What's the worst job you ever had? (Horrible Bosses)

[belfpala]

Of course I am sure if you could have been that one say something nice maybe they wouldn't have done it. /snip

So that's the eerie thing in the end people don't know, because those who finally made that decision don't want anybody to know, but yeah I am with you in the feeling for those like that.

But no there zero you could have done.

I personally struggled with it in my teens. I was about to go through with it, had it all planned out; how to do it without making a mess, how I wanted my body found, and so on.

But then I realized, I really just want to see what happens next. And that has kept me alive for more than two decades since.

I cannot speak for those I've lost, or what they were thinking. It still hurts knowing I was a part of their experience. As I said, RIP lost souls.

[Ghostpanther]

Picking peaches. Hated it, because the damn fuzz gets all over your hands and arms and starts to itch like crazy after a while. To make money, we had to pick them fast too.

Worse boss was the dead fish smelling breath of a boss I had when I first started to work at Cummins Engine company.

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Picking peaches. Hated it, because the damn fuzz gets all over your hands and arms and starts to itch like crazy after a while. To make money, we had to pick them fast too.

Some good old fashion manual labour creates the manliest of men though.

[Ghostpanther]

Some good old fashion manual labour creates the manliest of men though.

Well, I must be manly as can be then. I started working out in the fields when I was 6 yrs old. Being part of a migrant farm working family. A couple years ago, installed a metal roof on my house. By myself. Have never lacked the opportunities of manual labor. lol!

[Clone]

I had this contract job that paid about six dollars per hour, but it came with stipends and totaled up to be about 1200 per week without overtime. Sounded good on paper but the place ended up having us work ten hour days and the overtime pay was chump change because of the pay system.

I also disliked my boss who had mandatory meetings at lunch time once a week. That itself is not the problem, but she would get mad at people that showed up late, but would often makes wait up to thirty minutes while she ran outside.

The job itself was okay, but knowing I am pulling fifty hour week for an additional ninety bucks sucked.

At the time I was also working a different job on Saturdays in my hometown two hours away, and I was happy when the contract ended.

[Deleted]

Well, I must be manly as can be then. I started working out in the fields when I was 6 yrs old. Being part of a migrant farm working family. A couple years ago, installed a metal roof on my house. By myself. Have never lacked the opportunities of manual labor. lol!

Big if true. Really, that builds character!

I helped a lot at a local farm when I was young and it helped me build a solid work ethic.

[Ghostpanther]

Big if true. Really, that builds character!

I helped a lot at a local farm when I was young and it helped me build a solid work ethic.

I agree. Joining the Army when I was 17 also help myself build character.

[Doctor Amadeus]

I personally struggled with it in my teens. I was about to go through with it, had it all planned out; how to do it without making a mess, how I wanted my body found, and so on.

But then I realized, I really just want to see what happens next. And that has kept me alive for more than two decades since.

I cannot speak for those I've lost, or what they were thinking. It still hurts knowing I was a part of their experience. As I said, RIP lost souls.

Yeah, I know the feeling, and I think the hardest for me was the fact that I had the misfortune of being around a lot of people who meant well but didn't know anything. "Every cloud has a silver lining" types, like some meaningless short phrase or something was going to be life changing. But R.I.P lost souls no doubt.

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I agree. Joining the Army when I was 17 also help myself build character.

And you learned how to effectively kill people, so that was nice too

[Clone]

Picking peaches. Hated it, because the damn fuzz gets all over your hands and arms and starts to itch like crazy after a while. To make money, we had to pick them fast too.

Worse boss was the dead fish smelling breath of a boss I had when I first started to work at Cummins Engine company.

You couldn't wear gloves?

[Zihilis]

My first job was in retail, most of the people I worked with were quite nice but the boss was very deceptive. My boss at the time would praise my work constantly and promise raises/promotions. I remember my firstand only raise was given to me under the guise of a reward but it rurned out I got it due to minimum wage being raised.

After 2 years of workin there I never recieved any of my bosses promises and found out the reason why he made those promises was because he new that he was going to quit to become a correctional officer before he even hired me and knew he would never have to pay up.

[belfpala]

Yeah, I know the feeling, and I think the hardest for me was the fact that I had the misfortune of being around a lot of people who meant well but didn't know anything. "Every cloud has a silver lining" types, like some meaningless short phrase or something was going to be life changing. But R.I.P lost souls no doubt.

Here's a feeling: "Every time you try to make me feel better, I feel worse because you shouldn't have to try to make me feel better."

It's impossible to explain to someone who hasn't lived it.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Here's a feeling: "Every time you try to make me feel better, I feel worse because you shouldn't have to try to make me feel better."

It's impossible to explain to someone who hasn't lived it.

Very true, even worse someone who self diagnose cured themselves.

[Orlong]

Cold Call Lead generating.

