What is the worst job or work experience that you have ever had?

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What would you say is the worst work experience or the worst job you ever had and what about this experience or job made it the worst? For me it was a job I had at a restaurant once. The job in itself wasn't any better or any worse than any other job I'd had. But what made it the worse job I ever had was a few of the people whom I had the displeasure of working with there. It was a fast food restaurant and upon hiring me, the manager put me with another employee whose instructions were to "train me". It wasn't that I really needed any training as I had worked this sort of job many times before and had in fact, even worked for that same restaurant before, just not that location, but it was just that place's policy to train all new hires rather they needed it or not. The trouble was, the person who they assigned to me to be my trainer was one of those goody goody, brown nosing sort of people who constantly go out of their way to make others look bad just to make themselves look better. This person made me miserable. For example, she would hand me a rag and tell me to go clean tables in the dinning area. This I would do and didn't think it was a big deal. However, if I came to a table where people were still seated, eating, I would skip this table in order to come back to it later. This is, I believe, the proper thing to do, and is the policy at any restaurant I have ever worked at. The problem was, whenever I did and returned back behind the counter, as soon as the people left the table and it was clear, I would head back out to the lobby to clean it, but usually only got half there and the person who was supposed to be training me would come barreling out of no where and cut me off and run to clean the table herself. Immediately after doing this, she would go straight to the manager and complain that I had been asked to clean the tables and had not done so and she had to do it!!!! She also had a habit of asking me to do one thing and would tell me not to do anything else until that one thing was done, then complain to me and again to management because I was not doing a different thing. For example, she would tell me to make fry baskets and keep doing that until I had X number of baskets made up before I did anything else. After I got about half way through this chore, she would bring back a stack of trays from the dining area and then demand to know why I wasn't washing trays!!! She would then run to the manager and tell her that I was making fry baskets when I was supposed to be washing trays!! I could go on and on with the examples but it's to long a list. Also, the management itself had what I considered to be some strange policies. The worst of these was that when your shift was over, you practically had to beg to clock out and be released. I'm not talking about when the restaurant was busy and this lead to being let out a little after the time I was scheduled for as I know often happens in a restaurant. What I mean is, the managers there had this policy that you could not clock out to go home at the end of your shift until you asked them if it was ok, even if they themselves just told you it was! If the manager came up to you and said; "your shift is over, you can clock out now", and you simply said; "ok"; and went to clock out with no further ado, you would get in trouble! The manager would call you back before you even made it to the time clock. They would ask you what you were doing and when you told them that you were going to clock out they would inform you that you needed to ask permission first. And if you brought it to their attention that they themselves had just told you that you could go, they would insist that it didn't matter and you still had to ask first. And what's more, if you did ask permission, if they didn't like the way you asked, they would make you ask again and again!! No kidding!!! Anyway, I didn't work for that place for very long as by the end of my shift each day I was or was almost in tears! It was the most awful place, or at least the most awful people that I have ever worked with or for!! What about everyone else? What is the worst work experience or job that you ever had and what about this job made it the worst?