What is the worst job you have ever had?

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Corra

Dandy Guy, in Space
What's the worst job you ever had and why?

My worst job is the job I have now. Customer Service/Sales for a Car Insurance company.

The customers have made me lose faith in humanity with there greed, lies and stupidity. My manager want us to stick to a script so much that we sound like a machine, but at the same time expect us to build up enough raport with customers to sell them crappy add on products. On top of that the company thinks it can keep cutting staff and increasing everyones workload to compensate will not result in a drop in standards.

Its mind numbing and soul destroying, and the worst job I have ever had, this is saying something since my past jobs have included office temp (a.k.a Slave), handing out leaflets in a street and a shop assistant in a shop were the manager was eventually sacked for fraud.
 
I never find work enjoyable. I'm not incentivised by reward or scared by punishment, so I don't have the drive to work any harder and I don't particularly care if I get fired either. Like you, I work in sales and customer service and I hate hate hate having to deal with people and all their **** they foist on you with no consideration for your mental state, but it's very hard to find a job where you don't have to. I'd go to university and learn to do something I actually enjoy, except there's no way I can afford it now and I never want to share accommodation ever again.
 
Indeed, even when you do what you're told to in one person's eyes, you get crit from another. I.e. Today I started selling mince pies by my boss' request. Cook 'em, put out to sell and an elderly lady asks "Which pies are these? Surely they aren't mince pies..."
I say, "They sure are."
"In August?! It's no where near Christmas..."
¬_¬

I just looked at another customer and we BOTH shrugged. Should of said to her, "Ah, but just like the advert says 'we live in modern times...'"
Retail altogether is a poor job choice when it comes to satisfying work, as the customers are the WORST kind of people to meet at times. It was depressing working at my other job (T.J's) as I got absolutely no respect from customers or peers. You work your ass off and nothing felt worth it.

But the only job I have ever quit for being mistreated was at Makro. Not because of the customers for a change - Because while I worked as a trolley porter, another porter was going into a friend's car and 'hanging out' with them. I decided, I wasn't going to work for such an insult in a job that made me feel like crap.
 
Chaz said:
It was depressing working at my other job (T.J's) as I got absolutely no respect from customers or peers. You work your ass off and nothing felt worth it.
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That's just "work" full stop to my mind. People are just tw@ts who don't even know why they are being tw@ts 99% of the time. Customers, colleagues... everyone. What is their excuse (and perhaps more importantly, motivation) for being such hateful bastards?
 
ayase said:
…and I never want to share accommodation ever again.
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If you are riled by milk being stolen, I suggest resorting to the UHT variety. Not another soul in your household will lay hands on it.
 
My worst was the receptionist at some Somalian Learning centre, it was in the middle of a shanty area, had no heating (it was winter) and the boss was trying to get the place off the ground, I sat around in my coat watching the building while he was off god only knows where for hours at a time, trying to get people to enrol (but most visitors were his somalian friends looking for him) I got a lot of reading and writing done back then, after about 5 months I'd had enough, he shouted at me one day for doing something or not doing something and I was cold, I stormed out telling him to (that wolverine scene in x-men: first class.)
 
Corra said:
What's the worst job you ever had and why?

On top of that the company thinks it can keep cutting staff and increasing everyones workload to compensate will not result in a drop in standards.
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Its across the board i'm afraid, we used to be a office of 15 strong, now there's 7 left, less than half the workforce is gone, and what becomes of the workload they did? Well that's just piled up so 1 persons job becomes twice the workload and still not the right pay that we should be for it.

In some cases this is my best and worst job at times, my mum being the overall manager of the service and me being the training administrator to the departments meant it was a conflict of interests in working practice (although not illegal, the NHS doesn't really like it) So i answer directly to a HR manager (being in the HR branches anyway its no big deal). If i cock up at work then i don't just get moaned at during worktimes, no... i end up getting bollocked about it all the way home and when i'm home aswell. Sometimes i would gladly just walk out of the office and not come back (thankfully HR are searching for a new job within the trust so i don't have to worry)

In the same department, i used to work on the booking side - booking staff from my books into shifts to cover staff wards and units across counties. The up sides? i got into a relationship because of a person i met who was an admin for an agency i used to help cover my units lol. I'm at a PC all the time so get to browse the webs and can have a laugh with people, The training days i do give me the chance to sit there in a chair and just have a laugh with the people, no strict silence in my exams! And 100% success rate to date.

But the main downsides where - dealing with the general public, dealing with halfwits i'm sure struggle to just stay alive - you know the sort, the ones that you honestly wonder how they haven't ran themselves over or does someone still feed them with a baby spoon.
 
