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For me it had to be working at Staples. Almost everyone that came in the store was an idiot, the management sucked and was overbearing, everything had to be "perfect", pulling stuff from the overhead stock was a nightmare because stuff was always out of place and you were pressured to find it. You barely, if ever got a break and it was always a huge problem to some managers if you took one, and talking to a coworker for more than 10 seconds would get you reprimanded, even if literally nobody was in the store.

They insisted you leave AFTER everything was done AND checked by a manger, so if you were scheduled to work 5-9, you wouldn't be leaving until like 9:30 if everything was to their approval.

God, that place sucked. At least at my current job talking to coworkers isn't a sin.
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Damn that sounds terrible. Mine would be working at a fireworks store, it was so fucking boring I just sat in the back all day and package up fireworks but then they made me try and sell them to people and I'm terrible at that. I'm no salesman so I just walked out.
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Wed huddle around the register after closing and talk while the manager was away and we finished. Wed even help each other out with blocking so we could all leave faster
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Delivering pizza. The employer was fine, I've never really had a bad one, but I found the job so stressful.
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I would say when I worked at Steak and Shake, and everyone was real ghetto there, and often times Id be running five stations at the same time because all the employees were smoking weed in their cars.
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Call center which took overflow calls for apartment complexes. You had to line up apartment viewings without knowing shit about the property or getting commission. Or you were taking calls from residents who vented all of their anger at management at you while not implying that anything would be done about their (often very serious) issues. Plus, like any call center, the metrics were impossible to meet so you could get fired whenever the calls stopped coming back-to-back.
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Washing dishes at a grocery store that I drove an hour to get to.

The job wasn't THAT bad, but it's pretty crushing to join the morning traffic rush knowing that your only contribution to society is 100% worthless and meaningless. I'd have taken a job in my town, but nobody was ever hiring.
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Cleaning boat hulls.

I would scuba under boats and scrape barnacles and algae off of them. The shit that would come off them was horrendous. There was one creature (about an inch long) that held onto you with its feet and then just had a protruding shaft with a hook on the end that it waved around. It looked like it was from a sci-fi horror movie. And there were tiny shrimp and other things (looked like underwater roly poly) that would try and use your mustache to squeeze into your mouth between your lips and regulator.

Many of the boats were in crappy boat slips. I remember some where I could not see my hand 6 inches in front of my face. Some slips were very shallow and during low tide you could barely squeeze under and sometimes it was super soft muck that you could get your legs stuck in like quicksand.

And then, the cold. It's Florida so it's not the coldest during the winter but it got quite cold. I remember finishing a boat, coming up to the surface and seeing icicles on the dock. Another year, there was such a bad freeze that it was killing fish. Came to the surface and bumped my head on dead catfish. That's when the water was so cold I was getting headaches (underwater brain freezes.)

Sorry for the long post, think I have ptsd from that job
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Bussing tables at a steakhouse.
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Isoflurane posted...

And then, the cold. It's Florida so it's not the coldest during the winter but it got quite cold. I remember finishing a boat, coming up to the surface and seeing icicles on the dock. Another year, there was such a bad freeze that it was killing fish. Came to the surface and bumped my head on dead catfish. That's when the water was so cold I was getting headaches (underwater brain freezes.)

Nothing else bothers me about this post except this bit, that sounds incredibly frightening. I know wetsuits help mitigate a lot of body heat loss, but your face/head is still pretty exposed and a great deal of body heat leaves through the head. Somehow the notion of freezing to death like that is more frightening than that of drowning/getting rekt by some underwater creature.
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Dishwashing at an all you can eat sushi restaurant. It was hell on earth, especially around holidays.
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working for a now thankfully defunct courier firm (will remain nameless still) - warehouse but also IT tech (no body else knew squat about it so i ended up fixing pretty much everything) drivers mate (helping with deliveries) loading articulated trucks (dangerous) and janitorial duties

a lot of the management staff came into two categories (abusive and useless) tho the 2 did overlap

the other warehouse people were largely the dregs of society
I met one guy i still consider a friend however

it was rife with stealing, illegal practices involving driving, extremely poor health and safety and just bad practice in general
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My job right now, an auto credit analyst. Imagine a job where you are a customer service agents for car dealerships, a credit analyst, high volume work with constant interruptions and interjections, the job you can get promoted too is more stressful with no pay increase, constantly begged to do something wrong by car salesman, and you have 8 different bosses tell you that you did something wrong or an angry sales manager cuss you out for doing your job then your 8 different bosses cuss you out because they got cussed out lol. Needless to say, I dont plan on doing this job for long :)
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graveyard shift working in a cold storage warehouse were the sole job was unloading 100 lb boxes of frozen pig parts individually for hours on end for barely minimum wage. It didn't help we had to walk past a blast freezer that was -40 degrees

I actually don't mind hard work, but damn
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Camp Counselor. The kids were monsters
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I put plastic kids on peanut cans when I was in high school.

A houseman job, for some odd reason, they sided us with a stewarding job along with working on building banquets. There are times where only 4 of us have to manage watching over the server who leave crap everywhere and build rooms at the same time. Usually 10-12 hours on busy days, also did i say that my shift was at 4pm-12pm? Sometimes I get home around 5am. My Co-workers are usually lazy and sit around playing games on the phone and not getting anything done. Breaks? What breaks?

