Post about your worst workplace experiences.

It sounds like the pay difference will be offset by having the time for your projects.

And hopefully the company you used to work for will
painfully miss you.

 

I did get a text from my former manager stating that he knows the hours aren't ideal, but I should reconsider coming back. One of my co-workers used to run my department, and he said (I told him I was leaving earlier this week) if I left, the company would be hurting.

I wish I could take satisfaction from knowing that, but the mandatory overtime was really the only reason I left. It wasn't the most awesome job, but it was miles ahead of the last few places I worked. I also told a few other co-workers about the staffing agency (it's located literally next door to our warehouse) and they should check it out.

I wish the upper management would learn from this (two temps and one other regular employee left in the three weeks before I did) about how to treat people, but they never will. We're not machines, and we need rest and relaxation time.

 

Somewhere we had a thread devoted to co-workers; I was going to resurrect it but couldn't find it, even through the search function.

Well, whatever- this thread is just as good (if not superior!)

Anyway, I get along with just about all my co-workers at the new place, but there's just one who gets on my nerves. It's not just me, two other co-workers have commented on the guy, so I feel safe in believing HE'S the issue.

He just doesn't seem to "get it." He frequently asks the same questions over and over again even though you've answered them before. When we first started talking, I explained that I took the job here because I no longer wished to work overtime.

(At this company, overtime occurs on a regular basis (early starts and/or Saturdays) and it is always optional. Saying no is no big deal to management.)

Despite this knowledge, he continues to ask me if I worked overtime or plan to work overtime. I've stated numerous times my original reasons, but lately I just say "no" and leave it at that. Further elaborations would be fruitless.

He asked me if $19 an hour was a good deal for a part-time caregiver job. I replied that I have no experience with being a paid caregiver, so I cannot answer that question. So of course, he's asked me a few times about whether or not he should take on the extra work if it's decent pay.

Whenever we get assigned to the same line in the mornings, my heart just sinks at the thought of having to endure him. He's not a bad guy, but conversations with him try my patience.

 

What did you say the problem with your co-worker was?

I had a co-worker who would go into great detail about everything he did away from work, none of which was interesting (not that I have room to talk...so I didn't). I didn't think he did he a good job at work (he thought, incorrectly, that he was a key employee), didn't particularly like him in general, & did NOT want to hear about any aspect of his life. My neutral looks, concentration on doing my job, & moving away from him never registered with him. He acted like we were long term buds.

I might as well tell this while I'm at it. Clueless worked one weekend when nobody was in the office, which was actually an older house. We had a large, very complicated, & very expensive copier that WAS key to our work. Clueless brought his "boom box" to work so he could listed to music. The high dollar copier was plugged into the outlet with about 10 layers of electrical tape covering the outlet. Yes, you guessed it, Clueless removed the tape so he could plug in his "boom box."

When the copier turned off it lost many important settings, & it took nearly a full day to get them redone.

And Clueless reprinted, from a microfilm machine, the wrong document, not the one our client needed. I had to find the right one and print it out.

Clueless was so obtuse he couldn't understand why everybody questioned why he would remove 10 layers of tape (tape clearly there so people would not use the copier outlet). I wondered how low long it took dumbass to remove all that tape, & why he didn't realize it was there for a reason.

 

It's been 17 years since I worked at this job, so I have finally healed enough to tell a little about the worst job I ever had.

After failing to land a good entry level job after graduating college I settled for a job at an automotive extended warranty call center. handling claims. What a shitshow, I should have quit in the first thirty days, but it took me five years to get the courage and money in the bank to walk away. A few of the lowlights:

Worst coworker I have ever had. Rude, lazy, incompetent, irresponsible, abrasive, unprofessional. Would screw stuff up then expect someone else whether it be someone within the company, or an external vendor to cover for him at their expense. Then he would become belligerent when they wouldn't absorb his mistake. Or he would throw other people under the bus for his mistakes. I always wondered what kompromat he had on someone there to not ever get fired. I've had coworkers before and after that that were his equal in one or two of his negative attributes, but never someone who was such a totally worthless package. He was so bad that if they had fired him it would have been like adding another employee since we spent so much time fixing his screwups, that just not having to deal with his screwups would have lightened our overall workload.

Worst bosses ever. Incompetent, greasy ass used car salesmen. Unprofessional, lazy, know nothings. Our call times were taking too long since we were understaffed and half the staff we did have was incompetent. So the dealerships that sold our contracts were complaining about how much time their service advisors were spending on the phone trying to get through to us. Instead of doing the correct thing, hiring more people and firing the incompetent ones, they decided to install a strobe light that would flash anytime there was a caller in the queue, which was basically all day long. A low cost feel good "solution" they could go to their customers with. When the economy took a dump at the end of 2008 they laid off one person in each department. In each case instead of laying off one of the most incompetent people the criteria they chose was "this person is competent at their job, but they are single with no kids, where this incompetent coworker is married, has kids, or both, so the single person doesn't need their job as much so we are letting the single person go"

Worst customers ever. By customers I am referring to both the dealerships that sold our contracts and the end users who bought our contracts when they bought their cars. Just horrible people all around. The abuse and stress I took so that rich dealership owners could get even richer really did a number on my physical and mental health.

It wasn't the lowest paying job ever, but it paid just enough to cover my bills but not enough to prepare for my future.