That's why they call it work. When I had a boss most of them sucked. Now that I am self employed I love my job! Comedy magician for young children.

Yes! When I worked at Walmart as a greeter. Absolutely hated it. I’d never do it again. Eight hours spent just standing and greeting hateful people. Most boring job I’ve ever had.

yes when I was 15 I decided ot leave school and home and work then was a buyers market I could walk out of a job on Friday and into a new one the next Monday. My boring job was as a line checker for stockbrokers it consisted of checking the amounts on the stockbrokers fancy open up brochures with the amounts on a paper list - if they tallied you drew a line through the whole written transaction - It was mind numbingly boring.After two weeks I left to be a laboratory technician.

I was once a vampire's assistant...

I have been a teacher for 20+ years. In the beginning, I was bad at it, so I didn't like it. After a few years, I got better, more confident and skilled, and I grew to like it. For almost a decade there I actually loved going to work. Now, I'm five years from retirement and wondering how the hell I'm going to make it. Some days do suck the life out of me. On the other hand, I had jobs in HS and college that were retail (at a toy store. at xmastime.) and call centers - ugh!

Yes...Nursing....

I worked for a boss who sucked all my joy out of the final 6 months my chosen career in a school district. I quit, found a new job and haven't looked back once.

Retail. Dealing with 100s of customers on slow days and 1,000s of customers on really busy days and the holidays. Answering the same questions every day all day. Customers treating you like you're their slave. Blaming you and giving you shit for not having what they want. Having more responsibility than they're paying you for. Dealing with managers that have something to prove to their managers so they ride you like you're getting paid so much more than you make. Getting talked to one way and treated a completely opposite way where they praise you and tell you that you are the reason why the company makes so much money, and then not treating you like it. Being on your feet your entire shift. I did a 36 hour shift one time where I had 1 lunch break and like 2 twenty minute breaks. Can you imagine trying to find hiding places within the store to get away from it all for a few minutes? The stories I can tell. It was more like a whore house too.

It's never been the job itself that would suck the life out of me, it's usually one of the damn higher ups making it hard on everyone. My current job is a damn good example of 2 1/2 years of dealing with shit supervisor who refused to ever truly take into account what any of us had to really say.

Only half heatedly would listen, then try to "rationalize" away our suggestions and opinions to make the case for HIS way. A very 'my way or the highway' kind of stance but always framed as "in company this is how it's done, no exceptions."

His poor management skills and narcissistic attitude caused A LOT of turn over, and people hating work. WE ALL got along just fine and liked working with each other, but he was a primary source of resentment. When problems and pressure would start to mount up from the boss and such, would take the crap, but always act as if he was some sort of victim and it's everyone else fault. Though he would cleverly veil this to not make it look like that....sadly for him I have a very good bullshit detector and would pic apart and explain to the others whats going on. His attitude and management would just lead to stressful work loads, long hours, and just massive stress and animosity. We work physical labour, outside, from 6:30am to AT LEAST 4:30pm, and all that was fine provided he wasn't being a dumb ass. It's awfully telling when we would get stuff done just fine when we were left along to our own devices and DREADED the few times he would come to "help".

Thankfully after a complicated series of events and rocky last few months, he got fired. None of us batted an eye when we got that e-mail on our work phones, and morale instantly shot up. Our last few weeks over work before winter shut down went by peacefully, productively. Our boss was acting supervisor for that remaining time and not once did he mettle with OUR WAY of doing things because IT WORKED.

Any job can be great or terrible, it's always the damn people that make or break the experience.

Hmmm sounds like when I worked for Met Life in West Los Angeles. It, too, was a soul sucking, cubicle job, although we did have some decent perks that made it slightly less horrific. It was the headquarters and was designed in 3 buildings of three varied heights, nice architecture, but we did have a state of the art gym on the third building with a sauna, massage chairs, a tanning thing (but I loathe tanning everything), massage room, indoor pools, 3 hot tubs, another hot stone, cedar sauna with stone benches, was nice... we also had a full cafe style cafeteria and even a few restaurans on the three different buildings at this platues with ourdoor or indoor dining... we had a mini theater and we had a free movie rental kiosk and if you worked there, you could take and/or return up to 5 movies every 24hr period so I watched a ton of movies since we were, again, in Los Angeles and constantly had the newest movies there, free, soo I mean... the job, itself, suuucked! I was in accounting, uuuugh, worst job decision of my liife, but I took it, at the time, because I was working three jobs to make ends meet and to pay for student needs and this one job replaced all three, income wise, and the benefits were amazing (it was MetLife, afterall) and I had pre-existings that they wouldn't deny. I used the perks so I didnt feel As Raped as I Could Have. lol

Unfortunately, I currently have a life that's sucking the life out of me.

Call center, all in-bound customer service. Some of it totally fine (e.g. renewing memberships for a national professional society or reserving spots in a Medicare seminar), some of it meh (e.g. catalog sales), some of it abjectly horrible (e.g. using required less-than-perfectly truthful tactics to aggressively sell vitamins to old folks, cleaning up the mess after people are coerced into signing up for financial obligations they didn't fully understand, funding phone accounts to help people pay highway robbery prices to talk to loved ones in jail).

Unfortunately, the abjectly horrible stuff was the bread-and-butter. Killed my soul, made me hate myself for lending material support to such terrible efforts. Its been several years and I still carry some guilt.

On the plus side, I gained intimate knowledge of just how miserable some perfectly legal business practices are. Wait...

Your suffrage in a cubicle is a hard lesson indeed, I spend my life learning from others mistakes and the cubicle life was not a missed opportunity. Currently I'm situated in the retail life and although the work is by far the easiest I have ever done the suffrage of stupid management never goes unseen daily. From construction, to service, to military, to retail; I have yet to find a clue to what I want to do and after 40 years I wonder if I'll ever find it. So good luck finding yours and use the cubicle life as a learned lesson.

Yes I was a rep for a distribution company, loved the work.
The problem was that I could not have a life because my phone was stuck to me from 5 am to
10 pm.

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This is awful topic....can we have a post about good jobs!???

Bill collector at an agency. I left over a lunch break with a note to my boss and didn't come back. I lasted a few months, but I was so happy to walk away.

Every retail job I ever had.

Office and factory work both sucked the life from me

The job I have has evolved but there were times the tasks were simply brutal... I'm glad to be doing what I do now

Yes...so much that I had an anxiety attack and almost crashed my car....

Machine operator at a box factory. The job to set the machine up was straight forward. The problem was with the employees like a room full of tattle tales and back stabbers. The pay was decent but was not worth having to explain everything you did, was like being in the witness box in a courtroom every day 6 days a week.

Retail. UGH!

I was a planner at my first plant. We did arrow diagrams with nodes. We drew out our diagrams...no computers...ugh. write small print.

Yes, nursing