Blog Catalog Discussion: What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?

Scribblerchick on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

Scribblerchick — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:56:20 -0600

I worked for a female lawyer for 6 years who was a nightmare. I had fantasies of blasting her with a machine gun. I went into therapy because of her. I still have nightmares about that job.

DOUGKUEFFLER on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

DOUGKUEFFLER — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:47:38 -0600

When I was 16 years old, I worked at a Livestock Auction, and my job was to chase the animals off the scale after they had been weighed. The scale held about thirty sheep or pigs, or about ten head of cattle. The scale was covered in fresh poop and I had to tread across it all to chase the animals out.

perezstudios on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

perezstudios — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:44:12 -0600

I was a perfume salesman once and it sucked. I went walking about three miles trying to sell a bottle of perfume and only sold one the whole day. That scored me $10 for one day. The job was supposed to lead up to a managemnet position but I wouldnt think so. It seemed like one of those cons.

xmarks on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

xmarks — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:35:46 -0600

Auditor at Arther Anderson before Enron.

LynneaUrania on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

LynneaUrania — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:22:30 -0600

Ya, know, that really doesn't sound that hard on the surface. But I suppose you have to handle that tissue a certain way.

And I suppose being bested by Puffs or Kleenex must be truly humiliating.

dekadaye on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

dekadaye — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:59:26 -0600

folding tissue paper in a factory
we had to fold 8 sheet per minute

Jeunelle on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

Jeunelle — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:55:09 -0600

@jackpayne...YIKES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMja9C6Htts

Jeunelle on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

Jeunelle — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:52:33 -0600

riverstyxxx....To top it all off and not to brag, I was a real good employee
because the employees that they kept would go into the aisles and open up the peanut butter jars, spit in them and reseal them.

This was way before security protection labels were placed on certain items.

Now peanut butter, yogurt, ice cream and etc has security labels on them and if you see that the labels are broken, you should not purchase that product as it could obviously be tampered with.

jackpayne on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

jackpayne — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:17:00 -0600

Raking leaves in a cemetery.

extremejohn on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

extremejohn — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:14:40 -0600

By far the worst Job I ever had was at a Temp Agency when I was a kid, the first Temp job was in a mail room.... Please shoot me. Great post.

tjefferson85 on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

tjefferson85 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:10:59 -0600

My worst job by far was back when i worked at Tyson Foods or the "Chicken Plantation" as we called it. The job had horrible working conditions and long hours. It really didn't pay enough for the labor that was performed. I worked in the stocking department and also on the kill line as it was called. The stocking department was a huge freezer and it was always wet and you were lifting heavy boxes of chicken for hours with only a half hour break. The kill line we had to kill live chickens and endure when they scratch and claw, excrete, and blood and guts. Very horrible.

arilestariono on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

arilestariono — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:58:01 -0600

really, how come you got fired? sorry to hear that

csiunatc on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

csiunatc — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:45:29 -0600

I used to be a lifeguard.... Until some blue kid got me fired.

Larry the Cableguy

LynneaUrania on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

LynneaUrania — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:30:50 -0600

O I do hate those kinds of bosses...or clients. One was an architect for whom I had won a metal decking job...on an elementary school built over a parking lot. It was worth a third of a million so the company held onto it for dear life.

But the detailer flubbed out on shop drawings. She saw that the architect and structural engineer wanted the subs to design certain areas for them. I ended up finishing the shop drawings myself. It was a headache with RFI's (Request For Information) flying almost every day. By time it was over the General Contractor, not my little subcontractor, was ready to file lawsuits against the architect. That general was hopping mad. But my firm still finished ahead of schedule and under budget. Whew!

I never did an estimate for that architect again.

searchingwithin on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

searchingwithin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:32:29 -0600

One summer when I was in High school, several girlfriends and I decided we were going to pick watermelon for extra money. I live in Florida, which extremely hot and humid in the summer. It was dirty, hard work, and every time the water truck came around, it seemed we never made it there until after the water was all gone. As a result, we busted open watermelons to get the juice. Anything to wet your lips. I still love watermelon by taste, but to this day, it is very hard for me to eat any.

LynneaUrania on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

LynneaUrania — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:47:04 -0600

OMG, altar boy! O I hated that! I know you got it far worse.

