Tell us your worst job ever.

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.

No frills I worked there for 3 weeks

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.

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...

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

LOL!!!

#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!

Originally Posted by 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...

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

sk

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...

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.

Originally Posted by 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...

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)

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

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."

Originally Posted by slowtalon

"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.

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.

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.