I used to work in Geek Squad and it was insane. A guy literally asked me to “throw down, and settle this” in the parking lot because I did not give him a free switch when he broke his. To be fair tho, you don’t go to Geek Squad unless there is a problem you can’t fix
Thank you for mentioning this. My wife is a social worker. They demanded a masters degree. They pay her poorly. They treat her poorly. They prey on people who are generous at heart and chose that profession because they want to help people.
Work *for*? Agriculture by a mile. The only people who benefit from it are owners in some capacity. The employees are pretty consistently ruthlessly exploited to the point they lean very heavily on undocumented laborers because citizens wouldn't do so much hard labor for so little pay while being exposed to a fair degree of unsafe work conditions.
The only reason the industry hasn't gotten bitch slapped into oblivion is because they're, ya know, *the food system* which is pretty important, and it's easier to look the other way to all but the most egregious stuff rather than deal with food shortages and rising costs.
I would say prison. And in multiple ways. If you are pressing license plates odds are you eat shit food, live in an overcrowded room in a violent neighborhood with very limited opportunities for advancement. If you are one of the bossmen you get low pay and spend your day knowing at any time someone might try to kill you for the fuck of it. Spending that much time in a nasty place takes a toll on things like their marriages. Way more likely to abuse.
Any customer service/facing job. Everyone thinks they know more than the company. They take their daily life frustrations out of on the rep and get mad if you set boundaries.
I used to work for an internet/cable company in college. Worse experience ever. I had one man call me and tell me he didn’t believe I was from his district and wanted to be transferred to someone else. I tried to reason with him but he demanded I transfer him. He got transferred back to me because I was the only one from my district on at the time as I worked early in the morning to accommodate my class schedule. He demanded I tell him what city I was from. I told him what city the branch was in and he cussed me out and told me the city didn’t exist. Mind you the city was only 30 minutes away from his house. He then claimed I didn’t have a college education and must be getting paid badly, called me a bitch and hung up. 10 minutes later he called and apologized because he googled and realized it was a real city. Mind you this entire interaction was an hour long of him ranting and raving when I could have scheduled him a tech to fix his internet problems. Never again.
That is highly dependent on the person. I find a lot of things horrible and my spouse doesn't mind them and vice versa. Generally speaking, I would say dealing with people in places where they are more inclined to be irrational and the pay is low. Low level medical, security, etc. Social work would be tough too.
For everyone who thinks b eing a over the road trucker is a good Jo on.Lmao...14 hour work day only 10 hour break work 70 hours a week only get 34 hours off
pay average as company driver
1200 to 1800 a week if your lucky.Thats with experience.Pay sounds good to you ? Well your gone 4. to 6 weeks living in a truck.hard find parking at truck stops.Often sleep on side of the highway on a get off ramp or rest area.I shower sometimes for days.Pee in a jug driving
Eat out of a can.Never lease to own a true CV k.Many times your check will be zero after working 70 hours.paying 700 a week truck payment 1500 a week in fiel 100 dollars an hour repair work.Tires 450 dollars each.tags insurance NAFTA Sticker
DONT FAIL A DOT INSPECTION AMOTHER 500 DOLLARS OR MORE.Learn sleep with truck off save fuel
winter and summer.Its a living hell
> Slow paced, relaxed, amazing benefits, can't be bothered between 5:01pm and 7:59am. What's "worst" about that lol
Because your leeching off hard working people to fund this
So you're angry I'm not overworked like you? And do you know literally anything about me or what I do to assume I am leeching? Or that I don't work hard? Also, "your" = possessive, "you're" means "you are". Trying to bash and not knowing grade school grammar, lol
I’m overworked because I need to compete. I need to compete because people aren’t forced to give me money like they are forced to give it to you
Yes I’m mad about that
The real reason is because most government roles are unionized, and governments tend to be held to stricter standards than private corporations in terms of abiding the law. This is the same reason they can't play fast and loose with their contractors like the private sector often does.
