I have worked 2 restaurants 

Dennys (pre-covid), i worked there for a year, i was a busboy/janitor/dishwasher, it was laidback since i worked during graveyard shift, only annoying thin was that there was a scandal of my unit manager, basically took parts of our paychecks to fund for her gf flight to here (she got fired), and there has been drunks that come in and harass me because i wont seat them due to our policy about not seating intoxicated people

McDonald’s, easily the worst job i had, dont know why I worked there for almost a year

Now NAPA auto part store, Im a stock associate there for 2 years, and honestly that is the best job i have, i got verity of things i can do as a job, i did have rough start because i never had retail experience, but overtime i love it. I got pay raises and benefits such as paid vacation, health insurance etc. I rarely interact with customers and i mostly handle products that come into a werehouse ass a freight 

A small town doughnut/sub/hotdog shop that also had random gift items along with renting golf carts. I was basically left alone a majority of times to manage the store. Only made about $9.50 plus tips and tips were $10 on a good weekend (Yeah only opened on weekends for like 6 hours a day lmao. They closed down though due to rent increasing. Taught me not to work for small businesses that dont know how to run a business. And before they shit down, they hired a new employee to help get some of the work off my back. They hire a 70 year old lady who couldnt bend over or really do much of the heavy work. Oh and we didnt even know they closed, just woke up one day to "Hey guys sorry :(" text. Thankfully i had a second job layed out and only used the doughnut shop one for bus fare.

I worked in a prison for 3 months.

I should've seen the warning signs - high turnover, everyone depressed, everyone stressed - but I thought it would be fine. I was hired to be a filing lady for their audit department. Training was really fun, they put me in the same training as the correctional officers so i got paid to learn how to defend myself and learn about gas and pepper guns. It was a lot of fun.

While I was in training, they promoted me to an assistant manager position with their HR. I was excited, it seemed like they needed help hiring and I love helping out. Very quickly after that, i figured out why the last girl had left. I was told to do one thing and then in trouble for doing it because I did it wrong. They couldn't find anyone to train me so i was just doing what I thought made sense. My office was filled to the brim with paperwork that wasn't filed and was about 4 years out of date. It was so bad that i couldn't get to my desk at first because there was so much filing to do. But I would get in trouble for spending time cleaning and filing because I wasn't hiring or interviewing.

The breaking point was when i spent my saturday volunteering for an event. The head of the prison decided it would be cool to hug me without my permission to "make my boyfriend jealous" he had already been the type to touch my arms or shoulder without permission and I had told him to not do that but this hug was so long and I was so uncomfy. I did the rest of the event, packed up, went in to work on monday to say bye to my friends and file some papers. Quit that night.

In a much better spot now. But always look around at a new job and if everything seems scary and awful, there might be a reason for that.

carried band equipment for local band and set up their shi 

the after parties rocked but the paaay suuuuuuuuuuuuuucked and i had no sleep

Worked at a place called Hannaford up here in Maine last year its a grocery store and it sucked, we were understaffed 90% of the time because of the high school kids calling out due to the summer time. Customers were horrid and the $9.51 pay was awful considering the conditions I was put through half the time nearly got written up because an old lady reported me for get this "Breathing to loud" job sucked I work at bestbuy now making $11.74 an hour now AND I actully get a discount but black friday will be hell this year. 

my first job working at a six flags as a food service worker was pretty bad >< the customers were mainly fine, it's just that my coworkers pretty mean to me throughout it all. i decided to quit after 9 months since i had to go to college... fast forward to this year, i am now a working student with a part-time job that i enjoy now and don't plan on quitting any time soon unless i have to lol

The worst job I've done is being a freelance model. I was sexually abused. It was the scariest and dark moment of my life.

Not as bad as the others... but TARGET... worst workplace, manipulative management, omg just a pool of toxicity! 

I've only worked in a fast food restaurant and Target, but now I am a tattoo artist and looking back, I really hated that place and the staff too! So many middle aged women worked there were so judgmental and such b****s!!

 Doing the actual jobs wasn't awful, it was the kind of people in the workplace because Target hires so many middle-aged women to work & manage (nothing wrong with the age) but it was the type of women they were... EG. like their outlook on the younger employee's especially, a lot of them were very degrading to myself and younger members, they think they can be rude and a lot of them will gossip and b***h over the walkie-talkie head sets (which everyone can hear) and even about customers.... That was MY Target experience, I'm sure there are other present & former Target employees that probably had a better store, but also have seen few more Targets like mine in my country.

