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

[molly747]

Or, for that matter, any horrible work stories.

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I'll go first. In college, I worked at a golf course one summer, and was subjected daily to ******ly lewd comments and patronizing talk by dirty old rich men. Sounds kind of dumb, but when you're a teenager, that stuff can really mess with your head. One guys used to come in and buy a cup of coffee every day, which equaled up to 69 cents. He would always ask me if I "liked" 69 or if I did that with my boyfriend. I was 19 and he was like 70, for crying out loud! Gross!

[Fintin]

i did night stock at bath and body works....worked with a lot of hot girls...but didnt sleep cause i would have such bad headaches from the fumes....wasnt a bad job really...just putting bottles on a shelf in the middle of the night....just sucked not sleeping and still trying to go to classes

[Chris1]

Right after I left the Army I worked as a bouncer just to make a bit of money while I was sorting things out (for about a week, ashamed to say I didn't know you had to be licensed for such work at the time, was working for a friend)
No fit women bartering ****** favours for free entry, just piss heads.
Lots of them.
Its funny when the first one takes a swing at you, it gets really old really fast.
Plus, everyones drinking but you!

[Midtown]

my first job was a grocery bagger, at Supervalue, sucked ****, your on the bottom of the totem pole, you make 6 bucks/hour if your lucky, Everyone can talk **** to you, union that you dont even get benifits for takes half your goddamn check, You have to lift heavy ****, You get to walk outside and haul fat womens groceries in -10 temps, all while they sit in thier car and forget to pop the goddamn trunk, then tip you a ****ing nickel after. Us bagboys had a code, anything under 50cents we would throw at the persons car when they left, anything under 75cents we would throw on the store roof, because when one of us got the **** duty of having to clean the ****nig roof, we made about 40$ extra for it. oh yeah, plus the owners were 2 gay men who liked to hit on unsuspecting bag boys. Good thing I always duct taped my asscrack. well not really, but I should start, that might lead to humorous situations.

[Jack Mehoff]

I worked for emachine tech support for a month and it was the worst job ever. Women and old people asked stupid tech questions. I remember this lady asked me where to put in her CD disk and I told her to push the little button on her CD drive. Guess what she said? "Oh, you mean my coffee holder?"

[memphiz]

I was a paper boy for the Calgary Sun, ,and I got paid 1/2 a penny per paper I delivered, and I delivered 300 of them twice a week. I also got 13 cents per Sears catolog I delivered, it wasnt worth it when you had to carry 50-100 of them in -30C weather

[Jack Mehoff]

And I thought I got it bad :lol:

[Black Dots]

Bicycle rickshaw driver. I lasted one day.

[Abolith]

My **** job was working for a medical supply and shipping company. Basicly they put together these massive carts of med supplies that were shipped to hospitals every day. they always put all the supplies in these white plastic tubs(about the size of a CRT) which when they were returned were always dirty as ****. I am talking about having blood, some kind of black tar-like substance and god knows what other bodily fluids all over them. I had the lovely job of cleaning these things with hot water, scrub pads and Ajax cleaner that started to eat the skin off of my arms (think a REALLY bad case of chapped lips on the underside of your entire arm).
After several weeks of of scrubbing these things I started getting sick on a regular basis (but not having any medical benifets I still had to work), and I am talking weird ****, **** that made no sense. I would get what seemed like a cold but also have toenails fall out, or I would have a cough but also break out in zits, hell just before I quit I swear one of my eyes seemed to start changing color (ya I know prolly just my imagination). I know that most people didn't ast long at that job I watched two others come and go in under 2 months...I quit at 2 months and 1 week after starting work because I started getting a wee bit scared about my health (the whole muscle spasm thign got me real nervous). Now I sit in front of a computer all day....a much better job in my opinion.

[Colt45]

Or, for that matter, any horrible work stories.

