what was your worst job?
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I don't think i had a job i hated. Just employers i hated.
One of my favorites was when i was in high school, i worked at party city. The manager was a long time friend of my dads (and me). So we hired all my friends as well and it became an extremely awesome place to be (minus the customers). They still talk about how we would throw parties after hours and just fuck around. At the same time we got everything done on time and from what i hear we still have the best corporate visits that store had ever seen. Even the DM was impressed with how clean and well functioning the store was.
Ah, memories.
Another thing i remember from the above was that we were all jealous of the best buy employees. Because they got paid more and it was freaking best buy (in the 90s).
One of my favorites was when i was in high school, i worked at party city. The manager was a long time friend of my dads (and me). So we hired all my friends as well and it became an extremely awesome place to be (minus the customers). They still talk about how we would throw parties after hours and just fuck around. At the same time we got everything done on time and from what i hear we still have the best corporate visits that store had ever seen. Even the DM was impressed with how clean and well functioning the store was.
Ah, memories.
Another thing i remember from the above was that we were all jealous of the best buy employees. Because they got paid more and it was freaking best buy (in the 90s).
I worked at American Eagle Outfitters in the Geneva Commons for about 2 months when I was in high school.
I kinda just showed up, walked around and straightened up/distressed clothing. Mostly worked the back for changing room duty. People would ask if there were certain shoe sizes and I would go in the back and it was a complete mess. I would give up easily. I would also get talked to about how my AE clothes I was wearing was from a prior season/line... so dumb.
Retail sucked, Americans Eagle store managers sucked, and American Eagle customers sucked.
About 4-5 years later, I came to find out that I was part of a class action suit against American Eagle as they forced us to wear their clothing as uniforms, but made us pay for the clothes. I think I got like $800 for that. $800 was a good chunk of what my total pay from AE ever was!
I kinda just showed up, walked around and straightened up/distressed clothing. Mostly worked the back for changing room duty. People would ask if there were certain shoe sizes and I would go in the back and it was a complete mess. I would give up easily. I would also get talked to about how my AE clothes I was wearing was from a prior season/line... so dumb.
Retail sucked, Americans Eagle store managers sucked, and American Eagle customers sucked.
About 4-5 years later, I came to find out that I was part of a class action suit against American Eagle as they forced us to wear their clothing as uniforms, but made us pay for the clothes. I think I got like $800 for that. $800 was a good chunk of what my total pay from AE ever was!
This was mine. Detassling blows. The Jr high I went to set it up. Had to be at the school at like 5am to go get wet and then get hot. I was doing as I was told and something got messed up, to this day I don’t know what. All I know is it wasn’t in the rows I was working. I got a new one ripped, as did a buddy of mine, he was near the row I was. This teacher ripped a bunch of us and more than half of us had nothing to do with it. So my buddy and I said fuck this, went to the bus, ate our lunches, then grabbed a few goodies from other lunches on the bus. I think I did it for a week.
Probably when I drove a truck hauling overweight containers. 12-16 hour days, constant tire blow outs, terminals were a rat race, junk chassis, and because the truck was set up for overweight when you were empty it drove like a tank. Made 6 figures but was damn near working two full time jobs lmao.
i actually had fun at my first 16 year old job at mcdonalds, the people i worked with made it fun.
i was a data entry zombie at a company called weekenders, which i don't believe is in business any longer. i took the job as a temp and didn't know any better about how temp jobs worked or negotiating salary or anything. i think i was 19? the temp agency i think was charging 14/15 for me and i was earning maybe half that, in 1999 or so.
i basically read credit cards off of order forms for clothes and typed in the credit card numbers into our system. for hours every day. my brain would totally go into zombie mode where somehow an hour would go by and i wouldn't really know what even happened but be done with a stack. openly wondering if i screwed everything up, although if the credit card number was bad it wouldn't be accepted and would ding. so then i'd move on to the next stack... i only did this job one summer.
i was a data entry zombie at a company called weekenders, which i don't believe is in business any longer. i took the job as a temp and didn't know any better about how temp jobs worked or negotiating salary or anything. i think i was 19? the temp agency i think was charging 14/15 for me and i was earning maybe half that, in 1999 or so.
i basically read credit cards off of order forms for clothes and typed in the credit card numbers into our system. for hours every day. my brain would totally go into zombie mode where somehow an hour would go by and i wouldn't really know what even happened but be done with a stack. openly wondering if i screwed everything up, although if the credit card number was bad it wouldn't be accepted and would ding. so then i'd move on to the next stack... i only did this job one summer.
Same thing but I think I lasted three days before I said fuck this shit.