UHH...

RLLY WEIRD THING: I WAS 12 (WHEN I JOINED ROYAL WELLS HIGH SCHOOL/SMP ROYAL WELLS SCHOOL) I FAILED MYSELF AS A STUDENT... (wtf i was in 2022... )

I'I worked in group homes for adults with developmental disabilities for several years.  I loved the residents (we called them consumers or clients). 

It was the worst job I've ever had due to management.  12-18hr shifts, you never got off on time, no one would answer when you'd call for help, constant employee backstabbing was encouraged.  Every single day was full of stress because every word you said (to coworkers) was used against you.  Never again.

I worked at a trampoline park. Seems fun until some kid comes up to u covered in blood cuz ur boss never bothered to fix the exposed metal on the trampolines and the snotheads parents start cursing you out demanding a refund ur boss won't let u give so they put ur name in a one star review and sue thr place

and then something similar happens 3-4 more times (ᵕ— ᴗ —)

I had a one week internship as a druggist in a drugstore in 2023. On the first day it was clear to me that I’d never want to work in retail as a full time job because customers can be very rude and annoying and the tasks are boring, repetitive and sometimes involve carrying heavy objects (although that’s rather rare, it still happens sometimes).

An old lady wanted to print photos, but because my colleagues never told me how it works, I was as clueless as her. When my attempt didn’t work, I apologised to her and explained that I’m only there for an internship, but she didn’t seem to care. She demanded that i would get her an employee that can help her, but since they were all in the backroom and they never gave me a key (which made the tasks they assigned me quite circuitous, since it meant I had to ask and wait for someone to open the door for me every time I needed to get something from the warehouse), I simply told her that I cannot do anything for her. When she told me to knock (which she could just do herself bruh) someone finally came out and helped her. Throughout our whole interaction the woman was nothing but nice towards me, AN INTERN WHO WASNT TAUGHT ANYTHING. I do have to blame my colleagues tho, since throughout the entire internship they never entrusted me with a key and never showed me how to do anything. I know there aren’t that many tasks in retail, but they didn’t even show me how they order products, how to help customers when they want to print photos or how to use the cash register. Honestly, I wonder what made them think it’s okay to leave the store unattended with only an incompetent intern watching over it, that they didn’t teach anything and was just told to sort out products that would expire soon or were already expired.

At least I ended up getting compensated at the end of the internship with a 10 Euro gift card from that store and some of their products, like shampoo, deodorant and neat snacks. I still wouldn’t recommend that as a full time job to anyone, its not worth the low pay, so if you have a choice I would advise you to look around for other options. However, I could imagine working in retail as a minijob or on weekends for a little extra money hehe

To my fellow Europeans: I often hear that Lidl is the best paying employer for retail. Just letting you know, in case you’re interested in working as a shop assistant :> 

Worked in a factory turning doing the same hand insert screw for 8 hours. Was miserable. Other job that was horrid was the fixing ATMs it was filthy and dangerous, had to drive off and on for 8-12 hours a day.

I took on a door to door sales role back in 2018, it was one of my first jobs and i only lasted 2 weeks. i didn't even get paid and they said they wanted gas money from me at one point, it was absolute hell would not recommend at all. hope you get a job soon though, the job market is an absolute nightmare atm but i'm sure you'll find something !

camp counselor. easy. my first job at 17.

not gonna go into the nitty gritty, but in a very telling example: i was untrained for three weeks, when the summer camp only lasted four in total

this would honestly have to be a five parter series lmao T . T"

once at subway i got stalked by a creep who thought i was a minor.

then at walmart they made me close the store by myself three days out of my work week alone with a twisted ankle.

honestly, walmart had the most shit.

sub has a few stories too, especially during quarantine. my favorite stories were the anti maskers that we had to tell to wear a mask. one kid broke out into tears and told me his dad owned the store (no he did not, the owner was a middle aged woman who was 1mil in DEBT) and another time an anti masker tried to "get back at me" for telling him to wear a mask by pulling down his mask and drinking the soda he bought in my face. i also busted out in tears.

i've had customers help themselves into the back of the bakery while at walmart.

