Whats the worst job you've ever had?

[aphex]

Its hard to admit this sometimes, but i used to work for a company that sent spam.

I think on a good day (well, bad day i guess you could call it), i sent over 200-300k emails

Im ashamed i would stoop so low, but hey it paid the bills at the time....

 

[brunswickite]

Working at A&P(supermarket), as a Produce clerk, which meant i rotated fruits and vegetables for 8 hours. I sucked pretty bad..

 

[Gunslinger08]

Worked at an art place. The building was like 400 years old and it was generally just boring and dirty.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Originally posted by: aphex
Its hard to admit this sometimes, but i used to work for a company that sent spam.

I think on a good day (well, bad day i guess you could call it), i sent over 200-300k emails

Im ashamed i would stoop so low, but hey it paid the bills at the time....

Hey aphex, can I speak to you in this dark alley for a moment??

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: aphex
Its hard to admit this sometimes, but i used to work for a company that sent spam.

I think on a good day (well, bad day i guess you could call it), i sent over 200-300k emails

Im ashamed i would stoop so low, but hey it paid the bills at the time....

HANG HIM!!

 

[KLin]

worked for a telemarketing company. that job sucked. Only lasted 3 weeks

 

[Brutuskend]

Got a job at the hospital.

Putting wheels on miscarriages ...

 

[Drakkon]

I worked at a horse ranch cleaning stalls/feeding/brushing...i quit after a day since we worked 12 hrs with only a 1 hr break and got paid min wage and on top of that i was allergic to something there (I grew up around hroses so i couldn't figure out what)...the only neat thing was i took care of 2 retired budweiser clydesdales which were possibly the most amazing animals i ever have been around.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: dnetmhz

Originally posted by: aphex
Its hard to admit this sometimes, but i used to work for a company that sent spam.

I think on a good day (well, bad day i guess you could call it), i sent over 200-300k emails

Im ashamed i would stoop so low, but hey it paid the bills at the time....

Hey aphex, can I speak to you in this dark alley for a moment??

In my defense, it wasnt what i was hired to do. I just ended up taking over the operation after the boss needed some tech support on the rigs it was running on.

Also, it was a newsletter that was sent out, not really a true spam. However, when i questioned where we got our leads (email addys) from, i was told that we bought em

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Got a job at the hospital.

Putting wheels on miscarriages ...

oh dear

 

[NuclearNed]

Fresh out of high school, I used to work for a radio station as a dj. I kept the job for one year, and sometimes I really liked it. But I was given minimal training on how to do things, then when I screwed up I got the third degree. My boss was a complete antisocial jerk. I was the new guy, so I got all the crappy jobs and shifts that nobody else wanted, which translated into me working sometimes in the neighborhood of 60-80 hours a week. I never had a regular schedule, so I ended up working all hours of the day and couldn't make plans for anything else. I worked all holidays, including the Christmas where I came in at 6 in the morning and left at 2 the next morning. Once I got yelled at for bringing my lunch to work in a bag from a grocery store that didn't advertise with us. One night my supervisor changed my schedule to work the next day without telling me, then when I didn't come when he expected I got yelled at again. One night while cleaning the equipment I spilled some alcohol on the plastic-tile floor that left a spot about the size of a quarter - once again, a thorough yelling.

But all my friends thought is was cool that I was a dj.

 

[PanzerIV]

My first response was going to be the machine shop I worked in for a year when I was 17/18 but even that dirty, smelly, hot and labor intensive job (most of the time, at least) didn't compare to the clean, air conditioned office job I had in customer service with a major paging company. To say I hated and despised that company would only be scratching the surface not to mention the management consisted off a bunch of trained baboons. I still leer at the buildings, now empty, I once worked in.
In fact, I detest any customer service related jobs because I immediately discovered 97% of the American public is a bunch of ignorant, rude f^cks who couldn't figure out which way to drive down a one way street. They can say anything they want and you have to sit their and take it with a smile....

 

[pyonir]

Calling businesses for MDA inquiring whether they had the supplies they needed for the current pledge drive. We also had to call managers, principals, and executives to see if they wanted to participate in a fund raiser. I hated it. The business never knew what the hell you were talking about even though they were supposed to be raising funds, and the executives were all "out of the office".

I only lasted three days before i said "f it".

 

[gigapet]

Originally posted by: KLin
worked for a telemarketing company. that job sucked. Only lasted 3 weeks

ditto

 

[dmcowen674]

Worst job was a Food Processing place.

Don't eat diet Salad Dressings or diet anything, if you knew the stuff that it is made of believe me you wouldn't touch it.

Anyway, my Grandfather died suddenly and my folks came to pick me up to go to New Jersey for the Funeral (lived on Long Island New York back then).

The Boss lady said unless it was my own Funeral I am fired.

 

[dquan97]

I washed the equipment at a lab before and took care of about 50 hamsters that were part of a study. Did it for a quarter in college

 

[nakedfrog]

Worked like 2, 2.5 weeks on an assembly line, making Harley Davidson clutch cables. Sucky job. The machine we had to stamp the lot info or whatever was, I think, one of the originals or something. It would screw up on a fairly regular basis and drag down our production rate while I had to fix it. Not to mention standing all day.

 

[nageov3t]

marketing. I hated it... my job was to make products that were pure crap sell-able.

I was good at it, which was the worst part. I always felt kinda guilty when we told out a tour package that I knew would result in 75% of the customers asking for refunds.

 

[PingSpike]

I worked doing telephone surveys. It was pretty much the same vein as telemarketing, but we didn't actually sell anything (try telling that to people on the phone though). It sucked and it was evenings.

I think I hated the pizza place job I worked at more though.

 

[MomAndSkoorbaby]

I cleaned hotel rooms for a few weeks...people are just bascially disgusting.

 

Dog Grooming.

I lasted about 3 hours.

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
I worked doing telephone surveys. It was pretty much the same vein as telemarketing, but we didn't actually sell anything (try telling that to people on the phone though). It sucked and it was evenings.

I think I hated the pizza place job I worked at more though.

I actually kind of enjoyed my pizza place job. My boss rocked. Then I realized I didn't want to make a career out of it after 2.5 years with the company.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: MrsSkoorb
I cleaned hotel rooms for a few weeks...people are just bascially disgusting.

I actually kind of enjoyed my time cleaning hotel rooms. Didn't really have to deal with a lot of people, so I could just walk around all day listening to my walkman and not be bothered.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: PingSpike
I worked doing telephone surveys. It was pretty much the same vein as telemarketing, but we didn't actually sell anything (try telling that to people on the phone though). It sucked and it was evenings.

I think I hated the pizza place job I worked at more though.

I actually kind of enjoyed my pizza place job. My boss rocked. Then I realized I didn't want to make a career out of it after 2.5 years with the company.

My boss was a fvcking asshole. And the customers were assholes. I didn't hate the job because of what the job really entailed, I just hated my coworkers. If I could get away with it, I would murder that kid who was the cook to this day. I hate him that badly.

 

[MomAndSkoorbaby]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: MrsSkoorb
I cleaned hotel rooms for a few weeks...people are just bascially disgusting.

I actually kind of enjoyed my time cleaning hotel rooms. Didn't really have to deal with a lot of people, so I could just walk around all day listening to my walkman and not be bothered.

*shudder* the rooms I cleaned were beyond gross! Not to mention the other women were old, gossipy ladies who wanted to just nag me...