Spent a significant part of my life training to be an attorney and absolutely hated it.
why is there a content warning? inquiring mind.
For me it was a Sonic drive in. I only worked there 8-9 days before I just quit. I couldn’t tolerate the over the top GM.
A fast fashion retail job (similar to forever 21). Miserable
Cashier
Teaching in a rural high school in a red state. There is no amount of money worth trying to educate people in science who revel in their ignorance and have no desire to evolve beyond their racism and bigotry. I’m not sure who was worse, the students or the other faculty who were just as obtuse as they were.
Wanted to work in a grocery store to stock shelves since I have crazy social anxiety, got there on day one they said just kidding you’re now a cashier. Worked a 11 hour shift with one 15 min break 9 hours in. I did not come back lol
Office administrator in an office that was at least 30 years stuck in the past.
Processing payments for a govt agency on a computer system so old the person who had invented it had died (command line interface…blue screen).
A summer job at a tool factory. It was just so mind-numbingly boring. All I did for 8h was put a thingy in a machine and then pull a lever. There was a girl on the machine next to me and by the end of the second day I had told her all my deepest and darkest secrets that I’ve never even told my best friends because I was so so fucking bored.
The only upside was that it was really well paid. 13€/h during the day shift, 16€/h during the night shift. Back then most of my friends made like 7€/h in their summer jobs.
I was a server at Waffle House for *maybe* a week.
I was not made to be a server, i’m too awkward and introverted.
Also it was my first job and my dumbass bought *cute* shoes instead of functional, practical shoes. 🤦♀️
I worked at a really unsafe school in the worst part of a downtown area in the same district where the first grader shot his teacher.
I had to go through metal doctors every day, lived in constant fear that my car would get broken into, got violently attacked by students regularly, had my classroom destroyed, and was verbally abused by other teachers and school staff. And anytime I broke down crying they criticized me and told me I was being too sensitive.
I left to be at a much better school and I’m so glad I did.
Working in ABA. I loved the kids so much, but both companies I worked for were so disorganized and they only gave me like 15-20 hours. I left the second company two months ago because the new director was targeting me and another woman I worked with.
Customer service at a call centre. Cried almost every shift for the first 3 months. It still amazes me how rude people can be.
Cashier at Little Caesar’s. Full grown adults will yell at 16 year olds over pizza and breadsticks on basically a daily basis. Broke down crying more than once. Burns are also common
Please be nice to pizza employees
I taught 5th grade in a public school for some time and the students were unhinged. Admin was unhelpful with consequences as well- students would return from the principal’s office with a fidget or some toy or even candy!- and at least half of the students did not give a hoot about completing schoolwork. One student even outed me and class was derailed for the next two days.
After a student assaulted me, I left. I can’t possibly do whole classroom teaching again; now instead I do small-group intervention working with students who struggle in reading and math.
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The worst job I ever had was working as a lunch lady in an elementary school cafeteria. I hated every second of every minute of that job. I wasn’t the least bit upset when I got fired.
Au pair
Human Resources- what a shit show
I worked at Forever 21 on and off for 8 years, it was great for the first 3 because of good management and the times when the company wasn’t short changing everything. But it got bad fast and was absolutely miserable by the end.
With children.
Some of their parents verbally abused them in front of me. Can’t imagine how they are in private. I still think about them sometimes.
i worked as a to go person/host at red robin and it was a generally dehumanizing experience. customers were so rude for no reason. my coworkers were so cliquey and left me out. and my manager didn’t even like me. he made me leave early all the time before my shift was over to save money. fucking awful. i’ll take my corporate desk job any day over that piece of shit restaurant. and the food isn’t even good. fuck red robin.
In a chicken plant inspecting newly slaughtered chickens. They went by on a line seconds after they were beheaded, feathered, and bled. Blood was everywhere and sometimes their guts were left inside and I had to reach in and pull them out.
