Which job have you had which had the highest SC rating?

[Lace Neil Singer]

In other words, which of the jobs you had garnered you the least respect and highest amount of SCs? For me it would be the pizza place; practically all the customers thought we all were brain dead, even tho all of us had graduated from college and some were at university. Plus, all the rudest, nastiest and downright spiteful customers I've ever had the misfortune to come in contact with seemed to patronise that pizza place.

[Seanette]

Hands-down, graveyard shift at 7-11. I even had one "customer" whose apparent hobby was to come in on my shift to curse me and trash the sandwich area (I did discuss this with boss and SC was notified that he would be refused service on my shift thereafter).

[April]

Denny's, by far

[Broomjockey]

I've only had two jobs, both at movie theatres. One was about 4x busier than the other, and had the commesurate number of SCs to go with it.

[chainedbarista]

while my current one has some serious 'high end' sc moments; my temp job at 'toys r us' hell over the christmas season was by far the most horrific.

[NightAngel]

The one I'm off to right now.

[XCashier]

When I was 19-20, I worked for a store in a well-known pharmacy chain. On these boards, I simply refer to that place as the Drug Store From Hell, because even though it's been many years, I really don't want any repercussions should anyone from there visit here. But that place was the worst, combining managers who bowed and scraped to every SC that came along and refused to back up or even properly train the employees, and every known type of SC known to CS. (shoplifters, scammers, racists, class-ists, mean old geezers, entitlement whores, self-centered soccer moms/trophy wives, perverts, sadists...did I miss anyone?)

The store closed down less than two years after I was forced out of there. Gosh, what a surprise.

[T-Morksux]

Customer service for the cell phone company i work at now, i think people really grow balls when they are on the phone. It amazes me the things people will try to get credits and free phones for. Tech support isnt too bad but you still get people demanding free phones b/c the one they have now has the slightest problem.

[JustAGirl]

convenience stores (kinda like Sheetz). you'll be damned if you take too long ringing someone up for their smokes or picked the wrong kind (you must have esp and know if they want hard or soft pack, or 100's or regulars) or too slow to realize that YOU must know what everyone looks like and where they pumped their gas at, and know what the heck "x" vehicle is.

oh and you MUST be able to take $100 bills 1 hour after opening on a slow morning.

oh man, the rants I have from convenience stores are at least 10x the amount of complaints I had about a big name store where I used to work!

[Kiwi]

craft store

I dont blame them for being grumpy or rude, that place was horrible

I blame them for misdirecting their anger at ME!!!!

[wagegoth]

Small chain of convenience stores (no longer in business).

The job application had illegal questions on it, the managers were expected to work 80 to 100 hours a week, the entire store staff was the manager, a long-term employee and me, and we were open from 6 a.m. to midnight. That was also back in my young, slim, hot chick days and I was always getting hit on by customers, and had guys who would just come in and hang around for hours to bug me. Eww.

As usual, most of the regulars are nice (it was in-between high-income and blue-collar housing areas, so there was a good mix), but there was theft, the problems of working alone in a semi-rural area, dealing with drunks, and working on holidays. Typical convenience store stuff.

The store was open every day, regular hours, no holidays, no benefits, nothing. (It was a desperation job.)

There was one night when 3 teenage guys showed up just after we closed at midnight. Actually, I had just closed, alone as usual. They wanted to come in and use the phone. (This was back in the 80s, pre-cell phone days, and company policy was no outside phones to keep down dealers and such hanging around. Also, the only phone we had was a pay phone in the office.)

I told them we were closed, I couldn't let them in, and there was a bar across the freeway where they could use the phone. They wouldn't leave, and I was getting the freak-out sensation. I called the sheriff's department and got nothing but a run-around from the dispatcher.

