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you always get people saying "i hate my job" have you ever had a job you hated?
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can be your present one or a past one and for what ever reason?
for me - there have been parts i have disliked about the jobs but in general they have been ok.
for me - there have been parts i have disliked about the jobs but in general they have been ok.
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No, but i have heard people saying "dont some people start stupid threads"
Cleaning luxury flats in the docklands. I never realised how mucky intelligent educated people could be.
I was working another job at the time, so would go to clean these bankers flats after a 12 hour shift. I did it partly to help out my daughter who had just started her first year at uni. £40 a week is a lot to a student. And partly to help out my friend who owns the cleaning company.
I was so glad when the contract for those flats ended.
Food waste in sinks, bloody pillows, and don't get me started on limescale.
I have worked in a factory which makes donuts and muffins.
I hated ever second I was there.
I was put onto a production line with about 12 other blokes, and I was the only English person on the line.
I couldn't wait to leave to go to a different job.
well dont click on this thread then.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1958878
It was horrible - I've done mindnumbing warehouse work, taking things out of one box and putting them into another all night long - but even that was preferable to the call centre. At least I could to the bathroom whenever I needed to without being monitored.
I hate the early mornings, the people and the job is tedious boring. I've been there for 8 years so maybe that's the reason behind it all, I just feel unmotivated and the thought of Mondays coming round sickens me.
As much as I'd really like to look for a new job, I've become stuck in the same routine and the thought of unsettling that kind of worries me.
The job itself was fine, you pick up some tins and put them on the shelf. The part I couldn't stand was everyone was given one trolley of food to put out on the shelf and you had 3 hours to do it. If you finished early you couldn't help anyone else or leave your aisle until everyone else had finished. I finished my trolley in 10 minutes and had to wait another 2 and a half hours while the person in the next aisle stood there staring at every tin of baked beans for 5 minutes before putting it on the shelf.
You wasn't even allowed to talk to the other members of staff until the slow ones had finished their work. It wasn't worth £1.80 an hour.
Unfortunately this will whoosh - you're on DS after all.
You can't survive comfortably without a job and that's why I work. I could never enjoy having to do compulsory, tedious tasks everyday which is basically every job out there when my imagination is going wild, listing all the better, more enjoyable or productive things I could be doing with my day. I know so many people who are in pain, dying or have grown too old to enjoy life. Every day of health, especially in summer is a gift and work (which must be done) is a massive thorn in my life.
If I had enough money, I would never work again.
My first proper job was like that but involved drilling pieces of metal all day. I lasted 4 weeks and then got something more interesting.
The Post Office. Hateful, bullying staff.
Still embittered about it decades later.
My present job is excellent . Working nights with fully permitted computer access and not much to do 80% of the time suits me fine .
Same here. I hated my time on the phones in a call centre. Hated it. Lasted 8 months. It was horrible.
You did better than me - 3 months!
Oddly, my current job's main duty is answering phones and I absolutely love it. But I get autonomy, I have to consciously answer a call and can let it go to voicemail if I need to. I actually have a handset rather than headset. I can go to the loo, make a coffee etc without being tracked. And I get to decide what to say to callers, I don't have to follow on-screen scripts. I can have meaningful conversations with clients, and I'm treated by my boss and my company as an actual grown up person, not just a warm body or a child.
I think a lot of hated jobs are hated because of poor policies, poor company culture and poor bosses. I've heard it said before that most people leave jobs because of bad bosses, not because the work itself is bad.
I really needed the money
I managed to get a job in the same place but not actually on the phones. So much like you I can now go to the toilet without being tracked!
Everyone I have known that has worked a call centre has said never again. I think from the tellings I would rather eat road kill.
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