re: What's the shittiest job you've ever had?

I had a job for a company that treated it's employees like children. The first day I thought it was odd that everyone wore a white shirt and khaki pants. That was the dress code except for a few people who were transferred from other offices in the company. Most employees were temps from a temp agency to do basic clerical work but I was employed by this company as a system administrator.

I was in the Army so wearing a uniform doesn't bother me but this made it seem like they couldn't trust the temps and even some employees to wear business casual. What also didn't help is that most of the workers shared a desk to save on space. The walls were decorated with motivational quotes that were just block text on a single color background.

Even worse, the senior leadership was from New York and looked at us like we were all slack jawed idiots. They wanted to inspect the small datacenter we had in the building, which was spotless, but complained about petty things because just in case the judges from one of the federal courts may happen to see it. Quite possibly the oddest thing I've ever heard of because why the hell would a federal judge give two shits about a few server racks with servers and storage arrays.

I quit after a month. Had I saw the facility before I started I probably would have never took the job.

ETA: The worst thing about wearing white shirts is that the thinner the material, the easier it is to see through it. Plenty of people in that office really needed to wear undershirts. Well, most of them. Some things you just can't unsee.