Tell us your worst job ever.

[canabiz]

I have had my fair shares folks. In no particular order

#1: Dishwasher for airlines meal catering company: My first *real* job in Canada. 16 at the time, not a whole lot of working experience before coming in. Assembly line kinda setup where plates, glasses, bowls etc fresh off the dishwasher and hot as hell keeps rumbling down the line and I have to catch all of them and put them in the right places...i was ready to quit after 2 days but luckily found another position in the warehouse after and lasted at that place for a good 4 months before coming back to school in Sept.

#2: Technical support-call centre rep for laptops/desktops/PDAs: Cool co-workers, good learning environment but horrible working conditions and abusive/annoying/dumb/clueless/ungrateful/idiotic customers most of the time. And yes they are mostly Americans :) Lasted 6 months before I latched on with the federal government.


#3: Security guard for an armoured car company: Don't even know why i risked my life for $14/hr and protecting someone else money LOL. But it was cool putting on that uniform and having a gun in the holster. I have to look 10 times everywhere i go, some cool guys to work with though and you learn to notice a lot of stuff that you wouldn't otherwise got but the working hours is pretty brutal and i figure I'd rather die protecting my own money. Lasted about 6 months as well before returning back to my other job full-time

Let's hear what you gotta say. We can all learn from each other.

Cheers.

[Nightgod]

No frills I worked there for 3 weeks

[dvdrsi]

haha I worked dishwasher when I was 15 - Lasted a few mths

I worked at a gold course doing maintenance (setting tables up, polishing gold shoes, cleaning the bathrooms and filling, soap, shampoo in the showers, etc)
--I quit after 1 day of work

Did tiles for outdoor swimming pools for 1 summer only

Worked at a bingo hall at 16 for a few mths.

Did automatic sprinklers for 3 days. Was busting my ass in the heat for $9/hr. Asked for a raise, they said 10, I asked for 12, they said no so I quit on the spot.

Ahh many many other jobs...g2g now though, may post them later.

[inferno_gn]

Hi there,

Wal-mart, lasted a month after I filed a complaint using their stupid open-door policy (long story). Bet that policy just ironed out all the ones have the backbone not to take crap and being mistreated unfairly.

Ju Leon...

[john widow]

http://media.putfile.com/Worst-Job-Ever

LOL!!!

[xwar]

#2: Technical support-call centre rep for laptops/desktops/PDAs: Cool co-workers, good learning environment but horrible working conditions and abusive/annoying/dumb/clueless/ungrateful/idiotic customers most of the time. And yes they are mostly Americans Lasted 6 months before I latched on with the federal government.


.... agreed, call centres have got to be the worst jobs out there!

[sunnybono]

Hi there,

Wal-mart, lasted a month after I filed a complaint using their stupid open-door policy (long story). Bet that policy just ironed out all the ones have the backbone not to take crap and being mistreated unfairly.

Ju Leon...

when you get time tell us what happened with the complaint & how did management handle it?????

sk

[inferno_gn]

Hi there,

Let's see...

- You know, cashiers and just the regular staff have 2 different rate per hour. Cashiers are actually paided more then me. I worked at the electonic dept and we have a cash right there. All software and games must be paid there and we only do the cashier job when someone by something from our dept. only. One day, during the rush hours of hell (where the cashiers up front are completely flooded), the idiots of managements want to "help" the cahsiers and turns us into "cashiers" for the day. I want to be paid the same rate as the cashiers if I were to do that, only to be fair. I take care of the floor. Well, no choice, ended up doing it and when I filed a complaint, things get really pissed off at me.
- After that incident, they treated me like crap. Since I worked in doors, I have to dress nicely udner those blue robes. One very hot summer day, they send me out to the burning sun to take in those cart in, as the guys was out to lunch. I almost got heat stroke and they never even bother giving me those yellow flasher jacket. File another complaint.
- Days later, for some reasons, they are short of staff and I was like, WTF, I was hired with many others when I started. They move me to another department to do carpets. I told them I have skin allergies, but still let me do it. I have like rashes in my entire arms and neck.
- The next day after that, I got fired, because I wasn't "a team player". Geez, thanks.

Ju Leon...

[infamous.yee]

Right now, i have job of babysitting two rascals.

I want to quit, but I don't have the heart to because they really like me, plus I like the money and I don't think I can get any other jobs that pay 8 dollars an hour right now, haha.

[canabiz]

Hi there,

Let's see...

- You know, cashiers and just the regular staff have 2 different rate per hour. Cashiers are actually paided more then me. I worked at the electonic dept and we have a cash right there. All software and games must be paid there and we only do the cashier job when someone by something from our dept. only. One day, during the rush hours of hell (where the cashiers up front are completely flooded), the idiots of managements want to "help" the cahsiers and turns us into "cashiers" for the day. I want to be paid the same rate as the cashiers if I were to do that, only to be fair. I take care of the floor. Well, no choice, ended up doing it and when I filed a complaint, things get really pissed off at me.
- After that incident, they treated me like crap. Since I worked in doors, I have to dress nicely udner those blue robes. One very hot summer day, they send me out to the burning sun to take in those cart in, as the guys was out to lunch. I almost got heat stroke and they never even bother giving me those yellow flasher jacket. File another complaint.
- Days later, for some reasons, they are short of staff and I was like, WTF, I was hired with many others when I started. They move me to another department to do carpets. I told them I have skin allergies, but still let me do it. I have like rashes in my entire arms and neck.
- The next day after that, I got fired, because I wasn't "a team player". Geez, thanks.

Ju Leon...


Wow that's pretty rough man...i have never done retails before but I don't think it's a very pleasant experience either, well unless you are a HS student looking for some cash...i don't think the pay is a lot either

Forgot to add my first job ever in Canada was a dishwasher in a restaurant. I didn't do a whole lotta cooking beforehand and now you asked me to peel veggies and prepare noodles on top of washing a ton of dishes in a very limited space. Needless to say, i was let go after 3 weeks...from that day on, I told myself to never work in the restaurants again and I have stayed true to my words until now (11 years and counting woohooo)

[alkaholikc]

Yep, I was teh paperboy... Fun to hold cash pain to wake up early in the morning. Paperboy for NES inspired me (=!

[slowtalon]

1) Also worked for a call centre for an American retail company. They hired us in November, trained us for 2 weeks. They didn't get us passwords for the computers for 1.5 weeks, so we'd sit in class going through flashcards of US state abbreviations, but we only had 30 states or so. They taught us the greeting for answering the phone, and they'd make us repeat it like robots, as a class of 30 people, and then in partners over and over and over. Didn't teach us the software or any of the company's policies. Once we got on the floor actually answering calls, it was just dealing with people trying to track packages that were lost in the mail and not going to arrive for xmas (or were broken and OOS) so everyone calling was so pissed. We were in a large hall-type room where over half the lights didn't work, so you'd sit in the dark in shadows reading your monitor for 8.5 hours. At night, everyone would complain about the 'bright' lights, and they'd shut off all the lights completely. We didn't have our own headsets, so you'd have to put someone else's ear gunk against your ears all day. They didn't give us pens, you had to bring your own. You couldn't put a customer on hold and conference in a supervisor, you had to put the customer on hold and put your hand up, and wait for a supervisor to come over, and then refuse to take your call. The phones would go down regularly for an entire shift, but no one would tell you why or what was happening, so you had to sit in the dark, staring at your monitor waiting 8 hours for a call, and you couldn't surf the net. Dec 31, we came in to work, and 80% of us had no schedule because it wasn't busy anymore and we were laid off.

2) Worked at a busy Tim's drive-thru. It would be so busy, you couldn't even make enough coffee to keep up. The assistant manager would stand over you, and refuse to make any coffee because "you guys have to learn to manage busy times by yourselves." I was busy another time making sandwiches/bagels and she stands over me and says "there's a coffee spill out here, can you clean it up?" I go "You're not doing anything, why don't you do it?" Yikes. $5.60 an hour was minimum wage and you didn't get OT till after 10 hours.