Finally, an older guy, a regular customer, saw the teenagers' car sitting out front as he drove home. He recognized my car, knew we were closed, and got the feeling he should stop. When he arrived (almost a half-hour had gone by), he spoke to the guys, telling them the store was closed, and they should probably just find someplace else to use the phone. They finally gave up and left. I started crying and let him in and locked the door. He stayed with me until I calmed down.

The next day, I seriously started looking for another job.

[AmericanZero8503]

Suprisingly...a health/tennis club I worked at. All the people that worked there could afford the rediculous membership fees, and to send their kids to lessons for $300. So they were extremely stuck-up and rude. Someone like me who was just a front desk person they treated like trash. My family isn't uber-rich, we're middle class and I was working to save up money for a car because I'm not spoiled enough to have them hand me one. I really didn't appreciate being treated the way I was.
One lady told me I had to call her son to tell him she'd be late, while holding a cell phone in her hand. I'm a front desk attendent, not your personal assistant. Also the owner used to be in the Navy so he was an asshole from the start. He tried to get me to stay till 11 PM. I was under 18 it was a school night which means I wasn't supposed to stay past 10 PM. I was also serving alcohol under 18 which is a big no-no. So needless to say when I quit, I reported him to the labor department in my state.
I wish more people would report to the labor departments when they are denied a break, or something similar. Companies get away with too much.

[Bella_Vixen]

Gas station. By far. Especially the one I work at now, in a rich suburb.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I'm gonna have to say Olive Garden. At least at Kinkos, you don't have to scrape meatballs of the wall. And I don't have stress dreams about Kinko's.

[blas]

The gas station, by far. Here's the kicker: the owners of the store are undeniably the nicest people I know. My ex manager is the biggest sweetheart and the nicest manager ever.

The customers, however? Pure trash. Trash all around. Berate you and belittle you over anything (even though they aren't anything but gum under your shoes), they'd purposely say a different brand of something, then you'd get it, and then they'd scream and call you deaf, or whatever, they'd trash the coffee area, they'd throw pop on the floor if you just got done stocking the cooler and it wasn't cold yet...........not to mention they'd sexually harrass, gawk, and stare at every girl that worked there (but it seemed like me the most. I could be wrong, but I doubt it). Customers would drive by and, as they got closer to the store, either pull in just to see who was working, or slow down to a crawl to see who was working and slow down traffic. Pathetic people who really needed to get lives. They'd use phrases like "Ye manager" and "Gimme" and "I want" and "I need" and "GIMMMMME!" and "You better gimme" etc etc........completely uncivilized, uncultured people. Nasty.

[Byronthebanker]

Defineately the grocery store. The chain I worked for positioned themselves as the higher end brand, but still put stores in shady areas. Of the nine stores I worked in, the one near 2 dog tracks and 5 strip clubs had the highest SC ratio.

[Gas Station Girl]

I agree with everything that was said here about working in a gas station. It truly is the worst job ever, in terms of the suckiness of the customers. Sure, I've had other jobs with whiny, picky, demanding customers who think that they are better than me, but those weren't as bad as some of the SCs I get at the gas station. At the gas station, I get creepy old men who hit on me; drunks who hit on me, try to steal, and mess up all the displays; angry smokers who just cannot accept the fact that we sometimes run out of THEIR brand; bratty kids who mess up the displays and try to steal; crowds of teenagers who loiter endlessly; couch potatoes who just cannot accept the fact that if they return their movies late they get late charges; hopelessly addicted gamblers who spend hours scratching lottery tickets in the store; thieves who drive away without paying for their gas; various types of scammers; people who are incapable of using small bills; people who are just generally messy (leaving garbage all over the place and making the bathroom really disgusting); and people who are so self-entitled that they think the world revolves around them and their needs.

[theredbaron47]

Pizza parlor when I was 15. Owner and his wife were as nice as they come, but he was a spineless cheap-ass, and his wife wasn't much better. The co-workers there were absolute weasels. Complete asses to everyone, including me, because I was a few years younger than the others. Only one co-worker was actually nice to me and treated me with respect.

