While everyone is on the hunt for a dream job, or at least a job that does not require all you’ve got and then some more out of you, the people on Reddit shared their experiences with... the worst jobs ever. And, yeah, that’s the cue for us to say that you wouldn’t believe these worst jobs unless you read about them yourself, but that would sound a bit pretentious simply because only a few of the lucky ones haven’t had the actual experience of working a job from hell. However, we are pretty sure the ones shared by the people on Reddit that made it onto our list are the world’s worst jobs, nevertheless.
So, what jobs count as the worst jobs to have? Well, for one, there are the useless jobs, like speckling freshly washed potatoes with dirt so they look… fresh enough? Not too clean? Mildly appetizing, but not entirely? Still, working as a potato speckler isn’t so bad, just mind-numbingly boring. What’s really bad is having to enter an active volcano to harvest sulfur, or having to fill the shoes of a whole entire company (and get as many scolding as ten employees would. On a daily basis). And that’s just to name a few thoroughly unusual jobs not even your worst enemy deserves to have.
Now, although reading up on the worst jobs in the world might be entertaining, bear in mind that there are people who actually have to do them. I guess what we want to say is that those who work these jobs are basically real-life heroes. So, scroll on down below, read the submissions, give the worst possible job ever a vote, and share this article with your friends, if you’d like.
#61
"Worked at an Ihop in a low income town. I hated everything about it. Everything. The awful management is what made it so bad.
-The first red flag came up when I walked in, filled out an application, walked outside, got in my car, and had a voicemail message asking me to come in for an interview.
-The second red flag came up at the interview when the two questions I was asked were "are you legal?" on account of me being an immigrant, and "when can you start?"
-The third red flag was when I needed to request a warm damp cloth to clean the DVDs I had to watch for training. That is three red flags before I even started work.
The kitchen staff were able to get away with anything and would routinely send out food on unwashed dishes or without cooking it correctly. The front of house staff would have inappropriate conversations on the floor. The night crew would just leave without doing side work, and as management never worked nights it was never picked up on.
Oh, and one of the dishwashers nearly killed a guy. So there's that."
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6points
#62
"Being an auto tech for a really sh*tty dealership.
Two years in school and student loan debt so I could pull weeds out in the sun for minimum wage because there's "not enough work". Never mind that we had several techs sucking down 60 billable hours a week of sweetheart customer pay work.
'Landscape for the next six hours and we'll call you if an oil change comes in lol.'"
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6points
#63
"When I was a student I did some stuff for an employment agency. One day, I was sent to work somewhere we had to assemble shoes. (Put laces in them and so.)
We weren’t allowed to talk. Or sit. So I spent 8 hours standing up, running laces. The supervisor there was German. He yelled at me a lot, because I am not going to be silent just because some dude tells me I have to be.
ARBEITEN!
That’s what he kept saying. He didn’t even bother to make full sentences.
Yeah, after that day, I declined to ever go back there again. The agency seemed surprised, or even mad. Guess they had a little trouble finding people that were willing to put up with that crap."
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6points
#64
"I once worked for a candle factory. Everyone was on meth and the smells were extremely overwhelming. This factory was a giant metal building where candles were manufactured, stored, packaged, and shipped. I worked on the shipping side of the building and there was a loft where all of the packing peanuts were stored. When I joined on, the going joke was "don't go into the loft unless you want to get pregnant" I eventually found out it was because the meth heads would go into the loft to do their drugs and have uninhibited s*x with each other among the packing peanuts. (Keep in mind most of these people were married, but not to each other.) Well it turns out 3 or 4 different women had gotten pregnant on the job in the loft from men that weren't their husbands. The worst part was it was normally super hot and dusty up there so I can't imagine these people rolling around on the splintery wooden floors in the near triple digit heat all dusty."
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5points
