Worst Job You Ever Had?

[Artie Owl]

I worked at a Copy place that will remain nameless, I made it about two months there. My job was to "facilitate" customers using copy machines, computers, etc but it eventually morphed into a design consultant, psychologist, and verbal punching bag for super uptight business types. I hated it, my stomach would go all knotty when I had to go and the boss was a total *****, who was imposed there by corporate instead of promoting the girl that was in line for it in that store. I was eventually repremanded for helping an old lady make photocopies of a recipe book instead of letting her do it herself ( and subsequently screw it up so she would have to pay more, go business strategy!) So they told me that they wanted me to help them start the job but not help them follow through, and that other customers were complaining that I was spending too much time with one client (I checked the cameras for that day there was no one else there) SO I gave them my smock and said thanks for nothing, stupid management. Total time there 1 month 20 days.

[matiac]

Working on the F/V Yankee Pride scalloping. Them boys crabbin in the Bering Sea aint got SCHITT on fisherman in the North Atlantic. AND it was far and away the hardest work I've ever done.

[Thundergod]

Worked at the stock market for 6 months... boss was an a$$hole, pay was little, the place was deserted (10 years ago only 10% of the companies here were into the market).

 

Hated it. One day the boss was more of an a$$hole than the other days so I sent him to hell.

[lespaulj45]

As a high school kid many years ago I worked in a bakery for $1.65 an hour-this is as close to indentured servitude as it gets-of course a new gibson les paul was $300 then so I guess its all relative.....

[ksdaddy]

Worst mindf*** job was working for a mental health organization. I was a Supported Employment Specialist. My job was to help higher functioning folks get back into the work force. We had multiple janitorial and lawn contracts. We couldn't get anyone to work so I did it all myself. They expected spring cleaning by one person doing 20 or 30 offices in a matter of 3 hours. If someone had dust under their telephone I got called on the carpet.

 

Worst conditions were in a french fry plant. We also made flaked potatotes. There was a big rotating drum full of steam about 5 feet in diameter and 12 or 14 feet long. I had to continually shovel mashed potatoes onto it. The heated drum made a thin layer of the mashed potatoes stick and then the layer would be scraped off on the other side, therefore making flaked potatoes.

[Thin_Lizzy]

Worked as a labourer. Took kennels of the back of tractor-trailers.

 

Worked on a toll bridge. Had a constant running nose from the exhaust fumes.

 

Worked on a furniture assembly line. The work was monotonous and the factory had no windows.

[Murph]

When I was a kid in Fla., I got a partime job baiting fish hooks for tourist. It kinda sucked.

 

But I eventually worked my way up to being the master baiter.......

 

[yoda]

Dishwasher at Chi-Chi's Tex-Mex restaurant in high school.

[ksdaddy]

Sometimes I wish I could go back to when I was loading trailer trucks with 50# potato bags. We had conveyors but I still ended up jogging with the bags and piling them. It beat the crap out of me physically but at the end of the day I knew I did something.

[sgbass]

I was a Jr. in high school working at a Hess gas station in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The hours were bad, and the location of the station was even worse. Glad I lived through that one.

[DWP37]

Current carreer. Doing it since '94. Only job I've really ever had. Used to be exciting and adrenaline inducing...nothing better. I don't know what or when it changed. Sick of being constantly surrounded by sick, dead, or dying people. Rolling up on a car load of dead kids. I'd rather dig ditches if it payed the bills.

[ShredAstaire]

I painted water/gas/ventilation pipes in underground garages one summer back in high school.....

 

It was sh1t!!!

[cookieman15061]

Worked as a supervisor for a national bakery. Good money but that was the only plus to working there. Salary mgt. was worked like dogs and you were on call 24/7 and had to run truck everytime a union employee called off. Which was all the time. So getting called in on your day off or in the middle of the night was the norm. Took me 6 months to find something else.

 

On the other hand the best job ever was in high school when I worked summers at the local swimming pool.

 

Ahhh, summer of '77 it was a very good year!!

