Have you ever had a job where all you could think, all day long, was:

[Pale Blue Dot]

"I fucking hate this job"

How long did you last, and/or why did you stay?

[skygazer]

1. Honestly? No.

I have no idea how many jobs I've worked in over 30 years but I'm one of the strange people who can always find something to like about my job. Or at least I can find something to keep me from hating it. Even the job I had packing books in boxes at a printing plant, I managed to enjoy to a certain degree by making up games to play in my head.

But I'm pretty wierd.

[patricia92243]

21. That's not weird - that's wonderful to have such a great attitude!!!

:)

[Shell Beau]

2. I did. I stayed for 3 looooong years. I stayed for the

security of the job, but I thank God every day that I am out of there. I hated dreading Mondays so bad and not being able to wait for Friday. That is no way to live.

[patricia92243]

20. I could not enjoy the weekends for dreading going bck to work on Monday. I just retired (less than

a year) and plan to get something part-time. what has stopped me is my recent memory of how much I hated my work. Hopefully that memory will fade, and I'll be ready to hop back into the job market (sort of.)

[Norwood]

3. Yup and thats my current job

and I feel bad because its pretty decent as far as the pay goes

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

26. Same here ... the pay is great ... but sometimes I just wanna curse and quit.

But I could still be in my old department so I can't complain.

[Connonym]

4. I was a postal worker for 9 years

"I fucking hate this job" was my mantra

[LynzM]

5. Yes.

I worked in telemarketing taking transfer calls for AOL, to sell stuff after the AOL people were done "helping." Suffice to say, I'd cry before I went to work. It was AWFUL. Tedious. Getting yelled at. Trying to make quota feeling like I was tricking people. Ugh.

I stayed on the phones for 6 weeks, then decided I was either quitting or getting promoted. I got promoted, and stayed with the company for almost 2 more years, in various capacities.

:hug:

[MrSlayer]

6. Yes on several occassions.

Construction is like that. Sometimes the job is good, sometimes it absolutely sucks. I try to move on from the bad ones whenever possible but sometimes you have to suck it up because there is nothing else out there.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. A summer job on an assembly line, graveyard shift, no less

Complete boredom, only 30 minutes total off during the whole eight hours. Things I did for eight hours straight on different days:

glue halves of plastic horses together

take items out of plastic molding machines

make sure that little toy tires were rightside up when they went through a paint roller

And those were some of the more memorable things.

[Nikia]

8. Maybe not every minute

All my jobs sucked in their own way. I think that the one I thought about hating while I was there was a summer job doing order pulling. Many of my coworkers were lazy, standing around and talking much of the time, and did not consider me part of their group. Because of their laziness (We were behind on orders) , we were forced to work overtime which put me there 55 hours per week.
I stayed because I nedded a summer job to pay for college and I did not have time to look for one since I had to work 55 hours per week.
In retrospect, I should not have accepted the job, which was through a temp agency, because it didn't pay that well and I knew it would be boring. I accepted the job one month before I was starting. The job market was good in the area at the time. They might have had better jobs available. I could have applied to other places too. I didn't know ahead of time about my crappy coworkers though and just wanted to get the job hunting out of the way though so I could feel secure in being able to pay for the next year's tuition.

[wildhorses]

9. that is why it is called a job--not to be confused with

career:P


sorry you are in one:hug:

[Broken_Hero]

10. yep

my donut fryer days...every night was hell...I lasted for 5 months, before quitting...I stayed, for money, and then I didn't care...then quit.

[Lethe]

11. my worst job ever was a call center job

i had to take it because i needed the cash....just moved to a new area. Anyways, it was in a outbound call center where all day long you sit at a computer calling random numbers in the San Diego area (this was in TX) to give a survey about their transportation habits. The survey took about 10-15 minutes, and it was tough to get anyone to complete it. The place kept very strict statistics, and you had to complete X number of surveys per day, etc. You had to deal with a lot of people getting mad because you were cold-calling people in primetime hours when they were eating, etc. Most of the people just hung up. But the thing was, the person was not taken off the call list unless they verbally refused to take part in the survey before they hung up. So these people that hung up kept getting calls over and over again. LOL Anyways, i was only there for 3 weeks and got a great job in my new career field that paid twice as much and is great experience.

edit: you get to see a really weird side to people when you work in a call center. Some people will tell you things they will not tell anyone else. Several times I had older women just open up about their problems in their life, and just want to talk to someone out of loneliness. We would complete the survey and they would just keep talking for 20 minutes or longer. I guess there is some type of comfort in talking to someone relatively anonymous that you will never meet again.