3) Worked at a gas station. Junkies would shoot up in the bathroom and spray their blood all over the walls, so we shut down the washrooms. Everyone would be so mad when they couldn't use the bathroom, so a lady peed right in our doorway to prove her point. We called the cops, she was charged (it was on camera) - turned out she was an accountant and it had to be reported to the people who gave her the credential, so she had to call us and ask us to please not have her charged. A guy came in to use the phone, we said not unless it was to call 911. He said it was, so we dialled for him. He gets on "Hello? Yeah, I just beat up a hooker in my building, she's on the stairs and isn't getting up."

[shad0w*]

"Hello? Yeah, I just beat up a hooker in my building, she's on the stairs and isn't getting up."That's not funny at all. Though after a fight usually they look at what they did and honestly they never really meant it and want the person to get help real fast. But doesn't think the cops will arrest him, beat him up and pressed charges on. Another rule where the women is a step higher then men law.

[AzN_RiverdaleCI]

My worst job was at the CNE, omg i had to operate that birthday game thing where it costs 25 cents and then you roll the dye, and omg so much complaints from ppl, the machine keeps breaking down every few hrs, i dont even get a break, i have to stand from 10am-6pm without a break, gg.

[tkl]

At the old Exhibition stadium selling stupid hot dogs, pretzels, popcorn, etc at the Blue Jays game.

It was hell walking up and down those damn steps for several hours at a time making literally peanuts plus lugging all the food and its containers around.

[ben_liu]

worked as paperboy for the toronto sun for about 4 months .. got paid crap. had to run around and ask for money from the customers. and some are cheap too..... early in the morning running around... couldnt stay up late on a friday AND saturday night..

[pt78dragon]

1. I had some tele-marketing job selling magazine subscriptions. I still remember reading the scrip they gave us...i had no idea what i was doing, the job lasted like 2 hrs lol

2. I also had a job selling those glow sticks at CNE....it was something like 10% of sales, i made like $3 bucks in my only shift...

[coriolis]

Bus Boy, lasted less then a week. I think it was one and a half shift hah...

Right now, I'm at No Frills, and I'm still thinking, is this worth it? The pay is crap, the work is crap(Manager is cheap, doesn't put alot of guys on shifts, 2/3 of full timers left(All the cool guys left) didn't bother to hire any until it was in dire necessity). But on the other hand, I met lots of cool and interesting people(alot of co-workers are my age as 95% of all employees are students :-0) and its quite fun to mingle around and not work when no full timers are around :twisted:

[ben_liu]

im at nofrillz to.. but i guess i dont have many options since in 15. people are fun to work with. pay IS crap but hey, i get paid and i have money to spend u know.

[ainsane]

2 words: Tree Planting

Go to http://www.canadiantreeplanting.com/ if you're not sure what I mean.

Here are some of the worst parts of this job:
- sleeping in a tent for 8 weeks straight, including freezing temperatures
- waking up before sunrise and getting changed in you're freezing, pitch black tent
- 6 days working, 1 day off (some companies have 5 and 2)
- 10-12 hour work days, sometimes with no breaks at all if you have to finish the block that day. You eat your lunch while walking to your piece.
- bleading fingers/hands (duct tape can only do so much)
- repetitive stress injuries by slamming your shovel into rocks a few (thousand) too many times a day
- black flies and mosquitos eating you alive. It sounds like it's raining at night due to the bugs on your tent
- wet boots: sometimes you plant in marshy areas where the water is up to your shins... and the boots dont dry. So you have to put on wet boots in the cold morning.

I got unlucky with some bad boots, and screwed up my feet pretty good. It took me a few months after getting back to where my feet wouldn't be so sore in the morning that I couldn't walk down the stairs.

After getting back, being a student caretaker for the school board was like a dream.

[jbooth1]

Making patio stones - I found out at this job manual labour was not for me - lucky I have some computer skills and good looks ;)

[CodecX81]

ainsane: How much did u make at the tree planting job though?


Worked at Wendy's --3 mos, fired
Worked at Telemarketing --4 weeks, quit/company got sued for corruption :lol:
Worked at Sensortech (www.sensortech.ca) --3 years!
--Went to College--
Worked as a labourer for 2 months, got bored, just stopped going to work. :cheesygri
Worked at Subway --2 mos, quit/fired.
Worked at Best Western --3 weeks, fired. :p

Worked at IBM --2 years, quit
Worked at McCarthy Tétrault LLP 1 year --contract ended
Worked at Davies Ward Phillips Vineberg LLP --Still here, going on 2yrs.

Needless to say, the service industry is not my cup of tea. ;)


Doing administrative work @ sensortech was wikkid awesome. I setup my own little office in an obscure part of the factory, and bound cerlox binders for a good year. lol

[ainsane]

ainsane: How much did u make at the tree planting job though?

We made 8.5 cents/tree on scarified land, and 9.5 on unscarified. But we had to pay $25 a day for camp costs.

Worked at Davies Ward Phillips Vineberg LLP --Still here, going on 2yrs.

Hey, I talked to someone at Davies for a logo because they were sponsoring the orientation for a law school I was making the website for. :)

[hightech]

I spent about 1 week selling Kirby vacuum cleaners. I was about 16 and needed to make some $$ for college/university. Ended up quitting after 1 week because I could not believe the high pressure tactics they used to move these $2200 vacuum cleaners.

Preferred working at the Sears/Bay selling Men's Suits and then spending 5 years selling computers at OTA Computer Centre (www.otapc.com). Learned a lot about computers and helped me get jobs at Symantec, Microsoft, the major banks and financial companies in the country. :D

[Shook1s]

Wost jobs included a one year stint at Highland Farms when it first opened.

I remember on time on a Saturday night 10 min before closing I sliced my hand open with a box cutter and I asked my floor supervisor for a bandage and he told me "Fix it up when your shift is over".

I Bleed all over all of the products in my section, when he saw it he freaked out and told me to clean it... I told him "sorry ... shifts over ... see you tommorow"

When I quit I went out like the dude from half baked .. "F--K You!, F--K You!, F--K You!, YOU'RE COOL, F--K You! I'M OUT ... PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!"

It was awesome.

[Shook1s]

Damn ... I never noticed how many crappy jobs I have had.

One job was to do these small "Counting" projects for companies.

I remember one task was to count somthing like 300,000 keychains and box them up.

I had to separate standardized test for kids by BARCODE ... IT WAS TWO WEEKS OF MADNESS.

Finally the straw that broke the camels back was ... counting paper .. after I counted god knows how many booklets ... and reporting the count to the supervisor ... he says "Great Work Team" and then the load gets TOSSED IN THE FREAKING GARBAGE.

MADNESS I TELL YOU...

[Dark-Colonel]

Well my first two jobs were terrible.

My first real job was at Nandos Flame Grilled chicken, I was the dishwasher than became the cook. Very very very bad, I only worked there for 3 months.

Then I went to Weston Produce (No Frillls replica) and it was also terrible, was only getting 6.95. It felt like I was in a sweat shop.

[bug]

I worked for a printing company that made scratch lottery tickets for Loto Quebec. Up to my elbows in ink and solvents for 12 hr shifts. We had one particulary bad period where we worked 7 days a week for 4 months straight. We were basically told that we would be out of a job if we refused to work the overtime. We were trying to join a union, but employer wanted nothing to do with that. Their contract with Loto Quebec was about to expire, and they had to make their bid to renew it. Everyone believed that they purposely overbid so they would lose the contract and be forced to close up shop. They made life hell for us by trying every type of shift imaginable. 4 days on, 3 days off. 1 week days, 1 week nights. They even tried 7 days on and 7 days off. Talk about screwing up your system. :(

[boonjaca]

#2: Technical support-call centre rep for laptops/desktops/PDAs: Cool co-workers, good learning environment but horrible working conditions and abusive/annoying/dumb/clueless/ungrateful/idiotic customers most of the time. And yes they are mostly Americans Lasted 6 months before I latched on with the federal government.


