What's the worst job you've ever had?

[Blax0r]

Most of my jobs were pretty good; they were either fulfilling (volunteering at a hospital, or teaching) or required little effort(tech at a bank, engineering consulting).

I suppose my least favorite job was being a technology analyst at a large bank. The workload was boring, but very light; I was doing around 35 hrs (and actually working maybe 10 of it) a week while making 70k+ (not that much for NYC, but can easily live off it). If I were a very successful sports handicapper, I would probably want a position exactly like that, and spend most of the day working on modelling sports and reading papers related to applied stats.

However, I am not a successful sports bettor, and that position offered essentially no career path or potential. In addition, those positions are usually among the first to get cut during the bad years.

[boeing power]

worked on a rock crusher one summmer when i was 17, 12 hours/day on this loud fuking vibrating machine. and when the rocks got jammed I had to unjam them with a shovel or big crow bar

nearly lost a hand one day and nearly crushed my head another day

that was it for my construction career

[tad0matic]

making donuts at this hot-assed place with this asshole named keith

sounds rough

[HoulihansTX]

Worked @ a gas station. Which a quit in epic fashion, after being told to clean behind the dumpsters.

[itchypickle]

Summer job in high school walking through cotton fields in Mississippi to help read the levels of boll weevils eating up their crops......ukkin brutal walking though a field with bugs and sand in 100+ heat for hours trying to keep the clip board paper dry from all the sweat and dirt.

[TheCentaur]

Summer job in high school walking through cotton fields in Mississippi to help read the levels of boll weevils eating up their crops......ukkin brutal walking though a field with bugs and sand in 100+ heat for hours trying to keep the clip board paper dry from all the sweat and dirt.

WTF!?
So far you get my vote! Are you sure that was a job and not a practical joke?

[dinaro7]

any job i had i was happy to have. my last job i worked for an inventory company abacus inventory out of oak park illinois. i loved to work from dish washer, to rodding out sewers, to mowing acres of grass for free my parents owned a mobile home. all of you just sound lazy i wish i could work.

[dinaro7]

so stop bitchin and realize how lucky you are t

[kickenchicken]

im so embarrassed i wont even tell.... but ive been there over 20 years...lol

[dinaro7]

im so embarrassed i wont even tell.... but ive been there over 20 years...lol

dont be embarrassed any job you have had for 20 years is probably 19 years longer there longest job

[will2survive]

UPS Guys(gates and a couple of others)--The benefits were spectacular. Putting in limited hours and getting a 4000 dollar job to have wisdom teeth removed and not pay is great. They had better benefits than the office that I worked at. Yeah you can make nice money as a driver but I worked the overnight and they would push you to go to work in overnight blizzards, whether you're injured or not, etc. So much dust in the unload that my snot was black (due to dust). That's harmful. I broke a finger when an overweight fell on it in the cage. The back was the clincher. I hurt my back and I couldn't even walk (herniated disk-right above my ass) I felt paralyzed. They tried to force me to work by threatening my job after 5 years. It was awful. I worked in a small building connected to the larger building. It was called the dog house. You would load parcel coming down the conveyor belt. The problem is there was no heat. In the dead of winter, I'd be breathing out smoke, my hands would be frozen, and wearing a winter jacket while loading trucks on a couple hours of sleep. Just a brutal job. I wouldn't drive at UPS for 90K per year. I'd rather be happy and be more comfortable healthwise.

[itchypickle]

WTF!?
So far you get my vote! Are you sure that was a job and not a practical joke?

Oh trust me - it's real If you're ever driving down a road in the South and pass some fields....there are literally thousands of little polls with little green/yellow containers that catch those little fukkers....it's basically like catching water to tell how much it rained in a particular area.....you can see several of the polls from the road if you look.

Never again...never again

[TheCentaur]

Oh trust me - it's real If you're ever driving down a road in the South and pass some fields....there are literally thousands of little polls with little green/yellow containers that catch those little fukkers....it's basically like catching water to tell how much it rained in a particular area.....you can see several of the polls from the road if you look.

Never again...never again

So you're from Miss? Do you go to Tunica or Biloxi?

