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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
What is the worst job you have ever had?
This can be a job you had as an adult or a teenager.
I worked as a nanny for a family that the Mom lied to me and told me she worked, but really she didn't. So all day long the kids would want their Mom and she would say "Mommy is not here....just pretend I am not here." ALL DAY LONG. It was awful. Luckily I only agreed to a 6 month commitment.
Re: What is the worst job you have ever had?
Ew I can't stand people like that!
I never had any horrible jobs, but I did have an awful boss. She reduced me to tears when she told me that I shouldn't be moving in with DH (then bf) and that I should be going out and exploring the world with girlfriends first, then settle down with him later if I still think he's the one. This was four months before I graduated, and we were finishing off the apartment above the garage at my parents house for us to move into.
Needless to say, I did not take her advice
OMG! That is awful. Those poor kids.
I'm pretty lucky and I've never had any bad jobs. In high school I worked for a summer at an antique store and that wasn't too bad, just boring. I was not into antiques at all and some days we only had 5 customers. Zzzzzzzzz.
oh no that sounds awful. I always feel bad for the people in those kiosks that have to like chase people down...you know the ones that say ..."excuse me miss can I show you something?" They are selling manicure sets, lotions, hair stuff. I always run from those people. Ha ha ha.
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I guess I've been lucky in that I haven't had any ridiculously horrible jobs. My days as an investment banker were rough because I worked all the time (literally 15+ hour days), but I learned a lot and loved the people I worked with.
I guess I did hate the startup I worked for after a while. They just weren't making enough progress, the CEO was totally a face-time kind of person (sorry, I'm not staying super late if there's nothing to do and you don't pay me enough to stay in the ghetto where our office was after dark), and I hated having to sell and make promises to business partners that I knew we weren't going to be able to follow through on.
I had those kind of days as well at my most recent former job. Ha ha ha. I guess when writing this post I didn't write about horrible that job was because I choose to block it out. Work days that last until the next day, glued to my PDA, and constant travel....that was actually my worst ever job but I guess I feel at least I was compensated for it. Where as working for that family as a nanny I was making $12 an hour. Still if I had to choose between my job as an account executive or a nanny for a terrible family I would chose the nanny position!
My worst job wasn't all that bad. I worked for 2 summers at the local drinking water company, in the lab that tested all the water. So all we did was test the reservoir water at 9am, 11am, 1pm and 3pm, and wait for the guys who collected water samples from all over the area this reservoir provided water to- probably about 30 samples a day. So I would come in at 7:30am (docked 1/2 hour's pay if I was late), and sit and wait until 9am, take 4 water samples and test them- which took about 10 minutes. Then wait until 11am to do it again. One of the tests involved smelling the water- either at regular temperature or after heating it to body temperature for 10 minutes- and this was unfiltered reservoir water, and we often had algae problems in the summer. It was gross!! After lunch the guys would come with all the samples, and it would take about an hour to test them all. I probably had a total of 2 hrs of something to do in the 8.5 hour day. In the labs I'd worked at before, summer people were allowed to read or something to fill the time between doing stuff. not here! I got in such trouble for reading while waiting for samples to come in.
And to make the boring job a bad job, all my coworkers hated each other, and would have fights all the time. One of the older guys was on all this blood pressure medication, so he was hot all the time from it, and had to have the AC set at 60, so it was horribly freezing. There was a heat wave, it was over 100 for almost 2 weeks straight, and I had to wear long pants and a sweater to work to bear it. Everyone who worked there was a man, and one woman. And then me. The woman was treated so horribly by everyone and had to do the jobs everyone hated (field work, which was actually great for her, and she took me with her a lot- it was nice to get away from the idiots), even though she had her MA, which only 2 of the guys also did, the rest just had high school diplomas. She left a few months after my 2nd summer there, after being there for less than 2 years. And then the second summer, there was me and a male summer student, and in August they decided the break room needed cleaning, so I should do that- me, because "I'm a girl, and girls know how to clean." The male summer student didn't have to help me, he just played computer card games. My summer jobs the next two summers were so much better.
I went to UMASS and worked at the Campus Center Hotel cleaning rooms for 2 weeks. The only reason I stayed for 2 weeks is because we had to give 2 weeks notice before quitting if we wanted to get another on campus job. Let me just say that cleaning up people's mesy hotel rooms is THE WORST. Cleaning other people's hair out of tub drains and toilet that other people have used is not fun.
I always leave big tips for the cleaning staff at hotels now.