Gimmick sushi restauraunt job. Was there for maybe 1 week.
My 2nd day they placed me on the sushi bar at their 2nd location. They knew I had ample food service experience but no experience with sushi (and japanese cuisine in general). The names of foods were a large learning curve for me. Still yet, they had me on the bar, struggling with orders and *no one* training me that night. It was a slow evening at first, rain keeping people away. But then it stopped and night rush started.
It was such a shitshow that I held back multitudes of orders from just trying to read ingredients and remember names of things, remaking orders I messed up, and other bullshit I wasnt trained to do. Even one of the waitresses (who i guess was trained before to roll sushi) had to come and help me. She was nice but the guy rolling sushi next to me was visibly and audibly frustrated; not mad at me, though. I still felt so terrible about it all since it was partially my fault (but obv not all since management should have never assignemed me there).
I already didnt like the job because I was shy, didnt talk to anyone (ppl didnt really talk to me), and the training was minimal and boring, so the shifts felt extra long and sucked (and the pay wasnt worth it).
I had to constantly ask for things to do bc noone was training me properly. I dont assign myself tasks in new kitchens cuz I dont know their internal systems yet.
At the time, I had a second food service job that was slightly better and paid more but was still p stressful, so it was all just… a lot.
One shift one of the managers (and owner) told me Id be the ‘wonton queen’ when she saw I had nothing to do. Was so fucking condescending and irritated me.
On my last night, I was prepping some shit I dont remember (prolly poppers) and visibly bored and annoyed about it. I had done that on another night and it was rlly monotonous. Great. Another filler-role shift, running the dishwasher, prepping bullshit. At least I wasnt on the bar. It was slow that night, so one of the kitchen managers told me I could leave early. I was so relieved and elated that I quit that day and went to the grocery store to buy bakery treats for myself to celebrate.
Sent a text to management saying I quit and they had the gall to tell me it was ‘unprofessional’ not to give a 7 day notice lmfao. They were lucky I gave any notice, unlike one guy who practically quit by not showing up anymore lmfao.
Retail at a JcPenney circa 2003. I was “recovery”, meaning I organized the racks and returned clothes to the floor from the fitting rooms. People are disgusting (it’s a fitting room, not a toilet) and entitled. I’d wait tables again tomorrow if that’s what I needed to do for work, but you couldn’t pay me enough to work retail again.
I was a sign spinner for Verizon Wireless when I was a 14. 8 hours a day spinning a sign in 105F July heat in GA. $8/hr. Awful.
Behavioral Tech in ABA. Worst 8 months of my life.
It’s hard to say exactly. However, I did take a job that was sort of a patch while I worked on more school. I floated at a local daycare giving people their lunch breaks.
I’ve never seen anything so bad, unhinged and unhealthy. These young women employees were literally screaming terrible to kids who were only a few years old. Filth, most toys were gone or broken. So many things.
I knew the boss was lying to them because I had a lot more life under my belt. It’s highly manipulative to lie and portray it as truth.
I happily quit with a short email and never looked back.
My first vet clinic since graduating. I only lasted 4 months. It was socially 100x worse than a high school. Doctors were rude and condescending to anyone else who wasn’t a doctor. Techs ganged up on new employees and also each other. There was one tech who would purposely make plans outside of work and invite everyone to join except for the new people. Then post pictures around the office of when they all went out, to rub it in the new people’s faces. They talked so much trash about other’s personal lives that had nothing to do with work. So many techs blamed other techs for their own mistakes. Got screamed at for not answering the phone when my hands were busy drawing a dog’s blood, and there were 2 receptionists up front doing nothing, capable of answering the phone themselves. I went to go get a bandage for a dog only to find out we had ran out, and the doctor blamed it on me, instead of the manager who actually makes the supply orders. I have no control over that. Worst 4 months of my life. When I quit, 3 other new people quit too.