.... agreed, call centres have got to be the worst jobs out there!

There are worse jobs out there than call centre, just watch those A&E specials where some dude has to shovel up road kill all day or wade in sewar water to clear up drains and stuff.

[kingfencer]

factory work.

It was death, the assembly line never stopped, i had run to a spot lift materials put it on assembly line, run to the other end of the assembly line lift materials put it on assmbly line, holy ****, i was so tired, this job is for 2 people, but they are cheap asses.

[sshe11]

wow after reading all these job experiences I must say I am a lucky bastard ... I worked at a Hardware store in Melbourne for couple of monhts and liked it ... then worked in a warehouse for 1 month, it was OK ... first job in Canada was at Esso, had a good boss and gave me a raise after 2nd month, again liked it .... after that I've done co-op terms at RIM, Oracle ... needless to say i've had it easy compared to some guys here ...

[canabiz]

wow after reading all these job experiences I must say I am a lucky bastard ... I worked at a Hardware store in Melbourne for couple of monhts and liked it ... then worked in a warehouse for 1 month, it was OK ... first job in Canada was at Esso, had a good boss and gave me a raise after 2nd month, again liked it .... after that I've done co-op terms at RIM, Oracle ... needless to say i've had it easy compared to some guys here ...

Sshe did you get any offer from RIM and/or Oracle after graduation ?

What's it like with the tech market now ? Do you still have put in crazy hours and whatnot ?

[Ben Jr]

1.) 16 years old
- picked rocks off a farmers field
- lifted hay bails from the field to trailor, then into the barn
2.) 17 years old
- worked in a country bait shop cutting brushels of land around ponds for a fishery 7-3, then went to work at a restaurant 4-11 as a dishwasher / line cook

Thats a few, I have so many more even at the big name companies.

[Ben Jr]

Ya I worked at a printing company called Quebecor printing store flyers. It was brutal as well. 12 hr shifts with 3 days on, 3 days off, 2days on, 2 days off, and alternating days/nights every new shift.
After a kid lost his finger in the press I moved to IT support in CIBC.

I worked for a printing company that made scratch lottery tickets for Loto Quebec. Up to my elbows in ink and solvents for 12 hr shifts. We had one particulary bad period where we worked 7 days a week for 4 months straight. We were basically told that we would be out of a job if we refused to work the overtime. We were trying to join a union, but employer wanted nothing to do with that. Their contract with Loto Quebec was about to expire, and they had to make their bid to renew it. Everyone believed that they purposely overbid so they would lose the contract and be forced to close up shop. They made life hell for us by trying every type of shift imaginable. 4 days on, 3 days off. 1 week days, 1 week nights. They even tried 7 days on and 7 days off. Talk about screwing up your system. :(

[sshe11]

Sshe did you get any offer from RIM and/or Oracle after graduation ?

What's it like with the tech market now ? Do you still have put in crazy hours and whatnot ?

I still havent graduated ... I finished 2nd year and worked at RIM for 8 months .. went back to school, finished my 3rd year and I will be working at Oracle for 8 months till April 2006 ... then I have another 4 month work term in the summer ... after that i go back to school and finish my 4th year and graduate in April 2007 .... work as a co-op was pretty good, no crazy hours .... and both said they would hire me if I went back looking for a job so I guess its not that bad .... from what I can see almost all of my classmates in Software Engg. are able to find co-op placements, although there are only 20-25 of us in co-op ....

[mikehole]

wow after reading all these job experiences I must say I am a lucky bastard ... I worked at a Hardware store in Melbourne for couple of monhts and liked it ... then worked in a warehouse for 1 month, it was OK ... first job in Canada was at Esso, had a good boss and gave me a raise after 2nd month, again liked it .... after that I've done co-op terms at RIM, Oracle ... needless to say i've had it easy compared to some guys here ...


yah, me too, i;ve worked at wonderland, cne, promotions company, alot more, and I think one of my worst jobs would be at old navy..

[canabiz]

First job ever was a CSR at a rental car company. Hated the phones and trying to make sales all day.

Another was at the front desk at a gym. Management was crap and crazy.

Recently was at the NSLC in Interest Relief dept approving IR applications. Pay was terrible and always in a backlog. Company too cheap to hire more ppl nor did they value their employees. Too much office politics and cronyism. Thank goodness I left.

I just called last week to get another app for interest relief :) Oh well what can you do, if you don't have the dough to pay then you don't have to the dough to pay

Did they farm that out to agencies or something ? MOst of the time the CSRs there are pretty nice...i have no complaint so far.

I think their call centre is in North Bay or Sudbury or somewhere up north, is it not ?

[TigerEROS]

Working at Computershare Trust Company. Sh*t! There are a lot of Gay People there!!! The Big boss is a DUMB Australian .... you have to give your fingerprints to them.

Also, the guy in the mailroom ... Jose ... is a PRICK! He is such an A-hole!!! BTW, he's gay too!!!

[charger]

I was a park mascot at a North Vancouver suspension bridge (which will remain nameless even though it is obvious). I walked around in a giant yellow duck suit and got beat up by little japanese brats.

Then I worked in a slave shop grocery store that didn't give me breaks, so I worked 8.5 hour shifts with no breaks, until I got pissed off and reported them to the WCB after a nearly disastrous forklift accident. I wasn't trained how to use the forklift, nor did I have any certifications. The forklift didn't have proper servicing done and the haudralics system failed, the forks dropped while I was driving at full speed. I lost control and drove it into the side of the building.

[Code85]

Worked at a Internet Cafe..
quit after being accused of stealing money. Which I never did.

[CSR]

I was a park mascot at a North Vancouver suspension bridge (which will remain nameless even though it is obvious). I walked around in a giant yellow duck suit and got beat up by little japanese brats.

Then I worked in a slave shop grocery store that didn't give me breaks, so I worked 8.5 hour shifts with no breaks, until I got pissed off and reported them to the WCB after a nearly disastrous forklift accident. I wasn't trained how to use the forklift, nor did I have any certifications. The forklift didn't have proper servicing done and the haudralics system failed, the forks dropped while I was driving at full speed. I lost control and drove it into the side of the building.

You have the right to refuse unsafe work ie. not trained properly.

[Angultra]

No frills I worked there for 3 weeks

Surprised you lasted there for so long. I worked there for 2 days, quit after the manager made me to sweep the entire floor like 12 times in one day. Then the assistant manager got mad at me for not opening boxes fast enough, but I had trouble when I was constantly sweeping. They also wouldn't give me gloves even though we were constantly opening cardboard boxes with razors as fast as possible.

College Pro Painters was almost as bad, baking on a roof painting sideboards, or a garage, and the only way to make $8 / hr. is to do a fast, sloppy job because the manager never budgeted enough time. I'd do a good job anyways and make less. Not working for days because of rain sucked as well. The turnover rate was huge, and the only person making good money was the manager. That lasted about a month.

[Tofu Drift Shinji]

Probably fast food at A&W. I made friends there, and that was cool, but it goes without saying that fast food work isn't great.

It was a new franchise, so the boss was uptight and tough, and would blame me for things I never did wrong simply because I was there in the kitchen when it happened. I didn't hate him for it, and I still left the place on good terms for a cushy office job that paid substantially more.

I'd say a number of months after the restaurant opened, they suspected there were rats in the kitchen. A few of the most disgusting things I had to do were:

- Pour oil from drip container under the grill into plastic vat outside that stores the refuse oil
- Throw garbage bag after garbage bag out into the container outside while being stalked by various birds
- Cook hundreds of burger patties for hours on end when the restaurant did some kind of promotion that brought in families and hundreds of people doing their shopping

Still, wouldn't trade this experience for the world. It taught me how important my education is, how important it is to be prepared to do anything at work, and how tough it is to earn money. Most importantly, it's made me not eat fast food very often.

