What's the worst job you've ever had?

I always said I was lucky to have the jobs I had/have, but now, reading the other posts, I KNOW I am! My problems are not with the place itself, though I do find cataloguing rather boring (doing it for almost 8 years now--it was a "promotion"), but the people--but you have that everywhere. Also, the fact that nobody else likes the particular person I have in mind helps a bit. At least I'm in a warm, clean, safe environment, though one year, it was sometimes 50F inside our department for 7 months, until they decided to fix the HVAC system. We had to wear coats, hats, gloves, etc. to survive (try typing all day when your fingers are frozen! ). I kept getting sick, too; made worse by the fact that my desk was by a wall of huge glass windows, and it was colder there (we hung a few blankets up, and covered some windows with bubble-wrap). We had 2 small space heater, but could only plug one in at a time, as more blew the circuits on that side of the room. We took turns sharing one, among 5 people). I broke the dress code, and wore sweatpants, and a hoodie. A co-worker jokingly remarked that I looked like a homeless person (I did), so I took my coffee mug, placed it on the front of my desk, along with a sign, "Will work for heat". The management was NOT amused (yet not once in 4 months, despite our complaints, did they come in to see how cold it was--until I lost it one day with my boss--and he went to the management. Someone was there within
15 minutes--"Boy, it IS cold in here!").

I worked in a donut shop for two days and hated it enough to quit.

I worked in the kitchen at Boston Pizza. That was by far the worst job I have ever had. They used to yell at me for everything. I had to work alone at my station (where all the others got 2 people) and I made all the steaks, desserts, nachos, salads and some appetizers (like the spinach dip). They used to tell me that I was too slow. I would move as fast as I could but that was just too much work for one person.

The way the scheduling was done sucked. If I was scheduled until 8pm, I would be done around 10 or 11pm and I was in college at the time so it was really hard. If you weren't scheduled until a specific time, then you got a number and that was the order you got to go home in. Sometimes I would be done like an hour after I started and other times I would be there until midnight. They made me do split shifts a lot too and would get mad if I said I had homework to do and couldn't come in on my days off or come back and do the evening shift when I worked the morning.

I finally gave in one day and quit (after 3 months) because they wanted me to work a 2 hour shift on Christmas Eve. Their policy was you have to work either Christmas Eve or Boxing Day and I chose Boxing Day because I was going to be 4 hours away visiting family for Christmas. They wanted me to work from 2-4pm on Christmas Eve as well as a full day on Boxing Day and when I asked about it they said "well we are running a business and someone has to work." I was so upset that they wouldn't schedule someone else to do that 2 hour shift, especially someone whos family didn't live 4 hours away. I had just moved out of my parents house and I was only 18 and I wanted to go home for Christmas. I ended up quitting the next day and spending a week with my parents.

My worst job was working a grocery store. My boss came once a week just to scream at us. Being that I am a bawl baby. It didn't work very well.

My worst job was working at a sandwich shop - my boss wasn't very nice or fair!

Oh my gosh, I remember working at a McDonalds that had a strip bar on one side and a porn theater on the other side! You can just imagine the kind of customers we got there! Friday and Sat nights were the worst!

My worst job was working at a maid service, I hate to clean so I have no idea why I thought that would be a good job for me Since I was the "newbie" I usually got stuck cleaning the bathrooms I remember one place was so bad I had to vacuum the counters before I could even clean them I laso would work for about 8 hours a day, but only got paid for the time actually cleaning houses, all the time driving to and from houses wasn't paid, and that time could add up!

My second worse job was at a restaurant. I had quit/gotten fired from my other restaurant job, ironically the same one I work at now on the weekends (they took me back ) I was a server at the time and we had to tip out the bar, even if we didn't get any drinks, and the bus people, even if they didn't bus any of our tables Also, the cooks were very, very mean, all the servers were female and the cooks were guys and they would be so demeaning. The funny thing was I could probably have cooked circles around them I don't think I've served since, I went back to my original restaurant as a cook only and let me tell you, I was a lot nicer to the servers

My worst ever was driving a city bus. The people that ride the bus could be so gross, some of them smelled like they never showered and some smelled like a distillery...bleh. Strapping down wheelchairs was always so pleasant too, some of the people in the chairs were so nasty. One of them always made sure to touch my boobs as I strapped him down. Then there was the drama of the drivers....gads! There was one driver that was so mean that no one liked her and she cussed in the breakroom bad enough to make a sailor blush. Always had to be nice, no tips and only made a quarter above minmum wage....bleh!

You gotta hate working in retail...especially when dealing with the public at rush hour in 40 degrees celcius! Oh! And scrubbing urinals at 10:30 at night didn't go down too well!

Working at Burger King was the worst. Probably because I suck at math and had to bring a calculator plus the assistant manager yelled at me for having pet hair on my clothes and the worst part was dating a co-worker, he was a jerk and spread lies about me so I quit! This was when I was about 16 - I only wanted a job for the summer but ended up working quite a few months there.

the only good thing about it was you would get 50 % off on your meals and your family got 10 % off on theirs. I think I tried about everything on the menu, except their breakfast stuff - I would have those french toast sticks, orange juice, and hashbrowns but nothing else. I had the fish sandwich and I hate them. luckily I was skinny then. also, I cannot stand eating there, their food is so lukewarm. not to toot my own horn but it was all fresh when I worked there. We only go there when we're want for greasy food and want cheap whopper jrs. and fries. plus I order the food like something special so it's hot or with extra something.

also when I worked there, I loved the hershey sundae pies but not anymore.

I mentioned the hay hauling up above, but I have to say I've had some bad jobs:

Cook at McDonalds (part time, going to school. I cooked 130 dozen eggs every morning!)

Maintenance at college. (Been knee-deep in a cesspool, for one thing.)

Ranch work. (Been knee-deep in manure. Dug calves out of the snow at -35 degrees.)

Delivering to Dollar General stores. Had to handle every box.

But I think every bad job teaches us something, if only what we don't want to do for the rest of our lives!

My worst job ever: working the evisceration line at a chicken plant. It was grueling work. Every night I would go to sleep and hold my hands over the edge of the bed so they would go numb, since that way they didn't hurt as much. I still have damage to my hands/wrists and its been 10-15 years since I worked there.

Plus it was gross I still can't eat chicken on the bone

Funny, this was my worst job too, but I didn't last long enough to get sore hands.! Two days and I was out of there

Wow! Those were some really bad jobs! I guess I'm glad I wasn't alone?

My worst job would have to be a housekeeper for a hotel. Because it was a physically tough job for the least amount of pay. You would not believe the disaster people would leave their rooms. Because of that job whenever I stay in hotels I always keep the room clean and leave a tip.

Clixpix it is so funny you worked at a cannery, my job was the creamed corn line. I lasted one day, when I told my mom, she told me I was being a baby, once I told her what they had me doing, so dailed the number so I could tell them I wouldn't be coming back I never liked creamed corn to begin with, and I have never eaten it since.

I worked in a tomato hydroponics green house. I would come home green from head to toe. It was hot miserable and nasty. I lasted 4 weeks!

I wokr in a call center now and I think it's one of the worst jobs I have had also. I hate saying the same thing over and over again all day long! The company is terrible to their employees and the customers can be very rude!

I almost got caught up in the detassling corn thing. I was going to do this at a different time of year where they made you walk through the corn fields picking test corn. Then in the summer they did the detassling thing. I started to think about what the job entailed and I quit the day they were going to start.