Waitress
Family owned law firm. Anything in food/customer service
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Spent a significant part of my life training to be an attorney and absolutely hated it.
why is there a content warning? inquiring mind.
For me it was a Sonic drive in. I only worked there 8-9 days before I just quit. I couldn’t tolerate the over the top GM.
A fast fashion retail job (similar to forever 21). Miserable
Cashier
Teaching in a rural high school in a red state. There is no amount of money worth trying to educate people in science who revel in their ignorance and have no desire to evolve beyond their racism and bigotry. I’m not sure who was worse, the students or the other faculty who were just as obtuse as they were.
Wanted to work in a grocery store to stock shelves since I have crazy social anxiety, got there on day one they said just kidding you’re now a cashier. Worked a 11 hour shift with one 15 min break 9 hours in. I did not come back lol
Office administrator in an office that was at least 30 years stuck in the past.
Processing payments for a govt agency on a computer system so old the person who had invented it had died (command line interface…blue screen).
A summer job at a tool factory. It was just so mind-numbingly boring. All I did for 8h was put a thingy in a machine and then pull a lever. There was a girl on the machine next to me and by the end of the second day I had told her all my deepest and darkest secrets that I’ve never even told my best friends because I was so so fucking bored.
The only upside was that it was really well paid. 13€/h during the day shift, 16€/h during the night shift. Back then most of my friends made like 7€/h in their summer jobs.
I was a server at Waffle House for *maybe* a week.
I was not made to be a server, i’m too awkward and introverted.
Also it was my first job and my dumbass bought *cute* shoes instead of functional, practical shoes. 🤦♀️
I worked at a really unsafe school in the worst part of a downtown area in the same district where the first grader shot his teacher.
I had to go through metal doctors every day, lived in constant fear that my car would get broken into, got violently attacked by students regularly, had my classroom destroyed, and was verbally abused by other teachers and school staff. And anytime I broke down crying they criticized me and told me I was being too sensitive.
I left to be at a much better school and I’m so glad I did.
Working in ABA. I loved the kids so much, but both companies I worked for were so disorganized and they only gave me like 15-20 hours. I left the second company two months ago because the new director was targeting me and another woman I worked with.
Customer service at a call centre. Cried almost every shift for the first 3 months. It still amazes me how rude people can be.
Cashier at Little Caesar’s. Full grown adults will yell at 16 year olds over pizza and breadsticks on basically a daily basis. Broke down crying more than once. Burns are also common
Please be nice to pizza employees
I taught 5th grade in a public school for some time and the students were unhinged. Admin was unhelpful with consequences as well- students would return from the principal’s office with a fidget or some toy or even candy!- and at least half of the students did not give a hoot about completing schoolwork. One student even outed me and class was derailed for the next two days.
After a student assaulted me, I left. I can’t possibly do whole classroom teaching again; now instead I do small-group intervention working with students who struggle in reading and math.
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The worst job I ever had was working as a lunch lady in an elementary school cafeteria. I hated every second of every minute of that job. I wasn’t the least bit upset when I got fired.
Au pair
Human Resources- what a shit show
I worked at Forever 21 on and off for 8 years, it was great for the first 3 because of good management and the times when the company wasn’t short changing everything. But it got bad fast and was absolutely miserable by the end.
With children.
Some of their parents verbally abused them in front of me. Can’t imagine how they are in private. I still think about them sometimes.
i worked as a to go person/host at red robin and it was a generally dehumanizing experience. customers were so rude for no reason. my coworkers were so cliquey and left me out. and my manager didn’t even like me. he made me leave early all the time before my shift was over to save money. fucking awful. i’ll take my corporate desk job any day over that piece of shit restaurant. and the food isn’t even good. fuck red robin.
In a chicken plant inspecting newly slaughtered chickens. They went by on a line seconds after they were beheaded, feathered, and bled. Blood was everywhere and sometimes their guts were left inside and I had to reach in and pull them out.
