"Where The F Do You Work? Hell?" — People Are Sharing How Awful Their Jobs Are And It'll Suddenly Make You Hate Your Own Job A Little Less

I think it is safe to assume that most people have had to suffer through a job that was not what they expected. I recently found this Reddit thread where people shared their worst jobs. Here are some of the responses:

1."Vet tech in training. They ended up making me help with all the euthanasia cases. At least a couple a day. I started crying all the time and getting completely wasted every night. Had to quit after a few months."

2."I worked at a DVD store, doing floor stuff — organizing shelves, putting out new stock, etc. It was a fun job for me. Until we started a rewards program. Very few people signed up, and our numbers were bad. So my boss got the brilliant idea to put cute, little 19-year-old me in a low-cut top in the anime section and encourage the dudes to sign up for it. I guess he figured dudes who buy anime are sad and lonely and would be pleased with any attention from a girl. The sad thing is that it totally worked. It was super degrading, and I only worked there for a few more weeks before I got another job that didn't depend on my cleavage."

3."I worked at a fast food burger for my first job and I got fired after a month because, at the end of the day, instead of throwing away the leftover burgers, I gave them to homeless people. (That was back in 1999)."

4."I worked at a daycare center, and the building was so old and run down. My classroom carpet was disgusting; it had pee and vomit spots all over it, broken toys, and ripped-up books. No supplies. Just horrible! Mice would run around the children while they slept on their cots during nap time. I ended up quitting and calling the state on them."

5."I worked at a COVID testing site and had to test hundreds of people a day. It was A LOT of stress because it was peak COVID. There were sneezing kids and adults and boatloads of schools and the management was horrendous. I got COVID three times working at that place 😅."

6."I worked for a third-party company that sells wireless phone service. The manager would drink on the job and throw tantrums in front of customers. I actually felt afraid to be with him by myself. I was then transfered to another store that needed help. The manager would not accept anything less than our top service plan. She’d have me purposely add things to people's plans without asking. She would meddle with people's plans in order for us to make money off of it. I ended up walking out of that job. So, really look at your cell phone plan and what they’re charging you. People will do shady shit just to get a small commission off of it."

7."I was waiting tables for $2.13 an hour. It was especially awful on Sundays when the church crowd would come rushing in. They would get seated in parties as large as 25 people, all with separate tickets, and all rude AF. Also, church people are the worst tippers on earth; many of them don’t tip at all except for leaving church tracts in place of money."

8."At a popular fast food burger spot, my schedule was all over the place. I could have 40 hours one week, 25 the next, then 0 after that. The kitchen was always hot during the summer, but they refused to fix the air conditioning. Half the staff quit at the same time due to the excessive heat, which put a heavy strain on the rest of us. Management would sit in the office playing games on their phone for their entire shift. Junkies coming in and passing out was also a common occurrence. A lot of the time they had to be given narcan in the middle of the restaurant. Customers were the most horrible human beings. I had to defend myself multiple times physically. A lot of customers were also verbally abusive, and cops escorted 'Karens' off the property almost every day."

9."Graveyard shift at a grocery store, my mental health took a fucking plummet because of being up all night and sleeping through the day."

10."Working for travel insurance claims in March of 2020 onwards. I would create claims for canceled flights, hotels, traveling car centers, etc. Except after COVID really hit, the companies were only offering vouchers for future use and we could not issue any refunds. Telling people who just lost their jobs we can't get them their money back was awful. It was eight hours every day for months of endless verbal abuse from customers. I completely understand where they were coming from, but man that job sucked."

11."I worked at a deli that lots of older people frequented. They were always so mean over the dumbest things, like if I sliced the meat and it wasn't EXACTLY one pound, they'd throw a tantrum."

12."I was once told the marketing job I applied for was 'bridging the gap between client and consumers for Fortune 500 companies.' Wanna know what the job actually was? Standing in a suit in chain restaurant for 10 hours trying to sell people cell phone service."

13."Housekeeping easily. Making beds is no fucking joke. How people can do it for 10+ years is crazy. I lasted a week."

14."Cleaning cars for a car rental company. I don't know what it was about the Grand Prix but I used to say they were rented by grand pricks. Every single one of them came back looking like it was driven through a cornfield and hit a wake of buzzards while hauling three muddy, shedding golden retrievers in the back and a child smearing a Big Mac into the dashboard. Cleaning the cars on a hot summer tarmac was bad, but the bosses made it so much worse. I will not rent from them over the way they treated their employees 28 years ago. I only worked there for about a month before I could not take any more of the management abuse."

15."Working at a hog confinement. Hogs are about the most stubborn animals to work with, and the fumes/dust you breathe in make it feel like you smoked four packs of cigarettes by the time your shift is over."

16."Front desk at a hotel. Instead of just giving people regular shifts, you worked first, second, and third. After months of this, my body didn’t know when to sleep or wake. Mental health went to shit also."

17."I had a security job where I was shot at twice, had countless knives pulled on me, witnessed over a dozen shootings, found two dead bodies at the beginning of my shift, and had to literally fight for my life once. I called out sick from a hospital bed after that fight, and my boss demanded I be at work the next day."

Ugh, that is a lot of bad jobs. If you have any horror stories to add, let us know in the comments!