i had to report the hello kitty girl manager at vans for sexual harassment?! that was horrible. i got dress coded once for wearing yoga pants, the boss said it was fine i guess but she didn't know. and the way she let me know was by lowkey telling me that my butt is showing too much in my yoga pants and the customers are going to creep on me and touch me if i don't change my pants- BRUH WHAT?!

honestly i really do think walmart has the most amount of stories, it was genuinely like working at a mental hospital (speaking from personal experience). the location is infamous in my city for being the WORSE WALMART IN HISTORY.

you know it's bad because i left back in fall last year... and since there are ONLY THREE ORIGINAL EMPLOYEES LEFT INT HE WHOLE STORE FROM WHEN I WAS WORKING!!!

most of the stories come from he mad witch who ran the ogp department (i didn't even work there and she would still manage to find her way from all the way in the back of the receiving into the bakery to harass all of us, she did this with he front end to. no one has ever done so many retraining before. and it was so satisfying when i took her to hr for all of her micro aggressions like calling me "lil mama" because im the only black woman (im not a woman and she kept misgendering me which i also took her to hr for after telling her again and again im not a girl) she knows??

honestly there is too much going on there with her and just her department alone is enough drama.

now my department, fuck linda, and fuck richard.

my favorite part about working with richard is how he was genuinely a hyper aggressive pathological liar and they kept firing him and rehiring him!! (this is in california us btw incase ur wondering laws) he would lie and say he had a son and would "go pick him up" early and leave 30 minutes before we close so he could sit at the macdonalds alone for 30 minutes and clock out while we cleaned the entire department. he would also have rage fits easily and would destroy our equipment like our bread racks by flinging them into walls and he would scream at the small old ladies.

i remember i would get into trouble somehow for going to go get my higher ups to intervene???? like i said the hr department was short staffed but honestly half of it was because the lady never showed up and if she did she would sit in the receiving (WHICH IS ANOTHER STORY WITH THE GUY WHO WAS STALKING ME AT SUBWAY!!! YES!!! HE WAS WORKING AT THE RECIVING??? imagine the guy stalkign you getting banned from your subway and then you start working at the SAME WALMART AS HIM!?).

im sorry... i can seriously go on with just walmart alone...

working in the deli department at an overpriced organic grocery store during the early years of the covid pandemic when everyone was paranoid, struggling, and/or generally in chaotic times. we got plenty of the usual entitled, rude, "karen" type of customers. except they had even more excuses to be irrationally angry about things like mask mandates/policies at the store, limited stock available due to bulk buyers going wild, and extremely understaffed. i was often the ONLY employee working for 10+ hours in my department and nobody from management would ever help when a crazy rush hour made my job near impossible to accomplish. :")

they also tried to force me to still come into work AFTER i already tested positive for covid at the time and had to quarantine. upper management at that place in general just did not care about any employees, customers, nothing. as long as they got their profits, they could care less if you live or die. they often threatened to fire me so they could force me to work overtime despite already doing full time 8-12 hour shifts on a regular basis. it was so physically and mentally exhausting.

at least i have a sad but funny story about the time some older customer tried to scam us into giving him a free pizza (my deli department also has a pizza oven so we'd make those to order), and he used all his might to WWE smackdown toss half an entire pizza he'd already eaten at me from across the counter. in broad daylight for everyone to see. thank god i stepped aside before it could actually hit me, but i was flabberghasted to say the least. naturally upper management allowed him to continue shopping in the store like nothing happened. 

tldr; imo grocery stores and any other food service related jobs, especially when covid first hit, are torture. i'm happy to switch to retail and hopefully not have to deal with the food industry ever again ugh!

Not technically past job but few days in baristing and it's not looking too great. I can't think straight on the job ong!!! Keep forgetting simple thing, especially the million type of cups for each drink. Now I know like 6 recipes but there're a lot to be learned and I will have to go through a "test". It has been really stressful at work lately. I smoke before and after the job to calm my mind. Definitely not what I was expecting. I missed my old job ong. Now I appreciate my old boss and the old rules. It was better to have everything written out. 

I think you should find a job you really enjoy with decent pay cause this is killing me!!!!

Honestly my worst job was also got to be my first job. When I was 14 I was hired by my landlord to work at their general store where I mostly just made jerky for the store to sell and just like oh my god. the rats. there were SO many rats. it was the only actual general store besides the dollar general right down the street and good god it was infested with so many RATS