:)

[fizzgig]

12. i've had a lot of those days lately

today i sat at my desk and cried.

the frustrating thing is that is that i'm in the field in which i have my degree and my job (i've been with the company for almost 3.5 years) is killing all my desire to stay in this field.

i love what i do, but i hate the people i work for

[SPKrazy]

15. ===

:hug:

ah sweetie that sucks


:hug:

[Zookeeper]

13. Yes. 'Just about any job I've had that confined me to an

office all day, every day, with the same people.

[cwydro]

19. Oh god.

Exactly my thoughts.:hi:

[Zookeeper]

45. So, did you actually call in sick today?

Or quit?!?

:yourock: :hi:

[kedrys]

14. My current job

Started contract 16 months ago, got picked up on the payroll 6 months ago, and we've had 2 reorgs and a takeover by a manager who's insane. I have to stick it out because the s.o. is unemployed and we need the (shitty) insurance. :( The money isn't there either, but they're making noises about promoting me 'cause they know I'm pissed off. Sigh.

[QMPMom]

16. Yup. When I worked in a day care center. Detested that job.

I stayed about 4 months. Which was 3 months and 29 days too long.

I am not good with kids that are not my own. I could always pretty much reason with my own kids, but temper tantrums from other people's kids? No thank you.

[MissHoneychurch]

17. Yes

it was my first job, I stayed there for 3 years. My boss was an asshole that had to prove his manhood by harrassing the employees. One year before I left he had to leave. After that the work was easier and friendlier.

[cwydro]

18. I am there

right now.

In fact I have called in sick today so I can go kayaking instead. I am drinking Baileys and coffee at this very moment and I've decided to quit. I can get another job immediately with no problem but I will not make anywhere near the money I make now. I don't care anymore. I've been so miserable for too long.

[Mad_Dem_X]

22. Umm, yeah.

I stayed there for about a year; I had to leave because I was literally having a breakdown.

[NewJeffCT]

23. Yes, I did - a few times

1) In my freshman year of college, I signed up to get a job through the school I was assigned to help in the kitchen/cafeteria behind the scenes. On the first day, the drain in the middle of the floor backed up - spewing old soup (and who knows what else?) into a huge puddle in the middle of the floor... and the new guy (me) was assigned to clean it up. The whole time, I was grumbling how I hated the job - I never went back to work after that.

2) About a year after I got divorced, I found a job with a pretty good pay raise just over the CT border in Western Mass. However, it was insanely busy and very intense, and also almost an hour each way because this place was not right on the highway. However, I actually liked the actual work I was doing... after meeting my wife, getting married and soon knocking her up, I decided to find a job closer to home and family. I found one at a smaller company that seemed like a good place - more family friendly, growing company, etc. However, after the initial learning curve, the job quickly became really routine as the company also stopped growing. Day-after-Day, week-after-week, month-after-month, it was the same thing over and over and over again. It drove me crazy, and my performance started to suffer because my brain switched off during the daytime. And, when my performance suffered, I lost a lot of my confidence at work and just started hating the job more and more... it got to the point where I spent most of the day browsing the internet and posting on DU. Every day, I was depressed and hating my job... I eventually got so fed up I took a contract (temp) job in another company, but it went on like that for a good year.

[GirlinContempt]

24. Well.... I also thought

Why am I putting up with this, what's wrong with me, what's wrong with THEM, why why why am I putting up with this.

Almost 2 years, and I'm not sure.

[Deep13]

25. yes

All the ones I had in college. Years. Money.

[Lumily]

27. Yes.

I actually had two of those jobs.

1) I was the salad bar girl at a Quincey's restaurant. It was my very first job. I was 15, and I lasted three months.

2) I worked the summer (14 years old) in my Grandfather's tobacco fields. Hot, dirty, back breaking work. I lasted two months.

I hated the Quincey's job the most though.

[deadparrot]

28. My spring/summer job at Wendy's in high school.

I did it because I needed a job, and it was the only thing I could find.