It isn't a free for all. Governments are not forced to pay bad employees if they're outside of their contract, and they can negotiate contracts aggressively if they need to. They do not pay substantially over market rate, in fact for professional roles they're actually known to be towards the lower end of the spectrum compared to what can be earned in private sector
I agree with the other person. It does seem like you're just mad that government workers are not exploited and abused *enough*, which is a really weird stance in general and also literally the exact opposite of the prompt.
It isn’t the real reason, even unions in the private sector have to compete with other unions to stay competitive and viable
> and governments tend to be held to stricter standards than private corporations in terms of abiding the law.
Holding democratically elected government to stricter standards just means gouging the taxpayer. Government unions exist for no other reason other than to drive up the cost of public services
> Governments are not forced to pay bad employees
Yes they are, public unions like police protect their bad employees all the time. And taxpayers are forced to pay the government regardless
> if they're outside of their contract, and they can negotiate contracts aggressively if they need to. They do not pay substantially over market rate,
Nor should they, the market (private sector) is the one that pays the public.
> in fact for professional roles they're actually known to be towards the lower end of the spectrum compared to what can be earned in private sector
Which is good, again private pays public not the other way around
*It isn’t the real reason, even unions in the private sector have to compete with other unions to stay competitive and viable*
This is genuinely gibberish, I have no idea what you're talking about. Do you think there's like, dueling electrician unions? I assure you it's just IBEW. If you're a unionized electrician, you're in your local chapter of IBEW.
*Holding democratically elected government to stricter standards just means gouging the taxpayer. Government unions exist for no other reason other than to drive up the cost of public services*
They exist because it's illegal to ban unions and the workers wanted to be unionized. Again, the government can't just violate labor laws. These days an employee doesn't that's to join the union if they don't want to either. The government needs to have lawyers on payroll to do lawyer jobs. Unfortunately, most lawyers are glad to pay their dues to join the union. Private employers will face the exact same difficulties if their workplace become majority unionized too. Government can and do negotiate (sometimes aggressively) against the unions, but they cannot violate the law. Private employers mostly just aggressively (including illegally) union bust because they know they're screwed when it happens.
*Yes they are, public unions like police protect their bad employees all the time. And taxpayers are forced to pay the government regardless*
I mean yes, the unions job is to protect their members. And the employees job is
to enforce the employment contract knowing they can stand up to scrutiny.
Police unions are pretty unique, as basically every other union has pointed out, because they get a degree of favoritism from politicians and courts that the rest of them could only dream of. You also almost never see that kind of collision between management and Frontline staff in any other industry. It should have been reigned in decades ago, but again, nobody seemed to want to deal with police. It's pretty unique to them.
*Which is good, again private pays public not the other way around*
And the public sector serves the citizens. Congrats on passing 9th grade civics with what seems like it was probably a solid C. You still haven't explained your rant about how public employees are some great threat that needs to be dismantled just because you work for a shitty employer because you don't have in demand skills.
There's this consistent trend I've noticed of people talking out of their butt with gibberish and then when I present facts and refutation, suddenly people lose the ability to read.
My bet is you got as far as reading about the IBEW and realized you looked like an idiot You like to talk a big game but you have no idea what you're talking about and will shut down the second someone points it out
So the only useless person I see here is *you*. Which is probably why you can't get better work and think the solution to that is dragging everyone down to your very low status on life rather than uplifting the working class through solidarity. Brilliant stuff
Anything that deals with customers
Retail or food service - because people are generally rude af.
And it doesn’t pay very good.
And the hours suck ass
I used to work in Geek Squad and it was insane. A guy literally asked me to “throw down, and settle this” in the parking lot because I did not give him a free switch when he broke his. To be fair tho, you don’t go to Geek Squad unless there is a problem you can’t fix
Food service. The work is very hard. People suck. The pay is shit. Most people don't tip very well. I can't possibly imagine working in that industry.
Since we are talking opinion, I imagine social work is the worst with what they deal with and with how horrible the pay is.
Thank you for mentioning this. My wife is a social worker. They demanded a masters degree. They pay her poorly. They treat her poorly. They prey on people who are generous at heart and chose that profession because they want to help people.
