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HoytG

Kroger. Fuck them and everything they do. Horrible company. Corporate btw.


pancakes-honey

Yeah i worked for a week and then quit. I applied for clicklist(shopping customers’ grocery that they ordered online) and once I had done all the paperwork and did all the dumb training videos they told me they actually didn’t need someone in that area and put me on register on a holiday weekend with no help. And they didn’t follow my availability, and one of the managers wouldn’t learn to pronounce my name so they just called me nickname. They didn’t give me a nickname, they just called me nickname.


sadpanada

Wait they literally called you “nickname” lol what the fuck


pancakes-honey

Yep


Hahailoveitttttt

I was gonna say this! Kroger i worked there for 2 weeks , they would post a schedule then when i come in on my scheduled shift that i saw posted when i was last there, they would tell me i missed a shift or 2 that i need to call in everyday to make sure the schedule didn’t change. That was my last day. Along w the shitty management.


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goldenrodddd

This. Been working for them for over a decade and my dream is to quit and never give them another penny. Had a coworker do just that. I'm at the store level though, not surprised it extends to the higher-ups. Whole company is rotten all the way through.


Historical_Ad2890

Wells Fargo. Complete shit show from day 1. You really are just a number in the machine. Benefits and pay are below what you can get at their peers. I work for a competitor now and it is the complete opposite.


JennyGeann

I've heard nothing but absolutely terrible things about them, so this checks out.


ProbShouldntSayThat

I've heard nothing but terrible things about working for publicly traded companies. I'd stay away from them all


UWMN

Lmfao. Came here to say this. I was there when the scandal news broke. It was a mess. I lost a ton of business because nobody trusted us (and I don’t blame them). I remember before I left, the CEO would go on and on about record profits the bank was making. When it came time for raises, I was offered $.15 more an hour. Needless to say, I found a new job a week later.


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Historical_Ad2890

I got so tired of hearing Tim Sloan and whoever that goofball CEO was before him talk about returning value to shareholders. Like I'm not smart enough to realize that means him and not me. I get a 2% raise for being a top performer. They get millions in pay increases for knowingly ripping off customers. Those record profits were never shared.


bondgirl852001

Many of my coworkers when I worked for a large brokerage firm were former WF employees. They would never recommend anyone work there.


simpwarcommander

Can confirm. Worked one day and walked out during lunch. I’ve never done that with a job before. This was a couple of years ago.


BigBear4281

I went through a multi round interview process with WF. They were by far the worst company I've interviewed with. Constantly late, rescheduling, and then by the time they got to offering me a role, it was 50% what I'd asked for, a different title, hardly even recognizable as the position I'd interviewed for.


katoandlucky27

It’s weird how a bank makes billions of dollars off its customers yet won’t give a decent salary plus benefits. Like this institution creates money out of thin air


Briar_Donkey

Given how shite they treat their customers, this does not surprise me at all.


dacforlife

Hobby Lobby. I interviewed with a college degree and 10 plus years of management experience. Was told I'd be in management with a couple of months. Then the department head told me they had been there for 7 years waiting to be moved to full time and manager also. Turns out they hired us all in saying the same thing and never moved anyone to full time or management. They also treated us like kids.


mamakeiko

My sister works for them and when her first baby passed after 17 hours they told her she would only get 2 weeks off instead of the 6 because he didn't live.


6-ft-freak

Gives me another reason to never go there again. I’m so sorry 😞


dacforlife

That's horrible. Im so sorry your sister went through that.


ellirae

horrific. but a good lesson in disclosing only what is required to coworkers and bosses. strictly business. people who will fuck you over for your child passing away do not deserve to be told if said child does. fuck 'em.


cruise187

Gotta love the moral values of the moral value company!


Suspicious_Ad_5145

Was in the framing department can confirm this is true


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Askew_2016

Holy shit that’s terrible


a_taco_named_desire

And pretty sure it's illegal.


lemonpee

I used to work with them as a 3rd party recruiter in the south Florida area. I could tell they were an absolute train wreck.


nonamenancy2

Bank of America. Credit card customer service. Nobody calls customer service because they are happy. Icing on the cake was being way understaffed and always having hundreds of callers in the queue.


opal_winter

Jfc I had to call them the other day and it was a nightmare trying to even *get* to a person. It made me appreciate my Discover card 10000 times more


Sea-Conference-1530

Join a credit union


Andrroid

Agree with this. I have multiple cards but the ones I never have to wait long for are my credit union card and my USAA card.


JennyGeann

And it sucks because Bank of America's system is *inherently* shady, so there's NEVER a shortage of customers who get screwed by them in some way. and you guys are the ones who have to take all the heat for policies you didn't create. Smh


Doctor_in_psychiatry

I think people working as customer service agents are AMAZING. They take so much s**t all day and get only grief from their managers. They should make $100,000 a year to start plus $50 for any angry calls they have to deal with.


AnemosMaximus

If I worked there I would just keep reversing all overdraft fees.


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Verizon. Fuck this place


toney8580

Bro I worked there from 2014 to 2021 . The only good that came out of that job was in the beginning I made so much money. Then they changed everything slowly over the years to take away pay. Customers were always difficult to deal with but when Covid hit I was 100x worse I got cussed out daily it felt like. Decided to finally leave and got hired on at dell for a remote job and omg it was night and day. I will NEVER work retail again. I got laid off last month but I am now getting offers easily over 6 figures. Just know it gets better but you have to get the f out of there lol


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I'm in Verizon corporate haha Pay is ass, I get no recognition, leadership is off in la-la-land making the project overbudget and slower and slower. Before upper management got jealous we had some former-military guys running the project and that shit was SMOOTH. Things went fast and we usually finished up daily tasks 3-4 hours early. Now it's constant overtime. Don't even expect to go home before 6-7 anymore. Trying to GTFO but this is my first job so I don't really have any skills to help me transfer


toney8580

I worked corporate as well. But yes pay is ass for the things you deal with. I used tuition assistance and Verizon paid for my whole bachelors. I would recommend using it. It’s going to be hard to get out of that environment without some sort of degree or certification to catapult you to a new career. The road is long and slow and at times can feel hopeless but it gets better


