Worst job you ever had thread

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#1
Worst job you ever had. I will start
Roof stripper. Not as exciting as a pole dancer.
Southern Kalifornia summer on top of a roof with a pitchfork removing wood shingles and tar paper. Start at 6:30 finished about 8:00. When I was done each night I looked like an Aborigine and blew black mud out of my nose for an hour. All for minimum wage. Gotta love young and dumb.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: vwhugger</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Mechanic for the US Postal Sevice.</div></div>
Out here when a opening comes for a postal worker they have 300 to 400 people lined up for the one opening.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: vwhugger</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Mechanic for the US Postal Sevice. </div></div>

Wow, you too? I used to be a mechanic for the Postal Service as well. I can think of few days in my life as satisfying as the day I told them I quit.
 
#8
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Shit truck operator,,,,what was always funny was to pump out a tank and the man of the house ask what's those condoms doing in there.Me and my wife don't use condoms,,,and I would ask him if he had daughters in the house,and they all had that same red face pissed off look.
 
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While working construction we got a kick upgrading sewer plants. Cutting into and tying into existing crapper lines was a total mess. In addition I remember having to shovel out a huge solid waste seperation tank. We shoveled for days. You couldn't even imagine the crazy things we found in that shit tank!
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Downzero</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: vwhugger</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Mechanic for the US Postal Sevice. </div></div>

Wow, you too? I used to be a mechanic for the Postal Service as well. I can think of few days in my life as satisfying as the day I told them I quit.</div></div>
Nah, I work for a new car dealership
 
#13
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I'd have to say the odd jobs I used to do when I was 13. I love playing in hot weather, but working in it is a totally different story. Although it was very rewarding having a huge wad of cash in your pocket while the other kids had to rely on their allowances and end up blowing it on junk food and video game rentals.
 
#14
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I would have to say Suicide clean up was one of my worst jobs next to fire contents and flood work. Nothing worst then going into a burnt house or one filled with crappy water and mold.
 
#16
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Jack hammering the acid pits for pickling copper. The acid would evaporate and turn to a white dust. Temp was about 100 in there and when the sweat mixed with the dust, turned back to acid. Would burn nonstop from the time it started until I got in the shower and the end of the day.
Sucked, but as said above, young and dumb.
Chad
 
#17
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I worked in a seal shop when I was 16... This shop made seals for a chemical plant thermal exchangers. I would have to take these 10'x7', 1" thick rubber mats and place them on one of there homemade "professional" seal patterns and use a foot press to cut the pattern. I would then take a belt sander and sand the edges rough and place the worst smelling glue on it along with triangular tubing for the rim. They never gave me so much as a breathing mask when I did this and by the end of the day I was high and could spit rubber loogeys lol. Worst thing about it, my boss's were the owners two idiot kids who were 2 years older than me. I worked there for a week and a half...then I said F'em and feed fish heads. By no means is the worst job compared to the others here, just damn dangerous for minimum wage. Young and dumb too.
 
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Mopping ....ah, a great read. I worked at a lamp making factory in NC age 16 ($1.20/hr?) a summer job and there was a maybe 250-500 gal drum of seriously high VOC finish in it. In a windowless room maybe 10 X10'. of course it leaked and my bosses sent my cousin & I to clean it out-now liquid 2" deep with who knows what type of stuff-WITH A MOP. we were a little fuzzy afterwards. No masks, nothing. Then we "got" to drive a massive forklift around hauling 24' steel girders. Unbelievable. I remember sitting on the grass just laughing afterwards. We then became unemployed. When you are 16 you can survive anything.
 
#20
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Used to process human cadavers for surgical implantation, at a tissue bank.

Yep, I used to cut up dead bodies for a living, all at a cool $9 per hour.

Contact me, I think they are hiring here in the Denver, CO area.
 
#21
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Systems Admin. for a clueless bunch of null-wits.

I've done my share of dirty and hard work, including several years manually working and harvesting tobacco. The only machinery we had were a mule, plows, and hoes. it really wasn't that bad, and $8/day was good money for a 13 year old in the mid 70's.

But when I had a nice office and a simple network to manage for a small manufacturing company, I was literally miserable.

Long periods of boredom interrupted by brief spurts of chaos.

But the work still wasn't that bad.

What was bad was the mentality of the management.
Endless fucking meetings rehashing the same bullshit week after week.
Clueless leadership that had no idea how to inspire or motivate people.
Assignments like reading the book "Who Stole My Cheese?", so it could be discussed in the next meeting.
Committees to decide the most ridiculous and mundane of things, such as what colors to paint the new offices.
Hundreds of projects talked about and never implemented.

This fucking outfit made Congress look like Goddamned Honda Motor Company.

