items they wanted to donate, let me look at them, and according to company standards I had to make a judgement call on all items that were not clothes sealed in a garbage bag or something similar. so if you wanted to donate a bed frame it would have to have all parts and pieces and be in good resale condition. we would then take the item clean it in a big oven type of device and put it in the store. the money would go to employees and the poor or whatever needy part of society that Salvation Army chose to donate money to. my site gave most profits to the Salvation Army rehab in our area.
this would be ideal but would happen about 10% of the time. most of the time before I would get to work there would be hundreds sometimes thousands of pounds of garbage outside of the site. our dump bill per month was around 40,000 dollars USD. so we got very strict with donors. no more crap only stuff we could sell. the problem with this notion is that the donors thought everyone who worked there was a desperate homeless drug addict. so when they brought their used porta potty or bed bug ridden mattress(again about 90 percent of what was donated), they would become offended and even violent when I would say please take that to the dump because we cannot afford to.(taking a bed to the dumb costs about 10 dollars)
there are a few issues with this. number 1 is people were assuming my employees and I were all drug addicted homeless, so thats problematic clearly as you shouldn't look at addicts or homeless as second class citizens. the second issue were the daily assaults. when we would say no, people would become violent. they would spit, hit, and throw stuff at us, sometimes from moving cars other times face to face.
the sad thing is more than half of my employees were recovering addicts who were working there via court order or to pay keep the rehab open because Salvation Army also works as a non profit rehab. so these people were seeing how society really felt about them. this was in Northern California, one of the most wealthy and liberal places in the world. often people would simply say, take my shit give me my tax write off receipt or I will get physical.
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unclereich
12.20.20 | there were numerous times I had to call the police because a Karen would say it was illegal for me to deny her blankets with piss and shit on them because I was in rehab and I needed her donation. not only was I not in rehab I was helping people who were, by running a very strict program where they could get back on their feet and get a nice little job and a nice little wage that got them back into real society. this is what every California liberal screams to see more of in our state, and all we ask for is a little bit of help by just following the rules. but sadly I quit(due to stress and noticing changes in health due to being around toxic fumes and being scared of coming to work) right before that sector of Salvation Army was shut down due to expenses from people littering. just made me lose all faith in humanity |
americanohno
12.20.20 | I worked security at an art gallery in houston. most security jobs i've worked have been free money. you just sit on your ass all day and look at your phone. but my boss at this art gallery, a little ethiopian fellow, would run over and yell at me in this ridiculous accent if i ever pulled my phone out. motherfucker im here 10 hours 6 days a week im gonna spend most of the day looking at my phone. thats what i wanted to tell him but instead i just put my phone away and waited for him to leave. |
Sharenge
12.20.20 | got my feel-good story of the day
bye internet, see you tomorrow! |
Sharenge
12.20.20 | YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE SECURITY-ING THE ART |
TheAntichrist
12.20.20 | jesus christ unclereich...what the fuck is wrong with people |
WeepingBanana
12.20.20 | First job ever was at a laser tag place run by these two cops. Everything was constantly breaking down, literally every game, and I had to deal with angry grown men yelling at me about their faulty vest. Also there was some loophole in the state law that allowed businesses to pay minors 80% min wage until their 1000th hour worked or something so I was making like 6 bucks an hour. Got fired in like a month |
americanohno
12.20.20 | 'He pulled me aside one day to vent about one of his female workers telling me how she’s such an idiot and says “you know a woman’s mind doesn’t work like ours, they’re not capable of being creative..”'
this dude sounds based tbh. |
americanohno
12.20.20 | @ Sharenge
it was modern art. shit like Rothko and Warhol aint nno art thief stealing that shit. |
outliers
12.20.20 | grocery store clerk is underrated shitty. cleaning public toilets at 6:30 on a Saturday and washing out huge trash bins full of rotting deli food and produce for minimum wage...sucked |
Sharenge
12.20.20 | I'm a forklift driver in Shenmue - every morning they make us race through the harbor around all the warehouses to warm up - I came in 1st place today - now I get to move crates from point A to point B for the rest of the day... if I do enough before the end of my shift, I get a fucking raise!
this is better than any job I ever had in real life and I'm not even earning real $$$ it's just virtual yen |
porcupinetheater
12.20.20 | Served at one of those over priced Italian joints that gets all their food frozen and charges 25 a plate, peeling wallpaper, and a pianist that plays Saturday nights, the whole thing. Half the staff there was chill af, the other half where virulent racist misogynists who got on hitting on the hostesses via mocking the kitchen staff. One of the dudes was this 60 year old bloke named Salvatore who probably had Sicillian mob ties. Came into a PDR I was setting up one shift on his phone yelling at somebody about how he was going to kill his "cocksucking motherfucking dog and his wife is next," then immediately goes back to one of his tables with the most pleasant smile you could imagine.