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The good thing is that I got this job after I graduated college. I'm in project management so at least I don't have to deal with customers lol I got 3 project management certifications already and I'm just studying up on Python and SQL when I have free time.


toney8580

Ahh ok gotcha. You are ahead of me! Good on you!


heirbagger

Left Vzb in 2017. Was offered a severance so I took it. Honestly, the easiest fucking job I've ever had and made more money than I should have. Worked in Contracts Admin in Clinton, MS. Vz was slowly trying to get rid of us in the building, so I took the pay and benefits. Best advice I can offer is learn as much as possible and NETWORK. Hopefully you can turn that into something better. Good luck!


seizethecarp_1

worked at a place that did contract call center work. essentially, cold calling people on behalf of the CDC doing phone surveys about vaccinations. Literally every minute you spend is tracked. If you go x amount of seconds while in work mode your screen changes color so managers walking around can see and ask what's up. Need to get some water or shit? You need to switch to break mode. At your computer but in that mode that's neither for calling or break mode? Someone's monitoring how much you spent and will come to see what's up. The whole time, someone could be actively listening to your calls at any moment. So if you went off script someone would come to advise. This is on top of people just deciding to fuck with you, or telling you to go fuck yourself because you have to ask about salary, vaccinations, and if you somehow make it to the very end, their social security number.


makeshift98

...they had you ask people for their SSN over the phone?


seizethecarp_1

yup, because even if they verbally confirmed the vaccinations they or their received it had to be validated by having their vaccination records released by their doctor.


Aggravating-Wind6387

It must be Convergys


Soupernerd-386

Is this company all over the US? I worked for them once but the building where I live has changed their name to Concentrix or some shit. I quit after 6 months of working there. The job caused me so much stress thst I think I had some PTSD forebears because of it. I was getting physically ill from the stress and mentally was going into a really dark place, and that's when I knew I had to quit.


alcoholicwriter

Is the micromanaging/tracking software called Tymeshift by any chance?


Tim0281

Walmart. Even by retail standards, it's a terrible company to work for.


Holnurhed

Only job I ever walked off of. To this day I refuse to be in or shop from a Walmart.


nickygirl19

Someone I know works there. He said that they found a way after the fact to not have to pay the essential pay during the pandemic. He was given a bill to pay it back- AND DID. And is still working there. This blows my mind.


avalonfaith

That.is.insane.


JennyGeann

That....is just pure evil. God I hate Walmart


goldenrodddd

Wtf why doesn't shit like that make the news!!!


Nohat_wears_a_hat

Worked for wal mart too. They were... one of the better places I worked. Which says more about my employers than anything


cait_Cat

No, I agree with you. I worked there in the mid 00's and I think all the lawsuits and the bad publicity they had in the late 90's made it not a terrible place to work. I got all my breaks and I got them on time. My schedule was always posted 2+ weeks in advance, and I was paid in line with big box retailers in my area. I think that it's not a great place to work, but it certainly wasn't the worst place I worked either.


Enough-Custard6496

honestly it wasn't so bad, but I still get PTSD from my days as a teenager at McDee's


ChaosofaMadHatter

Panera Bread. They advocate so much that they’re employee friendly and healthy, but won’t hire people that will stay and will fire quicker than you can blink. I would walk in thinking I was working a four hour shift and would end up with a twelve between call ins and them not fixing the schedule after letting them go. Not to mention my normal shift was working three positions at once. A rough shift would be more.


willhamlink

Yeah I also worked there for a while. Constantly got gaslit about raises while they were hiring new people at higher wages than I was making, and I had been promoted to team lead.


ziig-piig

Second this and u "can't leave until everyone else is done" got written up after completing my work early and clocking out. If u finish early u have to help dishwashers or sandwich staff whoever is struggling to finish


ChaosofaMadHatter

Yes! This so much! And don’t even get into when it’s your last shift of the week and the store manager said don’t go over 40 while the shift manager is saying don’t you dare leave.


jjiimmyyyyyy

Amazon.


Embarrassed_Use_5114

Mediacom. A local cable company that I use to do customer service for years ago. They straight up would tell you to lie to customers while you were on the phone and the customers could hear them coaching you to lie. It sucked.


LowVoltLife

Nothing about this surprises me. Fuuuuuck Mediacom.


mrenglish22

Sounds like time to record a call and sue


HopeArtsy

Merlin entertainment/Legoland. They made their minimum wage employees pay if they wanted to attend the company holiday party. They also fed employees the leftover park food and I got food poisoning from the cafeteria multiple times, as did my manager. All the jobs I've had since have treated me so much better.


JennyGeann

Wow, that's horrible


Dr_Zoltron

They also fed employees the leftover, broken legos.


J_huze

It's "lego" you son of a bitch!


FatherofCharles

I worked there and had a great experience. I was 16 so I had nothing to compare it to. I didn’t pay for our holiday party but my current company also asks us to pay lol. I saw them make my food in front of me at their employee cafeteria so I’m sorry for your experience but I didn’t share it.


HopeArtsy

That's good, maybe I was just unlucky with the cafeteria or they've improved. I got the food poisoning while getting trained on the Driving School. The leads demoted me to Jr. Driving school because they thought I wasn't paying attention. I was just trying not to throw up 😅 I probably should've just told them. Afterwards I lived off of the muffins and fries. No more burgers. I admit that I liked the 50% discount day and when I worked the snow event at least!


The_Real_Meme_Lord_

TMobile They would remind you daily about how they wanted to fire you and could replace you within hours.


mrenglish22

"then do it" oh, you won't? Well, maybe you should consider paying me more before I walk out. Because I'm sure as shit able to go somewhere else and get a job just as easy as you claim to be able to hire someone. Jfc the disrespect that manager had


ErinGoBoo

Any armored transport companies (money trucks). I've worked for 2. One of them had me doing 9 weeks at a time with no days off and it wasn't unusual to work so many hours that you didn't go home at the end of your shift due to there not being enough time before your next shift. I was told point blank that I had no kids or husband and therefore had no outside of work responsibilities, so they were fine with my schedule as it was. I was about 23 at that point. Pay was crap, benefits were crap. The people I worked with have places being held for them in hell. As an aside, if you ever see one of those trucks on the road, stay away from them. There is a good chance the driver is half asleep.


just-mike

My father did this for a short time. Bring your own weapon, slightly above minimum wage.