[itchypickle]

I like both of them. Spent the most time in Tunica around the Gold Strike. Philadelphia has a decent poker crowd these days as well....lesser known out of the way Golden Moon casino but gets great action. Mainly a lot of the local old money types get in there and play some really loose NL and Omaha.

[chase hardy]

Priming tobacco in the summer in 100+ degrees for 12-14 hours a day for 4.00 an hour. If anyone has ever done it, they know how hard that job is.

[TheCentaur]

I like both of them. Spent the most time in Tunica around the Gold Strike. Philadelphia has a decent poker crowd these days as well....lesser known out of the way Golden Moon casino but gets great action. Mainly a lot of the local old money types get in there and play some really loose NL and Omaha.

So you're a poker player? I played at the Golden Moon a few months ago and did pretty well but got sick as a dog later and spent the rest of the weekend in the room. I didn't see any Omaha, I bet that was juicy there. Man that place is in the middle of nowhere though.

[payupsucker]

I worked delivering porta-johns at the Charlotte Motor Speedway for the All Star Race and 600. I guess you could call it a shit job.
Not only would we set up them up around the track but would deliver to camp sites around track. Would have to pump the shit and piss out and clean the porta-johns.
I thought the fans would **** with me but when someone needs a shitter delivered or cleaned they will get the **** out of your way.

[itchypickle]

So you're a poker player? I played at the Golden Moon a few months ago and did pretty well but got sick as a dog later and spent the rest of the weekend in the room. I didn't see any Omaha, I bet that was juicy there. Man that place is in the middle of nowhere though.

Yep it's definitely tucked away unless you know what to look for if just passing through. I've been spending a lot of time around Jackson this year and for time reasons its easier to run through Meridian and up to Philadelphia or now and then I'll hit Vicksburg if it's on a Thursday for their tourney and cash games after. Haven't been there since before the big flood recently but might be there end of next week and plan on cecking out the newest casino they added. I pretty much stick to poker or craps so not much choice really but...it's usually easy money at the NL games s long as you don't get involved in the 'no fold em hold em' 3/6 limits.....those people are nuts

[Bill Dozer]

Hot tar roofer. Basically you dip a mop in a vat of boiling tar and move move it around just so and some other poor sap aligns the roof paper over it. Also, shingle roofing a church about 6 floors up.

[tokio]

Sold boxes of meat off the back of a truck. You've all probably seen these idiots before. Boss kept getting mad because I wouldn't knock on people's doors (only tried selling to businesses), since I had too much shame. Boss was a born-again who would make us sit there in the morning before we left and listen to his motivation techniques for an hour or two. Seemed to be the only way he could get some of the drivers to work. Company went under a year after I left.

Those meat guys are pretty cool. Whenever they in my neighborhood, I always bargain with them. They call up there boss, and he usually gives the "ok".

Worst job for me was telemarketing. I honestly dont know how some of these people do this shit. They say we dress 'business casual' but you got scrubby white trash and black people with doo-rags on the phones and shit. Quit after a week, made $130 on one sale.

[itchypickle]

Hot tar roofer. Basically you dip a mop in a vat of boiling tar and move move it around just so and some other poor sap aligns the roof paper over it. Also, shingle roofing a church about 6 floors up.

That would suck! I see guys going to those metal roofs for 'energy reasons' lately and feel bad for the ones standing on a giant sun reflector all day installing it

[FuzzyDunlop]

Damn Fuzzy didn't you ever bus tables or something like that?

I was a line cook during undergrad and loved every minute of it, such an awesome lifestyle to be exposed to at 19.

[TheCentaur]

I was a line cook during undergrad and loved every minute of it, such an awesome lifestyle to be exposed to at 19.

Hey where did you end up staying out in Vegas? Did you have any luck in your other gambling?

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

I was unemployed for about 4 months two years ago and in that time i applied to a staffing agency and they sent me to arco arena to be part of there clean crew. Be on oyur hands and knees shoving garbage into black hefty bags for 4 hours followed by sweeping nad mopping the entire arena.

The worst part was mopping because the way the arena is you had to start at the bottom and work your way up the fleet of stairs. so say every section has like 60 rows you started at the bottom and you could only mop 3 rows before changing your mop water. so you would have to walk up 57 steps with a mop bucket in your hand. rinse and repeat killed your feet. Only lasted 2 days

I work now at Pepsi in their warehouse building pallets for 12-14 hours a day in the summer and i would do that all day vs cleaning any type of arena.