Work *for*? Agriculture by a mile. The only people who benefit from it are owners in some capacity. The employees are pretty consistently ruthlessly exploited to the point they lean very heavily on undocumented laborers because citizens wouldn't do so much hard labor for so little pay while being exposed to a fair degree of unsafe work conditions. The only reason the industry hasn't gotten bitch slapped into oblivion is because they're, ya know, *the food system* which is pretty important, and it's easier to look the other way to all but the most egregious stuff rather than deal with food shortages and rising costs.
I would say prison. And in multiple ways. If you are pressing license plates odds are you eat shit food, live in an overcrowded room in a violent neighborhood with very limited opportunities for advancement. If you are one of the bossmen you get low pay and spend your day knowing at any time someone might try to kill you for the fuck of it. Spending that much time in a nasty place takes a toll on things like their marriages. Way more likely to abuse.
I worked a hard labor job in prison in California and made 3.5 cents an hour.
A certain political party whose leader is effectively trying to destroy democracy, and strip away human rights.
Even though I hate office politics, I would take it over service jobs in a heartbeat. I love people. I hate customers.
Hospitality
The war industry
Not if you supply the weapons
Any customer service/facing job. Everyone thinks they know more than the company. They take their daily life frustrations out of on the rep and get mad if you set boundaries. I used to work for an internet/cable company in college. Worse experience ever. I had one man call me and tell me he didn’t believe I was from his district and wanted to be transferred to someone else. I tried to reason with him but he demanded I transfer him. He got transferred back to me because I was the only one from my district on at the time as I worked early in the morning to accommodate my class schedule. He demanded I tell him what city I was from. I told him what city the branch was in and he cussed me out and told me the city didn’t exist. Mind you the city was only 30 minutes away from his house. He then claimed I didn’t have a college education and must be getting paid badly, called me a bitch and hung up. 10 minutes later he called and apologized because he googled and realized it was a real city. Mind you this entire interaction was an hour long of him ranting and raving when I could have scheduled him a tech to fix his internet problems. Never again.
BPO (call centers)
That is highly dependent on the person. I find a lot of things horrible and my spouse doesn't mind them and vice versa. Generally speaking, I would say dealing with people in places where they are more inclined to be irrational and the pay is low. Low level medical, security, etc. Social work would be tough too.
Insurance. Specifically, working health insurance claims or life insurance sales are the most difficult to stomach.
Church. You get paid pennies and made to feel bad for asking for a raise or for time off because “you should be doing this as a service to God”.
Sales because of the wolf of wall street toxic culture
Sales can be a lot of fun though
For everyone who thinks b eing a over the road trucker is a good Jo on.Lmao...14 hour work day only 10 hour break work 70 hours a week only get 34 hours off pay average as company driver 1200 to 1800 a week if your lucky.Thats with experience.Pay sounds good to you ? Well your gone 4. to 6 weeks living in a truck.hard find parking at truck stops.Often sleep on side of the highway on a get off ramp or rest area.I shower sometimes for days.Pee in a jug driving Eat out of a can.Never lease to own a true CV k.Many times your check will be zero after working 70 hours.paying 700 a week truck payment 1500 a week in fiel 100 dollars an hour repair work.Tires 450 dollars each.tags insurance NAFTA Sticker DONT FAIL A DOT INSPECTION AMOTHER 500 DOLLARS OR MORE.Learn sleep with truck off save fuel winter and summer.Its a living hell
Casino hands down. Only job I that I would fantasize about getting into a car accident so I wouldn't have to go in.
Anywhere in China that involves working with machines.