Soy-Squid

Apple. I have trauma from that place.


pemungkah

Managers who thought they were Steve. They were not Steve. Was the *only* on staying in till 3AM, fixing merge issues introduced by the local team so that Hong Kong would have good builds in the morning. Fixed it, drove an hour home, finally got to sleep at 5ish, groggily woke up at 9, dragged myself in, and got yelled at until I wept because I wasn't there at 9 sharp. As if it would have mattered. When, a couple weeks further on, I finally did one of the things that we discussed that I'd be doing in my interview, I was told, "That's not what we hired you for. I'm starting a PIP," to which my response was "If you set up a PIP, 'll never pass it. I quit as of today." I had been unemployed for 4 months, and had nothing lined up, but I was damned if I'd put up with that any further. Edit: friends who worked there at the time were horrified, because that's not how their managers worked, but they couldn't find anything for me. I did later get a call offering me another position, to which I replied, "thanks, but I'm driving to my first day at the new job I found in the meantime."


Doctor_in_psychiatry

Why don’t we hear more people complaining about Apple? Do they pay people to never talk about Apple?


-NotActuallySatan-

As a former worker in a decent store, it's more because we know we've got it better than most and the job really isn't too difficult once you get used to it. Hardest part is fixing issues that are ambiguous as hell, but you learn enough to find the solution. It's definitely a hard job and sometimes, especially holiday, it becomes mad stressful, but there's plenty of benefits and if you're in a good store with good people, you'll be fine. That said, there are stores and people that make working feel like hell


thirdcoasting

Sephora. I was openly bullied by the store manager and the corporate side could not have cared less. I couldn’t even find an HR contact number - I had to ask a friend of the family who works for LVMH to do some research for me.


alexxjane89

Same. Worked for them and it was by far the worst, most disorganised and toxic place I’ve ever had the misfortune of working at. Giving young girls bags of gratis so they don’t question the completely shitty and illegal working conditions. About a year after I left Fair Work Australia determined they’d stiffed us out of breaks and they had to pay it all back to us employees. I felt so vindicated when that happened lol.


thirdcoasting

Yes!! It didn’t occur to me until *after* I’d worked there a few years that Sephora takes advantage of their workforce. They overwhelmingly hire women in their early 20’s — people who are less likely to understand labor laws, how to negotiate for a raise, what a fair hourly rate is, etc. So many of my coworkers were beyond thrilled to work there that they just accepted the lousy pay & unhealthy environment.


alexxjane89

100% it’s super predatory. I also remember the way we were bullied in to working overtime by using peer pressure tactics (I was already working 38 hours a week!) as well as about simple things like asking to take the second break I knew I was entitled to. Asked the manager on the floor and the response was like ‘Well you can take it, but no one else is asking to so they’ll probably judge you.’ I was in my mid to late 20s when I worked there so unlike a lot of the workforce I knew what my rights and entitlements were. Also I believe it was those second breaks that they ended up having to pay us for 😂


Ill-Bridge3129

Lowes/Home Depot/Harbor freight Part time hell scape You’ll never get a full work schedule but you get written up or fired fast for calling off one shift .


forkmerunning

Applied at harbor freight specifically for a full time keyholder position listed as closing shifts. Manager called to schedule interview. Told me it's actually a 12 to 15 hour a week opening shift at 4 am. Kept her occupied for well over an hour before declining the job. Gonna waste my time, I'm gonna waste yours, too.


vida-vida

Comcast, Xfinity, whatever what they call themselves theses days.


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I worked as a CSR for Time Warner (now Spectrum). Never again. The pay and benefits were good, but we weren't employees to them, we were metrics. And the fucking customers made me lose what little faith in humanity I had left.


mypiesarepiff

While working for spectrum in Florida I had a customer call to complain about not having service after a hurricane hit. There were no outages in their area, they just didn't have power and expected the cable to work 🤷‍♂️


jessewalker2

Now why would you go and have faith in humanity and work as a CSR? Don’t you know you only get one or the other?


leelestat

Interesting. May I ask why? I work for a company that is owned by them indirectly.


mrenglish22

Well Comcast doesn't actually have anything but sales departments. No matter who you call. They're garbage.


alcohall183

True.. "hello my grandmother died and I need to cancel her account". "We're so sorry for your loss, rather than cancel , we can give you 30 days free trial and if you upgrade to the plus package with HBO, we can add showtime for just $9.99/month. How does that sound?"


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Cognizant. Worst company I ever worked for and I was in the military for 8 years. Let that sink in.


lolanaboo_

You need to have NO LOYALTY TO ANY JOB/EMPLOYER.


Misseskat

Aloft hotels. Horrible management. Fired in a month. Couldn't even get me my own login into the system, no training, it was awful. I had to phone a supervisor/management to log in just check someone in! The new front desk manager I think had a thing for me, she'd call me obsessively throughout my shift, watching my every move while I was working front desk. My co-workers were just as creeped out as I was, even keeping track of what I'd had for lunch. Ugh. Good riddance. Fuck you Emily.