[neptunestar]

matress recycling factory: nails in the old matress always scratch my hand and bleed.

salad maker: freakin -10 degree celcius for 12 hour in the wearhouse shift from 7:00pm to 7:00am.

juice company: hot apple juiced filled bottles had to be sorted

[james111]

mcdonalds for me :(

[cozmo]

Worked at a bakery when I was about 15 for less than minimum wage. Moving flour, sweeping floors, cleaning every single thing in there sucked.

Worked at Wendy's for a few weeks. Didn't enjoy flipping & pressing burgers for minimum wage, especially around lunch when it got hellishly busy. Good thing is I don't eat fast food often anymore. If you saw some of the burgers and other food in the back, you wouldn't either. ESP. the chili!

Worked at Sears for a week and a half. Got trained for the better part of a week to have great customer service & be a cashier in hardware. First shift, ended up moving heavy paint cans for the full shift, while all the lifers helped customers.

Worked at a bowling centre. Chucking out the garbage, cleaning up the place wasn't too much fun either.

Currently work 1 shift a week at a full-serve gas station. Hate the customers - mostly rude, obnoxious cheapskates. They get us to check tires & add pressure, check oil, wash all the windows and then leave with just a thank you. Have to wear these stupid headsets that increase earwax tenfold. Only reason I stay is to get carwashes.

[Steeve Urkel]

I would have to say working at Opinion Search.

the idiots there had me training employees and not paying me extra, then would complain that I wasn't making phone calls..........when they had given me another job to do.

Then they decide to send me to meet clients when I am not a business consultant and still won't pay me more.

I was then put back on the phones after a few months of this and told to call the same list over and over every day- even when people were not there..........do that or lose my job.
SERIOUSLY INCOMPETENT PEOPLE!!!

Lastly, I was accused of "spying" on them becuase I was taking market research classes in school.
The only thing I did was ask what the company's website address was...silly people I tell you.

Well, the only good thing out of all this is I can put on my resume that I was training employees and they can't dispute that!
Crappy wages too!

they also give you broken chairs and when you ask for a new chair they tell you they are for the "executives only"
I said I'd complain to workers comp as I have neck and back problems.....and can't work with a chair 2 feet lower than my desk w no headset for 8 hours!

[tep]

I guess it's time I add my worst job.
It was a telemarketing job selling credit cards to americans. It was awful. I lasted 1 and a half weeks. The last straw was having to convince a nice old lady into applying for a credit card she didn't need. She was in a hurry to leave somewhere and eventually agreed. Being polite, she waited 5 more minutes while I read her the terms of agreement. Then I had a meeting with the "quality" person monitoring that call and was given tips on how I could've sped up the call time. Needless to say, I left that very day.

[biruru]

My worst job would be working at the Maple Leaf Chicken Factory at Etobicoke. Primary role was to hang dead chicken on the assembly line, cold, boring and repetitive work.

[sleep deprived]

I worked with pig fecal matter!!!

Just imagine the smell of it after autoclaving. Even when we used the green apple deodorizers...it just smelled like apply pig !

Granted I must admit, I did enjoy the rest of the job. That part was not my favourite.

[seangoesbonk]

My worst job was as a hunting partner for Dick Cheney. What can I say? (other than being shot in the face REALLY hurts!) :cheesygri

[Tsukagi]

My worst jobs:
-working an assembly line.
-market research (telemarketing, but surveys instead of selling). This job was the worst ever!. There's so many lies that u tell the ppl u phone up. And when they say a survey will take only 15 min...that's only if u answer in less then a sec. or it'll take 45 min!..i was stuck here for 3 months b/c of a stupid contract i signed. i also found ppl in the call center starting to talk to themselves after 2 weeks. Guess they couldn't handle the sh*t they got from people they called. Me, i didn't care. I was trying to get threw as many phone numbers as i could..i dont care about quota or get'n the survey..doesn't get me anything. my avg, i'd say would be ~300 #'s/hr.
-curtousy clerk @ dominion..this is such a ******** position, u're not @ the customer service desk, u don't shelf any products, u're just suppost to stay at the front(but not stand around) and help customers. Most of the customers at the front dont need help, so when u're not helping u gotta clean. crappy job for min wage. worked 6 months before i quit.(sounds like a lot, but they had me scheduled for only 2..3 days a week..then it went to 0..1 day a week.) I totally hated the manager too...i never talk to him, he never talks to me..and he acts like we're best friends...i hate when ppl fake the friendship thing...it's so annoying, and obvious.
-cne casino dealer(poker) was kinda tough as well at first..u get lots of sh*t from players b/c they're so stupid. they b*tch so much about bad hands that u deal to them and how much money u cost them. players made 5 or 6 female dealers cry as well last yr. good thing about the job is a break every hour and, u can get security to kick anybody u want out, even if u don't like the way they're looking at u. i never kicked players out, i let'm stay to lose money. dumb players = bad players.

[cryptblood1986]

I work 4 times a week from 10pm to 6am, what we do is take the grocery item and we put them beside the shelf but have to stack the variety packs on the shelf. Every night we get palletes about 1 ton each with groceries stacked up 9 feet high we have to pull them with a manual jack, usually 30 deliveries per night. I get 9 dollars an hour. It's a very tiring job. Especially the first 3 months when I started I didn't have my driver's license so I sometimes walked home or took the bus, sometimes I'd have to wait till 6:45am for the bus. I still work here because I'm desperate for some cash.

[Princess Buttercup]

worst job ever was cleaning out kennels at a kennels ukkk it was revolting only lasted a week. I was suposed to wash the dogs, never did do that. :mad:

[BlueMax]

I'll add my worst jobs a little later.... but man.... I haven't seen a thread so chock-full of atrocious spelling in some time! I wonder if there's a coincidence, given the topic? ;) ;) ;)

[Toronto]

Worked in a call centre for a tax software company. Great owners and great staff, but terrible product and terrible clients. The software was littered with bugs and on top of that the company didn't give out refunds at the time.

As the tax deadline approached, the company started to realize that the call centre wasn't equipped to handle the huge increase in sales over last year. Sales increased probably 10 fold from the year before, but the call centre staffed the same amount of people.

So a every call would be an angry person because #1 the program could not do what they needed, #2 they couldn't get through on the support line because the phone lines were swamped the entire day, and #3 the tax deadline was fast approaching. On top of all of this, we had to tell the caller that even though the software was useless to them, we didn't offer refunds. We had people calling that would yell at us at the top of their lungs, swearing etc. Shifts never lasted just the 8 hours scheduled, so basically I went to work to be yelled and sworn at by strangers for 12 hours a day.

[amandathepilot]

I have had quite a few jobs I would classify as worst job ever for me :P

My first real job the first summer of university was working in a bathtub factory. It was during the hot summer months and there was no air conditioning in the place. And I was allergic to the fiberglass dust so I either suffered rashes all over my arms or suffering from the heat. I was the only girl, and being 18 at the time, that was quite intimidating. The guys were all about my dad's age yet would tell me about their ideas of how to sell weed and not get caught. They would steal the materials from work to make hydroponic growing systems in their appartments. Definitely made me WANT to go back to university!!

My other worst job ever was working in a bacon factory. I lasted about a week and 2-3 of those days we were sent home because the farm where the pigs were kept burned down and we had no pigs to turn into bacon. The factory was kept at sub zero temperatures and we had to wear these ugly jackets and gloves and hair nets. I would leave there smelling of bacon every day. It was disgusting and the smell never seemed to dissapear even after showering. They would speed up the line and expect us to keep up. Ugh memories. Oh and we took our 10 minute breaks when the bell rang and had to be back on the line by the time the 10 minutes was up... NEVER AGAIN! :P

[Wulf]

I'll add my worst jobs a little later.... but man.... I haven't seen a thread so chock-full of atrocious spelling in some time! I wonder if there's a coincidence, given the topic? ;) ;) ;)

Is this the correct way to spell pompous?

[BlueMax]

Is this the correct way to spell pompous?

Yes, why do you ask? ;)

I've had crappy jobs too, despite being literate. I just found it amusing that this thread seems to contain the worst spelling of just about any thread I've ever encountered and, given the topic, one could draw some fun conclusions. ;)

And yes, because I couldn't afford adjumacashun I had to start working from the bottom. Grocery-bagger, dishwasher, line-cook, hotel bellman...