Management were fucking cheapskates too. Septic line burst in the restaurant one time. Place was two floors, kitchen included on the second, so they just ushered guests up the stairs past the swamped out shit bar to the upper level and carried on as normal. Also meant that at close when they were cleaning the kitchen there was a perpetual rain of kitchen floor sludge waterfalling through the ceiling of our employee break rooms right underneath. Just got a 500 dollar check from that place via class action lawsuit. |
Deez
12.20.20 | When you buy packed chickens in the supermarket and they come on like a plastic/polystyrene thing, well that has a strip of paper on it for some reason. It was to glue that on. One after one. Lasted a week then kicked them on the floor and told them to shove them up their arse and walked out. Rebel. |
zakalwe
12.20.20 | Dishwasher at some wankers place in St. Kilda Melbourne.
Staff were great but it was my first experience of hipsters pre hipster culture.
Fucking got me down, cynical and bitter.
And tele sales/door to door sales obviously. Soul destroying shite. |
Pikazilla
12.20.20 | Worked in jp morgan corporate finance
Quite possibly the worst experience in my life |
Thranth
12.20.20 | worked as a cell phone salesman for quite a while. It was fun lying to people for a bit but it became quite stressful. Dealing with the public always yields great results.
also cold calling people is awful |
Divaman
12.20.20 | Telephone sales. We had scripts that we had to follow, no matter what. They mostly had me calling former subscribers of TV Guide who had let their subscriptions lapse to try to get them to subscribe again. You'd start by trying to get them to take a 2-year subscription, and if they said no, for whatever reason, you were supposed to come back and offer them a 1-year subscription. I remember one time, I reached this frail sounding very old lady, and when I told her she used to subscribe and I had a great price if she wanted to resubscribe for 2 years, she said, very sadly, "My husband used to subscribe. But he's dead now." And I was supposed to answer, "Well, if you'd only like to subscribe for 1 year, I can give it to for $XXX." I only lasted 3 weeks at that job. |
JesperL
12.20.20 | i worked as a 'hello do can u take a survey' suited up asshole at the amsterdam airport for one whole day and then i quit bc i couldn't live with myself lmao |
zakalwe
12.20.20 | Don’t feel bad diva mate.
She may have been that old and frail she might have been a touch deaf and thought you said ‘scuba dive’ |
LeddSledd
12.20.20 | this thread is all sorts of uplifting |
TheAntichrist
12.20.20 | sales jobs are fucking awful, but the asshole responses were worse |
Sharenge
12.20.20 | nah if you roll up or call people unsolicited and try to manipulate them into giving you money, you deserve the worst |
zakalwe
12.20.20 | Agreed |
rufinthefury
12.20.20 | same as Colton, pushing carts for the grocery store. Brutal in the summer when we werent allowed to carry around water bottles and we had to wear these thick fucking heavy black aprons, dumb as hell. Brutal in the winter too with all the snow.
Other than that, the mental stress of working an electrical job with 0 electrical training on buildings worth hundreds of millions of dollars being built in the field in real time while getting phone calls from a dozen people at once. Fuck that shit man. |
TheAntichrist
12.20.20 | "nah if you roll up or call people unsolicited and try to manipulate them into giving you money, you deserve the worst"
that's also what i hated about it lol |
robertsona
12.20.20 | Wasn’t even that bad but the job I just quit was almost certainly my least favorite: correcting example resumes, fixing phone numbers on listings for apprenticeships and job resources, and lots of excel spreadsheet shit. Also editing articles on deadly diseases (which was the most fun part) |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
12.20.20 | Jesus fucking christ Mitch, that is a miserable story. I'm not sure that can be topped, goddamn.
This thread is making me feel v fortunate |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
12.20.20 | I guess the worst job I ever had was building a Rollercoaster for Calgary Stampede one summer when I was a teenager, I did one day and didn't go back. Construction carnies are fucking cancer. All they did was bully and torment this one other kid who clearly had aspergers or something until he lost it and quit halfway through the day. |
Snake.
12.20.20 | i worked in food service for 5 months and it makes working in retail again feel so therapeutic |
Deathconscious
12.20.20 | Hmm. Probably either working at a credit union (i cant do the sucking customer dick while being all fake smiley and sunshiney thing), or this market research firm where i was listening to the phone ring all day and leaving voicemails and talking to people who didnt want to talk to me.