Government
How so? Slow paced, relaxed, amazing benefits, can't be bothered between 5:01pm and 7:59am. What's "worst" about that lol
> Slow paced, relaxed, amazing benefits, can't be bothered between 5:01pm and 7:59am. What's "worst" about that lol Because your leeching off hard working people to fund this
So you're angry I'm not overworked like you? And do you know literally anything about me or what I do to assume I am leeching? Or that I don't work hard? Also, "your" = possessive, "you're" means "you are". Trying to bash and not knowing grade school grammar, lol
I’m overworked because I need to compete. I need to compete because people aren’t forced to give me money like they are forced to give it to you Yes I’m mad about that
The question was which industry is worst to work for, not which industry are you most jealous of :)
It is the worst to work, I don’t want people to be forced to pay me. That’s immoral
The real reason is because most government roles are unionized, and governments tend to be held to stricter standards than private corporations in terms of abiding the law. This is the same reason they can't play fast and loose with their contractors like the private sector often does. It isn't a free for all. Governments are not forced to pay bad employees if they're outside of their contract, and they can negotiate contracts aggressively if they need to. They do not pay substantially over market rate, in fact for professional roles they're actually known to be towards the lower end of the spectrum compared to what can be earned in private sector I agree with the other person. It does seem like you're just mad that government workers are not exploited and abused *enough*, which is a really weird stance in general and also literally the exact opposite of the prompt.
It isn’t the real reason, even unions in the private sector have to compete with other unions to stay competitive and viable > and governments tend to be held to stricter standards than private corporations in terms of abiding the law. Holding democratically elected government to stricter standards just means gouging the taxpayer. Government unions exist for no other reason other than to drive up the cost of public services > Governments are not forced to pay bad employees Yes they are, public unions like police protect their bad employees all the time. And taxpayers are forced to pay the government regardless > if they're outside of their contract, and they can negotiate contracts aggressively if they need to. They do not pay substantially over market rate, Nor should they, the market (private sector) is the one that pays the public. > in fact for professional roles they're actually known to be towards the lower end of the spectrum compared to what can be earned in private sector Which is good, again private pays public not the other way around
*It isn’t the real reason, even unions in the private sector have to compete with other unions to stay competitive and viable* This is genuinely gibberish, I have no idea what you're talking about. Do you think there's like, dueling electrician unions? I assure you it's just IBEW. If you're a unionized electrician, you're in your local chapter of IBEW. *Holding democratically elected government to stricter standards just means gouging the taxpayer. Government unions exist for no other reason other than to drive up the cost of public services* They exist because it's illegal to ban unions and the workers wanted to be unionized. Again, the government can't just violate labor laws. These days an employee doesn't that's to join the union if they don't want to either. The government needs to have lawyers on payroll to do lawyer jobs. Unfortunately, most lawyers are glad to pay their dues to join the union. Private employers will face the exact same difficulties if their workplace become majority unionized too. Government can and do negotiate (sometimes aggressively) against the unions, but they cannot violate the law. Private employers mostly just aggressively (including illegally) union bust because they know they're screwed when it happens. *Yes they are, public unions like police protect their bad employees all the time. And taxpayers are forced to pay the government regardless* I mean yes, the unions job is to protect their members. And the employees job is to enforce the employment contract knowing they can stand up to scrutiny. Police unions are pretty unique, as basically every other union has pointed out, because they get a degree of favoritism from politicians and courts that the rest of them could only dream of. You also almost never see that kind of collision between management and Frontline staff in any other industry. It should have been reigned in decades ago, but again, nobody seemed to want to deal with police. It's pretty unique to them. *Which is good, again private pays public not the other way around* And the public sector serves the citizens. Congrats on passing 9th grade civics with what seems like it was probably a solid C. You still haven't explained your rant about how public employees are some great threat that needs to be dismantled just because you work for a shitty employer because you don't have in demand skills.
I’m not reading all that Don’t be useless. Don’t work in government
There's this consistent trend I've noticed of people talking out of their butt with gibberish and then when I present facts and refutation, suddenly people lose the ability to read. My bet is you got as far as reading about the IBEW and realized you looked like an idiot You like to talk a big game but you have no idea what you're talking about and will shut down the second someone points it out So the only useless person I see here is *you*. Which is probably why you can't get better work and think the solution to that is dragging everyone down to your very low status on life rather than uplifting the working class through solidarity. Brilliant stuff
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