Lack of higher education resulted in 10 years of career loss.

[Bortman]

I delivered the Sunday and Wednesday Sun (free news paper) here in Regina from ages 13-15. I delivered 264 papers (and sometimes free samples of products) twice a week for a $100 cheque at the end of the month. It sucked butt, but it felt like I was rich back then!

[ericyjh85]

http://media.putfile.com/Worst-Job-Ever

LOL!!!

lol too funny

[joyous]

Hi there,

Let's see...

- You know, cashiers and just the regular staff have 2 different rate per hour. Cashiers are actually paided more then me. I worked at the electonic dept and we have a cash right there. All software and games must be paid there and we only do the cashier job when someone by something from our dept. only. One day, during the rush hours of hell (where the cashiers up front are completely flooded), the idiots of managements want to "help" the cahsiers and turns us into "cashiers" for the day. I want to be paid the same rate as the cashiers if I were to do that, only to be fair. I take care of the floor. Well, no choice, ended up doing it and when I filed a complaint, things get really pissed off at me.
- After that incident, they treated me like crap. Since I worked in doors, I have to dress nicely udner those blue robes. One very hot summer day, they send me out to the burning sun to take in those cart in, as the guys was out to lunch. I almost got heat stroke and they never even bother giving me those yellow flasher jacket. File another complaint.
- Days later, for some reasons, they are short of staff and I was like, WTF, I was hired with many others when I started. They move me to another department to do carpets. I told them I have skin allergies, but still let me do it. I have like rashes in my entire arms and neck.
- The next day after that, I got fired, because I wasn't "a team player". Geez, thanks.

Ju Leon...

wow that sucks, until two weeks ago, i worked at wally world. it was ok, except for the whole them stealing a part of my soul thing. i was never cash trained but they always needed to pull ppl to the front, then would send someone from my department to cover the department of the person who got pulled geeeez.
the pay inequity is pretty bad too-i started at a higher wage than my friend who was there for about a year, and she had more job experience than me too. i also got way more hours while her department was always crying about the budget.
wow, they put you on store standard/store bi*ch duty eh? that's pretty sucky, you need the jacket to not get run over in the parking lot, geeeeez
did they even give you the 3 coachings theyre supposed to before firing you??

[wasabi1]

My worst jobs, working at Chinese restaurants.
I was a waiter, but they made me do kitchen work also, wash dishes, clean the kitchen, cut vegetables and run tables....everything. Got paid only $5/hour cash, but with tips add up to about $10/hour. And no overtime pay or holiday pay either. Worked like a horse with no break. Only get paid $50/day although worked like 12 hours most days. In the end luck was on my side though, from watching them cook and stealing their recipe, i opened my own restaurant in the same town and im now driving spanking new Bimmer.

[kud0s69]

Worst job - Delivering Drywall. Next time you see those guys, give em your props, they work HARD.

Best job - Bussboy...........................





in a strip bar :)

[pakwan]

mcdonalds..

and i still work there..

[john widow]

Hey I voluntarily work without a break because I'm so glad I got the job! I like it there, I don't care, I'm not dying exhaustingily or bored. I don't need to take a break as I want to show my somewhat appreciation.

[Geologic]

mcdonalds..

and i still work there..

lol.. I used to work at one years ago.. 3 second rule!. (I'm serious).

Needless to say, I don't eat there anymore.

[john widow]

The worst job ever is working at a mushroom farm.
What's the pay? You decide, pick as much as you can and make as much as you can. $1 for a large box of small mushrooms, and $2 for a small box of large mushrooms.
How long are you expected to be there? Until you are done your own section of mushrooms. It's psycholocically, emotionally, mentally painful. After starting 5am and going home at 2 am the next day and waking up 6 am and staying there till 10 pm. I didn't want to work and just laid outside under the moon light. I let my parents do the rest.

So how long does it take to make about $8 an hour? I don't know 5 hours. You cannot train or teach yourself techniques, as how to do something faster, as other jobs can. It's too simple. Grab mushrooms, cut with knife, drop the roots in the root bucket, throw the mushrooms in the proper sorted box.

What's the environment like? You enter a room with a big door in it. The floor is cement. there are 4 rows. It's made out of wood and each of the 4 rows have beds of mushrooms. Tons of mushrooms grow. And it takes 3 days for new mushrooms to grow so you have tons to cut all the time. Some rooms will smell like **** and there will be mini ants that crawl all over you while you try to cut them. You have a sort of metal made platform, this is where you put your boxes and where you sit/stand. You can crank up this platform to reach the mushrooms on the higher levels of the rows. Sometimes, you are alone in one small room. And there are only 3 lights in the room and it's totally dark. The fun part of the job is petting the dog who is locked away as a security dog who is left to live in a wooden fence with no way of exiting it other than jumping over the fence. The dog drinks rain water and eats left over rice. The dog poos all over his area and by the looks of it, it's going to be there until the flies eat it all up.

[xwar]

1) Also worked for a call centre for an American retail company. They hired us in November, trained us for 2 weeks. They didn't get us passwords for the computers for 1.5 weeks, so we'd sit in class going through flashcards of US state abbreviations, but we only had 30 states or so. They taught us the greeting for answering the phone, and they'd make us repeat it like robots, as a class of 30 people, and then in partners over and over and over. Didn't teach us the software or any of the company's policies. Once we got on the floor actually answering calls, it was just dealing with people trying to track packages that were lost in the mail and not going to arrive for xmas (or were broken and OOS) so everyone calling was so pissed. We were in a large hall-type room where over half the lights didn't work, so you'd sit in the dark in shadows reading your monitor for 8.5 hours. At night, everyone would complain about the 'bright' lights, and they'd shut off all the lights completely. We didn't have our own headsets, so you'd have to put someone else's ear gunk against your ears all day. They didn't give us pens, you had to bring your own. You couldn't put a customer on hold and conference in a supervisor, you had to put the customer on hold and put your hand up, and wait for a supervisor to come over, and then refuse to take your call. The phones would go down regularly for an entire shift, but no one would tell you why or what was happening, so you had to sit in the dark, staring at your monitor waiting 8 hours for a call, and you couldn't surf the net. Dec 31, we came in to work, and 80% of us had no schedule because it wasn't busy anymore and we were laid off.

2) Worked at a busy Tim's drive-thru. It would be so busy, you couldn't even make enough coffee to keep up. The assistant manager would stand over you, and refuse to make any coffee because "you guys have to learn to manage busy times by yourselves." I was busy another time making sandwiches/bagels and she stands over me and says "there's a coffee spill out here, can you clean it up?" I go "You're not doing anything, why don't you do it?" Yikes. $5.60 an hour was minimum wage and you didn't get OT till after 10 hours.

3) Worked at a gas station. Junkies would shoot up in the bathroom and spray their blood all over the walls, so we shut down the washrooms. Everyone would be so mad when they couldn't use the bathroom, so a lady peed right in our doorway to prove her point. We called the cops, she was charged (it was on camera) - turned out she was an accountant and it had to be reported to the people who gave her the credential, so she had to call us and ask us to please not have her charged. A guy came in to use the phone, we said not unless it was to call 911. He said it was, so we dialled for him. He gets on "Hello? Yeah, I just beat up a hooker in my building, she's on the stairs and isn't getting up."

Oh god you've had it bad ... I feel for you buddy

[pakwan]

lol.. I used to work at one years ago.. 3 second rule!. (I'm serious).

Needless to say, I don't eat there anymore.

lol.. i dunno about the 3 second rule though.. :cheesygri

[cptn_lee]

Wow...you guys have it pretty bad...

Worse job was at CNE. Barrier guard there. Just standing all day redirecting cars if they try to cut through the park with thousands of people. It was bad when there was a storm one day. I swear, the water felt like ice cold bullets.

