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I cannot know about "horrible", but at least many control-seizing attempts ended up bickering about who actually gets to control things. Anarchists vs Communists in Catalania for instance.
I'm guessing you're not defining large-scale attempts at Communism like early Communist China and Soviet Union as worker paradises. Those experiments clearly led to worker suffering though.
Devil is in the details, a lot of seemingly conflicting things can work badly or they can work well depending on how well things are run day-to-day. And then there's the problem that even if you start with a good system, you also have to maintain that system every day to the future or things will slowly (or sometimes rapidly) start going to shit. Some worker-controlled workplaces are good places to work, I'm sure, and some privately owned enterprises are as well.
Regardless, communist society would be one in which production is controlled directly by workers.