Share us a time when you really hated your job.

@laydee (12798)
Philippines
November 13, 2009 8:04am CST
It happened a few years back, I was working as a marketer for financial services under a company that recently changed its name due to franchise issues. I was asked to talk to a client, who turned out to be someone who was really angry at the company because of some grudges with someone previously working there. It was a mean plot to humiliate someone working there, and sadly I was the unfortunate one to be that person. I was humiliated by the client, stating that I was working for a low-grade company and such. I was completely stunned to be humiliated in front of other workers there at the same time two others who invited me to talk to them. It was humiliating and I was really furious, but didn't counter his attacks immaturely. I just kept myself composed, and told him that I wasn't the person he needed to talk to in terms of voicing out a grievance, and I did give him my card and told him that if he's interested to talk to someone 'appropriate' for such, he should contact me and in turn, I would set up an appointment with him and that person. With that, he calmed down and told me I was professional enough to keep myself composed. I simply told him that I have seen worst (which was actually a lie that time because he was the worst!). After everything, I went back to the office, and cried at the comfort room. I forwarded the concern with my directors and after several weeks, our CEO was over and talked to me about the situation - to which I cried to him about. They did set up a meeting with the client (I wasn't there so I didn't know what happened). What about you, what was a time when you really hated your job? What did you do about it?
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@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
16 Nov 09
In 2004 I had found a new job where I had to work as a kind of home health nurse. I had had a similar job before, and I had some experience, but I was going to work at a new place. When new people arrive they usually join one of the experienced nurses for a two days before they start working on their own. The experienced nurse introduces the new worker to the patients and things like keys and medicine. But the say I arrived two people were ill, and instead of getting an introduction I got 15 patients to visit instead of 9 or 10 like we usually get. I had a very stressful day, because I was superbusy and I didn't know the streets or the patients. I tried to work as fast as I could, but I was way behind, and most people were angry when I finally arrived. When I got back to the office I was completely exhausted. Things got better when I had worked there for a while, but I will never forget my first day
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@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
22 Aug 12
Indeed most of our "first day"s would often turn out bad. We're competent but we're just inexperienced on their SOPs and we still need to adjust - and are expected to adjust as fast as lightning. hehe.. Good you survived. How long did you stay in that type of a job? Thanks for the response, have a great Mylot experience ahead!
• United States
15 Nov 09
I use to work in a snack bar in a bowling alley and I had a lot of duties and once I had worked there for awhile I was actually also supervising my co-workers and training new people. Well, even though I had done just about everything associated with this job I had never worked on the Sunday morning when there were these early morning kids bowling leagues. Well, I knew that we served breakfast then, but I wasn't very familiar with the menu (I had worked there for two years only in the afternoon, evening and night and never on this morning that we serve breakfast) I was scheduled out of the blue to work that day. So, I came in, I am the only one there until the afternoon, I start doing all the opening day stuff. Well the people that run the front counter (where you buy shoes and all that) told me I needed to start cooking "a lot" of bacon. Now I had no clue how many people bowl that day, nor how many people buy the breakfasts, and no one told me anything until that morning. Once people started buying the breakfasts I got SO behind! It is hard to try to cook a whole slab of bacon and try to cook eggs at the same time in the same space. The bacon took forever, some people complained it was too crispy, some people complained it was too limp. No one was happy. They complained the hash brown patties were to greasy even though they have always been fried. Then someone had the nerve to order a hamburger and you can't cook the burger and eggs together so I had to wait. It was a disaster! I was extremely upset because no one (my supervisor either who usually is the one to work that shift) told me what to expect even though I told them I had never worked that before, I was upset at the customers because everyone was complaining about stuff, food wasn't ready fast enough (remember I am the only one there trying to cook 20 breakfasts and a burger at the same time), people wouldn't hear that their order was ready and complain it was cold so I would have to make more eggs, they started complaining to the manager. Well the next day I was getting in trouble by the manager. He had told my supervisor everything and she said I was probably being slow on purpose because I didn't want to work that day. She said that I was deliberately not doing stuff and didn't prepare ahead of time on purpose. I was absolutely furious and I wanted to quit that day, I seriously had thought about leaving on that Sunday. I vehemently explained that I had never ever worked that, didn't know what to expect, and that I don't enjoy people yelling at me all morning, so why would I purposely try to foil things?!!! I was very upset and told him that whatever my supervisor thought it was just that, a thought, not true. So I was super upset that my supervisor who had known me for 2 years and entrusted me with all of the duties including ordering and training and supervising my co-workers would suddenly think something like that about me! There were other frustrating days at work, but this was the worst!!
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@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
5 May 12
That was just bad and I would have quit in the middle of serving if I was in that scenario. They were actually lucky that you did not bail on them that time else, they would be forced to do something about it themselves. I couldn't believe there's no proper endorsement or at least an information about the number of people and usual orders, they must have known that since they do those shifts plus you already told them that you have never worked that shift before, so they should have at least assisted you in some way. Anyhow, did you quit? Have a great MyLot experience. Apologies for the very late reply!
@kailah (36)
13 Nov 09
I really don't hate my job, I'm a front liner, I work as front office head and I have 9 staff to attend to and loads of paperworks.It happened that our accountant resigned so the workload of accountant was delegated so it adds up to my workload but i never complained. I was underpaid with too much work load but still I never complained. I always see to it that I finish all my reports before going home and I always make sure that I accomplished my job for that day. Later,I realized that me and my colleagues work so hard with all those work loads and my manager doing nothing and just playing games in the pc, he was paid more with no work and us work so hard and paid less. So, I really find it unfair that I started to hate my job and my manager.
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