I now work at an assembly plant. BUT WAIT, not just an ordinary assembly plant, one that pays $18.5/hr. I know, I know...a lot of you here are pretty jealous now but hey...I got lucky. It's easy if you know every single job on the line and do it fast; the only bad thing is it gets boring doing the same thing over and over and that your legs will get tired.

[rodneyc8063]

Worst Jobs:

Silver City: Some dumb co worker failed to close the pop corn machine or over filled it or another, i walked by and all the nice flaming hot popcorn kernals came flying out.

THE worst job i ever had was working in a gas station as a car wash kid. Picture this:

9 hours, temperture is about -15, 800 cars within those 9 hours (automated but i still had to do some operating of it to make it run), had to spray down cars and all this other stuff. No break, no food no time to pee or even wipe my nose down.

I had complaints about why their car doors were frozen afterwards, they expected the dryers to dry their car totally.

That was the worst

[astrolad]

My worst job ever was stacking turf at a turf farm.
Basically, you and another guy are riding on the back of turf cutting tractor taking turns grabbing the pieces of turf as they come up the conveyor belt and stacking them on a pallet which ends up being chest high at the end. (They weren't rolled because it was same day delivery).

To succeed, you had to be fairly strong and able to heave the heavy turf quickly as well you had to have the forearms of Popeye. I did not. :(
I lasted until lunch the first day and had a couple hours rest before I went to my other crappy job, waiting tables.

The restaurant was slowly being run into the ground by the management.
I'd often arrive to be sent out to buy supplies like coffee, offsale beer, etc with cash from the register.
At the beginning of every shift, you would check the chalk board in the kitchen for the specials and for warnings on what was low on stock.
The classic was when I had a table of 4 order fillet mignon and then going to the chlk board and seeing to my horror "3 fillet only". So I had to go back and ask which person wanted to change their order. Pretty much any time you had to do that, you just decreased your tip to $0.

It was a crappy summer. :)

[kingsley]

My worst jobs, working at Chinese restaurants.
I was a waiter, but they made me do kitchen work also, wash dishes, clean the kitchen, cut vegetables and run tables....everything. Got paid only $5/hour cash, but with tips add up to about $10/hour. And no overtime pay or holiday pay either. Worked like a horse with no break. Only get paid $50/day although worked like 12 hours most days. In the end luck was on my side though, from watching them cook and stealing their recipe, i opened my own restaurant in the same town and im now driving spanking new Bimmer.

Seriously?

That's a nice story :)

[CHINAdeals]

The worst job ever is working at a mushroom farm.
What's the pay? You decide, pick as much as you can and make as much as you can. $1 for a large box of small mushrooms, and $2 for a small box of large mushrooms.
How long are you expected to be there? Until you are done your own section of mushrooms. It's psycholocically, emotionally, mentally painful. After starting 5am and going home at 2 am the next day and waking up 6 am and staying there till 10 pm. I didn't want to work and just laid outside under the moon light. I let my parents do the rest.

So how long does it take to make about $8 an hour? I don't know 5 hours. You cannot train or teach yourself techniques, as how to do something faster, as other jobs can. It's too simple. Grab mushrooms, cut with knife, drop the roots in the root bucket, throw the mushrooms in the proper sorted box.

What's the environment like? You enter a room with a big door in it. The floor is cement. there are 4 rows. It's made out of wood and each of the 4 rows have beds of mushrooms. Tons of mushrooms grow. And it takes 3 days for new mushrooms to grow so you have tons to cut all the time. Some rooms will smell like **** and there will be mini ants that crawl all over you while you try to cut them. You have a sort of metal made platform, this is where you put your boxes and where you sit/stand. You can crank up this platform to reach the mushrooms on the higher levels of the rows. Sometimes, you are alone in one small room. And there are only 3 lights in the room and it's totally dark. The fun part of the job is petting the dog who is locked away as a security dog who is left to live in a wooden fence with no way of exiting it other than jumping over the fence. The dog drinks rain water and eats left over rice. The dog poos all over his area and by the looks of it, it's going to be there until the flies eat it all up.

i will never complain about work again

*EDIT: i will try to never to complain about work again*

[GamerG]

Worst JOb ever. I burnt my hands making food, and they said that if I were to drop anything on the floor , it would come out of my pay. The boss was very crude, and I only got paid 7.50. I worked for 2 weeks and I quit. Terrible place to work.

[Decius]

One word...Convergys (http://www.convergys.com).

[TigerEROS]

Working at Computershare Trust Company of Canada. Worked like a slave.

Ever since the Australian guy came over to Toronto, he F*CKED up the place. It's like a torture house.

[BlueMax]

One word...Convergys (http://www.convergys.com).

Been there. Done that. Sadly, I've done far worse.

[MUSKAMIKE]

Vadim Software - Hired for Support Analyst ended up taking over reception for the person who quit 1 week after I got there. I should of took the hint, because 1 month later, a women I had never met fired me over customer service. 3 month later I think 30-50% of staff were let go because the company went over budget.

I had given up my Tech Support job at Shaw for that as well. I am such an idiot.

And recently worked for a local computer company that has a huge contract with Interior Health. We would work on the road upgrading print servers and upgrading hubs, routers, etc. Anyways, we were only supposed to work 1 week at a tiem on the road, and come back weekends. So a few weeks back we are on a confference call with the team manager from Interior Health and he says we will be on the road for 3 weeks and if anyone has a problem with that to speak up. I do of course because I am the only guy on the team with a gf, renting, bills to pay, etc. I said that I might have an issue with it but I would let him know. He called my boss and got me fired right after that call.

Needless to say I am currently in the middle of a wrongful dissmissal suit now.

I have an interview with a Graphic Sign Design company, but I am not going into it begging. I have plans to enroll for Apprenticeship Electrician in October.

I'll be government funded till then.

Thats my story.

[canabiz]

One word...Convergys (http://www.convergys.com).

Jesus Christ, Convergyssucks.com too btw

I didn't work there directly but I know loads of people who did and boy oh boy if there's a job that could make you suicidal this one would probably rank at the top.

Thanks for sharing ladies and gents, lots of crazy stories so far. Let you have a better appreciation and understanding of what we have done and where we are today, I'm sure we all look back and chuckle or grin from time to time.

Every journey begins with a single step!

Keep 'em coming folks.

[freakygirl]

this was in the "off-topic" section back in september, since there was no career section at the time:

http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=202646

i hope you all will read mine :)

[spm24]

i worked one day ( training ) at this make your own money job where they give you suppiles and you are teamed up with a experienced person and have to sell 400+ worth of merchendise if you do they let you on the team .( basically door to door salesman)

i enjoyed the job cause it was funny at some peoples reactions as well as how to get some people to buy stuff but only downside was because i was "training" i didnt get paid for it worked 8 hours starting off at midland and progress and ending up near the airport hitting almost every strip mall there was . got kicked out of numerous places ( good thing never asked for id cause i gave a false name ) and then selling umbrellas at the airport and to the taxis drivers got us chased out of there and almost got the car we were in towed cause we parked in a cabi only section .

at the end of the day all tired we were at the office of the place only to find out the friend that came with me but later was sent in another car . was chased out of a plaza and just jumped on a bus to go home and that they were trying to get his info to charge him for product unsold ( which they still had ) i made qouta told them that i would call them back and left .

[wolf30]

I worked as a flyer inserter during the summer. They paid mimum wage and had us stand for 6 hrs straight everyday. Employees were always fighting over the flyers and working environment was crap. We didn't even get the full 6hrs sometimes when they were ahead of schedule. They tried a piece rate system to Fuk us over so we would try and do as much as we could to get a higher rate. Well no one managed to go over the minimum wage amount lol. Thats when they say no more work you can go home now. So pretty much either way your not gonna get more then the minimum wage. I quit after 1.5 months.

[Papagorgio]

1) Value-Village - Worked one day. I refused to to sort clothes into a "sellable" or "soiled" pile.

