Ever had a job you hate?

Running Bing

Just wondering have many people here had jobs that they hated. How long did you stick it? why did you stick it and how much did you hate the job?

AntiRip

yes of course even the job im in now! I'm a technician in a manuf company and just find that over time you get treated like sh7t! In my experience most factories are like this some worse than others. I think it's to do with motivation and lack of rewards, 2% wage adjustments a year (inflation around 5%). I'm still here after 5 years and yes I do hate it alot. But I don't do a wrap anymore only pretend I'm interested (actually get more respect!) and no matter what you do there are alway far worse jobs out there..

MayMay

I lasted 2 minutes (yes, exactly 2 minutes!) in a job last week....the boss was incredibly creepy and I just legged it out the door when he turned his back. Bit of a chicken sh1t yes but he really freaked me out....regretting it a bit cause I really need a job but I've never gotten such a bad vibe off someone like this before so I'm glad for my own sake that I legged it.

Uuuh Patsy

Been in several jobs I hated. Takes practice to become immune to the crap that goes on in almost all companies. I found as you get older you care less and less and realise that work is not what you were put on this planet for. Its a means to an end. I've seen too many people care to much and then be made redundant on minimum statuoury. I dont care who your boss is, at the end of the day they'll plug the rug from under; you no matter what your circumstances are; if it suits them. I have no problem with that, most of us would look after number one too. Thats business. So keep your work life business like and take care of your own.

pow wow

I've had loads but the one that sticks out was at a bank. I lasted a month. It was a smallish branch where all the staff (ALL women oddly, except the Branch Manager) had been there for a bajillion years, been promoted, had kids and gone part time so at any one point there'd be about 3 or 4 'assistant managers' on duty, all calling out different commands and trying to implement THEIR way of doing things. Every day one would give me a job to do, followed by another one asking why I wasn't doing it her way, then another one asking why I was doing that and not some tasks she needed doing.

I had a ruck with one of them in the end and left. Worst job of my life so far. But I am only 25 lol.

FledNanders

worked in macdonalds for a few days. Turned up for 2 and a half shifts and got out of that pee pee soaked heck hole as fast as i could. Hate is not the word.

You know they make you pay €40 for your uniform there?? :eek:

pow wow

lol I forgot my experience in a fast food chain....the plastic surgery and scars on my hand after one of the extractor fan hoods fell down and trapped my hand in the chip fryer...well is it any wonder.

I kid you not. Ah memories.

dazberry

Nearly 3 1/2 years ago I got a 3 month contract in a bank writing software. From day one I hated it, but really needed the cash - I'm still there

D.

the_syco

Lemme see... peeling carrots and spuds for £2 an hour in a large restraunt at the edge of Leixlip. Did that for a good while whilst still in Secondry School. Then there was Eircom dial-up support, lasted a few weeks, McDonalds, a few weekends...

As one of the people have said, you become immune to it. The job I'm in now is sweet enough. You'll get fools who like to tell you that they're better than you, as they earn 4 times what you get, but their jobs have a habit of being very stressfull, and they live for their holidays. I like to like my work. Not love it, but not hate it. Sure, it pays the bills, but I don't see the point of working in a place that makes your life hell.

My take on jobs: if you dread going to work every day, get another job.

BuffyBot

Most people have had jobs like that.

Last one I had I left after 2 and a bit months. It just wasn't worth the stress.

J.S. Pill

BuffyBot wrote:

Most people have had jobs like that.

Last one I had I left after 2 and a bit months. It just wasn't worth the stress.

I actually turned down a job that was offered to me this week. The work seemed bearable but it was the outrageous shift pattern that turned me off. I just knew that it would f**k up my social life and I would be miserable. I guess you could say that I pre-emptively quit that job.

nesf

I've had jobs I've truly hated. One I spent 4 months in, the other 6 months. Both sales related.

tywy

I quit a job today after a week and a half cuz it was horrible, I got offered a new job this morning so I took, anything to get out of that hell hole! The management were a joke. No rosters generally or for lunch, no idea about pay, no contract, told that evening if you're in tomorrow. Sent home early if it's quiet with no option of staying. It sucked! Thank God I'm outta there! w00t!