Let's not forget the owner telling the daytime manager (mid-40's, had worked there since she was 17) not to do anything about the 50-something man sitting in the store masturbating in public because "it wasn't anything she hadn't seen before".

:eek: :eek: ???? Are you kidding me?

And your scheduled shifts never mattered, because (my shifts were always 5-8 in the evenings) you weren't allowed to leave until your station was cleaned for the night. I was usually on the pizza station (as opposed to hoagie, oven, front register, and kitchen stations), which normally was very messy, and we had to serve every customer who came in regardless of what time it was. We usually locked the doors whenever we felt like though, but still, I didn't drive, and had to be picked up by one of my parents or my sister, and it was damned inconsiderate of them to keep me there till sometimes 10:30pm (when I was SUPPOSED to be off at 8!) knowing that my ride was kept waiting.

And then how he would have me close the store, keeping me there until 11:30pm on school nights, with me being 15. HUGE labor law no-no. And cooking pizza, using the oven, at 15. You had to be 16 to use it. He didn't care.

Glad I got out of that hell-hole. REAL glad.

[CherryCokeKissez]

Definitely the job I've got now. I mean, I've worked other restaurants, I've served before, but this job...

I know I'm older than your average hostess (I'm 20), and I've come to terms with that. I've even worked with a 40-year-old hostess (she had one arm and had a very hard time serving so she hosted, was with that company for like 17 years and so her hour pay was good enough that she could get by hosting) so I have no problem being a 20-year-old hostess. I'm good at what I do and I take pride in that fact. It's just the people in my area, even though they're rednecks and wannabe ghetto rednecks, don't know how to behave in restaurants or treat those who work in them. What makes this job worse than my last one is the managers....

[Think Blue]

For me it has to be working at a church snack bar.(high school fundraiser) You'd think with it being a church people would be nice and understand that it's not a fancy restaurtant just a bunch of teens trying to raise money for a senior trip, but no these people were the biggest as*holes ever. They would cuss at you if their food was not perfect. I heard this doesnt taste like starbucks so many fu*king times I wanted to kill them. Also it was a small cooking area that fit about 4-5 people, and there were hundreds of people who usually ordered for their family, so yes people it will take time to make all that food especially when there was only one person (me) on food. Complaining that we are lazy sacks of sh*t:rant: because one of my class mates that was scheduled didnt show (that's my fault) is really gone help the situation. So many people would bring up empty cups demanding a refill on coffee, but what do I see when I look at it, It says STARBUCKS ON IT YOU CHEAP BASTA*D. (I should really post these stories I think you guys would enjoy the read)

[CaroPhoenix]

For me, it's a toss up between the public library and the gaming store. For the gaming store, it wasn't the people who actually understood the concept of the store, it was the walk-in traffic. For the library, it just seems that EVERYONE who comes in through the doors excepts us to stop everything and cater to them, 'cos ya know, they pay my salary.:rolleyes: (Funny, as I'm a taxpayer, I do too).

[Becks]

Definitely the gas station, by FAR. Blas, Bella, and others have already mentioned the main reasons, though.

Oh, except for the people who HAD to have their gas pumped for them on weekends, even though the two full service pumps where closed on weekends. Jerks.

If you're old or handicapped, fine. If you're an able-bodied person who's too damn lazy to get out of your car and pump your own gas, why is that my problem?? (At least the old folks occasionally gave me tips.)

[Jpurple]

Interestingly enough, I don't remember my convenience store/gas station days as being all that bad (Then again, that was a long time ago...)
The job that generated the most SCs was definitely the big red evil craft store- the nonsense those people tried to pull, the attitudes, and the fact that we were the only one of our chain in a very large area meant we got all the whiners, weirdos, and women with too much time on their hands.

The fact that the company 'promotes out, not up' meant that half the time our management couldn't find anything in the store and had no idea what the previous problems had been because they were so new. The trouble was, we couldn't keep the good management we got -they kept being promoted elsewhere!