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I'll go first. In college, I worked at a golf course one summer, and was subjected daily to ******ly lewd comments and patronizing talk by dirty old rich men. Sounds kind of dumb, but when you're a teenager, that stuff can really mess with your head. One guys used to come in and buy a cup of coffee every day, which equaled up to 69 cents. He would always ask me if I "liked" 69 or if I did that with my boyfriend. I was 19 and he was like 70, for crying out loud! Gross!

well? you still havent answered the question... =P
Mine would have to be baby-sitting at age 14, hahahah.

[Midtown]

I used to do overnight stocking at target. 90% of the ppl they hire are either, teens, or ****ing retards. You try holding up a conversation with a guy who's 50 years old, wearing all army camo, except a pink bandana on his head. What the hell kind of crap is he trying to pull off? Are ya gay? are you hiding from something? He definatly didnt know about pen missle.

[Midav]

To make ends meet, I worked at DPD, kinda like a German UPS company for a few weeks. Had to be at Frankfurt airport by 3:30am and unload trucks, which we did nearly non stop until ~9am.

[memphiz]

And I thought I got it bad :lol:
Haha yeah some cold days the winds would 'accidentally' knock the papers into the garbage dumpsters.

[Fintin]

only job i ever like was babysitting when i was in middle school....one kid...6-10 an hour....some times 20 if it was just an hour...three days a week after school and friday or saterday night....just popped in a movie or an old taped wings game and the kid would just sit there....as i slept

last summer i did resets a lowes...worked for a third party comany that was hired to reset bathroom vanitys for a company that sells at lowes....my boss was cool so were all but one of my co workers...but he was too busy taking smoking breaks and bitching about his mom dieing of cancer to really piss me off...part that sucked was the 12 hour days...staying in hotels all summer long...eating in the same chain restronts....OSHA rules...dust...and trying to explain to shoppers that we dont work for lowes...just at lowes

[Vance]

He definatly didnt know about pen missle.
rofl

[Hot Lips]

I gave up 40% of my income to leave a customer service job. They made you account for every second of the day. Yes EVERY second with a system that rounded time. With rules like "you must take your scheduled break/lunch on time or it counts against your compliance to schedule" and "you can not ask to call a customer back just because it is time for your scheduled break" (yes staying on the phone counted against you) and "you can not log out early". And performance standards that required you to take X number of calls per hour and process y number of orders per day.... if your call length were too long you were rated low for not properly serving the customer or they tapped your line on the assumption that you must be hanging up on customers. If your calls were too long they rated you low for taking too much time. You had to keep your calls between 3 and 8 minutes. I calculated the average talk time and found that it was imposible to meet the performance standards at any rating higher than a low satisfactory. We had the highest disability/abesenteeism in the company that was largely due to stress.

I could go on and on. When you are willing to give up 40% of your income (I wasn't the only one!) you know it's bad. I had always prided myself on being an "outstanding" rated employee and the new managment/system was just beating the life out of us.

[Seoulstriker]

Well, I have never had a "real" job. I have been working for my father's law firm for the past 9 years, though, doing odd jobs or integrating file systems or whatever. I wouldn't say I hated the other things I have done, such as incredible amounts of lawn work in 100 degree weather (I have 5 acres of land to mow). For the most part, I have always had work that I enjoy to a certain degree.

I won't always have that luxury, though, when I have to work 24-48 hours straight in residency. ;)



But if you think you have it bad, check out the 10 worst jobs in science:

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,484153-1,00.html

The funniest:


