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When I was young I was a waitress for 3 days. It was a seafood restaurant - and we had to stand near our tables the entire time (if we weren't doing anything) I hated standing over my customers tables while they were eating - it was just weird. Plus I smelled like grease and seafood at the end of the day. I was horrible at carrying those giant trays and barely made it through those 3 days. Never waitressed again after that! I was a hostess but refused to wait on tables.
 
Probably my first job with Pizza Hut, hated smelling & feeling like i'd been deep fried or put through the pizza ovens so can definitely relate to @carrie1977, didn't help the parent company was cheap so hired a certain type of manager who would cut hours for no real reason
 
hmm worst job none but worst boss yeah! it was on my second job, he was to be trained as assistant manager and since i was the pioneering team leader, our manager told him to ask me everything. he was nice the first 3 months and during his probation period. after that, he changed 360deg. totally different from what he showed us and he even claimed he learned everything by himself. never mentioned my name to our dept head who praised him coz he knew everything so well in the span of 3 months. i didn't mind, coz what he didn't know was this dept head only tested him how he will handle that query. several months later and he got accused of sexual harassment and he got involved with one co-worker then got her pregnant. he didn't get fired but just transferred to a different dept. i don't know what has become of him now lol i only heard through old co-workers that he didn't change at all and his co-workers just ignore him lol (i resigned to follow hubby here in Saudi Arabia).
 
Gosh! I'm feelign rather lucky reading some of your horror stories! Rae @bcgal00 your story gave me chills. I shudder to think what he had planned! Yikes!

I started with babysitting, then McDonalds, then worked at a tool and die shop as a secretary and then moved the CAD (drawings) department, then the cafeteria in my college dorm, I've been a cocktail waitress, then did odd jobs including painting and staining for contractors in college, then another tool and die shop. Then after college I started at my current job which i love. I didn't hate any of my past jobs because I grew up poor and to be able to make my own money was so rewarding that I didn't care what menial jobs I had to do. I was getting PAID! :)
 
Worst job: the child-care room at the bowling alley when I was 14/15. The only good thing about that job was I got to hang out with the DJ (of the adjacent bar) on nights we had no kids in the child-care. I would punch out and the hang with the DJ Frank until my dad came to pick me up at the end of the night.

I actually enjoyed working at the coney island/family restaurant... unless it was light fixture cleaning day or gum scraping day. As the "bus person", those tasks fell into my job description. I eventually worked every position available at that restaurant. By 17 years old, the owners would make me the temporary manager when they wanted to go golfing on the regular managers' days off. (No one liked that!!)
 
Cleaning the bathrooms since we have 4 boys!!!

For real though....I guess working fast food in high school. I don't like dealing with money so I hated working the register!!
 
My dad roped me into a job at his work over the summer when I was in high school. It was the best of times and it was the worst of times! I was a poop scooper at a dog kennel... I loved the dogs, they were so fun! But, the trainer was kind of crazy (don't trust a dog trainer with giant dog bite scars). It was not great that the dogs all wanted to mark me as their favorite person by spreading a bit of their poop on me... And, if the phone rang, I had to RUN to get it by the third ring so I could say (while covered in poop), "Thank YOU for calling Camp Love Land, where we have a warm heart for cold noses, the trainer is out, May I take a message?" It was hot, smelly, and exhausting! I worked hard for my money those days, lol!

Huggles!!
~Sarah~
 
I started work at a company and was supposed to be employed as an admin assistant, but spent most of my day doing absolutely nothing. Never took any phone calls, no visitors to the office and no actual admin work. I spent most of my time sat reading my kindle, not bad getting paid to do nothing. But the days went so slow. And after roughly two months came into work to be told I was no longer needed.

But must have been meant to be, as within few weeks got the job at company I am currently at and its the best company to work for.
 
Substitute teaching in the worst district of our county. Awful.
 
During college, I worked one summer cleaning condos in a resort area in Florida. Let's just say people can be really gross when they know someone else will be cleaning it up. But honestly, it wasn't the work that I minded as much as some of the guests' attitudes toward me. One girl left the condo as I was working and said, "I guess I can leave you alone here, just don't steal anything." If nothing else it was a good lesson in humility and I am very conscious of the feelings of people in service jobs.
 