They'd give me 7-hour shifts on Saturdays AND Sundays, with only one twenty minute break, plus four- or five-hour shifts on the weekdays with NO break. I repeatedly asked them to cut down my hours, but if anything, they scheduled me more, often calling me to come in for three or so hours on my days off.

Finally, at the beginning of August (after about five months), I decided I wanted to salvage some portion of my summer vacation, so I walked up the the counter, told the manager (who happened to be running the register) that I wouldn't be coming in anymore, turned, and left.

I'm pretty sure he was pissed, but I didn't (and still don't) give a shit. Best thing I ever did. Now I work at a theatre during the summer. Hard work, but much more fun.

[raccoon]

29. Yes.

(2) 9 1/2 months. Seemed like longer.

(3) Stayed until I could find another one.

[bikebloke]

30. Seven years

In Seattle at a survival job with Bank of Corruptia (nee ShiteFirst Bank). I did shit jobs on a kibbutz that granted more satisfaction.

[azmouse]

31. I lasted 6 weeks.

Luckily I found better job and could just walk away from the horrible one. I was bad though. I hated the job so much that I just walked away from it. Didn't tell them I was going. But I think they knew it was a crappy place to work and they were used to people doing that.

[Strawman]

32. Temp job, 2 weeks

The epiphany was when I was entering in prices found by undercover shoppers at competitors stores for rectal itch cream into an Excel spreadsheet. It did not help matters that I had a "floating" desk and found myself in someone's office who was out on leave and obsessed with clowns. I set my Windows 3.1 marquee screen saver (remmeber those?) to say "I quit" and come on after 15 minutes of inactivity, ostensibly left my desk for my afternoon break and never returned.

[ceile]

33. 3 actually.

The one I'm at now (over 4 years), one working for a charter school start-up (3 months) and at a photolab (6 wks).

[bertha katzenengel]

34. Three years. Stayed because of inertia, and because I never

considered the possibility of an alternative. :eyes:

I was in that lousy position for four years, but it started sucking after one.

[jrandom421]

35. Worst job ever

I lasted 3 months as an orderly in a pediatric hospice, because it was the only thing I could find after my unemployment ran out. One week, there was a 150% turnover of patients. I quit the next day and spent the next two weeks in a drunken haze, having nightmares featuring all those kids' faces and voices.

[deepthought42]

36. Yes, as I type this...

And I'm stuck here til I go to grad school (in the fall). *sigh*

[Guava Jelly]

37. Every job i have had since I started working

:mad:
I fucking hate my job now.

[NewWaveChick1981]

38. I had one job like that, and I lasted exactly one week...

:rofl: I was desperate for a full-time job back in 1990. I took a job I totally despised and lasted only a week. I couldn't take it any more.

[EstimatedProphet]

39. Too often

One of which was working on my doctorate. Two others working for the government. Bad management made them that way.

[Godhumor]

40. Teaching -- My last day is in June, thank God

I've taught for 6 years and have taught rural, urban, suburban, and foreign. Finally, this year I realized that it wasn't my location or the school that was bothering me--it was that I simply don't like the job anymore. I still give 100% every day, anything less is a disservice to the students, but I really can't wait to finish grading finals this year.

[Jamastiene]

41. Dog Grooming, believe it or not, was not my cup of tea.

I hated it, but stayed because I was having trouble finding something else. It's all over now, thankfully. I'm glad I got out, but I did not get out in time to save my back. And for anyone who thinks Groomer's Back is a myth, I can tell you it is not. It's no joke.

[av8rdave]

42. When in Jr high and some of high school...

I worked on a massive poultry farm (more like a factory) in northeast Ohio. I was the smallest male in my class at the time (I was a late bloomer) and nobody would believe I was legally old enough to get a job. Farm labor, however, had no minimum age.

I shoveled chicken manure, cleaned feed augers and stacked cases of eggs for a whopping $1.25/hour. I vividly remember one day, standing knee deep in chicken manure with a shovel in my hand, fervently wishing I could be flipping burgers.

[redqueen]

43. Yes.

5 1/2 years so far... for the $$$ and benefits.

Plus, I loves me a challenge. :D

[Saphire]

44. I've been here 3 years. I say that everyday.

[Arkansas Granny]

46. Yes, I have. I lasted 4 years, I had 4 kids to support.

It finally got so bad that I quit to take a lower paying position, but one without so much stress and fewer assholes to work with.