3. Barnyard Masturbator
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Researchers who want animal sperm —to study fertility or for artificial insemination—have a suite of attractive options: They can ram an electric probe up an animal's rectum, shove an artificial ****** onto the animal's *****, or simply do it the old-fashioned way—manual stimulation. The first option, electroejaculation, uses a priapic rectal probe to send electricity pulsing through the animal's nether regions. "All the normal excitatory signals that stimulate ejaculation, like touch, sight, sound and smell, can be replaced with the current from the probe," says Trish Berger, professor of animal science at the University of California, Davis. "It's fascinating. Of course, this is a woman talking." Electroejaculation generally requires anesthetizing the animal and is typically used on zoo dwellers. The other two methods—the artificial ******, or AV, and the good old hand—require that animals be trained to the procedure. The AV—a large latex tube coated with warm lubricant —is used primarily to get sperm from dairy bulls (considered the most ornery and dangerous of bovines). The bull gets randy with a steer; when he mounts the steer with his forelegs, a brave technician, AV in hand, insinuates himself between the two aroused beasts and deftly redirects the bull ***** into the mock genitalia, which he must then hold tight while the bull orgasms. (Talk about bull riding!) Three additional technicians attempt to ensure this (fool)hardy soul's safety by anchoring themselves to restraining ropes attached to a ring in the bull's nose. Alas, this isn't always absolutely effective: Everyone who's wielded an AV has had at least one close call, and more than a few have been sent to the hospital. The much safer "digital pressure" is used mostly with pigs, who are trained from an early age to mount a small bench while the researcher reaches around with a gloved hand and provides appropriate pleasure—er, pressure.

The best job in science? We nominate the pig.

[NcDeuce]

Ruby Tuesday host/waiter :fork:

[Flagg]

I worked for a landscaping firm to help put myself through Uni.

The owner was a bit dodgy with cutting corners everywhere.

The firm had two clapped out dump trucks for transport.

The first day I drove one of the dump trucks(without a CDL I was told I didn't need) I was hauling a heavy load of soil to a worksite.

I was exiting a highway at about 50mph and started to brake.

A warning light and buzzer went on, the brake pedal went to the floor....no brakes.....

I started downshifting and pulled the emergency brake....

And the end of the exit ramp was a yield sign merging into slower traffic....

I cleared it without incident and a school bus turned in front of me at the next intersection......

rather than rearend a school bus at about 35mph I turned the truck into the woods on the right, and jumped the F out.

The truck went down into the woods and smashed through the smaller trees like matchsticks until it hit a really substantial tree that stopped it cold.

A small fire started from the emergency brake getting so hot.

The crap I crawled through to get out resulted in me getting a nasty case of poison sumac on top of a couple of seriously bruised ribs amd assorted contusions.

The police were pretty pissed off as I didn't have a CDL, and the truck was neither insured nor inspected.

I called my boss from a pay phone.....all he cared about was what "I" did to his truck.

I told him what he could do with the remains of his truck, his job, and that the police really wanted to have a word with him.

[California Joe]

Working a summer job as a "kitchen boy" at a girls camp in Ossipee NH for 2 summers, one of about 15 guys in camp..... Oh wait, that was the BEST job I ever had.....*sigh*

Roofing 60 to 70 hours a week during the summers in college, great tan, bad hours, lots of menial labor and working with idiots that called all the "college boys" "Harvard". Their standard response to anything like, "Hey where's the rip bar?" was..."If it was up your ass you'd know where it was? Tools.

[Romulus]

I worked for a landscaping firm to help put myself through Uni.

The owner was a bit dodgy with cutting corners everywhere.

The firm had two clapped out dump trucks for transport.

The first day I drove one of the dump trucks(without a CDL I was told I didn't need) I was hauling a heavy load of soil to a worksite.

I was exiting a highway at about 50mph and started to brake.

A warning light and buzzer went on, the brake pedal went to the floor....no brakes.....

I started downshifting and pulled the emergency brake....

And the end of the exit ramp was a yield sign merging into slower traffic....

I cleared it without incident and a school bus turned in front of me at the next intersection......

rather than rearend a school bus at about 35mph I turned the truck into the woods on the right, and jumped the F out.

The truck went down into the woods and smashed through the smaller trees like matchsticks until it hit a really substantial tree that stopped it cold.

A small fire started from the emergency brake getting so hot.

The crap I crawled through to get out resulted in me getting a nasty case of poison sumac on top of a couple of seriously bruised ribs amd assorted contusions.

The police were pretty pissed off as I didn't have a CDL, and the truck was neither insured nor inspected.