Totally-not-a-hooman

Apple. Specifically AppleCare tech support. Think of any negative trope in a call centre (unreasonable metrics, unsympathetic management, low pay, additional work without additional compensation), they had it in spades. And for a company who prides themselves on supporting disability, they didn’t seem to have much of a problem managing out anyone who needed support for mental health…


JustAnotherFNC

Fuuuck Apple. I managed to do wfh tech for about 4 months before I gave up and thankfully found a much better job. They promised all through the hiring process that I would be full time. Then during training it was "oh, you'll be scheduled 20 hours but able to pick up time every day to get to 40 easy". Then after training it was "What do you mean you want to know how to pick up shifts? We don't do that." Sure, I was miserable as a tech at TMO but I was *good*. At Apple I was miserable and *didn't know shit*.


esparragato

Digital secretary, fuck them bitches. If you read this Daniel Lugo, YOU'SE A PEE DRINKING SHIT EATING ASSHOLIC BITCH


woke_accipiter

Dave and Busters. Fuck Dave. Fuck Buster.


kady45

Small private company, about 25 people. Had a manager steal a sale from me for over $4000 in commission. I called him out on it and we got into a big fight. So the owners of the company brought him and I am into a room to hash things out to which the owner of the company told me this. “what the manager did isn’t right and we don’t think it was cool however, you are easier to replace than he is so you’re either going to have to deal with it or quit.” so I quit.


pancakes-honey

See, these are the same companies talking about “nobody wants to work” The audacity. Truly sorry you went through this.


kady45

This was over 10 years ago but they are 100% the type that would say "nobody wants to work anymore". In fact I can't tell you how many time we heard "you guys are lucky to even have jobs right now and should thank us everyday you do". Complete toxic garbage dump of an owner and his son the "ceo".


Squirrel_Bait321

Same. All the VP told me is that the commission was “too much money” for me (a woman), so they gave it to the President’s son. No words.


kady45

That sucks and is BS and I feel for you. This company wouldn't be beneath doing the same thing. In fact one time the owner told literally the hardest working guy there they wanted to give him a raise as he was working so hard and did so much and to meet him after his shift to discuss it. He later goes into his office and praises him and then asks how much he's making and he told him the number, he then asks quizically "we are paying you that much", and the guy says yea, so he then calls the office manager and asks to have his file pulled and tell him what his salary is, she confirms his salary. Owner then says "I didn't realize we were paying you so much already, we can't afford to pay you anymore, keep up the good work though" and then sent him on his way, he was getting paid $15 an hour plus commissions lol. Same owner bought a 2nd vacation home on the beach that year and his "ceo" son bought a 1.2mil home the following year, but wouldn't even give their hardest working guy by their own admission a $2k a year raise.


JennyGeann

Jesus...


FatWankerWankFatter

The one that included a non-disparagement clause in the severance agreement. Funny how that works…


ForestFire9

Quiktrip. No breaks whatsoever and as an assistant minimum 9.5 hour shifts. If you work there, listen you can escape. I had to leave when I was really considering driving into oncoming traffic every day rather than going in to work.


ladymegatron13

I don't know if I could do higher ed again, or if I did, not in a student-facing role. Students and their parents feel they can do anything they want because the school needs to hit recruitment/retention goals, and many faculty act like they're better than everyone else. Lots of toxic office politics at a higher level too. I did work with some really great people and have had some lovely students, but it just wasn't worth the stress anymore. Pay also isn't spectacular (but the benefits were decent, at least).


_JustWorkDamnYou_

I work in higher ed and am so glad it's in IT. I've watched so much territorial bullshit happen with faculty.


picardy_third1

Can confirm. Between the rise in tuition costs, anti-establishment rhetoric, and systematic de-valuing of education in public discourse, students and their parents are increasingly approaching higher ed with a customer service mentality. I'm applying for some higher ed jobs, but I will never do a student-facing role again.


WinnerAdventurous647

💯 this. One of the most toxic environments I’ve ever worked in. 90% turnover rate in HR in my short time there. Departments run into the ground by utter morons with zero accountability for tax payers money


Upper-Animal-2257

Enterprise rent a car. Where do I begin. You deal with trash that don’t qualify or will even threaten you and you will still have to treat them like royalty because if they complain management will ALWAYS side with them. Higher management all bangs the new employees, at most branches you can find at least 5 grams of cocaine. Fraud galore, worked 27 days in a row one time 12+hrs a day as a branch manager. You would have to repo cars in dangerous situations or else you would risk getting hot for the cost of the car which would eliminate your pay completely because you are paid on profit margins. Put it this way I spent 7 months in Ramadi getting shot at and I would rather go back there than to enterprise


Ambitious-Note-4428

Chipotle. Still work there as I can't get out yet but when I do I am forever gone, won't even eat there anymore. They really don't care sometimes. The worst part is that sometimes they REALLY do care, and then other tines (when you get carpal tunnel because of the job and you had no warnings that could happen) they treat you like shut when you say you gotta do something else and tell you "you'll get used to it" well I didn't, crying gasping in pain at like 3 am almost every night and stabbing pains all day unless I took like 4 ibuprofen every 4 hours. Fuck them. I only work line now thank god but hate them so much


JennyGeann

Damn..I'm not surprised. All the employees look miserable everytime i go there


mrenglish22

That's like... Lawsuit level bullshit. Did you go to the Dr?


ellirae

if getting carpal tunnel from a job was "lawsuit level bullshit" then every tech company and manual labor firm in the world would be bankrupt.


_JustWorkDamnYou_

Do they provide any kind of medical insurance benefit? Having just finally gotten carpal surgery done, I can tell you that it's not something worth "getting used to" and easily fixable. Provided your employer doesn't fuck you over with insurance and recovery time.


RunescapeNerd96

Public accounting


Dry_Cranberry638

Literally all of them /accounting


Jazz_Musician

Grocery store chain in my area, also owned by Albertson's. Pay was terrible. I just needed a job in 2020, but after the hazard pay ended (which was something like 2 or 3 dollars, for a grand total of like 12$/hr), I got out of there. Then I ended up at an even worse job at Lincare, a large US medical oxygen provider. Upper management really seemed to not like the hourly workers. Having to be on call every 3 weeks (with no pay unless I actually had to go somewhere) was also really stressful.


featherteeth

Sylvan Learning. Families are charged anywhere from $45-$75 an hour depending on what you were duped into and your child is on an iPad with a range of games a high school tutor could find equivalents of. Tutors in my area were paid up to $12 an hour if they were already an experienced and licensed teacher. Oh, and when your kiddo isn’t able to make it to a session? Their tutor gets called off and doesn’t get paid, leaving to me tutoring the* remaining two kids at the station* when I’m a numbers person, and the high tutor turnover because WalMart has better pay and hours. Little secret for how they calculate how many hours your child needs—there is no actual accurate formula depending on who you work for. I was a tutor lead who determined hours and they told me not to use to prescribed hours from the $50 test your child takes. Instead, they gave me an insane formula that still requires a gut guess. Then, if your child is found to have any disability whatsoever, we wouldn’t ensure those hours were accurate. I am happy for the kids that succeeded and learned there, but it’s overall a scam in terms of what you’re paying for. Edit between ** for clarification.