The Hill Billy

I contracted to a financial services company in Dublin several years ago & have to say for the first 5 or 6 months (was there for 12 months) I hated every minute of it. I used to feel (& sometimes get) physically sick while walking to the office at the thought of the $hite I'd have to put up with during the day.

The project manager (also a contractor) was amazed that I didn't walk off the job because of the way I had been treated. I stuck with it because I was determined not to let the personalities & politics involved beat me.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

pclancy

I got a job in a large bar when i was 18. Told them id worked in bars before but couldnt pull a pint to save my life. They spotted this pretty quick and instead of letting me work in the club after the bar, they made me restock 4 bars across 5 floors. After carrying up the 10th crate of woodies Id had enough. Quit the next day.

Weirdly after 5 years of tech support, IT sales, running my own computer shop and IT services company I ended up working in a warehouse of a company that sold and fixed wheelchairs. That was the worst year of my life. Never seen any company so badly run and hated looking at wheelchairs all day. Happiest day ever was driving home from my last day there with my head out the sunroof roaring laughing....:D

Saint_Mel

I'm now 3 years in a job I hate!
The only plus side is the location suits my personal circumstance.

When I was offered the job, HR told me the details and it sounded like a
perfect job - 3 to 6 months building competance (on the job,train up on
a new language and system architecture) and then moved into the
programming department.

After 6 months there wasnt much training etc., so I spoke to my boss to see
when I'd be put into the programming dept and all that. Was told that there
was little or no provision for transferring between departments. I told him
what I had been told by HR and how it was one of the main reasons I took
the job and he said that he hadn't heard anything about it and as the HR is
outsourced they probably just told me what I wanted to hear to get me to
take the job so they could earm more commission. :mad:

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A lad I was in college with years ago lasted 2 hours in his 1st job.
He landed in the 1st day and was left in a room full of servers. Boss came in once
and told him to have look after the servers while he went out for a bit as he wasnt
sure what work to allocate him as he wasnt told there was anyone new joining.

Everyone went for tea break and left him sitting in a server room.
Lunch time eventually came so he headed off into town and never returned to the job.
He rang later that day to say he wouldn't be returning ... they didnt even notice that
he wasnt in the building anymore.

Pythia

I worked for two days in a newsagents, then left.
The only job I've disliked out of my 7 or so jobs I've done.

gary the great

My current job. I hate it. the only thing is that its quite handy sometimes, but i stil; hate everythign else about it

mikemac

Kitchen porter for a hotel and earning £2.50 a hour a hour back in 1998.
Spending all day at a sink, scrubbing pots and pans and then mopping and cleaning the kitchen.

Gordan Ramsey is a pussy compared to the Head Chef. Got roared at several times a day by him and by management.
Regulary worked 7 hours plus without a break and fainted twice due to standing over a sink of hot water and industrial strenght cleaning liquid. Got a hour to rest after fainting and was sent back to work. Probably the longest break I ever got.

Walked out one day and what a weight off my shoulders.
God, I was naive. I don't know why I put up with it.

Worked in a few hotels as a barman during college and I don't see many Irish people doing this job. Fair play to any person who is a kitchen porter.

Mrs. MacGyver

Worked in the Local Shop doing vat returns, general ledger & bookkeeping, hated it and lasted 2 weeks. It was mind numbing work and time seemed to move way too slowly!

LundiMardi

My current job... Took it as it seemed like a good oppurtunity, and also because i got pissed off in my previous job and wanted out.

So i start this one, which is sales based in a very small company, only a few staff. I was told i'd be pro actively selling our products which i didn't mind, felt like a challenge. Almost 3 months on and all i am is a glorified receptionist / scapegoat for any mistakes that are made. For instance, yesterday i got an earful for a mistake that was cleary the customers fault, but i still get the ****.

In the whole two months i've done about an hour of proactive selling and my boss told me i am not enthusiastic enough. Well, if you were promoting a ''special offer'' worth 2000 euro, but only saved the customer €40, would you be enthusiastic? A saving of 40 ****ing euro, wup de ****ing do, i felt like a dumbass trying to promote that. Needless to say, no sales were made.

darkskol

One of the worst jobs I had was while working for Conduit when they did directory enquiries for orange. Used to be hell, over 500 calls a day and you were not allowed read newspapers or use the internet just non stop call after call for 8 hours.