[Morrigan]

Mine would have to be the bussing job at the all-you-can-eat buffet, all the way back in high school. It was something like $7.95 for lunch and $10.95 for dinner, which I thought was highway robbery for a meal until I saw how most of these people ate. Every kind of loud, obnoxious, demanding, rude, inconsiderate, and downright mean SC came through that place, and on top of that there was the church crowd on Sundays, which were all of the above, but there were three times as many of them. I was only there six weeks before I quit/was fired (only no-call no-show I ever pulled). I just couldn't face it anymore.

To be fair, I was only seventeen, painfully shy, and hypersensitive to everything, so it might not have been as bad as I perceived it to be. But in hindsight it still seems that I had more SCs in those six weeks than I have in any other job I've held since.

[PorkChop]

The worst job I've had was working at a convenience store, hell hole called Circle K. We didn't sell gas, thank god! I have never been disrespected and harassed in my life while working there. And the manager didn't care!! He's an ass to everybody. This store is next door to a strip club. Can you imagine the assholes I had to deal with coming from that dirty place. I worked the graveyard shift most of the time I was there and alone! While working there, I was going to school to be a veterinary assistant, so working full time and school full time made me tired and cranky. I was civil to the very few people who were nice, but, the drunks, druggies and assholes got the attitude after they've fed it to me. I was too tired to care.
After the new year this year, there was a murder in the parking lot at 2:30am. I demanded the company to put me off nights and put me on afternoons or I quit. I was freaked out by the nightly activities in this ghetto. So they put me on afternoons. I still delt with SCs, but nights were just horrible. Couple of months after the murder, I quit. I couldn't take the bull shit anymore. Paid very little to deal with this much abuse.
I have graduated from school and I love my job as a vet asst. Now, I just deal with dumb owners with ill trained dogs. Which is not bad but annoying. I just think about my bad times at Circle K and I appreciate the dumb dogs who can't talk back! :D

[Sunsetsky]

When I worked at Burger King. You really shouldn't piss a person off who happens to be handling your food. But I didn't do anything like that. Although, I'll admit, it was tempting sometimes.

[ArenaBoy]

The job I have now is a SC magnet. It's the easiest job I've had but the SCs, coworkers, supervisors, and its rules are just stupid. I live in a very affluent county which means I had a lot of rich assholes. Their kids are a lot worse, driving a BMW which was just given to them and they act like they're better than you. I've had to deal with drunks, rednecks, and assholes in one night at one point that I almost walked out on the place. You get written up for some insipid things, you get written up if you're late but you call ahead to let them know because your car broke down. Most of my supervisors bowed to SCs and I haven't yet.

[ShockQueen]

I think mine had to be the large evil Blue Box store (we all know which one that is right? :rolleyes: )

If you wanted to know the pure meaning of abuse, you became a "stockman" (read: cart pusher/gopher). I recall seeing such things as fights breaking out over shopping carts in the lot during Christmas season (way ta go moms!), lazy-arse co-irkers who would never put their own cardboard in the baler, so I'd get called every hour or so to deal with 10-15 carts FULL of cardboard, so natch I had to bale the stupid thing - and then they wondered why I didn't jump to get the next take-out. Spending most of my day in the parking lot was the best part though, although people really didn't know how to drive in the ice & snow (including all those who LIVE there all the time).

I think I only made one outstanding contribution to that store, and that was when I completely straightened out the "99 room" (where they keep all the shelves hooks, etc). I had to take a picture the day I was done because within 2 weeks of that day, it was back to a disaster pit again.

GADS I'm so glad I'm out of that place! What's even more amazing is that some of those who I worked with........ARE STILL THERE!:eek:

[BunnyJas]

My first job when I was 16- working at a popular fast food restaraunt. Before then, I never knew that people could be so freakin' rude to service people. I'd say that each day, we had at least four entitlement jerks, three I'm-in-a-hurry whiners during our busiest hours, two idiots that expected a five-star meal at a fast food place (complain about something trivial and demand free food :headscratch:), and a partridge in a pear tree.