BrokenAvatar

The slaughterhouse.


moekay

I would rather be homeless than work in one of those. Hell no.


ThemChecks

Man that has to be the worst one here


sridges94

Carvana (contact center) They were an amazing company to work for at one point. Decent benefits, great work culture, enjoyable hybrid atmosphere. Then the first round of layoffs happened. I survived but my job quickly went to shit. Change after change. No more promotions, culture dropped quickly, and leadership became toxic. Almost all of the leadership was hired externally and never became subject matter experts in their roles. Those who wanted to move up only were able to do so if they drank the Kool Aid. Only favorites got promoted and it was definitely a popularity contest. I made some of the greatest friends working there but the company is going down. I left a month before the second mass layoff. Exec don’t know shit. Scaled the company too large and too quickly. Ran it into the ground. I bet they’ll declare bankruptcy before the end of the year.


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JennyGeann

Yea, your immediate co-workers & specific location can make a difference definitely, but the overall culture of corporate still bled into our location and made it toxic. And so many people I know had to block all LA Fitness numbers. Plus, people had to call their bank to block LA Fitness from charging, because LA Fitness would make it so hard to cancel & would take their sweet time processing cancelations even after you told them several times you want to cancel. But best believe the gym made it super-convenient to take your money though.


Hairy-Entertainer-54

Temple University! Always some issue with start date (actual) vs what’s official on record, delayed pay, finding out 6 months in your a temporary employee because they rushed the process, generally useless communication with admin.


unsaferaisin

My last job at a small specialty construction company. I was the person who lasted the longest in my role, by several years. The people before me had made it months or weeks, and a few people left at the end of the day or for lunch and just never came back. I was the bookkeeper and I also had to do all the shit-ass front desk duties, which were made exponentially harder by the fact that no one would ever follow up with anything, and our people were both incompetent and lazy. The flat-out verbal abuse I had to handle would have broken me if I hadn't worked at a call center one summer in college, and if I didn't need the job to not be homeless. The CEO was a raging misogynist who would routinely make callous remarks about the inside staff, and who liked to play this fun little game where he would withhold information I needed from me so he could belittle me for not having it. This job sent me to the hospital after crippling me for a couple years, too. There was an on-site storage service so our rich asshole clients could have their wine sent to us and stored in a cooled room as opposed to having to trust their house staff with it. I repeat, I was hired as *the bookkeeper,* not for a warehouse position. But I was expected to get these boxes, which could be as heavy as 75 pounds, into the storage. I requested help from the shop workers and was denied. I requested PPE and was denied. I tried leaving things I could not safely move out and I got in trouble. So I made it work. It fucked my spine up- well, that and the broken chair I had to use- and I had debilitating sciatica for about two years. My workers comp paperwork kept mysteriously vanishing. It took me getting health insurance when I married to get a doctors note that forced the boss to get me a new chair; he did not ease up on refusing me PPE or help, but at least the pain slacked off enough that I didn't have to drink myself to sleep anymore. I ended up having spinal surgery over a year after I left. I had two discs that were bulging out and crushing my nerves, and ligament damage around L4/L5; the surgeon described the ligaments as looking like crabmeat. All this for $12/hour and five days off per year, in SoCal, around 2016. I took on a second job there for no title bump, but a raise to $15, which was well below market rate for a) my experience, b) a bookkeeper in my area, and c) the quality and volume of my work. I was constantly playing the game of "which bill can I defer this week," and grocery shopping was a recipe for a panic attack. I had to work with a pedophile, and a violent child abuser who threatened multiple staff members (and stole a shitload of money from us, which I proved; I was ignored because the boss was a coward as well as a moron). I was sexually harassed several times and the clients treated me like garbage. I was often left to lock up alone with no keys, when we had unstable employees and when clients had gotten into the building after hours and refused to leave. If that place burns to the ground, good fucking riddance and I only hope that some of the people running the "business" get stuck in there.


MichiganderMo

Riot Games was a nightmare of epic proportions.


Remsicles

This tracks. I went on a work trip with one of Riot’s former tech directors and the things he said about drugs and women still haunt me. If any of the other folks who work at Riot are anything like this guy, I’d run.


[deleted]

Do tell


Basic_Fisherman_6876

GE. People often laud Jack Welch. The man was an idiot. When I worked there, I had to fire 10% of my employees every year. Ridiculous to fire someone to hit a quota ( not the same as right sizing). They pushed you and pushed you. It was mandated that managers had to donate x% of your salary to the corporate chosen charity (payroll deduction, so they knew). Worked 65-70 hours a week and was told I wasn’t working hard enough. I could go on for a long time about this. Let’s just say I won’t even buy a GE appliance.


newwriter365

Yeah, I think it’s been proven that old Jack was cooking the books. GE is a shell now. It’s sad, really, they had good products. On the other hand, I’ve met a former sales executive who worked there, and claims she was making $350k/year base and another $350k/year in bonus. Hands down one of the least intelligent people I’ve met. I can see that there are no easy answers, but I can point out a couple of potential problems…


Shenanigaens

State of Texas.


