Your worst job

[Locke]

Originally Posted by iggy_oi

Since you asked, I’m gonna have to go with really lousy management being the reason why.

Oh come on. You know better than that.

Speaking of management...they had a wonderful internal policy of 'Promoting from Within.'

My manager had been there for 23 years. He started as a Janitor, worked up as a Dock Loader and then became the Senior Manager.

He was a really nice guy. Terrible manager. But unfireable.

[Flacker]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

I mean to say, I don't care if he finds Jesus or improves himself.

I do get petty joy telling an idiot to #### off though.

Do you own a mirror?

[Yamer]

Jeez, when I was trying to think of the worst job I realized I have had a long line of really ####ty jobs. Only 2 in the last 10 years were decent, and one ended so horribly it overshadowed all the positivity I had for it and the people there. Never trust the people you work with.

The worst job I had, though, was my most recent. It was a government funded small business training center. The company is located in BC so I had zero local support when I started (first person hired for the start-up). I had absolutely no training other than attending mandated courses on how to use the government system. 10 months afterwards and I still didn't understand fully what we did. The owner of the company was an absolutely miserable human being, routinely disparaging and insulting staff on Zoom calls.

More than once I was asked to violate government policy and laws, such as texting SIN numbers back and forth (among much worse), and when I refused I wasn't a 'team player'. We could never fill our class capacities because we had no marketing plan. I didn't have an office phone for a month, so the few clients we had constantly called me on my personal phone. The entire mandate was to push people into the program so we could get funding, so we were approving people leaving AISH to sell their homemade jewelry full-time. These people were never going to make a living doing what they proposed, and they were being removed from an assistance program most of them desperately needed. It was so unethical it broke my heart.

I shouldn't have quit that job until I had another one because, of course, there's hardly anything out there right now because of COVID, but it was deadening my soul on a daily basis.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by iggy_oi

Since you asked, I’m gonna have to go with really lousy management being the reason why.

Wait a second. Have you only ever had 1 Union job in your life and it was great and you think they're all like that?

I notice you're not sharing as much as the rest of us.

It would explain a lot.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Ahuch

No brainer, Superstore. Pretty self explanatory, lol.

I hate Superstore for their treatment of employees. My son’s employment was terminated just before he was due for a retention bonus. They apparently do this frequently, looking for reasons to fire. I’m aware of another case.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Locke

Oh come on. You know better than that.

Speaking of management...they had a wonderful internal policy of 'Promoting from Within.'

My manager had been there for 23 years. He started as a Janitor, worked up as a Dock Loader and then became the Senior Manager.

He was a really nice guy. Terrible manager. But unfireable.

So poor management yes?

If your previous examples are true, the decision to only give those employees a “talking to” falls on the employer, no matter how badly you’d like to spin it.

[PepsiFree]

If unions are truly guilty of ruining anything, it's threads on CP.

[Swift]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Telemarker for the Herald. Two hours into it, I hated it, and decided to get my self fired so I picked a fight with a rude prospect, called him ma'am multiple times and told him to go F hemself. I got a paycheck for 11.00.

When trying to think of my worst jobs, I find that I walked out of all of them early on before they got even worse. No point sticking it out in a crappy job unless you really need the money.


Telemarketing - I did the full day training session. The next morning as I lay in bed I called them up and told them I wouldn't be coming in. At all.


Siding - I did this for one hot summer day. Had no real idea what I was doing. Screwed up a couple of times and the guy I was working with as a favour (friend of a friend) was pretty pissed. We were both relieved at the end of the day when I told him it wasn't something I wanted to do. If you live in a house in Tuscany with some poor siding, that might've been me.


Fedex - I unloaded trucks at the airport for three days before I'd had enough and quit. Never did receive any pay for that one.


Warehouse - I was sent to a warehouse by a temp agency. I'd worked in a warehouse for 3 years prior to this so wasn't anything new to me but not really something I wanted to do again. I went to the office where I was told the boss was running late and I was left standing there feeling awkward for quite a while. Eventually the old bag with a moustache shows up but says she has to go to a meeting for a few hours and asks me to deal with the truckers and their documents coming in. 30 mins of that and I just thought to myself "what am I doing here?" I wrote "Sorry, the job's not for me" on a sticky note, put it on the computer screen and walked away. Thankfully, later that day I got the phone call for the job I'm currently in for the past 10 years, so it worked out in the end.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Locke

Wait a second. Have you only ever had 1 Union job in your life and it was great and you think they're all like that?

I notice you're not sharing as much as the rest of us.

It would explain a lot.