The CEO was a clueless dolt, who attracted consultants (aka leeches) like shit draws flies. Dumbass even had a personal coach to come and spend a few hours a day with him telling him how to more effectively manage his time so he could have more freethinking minutes to focus on the big picture.

Corporate buzzwords and this and that book or article about Synergy, low-hanging fruit, how to eat an elephant, and so on.

My Dad once told me to never work for people who knew less than I do.

Damned good advice.
 
#22
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Toss up.
Pumping Forest Service pit toilets in the summer heat.
Cleaning up a suicide scene (.45ACP vs. teenager)
 
#23
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I worked in a factory welding up door frames on second shift. Most boring job in the world. I only did it for a week and a half before I quit. It is one of the 5 jobs I have had in my life, and i have worked since I was 16.
 
#24
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I dont know.. I have basically only held two jobs: Washing dishes for 2.5 years in a family owned italian restaurant and the Army. While the dishwashing job sucked at times, so did the Army. Both taught me a lot and I can't but help think I am better for having had those experiences. Perhaps the worst job I've ever had in that case, would be the job I never had- whatever that might be.
 
#25
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fun flash-back read.

Mine would be pallet-stacking 50# feed bags for 12hr shifts when I was was not much over 2x the bag in body weight. Stack to 6ft in height.
Two 10min and one 30min break.
Grab the corners, twist, and curl each open bag and slam down to compress a few times, sew down a automated machine, stack, and wish the pallet stayed the same height. Bags came as fast as the hopper and operator could fill them....and they wanted to see the grunt at the end of the line suffer.

There was one cool dude at the time out on Huber that called me Hercules. LOL The whole place was full of depressing older folk at the hoppers. I used every advantage I could after exhaustion. From dry humping the bags with my knees/legs to compress and throwing the bag against the pallet-stack to get under and heave-roll the bag over the top. It had to be ugly.

Shit, now I have the body weight and that would probably kill me.
 
#26
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I did have one fun time when I was putting a diff center section in a trash truck that broke some ring and pinion teeth. The thing had sat full for about 5 days. Needless to say I dressed up in several trash bags and racer tape with eye-holes. The whole time I could see and feel maggots dropping on me, the smell of burned diff fluid, and the stench of rotting trash.

I have to give it to you Krav69 that job would suck.
 
#27
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Personal bodyguard for a "Rent-a-Stripper" company!

You know how guys can get out of control in a strip club sometimes... you know "that guy!"

Well just imagine, being on their turf!

90% of the time, things went fine and smooth, but the other 10% of the times were SHTF!!!
 
#28
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Krav69</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Used to process human cadavers for surgical implantation, at a tissue bank.

Yep, I used to cut up dead bodies for a living, all at a cool $9 per hour.

Contact me, I think they are hiring here in the Denver, CO area. </div></div>

Dood, I dated a chick that did that! After she told me what she did I couldn't sleep next to her anymore for fear of waking up sans kidney. Damn shame, she was pretty hot too.


My worst job was used car salesman, the only way to make money was to scam people and that's not my style.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: slowkota</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Personal bodyguard for a "Rent-a-Stripper" company!

You know how guys can get out of control in a strip club sometimes... you know "that guy!"

Well just imagine, being on their turf!

90% of the time, things went fine and smooth, but the other 10% of the times were SHTF!!! </div></div>

I can only imagine, did you carry on the job?
 
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January 1970. Thirty days mess duty as a Lance Cpl. After Vietnam. Two battalion size messhall. I was given the Schullery to run. Industrial size dishwasher was broke and the industrial size sink was permanently stopped up. Four-thirty am to eight-thirty pm. Couldn't quit. Also almost the best job I ever had. The mess Sgt. "begged" me to come back the first day I was off mess duty. If I had known what I was going to from Viet., I would have defected. Well maybe not defected, but desertion was very much a consideration. By the time my thirty days was up we had the schullery running like a top and the dishwasher still didn't work and the sink was still stopped up. I bet the Marine Corps is still using that messhall at Camp Lejune to this day, and bet you the dishwasher and sink still don't work. Weapons Plt.,A Co., 1st Bn., 8th Marines. In about March of 1970 Weapons Plt. had 65 NCO's assigned and about three non-rated. Thank god I made Cpl in March. Anyone want to know how we made the schullery work?
Semper Fi,
Tipy
 
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Moved in with a buddy from the 82nd not to long after I left Ft. Bragg. My car broke down and didn't have the money to repair it, so I decided to try to get a job with a company car.

Chose to take a job as an exterminator with Terminex. Yeah, the f'king guys with the big bug on the truck.

My manager was a retired ranger and figured a fellow army boy could handle one of the more challenging rural routes.