Dave!

In my limited experience, even the most mundane and repetetive jobs can be made infinitely more bearable if your co-workers are good people, and especially if there's a large group of you That's the case in my current job, doing data entry The people are great, so I actually like going in to work most days...... I used to work in a warehouse and the people were sh*t.

jank

Bag packing in Tesco, opps sorry quinssworth for £2.05 an hour.
My god! The boredom!

Thank god I never have to work in a place like that again

Nala

My current job- working at self scan checkouts in a supermarket.

Showing people that "place item on belt" means you place the item on the belt.

Having customers ask "ah will you not put the stuff through for me" despite me explaining that these are SELF scan checkouts.

People coming down with 6 cans of beer, only scanning one of them and thinking I won't notice...

pow wow

Nala wrote:

My current job- working at self scan checkouts in a supermarket.

Showing people that "place item on belt" means you place the item on the belt.

Having customers ask "ah will you not put the stuff through for me" despite me explaining that these are SELF scan checkouts.

People coming down with 6 cans of beer, only scanning one of them and thinking I won't notice...

lol - I think I've met those customers.

BobTheBeat

Used to work a weekend shift in a deli when I was in college. The money was ok and pretty much got me by for four years, but I used to dread going in ever morning. Had to get up a 5:45 every Saturday and Sunday morning and cycle the three miles,which was nice in the summer time,but in icey snowy pissy winter its torture. So many times I came off that fcking bike because of ice on the ground, and no one around, with me whimpering the rest of the journey with a sore arse:(
I used to hate builders and drunk people. The builders would come in lookin for 30 breakfast rolls, "aigh wih black puddin, fowr withowt,n d rest d whole feckin loh bye" . Then drunk people comin in after a nite on the boards "Good morning,how can I help you? I want a roll. Sure large or small? The bigges yoo haff. Butter? Loads. Ok what can I get you?Everything. And what exactly would that be sir? Everyting everyting everyting

But I digress. It paid my way through college and I suppose gave me a serious amount of patience!

digidy21

ive had the exact same experience as Lundi. after nearly 10 years in sales i took a job in a small company selling IT. spent 6 months selling my ass off (not literally) and never saw a cent in commission. and i mean not a cent. and as i was in IT for years so i was blasting my targets. i eventually just left one day because i couldnt afford to stay working there anymore. it had cost me more to work there for 6 months than i had made i.e. paying for my car to go out on meetings, lunches for clients, etc

the good news is i work in recruitment now and I save sales people like me. when i started here i promised myself that i would make a point of getting good sales people out of rubbish sales jobs and thats exactly what i do now. and i feel great getting these guys who are wroking for nothing good money and good commission and compnay cars etc.

so Earl is right, Karma does exist.

cheers for listening to my rant. and any sales people want a real job just drop me a mail.

cheers guys

digidy21

grahamo

I worked in an engineering factory from the age of 18-25. Started in the mid 80's. Anyone starting out in the 80's will remember jobs were HARD to come by. The boss was a miserable bollix who endlessly went on about how he paid me good money and I could easily be replaced. The bosses wouldn't get away with it these days! The thing was I had to put up with it as there were feck all jobs. The only thing that made it bearable was the craic with the great bunch of blokes who worked there.

digidy21

i was a bit too young to be working back then but i know what you mean. in a situation like that all you can do is make the best of it and it sounds like you did.

the place i just left used to say exactly that to me. when i asked where my money was i was told to f**k off and that i had no contract so he had no obligations to me what so ever whcih was total bull. it was like working in the 70's office. mabsolute hell.

my hat off to yopu for suffering work in the 80's. i would say that was hard graft.

digidy21

foxyboxer

worked for a security company during college. mostly nights at the weekend. and full time during the summer. in hindsight it was probably hell but at the time i liked the freedom of it. mostly industrial sitting on my arse all night reading. when i graduated, i was sick of the security and made the horrible mistake of accepting a call centre hotel reservation job (hell, i needed the money, which wasn't great anyway tbh). this involved working from 3.30pm to 12 midnight with weekend work every two weeks (taking calls from obnoxious yanks mostly) taking in excess of 100 calls a day. (i shudder at the memory of it). this was my first experience of job stress and i can't believe i did it for six months. i wouldn't wish it on anyone. it's the whole big brother thing, whereby evrything you do is monitored by someone, i.e. how long you took going for a piss, having people listen to your calls without you knowing, ridiculous targets to meet. i remeber one day just snapping and leaving. it was the best thing i ever did.

