Toughest or Worst Job you have ever had...

[mr. fix it]

Ok so here goes with mine.
It involved a local Chevy dealership promising the world when I was pulling wrenches full time.
I was freshly licensed mechanic but in Diesel Coach lines

At the time they promised me $13.00 Flat rate hour for a "Busy" dealership.

I was to be a general technician for the first while and then specialize at a later date.
My first day there unloading the van had me meeting the other mechanics there after they helped me unload.

Being it was flat rate and me being the new guy I didn't rush up to the service counter for a job as I didn't want to over step my place first day on the job.
After about an hour of no one going to the service counter I asked some of the guys if they were taking their time grabbing work and I was met with a quite loud laughter.
After the dust settled there, I was told there was no work and they were wondering why I had been hired,
Well this was the beginning of a nightmare that lasted almost 3 months...

I was told I'd be working straight days & was almost immediately switched to afternoon/evening shifts.
The service manager was let go a few weeks later since it was discovered that they had been committing warranty fraud.
They wanted me to lie about work performed as warranty or customer pay jobs. - I flat out refused to do that.

GM would not pay for diagnostics on a car so everyone refused to diagnose, they just replaced parts until it ran right.

I got made the transmission specialist when I had no experience in this area of GM transmissions
Then I became the A/C specialist!
I had no idea at the time how A/C in a car worked!

With little to no money coming in I had no choice but to move on
I was given no work the entire morning because the management thought I had broken a console part in a customers car.
They demanded I pay for the damages to which I refused stating that I wasn't paid enough to pay for this and they had insurance to cover damage like this.

I called my wife to bring the van as I had had enough.

Just as I was getting ready to load up the new service manager calls me into the office to talk.

States that he is firing me for wilfully damaging the customer's car.
I then turned and pointed out the office window to show him that my wife was backing the van into the service bay to load my tools.

I told him he couldn't fire me because I had already quit!

The look on his face was priceless!

But with that and not having a job I was able to network and started a new job on the following Tuesday!

I never did ever put this on any resume as this was the worst job for me ever...:hehe:

 

[70bigblockdodge]

That would be a job I would never want wrenching other peoples cars. Of course I really don't like people in general. I have some good friends that are in, in and out of, one even left to be a truck driver so it must be bad lol.

 

[thrashingcows]

Never really had a job I hated. I had one Boss who made my life hell for almost a year before I quite.

I had been truck driving for a few years, long haul from BC to LA, then left that gig and was running short/medium hauls from BC into WA, OR, ID. I was getting tired of that job and wanted something more local. So I got a job driving Vacuum truck with a small company...guy built vacuum trucks, and had one of his own to bring in a little extra money. So I ran that truck for almost a year, this guy screaming and yelling at me about anything and everything...never could do anything right in his eyes.

Finally I went back to the previous employer I was at, but got on the dry Bulk haul trucks, was much better in that department.

 

[commando1]

Brian, what made you go to where you are now? Doing inside deliveries to coffee shops would be a nightmare job un my eyes.

 

[Big_John]

Working away from home on long extended trips......SLEEPING in more Hotel/Motel beds than I can count, for multiple weeks at a time straight in some instances. Even though the employer usually supplied plane tickets once a month to go home, I couldn't wait to get back and sleep in my own bed. I HATED getting back on the plane to go back.

I did that when I worked for GE. The last year was 150 days on the road.

My marriage was a bit shaky at the time and that finished it off.

 

[thrashingcows]

Brian, what made you go to where you are now? Doing inside deliveries to coffee shops would be a nightmare job in my eyes.

Hey Stan, I had actually ended up back running vacuum trucks after the dry bulk haulers. Had been doing that for about 4 years when my wife saw an ad in the paper for a timmy driver. She sent my resume in without asking me. :icon_rolleyes: I was quite happy running vacuum trucks, and never thought I'd get a call back on the resume. I thought what the heck I should give it a try. So I did, and have been here for 10+ years now.

But With the new company merger things are not looking so favorable on the horizon....they have not said anything definite yet to us in distribution, but the writing seems to be on the wall. Think I will hold out for a month or two, we have a family Hawaii vacation booked soon, then if things are still uncertain I will start looking for a new gig. :icon_winkle:

 

[commando1]

What does BK know about coffee? Nothing. Takeovers and buyouts have always hurt the workers.

 

[300rag]

What does BK know about anything? Nothing. Takeovers and buyouts have always hurt the workers.

Fixed.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Bk did it as a tax shelter they buy or merge whatever with a Canadian company not doing exactly the same thing, corporate office moves to Canada and their tax liability is less in Canada. I saw the percentages somewhere but can't remember them.

 

[commando1]

And close down entire distribution centers and consolodate them with the ones where the hourly wage is 10 cents an hour less....

 

[thrashingcows]

The only "Plan" I've heard from the new corporate overlords is that they want to "Take our Brand to the world!". Well they had to borrow heavily to acquire our company, so where does the capital come from to finance this new endeavor? You have to liquidate assets to generate it....Distribution centers, trucks, trailer, and employees.....