On top of that, I had a day manager that loved to bully young, new workers and at least two coworkers that took orders, but never carried them out. Inevitably, these customers would find me and angrily ask why they didn't have their orders yet. I couldn't really blame these people for being mad, but why did they always come to me instead of idiot coworker that actually took their orders? I will say that this experience ended any future ideas I had about working in the food service industry.

[Dr Yorick]

Radio Shack....

[Ree]

I found a huge difference between grocery store customers and hardware store customers.

I think customers are nastier in the food stores because people have to eat, and the begrudge the money they are spending on food.

When they come to the hardware store, it's usually because they want to shop, not because they are forced to...unless it's an emergency situation with plumbing or something like that.

Not that there aren't a large share of sucky customers in hardware, they just don't seem quite so bitchy.

[Mr. Rude]

Radio Shack....
Owww.....This may be the winner folks :devil:

My worst I'd have to say would be my old cellphone shop. Owner was a self righteous, bombastic blowhard, standard whiny cell phone customers, etc, etc....

[Moirae]

My current one. The call center.

[Tito]

My retail hell days at the IGA I used to work at. The town that store was in had some of the rudest people that I've ever met.

It was a happy day for me getting out of there!

[Phone Jockey]

401(k) call center.

[TNT]

The cable business. It's still a good job all around, but there's something about cable that brings out the weird in people.

[SonOfSpam]

Deli: Not too bad; A few old grouchy women, fat middle aged hunters and grease monkey's with entitlement issues. Had one asshole come in and threaten to tell everyone else how lousy we were because we didn't get his lunch meat sliced right away.

Garden Supply Store: Okay; A few pushy customers but no one too nasty. I didn't help customers much anyways since I was assigned to move potted plants around all day.

Newspaper: Not too bad; One lady called me dumb over the phone and a few people made some ridiculous complaints, (I had to drive out to see an old guy with only the top corner of his paper wet) but I liked everything else about it.

Engineering Firm: Great; Didn't have any real customers to bother with since we shipped all our equipment directly to GM plants. A few big wigs got on my nerves but over all a cool place to work.

Market Place: Shitty; lots of redneck morons and self absorbed bitches. People whined, complained, demanded, swore and walked away in a huff when they didn't get what they wanted.

Landscaping business: Okay; A few cranks here and there and a couple old people who think we don't know what we're doing because me and my friend are only 20. One time I was emptying a lawnmower bag into his truck full of lawn equipment and someone drove up and asked, "Hey, do you guys cut lawns?" I gave him a stare and asked, "What do you think?" He frowned and drove off.

[Onte]

Most SC-prone job I've had was the cashier's office at a car dealership. You know the person who collects your money after you've had an overpriced oil change or 50000000mile service? That was me.

Yeah, the applicable person to scream at about the quality of our service is the fat, teenaged girl standing behind the counter in dress clothes at 7:00 in the evening. She obviously did the work on your car, please misdirect your anger at her and ruin her attitude about humanity even before her first semester at college. Let's get that out of the way early, k?

[PuckishOne]

My brief foray into the world of the career-track position, aka My Days As An HR Lackey. SCs on all sides: the management "team," the employees, the client staff, and the Live Brain Donors at corporate.

It was while I worked here that I started to miss waitressing, so that should give you some idea of how much it sucked.

[singem1]

Would have to be the one I am in now, even tho I love the industry, the hotel industry can get some of the worst SC's I've noticed. And I have worked retail and fast food. But the worst I've had are the ones I get at the hotel. Nothing's ever good enough, never cheap enough, never clean enough, or nice enough. Not to mention at least once a day we get someone trying to get a free night for some stupid reason or another.