Gimmick sushi restauraunt job. Was there for maybe 1 week.
My 2nd day they placed me on the sushi bar at their 2nd location. They knew I had ample food service experience but no experience with sushi (and japanese cuisine in general). The names of foods were a large learning curve for me. Still yet, they had me on the bar, struggling with orders and *no one* training me that night. It was a slow evening at first, rain keeping people away. But then it stopped and night rush started.
It was such a shitshow that I held back multitudes of orders from just trying to read ingredients and remember names of things, remaking orders I messed up, and other bullshit I wasnt trained to do. Even one of the waitresses (who i guess was trained before to roll sushi) had to come and help me. She was nice but the guy rolling sushi next to me was visibly and audibly frustrated; not mad at me, though. I still felt so terrible about it all since it was partially my fault (but obv not all since management should have never assignemed me there).
I already didnt like the job because I was shy, didnt talk to anyone (ppl didnt really talk to me), and the training was minimal and boring, so the shifts felt extra long and sucked (and the pay wasnt worth it).
I had to constantly ask for things to do bc noone was training me properly. I dont assign myself tasks in new kitchens cuz I dont know their internal systems yet.
At the time, I had a second food service job that was slightly better and paid more but was still p stressful, so it was all just… a lot.
One shift one of the managers (and owner) told me Id be the ‘wonton queen’ when she saw I had nothing to do. Was so fucking condescending and irritated me.
On my last night, I was prepping some shit I dont remember (prolly poppers) and visibly bored and annoyed about it. I had done that on another night and it was rlly monotonous. Great. Another filler-role shift, running the dishwasher, prepping bullshit. At least I wasnt on the bar. It was slow that night, so one of the kitchen managers told me I could leave early. I was so relieved and elated that I quit that day and went to the grocery store to buy bakery treats for myself to celebrate.
Sent a text to management saying I quit and they had the gall to tell me it was ‘unprofessional’ not to give a 7 day notice lmfao. They were lucky I gave any notice, unlike one guy who practically quit by not showing up anymore lmfao.
Retail at a JcPenney circa 2003. I was “recovery”, meaning I organized the racks and returned clothes to the floor from the fitting rooms. People are disgusting (it’s a fitting room, not a toilet) and entitled. I’d wait tables again tomorrow if that’s what I needed to do for work, but you couldn’t pay me enough to work retail again.
I was a sign spinner for Verizon Wireless when I was a 14. 8 hours a day spinning a sign in 105F July heat in GA. $8/hr. Awful.
Behavioral Tech in ABA. Worst 8 months of my life.
It’s hard to say exactly. However, I did take a job that was sort of a patch while I worked on more school. I floated at a local daycare giving people their lunch breaks.
I’ve never seen anything so bad, unhinged and unhealthy. These young women employees were literally screaming terrible to kids who were only a few years old. Filth, most toys were gone or broken. So many things.
I knew the boss was lying to them because I had a lot more life under my belt. It’s highly manipulative to lie and portray it as truth.
I happily quit with a short email and never looked back.
My first vet clinic since graduating. I only lasted 4 months. It was socially 100x worse than a high school. Doctors were rude and condescending to anyone else who wasn’t a doctor. Techs ganged up on new employees and also each other. There was one tech who would purposely make plans outside of work and invite everyone to join except for the new people. Then post pictures around the office of when they all went out, to rub it in the new people’s faces. They talked so much trash about other’s personal lives that had nothing to do with work. So many techs blamed other techs for their own mistakes. Got screamed at for not answering the phone when my hands were busy drawing a dog’s blood, and there were 2 receptionists up front doing nothing, capable of answering the phone themselves. I went to go get a bandage for a dog only to find out we had ran out, and the doctor blamed it on me, instead of the manager who actually makes the supply orders. I have no control over that. Worst 4 months of my life. When I quit, 3 other new people quit too.
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Family owned law firm. Anything in food/customer service
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