The good side: DAMN GOOD PAY (for the job that is), usually a 700-900 dollar pay a week. Also its a pretty physical job, I can say it made me lose tons of weigh
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yeah 700-900 dollars a week is great

I don't even make that now with my poor, entry salary. Shit after a bunch of deductions and bills, I'm left with like $360 and then some bills still come out of that

I need a second job so I can actually have some money on the side
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DyingPancake posted...

graveyard shift working in a cold storage warehouse were the sole job was unloading 100 lb boxes of frozen pig parts individually for hours on end for barely minimum wage. It didn't help we had to walk past a blast freezer that was -40 degrees

I actually don't mind hard work, but damn

That sounds awful, how many hours a week on average did you have to do that? I ask because it sounds like one of those jobs where it isn't unusual to work 60+ hour weeks.
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Telemarketer. They gave me the script, showed me how to work the phone, than basically just let me loose. I sat there for hours, stumbling through the script, person after person hanging up on me. You basically had to take call after call. It was an awful combination of dull, frustrating, nerve-wracking and stressful because of how relentless the calls were.

I hated that first day so much I didn't bother showing up for my second day.
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my first job as a teen which was practically reserved for the lowest tier of human society with no places left to run... as in i live in scandinavia and there were at best 1-2 native scandinavians working there out of maybe 15-20 people.

had to line up in front of a belt and fill bundles of newspapers/ads that are assembled into the mixed bundles you see being delivered to newsstands in the morning.

10pm-8am with one single 30 minute break and had to stand up the entire time.
everyone had their own station and if the one next to you had to take a bathroom break(and there were A L O T of them), then it was on you to fill in until they came back.

i was there for 3 weeks just to get enough money to pay my bills and never looked back.
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QA.

literally spent 8 hours a day tapping flat pieces of metal with another flat piece of metal to make sure they were flat enough.

I think I made it three weeks.
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Working in a factory making custom airconditioning ductwork and grilles. Welding next to a powdercoating oven in Australian summer (45-50 degree celcius days) was horrible. Working with freshly cut aluminium so constantly covered in cuts, and had to dip everything in acid baths before powdercoating which always led to acid in open wounds. Luckily Australia has a livable minimum wage so was making 600 or so a week.
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My first job was at Wendy's restaurant. I had never had a job before cuz honestly it wasn't so bad, I just remember it being extremely stressful. Just something about being in a small environment with hot stoves and oil with like 5 other people having to do French fries and coping with the stigma of being a fast food worker, I lasted a week before I said nope.

My worst job though was working for an ice delivery company. It was right after the housing market crashed and I guess the owners decided they could make way more money hiring college kids during the summer and not provide adequate ice movng dollies(now they have them, but when I worked there they were all broken) they also went from paying drivers 30/hr to commission in ice delivery which came out to $10/hr. The truck and constant change in temperature is not healthy on top of that, we had to load ice on broken dollies and it was always a bitch delivering to inner city liquor stores where the roads are uneven, you would load 50 5lb bags on the dolly or 20 20lb bags of ice and pray your shit stays on that dolly otherwise you drop a heavy load and can break shit in the store, hurt people, or yourself. The management was very nice, I did this for 5 months then came to my senses and quit that shit. Oh, then there was the stress of driving that big ice truck around, and delivering freezers to new stores, man those shits are heavy. Did I mention no one opens the door for the delivery man, even if he's carrying 400lbs of ice, oh and don't get me started on stores with stairs.
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Working at ChaCha. Actually wasn't so bad but technically the worst job I've had I suppose.
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in retrospect, working for a start-up

our boss thought he was still managing a jamba juice store instead of a complicated rideshare service
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einegutePerson posted...

in retrospect, working for a start-up

our boss thought he was still managing a jamba juice store instead of a complicated rideshare service

but i bet you had some decent perks/benefits working for a start up
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Parappa09 posted...

einegutePerson posted...

in retrospect, working for a start-up

our boss thought he was still managing a jamba juice store instead of a complicated rideshare service

but i bet you had some decent perks/benefits working for a start up

paid benefits
pay was not very competitive either
but it was a managerial spot, good for the resume

perks was having free transport in the city occasionally
which was cool some days

not worth the stress level otherwise
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Worked in manufacturing for a little bit.
6 days a week. 2-11pm with an hour lunch which I hated. Sometimes went to 1am. No AC in the warehouse. Filled with plastics dust. On your feet all day. I was only needed for about 2 hours of the whole time I was there every day. At best. The worst was reaching into hoppers to air blast the plastic particulates out and then grinding down the larger pieces in a back room. They gave you small breathing masks but it didn't help. You get completely covered and breath in all this ultra fine plastic dust. Think like regular dust that accumulates on stuff in your house. But tons of it where it lifts off everything like clouds that accumulates every day.

I got this terrible problem breathing one day at home and went to an extended care doctor after a few days. It was a very bad allergic/bronchial infection. I can't even remember the name now. But it was bad and the doc suspected this dust I was breathing was the source. I had to call off a few days. I hadn't been there long and of course didn't have any medical so I got let go for failure to show. And to be honest. I've never been so thankful to lose a job. God only knows what I may have now if I remained. And then theres all those other people that worked there. They're all going to get lung cancer or something from that stuff.
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