Whats the worst job you've ever had?

[nan0bug]

I worked for a chicken processing plant as one of the people who went out to farms and loaded the chickens on trucks. Everything PETA says is true and then some. It takes a really cold heart to be able to do that job, as well as a strong stomach since you encounter a lot of dead, rotting chicken carcasses. The chickens are packed so tightly and fed so much that some of them can no longer support their own weight and end up getting crushed in the rush for more food. They live in nasty barns amongst other dead chickens, their own feces, bugs, and feathers. When you walk in to one of these barns, you better have some sort of mask on, otherwise the ammonia smell will make you hurl. The way they are loaded is cruel and they literally scream at you while you're picking them up. Most of the times their legs break when you pick them up. Its a really nasty feeling, picking a live animal up by its legs and hearing/feeling them break and having the animal scream at you.

I lasted about an hour. I don't need money that badly.

 

[phray]

i'm also ashamed to admit it but i worked for AOL tech support for 2 weeks. And the first week was 'training' so i was basically getting paid to surf the net for 8 hrs a day. however, once i got put on the floor everything changed. i probably spoke with every grandmother and newb on the planet. i suddenly realized that i shouldnt be there when i was told to stop helping people fix their modem problems. i was making everyone else on the team 'look bad.'

then i quit.

 

[AndrewNF]

Chicken processing plant employee for 3 weeks. My good summer job finished early and I needed the extra cash, it was the only thing I could get.

Overnight shifts, shifts that started at 7am on the other side of the city, repetitive assembly line tasks, no fun at all. Was on laundry shift one night, washing and drying a zillion lab coats all by myself. Just surreal.

The staff makeup was funny - smart young university kids 18-25 versus average joe 30-55 year olds.

 

[episodic]

I pumped portable toilets for 1 week.

NEVER again.

I'd rather be homeless.

 

[apac]

Originally posted by: nan0bug
I worked for a chicken processing plant as one of the people who went out to farms and loaded the chickens on trucks. Everything PETA says is true and then some. It takes a really cold heart to be able to do that job, as well as a strong stomach since you encounter a lot of dead, rotting chicken carcasses. The chickens are packed so tightly and fed so much that some of them can no longer support their own weight and end up getting crushed in the rush for more food. They live in nasty barns amongst other dead chickens, their own feces, bugs, and feathers. When you walk in to one of these barns, you better have some sort of mask on, otherwise the ammonia smell will make you hurl. The way they are loaded is cruel and they literally scream at you while you're picking them up. Most of the times their legs break when you pick them up. Its a really nasty feeling, picking a live animal up by its legs and hearing/feeling them break and having the animal scream at you.

I lasted about an hour. I don't need money that badly.

winnar

 

[anxi80]

Originally posted by: gigapet

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

ditto

same. i think the timeframe was about the same also.

 

[Spamela]

i worked at a vegetable & fruit cannery during the summer
while i was in college.

the place was LOUD, hot, & smelly.

the production lines whiz the stuff by so fast that lots of people
who have to sort fruit (pull out the bad or undersized) get dizzy & puke.

i operated a packing machine. luckily, the pay was good & you were always busy,
so you didn't have much time to think about how much you hated it.

 

[Luden]

A toss up between Burger King & Wal-Mart management.. :frown:

 

[palle33]

deliver morningpapers..it sucked bigtime and I quit same day I started(morning)

 

[Electric Amish]

I don't think any of my jobs were too bad....

Kennel Boy
Sweeper/Driver/Sawyer for a metal shop
Hardee's front counter
JC Penney suit sales
Mervyn's Warehouse/Distribution
Research Assistant/CVD Tech for Norton Co.
Incoming phone operator for Equifax
Pharmaceutical Process Dev Tech, then Manufacturing Tech, then Laboratory IT

 

[palle33]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
I don't think any of my jobs were too bad....

Kennel Boy
Sweeper/Driver/Sawyer for a metal shop
Hardee's front counter
JC Penney suit sales
Mervyn's Warehouse/Distribution
Research Assistant/CVD Tech for Norton Co.
Incoming phone operator for Equifax
Pharmaceutical Process Dev Tech, then Manufacturing Tech, then Laboratory IT

if the payment is good I could do anything...its all about the money really

 

[mavs55]

i worked as a garbageman by day and mcd's by night. and no i didnt shower in between.

 

[Bowmaster]

First job - caddie at a golf course. Hot, tireing work carting around bags for old fukers. No, not like Caddyshack at all. No Thanks

Second job - was WORSE!!! .Lot BOY at car dealership. And I do mean BOY. Every jerkoff sales prick thinks you're their personal servant. Sucked the big one.

Third job - groundscrew at cemetary. Owner was a jew prick, but job was pretty fun. Got to be outside all day!

 

[Ynog]

Never had a job I truly regretted, but my least favorite was bricklaying.

 

[SuperTool]

Flyer boy at a chinese restaurant. I was under age too. I didn't like it, but I don't regret doing it. It let me buy some things I wouldn't afford otherwise, like a bike, a camera, and a walkman.

 

[Goth]

Toys R Us clerk, back in the days when the employees wore those fashionable orange smocks. I quit after one day as I was hired to work the floors and stock shelves, but ended up getting stuck as the clerk at the service desk (when they used to be just below the manager's "office" for easy access to managers). I had to deal with irate customers on my first night and management wasn't around leaving me to deal with screaming parents who were trying to return 10 year old worn out Barbies, open NES games, and other crap they knew were not returnable items.

Those bozos never paid me for that one day I worked. I could have pursued it, but for 6 hours of work at $3.45/hr, it wasn't worth it.

 

[Yax]

I didn't regret it, but my first real job was working for an adult store. I didn't like it much but needed to pay bills.

 

[MikeO]

My first summer job, Telemarketing.

*shudder*

I quit after three days. I'd rather shovel sh*t for a living.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: Bowmaster
Third job - groundscrew at cemetary. Owner was a jew prick, but job was pretty fun. Got to be outside all day!

I don't see how the owners ethnicity plays into it. A prick is a prick is a prick.

 

[SuperTool]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: Bowmaster
Third job - groundscrew at cemetary. Owner was a jew prick, but job was pretty fun. Got to be outside all day!

I don't see how the owners ethnicity plays into it. A prick is a prick is a prick.

Yeah, especially in America

 

[Thump553]

Originally posted by: palle33
deliver morningpapers..it sucked bigtime and I quit same day I started(morning)

That was one of the best jobs I ever had. Physical work, no one to hassle you and the pay was fantastic (at the time, was rich neighborhood and for a kid). That was the one and only time in my life when I was truly wealthy-I'd earn three times as much each week as what I would spend. If I could support my family on it, I'd trade my professional career job today for that job in a heartbeat.

I've worked some tough jobs-like scrapping manure off hog floors but the worst job was as a temp worker in a rubber casting foundry. The temp had to be 110 degrees or more inside, the degreaser fumes and other nasty chemicals were everywhere and the place was dangerous as hell. At lunch break on my last day there (second or third day on job) I realized I was the only employee there that was not on probation or something similar, meaning if they quit they'd go back to jail. Someone got hurt pretty bad that afternoon, I walked out and never looked back.

 

[rh71]

i did many data entry jobs and it's never exciting. But this one place I worked at from 6-11pm sucked... it was 1030pm on my 1st night and I said I quit. I guess school in the daytime made it suck even more since I actually wanted some free time.

 

[edro]

Radio Shack.

I don't regret it though. I was one of the good guys who told customers to go somewhere else and get the item for half the price. (I never sold enough crap to get commission anyways, so I didn't care)