[FuzzyDunlop]

Bally's, then Harrah's for a night, then The Venetian. I did pretty well, my friend busted to a one outer with about 240 people left to cash with 3x the average and took his frustration out in a 5K hand of BJ and got dealt AK.

[d2bets]

Doesn't sound that bad, but I worked at Dairy Queen for a bit and hated it.

[ryanspeer2001]

Working in a west philadelphia pizza shop with no air conditioning last summer and doing nights to 4am with crackheads barging in. Great times.

[Nittany Lion]

I haven't had many jobs, but the one that kind of sucked was working for Taco Bell at Ramstein AFB, Germany during the summer after my freshman year in college. My parents were stationed there so I went back there for the summer and got a job at the Taco Bell in the food court. It was one of the busiest Taco Bells I've seen and we had massive lines at lunch time since all the military people would come there. Everybody was constantly working, we never screwed around like you see the kids doing at alot of the fast food restaurants. The people I worked with were cool though and everybody got along. Got paid just over $8 a hour and that Taco Bell averaged ~ $4,000 a day in sales, the manager was making like $65K/year and he spent most of his time in the backroom on the computer/phone and every now and then he would come to the front to check on things then leave.

[Hoja Verdes]

Fire extinguisher factory on the assembly line. Wasn't too bad, but just that it was repetitive motions all day every day, and breathing in that powdery substance sucked. You could listen to the radio and smoke cigarettes while working, which I always thought was ironic. My parents wanted me to work a shitty minimum wage job after sending me to Europe for a semester in college, teach me the value of an education and what not. It worked. I slaved alongside single mothers and made the same amount as them: $227/week. I went out and blew my paycheck at bars and on weed, they supported their kids. Pretty sad when some of them got fired as well for being too slow on the assembly line. I kicked ass, was by far the fastest building motherfukker in that place. My line manager was pretty pissed when I told him I had to quit to go back to college...but he eventually laughed and was like "College? college??? what the hell are you doing working in here if you're just home from college?" Of course I couldnt tell him the truth, which was that my parents made me work there to scare the shit out of me in case I ever tried to slack off in school. This is pretty cool: the same family owned the company for over 50 years...when they finally sold out to a large multinational corporation about 5 years ago, they took something like $1 million from the proceeds, took every employee that had been with them for 10+ years, and paid everyone a pro rata bonus based on how long they'd worked there. I think I read that a few people who'd worked there for 30 years got checks for $20k. Not too bad for a person making $19k/year. But what always blew my mind were the people making $227/week that smoked a pack of cigarettes a day on their shift. Then I'm sure they smoked another pack or so when they got home, or maybe half a pack. Even back then when cigarettes were only $2.50/pack, that's still ~40-50% of your monthly income on cigarettes. I always wondered how they paid the bills.

[rki999]

Mopping up the big shopping mall in a hurry.

[TR88]

while at school dishwasher, 2nd one was at this warehouse, driving jacks and picking up cardboards and plastic....both of them fuked up jobs, now self employed

[dj_destroyer]

Cart boy at a Superstore... Parking lot was massive and Ottawa winters were harsh but I could sell dope easily so it was a double income job.

[Tech N9ne]

Cleaning up after your mom. It paid $10/hr but the bitch is a nasty dirty hoe

[ttrace35]

Cleaning up after your mom. It paid $10/hr but the bitch is a nasty dirty hoe

[Br0nxer]

UPS....Had to work your way up to become a driver.

Nothing worse than driving 45 minutes at 2 in the morning to get there by 3 and work til 8 in the morning. Then leaving there getting to my main job by 9 and work til 5. Had to pull fukkin boxes out of the semi's and throw them over my damn head onto the belt so they could scan and put them in their proper trucks for delivery. Called me back in the summer to see if I wanted to drive after only working there 2 days and quitting, interview lady loved me.

Quit the UPS job after 2 days, was too much, and went full time at other place.

0 chance this story is true

first off. it takes years of loading trucks at UPS to even sniff a driver job. and you quit after two days and they called you the following summer and wanted you to become a driver

cool story gates

true story +10000
made up bullshit -12000