Talk about some nasty buggers! There isn't much worse than going out to some backwoods shack in the middle of a southern summer and having to drag yourself around under a musty, critter infested crawl space with no expedient method for escape.

The worst part, was after doing the free initial crawl space inspections, half the people would decide not to have any services done. Going through that shit and then finding out that they aren't interested in being serviced was really demoralizing.

There weren't too many days where I didn't find something poisonous to play with. Took about 6 months, but I saved up enough for a car, and got my ass in college!
 
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'Computer Job' at a Nor-Cal Lawn and Garden Furniture Company for one day.
Pick up the box, put it on the scale, enter the number in the computer, put the box on the pallet. Pick up the box, put it on the scale, enter the number, put it on the scale. Pick up the box, put it on the scale ad infinitum. I went until lunch, had lunch, called the temp service I was registered with and left after lunch.
If growing up counts, pick up the rocks, put them in the truck, make a fence for mom, get more rocks. That sucked!
 
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Sorting pop and beer bottles/cans at the local grocery, 15-20 years ago. Some of which would be turned in with liquid (who knows what) still in them, others would have winged surprises with stingers living with in them...
 
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Back in 1982 working for UMDNJ (then CMDNJ) EMS in Newark, NJ-getting stuck assisting the ME with picking up heavily decomposed rotten bodies during July,August.

"They" get real bloaty and break open like a rotisserie chicken when you have to carry them down the stairs. Some unrecognizable-absolutely disgusting.
 
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^ "rotisserie chicken"?
interesting analogy, any less tasty ones?
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Working in 1976 for a ship salvage operation resurrecting a WWII Liberty ship that had been sunk into the mud of Cook Inlet here in Alaska on purpose to form a breakwater. I was a laborer whose job was to wash out of the lower deck, the fine, glacial silt deposited by tidal action the last 25 years. As the decks became clear, the welders would use use cutting torches to slice up sections of the ship and have them craned off. Ultimately this would lessen the weight of the ship on the ocean bottom and we would then in coordination with the season's high tides, raise the ship and direct it closer to shore and resink, forming the breakwork from which a dock would be built.

Anyway, my days were spent up to my waist in mud and 45 degree seawater, with a high pressure fire house spraying mud out of holes cut into the side of the ship. We worked 2 man teams so somebody could pull you out if you got stuck. I worked below decks with no lighting and in two months went through over 35 feet of mud the length of the ship. The most fun was gradually uncovering the engine room over a period of days and seeing how those ships ran. The worst part was being sent into the old oil bunker tanks and cleaning those out as there was alot of residual bunker oil still there. I would come home wet,cold,tired, and have to hose off and get undressed on the porch every night. Worked for 2 1/2 months until the job was successfully completed in mid-November. I just got a chill from reliving the daily hypothemia of this job! Got paid $10.00/hr and worked 60 hour weeks.
 
#38
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10 bucks an hour in 1976 with 60 hour weeks?

thats $37.27 with inflation in 2009 according to http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi


if done for the same pay adjusted for inflation today: that would be $2236.20 a week x 10 weeks= $22,362.00 for 2 and half months of work. Not too shabby and definitely earned. another part time gig for a few months and you could work half the year and live rather nicely with that sort of pay.
 
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The second worst job I had as back in high school in the early 70's when I picked mushrooms in a old underground lime stone mine. The worst job was the day the mexican's called off sick and they sent me to help with the honey wagon.

There were porta-pots all through the mine and they had to be dumped daily. The way they did it was, a tractor pulling a cart full of milk cans would pull up and you took a gallon can with a sticked screwed to it and dipped out the porta-pot into the milk cans.

I went over to the tractor and the driver said to jump on because we had to dump the milk cans first because they were all full. At the dump station, the first can I gabbed sloshed on my pant leg. I took out my knife and cut the legs off my jeans and walked over to the office and told them I quit. I lasted less than 15 minutes dipping shit.
 
#42
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I used to harvest fish tank plants in Ft.Lauderdale. It was shitty. Hands in the water all day, picking see-weed like shit out, so some turd could have a nice green piece for his gold fish to shit in.
 
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I work for Abercrombie and Fitch and Hollister....really fucking painful.

Been working for that farce of a company for about 2 years now. It's a terrible job and basically can only pay for gas money, sometimes enough for bills. I've been with this current store for about a year and a half and I've been through 4 store managers, more asst managers than I can count on both hands, and WAY too many retarded employees. We have a running list of people who have been there the longest, at my 1.5 years, I'm in second.

The music sucks and WAY too loud so I have to scream at people, customer service is looked down on by the manager, its too dark to actually see what your buying, we have to say ridiculous things that make customers think we're retarded such as "HEY WHATS UP WELCOME TO THE PIER TRY OUT OUR COLOGNES AND PERFUMES" when the nearest ocean is three hours to the west...awesome. Moreover we are treated pretty much like shit.