I feel rage rising in me when I speak to old people. They don't understand data protection policy ie

Me : Can I take your name, address and registartion number for data protection please?

Them : Why do you want that? You have the iformation on screen?

Me: I need to know if your are the policy holder

Them : You see the Reason I am calling today is I want...

Me: Im sorry, i need you to tell me this information to procede with the call. What is your registartion number?

Them : I can't remember that.

Me: What car do you drive

Them: I don't remember...

This goes on for about a minute while they fail every dpa question. They then decide to go outside and look at there car to see what it is.

When they don't want to do something they always say ' But I'm a OAP' as if that will somehow fix everything

I don't jut get angry with old people, we get a load of snot nosed 18 year old brats who think its okay to be really rude to you because they can't see you.
 
Interesting. I feel as though you can reason with old people (and don't have to deal with young people very often). It's the 30-60 crowd that piss me off the most, they seem to think they're above everyone and entitled to anything. Not all of them, of course... Just most of them. It's always them who want to do unreasonable things like returning products after six months (which have probably broken in their shops) under threat that they won't buy again if we don't let them - as a wholesaler we generally have to give in, but my teeth grating is probably audible to them down the phone line.
 
ayase said:
I work in sales and customer service and I hate hate hate having to deal with people and all their **** they foist on you with no consideration for your mental state.
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Yeah... somehow I have trouble seeing you as the customer service type.

My first job was for a flagging construction company who had more work than they could complete. They had a contract with Tower Hamlets council so I spent most days fielding calls from irate Bangladeshis asking in broken English why their sinks were still blocked. Character building? Perhaps. Soul destroying? Without a doubt.
 
fabricatedlunatic said:
ayase said:
I work in sales and customer service and I hate hate hate having to deal with people and all their **** they foist on you with no consideration for your mental state.
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Yeah... somehow I have trouble seeing you as the customer service type.
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Yet that's all I've ever done for my entire working life. I'm not qualified for anything else, not to mention that there never seem to be any jobs available for anything else that don't require previous experience. It's that or caring jobs, and having to actually look after other people would, I'm fairly certain, turn me into a murderer.

Thing is, I'm actually quite good at it as I'm a very convincing liar. I'm the kind of person they would have people on the news saying "He seemed like such a nice person" after I've shot 93 people dead (I should probably point out that that's a hypothetical situation. I haven't shot anybody, I'm not allowed to own a gun).
 
ayase said:
Thing is, I'm actually quite good at it as I'm a very convincing liar. I'm the kind of person they would have people on the news saying "He seemed like such a nice person" after I've shot 93 people dead (I should probably point out that that's a hypothetical situation. I haven't shot anybody, I'm not allowed to own a gun).
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You speak too honestly here to be the kind who would really shoot people. The kind who would wouldn't be talking about it. :p
 
ayase said:
fabricatedlunatic said:
ayase said:
I work in sales and customer service and I hate hate hate having to deal with people and all their **** they foist on you with no consideration for your mental state.
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Yeah... somehow I have trouble seeing you as the customer service type.
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Yet that's all I've ever done for my entire working life. I'm not qualified for anything else, not to mention that there never seem to be any jobs available for anything else that don't require previous experience. It's that or caring jobs, and having to actually look after other people would, I'm fairly certain, turn me into a murderer.

Thing is, I'm actually quite good at it as I'm a very convincing liar. I'm the kind of person they would have people on the news saying "He seemed like such a nice person" after I've shot 93 people dead (I should probably point out that that's a hypothetical situation. I haven't shot anybody, I'm not allowed to own a gun).
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i suppose you're hypothetically norwegian too :roll:

too soon?
 
I've been working various jobs since I was 14, and almost all of them were ass. My part time job at Costcutter stands out as the worst. I got no respect from customers or supervisors and slaves got paid better than me. Even when I told them I was quitting they just gave me abuse. They told me to finish the shift but I just walked out. Bitches. I've held a grudge against my mother ever since for making me work there.
 
McDonalds wasn't the most fun, but there aren't many other Saturday jobs you can get easily at 17.
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I was in there on sataday. The staff looked like they were all working really hard, somebody needs to issue them riot gear cos its so packed out sometimes
 
Yeah, when McDonalds gets busy, it gets way busier than the number of staff they have on any one shift should realistically be handling. Running up and down lines of cars waiting for the drive through so you could pre-input their orders was ironically one of the better things you could end up doing.
 
I used to work as a telesales-person for a cleaning company. It was the worst job I've had; all day I'd have to phone up local companies and try to sell them cleaning products and services, but 99% of the time they would shout down the phone or hang up on me. My boss gave us very little training so we didn't know what we were doing and when we tried to ask for help he would say 'If I can sell, so can you!' -__-
 
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