I called my boss from a pay phone.....all he cared about was what "I" did to his truck.

I told him what he could do with the remains of his truck, his job, and that the police really wanted to have a word with him.

Sorry Flagg, but, I got a good laugh out of reading about your truck driving experience.

[mattnwnc03]

wow its going to be hard to out do the dump truck story but i worked at shoneys restaraunt working in the kitchen with two dropout idiots . marinating chicken , makes your hands stink so bad you cant wash your hands enough.id be sitting in school and still smell my hands.finally i had to wash my hands in gasoline.plus while working there id watch the waitresses and management snort coke in the freezer.bunch of fricken morons.

[ChuckThunder]

wow its going to be hard to out do the dump truck story but i worked at shoneys restaraunt working in the kitchen with two dropout idiots . marinating chicken , makes your hands stink so bad you cant wash your hands enough.id be sitting in school and still smell my hands.finally i had to wash my hands in gasoline.plus while working there id watch the waitresses and management snort coke in the freezer.bunch of fricken morons.

rofl

[Flagg]

Sorry Flagg, but, I got a good laugh out of reading about your truck driving experience.

You think THAT's funny?

The really funny part was the fact that it happened on a Thursday, I took a girl I was working really hard on to the shore that weekend...bruises and all......we both noticed at an inopportune time that I was breaking out with a case of Ebola from the poison sumac.....needless to say I didn't get any...nor did I get any sleep for about a week with the sumac driving me to the brink of insanity.

Urishiol(the active ingredient in sumac) should be classifed as a WMD rofl

[Colt45]

a case of the blue balls i assume =(

[Romulus]

needless to say I didn't get any

Now I'm sad........ :(


If it makes you all feel better. I once stabbed myself in the ass cheeks, at a customers account , with my meter leads......
http://faraday.physics.uiowa.edu/images/meter_with_LEDS.jpg

The metal tips went all the way in and it hurt like hell. The woman working at the front desk couldn't believe what she was seeing. I had laid the bastards against a wall so I could scoot my big ass behind this xerox machine to get a better angle at the wire I was testing, when BOOM. I slid right back into them, jumped up and yelled "yeooooooooooooWWWWWW!!" and stood there with a red and black meter lead sticking out of my ass cheeks. Still attached to the meter I might add. God damn that was embarrassing. :oops:

[Fintin]

The metal tips went all the way in and it hurt like hell. The woman working at the front desk couldn't believe what she was seeing. I had laid the bastards against a wall so I could scoot my big ass behind this xerox machine to get a better angle at the wire I was testing, when BOOM. I slid right back into them, jumped up and yelled "yeooooooooooooWWWWWW!!" and stood there with a red and black meter lead sticking out of my ass cheeks. Still attached to the meter I might add. God damn that was embarrassing. :oops:

yeah...but did the circit check out?

[SeanAshi]

Toy department at Wal Mart during the Christmas Holiday. Chased down a shoplifter one time and he injured his leg and I got in trouble for it. :cantbeli:

[b.scheller]

I was the guy who called everyones house during dinner time trying to sell some stupid product...eugh...I hated being a telemarketer...It was a long time ago I quit quickly after though... rofl

[digrar]

After an ankle orthroscopy and then a reconstruction I got put into signals platoon. Buggering around trying to get radio nets up and running and then getting to listen to your mates out in the field doing real work. :(
I had six months during our lead up training for deployment and then 3 weeks in country before I got a spot back in my old platoon, definitely the worst time I had in the Army, I rate it even worse than doing static securitity (another horrible job).

[Steve Andrews]

I'm a firefighter and on Friday had to assist paramedics recover a body that had washed up on the beach. The guy had been in the water for three weeks. We had to get him into a bodybag, load him into a casket and then hump the casket up from the beach to the car park.

