It's I hate My Job Friday MKF 10/25/02

[xita]

I don't hate my job, I just hate it right now. I am drowning in work and stress and not enough kitty for me It's not about teaching but there are certain paperwork things that must be done, standardized testing, etc. And when you are in charge of getting things done schoolwide, it gets stressful. But it's my last day of that and back to just dealing with snotty nosed kids

What's the worst job you've ever had?

This has been my only job other than working one day a week in the dorm cafeteria for a semester, so I have never really had a sucky job.

w/t question, what would be the worst job w/t could have?

Have a great day kittens!

[Tsia]

Awww! I pity you. My mother used to be a Year 6 teacher, and she always had SO many books to mark, and timetables to complete.

I can't say I have a job yet. I'm treasuring the last few years of my life before I have to get off my butt and do something that earns money.

[Katharyn]

*HUGS* for Xita...

Worst job? Working in a really busy bar on Friday nights. Drunks, smoke, cocktails I had no idea how to mix oh and a taxi fare home that ate up nearly all of what I earned.

Katharyn

[sikarja]

I worked for three months for a company that makes light fixtures using optical fibres. We were making signs for a cruise ship that would read stuff like "bar" or "casino" and stuff, but with the letters being composed of points of light and for every point we'd have to drill a hole through the sign with a hand-held drill. And the boss "encouraged" doing overtime. So at worst the job was sitting for twelve hours facing a wall and drilling a few thousand holes. Never again.


n/p Ajattara - Kuolevan Rukous

[tkheaven]

Xita *HUGS*

Katharyn, I was considering doing the bar thing at one time...but really, I LIKE your sig

sikarja, *cringe* ay, that must've been horrible...

I can't say I hate my job...I hate the 1 1/2 hr bus trip I gotta make each way...I gotta get from NJ to NY - New York City Transit Authority (and no I don't drive buses (people ask all the time))...I can't complain as I sit in front of a computer 7 hrs a day, but when systems go down and the network's shot, ugh..that can be a nightmare...and the people calling them in..I swear, I should make up product codes for some of them... USER BROKEN/FAILURE

[BoredNow99]

I would say I hate my job right now, but today was my day off so I'm trying not to think about it

Worst job I ever had - that's a really easy one.

When I was at uni I used to stay over during the holidays rather than go home, but of course that had the drawback of having to work.

There was a recruitment place that specialised in getting work for students, and one of my jobs was working in a cake factory.

It involved getting up at 3.30am for work at 4.30am, where I had to wear a white coat, hairnet and white hat. I looked like an oompa loompa. There's just no denying it.

My specific job was to stand at the end of a conveyor belt and stick a plastic piece of holly into the corner of Christmas cakes as they sped by.

Now, it sounds easy, but believe me it's not - it's a skill. One I do not possess.

So all these cakes are streaming past me and getting wrapped in plastic and put into boxes minus their holly - making them just plain iced fruit cakes.

I was moved from the high-pressure world of the conveyor belt shortly after that to the relative safety of packing boxes with date and walnut cakes.

[Caoilin]

Ugh, Xita! Administrivia sucks - but I'm glad you have the snotty noses! Such a cute age...

Anyway, my worst job was my most recent one, I think. The one where they had about 100 employees and over 20 of them were VPs. Where there was so many meetings nothing got done and where my boss was a useless yes-man.

Oh, and they laid me off last week while I was on vacation in Vancouver. Left a voice mail and Fed Ex'd me a termination package. Now that's class! (I don't mean to sound so bitter, I'm actually really glad to be out of that place.)

My second choice would also be cocktail waitressing. I think that, for W/T, cocktail waitressing at a straight bar would be the worst job they could have. For all the reasons that Kathryn mentioned and the groping drunk guys. Bleh!

-Caoilin

[Shinnen]

I love you xita! thank you for opening this thread...big HugZ for xita...

Currently i despise my job. I'm started work in a new company and it's a female accessories HQ chain store. EVerything is about what those girls and women like.. nail polish.. and earring and hair thingies... and FURRY STUFF!!!! Whenever they tell me about the stuff in the terms usually used... I go "huh?!" plus blank look... that doesn't look good as a designer and a female. I totally put my self to shame to be called a female. When they look at the images of the kids i put into the posters i designed for them... they go.. hey... that kids not cute enough... they choose a blank expression kids and say..now that's cute.

