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I had a 12 hour week job in a college simply laminating and posting the post, mornings 9 to 1 72 pound a week, walk there, easiest job ever :)
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window cleaning, people not wanting to have their windows cleaned for a fair price, one women offered a 1 pound
Best. Aventis pharma as a tech.
My job was "hourly", but it wasn't based on hours, it was based on systems handled. Everyone got a certain number of systems for the day and when they were done, your "8 hours" was over.
Being better at that shit than most, I was almost always done by lunch or shortly after. So I'd usually have a 30 hour work week at most but still be paid full time. It was also super close to my house, the research campus was gorgeous, and their cafe was subsidized and ridiculous good quality.
Was probably one of the single best jobs ever, and worked with some awesome people too.
Worst job.
After the tech bubble burst and I'd been laid off of jobs downsizing or outright vanishing I had to take a job at Circuit City.
I'm not a salesman, I don't like blatantly lying to people or being a weasily son of a bitch just to try and get people to spend more money. The department managers were all terrified of the store manager because he was constantly on their asses to get the numbers he wanted. It was "against" policy to lie about things or cherry pick customers. But those who did both of those things got the numbers they wanted (high service contract sales and accessory attach rates). The fact that they sold next to no volume at all because they would routinely send customers to other sales associates or just avoid them was overlooked 100% of the time. Add in shady shit like moving around worked hours you had already worked to avoid OT, shifting the schedule at last minute, and the bosses generally being complete tools and it completed the shit sandwich that was that job.
I felt like shit after every shift, I dreaded going in every time I had one, and it made me despise working with people. I got fired for straight up bullshit and didn't even care beyond it being bullshit. I sold more than anyone in the store, but with low attach/accessory rate. Even though by raw numbers I still sold more than other people with "good" numbers, the percentages looked bad to them. So they began cutting my shifts down to almost nothing, and moving me to crappy times of day (middle of the week during the day, etc). All so that my numbers could look like crap across the board and give them an excuse.
funny how people in charge or in a high position are always the most annoying, my mothers friends son quit one of his jobs because he felt uncomfortable trying to reach targets by using hard selling and distorting the truth. the company will hopefully go under with that way of working.Quote:
Originally Posted by EclecticGroove
Best job: my current job. Worst job: my current job.
looking at your avatar and name I imagine you are still trying to hard sell crystal Pepsi to cowboys in the south wanting a good time and there saying "boy do you know how long Ive been on this earth and you are trying to sell me what, a sugar filled soft drink, DO I look like a teenager playing on his phone, I drive cattle boy"Quote:
Originally Posted by Crystalpepsifan
Best: Fixing random stuff for people and being pretty good at it.
Worst: Cleaning disgusting stuff, like putrefied cadaver juices, blood splattered junkie cessholes with used syringes everywhere and shit and vomit smeared walls. ( Actually, I think I hated library clerk more )
Best: To be determined.
Worst: Convergys.
Best: Lifeguard at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon water park in Orlando fl.
Worst: Tire Lube Express Technician at Walmart in Kissimmee Fl.
My current job.
Best: The pay is good, I got a new company truck last year and this year, and I enjoy troubleshooting network and phone problems on various jobs.
Worst: We have one customer that I install wireless internet equipment for. I have to haul roof-mounted wireless RF equipment onto customer site's roof, assemble the equipment under the hot Texas sun and carry 10 to 20 cinder blocks onto the roof to keep the equipment from blowing over. I usually get onto the roof with an extension ladder at heights near 22 feet. I'm exhausted by the end of the day, and dehydrated during the summer months.
Tough question. I enjoyed working for a game store for three years, and doing pizza delivery for five years out of high school, and being a graduate assistant for a history professor for two years. I also enjoy fixing peoples computers in my current job, I just wish more people would get back to me on their website design wishes.
My worst job had to be at the call center where I supported free dial up ISPs for two years. All of the customers were on hold for 30-45 minutes before they got to me, and there was no way to fix their problems in one call because A) they were illiterate or B) their computer required multiple reboots and we had a limit of 8 minutes per call. It was hell.
By best job was here....
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And my worst job was here....
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Best job: I worked a warehouse position back in highschool where I was allowed to listen to music the whole day while working, so long as I had a significant amount of product sorted. I miss this job a lot, but the company went under due to stupid investments that even I, knowing nothing about money, could have seen were really bad ideas.
Worst Job: Looking for work. I hate it. Around here you apply for positions where there's probably 200 other applicants a lot of whom have degrees. This is entry level work we're talking about too...
thanks for the reply to the post, but what bad ideas? like what kind? It wasn't investing in a electronics cd based media system by Phillips around 1993Quote:
Originally Posted by 16-bit
Best: Programmer for an oil company (current job). Easy work + laid back atmosphere + tons of money = content.
Worst: Cook at Burger King. There were two functions to it: Take the patties... put 'em on the conveyor... repeat; And stuff toys in bags... take peoples' money... repeat.
a family member worked in BK and hated it tooQuote:
Originally Posted by SpaceFlea