Gone West

Worked supervalu for 3 years when I was 14. **** work, asshole management but was good craic because of the co workers who were all from secondary school with me. Working for 4 pounds an hour, being taxed to the hilt because management wouldn't send in forms, working illegally long hours, etc. But it was grand because of the co-workers
Then moved into IT, from working a netcafe/computer shop to freelance to working as a contractor in a large office now. This isn't as good craic, but its good work, and the pay is excellent!

I worked in Dunnes for years. I was permanently put on the frozen foods section. We had this refridgerated container out in the back yard to store all the stock in. Nothing worse than going out to that freezer on freezing cold rainy winter mornings. Being soaking wet going into the freezer for two hours to count everything in there was hell on earth. Im out of that job now but I still wonder when the arthritis will begin to set in, the miserable bastards wouldnt give us gloves or jackets. The only thing that made it bearable for so long was the craic with my co workers.

Ibjiba

The job I had that was the worst was also the best paid. Oh well, some sort of universal balancing. I actually quit it for a far more uncertain future. Actually, the job itself was alright. Just the management wasn't..

Red Hand

My last job, which was data management which I stuck at for 10 months though I knew from the first week that it and Dublin weren't for me. I hated it with a passion. Used to work as a kitchen porter and in a supermarket part-time in college, and they weren't as bad as data management. Going to college to do that for 24k a year?

Such a waste of time and energy...

GerryRyan

I've been working off the books in several jobs since I was 16.

Labouring for a blocky, pumps in a local petrol station, plasterers labourer, with a paint/decorator, delivering leaflets around estates and businesses, with a milkman ... I can't say I've enjoyed any of them.

Never knew from one day to the next if I waking up to a job - always cash in hand at the end of the day so no incentive to save for anything.

Bring on college and a qualification

stardust_dublin

I will never ever forget the worst job I ever had. I hated it mainly because of the way I was treated. It was a restaurant in a 3 star hotel. You would swear it was a 5 star hotel the way they went on. I was only 17 and the management treated me like complete s***. They were the biggest bunch of assholes I ever met. The woman manager was a horrible b**** and the male owner almost worse. Never worked in a place that was so money driven before. That's all they cared about. Don't understand why some people in management really look down on their staff and treat them so badly. It only makes things worse. Only stayed there for about 3 weeks. In a much better job now where I'm actually treated with respect, and we are all encouraged to work as part of a team, management and all!

MonkeyWrench

I worked in a Kitchen in Australia for about 10 bucks an hour dishwashing and preping food in a top restaurant. The chef was a major ahole who literally threw dishes and steaming hot pots at me all day. He used to go home for a quickie with his girlfriend then at lunch time and spend about an hour talking about it after his return, going in to minute details!

At the moment i'm working in a job which doesn't stimulate me too much but they money is really good and I live quite close so that is a bonus.

TBH most people I know are in jobs that they don't detest but aren't exactly over the moon about either...most if not all professions are like that.

Ger the man

Worked for a large bank, will never work for one again, too many people who think the globe revolves around them, politics and the general bu****it was astounding. I was only a number and never bothered organising a leaving drink either. Boss was a complete patronising arrogant kn*b, I declined to shake his hand in front of everyone and just walked out. I was supposed to do an exit interview in the main office but went home instead because nothing would have changed. It brings a smile to my face when they are on the news exposed for ripping people off.

mox54

when I went to London first many years ago I worked in the laundry for a contract employment agency in Barnet mental hospital, the smell was so bad we had to spray scented water all over the bed clothes and pj's from the night before, they were full of crap and blood and puke and all things nice!!, me and 2 other paddies and a handful of black guys worked there, needless to say I took one look, worked from 8.00am till 10.30am and headed for the bus stop after the tea break with my irish colleagues!, since then I've done a few jobs I like but most I just tolerate!, like most!:cool:

Dudess

jank wrote: »

Bag packing in Tesco, opps sorry quinssworth for £2.05 an hour.
My god! The boredom!