Being a video game tester was also pretty brutal back when my anxiety was getting out of control and the crunch period set in, but there were redeeming parts about it and it was a cool experience im glad i had. |
TheAntichrist
12.20.20 | prolly target since modernization although always having a conference with my manager from publix and him always pointing out how nothing i do is enough despite him also saying i'm one of his hardest workers for ten months felt like abuse |
Jasdevi087
12.20.20 | probably doing the online pick up orders for a big supermarket. I told them i'd like around 35-40 hours a week, but told them i wasn't really a morning person, so the cocksuckers put me on 6:00am to 4:30 from Wednesday to Saturday and almost every shift went over time so I was working around 11 hours a day pushing this heavy ass fucking trolley around with one break in the middle of the day. HR were fucking wankers too, I was around 5 minutes late for two shifts in the first week (still adjusting to my new sleep schedule and finding my way around this new city), called ahead both times to be like "hey yo sorry, i fucked up and i'mma be about 5 minutes" and the pricks gave me a written warning, no verbal or anything, they just sprung it on me a couple of weeks after the fact. Then they were condescending assholes in the meeting so I handed in my notice the second i found something else |
hal1ax
12.20.20 | worst and best job is my current one: program manager for a cohort of non-profit medical programs for the homeless in orange county -- basically to assist hospitals in becoming less burdened. it's a good job, and i'm paid decently, but at the moment we have an exclusive contract with the county to provide medical program placement and service for every single COVID positive & presumed positive (close-contact / direct-contact) in the county. so right now we are getting like 50 intakes a day and are running out of staff because most of them are themselves getting COVID so we're having to like tap into all of these temp agencies and are opening up new motels weekly to make this all work but it's a nightmare. |
hal1ax
12.20.20 | and working 60 hours a week while being a salaried employee that does not accrue OT is super wack |
AnimalsAsSummit
12.20.20 | Working at a gas station around late 2015. Fucking sucked. |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
12.20.20 | We can all take solace in the fact that there are guys out there that put on a big hazmat suit and go scuba diving in a giant septic vat to do maintenance for a living |
Mort.
12.20.20 | 'and working 60 hours a week while being a salaried employee that does not accrue OT is super wack'
yeah fuck that |
rockarollacola
12.20.20 | Gotta be a tie between my year long tenure at Hy-Vee or the one night I was a waiter.
Hy-Vee had terrible management. They changed my schedule without my knowledge, then scolded me when I didn't come in on the changed days. Plus my department manager was a total bitch, who obviously loved being in a position of power a little too much.
I was a waiter for one night at a local bar and grill, but it happened to be the busiest night in years. The catch however, is that I was not trained on how to use the computer system for putting orders in, and I fucked up a ton of people's food. Got yelled at after my shift, and promptly quit on the spot. |
aydross121
12.20.20 | Working with people almost always sucks dick tbh. |
Pon
12.20.20 | retrieving lobsters from jayne mansfield's bum |
sonictheplumber
12.21.20 | krystal |
sonictheplumber
12.21.20 | i felt pretty good cause i quit krystal with a no call no show on a saturday night shift where i was the one of three people staffed. suck my chode |
Jots
12.21.20 | was a tank gunner in the army. sounds cool but it was 99% doing fck all and being bored and disillusioned. hardly terrible but I guess the worst job I had fwiw |
Koris
12.21.20 | Worked at a restaurant called Woody's as a busboy. But since they were paying me under the table, there was a lot of shady shit going on... I remember there were shifts in which I'd be the host, busboy, and dishwasher all in one night. Also, even as a busboy, I was required to cut the bread as well (without gloves on) which is pretty disgusting for the customers. Also, I remember there being a customer complaint about maggots in the tuna salad, as well as a shard of glass in one of the other salad trays. Great place, lol |
Hyperion1001
12.21.20 | when i first moved to dc i got a job working for a sports supplements company that turned out to be a front for scientology and i had to read dianetics literature for 2 months before the owner fired me after he realized i wasn't gonna accept l. ron as my lord and savior lmao. |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
12.21.20 | "i felt pretty good cause i quit krystal with a no call no show on a saturday night shift where i was the one of three people staffed. suck my chode"
the ol classic no show quit, love to see it. i quit all of my teenage jobs this way. the best one tho was i worked at this gelato place and it was a cool job for most of the time i was there because i worked for this italian stoner who really just didn't give a fuck and really didn't like customers very much. but he ended up selling the business to Swiss Chalet. So during the transition period they sent in this mouth breather to assess everyone that worked there to see who they wanted to keep once the business officially switched hands. This put a lot of pressure on the old assistant manager who wanted to keep her job. I didn't mind her before this, but the pressure turned her into a bit of a bitch. So the Swiss Chalet snitch told the old assistant manager that I was fucking around on my phone all the time and so in a passive aggressive attempt to punish me she last minute switched my shifts from the weekday afternoon/evenings that I preferred, and signed me on for closing shifts all weekend long. This backfired pretty hard because I didn't give a fuck about the job and didn't plan on working for Swiss Chalet so I just didn't show up, and she ended up having to cover those spite shifts herself. |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
12.21.20 | @hype that is surreal |
hal1ax
12.21.20 | lmao @hype |
Tyler.
