What was the worst job you ever had?

[KilLAtomiK]

since i finished high school ive been working as a welder and a shoe salesman so far id say being a shoesalesman has got to be the most horrible job of the two. I cant wait for my ship date for the Air Force

[TheDeathKnight]

I think physically the worst job was digging ditches for a concrete crew.
And mentally worst job was doing data entry.

I'm very glad those jobs were far in the past...

[grebo]

working in factory for a month, cleaning screens for a company that screenprints the big picture on the sides of buses. i was so fucked up on cleaning chemicals the days went really quick, but i smelled like chemicals. when i quit my leg peeled like sunburn from the chemicals.

[-=Asmodeus=-]

I worked on a road crew that was laying New Sewer pipe for a county in TN...This place is about 2 Foot of dirt and then solid rock the rest of the way down...Most of my days were spent in a ditch 20 ft deep under a Track-Hoe thats exhaust was in the bottom...On the surface it averaged about 100 Degrees...In the Ditch it was about 120...Hot Nasty Very Physically challenging job....Only plus to that job was that being there was so much rock we got to use TNT...And because of the sauna like conditions..I lost like 40lbs.....

[Nudemuse]

I think my worst job was temping at Safeco filing checks in numerical order by checking account number. We weren't allowed music I had to wear pantyhose and was in a sub basement. It was flourescent hell.

[Amelia G]

My friend Deborah and I did this job in DC which was supposed to be for a couple weeks, but we didn't last the whole contract. DC has a problem with gypsy moths from time to time. Our job was to drive to a set location with tanks of helium and a big red balloon, blow up the balloon, and keep it aloft for a set time period. The planes dropping pesticide knew where to dust by looking for the red balloons. We were unable to finish the contract because we both got weird respiratory problems during it. We thought maybe the helium tanks were leaking and asked for full pay. We thought we were so tough because we got it. Of course, they might have been concerned because they were not really paying enough for people to stand unprotected in a shower of POISON.

[Slave326667]

Landscaping with my extremely talkative uncle who was too cheap to pay me minimum wage so he paid me $2.50-$5 an hour (depending on how generous he was feeling.) and I'd work 6 days a week, 8-10 hours a day (with no overtime), doing the same lawns EVERY week, in the 100-110 degree weather with absolutely NO wind as a cooling factor, and in a truck with no air conditioning. I woulden't have cared as much if I actually got the $6.75 and he wasn't so talkative... He liked to talk about polotics... he was a liberal democrat that voted conservative republican because they were "a better candidate"... nuff said.

[keiko]

I think it's a tie between Taco Bell and Subway. My fave up till now was Graveyard sitting. (how goth!) Between tenp mand 2 am they needed some one to sit in the graveyard and call security if we saw anything like devil worshippers or anything. Nothing so interesting as that happened but it was properly creepy.
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[Jasperino]

I keep thinking about that scene in Clerks where they're talking about the guy who has to clean up the spooge in the porno booths. That would suck!

[Tequila Zaire]

I think it's a tie between Taco Bell and Subway. My fave up till now was Graveyard sitting. (how goth!) Between tenp mand 2 am they needed some one to sit in the graveyard and call security if we saw anything like devil worshippers or anything. Nothing so interesting as that happened but it was properly creepy.
K

hahahaha I had a similar job only it was me and two other guys...all we did was play computer games on lap tops and in the summer dressed up in fatigues and hunt each other down with water guns. It was oddly a lot of fun and we totally forgot we were IN a graveyard. I think the only reason we got away with it was that we were like cheap security guards since we wandered all around and we easily scared off anyone trying to do "evil" things...

Though looking back on it I think running around pretending to fake kill each other over the final resting spots of people was pretty fucked up. Fun though.

[K_SyniculOne]

Worst Job: Clerk answering phones and doing inventory counts. I hated it...Loved speaking on the phone, but I hated counting, stacking and organizing the supplies. It was a mess, and there were tons of boxes all over the place and each damn time a shipment of supplies would come in, my boss was always in my face expecting everything to be finished in only a couple hours, even though the people from warehouse would drop off 200 fucking boxes of shit. She never took the time to help out, instead she would take extended lunches. Lazy b&tch. Damn I hated that job, cant you tell?

[BrightStar]

working at mcdonald's. They still owe Me for at least 4 weeks pay.

[KilLAtomiK]

you guys dont know how good youve made me feel about my shity job thanks

[Amethyst]

Working on statistical service, I still work there from time to time when I am out of money. It really sucks, you call for people and ask them what they like about their mobile phone operator or the like. And when you add there the fact I hate speaking on the phone. Even scooping for 8hours a day 6 days in week is vacation compared to that.

[Mirren]

I would say packaging cd's in an assembly line with about 15 people, where they just move, you can't stop the line for anything. You'd get tons of paper cuts, and you had to keep going. We had to stand for 6 hours and get them ready for packaging, then we sat for 2 boxing them up. Ewww the memories.