[mobster]

I quit college after finding out that becoming an FBI agent was "out of my range".. ****en bastard told me that my odds were like "A GED student getting into NASA..
So I quit, and went to work in the mail room at a record label. Believe it or not I dug it, no brains required, just get there early and leave late. I slung mail to everyone from the secretary to the Pres. All day, over and over I seperated mail, send this here, foward that there, I was the bitch of a huge company, but I never complained, just kicked ass. After a couple of years they needed an assistant in the A&R dept. I started the to take on more tasks that I was supposed to,at first it was frowned on (You can't authorize that, you're just an Asst.) Soon I was depended on to make **** work, my rank was 10 times higher than my pay but still I did more than I was told. All of the sudden, my boss quit. Instead of firing my Italian ass, they give me HIS JOB. With a grain of salt I keep doing what I think is the right thing, then I **** UP...ROYALLY...I mean bad...so I get called in the CEOS office the next day, and he promotes me? Yup, Yes I ****ed up but had the correct frame of mind to what I did and the Pres. saw that, so now I'm doing alright at the same label that I handed out cds and letters to interns only a few years back. Needless to say I treat the mailroom clerks like gold now. Bottom line, don't ever give up.

[PCarola]

My worst job had to be setting up sound systems for undergrounds/raves in the late 80's/early 90's. Sucked bigtime! You didn't get to party because you had to watch the equipment and you had to load it all up at 8 a.m.

[Fargin]

Oil refinery.

[UkrainianAmerican]

Being unemployed.

[Romulus]

Being unemployed.

rofl

Happen often?! ;)

[Colt45]

Heard of Kerry McKoy romulus?

[Romulus]

Yes he is the current number one Freestyle wrestler in the US at the 120 Kg weight class. Tough wrestler.
http://www.canoe.ca/2000GamesWrestlingImages/mccoy_valiev_sep29-AP.jpg

The United States' Kerry McCoy, right, picks up Ukraine's Merabi Valiev during a qualifying round 130 kg freestyle wrestling match Friday Sept. 29, 2000 at the Sydney Olympic Games. McCoy won the match 3-0 in overtime.

Oh and he is also assistant Wrestling Coach at Lehigh University

[memphiz]

I was the guy who called everyones house during dinner time trying to sell some stupid product...eugh...I hated being a telemarketer...It was a long time ago I quit quickly after though... rofl
Haha My cousin became a telemarketer when he was 19 and within a month he became a supervisor, and he was much younger than some of the telemarketers, he had to fire some people 2-3 times his age.

[Seoulstriker]

I was the guy who called everyones house during dinner time trying to sell some stupid product...eugh...I hated being a telemarketer...It was a long time ago I quit quickly after though... rofl
Haha My cousin became a telemarketer when he was 19 and within a month he became a supervisor, and he was much younger than some of the telemarketers, he had to fire some people 2-3 times his age.


Ummmm, yeah, I'm going to have to ask you to come in on... Saturday. So, ummmmm, try to get in at around 9:00, mmmmkay? Ooooh, and one more thing. I'm going to have to ask you to come in on Sunday as well. Yeaah. :D :lol:

It would be funny if he acted that way to the people older than him. ;)

[Resevoir Hogs]

Garbageman :backhand:

[Abolith]

I still think mine was the worst :) took 4 months for my arms to heal...

[Colt45]

Yes he is the current number one Freestyle wrestler in the US at the 120 Kg weight class. Tough wrestler.
http://www.canoe.ca/2000GamesWrestlingImages/mccoy_valiev_sep29-AP.jpg

The United States' Kerry McCoy, right, picks up Ukraine's Merabi Valiev during a qualifying round 130 kg freestyle wrestling match Friday Sept. 29, 2000 at the Sydney Olympic Games. McCoy won the match 3-0 in overtime.

Oh and he is also assistant Wrestling Coach at Lehigh University

I know ;). I attended one of his camps this summer

[UkrainianAmerican]

Being unemployed.

rofl

Happen often?! ;)
Thats not what I meant. :lol:
As in, the school ended, and in the few weeks that it took me to ind a job, I was really afraid of not finding it, and wasting my summer away on useless ****.