What have i got into???? I hate my job. Saturday night the CEO of my company is making all his staff (which includes yours truly) work from 4pm till midnight at his mother's 80th birthday... in a place far far away from where I live... I"m left with no way to go home....

HOw can i not hate my job?!

[Spice Faerie]

Okay, I've had a few shitty jobs. The two worst were working in a deli and going door to door asking for money for NYPIRG. That really SUCKED! But, aside from bad jobs today's a particularly shitty day. Last night I was driving home and these two teenage boys sped across a three lane highway cutting me off and driving me up onto the median! My car blew out the two tires on my side. THEN, to make matters worse they turned around, saw what they'd done and then drove off! One more expense I couldn't afford! Ya, gotta love my luck!

Spice

[Dumbsaint]

I'm actually kind of excited about my job these days, because I just got a raise and they're paying me to write, too.

Suckiest job I ever had? Xita, my little french fry, I too worked in the dorm cafeteria for one quarter (we didn't have semesters). I worked three days a week, though. One shift each at three different stations: pizza one night a week (it was actually fun to press the dough and make pizza), breakfast grill on sunday mornings (I can still make a mean breakfast burrito/grilled egg&cheese sammich), and a crack-of-dawn bakery shift where they routinely had me scrub mold off the walls and the baking pans. Blech. That was the really gross part. I couldn't bring myself to eat the baked goods on campus again after that. Even though they had awesome cornbread. My best friend lived on that and Yoplait for four years. So yeah, the bakery shift was pretty awful, forever sullying my pipe dream about growing old and fat running my own little baker's shoppe. The rest of the job wasn't too bad, though. I learned how to cook a few yummy things. That's always a good thing.

[Puff]

{Hugs} for xita. BoredNow I can relate on the crappy student job, mine wasn't as intense as yours but I did spend 2 days just sticking labels on books. Bring on the paper cuts.

[Enigmatic]

YES! I'm home, I'm finally home!!
I have been on a study trip for a week and it's so good to be back in Denmark. I don't care if it's colder here, as the say out it good, but home is the best!
I have always hated my jobs, but I just got a new one, and for the first time I'm actually enjoying working, strange, but very nice.
Have a great Weekend everyone, I know I will!!

Sarah

[JulesP600]

Hugs for you all.....

My worst job? Accounts administrator for a security company.....boring

I did change in the company though and became the installation person. That was more fun but still bad

Like my current job though

[katydid]

My worst job....hmm...now I have had a few winners. The one I can truly say I hated the most was working for a company that sold vacuum cleaners. My boss was an absolute psycho...and I got to hear her fight with her 20 something boyfriend during working hours. She would love you one minute, and call you absolutely stupid the next. The job wasn't really all that bad, just the boss.

The most 'interesting' job I have ever had was working for the state park system. My day consisted of picking up used diapers and condoms. And if we were lucky, we got to snake the toilets in the bathrooms. *shudders* I never look at the park system the same way again.

Katie

[Grimaldi]

the worst job i have had was working in the kitchen at a Marriot Hotel. i wanted to be a chef, but all they would let me do is cut vegetables, slice up calamari, cut the bread for the day, cut fruit, which got boring really quick. if i was really lucky, i got to grill steaks & chicken.

[Chewster]

Ooh Katie, I am not sure that working in the great outdoors appeals to me so much now.

Sorry to hear that you are having a bad day Xita, still it is the last one as you say - plus aside from that the [b:9b898406e5]weekend[/b:9b898406e5].

My worst job? Delivering telephone directories in the pouring rain. The worst thing about it was that they do not fit through the standard letter box and if they had to be left then they had to be wrapped up in plastic and a note written out to say where they were.

This in 5 days of pissing rain.

Oh and there was a block of flats on the route too and you know how much fun they are to climb up and down. Now add in a rucksack full of phone books and how many you could carry in that bag at a time.

Charming.

Enjoy your weekend everyone.

Paul

[Kieli]

God this thread brings back some truly frightening memories.