2) Security Guard at Bank - 10 Hour shifts on wed-fri, no sitting. 15 minute break (not allowed to leave the bank) At the end of the week, I could hear my knees creak. Though the good part was a had a lot of time to think :P

[yuwing8]

my real first job? was also training day... I went with my friend on the interview day and got the job but had to train.

basically I sit in a crowded room with individual desks and a telephone on the desk, and I call every house on the "list" and ask them if they wanted sympatico highspeed.

the wages are
$20 per sale. if they cancel after 6 months, they take it back. (6 months free internet)
OR
$8/hr but only if you get more than 3 sales a day

Knowing that almost everyone use sympatico highspeed or rogers highspeed already, I suspected that those that dont are either the elderly or those who don't surf and 56k is sufficient.

so i left within 2 hours. it was a waste of time and I didn't have a sales pitch experience to actually sell soemthing.

[MARZ]

we had no pigs to turn into bacon.

I do not know why I laughed at this line, but I did.

[hyperion]

Janitor, had to take out plastic bags from overflowing garbage cans with fruit flies and take them to dumpster. I refused and went home. This was at a factory job, my position was line worker, not janitor. There were no repercussions, since the guy knew he had nothing on me.

[MARZ]

I have plans to enroll for Apprenticeship Electrician in October.

I'll be government funded till then.

Thats my story.

5 year apprentiship for dog pay. Here is my advice to you. Learn residential wiring, do not work for the union in commercial jobs (too may favorites that get more work than you) NEVER EVER trust anyone that says a circuit is dead ALWAYS check it for yourself, or watch I guy fry like I did.

Save your money go in bussiness for yourself doing residential wiring.

[MUSKAMIKE]

5 year apprentiship for dog pay. Here is my advice to you. Learn residential wiring, do not work for the union in commercial jobs (too may favorites that get more work than you) NEVER EVER trust anyone that says a circuit is dead ALWAYS check it for yourself, or watch I guy fry like I did.

Save your money go in bussiness for yourself doing residential wiring.

Dog Pay? I dont know how the situation is in Ottawa right now, but BC is crazy with opportunity for almost every Trade. Be a Framer and I garantee you'll have a job after education.

Residental or Commerical at this point does not matter to me, expereince does. I've worked in IT and Graphic Design feild for all my life now, I just want a change.


I haven't heard enough ****** Mc'D's stories yet, keep going!

[MARZ]

Dog Pay? I dont know how the situation is in Ottawa right now, but BC is crazy with opportunity for almost every Trade. Be a Framer and I garantee you'll have a job after education.

Residental or Commerical at this point does not matter to me, expereince does. I've worked in IT and Graphic Design feild for all my life now, I just want a change.


I haven't heard enough ****** Mc'D's stories yet, keep going!

B.C has been crazy for work ever since I was 18 that was 18 years ago.

As an example of dog pay, drywall tapers are making the same money today that I did 18 years ago, this holds true for most of the trades, that is why there is a shortage of tradespeople, and th Govt. is on a campaign to get more people enrolled in the trades programs.

[Rosico]

I was a farm hand for part of a summer. I picked rocks out of a field, caught chickens and repaired a fence that spaned the property on one side.

This was in southern ontario.

[The Tumor]

acid washed concrete. Winter time, propane heaters going in a non ventilated shed (imperfect combustion leading to carbon mon/dioxide and many migraines). It was a 15% HCL acid you scrub the concrete with it before it's fully cured it's called whitewashing. ****** JOB! WHen not doing that you're inside moving concrete filling forms and fixing forms etc. The factory was unsafe they paid off the inspector because they were moving in a year. There was ZERO ventilation in this concrete factory. For those who don't know concrete contains a good amount of silica, which will give you silicosis of the lungs. Furthermore concrete is heavy. Boss was a dick. Eagle stone concrete does some pretty horrible work as well.

[Alvito]

Paper boy

[jkyc]

Right now, i have job of babysitting two rascals.

I want to quit, but I don't have the heart to because they really like me, plus I like the money and I don't think I can get any other jobs that pay 8 dollars an hour right now, haha.
Isn't that the min wage is $7.55 now?

[mercedesjane]

Ya I worked at a printing company called Quebecor printing store flyers. It was brutal as well. 12 hr shifts with 3 days on, 3 days off, 2days on, 2 days off, and alternating days/nights every new shift.
After a kid lost his finger in the press I moved to IT support in CIBC.

i worked at Quebecor when i was 16, my first real job. my Graphic Arts teacher got some students the job making TV Guides. i think it was 2 shifts a week, one being graveyard.

1st day i almost broke my hand in a machine that folds/tapes boxes shut. ended up w really bad rug burn and some skin ripped off on the back of my hand. worked 2 months, quit after seeing 2 ppl injured. 1 guy got his hand stuck in the same machine i did. 2nd guy popped a finger or had it ripped off in the conveyor belt that pulled the TV Guides. ouch i can still hear him scream.

[Liquid]

Isn't that the min wage is $7.55 now?

The minimum wage is currently $7.75.

My friend got me a job at Tim Hortons and I start training on Friday.. hopefully I won't have to share a "worst job" story in the near future... :lol:

[hyperion]

The minimum wage is currently $7.75.

My friend got me a job at Tim Hortons and I start training on Friday.. hopefully I won't have to share a "worst job" story in the near future... :lol:
lol enjoy!

[boyoflondon]

Yes, why do you ask? ;)

I've had crappy jobs too, despite being literate. I just found it amusing that this thread seems to contain the worst spelling of just about any thread I've ever encountered and, given the topic, one could draw some fun conclusions. ;)

And yes, because I couldn't afford adjumacashun I had to start working from the bottom. Grocery-bagger, dishwasher, line-cook, hotel bellman...

Lack of higher education resulted in 10 years of career loss.


You shouldn't be complaining about people's spelling you know!
This summer I worked for FedEx and for the most part, I worked in the downtown sector so I dealt with a lot of Lawyers, CA's, Doctors, etc. You'd be suprised how dumb those people can be. Not saying all, but for the most part I dont think they actually use their brain when they do a task. Ranging from not being able to fill out a simple form right that a little kid would do without a problem, to not knowing where to sign for a package after I tell them "signature on line xx please".

That being said, FedEx was the job I enjoyed the most. You dont have anyone looking over your shoulder, you can create small breaks for your self, you socialize with people, drive companys van/truck and get paid pretty good. The only bad thing was no AC in any of the vehicles :twisted:

As far as the worst job goes; I used to ride one of those ice cream bikes and sell ice cream. Used to get 20% of sales ... pure BS but I was grade 9 and didnt know better lol ..

I also worked at Ford Assembly plant, which wasn't the greatest, but when the paycheck came, I forgot about all of the problems... :D

[kiwinky]

Bakery Assistant / cashier etc.

Job wasnt bad, but the boss who run the company whilst high on mushrooms constantly looking at my backside, scrubbing dried pastry off skirting boards and being asked at least once a week if I could get any shrooms for the cheap ass boss.

I waitressed 4 hours at 2 different places. Couldnt handle being a servant to moany old whiners whose water wasnt cold enough. :)

[BlueMax]

You shouldn't be complaining about people's spelling you know!
This summer I worked for FedEx and for the most part, I worked in the downtown sector so I dealt with a lot of Lawyers, CA's, Doctors, etc. You'd be suprised how dumb those people can be. Not saying all, but for the most part I dont think they actually use their brain when they do a task. Ranging from not being able to fill out a simple form right that a little kid would do without a problem, to not knowing where to sign for a package after I tell them "signature on line xx please".

My wife was a legal secretary / paralegal. SHE's the one who did most of the thinking. ;) All a lawyer really is is really, really good at stuffing law and rules into their heads to regurgitate the appropriate defece tactic for each attack.
Truth? Well, that's kind of important.... if it'll win the case. :|

That said, many of my wife's lawyers were great people.... some certainly were not.

[puroeuro]

Heres mine guys...

