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      thanksajdotcom @Katie
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      @Katie Oh boy have you opened a big can of worms there. I'll start.

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      • KatieK
        Katie @thanksajdotcom
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        @ajstringham It's the IT career forum. Everyone's had a bad gig or two over the course of a career. :wink2:

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        • scottalanmillerS
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          I've really not had bad IT jobs. Had bad pre-IT jobs, but in IT it has been pretty decent. I guess working for a major grocery store chain ... that jobs sucked a lot. The culture of despair was unreal. No one was happy, everyone was just sad all day. And everyone quit the moment that they could.

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                  • KatieK
                    Katie @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller Some environments are better than others. I think I've been very lucky, also.

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                      thanksajdotcom
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                      @scottalanmiller I've had some pretty bad jobs personally. Horrible infrastructure to horrendous working environments. Finally landed where I belong though. 🙂

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                        /wtb RAM rants.

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                          A Former User @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          I've really not had bad IT jobs. Had bad pre-IT jobs, but in IT it has been pretty decent. I guess working for a major grocery store chain ... that jobs sucked a lot. The culture of despair was unreal. No one was happy, everyone was just sad all day. And everyone quit the moment that they could.

                          same here. I was a janitor, painted houses (which i really liked), delivered pizzas....now fired clients?! o hyes

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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                            Been dishwasher, retirement home food service, fast food manager, pizza maker, restaurant crew chief, grocery store bag boy, cashier, hotel auditor....

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                              Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              I've really not had bad IT jobs. Had bad pre-IT jobs, but in IT it has been pretty decent. I guess working for a major grocery store chain ... that jobs sucked a lot. The culture of despair was unreal. No one was happy, everyone was just sad all day. And everyone quit the moment that they could.

                              How funny - my worse job was also a grocery one. The manager was racist and sexist, what makes it weird.. he was sexist against other men.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
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                                When I worked at Pizza Hut they actually had a policy that only women could be servers and only people who had worked as servers could be managers. Handy way of making a glass ceiling without directly saying that only women could get promotions.

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                                  Eric @Katie
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                                  @Katie I worked at a convenient store. The boss was unqualified and sexist, the hours were horrible, and the work was not challenging at all.

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                                    Katie @Eric
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                                    @Eric said:

                                    @Katie I worked at a convenient store. The boss was unqualified and sexist, the hours were horrible, and the work was not challenging at all.

                                    Sounds like an Inconvenient store to me. 😉

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                                      Banana Republic. I had a horrible manager who was mentally unstable, and was essentially emotionally abusing others. She played favorites, and figured out ways to sabotage others so that she could continue to get promotions. After I realized that I was assigned 30% of the closing shifts, which meant that I worked from 1pm-10pm 4 of my 5 scheduled days a week, I started looking for a new job. She's still working for the company, and to this day, it amazes me that she has a job.

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                                        @Eric There are necessary qualifications for managing a convenience store?

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                                        • Bill KindleB
                                          Bill Kindle
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                                          Worse job I had was the three days I spent at Best Buy before I walked off the job, telling a manager who cornered me in the warehouse and called me a liar, same yahoo who the night before allowed me to leave early due to an early appointment the next morning. Yeah, that went over really well. I've had some shady & down right mean bosses too. To this day I can't stand that place. Shady all around.

                                          So far, I've mowed yards, painted fences, roofed a house, delivered newspapers, worked in the education system (that really sucked), worked in produce at a grocery store, delivered newspapers again, worked for Wal-Mart (actually liked that job to some extent), worked for a IT service provider, worked in IT for a non-profit, worked for another IT service provider and now I'm doing software support / IT administration.

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                                            Bill your a seasoned fellow

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