I too worked at the school cafeteria at Lebanon Valley College, where I started my undergrad education. I did dishroom, line server, and short order cook and can I tell ya, all of those positions sucked ass. When I was short order cook, the one manager, Rick (whose wardrobe somehow consisted entirely of disco-era clothing) hit on me constantly. He was nice more often than not but there was no way in hell I was going to date him. And frustratingly enough, he never took no for an answer. Then one night, I was working late with him (the biggest mistake of my life) and I turned the corner to go into one of the warm walk-ins to get a tray out, and there he was, buck nekkid and suggesting that, since we were all alone, I could have sex with him and no one would know. Can I just say I practically fled screaming from that place?! I quit the next day. He never understood why for some reason.

After that, there followed a steady stream of shitty little jobs that I took to help pay my way through school: I worked as a security guard for Hersheypark and Chocolate World (never, never again. I have stories from that job that would either make you laugh until you cried or would make you shudder in horror), as a lab tech for the Stat Lab in Hershey Medical Center (I got to see CSI-like sitches on a regular basis....lots of blood, stool samples and other unimaginables), as a fountain girl for Friendly's Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor (the day that the manager had a nervous breakdown, shed all of his clothes and ran naked and screaming from the restaurant will always be burned into my brain) and I even worked for a waste disposal company doing data entry (I went home smelling like detritus every single night )

And yanno, even though I hate my job now, I look back at the ones I had and figure it could always be worse.

[tommo]

Worst job I ever had? Probably teaching. But one teaching job was far worse than the other. The first one I liked. The second one...heh, that made me crazy.

No, really. It did.

I am so tired today, I can hardly keep my eyes open. And yet I know I have to in order to regain some semblance of going to bed at a decent hour. But I don't wanna....

I want to be curled up in bed, under the duvet, dozing off as I'm having my hair stroked. Gah. And the weather here is pants. Bleh.

[starlitefaeriegrrrl]

I hate my job right now cuz my girlf and I took of October 31st because it's the anniversary of our first post-'I like you' date and also Samhain which is the most important of all Pagan holidays. We took it off a month ago and the fuckers scheduled me anyhow. Fuck you, AMC cinemas.

Bad Willow/Tara jobs? Fast food- that's *anyone's* worst job, I would imagine.

[hellmouthhottie20]

my worst job has to have been as a toilet cleaner.
I have no idea what men do in the toilet (!) but they are gross.
At least the womans toilets smell ok.
My other crappy job was in a factory making filters for nuclear submarines!! the health and saftey was non exsistant.
They had me putting my bare hand in a 150 plus degree oven with just a pair of pliers to take out the frames.
I told them where to stick their job after a week cos i couldnt stand the smell of burning flesh anymore, and i STILL havent got the little hairs on my arm back!!!

Unfortunaly i dont have a job at the moment but i like to think of it as iam a jack of all trades, master of none.

Caz

[WebWarlock]

Lets see....I have been working more or less constantly for the last 20 years. Hated something about every job I have had.

I worked as a janitor for a Southern Babptist church, caught the preacher having sex with the young organist.
I worked as a Qualified Mental Helath Professional at a mental institution and got pushed down a flight of stairs by a patient.
Kept the QMHP and went to work for a head trauma rehab place, that was just depressing.
Taught an a bunch of different colleges. Been a research assistant.
Worked for the Navy for a while.
Worked at movie theatres, pizza places, newspapers, have been a tutor, ran an x-rated website at the height of the dot com buzz, worked as a programer, and a dot com.

The dot com was my favorite, although working for the Navy had it's perks as well.

Lots of things. I like to stay busy.

Have a good one.

Warlock

[Sela]

I worked at this non-profit organization where I got to do some pretty cool things. I wrote press releases, talked to the media, edited documents, organized events. It was all good, only my boss yelled and cursed at me every single day. And when he wasn't yelling and cursing at me, he was yelling and cursing at my co-workers in front of me. It was awful! I dreaded going to work in the morning and I couldn't wait to leave in the afternoon. I'd sneak out so I wouldn't have to see or talk to my boss. And then on the way home, I'd bawl my eyes out. The worst came when I became physically ill from all the stress and was out for a week. I came back for another two weeks and then I quit. I couldn't take it anymore. So what if it left me unemployed for 6 months? I was just glad to be outta there.

--Sela

[Pipsqueak]

I was a waitress at O'Charley's once. Ugh. Never ever ever again.

