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

[GodlessAstronomer]

I worked at McDonalds as a teenager, which was bad but could have been worse. Anyone had a really shitty job?

 

[JakwoW]

Calling alumni at my college asking for donations. Horrible experience.

EDIT: Warpinated. OP below.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I once had a gig cleaning a rock crusher while it was running.

 

[esun]

A reader for a college class (basically you grade papers for a really shitty wage). I will never, ever do that again.

 

[SuperjetMatt]

Did you have to clean the previous cleaner out of it when you started?

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
I once had a gig cleaning a rock crusher while it was running.

"Now son whatever you do don't extend you arm past this line got that!"

"Like this" Ahhhhhhhguuhjdshfngcruchcrackgarblegarblebludge

"Jack... Yeah put the hire sign back up..."

 

[Stumps]

I worked at an abbottoir for a month waaayyyy back when I was 19, it was pretty much the dirtiest job I ever done.

A close second would be cleaning out the pits in large concrete grain silo's, it stinks of rotten grain, rats and snakes....not pleasent at all.

 

[ChaoZ]

I was a grocery bagger in high school. The job itself wasn't bad, but I fucking hated my boss and supervisors.

 

[Regs]

Beer taster making 50 an hr. It was horrible.

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: Regs
Beer taster making 50 an hr. It was horrible.

LMAO...yeah that must really suck.

I really feel sorry for those poor bastards that get to oil up and massage models before and after photo shoots....that must be a real sucky job.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
I once had a gig cleaning a rock crusher while it was running.

"Now son whatever you do don't extend you arm past this line got that!"

"Like this" Ahhhhhhhguuhjdshfngcruchcrackgarblegarblebludge

"Jack... Yeah put the hire sign back up..."

:laugh: The main problem other than avoiding imminent pulverization was the incredible noise and dust. I was given cheap foam plugs and a painters mask and told to keep the biggest chunks from jamming the feeder. I stuck it out for a couple of weeks before I said cya. I was ready to work fast food after that gig.

 

[Stumps]

damn pesky time warps

 

[clamum]

I've never had a bad job. But for worst, it would between Taco Bell and an on-campus apartment cleaner at my university. Eh... I could just toss a coin. Neither were bad.

 

[rh71]

I've done about 10 different data entry jobs in my adolescence... good pay but boring as fvck.

/robot out.

 

[Maximilian]

I had to try and sell makeup to random people, it was bullcrap

 

[bctbct]

supervisor, I am not joking.

 

[Alone]

The military is the best and worst job I've ever had.

 

[MovingTarget]

I can't decide which was worse - Best Buy as a salesman dressed in a tech's clothing or a certain software company (who will remain nameless) doing phone support on a proprietary software system.

 

[imported_Imp]

Data entry gig. Job was boring as hell, and unending. The people there more or less ignored me cause I was temping. And they were renovating the two floors under me, so it was almost 3 months straight of asshat contractors smoking cigarettes indoors, sniffing paint fumes and floor wax. If I get lung cancer, might take out the sue-stick. I bitched and bitched to my supervisor about the cigs, but the contractors didn't care. Couldn't get anything done about the fumes since the alternative was to relocate me in a cramped office.

 

[Farang]

Working under my older brother doing a job I was not trained for at a small business that was in the process of being sold. The owner was never there and my brother would say he isn't really my boss, even though I took all direction from him. He was a horrible trainer in that he gave me one half day of actual training and the rest was left to learn as I went, so that I was in a constant state of feeling like an idiot and having to ask questions when I got stuck (which was all the time, because I was never trained).

I thought I was learning faster than most other people would, but the atmosphere was constantly negative in that in order to learn anything new I had to interrupt my brother. In addition, my hard work went unnoticed because I did not have a boss.


I was paid complete shit and the owner and my brother were slave drivers. I was eventually fired when I refused to work during an unpaid lunch. I understand the concept of chip in and don't be an asshole following everything by the letter, but if you're going to make me work during the 30 minutes of the day I get to chill out and eat soup then I should at least be paid (the owner and my brother would laugh about times when people added extra time on their timeslips and they in turn did not pay them, I was reluctant to add in the lunch time myself)

edit: I should say training was required because my brother had his own system of working and I was essentially prepping things for him (so most of my mistakes were that I wrote things minutely different than he would have and he had to clear it up with me). So I had to learn this specific system so when I handed it off to him, he could finish the work. The position itself was not effective and should've never been created in the first place.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
I was a grocery bagger in high school. The job itself wasn't bad, but I fucking hated my boss and supervisors.

Me too. I worked really hard for a long time until one day they got a new juice machine in the produce department. I thought, it would be AWESOME to get the job to run that. To grab various fruits and veggies and make health drinks for customers while they waited. I asked management...they just laughed at me and said, "Baggers can't be juicers."

 

[nakedfrog]

I worked on an assembly line for a couple weeks making Harley clutch cables, that sucked. Doing the exact same thing for hours on end doesn't suit me. Stocking in a department store was a step up.

 

[rhino56]

Hardest- Hot tar roofing in Florida
Worst- Taco bell

 

[kranky]

I worked at a sweatshop run by an insane man. I took a pay cut to leave, then on top of that the owner offered to pay me more than my boss was making if I stayed. Money doesn't make up for everything.

If you needed a pen you had to bring back the old pen and demonstrate it would no longer write. Scissors? Forget it. Borrow the secretary's. He fired his night shift manager about every 3 months then hired him back the next week. Probably because it was his brother-in-law. Decided to hire the guy who parked cars in the adjacent lot and make him a manager with zero experience.

There were secretaries who didn't even stick around until lunchtime on their first day of work after getting a taste of his lunacy. If he wanted a sandwich from the place 15 miles away, he expected any employee he pointed at to go get one for him. He'd hold meetings through lunch time to get more work out of people. If you didn't bring your lunch, you went hungry, because there was no eating lunch AFTER lunch time was over.

He moved to a new location where he was the only building on a new street, had an employee contest to name the new street (somehow he got that privilege for moving there), then ignored the contest winner's entry and named the street after himself.

He went to an industry convention and word got back to the employees that, at dinner with some other industry executives, he proudly said, "My employees are monkeys. That's why I pay them bananas."

I could go on for days.

 

[zerocool84]

I updated bank software for the 2k switch. I hated it so much. I had this really annoying boss that always bugged me about these damn TPS reports. There was also this real squirrely guy that complained about someone taking his stapler all the time and he was always moving around. Something clicked in my life and I just stopped going and didn't care any more. There were these two consultants doing lay-offs and because I was honest with them and told them the truth about how much I hated it there, I was promoted but my 2 buddies were being fired. To get back at them we made this program to steal fractions of a cent that were rounded off in bank transactions and would take years before any we got any real money. It didn't work correctly but before we got caught the place burned down. I never knew what happened to the money but now I'm happy doing construction work.