Outbound Telemarketing is the worst especially when you are trying to sell a product that people hate. I'm glad I have a thick skin, because some of the shit people say to marketers is way over the top and it wasn't unusual to see a co-worker cry.

Well maybe they shouldn't be calling people to try and sell them their shit that they don't want. If someone wants something, they will call YOU. You don't need to be calling people when they are working/napping/eating etc... to nag them and try and trick them into buying your shitty product that if it was any good would be sold in a store

[Fuiking]

I wouldnt recommend working with pigs and / or goats... and with most farmers regardless.. long hours, no pay.


Wasnt a success i can tell you.

[Deleted]

Here's a feeling: "Every time you try to make me feel better, I feel worse because you shouldn't have to try to make me feel better."

It's impossible to explain to someone who hasn't lived it.

I know exactly what you mean. The owner of the company I worked at had read a book about psychology, he wanted to use that knowledge to make me feel better. The whole day about every hour he came to me giving monologues about what I did wrong and should do different. I'm not an aggressive person but I really wanted to beat the shit out of that guy. I have never been so belittled in my life.

[Dald]

Working in a restaurant.

Most customers are fine but some acted inappropriately and made me hate it, grab me indecently sometimes and what made me quit was when a man walked up behind me when I was clearing a table and grabbed me and made thrusting motions and his friends laughing and they told me to tolerate it because they don't want to lose customers.

Worked with a chick in a restaurant that had a guy come up and kiss her on the lips, she was so stunned that she just sat down to process what had happened. Guy ran out after that apparently. I walked out into the lobby area and was like what's wrong, why are you sitting down and she told me what had happened.

Not sure if he grabbed her or just snuck one in.

[ThrashMetalFtw]

Worst job ever is a toss up.

Being that I was already at 50 hours and being offered another 10, this is a no brainer. Thursday night is the night the prints were screened ahead of Friday openings, and we didn't finish screening the last print until 3:30 am. By the time I had finished cleaning and prepping all the projectors for the morning, it was 4am. Got home at 4:30, went to sleep, woke up at about 7:40, raced back to work, got there at 8:05, fired on the spot for tardiness. Before you judge - I had to be there at 8am to make sure the projectors were prepped and ready (which they were, because I had already done it the night before) for the first showing at 10am.

You got fired for being 5 minutes late, to a shift that started 4 hours after your previous one ended? Where do you live? To my naive Norwegian self, this entire story sounds so bizarre and unrealistic that it's something you would only ever see in movies.

The idea of your boss being able to fire you on the spot just like that, is so completely alien to me that I just can't get my head around it. Here, you almost have to try to be fired. If your boss wants to fire you, he/she needs to have a very good reason for doing so, like you showing up drunk/on drugs, physically attacking colleagues or having a long history of being late/slacking at work, and it can't happen until you have gotten multiple written warnings...

[Yunru]

Probaly my worst job was working at farm picking up potatos when there was 32*C outside.

Back breaking and burned skin. (that was a student job btw)

....also no water anywhere....

[Ghostpanther]

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And you learned how to effectively kill people, so that was nice too

Which thankfully I never had to do. But such training may come in handy one day to save my life or others. But hopefully I will never need to use it.

Like the training the 88 year old former British paratrooper used to protect a young girl who was being assaulted by 2 thugs. In England. He said he reverted to his training automatically. Which like swimming and bike riding, once you learn it, you never forget how to do those completely.

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You couldn't wear gloves?

pfft. The work place did not supply them and being very, very poor, we wanted to make money. Plus gloves can be cumbersome. esp the ones which they had back then. Nowadays they have better and cheaper gloves which would have helped. But our goal was to pick as many as we could get done within each day. We did not work by the hour, but was payed by the baskets we could fill up. So much per baskets. Piece work it was called.

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Probaly my worst job was working at farm picking up potatos when there was 32*C outside.

Back breaking and burned skin. (that was a student job btw)

....also no water anywhere....

Been there, done that. That is also miserable work.

[Antiganon]

You got fired for being 5 minutes late, to a shift that started 4 hours after your previous one ended? Where do you live? To my naive Norwegian self, this entire story sounds so bizarre and unrealistic that it's something you would only ever see in movies.

The idea of your boss being able to fire you on the spot just like that, is so completely alien to me that I just can't get my head around it. Here, you almost have to try to be fired. If your boss wants to fire you, he/she needs to have a very good reason for doing so, like you showing up drunk/on drugs, physically attacking colleagues or having a long history of being late/slacking at work, and it can't happen until you have gotten multiple written warnings...

I live in the US.

That was standard employer behavior from what I have seen. Make a decision to eliminate a position, push the employee to the brink trying to get them to quit, if they don't, then wait for them to step one toe out of line so you can fire them and contest the unemployment payout.