Worst Job Experience

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Retail Hell We all go through different stages in life in order to get where we want to be. One of them is surviving that horrible job. Every human being has to work, and some of us do not have the best job opportunities. Five years ago I moved to a new town with barely any money in my pocket, so I had no other choice but accept the first job that hired me. I’ve had various jobs before and at the time I thought they were pretty horrible, but I was wrong. Retail is the worst job I ever had. A few years ago I had to move away from home to pursue my education and with that comes finding a new job. Two weeks had passed by since moving to my new place and filling out many applications when I got a call for a job interview. I rushed downtown, where the job was located, for an interview the same day. To my surprise they did not even interview me; they just hired me on the spot. I was very excited and happy, not only because I had finally found a job, but also because as many girls dream I was working among hundreds of clothes, shoes, accessories and more! I was blind. I did not know what I had gotten myself into. When I was 16 years old I had worked as a dishwasher and later as a server, but in none of those jobs did I have so many demanding rules. Customers in a restaurant could be awful, but were not as bad as customers in retail. The first few months were all about learning, but then the tasks started building up. My jobs included putting clothes away, opening fitting rooms, transactions, cleaning, customer service, and of course following the manager’s daily demands. After a couple of months when I was already settled at my new job, things started getting too crazy. It was not only the minimum wage that made that retail job the worst; it was the employers and the customers. I was only a sales assistant, but I was always doing more
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