Worst job(s) you've ever had?

[USEDCAR]

Do you still work there if not where do u currently work at?

Working at sears doing receiving lifting up heavy crap. I drop so many expensive appliances from the hand truck. The trailers was hotter then it was outside it was 90 degress outside and it felt like 150 in the trailers. The customer would give us a ticket and it would say Maytag air conditioner 4955 and you would have to go inside the trailer and find the 4955 model and it would be the last one way in the back and u had to lift all the heavy ones to get to the last one. I was sweating from head to toe and we had to wear all black on and the store dint had any air conditioning it was hell in a hand basket i quit a day after.

I currently work at the hospital doing food service its heaven compared to the sears job

 

[vamp]

Working as an assistant librarian at my school. I was only paid $7/hr and was only allowed 7 hours a week with no possibility of overtime. I hated that job oh so much. I never thought I'd be so happy to get fired.

 

[kevbo]

Factory work.

 

[Shepherd 2]

I was the manager of thirteen service stations in a four ssquare mile radious. Each half hour from 6 to 10 am I opened another station and passed it off to hourly wage earners, and starting at 8 pm until Midnight I closed one. I also did the hiring and accounting for them all. I earned an annual income of $7200. The job was seven days a week.

I am glad to say that I moved on to other jobs, and now I work out of retirement over 48 years later. I have had some very nice jobs and earned in excell of $100,000 a few times. So do not think it can never get better.

Shep+

 

[Graeme]

Probably not the worst but annoying one was when I worked for a bottle/water factory producing..... bottled water

Most annoying part of the job was during the winter time when we had to stand (sometimes soaking) checking the bottles for shipment, collating, etc. F*cking freezing it was!

 

[cardshark]

I worked in a steel mill for 2 weeks. I'm surprised I lasted that long! I'm just not built for that kind of job.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Being alive

oh so god fucked me on this one

 

[chillyboi]

never been really thrilled @ any of my jobs, if i were to reveal how many i've had you would be like WTF!!!!
anyhoo there was this 1 job i had moons ago TACO NACHO in the palm beach gardens mall. & on my 1st day i was asked to open a 5gal tub of salsa & stir it, then distribute it, & when i opened it, it was crawling w/ maggots & mold, the manager says "stir it up" im like see ya & walked out!!!

 

[GL]

i worked as a telemarketer while in college.

that was the slowest descent into hell i have ever experienced. when i was fired (the only time i have ever been fired in my life) for not hitting my sales goals i felt like a yoke had been lifted.

 

[Rex]

Doing telephone surveys.

Most people would hang up or curse me out. Plus I couldn't stand sitting down for five hours straight just dialing random numbers. Worst job ever.

 

[star-warrior]

Waiting on customers in a fast food shop. The majority of regulars are well mannered and you get to know their preferences quickly. Then there are the late nighters who have had more than a few pints, and some physically aggressive.

And the bastards who piss in the shop's waiting area when your back is turned trying to get another order out. Mopping up after vomit and urine is fucking crap. But being threatened by the morons is worse.

 

[jackry]

Hot, Cold, Boring, Sacred shitless, Lifting Heavy thing, climbs ladders, Working with criminals.....
Ya done some crappy stuff.
But I think the 9-5 wearing a tie thing still bugs me the most.

 

[tommyj]

I picked watermelons for a day...and only a day.

Did blueberries but on a mechanical picker - for three summers!! If that dont separate the men from the boys I dont know what! Hot, scraping bushes, bees, mud, noise >> we would pray for rainstorm (would shut us down)..Those were the days!

 

[Joshua_me]

I worked at 'Taco Hell' for one day, then quit.

It wasn't the 'usual' Taco Bell, it was in a building that used to be something else, and it was WAY too small in the kitchen. I remember having to stir this enormous vat of "beef" and sauce, and it was so disgusting. There was no ventilation, and all that 'beefy steam' went right up in your face.

God, it was horrible.

And of course since I was the new guy, they made me unload this huge delivery truck all by myself... Had I not been 16 and clueless, I would have told them to go fuck themselves...

Oh wait, I think I did.... Or words to that effect.

 

[dw8038r2]

My worst job ever was trying to teach art in an inner-city high school full of drugs, sex, gangs, and racial tensions. The second worst was picking cucumbers for a local pickle factory.

 

[ronboy]

When I was a teenager I worked for Star Markets, a now-long gone Rochester grocery chain, (they couldn't keep up with Wegmans).

When I started, (in 1979), they used to have a conveyor belt system that would carry your groceries from the store in large numbered tote containers, outisde, where you could drive up in your car, and have a bag boy put them into your car for you.

The job sucked in really hot or really cold weather. The tips were meager, no matter how nice and polite you were to the customers. In wet weather you were splashed with salty slush, or puddled rain water. After five months, I begged my manager to let me train as a cashier (on the old NCR cash registers).

I was lucky....he actually did. I lasted there another few years.

 

[sixthson]

The summer I was 16, I worked at an A&W Rootbeer for this middle aged woman who was crazy. She called me "my sweet Danny" and would stand really close to me and lean her enormous breasts on me. The hours were long and it was hot in the kitchen and she made me so nervous...I was shy and naive, at the time. One day, she flipped out and started chasing one of waitresses around with this big knife before she finally collapsed. Before the ambulance hauled her away, she told me to keep the restaurant open and I was in charge. I was to put all the money in a canvas bag and leave it in the walk-in freezer at night. The employees and I decided we should buy her some flowers and we paid for them with her money from the bag. Ha! She was in the hospital for about a week and the waitresses and I had a blast. We played loud music and kept the place open after hours for our friends. Come to think of it, it wasn't such a bad job.

The last time I saw her, I had just graduated from college and stopped into the restaurant. She screeched "MY SWEET DANNY" when I walked in the door and she gave me a big kiss right on the mouth. That was not nice.
I introduced her to my bf and she got the biggest grin on her face. She had already heard the gossip around town and said she was so happy to not be the one causing scandal for once. I liked her alot and her insanity was part of her charm.

 

[JOHN B]

Almost every job I've ever had, LOL! I get a job.....love it for a few weeks....then end up hating it for the next few YEARS....leave it for greener pastures......where, after a short time I grow to hate THAT job too. I work retail and always expect my new job to be "The One"....and it reveals itself to be just as shitty and poorly managed, as the last one. (the one I have NOW is like that ).
The best job I ever had was at Walden's Books. I was an assistant manager, and I left that job over a stupid policy they had. And THAT was stupid, because they changed/dropped that policy a couple of years after I left. The regional manager never let me come back, though I tried a few times over the years.
LOL--I just need to win the lottery, so that I won't HAVE to work.

 

[The_Reaper]

Hmm...well, there's the market research job I had for less than a week, which I ended up quitting because I just couldn't take the people on the other end of the phone anymore...

IF I can be kind to someone calling my home looking for survey takers, NOT TELEMARKETERS, surely they could too.

Although, the really worse one was working at a certain computer/office/paper retailer, which was very pro on 'up-selling' and 'protection plans' and so forth...

I have no problems with protection plans, I buy them when offered to protect my investment...But I can not stand upselling, especially after they tell us to greet customers at the till with 'Did you find everything you were looking for?"

If they said yes, I refused to attempt to sell them any of the random crap near the till, or suggest paper and ink for their printer or whatever...

I think being told, as I was going home, by the manager that I contributed nothing to the store that day (didn't up sell and didn't sell a protection plan) was the final straw.

So, it's a toss up between those two.

 

[roguehunter]

Telesales, i hate cold calling people, its not fun.