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[xingyiman]

Back around 94 I worked in a small shop as an industrial patternmaker. My boss was a manic depressive and he wouldn't keep on his medication because he liked to fly airplanes (kind of scary aint it?). When something would set him off he'd look as if he were changin in to a werwolf and get all wild eyed and make grunting sounds and begin throwing tools and things around the shop. I put up with him for 3 years until I finally figured out that his behavior was having an effect on me.

[AgentM]

[xingyiman]

[Draz]

[xingyiman]

[Katchafire]

Straight out of Nanny school, I got a live in job for a woman who worked at a 'Massage' parlor at night.
At the end of my second week, she came home about 3am with a man, they stayed locked in her room until just after midday, before heading out. As she left she called out "Oh and could you wash my sheets?"

I moved out later that day.

[neil537]

My worst job was undertaken in New Zealand, near Gisborne on the East coast of the North Island. It was so bad I only lasted one day.

I was picking lemons, you were paid by the crate and the crates were MASSIVE, it took the best part of a day just to fill one. The way lemons grow, you can't just pull them off the tree, you have to cut each lemon off with a pair of clippers otherwise it'll damage the fruit. And the trees were quite big so you had to use a step-ladder to get most of the lemons off the tree. The worst part was that lemon trees have thorns, and it was hot so I was wearing a T-shirt. By the end of the day I looked like I'd been self-harming.

At the end of one day our team calculated we had been paid the equivalent of 3,000 Won an hour. Terrible. I went back to picking oranges and pruning grape vines after that....much better!

[Tundra_Creature]

[Underwaterbob]

I busted my hump for four weeks as a tree-planter, paid by how many trees our group planted, gas costs to get us to the site deducted from our paychecks, had to buy all our own gear except for the actual tree planting gun.

Paid weekly, my first paycheck came to a whopping $125 CAD. Meaning I netted about $25 since I had spent $100 on a pair of boots that could handle the punishment.

[djsmnc]

One of my first jobs was at a company that did light construction repairs and painting and such on houses and local businesses. Some of the work was a bit dangerous and often thankless. We had a meeting one time with the president who said: "I know at times you'll find that you might not be able to reach something or get the job done because it's dangerous or you think you might hurt yourself. What I recommend for that is to take your Mexicans and send them up to do it. That's what we have them here for"

Classic

[beercanman]

Wow. That's what we have them here for.

I think the job I hated most thankfully lasted just one day as I could not do it a second day. In a Canadian Tire store my job was to approach customers and try to get them to fill out a form to get the credit card for the store. I'm very introverted and do not enjoy approaching strangers, usually, unless she's hot, haha. I think I lasted a few hours and made about 10 bucks, 2 bucks per signed form.

[sqrlnutz123]

My fist job was a Taco Bell. They fired me after four weeks for being late, not being respectful enough to the manager and regional manager, and avoiding actually doing work whenever possible. How unfair is that??

[cherrycoke]

some of you people are crazy not to quit at the first sign of abuse.

[xingyiman]

[Countrygirl]

First job I got out of college (accounting course) was paid little, overworked, had to use own vehicle for bankruns when gas became expensive, and shared an office with a guy who wouldn't talk to me. Quit 6 months later was because the boss didn't allow us to eat lunch. She was tricky in how she did it and quitting was the only solution.

Then worked for a top 20 employer in BC. Was told how much they loved me and how good I was doing. They were underemployed at the time, so I did lots of voluntary overtime to get things done. Ended up being fired by a no-neck woman just before the 3 month period was finished. The people in other departments were shocked that I was fired but not surprised. Turns out that there was a high turnover in my department because no-neck woman was a workplace bully and made life hell for people if she couldn't control them.

My job after that was working at a small immigration company owned by Korean. He was the sweetest, nicest employee I've ever worked for in my life. He gave me hope for the Korean race in terms of bosses. A big part of the job was research and I found out that my family would save more money in Korea than in Vancouver. I flirted with the idea of coming back to the excitement of living in Korea but was basically happy with my job and Vancouver. Then my employeer had to lay me off because he had made some bad business decisions and couldn't afford me.

That was the straw that broke the camels back. Each time I quit, was fired or laid off, I had to deal with daycare and pay money that wouldn't come back to me.

We plan to go back to Vancouver next September and my stomach turns at the thought of the rent we'll have to pay and the crap I'll have to go through working in Canada...if I'm lucky enough to get a job at all.