I worked for an educational travel company where I was hired to start a media division to promote the company. I was given grand stories of what I could do, yadda yadda. So I moved cross-country into the middle of nowhere and soon found out the owner had a huge ego and wanted all his employees to basically brown nose. Come to find out he only hired me because he liked the way I looked(!). Long story short: I didn't brown nose, he "demoted" me to leading tours for middle school students (which he thought was the worst punishment of all and I absolutely loved to do). He eventually set me up to have me "quit" so he didn't have to pay unemployment insurance. I ended up moving to Washington, DC where after enrolling in grad school and upon the direction of one of my professors, I spent a couple of hours on the phone with the unemployment office of the state where I had worked to help compile a dossier on the creep. Seems I wasn't the only one he had done this to.

But the most interesting job story was the summer I worked at a McDonald's. I actually had to pull some strings to get the job because there weren't any jobs available in my town due to people hiring undocumented workers at a couple bucks an hour (this was way before this sort of thing was checked). The owner believed in us using our brains, so we weren't allowed to use the cash register to tally up people's orders. We had to do it long hand just so we could keep our math skills going. He didn't care if we messed up, he thought it was more important for us to work at being good at math!
 
When I was in HS I did de-tasseled corn by hand. Up at the crack of dawn - walking down the rows of tall corn, full of cobwebs and mud if it had rained - and scalding hot during the afternoons. Hated every minute of it. The pay was good - but I didn't last long!

I have worked as a supervisor in a distribution center for 12+ years - up until January 2016. The first part of those years I worked 10PM until 8AM and hated those hours. I did not sleep well during the day (ha! And still don't during the night!) but I was running on like 3 or 4 hours of sleep everyday. Then I transferred to 2nd shift - working 2PM until midnight. The hours were great, however; in 2014 our facility hired nearly 100 temporary workers. It was a mess!! We had everything going on ... people bringing hard liquor in soda bottles ... smoking in the bathrooms ... drugs ... fights ... sleeping on the job ... warrants of arrest being issued ... not to mention just plain lazy workers that had zero respect for others.

I am a pretty happy camper being a Process Improvement Manager (really, jack of all trades). It was a newly developed position so I've been able to "make it my own" ...

@bcgal00 - wow - your story is crazy!! Thank goodness there was an intervention when the accident happened!!! Scary stuff!!!
 
My dad grew up on a farm so he was a bit of a slave driver and we did all kinds of hard labor unpaid (shoveling gravel, mass planting of pachysandra, etc). BUT if you mean a "real" job, it was probably working at a cookie factory in high school. It sounds fun because, well, free cookies, but it was really, really tedious. Basically, the job was to take the cookies off one conveyor belt which came from the oven, stack them and put then on another conveyor belt to go a packaging machine. I worked for, I think, 3 hours at a time and it was so boring, I could hardly stand it.
 
Janitorial cleaning at a MALL! of all places, why did I chose one of the busiest places to clean toilets. UGH, the stuff I would see. I think I lasted 2 weeks.
 
I stay at my jobs a really long time. I've been at the hospital 19 years, I was at Macy's 19 years, Stanford 11 years. For most of my adult life I've worked 2-3 jobs at a time. It's only been since 2014 that I've worked only one job.

So, there are only two other jobs I've ever had. My first job was taking care of six developmentally disabled women, I cooked, cleaned, bathed, all sorts of stuff for $5/hr. I remember interviewing at Macy's & she asked "Why do you want to leave your current job?" I said "I don't want all that responsibility any more". I was only 19. So that job wasn't fun.

But, my worst job ever was as a manager for Noah's Bagels. I had an employee who lived across the street & was late every single day. I had one employee that resented me for getting the job she wanted, but she didn't speak English. I had to call a halfway house to get approval for another employee's shift. I tried to quit & they begged me to stay. I think I lasted another month & left for good. I hated it! I do not want to manage people. I am just fine being a worker-bee
 
My worst job was as a kitchen hand at a busy motel. I would arrive at 4pm in the afternoon to a massive tub full of pots and pans all with food stuck on them. As I worked through the pots new ones would be added so it was scrubbing burnt pans for hours. The second part of the job was to load and unload the dishwashers. Carrying the heavy trays of dishes was back breaking. I used to come home at night and mum would give me a back massage. I lasted all one summer then quite when I went back to Uni and never took another job like this again.
 
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