Terrible job, not physically demanding by any means, but in terms of dealing with terrible managers and people who don't give a flying f*** its pretty far up there on the shitty job scale.
 
#46
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Toss up at 16 I worked in a bakery, had to get up at 4am then go in and stick my hands in 250 degree oil to flip donuts - Or work on the labor gang in the tube mill. You don't know fun until your under the threading machines shoveling chips and oil into a hopper. Come to think of it sealing driveways in august wasn't really very appealing either.
 
#47
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Gigolo in Vegas back in 82. Blew my knee out while swinging from a crystal chandelier and landing on a tile floor......kinky bitches out there.

I still walk with a limp.









April fools..............fools
 
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Roofing work back in the 80's. Tear offs, redecking, shingles, and metal. I liked two sheets of metal being finished with a job on a new home one afternoon when these big drops of rain started falling. Wasn't really raining at the time, just a lite sprinkle, but the drops were big. I told my helpers to get down and I would install these last two sheets right quick before the rain set in. I turned around and took two steps trying to dodge the wet spots and on the third step a drop fell under my right foot and I was already commited. BLAM, I fell face down head pointed at the peak and my fingernails trying to dig into the tin. I think trying to dig in caused me to speed up if you want to know the truth. Thank God there was a jagged piece of tin still nailed on at the bottom of the roof. The corner that was sticking up went into my left knee(purdy deep by the way) and stopped my descend to the ground which was another 16'-18'. The good news at that time was that I didn't fall off the roof. The bad news was that I still can't get traction with my hands or feet on wet tin. The only thing to grab ahold of was the lathe which was to my right and about six inches out of reach. By this time the bottom had fell out and it was pouring. The guys on the ground set a ladder up behind me and pushed against my feet so that I could reach the lathe and pull myself up. They told me that the stream of rain running off the roof by my foot was pink. I was thankful to be walking upright and that my back wasn't broken. A trip to the emergency room and a few weeks later I was fine. It could've been a whole lot worse.

I finally got tired of the back aches , sore feet, heat exhaustion, busted fingers / knuckles, and roofing work all together. Decided I'd go join the Marine Corps and take it easy for a few years. Heck, I liked it so much, when the first four were over I signed up again. I was afraid if I got out, I'd have to go back to roofing. My hat's off to anyone that does roofing work day in and day out cause it SUX!
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Apache</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I work for Abercrombie and Fitch and Hollister....really fucking painful.

Been working for that farce of a company for about 2 years now. It's a terrible job and basically can only pay for gas money, sometimes enough for bills. I've been with this current store for about a year and a half and I've been through 4 store managers, more asst managers than I can count on both hands, and WAY too many retarded employees. We have a running list of people who have been there the longest, at my 1.5 years, I'm in second.

The music sucks and WAY too loud so I have to scream at people, customer service is looked down on by the manager, its too dark to actually see what your buying, we have to say ridiculous things that make customers think we're retarded such as "HEY WHATS UP WELCOME TO THE PIER TRY OUT OUR COLOGNES AND PERFUMES" when the nearest ocean is three hours to the west...awesome. Moreover we are treated pretty much like shit.

Terrible job, not physically demanding by any means, but in terms of dealing with terrible managers and people who don't give a flying f*** its pretty far up there on the shitty job scale. </div></div>

Bad thing about Hollister is everyone who wears it has no clue as to the fame of the name of the town. Hollister was home to the most infamous staged anti biker picture in history that has maligned bikers from the beginning. Staged by a newsman and his camera man after sweeping up as many beer bottles as they could find, the photo has been seen as truth for many years until it was debunked by original Boozefighter's MC members who were there. The local man in the background has also witnessed the debunking of this original picture as well.

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vs the sanctioned stuff:

Yellow Jackets Rider Club racers(Boozefighter's MC in disguise so they could race in AMA events)

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I couldn't work in Hollister if you paid me, the place stinks like week old vag and is sickening to walk through
 
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Actually the company Hollister has NOTHING to do with the actual town. It is actually just a lie covering all of the clothes as the original creation date was in 1922. Total farce. It was an offshoot brand of Abercrombie in Fitch made to sell to high schoolers in the early 2000's. The entire brand line is based off of a fictional surf board company and fictional surf location. A&F has gone far enough as to buy the rights to the name Hollister and sue the town of Hollister, barring them from making any clothing with the name Hollister on the damn shirt.

The company I work for is terrible and 90% full of airheaded retards I wouldnt let hold a sharp fork. I need a new job. Bad.
 
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