[duane v]

I've only had six jobs in my life time:

 

Age 9 - 16

Sweeping the parking lot, and front entrance of Gemco

Delivering the Herald Examiner

Worked at Jack in the Box

Filed my Mom's cases (She's a retired personal injury lawyer).

 

Age 23-24

Bio Med Technician (part time)

 

Age 24 - 45

Training Coordinator Manager for Snap-on Incorporated.

 

Never put myself in a position to where I would "hate" something.

[RichCI]

I've had my fair share of crap jobs but these were the worst:

 

- Picking tomatoes during the summer for $.35 per bushel picked. I went home every day covered in sticky green tomato plant gunk.

 

- Selling newspaper subscriptions over the phone. People do NOT want to hear from some *** selling stuff over the phone (myself included). I quit after two hours.

 

- Had several landscaping gigs (mostly enjoyed it) but one really sucked. I worked for this guy who had a small outfit - he owned the equipment and me and this alcoholic dude were his labor. The other dude showed up sporadically so I did almost all of the hard work - unloading and stacking 50 12-foot railroad ties from a flatbed, shoveling quarry rock over a 1/2 mile driveway (and the guy I worked for driving the dump truck wasn't very good at spreading the rock out) and mowing eight good sized lawns in one day by myself every Friday.

[zigzag]

I was a skin diver for RotoRooter, just before I was the organist for "The Edge of Night."

[MojoRedFoot]

I got sucked into one of those door to door sales things. I did that for a day. Imediately quit after that. I don't regret any other job.

[deepblue]

I worked on a kill floor. Cows, Pigs etc...Not everyone can do this job. They say you get used too it all after a while.

I never did....I quit after six months.

[tulsaslim]

I've had a ton of jobs. (It happens when you're a musician whose gig comes first and day job 2nd). Some of them include: 3 days on the kill floor of a packing house, 6 years of putting in basketball courts and running tracks (saved only because the EPA outlawed about half the stuff we used), 4 months working in the Homestake Gold mine 4350 ft. underground, various jobs 'on the docks' where they were looking for 'big guys', 3 years driving a delivery truck in NYC, and a whole bunch of different machine-shop jobs (which eventually led me to my current job).

Some good jobs I've had (in addition to gigging) include being a disc jockey at two different radio stations in two different parts of the country, and being a messenger in NYC for 3 months (that was a blast).

[GibsonAlmighty]

I'm lucky I still have a JOB,doesn't matter if it's the worst.

At least I'm still managing to put food on the table. :)

[myspace.com/jessenoah]

I worked in the basement for a LA pawn shop...............

 

 

 

J.K!

[bluzhammer]

Mop boy at the local peep show.

[FirstMeasure]

Exterminator. Had to crawl under houses and clear out anything that might attract Mold, Fungus, or Termites. Had to dig the Dirt away from the Base Boards or any other wood that was attached to the house (subterranean termites, ya know), and Scrape and Spray any existing Mold or Fungus that may be on the underside of the floor.

 

Not my cup of tea, I'd rather haul Lumber or fill sand bags.

[Dub-T-123]

I worked in the basement for a LA pawn shop...............

 

 

 

J.K!

 

Sounds like a certain scene from Pulp Fiction.

 

Did Zed treat you ok?

[Gilliangirl]

Picking raspberries every summer was real real bad, but probably the worst experience I ever had was when I got a dishwasher job at Southgate Restaurant. I was working underage (14 years old), hired by the owner's husband. He was creepy but harmless. His wife, Ruth Belinski, was NOT happy that he'd hired me. I worked there for a week under his tutelage, then she came back from a visit with her mother, and I had to work under her. She made my life a living hell until she fired me for getting a potato peeling on one of the coffee cups. I walked out of there and got a job at The Olde Fashioned Bakery, head waitress. One day Ruth came into the shop. She sat at the counter, which I was covering over lunch. I'd heard that her restaurant had gone under. She recognized me immediately. I toyed with the idea of being rude to her, but instead I killed her with kindness and the best service I could provide. She learned a valuable lesson that day, taught by me.

 

Good riddance Ruth, ya old battleaxe!!!!