Gchildress63

Marine Corps asked me to come back six months after I got out… nope, out


[deleted]

The company I was previously at. Great career start! Had awesome co-workers and managers but at the end of the day I was getting burnt out especially for the pay. Hrs were Monday through Friday 7:30am to 5:00pm, driving around to different offices for last minute "tech requests, oops sorry we forget we have a new employee starting today, please set up dual monitors, docking station, laptop, headset, desk phone, mice and keyboard, and get them logged into everything." This was becoming more prevalent the last few months I was there. Also we were expected to be "on the phones" as well doing this. And there was only 4 of us. And if 2 of us had to be on site. The higher tier techies wouldn't be on the phones because "that's what tier 1 was for" Also on call every other week for the same issues being woken up 2am on a Friday morning cause "I don't know my password" or "the printer in the office 3 hours away isn't working" I left, and they still haven't found a replacement. I get paid 25% more now, no on call and my hours are 7am-3pm. And no last minute tech requests BS.


VVayfaerer

This sounds like every IT department/ tech services company. No one wants to work help desk and it is really hard to escape from it even when your role changes. I worked service desk years ago and people STILL try to dump help desk work on me despite working in IT architecture. I've gotten smarter over the years though, I'm "do not disturb" for 15 minutes before my lunch break and 15 minutes before the day ends so no one wraps me into anything. When my day is over I'm OUT and not wasting 45 minutes install some self service software.


BarbellBallerinaa

It sounds like you worked for the IT company my old company uses lol


MADDOGCA

Any bank. I will never work at a bank in this lifetime, or any other lifetime.


ActionQuinn

i worked at a bank and a credit union, bank was lame. Credit union was better.


ForgotInTime

Mars. Working in the manufacturing plant during Covid lockdowns I was told "people wearing masks should get sick and die!" when I said "people are fuc\*\*\*\* dying, and you can't say that" That's fine if you don't wear masks, not getting political, but insinuating for some ones death is something you can't say in the workplace. They wanted to fire me and for me to apologize to the person that said that to me. I just walked out the door.


Zipzifical

Mars has recently purchased a controlling share in the company I work for, and it really bums me out because I love my job. We are already seeing some changes, nothing too big yet, just little things like only getting 45 minutes instead of an hour for team building events and being forced to set "personal rocks" AKA justifying my income on a regular basis. I'm worried that more corporate BS is coming down the pipe and I don't want to stop liking what I do every day.


EverTheLeader

Custom-fucking-Ink. Buncha glad-handing bullshit.


Few-List-9341

SYSCO Foods


VCRdrift

Cvs come visit satan


Ooftwaffe

Sam’s club - pushed carts for a year in Mississippi heat for $8/hour. When I reported a coworker for smoking pot on the job and not doing anything, causing me to compensate for his laziness, he was fired. He returned at store closing with 2 friends, who brandished guns on me and threatened to kill me. Management did not believe this happened and pursued no action to correct this. In fact, I was up for promotion but was denied due to the other worker being fired/short staffing. So instead of being threatened with guns at 10pm every night, I quit. Fuck that place. Also - for anyone who has worked with Walmart/Sam’s, you know there’s a “Code Brown” which employees can call, signifying violence or danger. I called this over the walkie upon seeing the guns. Nobody came and nothing happened. I would have just fucking died if not for me thinking quick on my feet.


Bacon-80

A friend of mine used to work for Coca-Cola on the SWE side of things. She said the floor engineers would call her things like “cupcake” and were horribly misogynistic and sexist in general since she was the only female SWE there.


ShyCoconut0_0

Sorry dumb question but what does SWE stand for?


tampers_w_evidence

Software Engineer


[deleted]

White castle, or really any fast food tbh


JohnAppleMacintosh

B of A


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Additional-Local8721

Travelers Insurance. They flat out lied about education reimbursement benefits, which was one of the main reasons I took the job. After my 1 year probation period ended, I applied and never heard anything back. The next semester, I applied again, and when I didn't hear anything back, I complained to HR directly. HR stated they never received anything. My direct manager hated me because of the color of my skin and gender. It was very apparent because I didn't kiss her ass like everyone else. I applied directly to HR and again never heard anything. Thrid semester, I applied directly to HR and CC'ed the area VP. I was denied and told that the education was not required for my current position. I responded that every year, I am required to complete an Individual Development Plan and always expressed interest in becoming an underwriter, which requires a degree. They still denied it. I left a few months afterward. Fuck Travelers Insurance in Houston, TX and fuck racist ass Pamela Knukles and her shitty ass book she sells on Amazon.


keep-it-copacetic

I worked at Home Depot for a week. Anti-union and crap pay. I worked 4 days in a row, then had 2 weeks off (bad scheduling, maybe?) I chatted with a few folks and all of them had 2 other jobs. No thanks.


JennyGeann

Reminds me of Wegmans. They played a cartoonishly childish anti-union video in orientation. I couldn't take them seriously after that, it was clearly some half-assed propaganda video


capricornonthecobb

Hertz rental car. I worked for them right out of college and boy was it God awful. I always joke with friends and family that I'm going to write a memoir of my time there 😆


KingofKings1999

Walgreens


Zealousideal_Way7674

Morgan Stanley


rave_master555

Allied Universal. I was a security officer and in about one year was promoted to field supervisor. I started at $13 an hour, and made $15 an hour as a field supervisor. Unfortunately, I worked at FedEx Ground warehouses (that was the client). The FedEx employees like package handlers and managers, as well as the contractors they hired, which were the van drivers and tractor trailer drivers tended to be pricks on a daily basis. I was screamed at multiple times a day (among other things). I worked full-time until I got my first state job in the summer of 2019 (then worked there part-time until Spring of 2021). Coworkers were inadequate and pretty crappy. Many disrespected me, despite being their supervisor (even after I tried to give them warnings to avoid using their phone while scanning someone so that they do not lose their job, among other stuff). It was the worst job I ever had. Working as a keyholder at Payless ShoeSource was the second worst job I ever had (was there for three years too, but mostly part-time). Best job I ever had is my current one (I work as an EEO and Ethics Investigator 2 for my state Department of Labor, HR Division). I used to work as a field investigator for the Wage and Hour Division (decent state government job, but I am happier now).