12.21.20 | i worked at a supermarket |
Minushuman24
12.21.20 | pizza slut |
Coast
12.21.20 | High School teacher nuff said. |
Iamthe Nightstars
12.21.20 | Walmart. Still think I'd rather work there than as a high school teacher though. |
chchelse2
12.21.20 | Bagging ice. I worked for a company that sold 5lb bags of ice. You stood by this machine, cold air would pop the empty bags open, 5lbs of ice would drop in, you’d take it off and place it on a conveyor belt with a heat sealer. Couldn’t wear gloves because you couldn’t handle the bags, then. Spent all summer in a parka and pack boots with ice chips and cold air on my hands. 1000 bags an hour. 10 hour shifts in a freezing cold, poorly lit warehouse. The crew had 30 minutes for lunch, so we’d drive to some fast food joint and it’s like 90 degrees and sunny and we’d walk in like we just came out of a fucking blizzard. People would give us the “what the fuck”. Did this for a couple years making like $6.00/hour. Fuck me........ |
Emim
12.21.20 | Worst one was probably being a do everything guy at a mom and pop plant nursery/pet supply place. Even then it wasn't horrible, just hard work. Lots of lifting and moving stuff in any and every type of weather and working 10+hr days as a 15 y/o was a bit rough.
Learned a shit ton of stuff about plants though, even if I've forgotten most of it now. |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
12.21.20 | Plants fuck bro |
Iamthe Nightstars
12.21.20 | "Did this for a couple years making like $6.00/hour"
When was this? 2002? |
chchelse2
12.21.20 | 1980ish |
chchelse2
12.21.20 | Double fuck me. I guessed it was $6.00/ hour, but I just checked minimum wage in 1980 was $3.10. I bet I was making $3.50/hour. So like $140/week. |
Ryus
12.21.20 | tell us more stories about olden times grampa |
chchelse2
12.21.20 | Bought new wheels for my ‘69 Firebird with the ice money. New stereo with cassette player too! |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
12.21.20 | That is fucking nuts. Out of interest I looked up what minimum wage was when I was born (92) and it was about 4.25. If you asked me what decade I thought minimum wage might have been that low I would have said 1940s or something lmao
But apparently back then it was 0.30 cents |
Sinternet
12.21.20 | i had an absolutely awful placement at a local newspaper that killed any of my motivation to go into journalism for life. just full of egotistical pricks and out-of-touch men in their 50s trying to ride a wave of mediocrity until they can retire
other than that i've mostly done youth work which is undeniably a shit and extremely tense and stressful job but does have a lot of satisfaction tied to the good days, and i prefer it to retail where it's just boring |
JeremiahBullfrog
12.21.20 | worked at a pet shop (i was literally a pet shop boy) for an abominable cunt.
Took a disliking to me from day 1 (despite hiring me?) for reasons unknown (she was 46 and her fella was like 20? maybe 19?) so i had this theory that she maybe low key wanted a lethal beef injection but i didn't need to fuck fat older white women to pay the rent.
Would pretty much constantly put me down, give me the degrading jobs, and being 21 i was pretty naive and unsure of how to respond, anyways one day she told me she had me on camera tying my laces for 19 minutes (I swear to god thats what she said) when i asked to see the footage, she gave me every excuse under the sun - told her what i thought of her and left.
my pops came in to the shop later that day and also told her what he thought of her, much to my embarrassment. can't even remember her name now but she a big ol fatty that fucks teenage boys. |
rodrigo90
12.21.20 | My worst job is writing album reviews in this site....FOR FREE |
Deathconscious
12.21.20 | Agreed, that was your worst job. |
JayEnder
12.21.20 | Every customer service job I've ever had. |