ThriftShopRomantic on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

ThriftShopRomantic — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:45:54 -0600

Wrong place...

cltalbert on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

cltalbert — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:44:21 -0600

I worked as a legal secretary for a arrogant son of a **** of a lawyer. Nothing I did was good enough for him.

pinkmimosa on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

pinkmimosa — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:07:36 -0600

De-veining shrimp as a salad prep girl at the Holiday Inn

PsycheofAphrodite on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

PsycheofAphrodite — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:41:03 -0600

KFC was an absolutely horrendous job for me. The smell was unbearable (worse than some of the cadaver dissections I've been to). I could never eat their chicken again without smelling that same disgusting smell of raw chicken parts and god knows what.

riverstyxxx on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

riverstyxxx — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:00:03 -0600

I've been fired from jobs for that reason too, either I wasn't cheery enough or I didn't get along with the other co-workers. I said "Hey asshole, I'm not working here because I want to, why should I smile, hm? Will you pay me more money if I smile?"

riverstyxxx on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

riverstyxxx — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:57:15 -0600

The Nazis had death camps where they would make the prisoners do the same thing.

riverstyxxx on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

riverstyxxx — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:56:03 -0600

Plus the feeling that you accepted a job that requires the public's generosity to pay your salary doesn't help. I covered this topic a long time ago, in four parts.

acousticguitarist on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

acousticguitarist — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:54:15 -0600

I probably should have said altar boy but I'm just not feeling like want to go there today

Jeunelle on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

Jeunelle — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:52:38 -0600

SweetViolet....Yes I agree, the area is much better now, minus the afternoon drunks.

riverstyxxx on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

riverstyxxx — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:51:43 -0600

Good news for you is that those unethical insurance companies are most likely out of business now.

LynneaUrania on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

LynneaUrania — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:50:55 -0600

I know that the 2 times I had eaten at IHOP I became ill.

riverstyxxx on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

riverstyxxx — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:49:39 -0600

The word on the internet and sites like consumerist.com say best buy is the worst job to have, far worse than mcdonalds. Its funny you mention the Cable scam. Monster cable is always under fire for something these days, they even try to sue the competition away and anyone who defames them.

riverstyxxx on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

riverstyxxx — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:44:07 -0600

How did that lawsuit pan out in the end? What happened?

pointlessbanter on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

pointlessbanter — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:40:37 -0600

I was a bus boy in high school that was pretty crappy. Also I worked construction one summer for my Uncle's construction company and they just had me do crappy stuff to teach me a lesson like "move this entire pile of rocks from one side of the site to another" and the next day I would move it back.

riverstyxxx on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

riverstyxxx — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:37:53 -0600

I did that too..Oh im sorry, i was a "Market Researcher" or "Phone Surveyor" That job was shit.

riverstyxxx on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

riverstyxxx — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:36:15 -0600

"In California we recently passed an initiative that required that all hen houses, etc. allow animals to have room to stretch their limbs. It isn't the best we can do, but it's a dent at what is a pretty mean industry."

I voted in favor of passing that law ;)

CrystalRaven on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

CrystalRaven — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:34:42 -0600

Telemarketer, hands down

flamingpoodle on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

flamingpoodle — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:33:37 -0600

Waitering. Even working on my friend's farm before the crack of dawn was more fun.

riverstyxxx on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

riverstyxxx — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:32:17 -0600

Life as a rock star aint so glamorous after all then..

riverstyxxx on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

riverstyxxx — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:29:24 -0600

IHOP. Never work for IHOP. Never even eat there and try to avoid eye contact if you see one from the highway.

I worked there after I turned 18. My dad moved us out to the middle of nowhere in texas, wouldn't let me finish high school and made me get a job. I met some retired military guy (Who turned out to be a pervert and made advances at me) who got me the job as a dishwasher on the graveyard shift at IHOP. Place was horrible too, I didn't even know what my hourly wage was and when they finally fired me a month later, it took over a month just to get my first and only paycheck.

LynneaUrania on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

LynneaUrania — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:21:02 -0600

This is one very funny blog post.

SweetViolet on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

SweetViolet — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:11:46 -0600

I never understood how someplace so close to the Common was such a low-rent district!

LynneaUrania on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

LynneaUrania — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:07:07 -0600

Now we know the TRUE inspiration behind most of our patterns!

LynneaUrania on 'What is Positively the Worst Job You Ever Had?'

LynneaUrania — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:06:05 -0600

That's a third vote for cleaning fish.