Thank god I never have to work in a place like that again

Snap! It was my first job though - you generally have to start somewhere crappy.

Then I moved on to bigger and better things - shelf-stacking in Roches Stores. The linens department - folding towels and displaying bedclothes. A couple of times I actually nodded off on my feet.

Another horrible job I had was at the service charges cash desk in Cork City Council - the aptly named Room 101. It was horrendous - a Dickensian office and a booth to sit into that was so narrow I started getting back-ache.

Worked for a week in a call centre where I had to ring up people on spec asking if they'd be willing to participate in surveys. It depressed me to go in there.

EdgarAllenPoo

I lasted four months as a care assistant, never mind the twelve hour shifts, having to work Christmas day,stephen's day and new years eve, what I hated the most were the nurse managers... Up their own holes and left all the the work to indian and filipino nurses (and care assistants) and gave them dogs abuse.

The money was great but that didn't make it easier.

estebancambias

I have had four jobs. My first for the summer with a local carpenter. I was working with my best friend, so it was pretty cool. 50 euro a day, at 15 not bad.

Then worked in Tesco...****...so bad...I hated it. Why a fit and able 16 year old guy is on the checkouts is beyond me. Hated everything about it.

Alkers

Good thread.
Working in Woodies at the moment (part-time) but I may go full time if I can't get anything more interesting short-term. The place isn't too bad to work in, when it's busy there's lots of customer interaction and people treat you as an intelligent person and most of the time you're able to help them with what they need. The bad thing is that there is no incentive to work hard or stay there for any period of time. After 12months you get a 10% discount and that's it, no chance of a pay-rise, nothing to be promoted to, no chance of a bonus or anything. At the start I loved it, but it just goes no-where and I pity people who are faced with a career in such a place.
I worked in a warehouse in Canada in the summer. It was what most people would have described as horrible. Manual labour for a minimum of an 8 hour shift, emptying or loading 40foot containers. These things got so hot it was unreal, like trying to do press-ups for 8 hours in a sauna. Thing is I loved it, people were so fun to work with, pay was nearly double what others were making working in retail and we didn't have lousy managers on our back giving us a different job to do every 15minutes. Not something you'd want a career in either but it was the best job possible at the time.

cold_filter

Haven't really hated any job, though with my current copany i did a whole lot of interviews pretty much as soon as I joined as the work wasnt what I had imagined, Thankfully after about 4 months it picked up and now they are sending me around the world doing work in various countries so i'm very happy!

Slightly off topic but I worked in tesco on fruit and veg and retail systems, Fruit and veg was great coming in at 6/7am and working hard til about 10am moving pallets etc great co workers, the other one was ok.

Worked in a call centre of a big telco while in college, sadly i really really enjoyed that as the people working at the weekend were all fellow students and it opened a lot of doors for me!

HashSlinging

Worked in a fish factory shelling wealks for 2 weeks during a summer, it was the worst job you could imagine, spending hours cooking wealks (sea snails) shelling them, then freezing them.

Running Bing

LOL Cant believe people are still bumping this thread.


Incidently I started it after my first day in a new job that I hated and I was feeling really down and depressed so I started this to hear other peoples experiences to cheer me up.


After seriously considering not going back I decided to stick it and ended up working there the whole summer and loving it. It was also a very very beneficial experience for me.



Moral of the story, new jobs can seem ****ty at first but always give them some time before you make up your mind.


Oh and BTW the thread did cheer me up at the time so thanks:D

pokerface_me

Got a job when i was 18 in a Merc dealership, crap job moving cars and silly things, was moving a merc vito van didn't see the customers Merc in the rear view mirror i heard the crunch though, lasted 2 and half hours i jumped outta the van and legged it.

sickpuppy

Seven years ago whilst working ona farm in Australia i had a job in pest control.
Basically anything that was not a cow got shot.
Driving around on a quad bike with ahigh powered rifle and a load of ammunition killing things is not as glamorous as it sounds.
The final straw when i shot a donkey first shot blew its front leg off,
poor thing hobbling and neighing in agony second didnt kill it either so i shot it in the head and felt sick with guilt i resigned that day and have never hunted or shot anythiny since.