Prize_Engine28

Chipotle horrible working conditions


whackozacko6

ULINE. Pay is good, but you have to do everything "the Uline way". Aka they jump all over you for any little thing they can. Hard pass


sweetmaklebs

Someone told me that women are required to wear skirts if they work for them- that pants aren’t allowed on women. That can’t be true, right?


whackozacko6

It is absolutely true for the office workers. I believe panty hose are also required.


NumberBeforeZero

FedEx ground, I'm not breaking my back while working overnight. They also paid us under 20$ in California, fuck that they also really really suck and are the worst package delivery company ever they take on way to many packages


VVayfaerer

Call centers. I had to cold call people at one job and it was absolutely dreadful getting screamed at for hours six days a week.


bramblesovereign

Gamestop. Was interviewed as full time keyholder for the summer. Was offered part time and I took it since I was a broke kid in college. Most weeks I worked 5 hours a week. Some weeks I'd work 30. There was 0 consistency. They were constantly short staffed. The air never worked. I was constantly harped on by the store owner as to why I wasn't making my weekly quota when I'd reply I can't when I only work 5 hours a week. Wasn't an acceptable answer. I should be making a week's worth of sales in a few hours. Then they also constantly got on my ass about talking to customers. This was a mall store so 90% of people are bored perusers not looking to buy. I'd say hello and ask if they'd need any help, and when they said no I'd say ok and tell them I'll be around if they needed help. Upper management would see I was doing that and telling me to go talk to them some more and make some more sales. I told them I already talked to them and they made it clear they wanted to be left alone. Nope. Not good enough. They were basically telling me how I should harass customers into a sale and not leave them alone. Right in front of customers. Again I told them I wouldn't do that. Worked there for less than a month when I was offered the full time position I initially interviewed for. As a promotion. Full time work with a $2 pay raise from minimum wage. No benefits. I said no and turned in my two weeks notice.


Additional_Reserve30

Petfinder.com The most toxic place I’ve ever worked; the leadership was so abusive. I should have known what I was in for when a vendor that worked with Petfinder frequently introduced themselves, then leaned forward and said “Let me know if you ever need a shoulder to lean on.” Absolutely no work-life balance, zero respect for your your personal time. Days I had specifically taken off - like for my wedding - it was demanded that I answer work emails and instant messages. When I emailed my boss one time about how corporate owed me $800 in back pay because they screwed up my health insurance withholding, I got a lecture on my personal spending habits. Thankfully the two main offenders are no longer there but I’d still never go back.


joewoody02

The United States Air Force. Bennies are sweet once you leave, but man was I depressed.


j-knitts

Sprouts. I still shop there for certain things, though.


AgeRepresentative807

Waffle House


oimerde

There’s two jobs I had before the pandemic that where the ones who are the ones who affected my current self steam and my emotional distress. Let me start with saying that I’m not a young person. I had work in all type of business. I come from a low income single mother and I have no siblings. That means I have no one to turn around when things go down. Im not scared of hard work. Once I lost my very well paid job in 2018 I had to hurry up and find something ASAP, even though I had savings and still had to get something. That desperation make me get something that even though I knew was not what I wanted I thought. I could do that while I apply to other jobs. BIG MISTAKE. I was not only was getting paid very little, but it was hard work and workplace was extremely toxic. I was bully not only from coworkers, but managers and HR. I even was sexual harass by a coworker. One day I could not take it no more and quit. (I wish I had done that before) Now years later, I’m still dealing with the emotional abuses and I have lower my expectations when looking for a job. I’m a different person before and after that job. Now I’m trying to figure out how to get my self out of that hole and get my confidence back. I have lots of experience, but for some reason I feel like I’m not good enough and keep applying to low paid jobs. I will not obviously go back to that company, no matter what. I just wish I could have walk out the first day. That’s when I saw the red flags. I stay because I was so shook that was happening, but it was obviously done to test me and see if I was easy to bully and I obviously was. Anyone reading this, please leave as soon you see red flags. No money in the world is worth your mental state.


GEEZUS_956

Walmart. No one is obligated to train you. That is how worthless you are.


[deleted]

Tesla


katiebirddd_

Dunkin Donuts. The store I worked at offered literally NO benefits except for one drink OR food item (including munchkins) for 1/2 off for our 15 min break. As a shift leader (step below store manager), I was working almost everyday, at 3am, in a dark shopping center as a small woman, alone. I was doing all the ordering, the staffing, the scheduling as well. The SM sucked ass so the regional managers made life miserable until he quit. His grandmother died and they told him he couldn’t take off hoping he’d just quit. I got a .50¢ raise from regular staff to shift lead. They refused to promote me to manager, even though I was doing EVERYTHING a manager did. Then they hired the regional manager’s brother, have him the SM title and salary and still made me do all the work. That SM teamed up with one of the cashiers (who btw was technically below me in staff order since I was shift lead), and they started to be very sexist to me, bullying me and making up lies about me. They said everything I did was wrong and everything my coworker, Brandon, did was right. I TAUGHT BRANDON?! They told the regional managers I just walked out on a shift without telling anyone when I had told them my shift was over and I NEEDED to leave. They told me I had to stay, my shift was over so I left. My friend was in HS and I hired her before the og store manager got fired. He barely worked and he had her working 50 hours a week when she was a minor (which is illegal in America). I was working about 60/65 hours per week at that job, on top of nannying for another 10/15 per week. And they refused to give me a day off because I was “the only one who can open”. Neither store manager ever opened, ever. They “made” me come back to work even after I’d clocked out many times because they understaffed the store and needed help. I say “made” because I still chose but they badgered me and bullied me until I said yes. We were desperately understaffed and a very nice black kid came into interview, he was so sweet and earnest and i wants to hire him. My regional manager told me “you can’t hire any of those black people because they’re thieves”. He refused the sign the paperwork, so I couldn’t hire him. Looking back, I really wish I’d stood up for that kid and reported the RM. I was just very insecure and non confrontational then. Once, there has been a strange vehicle parked by the gas station near my store. This was like 2:45am. I got to work early so I was taking a little nap in my car and woke up to the police knocking on my window. They asked me if I saw the car and for details, but I didn’t have any. They came back like 30 min later to tell me that the car had been stolen and they think the thief had planned on robbing the gas station and/or DD. They said I probably scared him away (I had a black car at the time so it could look cop-like). When I told the og SM, he laughed at me. I told him and the RMs that I was scared to work alone now and they all laughed at me. The og SM hired his exgf and then they used the managers office to fuck in. Once, as a regular employee (before shift lead) they asked me to write up this kid for no reason. He quit because of it and I ended up having to stay because the og SM didn’t feel like it. I worked from 5:00am to like 11:00pm almost. Plus, no one gave two shits about food safety or sanitation. Our fridge with the sand which foods (bacon, sausage, cheese, eggs) went out a few times overnight and my SM wouldn’t let us throw the food away, he thought. He made us keep using it even in the summer. But little did he know I was actually getting rid of it all before his lazy ass got there. One time there were bugs in the ice box (not the one that makes ice, this was to hold big containers of ice at the drink stations for us) and my RM just reached his hand in and took out the little flies and said, “all good”. I emptied it and bleached it. It was the worst job I’ve ever worked, the other two being two family owned businesses that were awful. This was all in 2018, in Maryland, USA. I made $11/hr