The actual job itself wasn't so horrible, but the pay was crap. And I am definitely not qualified for the whole "customer service" shtick. I don't like interacting with strangers, it makes me cranky.

My current job? Eh. Not loving it, but I guess it could be worse. I'm a grad student & research assistant in computer science, so mostly I just sit and write code. The problem, it turns out, is that I'm not interested in comp sci anymore. It was fun to learn about as an undergrad, but I don't wanna do it for the rest of my life. So the stuff I'm working on right now is just really, really boring. Plus, too much work and not enough free time. That makes me cranky too. I have to have some "down time" regularly or else I go nuts.

[Zippy]

My worst job, mmm most of the jobs I had as a student were pretty crappy. The worst was working for a printing firm during my summer hols.

I had the fun task of gluing paper inserts into Christmas cards. Lordy that was fun, the height of summer, in a boiling hot factory looking at pictures of snowmen and Santa.

Funnily enough I've never sent a Christmas card since! On the subject of Christmas, yes I know it's 2 months away but I bought myself a Kylie advent calendar today from Asda

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I had to wear a white coat, hairnet and white hat. I looked like an oompa loompa. There's just no denying it.

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Gotta love the oompa loompa look I work in QA for a lab in the food industry these days and have spent many a day dressed up like this.

[Nix42]

Cheer up Xita, at least its the weekend tomorrow.

Have to say my job sux at the moment. My boss, who is also a pretty close friend resigned this week, and I'm really going to miss her. Its also going to trigger a bit of a reorg, which means lots of uncertainty. The worst bit is the office politics, personally I can't be bothered with it all - life's too short.

Anyways, I cheered myself up by booking a flight so I can come to Vegas in February, and combine it with a trip to San Francisco, where I've always wanted to visit...how exicted am I

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LovelyWillow

W & T are definetly Tori fans

Is anyone else excited about the new Tori album coming out on Tuesday? I've downloaded some of the songs on it from her website, they're REALLY good. I already have tickets to see her in Columbus and Milwaukee. Anyone else a fan?

[TheBunnySlayer]

Wow. What a perfect day for this thread cuz I've spent the entire day complaining about my job to people who don't really care.

I'm working at a job right now that I absolutely hate. Well, maybe not completely. I'm working at a video store which is great because I get free movies. But I've been working there for about six weeks and have yet to get a single cent. Six weeks! I found out yesterday that my transfer hadn't gone through properly and therefore I had to go fill out all these forms and I'm betting I don't paid for another week or longer. I am so pissed off. I have ten dollars to my name, its Homecoming weekend at my college, I have to work from 5 til midnight tonight and tomorrow, and for the first time in weeks my best friend/crush isn't going home and I won't get to spend any time with her at all!

Ahh, feels good to rant.

[famer]

Me, I've done the doublemeat thing, thank you.

However, I have a friend who had this really awful job -- taken out of desperation.

ANIMAL KILLING warning -- don't read if you've got an iffy stomach

He boarded a bus at 5 am in the morning and was driven, with everybody else, to this chicken farm. You could smell it 10 clicks away! When you got off and everyone was herded into this fenced in area. On one side were several wooden blocks lined up, with hatchets beside them. There were tons of clucking/squaking chickens everywhere. Everyone's job was to chase the chickens, grab them and take them to the blocks, cut off their heads and pluck their feathers off (don't know the exact procedure). They were all paid per naked chicken -- and not very much either. You had to be really quick to make any money at all.

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You asked for the worst job -- here ya go.

[Jennifer]

LovelyWillow, you're not the only one. I mentioned it in the Kitten Playlist thread, but I am such a Tori fan. I've been downloading songs like crazy. I just found out she's coming to Vegas in December, I so can't wait. One of my co-workers told me that she's awesome live.

[Tulipp]

Well, I always hate my jobs, so I won't go into the details except to say this:

I once had a boss for whom I was expected to print out every e-mail received so that she could then write her responses by hand on the print-out. Then I would type up the reply and send it for her.

Sigh.

Everyone has had rotten jobs, it sounds like. I think my favorite rotten job is the cake factory. I mean, sorry, Emma, for your bad time. That's really sad and everything. But I just like cake.