No but to be honest the worst job I think I ever had was a Union job, but it certainly wasn’t made worse by having a Union there. Some employers simply treat their employees like garbage and a lot of employees who work for those types of companies don’t have the benefit of a Union to try and improve things. Imagine any “terrible” Union job, now imagine that same job without the Union there, unless you consider the same work with less pay and job security as an improvement you can probably understand why I think trying to argue a job is bad simply because it is a unionized position is a pretty silly endeavour.

[MoneyGuy]

This semi-retirement gig is pretty awesome. Doing some consulting work and I work when I want, plus a half-time thing I have going for the next year.

I’ve never really had a job I didn’t like. I’ve always been able to find the good in everything, and I leave if a job gets intolerable.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

This semi-retirement gig is pretty awesome. Doing some consulting work and I work when I want, plus a half-time thing I have going for the next year.

I’ve never really had a job I didn’t like. I’ve always been able to find the good in everything, and I leave if a job gets intolerable.

I don't like working. Having to be somewhere and do something bothers me. I'd like to just be. I don't see semi-retirement in my future. One day I just want to stop coming in forever. Seems so sweet.

[CaptainYooh]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I don't like working. Having to be somewhere and do something bothers me. I'd like to just be. I don't see semi-retirement in my future. One day I just want to stop coming in forever. Seems so sweet.

It does, when your life, livelihood and livelihood of your family no longer depends on the job income. Got to be the most wonderful feeling.

[pylon]

Production tester for a drilling company.

90% of the day was spent sitting in an Atco trailer in the middle of nowhere listening to a bunch of drug addicts talking about drugs and how to cheat the company drug tests. The other 10% was spent connecting pipes and wearing a Scott pack taking gas samples. Oh, and you never knew if H2S was going to kill you at any given moment.

That killed my fantasy of working in the oil field making this crazy money I kept hearing about at a young age, and was probably a good thing.

[Wormius]

Collecting deer brains to mimic human brains for cell phone cancer experiments.

Also working for a parent. You get mistreated the way no other regular employees would be.

[JohnnyB]

I spent a chunk of a summer working in a prison when I was a student. I wanted an atypical summer job experience, and it was, and it was awful. I did all kinds of random stuff there. Worked in the kitchens, delivered stuff to different areas of the prison etc. All low responsibility work. Coworkers were mostly nice people, but I witnessed a lot of depressing interactions that shaped my views about the prison system to this day. Also, spending 12 hour shifts in prison by choice during the summertime was quite ridiculous. I don't regret doing it, and it fulfilled my goal of an atypical summer job experience that taught me about a different side of life, but my alternative plan of being a grave digger for sure would have been a better way to go.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by pylon

Production tester for a drilling company.

90% of the day was spent sitting in an Atco trailer in the middle of nowhere listening to a bunch of drug addicts talking about drugs and how to cheat the company drug tests. The other 10% was spent connecting pipes and wearing a Scott pack taking gas samples. Oh, and you never knew if H2S was going to kill you at any given moment.

That killed my fantasy of working in the oil field making this crazy money I kept hearing about at a young age, and was probably a good thing.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

If unions are truly guilty of ruining anything, it's threads on CP.

White Out 403 is truly Out.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by nik-

Stunt ####.

DVDA Lady had it worse though.

[Johnny199r]

I worked at a flour mill one summer in university. Some government program subsidized the summer students pay. At best, there would be an hour of work each day. The rest of the day, you'd walk around with a broom, pretending to clean. The whole time the machines were pounding loud as hell and you were dusty and hot. In this whole history of that place, only one student had ever returned after employee four students every summer for like 30 years. The only good part is they had a bakery to test the flour that you got to take home free baked goods.

I got a job at a dairy one summer. Early morning shift. A million machines were going pasturizing products etc. There was so much water being sprayed al the time, I always got soaked. Me and this other guys were stuck in the middle of nowhere by ourselves in charge of some kind of process.The job sucked and the hours were bad, so I quit that job to go work at the flour mill.

I worked for about 8-9 months at a call centre. We were customer service for Nextel cell phones from the U.S. Lots of people from the Deep South that liked NASCAR. The job actually wasn't that bad. One day I found a better job and quit. The HR lady told me at my exit interview that everyone told her they just couldn't do it anymore when they quit. I felt the same way.

[RichieRich]

Selling "demo's" of Kirby vacuum cleaners in Calgary with an @$$wipe of a "supervisor" who, when driving down the road, would often yell obscenities at pedestrian women. One time I got abandoned doing a demo in Red Deer until 11pm. Did it for a month... enough to "earn" their minimum payment... which I don't think I ever received. Probably worse than my stint at being a tree-pruner of pine/spruce trees in the BC mountains. Took months for the sap to finally come off my flesh. Made my summers of tree planting in BC, with the stoners, look joyous despite the permanent injuries I got. But hey, I've done my part for the environment now haven't I?