Only reason I stayed that long was because 2 other friends worked there as nd were pushing me to stay.
interior detailer at delta sonic 2002
was there for like a year or so. pay was ok. especially because of the tips.
people can be disgusting. i had this one bitch drive her soccermom mobile in with her kids vomit all over the inside. i gave her the rag and cleaner and told her to clean it herself. im not touching your kids bodily fluids. in turn, i got written up for that.
got written up a few more times by the manager of the interior detail shop, who was like 2 years older than me for reporting $0 in tips. my argument was "prove it". he didnt believe me. oh well...
i was hired part time, i had marked myself unavailable on weekends FOREVER. that came to a stop, so i had to start doing saturdays/sundays
lined up a new job at Jiffy Lube, more pay, plus commission.
next really nice weather saturday delta was busy AF. me and 2 other highschool buddies that actually all went to jiffy lube, shut the line down, tossed our badges at the manager and walked out. it was the best feeling in the world at that time.
was there for like a year or so. pay was ok. especially because of the tips.
people can be disgusting. i had this one bitch drive her soccermom mobile in with her kids vomit all over the inside. i gave her the rag and cleaner and told her to clean it herself. im not touching your kids bodily fluids. in turn, i got written up for that.
got written up a few more times by the manager of the interior detail shop, who was like 2 years older than me for reporting $0 in tips. my argument was "prove it". he didnt believe me. oh well...
i was hired part time, i had marked myself unavailable on weekends FOREVER. that came to a stop, so i had to start doing saturdays/sundays
lined up a new job at Jiffy Lube, more pay, plus commission.
next really nice weather saturday delta was busy AF. me and 2 other highschool buddies that actually all went to jiffy lube, shut the line down, tossed our badges at the manager and walked out. it was the best feeling in the world at that time.
Landscaping. at age 16. just so I could have gas money for IROC.
All white crew, company owned by 3 brothers who were jehovah's. I started on a crew doing an all brick driveway. I learned this was the 2nd time we were doing this guys driveway so I had to brush all the bricks then bring them back.
Got pulled off that and sent to another crew who was working in Olympia Fields. We'd go to breakfast every morning and park the truck behind the building. These guys would beat the owners back every single day and fill their cars up with the mower gas.
There was an old greaser cat probably 60 and had his young 20's gf working there.. They got busted with heroin in a park in chicago and got one company truck towed.
Then the owners started parking all the equipment inside the building. Little did I know the repo man was knocking. I just stopped showing up one day, but man did I learn what white trash was after that job.
All white crew, company owned by 3 brothers who were jehovah's. I started on a crew doing an all brick driveway. I learned this was the 2nd time we were doing this guys driveway so I had to brush all the bricks then bring them back.
Got pulled off that and sent to another crew who was working in Olympia Fields. We'd go to breakfast every morning and park the truck behind the building. These guys would beat the owners back every single day and fill their cars up with the mower gas.
There was an old greaser cat probably 60 and had his young 20's gf working there.. They got busted with heroin in a park in chicago and got one company truck towed.
Then the owners started parking all the equipment inside the building. Little did I know the repo man was knocking. I just stopped showing up one day, but man did I learn what white trash was after that job.
I worked at McDonald's from 14-16 and I loved it. My brother was a shift manager there and just hired all of our friends essentially. We had a blast.
I'm going to toss another notion on this thread. There's a book called "managing one's self" that I just read. It talks about how in your early to mid 30s you should start looking for a "second career" even if it's just volunteer work. I think that's an important notion. We as people tend to have restless souls and that may be part of your issue.
https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Oneself-Harvard-Business-Classics/dp/142212312X?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffab-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=142212312X
ED:
Free PDF copy:
http://sbuweb.tcu.edu/jmathis/Org_Mgmt_Materials/Managing_Oneself.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Oneself-Harvard-Business-Classics/dp/142212312X?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffab-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=142212312X
ED:
Free PDF copy:
http://sbuweb.tcu.edu/jmathis/Org_Mgmt_Materials/Managing_Oneself.pdf
Over 2 years as a dealership slave at Chicago Int'l trucks. Went there the other day to pick up parts, looks like a miserable dump even worse than it did when i left. Place had the atmosphere of a morgue. No wonder the turnover rate is so high. It's under different name now but, same exact shit.
Yes. Didnt work for them, when i worked there it was CIT and later US truck sales, but the place doesnt resemble anything like theyve made a shift away from an underpaid, miserable, and overworked version of hell on earth. I have a friend (former mechanic at that dealer) now in Dallas, same story there.
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