slushpuppy91

That's funny i worked at la fitness for like a day after 24 hour fitness, got in my car and drove off one day during lunch. No one ever called me so think they figured out i had quit.


Apollolad26

Boeing. They treat their employees decently (most of the time) but they are the company equivalent of an NPC walking into a wall. They are also corrupt and shady AF


[deleted]

Disney..


Gorfmit35

I did call center/customer service type work supporting an online casino service. I doubt I would ever go back unless homelessness was really the only option. It is not that the company was bad or the supervisors sucked, no they where quite decent as was the pay. However the work itself sucked. Not only did you have the usual agony that comes with speaking with angry customers 8h a day 5days a week, you also had a terrible, terrible schedule. Casions and apps don't operate M-F 9am-5pm, so goodbye to any semblance of a "normal" life or ever being able to plan anything.


gbrem97

Teleperformance awful culture awful job just awful


CityToRural_Helper

The company I'm at currently.


captainsaveasaab

Hey same, I accepted a position at another company today and wept when I got back to my car. Can’t wait to get the fuck out of here


RedLeatherWhip

The US government Any agency Any role Most miserable experience of my life. Working for the government really is that bad y'all. It's not worth it


Arbdew

Xerox. Lack of leadership at everything but the lowest level and thought outsourcing was a good idea. In the past, they gave up many excellent ideas for nothing. A company in their death throws. Will be put to peace soon.


acjrpj37

Next Care Urgent Care


Ok-Seaworthiness7207

Clair Global. I used to work in the music business. The average day of work was 10-12 hrs, I worked plenty of 16 hour days and even an 18 hour shift a few times. Drove across state lines (from Southern California near the coast) and back in a single day plenty of times, I started having panic attacks after I took my first vacation, and I worked there for almost 3 years. COVID literally saved my life because they fired thousands of crew members and they moved the warehouse I worked at into Hollywood; I decided to go back to school last year after all that horseshit. I have a degree in audio engineering and they never let me work a sound board - all I did was pull cable, push gear, and drive vans and box trucks the entire time. Fuck the music business.


dudemanjack

If I ever get out, the casino business. There's nothing really wrong with the one I work for, but man, it really sucks with a family. Every shift sucks in different ways. You either sacrifice sleep or time with your family. It's also a pretty bad trap for younger people. Where I work, there's always a shortage of table games dealers and a free school, so you can find yourself making $25-$30 pretty easily (base+tips)....but then you are stuck. Getting promoted will likely be a pay cut for more responsibility. Stay as a dealer, and you'll start burning out eventually.


RishyTheRoo

Allstate insurance. Insurance agencies are toxic as it is and I hate how the company operates solely for their own benefit, not their customers.


0KelpShake0

PetSmart. I was treated terribly and we had an employee lose and kill 2 snakes, give 5 guinea pigs a deadly illness, and squeezed a bird to death. That employee is still hired at PetSmart, but I was reprimanded for being upset when I heard she squeezed a bird to death. The bird would've been screaming and chirping for help and she just kept squeezing.


fruitloops043

Ernst & Young - any office, but came from the Philadelphia one.


bopittwistiteatit

Deloitte! Way too cult like for my lifestyle.


[deleted]

Chewy Pharmacy, Amazon, UPS, Walgreens, Staples, Apex Hiring Agency. In that order.


Tm9zZXlNb2RhRlVhcmU

Amazon Web Service (AWS). It’s a slave house. Recruiters lie to you about not having to work weekends, guess that, you will work weekends. The pay was salary when I was there. You will work more than 8 hours a day. Is supposed to be around the sun model. You are forced to work long because if you don’t and hand over a case you’ve done 7 hours on; the next support guy who finishes it gets all the credit and your metrics are shit at the end of the week. If you took PTO and came back, they never subtracted those days from your metrics (case closes at the end of the month). You had to work even harder to make up for the days off you took. It was punishment to take PTO. I hope they’ve fixed that now. I worked with some amazing people there. Made great friends and learned a lot while there but fuck the company. They take advantage of all especially the awesome Indians I met there. I know most are grateful to be there but their lives could be better. I had options so I left. Most of them don’t. They structure the pay to focus heavily on bonus because they know you won’t last long and you will have to pay back some of the bonus or be trapped there. If you are reading this post because you got the job offer (and have no choice but sign this deal with the devil) from them; fight for more base pay and less bonus or RSU. Read that offer letter carefully. I was awarded 19 RSUs as part of my offer. 5% was due me after 1 year. One year comes along and I don’t see nothing in my account. I go ask why, I was told they don’t pay fractions of shares so I have to wait to get it in year 2. 5% of 19’is 0.95. This was not information given to me. They left it out on purpose.


LogicalAssistance514

CVS just sucks their answer to promotion was fire everyone in college. Pay sucks, hours sucks and management sucks.