[HempKnight]

I keep thinking about that scene in Clerks where they're talking about the guy who has to clean up the spooge in the porno booths. That would suck!

HAHAHA.... well... I had an adult bookstore franchise (one of 9 stores) and you'd be surprised
just how many people WANT the job.. and for a WHOPPING $6 an hour too. I had stacks of apps
I would go through every week and disqualify people because of poor work history and police records
(can you imagine not getting a job as the jizz mopper because you walked out on your last job at Burger King or boostin' something from Sears?!?)

[HempKnight]

I would have to say the worst and best job was armed personal security.
Got alot of opportunity to met celebs and rock stars, make good money (60k - 100k a year)
But at the same time the real chance to get killed protecting some asshole
who could give a fuck less just as long as their ass wasn't harmed.
Some contracts were rewarding work and some just fucking sucked, no matter how much money was paid.
In five years, only had to pull my weapon four times, I've been shot twice, stabbed twice and was involved in two shootings.

[skully]

i worked in the call center for northeastern university i had to call people up and ask them to donate money towards my school... it totally sucked i hated every second of it. i lasted about three days one was all training the other two was me complaining about how i was pissing people off b/c they were spending all this money for sending there kids to school and we were hitting them up for more money on top of that.

[Amelia G]

I was feeling a little frustrated with some work stuff, but then I thought of this thread and remembered to be grateful for the good things. This is probably a good convo to continue in the current economic climate.

[nathanmbailey]

The army. I like my actual job, but between having to melt in Iraq for a year at a time (I've still got more time in Iraq than I do in the States since I've gotten out of training) and when I'm in the States and have so much crap to do other than actual aircraft work. And all the stupid people that get put in charge and a bunch of other crap that just sucks.

Second place is my first job. I worked at a Hilton Garden Inn hotel. I started part time (at 16) as a dishwasher, then I had to help out with setting up banquet rooms which then became part of my normal job tasks. Then, they added in banquet serving and busing, busing the main restaurant, prepping for the cook, occassional cooking, and then they tried to shove housekeeping on me on the weekends when a few of them quit. I went from working 20 hours a week to working 60 hours a week while going to school. All within 6 months. My next job at a restaurant wasn't much better either.

Best job, ironically was the easiest one I ever had and required no real skill. I worked at a Speedway gas station before I joined the army. 10pm to 6am. Hardly anyone came in to bother me and I pretty much sat in the heated car wash (it was winter time) smoking a cigarette and drinking until someone came in.

[mystoo]

Cleaning hotel rooms. First day on the job and I find a big pile-o-puke on the floor. Thankfully I didn't have to be the one to clean it.

[World*in*my*Eyes]

Security Guard, 11PM to 7AM at construction sites in Southern Ca. I had no cell phone, and I was totally alone and unarmed, wearing a very big shiney fake gold badge, to watch these sites so no one came and stole anything. Boring and also scarey. I had to make a hourly written report, of which I reported every " ping "sound I heard. On one site, where I was called in to, I fell asleep inside a tent, drunk. If people came in the middle of the night, I was to ask them to show that they have permission to come and take whatever they were taking. They never had any written permission, so I would just write their license plate # down and report what they took.

[World*in*my*Eyes]

I am a licensed Cosmetogist (hair stylist etc.) and a former long time professional Dancer ( this was my first job at age 16) and I have done many other jobs. I currently work at a cemetery, getting leads for salesmen, basically trying to find people who will be interested to commit their bodies in memorial, upon death to our very beautiful and very expensive cementary. This is not my career choice, this is a job, which is better than no job. Lets start a thread about our best jobs. I do not know how to tecnically start a thread here. My best job, was a temp job, for 2 weeks, painting on silk scarves for a silk scarf designer in southern Ca. Another enjoyable but even more low paid job was in a ceramic factory, also in southern Ca. doing all aspects of ceramic art reproductions of animals. Very enjoyable.

[rikosaka]

My current job probably has had some of the worst things in my job history but overall it has been a cool job. I work for a Japanese Indy Porn company and the worst part of it is when we filmed the S/M videos, they always had to have an enema scene. I don't care how cute the woman is, their shit does stink. The first time I shot that scene was scary, after that I hated it, the worst one was one S/M Queen put small super balls up the girl's ass and so when she went to let all the enema out, the balls bounced all over the bathroom, one of them hit me in the arm and since I was filming I couldn't stop and clean my arm.

S/M videos with a submissive guy were also pretty bad, not too keen on seeing a guy get stuff shoved up his rear end.

But now I most author DVD's since with the economy gone down, not much filming going on. Overall it has been a fun job except for those scene.

[Ajax Knucklebones]

Working in a warehouse with no air-conditioning, in the dead of summer, and we had to wear jeans. Got jungle rot three times that summer....BAD. All for minimum wage.

[KessM]

i guess the only real job i ever had was at taco bell

[Morning Glory]

Does sucking dick for rocks count as a job?

Otherwise, I guess it would be financial adviser.