Worked at UofT cafateria... doing dish room at first... although it was fun i was 17 at the time and i worked with 3 more 17yr old troublemakers :) it was fun as impossible as it seems was just like the other guys setup... conveyr belt we get all the dishes sort out the cutlary and dishes and pass the remains for the next guy... we would always fool around through food at each other non stop jokes... really no complaints one of my fav jobs as a teen... weird ey? was there for 1.5 years
DUties:
- Wash dishes 3 man line setup and push through industrial washer...
- Ocassional duties was manual pot washer in the kitchen, making food for nearly 500 students daily pots got disgusting!!!
- Later promoted lol to salad bar guy... all i would do was cut fruit and salad all day .. at this point very relaxing and easy not much work involved.

Then i moved to Loblaws in the wonderful fish department. Handling fish cleaning that lovely fish trap every week wasnt pretty. ON top of this stupid customers. Example im sure all of you know just like meats we wrap the fish in paper sheets then place it in a plastic bag roll up the bag and put the sticker to seal it.
I had one lady after i rolled the bag it filled up with a little air and was puffy with air. She refused to get it weighed with the air in it as it "ADDED EXTRA WEIGHT" i looked at her and i said "your joking right" and she insisted i removed the air. Obviously it was the same weight and people that were also in line were laughing... i wanted to backhand her. has here for 1 year.
Duties:
- Serve annoying customers.
- Cut salmon into steaks and other fish,
- Weekly cleanup of fish trap - THIS WAS NASTY!!! smelt like ass to!
- Manager would make me scrub random **** also very nasty

anyways now im stuck at a call center. prefer not to say names but one of the worlds largest leaders in network equipment, enterprise switches, voip phones etc... Anyways its not bad.. i know alot of people who have bad call center experiences i dont do much here :) average out 15 calls a day at an avg of 5-10 mins each. Lots and lots of available time for browsing on RFD, no complaints really good money here :) been here 1 year
Duties:
- Sit back in my chair very nice environtment... laptop, personal headset, lots of internet browsing time (im writing this at work as we speak :)
- Unlimited coffee
- Calls only last 10-15 mins.
- Down side, since it is a global call center im portuguese so i support those annoying brazilians, very stuburn and stuck up people, they constantly lie to you!!!! telling you they tried a certain setup when they really didnt. then they confess to lying.. grrrrr :mad: anyways all in all good job.

seems like alot of people complain about these type of jobs 1st 5 posts envolved call center and dishwasher lol i have done both, plus handling fish tops it off, theyr not to bad... just suck up and take it 1 day at a time. Honestly if it wasnt for the people jobs would blow!!! every job i worked were with people my age and it was fun as hell. If anyone has watched the movie waiting my cafeteria dishwasher job was very similar! same with loblaws and the call center job everyone is sitting beside eachother so its laffs all day.

ENJOY!

[Spor 13]

When I was in gr. 11, I got a job as a data entry operator for a pretty big ebay company which sold antiques(after working at Wonderland the summer, I didn't mind). Man, that was boring. I hated it so much, I went back to Paramount Canada's Wonderland the next spring...even though it paid less.

[mkwong]

One summerI worked in the office of National Exhibition place. The cleaners at National Exhibition place had it really bad, when the CNE opens in August. Poor underpaid kids, have to clean bathrooms and throw out trash for thousands of messy people. They would always be dirty and overflowing with trash... The stench would be multiplied by the summer heat. They had to pay for their uniform, and weren't making minimum wage (under 18). The drop out was so high that a bonus of $100 was given if u stayed the 2 weeks.

[weedb0y]

Kitchen help at Pizza Hut!

I was so happy when I was told that I am fired cuz I showed up 5 min late. My manager was one PMS'd biyaach..

I heard after a month, she got fired though for firing too many ppl..lol

[Jaytee]

I worked as a flyer inserter during the summer. They paid mimum wage and had us stand for 6 hrs straight everyday.

Oh man, I totally forgot I did that. That was my first job. I was a flyer inserter for the Mississauga News. The worst was waking up every Saturday at like 4:30 because the papers had to be out early morning. You wouldnt know when the shift would end. Standing up for hours on end. Man that sucked.

My other crappy job was in the summer in my university years. Use to make shock absobers. You would get totally dirty, constant standing, it was a factory so would get blazing hot in the summer. Some of the shocks were big and heavy, the ones for the hummer were massive. Like 5 times the size of a regular shock.

Pretty much any job where you have to punch a time card sucks.

[The Tumor]

Hauling on bobo for $2 and a can of coke, I don't know firsthand but Sypher's mother will tell you her experiences.

[65505201]

Hauling on bobo for $2 and a can of coke, I don't know firsthand but Sypher's mother will tell you her experiences.

Padding your post count? Pretty much all of your posts lately have revolved around $2, a can of coke, and something else totally unrelated to the topic of discussion.

[beerbaron105]

security for a crappy company
-didnt provide company cars so i had to drive my car all over the map

-often had to drive an hour just to get to the location

-they were cheap ****ers and wouldnt pay my gas because i wasnt high up in the company to warrant driving one of their 3 security cars

-we recevied k9 training so we also had to take a dog, a shedding german sheppard that slept in the backseat all night and left hair and scratches and smells all over my poor car.

-working 12 hour overnight shifts on the weekend when my friends are out partying and im watching an empty warehouse

-all i could do was sit there, i brougth books but read then many times over

-durign the winter i prayed the factory/warehouse had an external outlet for power, so i could run my extension cord and little heater in teh car, if not i was ****ed, i would have to idle my car for most of the night just to keep from freezing, and i most likely messed the car up because of that

-absolutely not worth the 8/hour ir eceived, by teh time i factored in gas i was making 5-6/hour

- i dont know how i lasted 3 mths but i was so glad to be gone

[hotfishy]

- Mary Kay sales agent: Didn't earn me a alot and get me deeply in credit card debt.. =____=.... You have to go door to door, or cold calling or hold 'beauty seminars' to sale your product, and you can't sale them on ebay...no steady income...not a great job

-Secruity guard at the concerts: Very loud music, no breaks in between, although you can watch all the hot girls...but still, I dont like loud musics :twisted:

[scottmcl]

On my first job now: Bakery In save-on foods/Pricemart...

It not that bad to tell you the truth

[killbillvol1]

Working at Staples gets my vote.

[BadDrafter]

The worst job ever is working at a mushroom farm.
What's the pay? You decide, pick as much as you can and make as much as you can. $1 for a large box of small mushrooms, and $2 for a small box of large mushrooms.
How long are you expected to be there? Until you are done your own section of mushrooms. It's psycholocically, emotionally, mentally painful. After starting 5am and going home at 2 am the next day and waking up 6 am and staying there till 10 pm. I didn't want to work and just laid outside under the moon light. I let my parents do the rest.

So how long does it take to make about $8 an hour? I don't know 5 hours. You cannot train or teach yourself techniques, as how to do something faster, as other jobs can. It's too simple. Grab mushrooms, cut with knife, drop the roots in the root bucket, throw the mushrooms in the proper sorted box.

What's the environment like? You enter a room with a big door in it. The floor is cement. there are 4 rows. It's made out of wood and each of the 4 rows have beds of mushrooms. Tons of mushrooms grow. And it takes 3 days for new mushrooms to grow so you have tons to cut all the time. Some rooms will smell like **** and there will be mini ants that crawl all over you while you try to cut them. You have a sort of metal made platform, this is where you put your boxes and where you sit/stand. You can crank up this platform to reach the mushrooms on the higher levels of the rows. Sometimes, you are alone in one small room. And there are only 3 lights in the room and it's totally dark. The fun part of the job is petting the dog who is locked away as a security dog who is left to live in a wooden fence with no way of exiting it other than jumping over the fence. The dog drinks rain water and eats left over rice. The dog poos all over his area and by the looks of it, it's going to be there until the flies eat it all up.

I think that one trumps all of them. Even my worst jobs (telemarking and delivering papers @ night).

[coriolis]

My dad did that for a day when he was laid off a few years back. He came home as if he saw someone get shot, and since then, never touches mushrooms...

Don't know what happened, but for sure it prolly ain't pretty

[Alvito]

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