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Worst Job You Ever Had
Posted by lotusb • 10/29/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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Once I worked as a file clerk for a health insurance company. They had these HUGE floor the ceiling files; rows and rows. Me and another guy were hired to re-org ALL OF THE FILES. It took us about 6 months to do it, and the best thing about it was he sold weed and had extremely tinted windows, so we would go sit in his car at lunch and smoke our heads off them go back to the file room and read everyone's medical info.
Still sucked. $14 an hour for that crap.
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Try construction at 9/hour no benefits.-
Never tried it (bad back), but that file job had no benefits either AND at least you get to be outside doing construction.
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Because being outside in freezing weather, digging through frozen ground is so worth 9/hour.
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Ok, point taken....
Plus I got weed breaks.
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I'd take either one right now though
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A telemarketer for a cemetery (selling plots). The hours -- 5 to 11. Scary and horrible!-
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It was.
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OMG, what was your pitch??
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There really wasn't one. You asked five questions and if the answer to all five were yes, you'd give the name and the number to the supervisor who would go in for the kill (no pun intended).
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sales is a horrible gig. I went to interview at a place, and they gave me this pamphlet while we were waiting. It was about how to manipulate people who don't want something into buying it anyway by playing on their fears &c. I just walked out, just in case there actually is a Hell -
Haha!
The really bad part about that job was when you called someone right after they had just buried a loved one. Even I have a heart and those calls hurt. -
so you were like "well fine then! buh-bye!
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More like -- Well damn! My bad.
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What about, "would you re-consider if I gave you half off?"
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I hated my telemarketing jobs, too (though none had to do w/cemetaries or plots.) -
That's funny, I used to cold call all the time as a loan officer so whenever I ran into a dead lead (like the guy/gal was dead) I just went straight into the pitch to the widow. Who do I thank for that cold hardened demeanor? The great Mike Ferry, real estate trainer, coach, and stone cold-call killer.
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I worked for a consulting firm where I routinely worked 80+ hour weeks and was told, over and over, I was doing a great job. My boss inserted an extra boss between her and me; this new boss invited me out to lunch on her first day and then told me she was seriously concerned about my job performance. Then, during a team meeting a week later, she handed out a brochure from a vendor for the group to see; she hadn't taken out a note that had her ideas for the group, one of which was, "Terminate Brian?" That was a rough stretch.-
It really sucks to get a bad boss. I worked in a purchasing department and ended up with a boss who didn't like people who had any kind of personality. If you laughed to much you were subject to being axed.
I also got a bad review once by a person who I had talked to once and had never seen. Sometimes it just ain't fair.
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Cleaning out the monkey cage at the zoo, and the zookeeper insisted we use our bare hands. Oh, and the monkeys were our direct supervisors. And, the vending machines had only bags of Purina Monkey Chow for our lunch break. And, you had to bathe each monkey individually. And, well, much more...
All this for a measly $5,000/hr.
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Are they hiring?
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I know, right. I get pitched shit for way less than that!
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Wait till CA reads this
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EMT I hate to be thrown up on and in one of the jobs if were not on a call we worked in the Emergency room. I hated flu season. I hade to keep like 5 changes of clothes in my locker due to it. I did have to change clothes 5 times in one day. Every time I walked in a room they would throw up on me. I dont know if it was the IV kit I was carrying or they were just sick that bad. -
depends on one's definition of worst. When I decontaminated jail cells, I would have to wade through ankle-deep sewage and composting ballogna sandwiches. on the other hand I got paid like $27 an hour.
Probably the worst was working at a mall, where I had to clean up stuff that was almost as bad, with only diswashing gloves instead of a bio-suit, and I made like $6.25 an hour
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All my jobs-the few I had-were pretty good. I'd never do anything I hated. -
working for a big car company and they want you to do things to cheat the tax... -
Lab technician which consisted of cleaning rat cages, mouse cages and as an added bonus evil hamster cages.-
Been there, done that, only with Gerbils, not rats or anything else.
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Working for a kids job program when I was 14. I froze and scraped so much bubble gum, none of it that was in my own mouth, that I want to vomit just thinking about it. I was paid $4.15/ hr for that -
My first job in the US, lab technician. I have no idea how much an hour I was making (a little more than what I earn right now as a Grad Student) but it was not worth the discrimination, belittling and sexual harassment that I went through.
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I was a baby once. No pay, few benefits (not even breastfeeding). Too painful...can't discuss...
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Lawn moving!-
Do you move these lawns in strips of sod, or just hoist the whole thing at once?
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A vacation job working in a small ice cream factory making Cola Ice Lollys. It was not highly mechanised and there were two of us making the lollys.
The other guy worked the moulds which were in a trough of supercooled brine it was an ongoing process.
Polybore was putting the lollies into the wrappers, packing them into boxes then wrapping up 5 boxes in brown paper and storing them in the walk in blast freezer. The short trip into the -30 freezer was like a holiday.
Polybore has done some filthy and physically very hard jobs like working on the roads, tree planting and sewage maintenance. But for sheer monotony the ice lolly one really sucked.
We turned a massive vat of cola concentrate into lollies and actually got quite excited about the prospect of making a different flavour like say, orange, then they filled it right back up again with more cola. -
I had a college job picking mushrooms in a mushroom factory. All day in dim light, bent over trays of mushrooms all by myself.
What do mushrooms grow in? Polite word: compost.
The stink would linger for days. As you might have guessed, I didn't last at the job very long. -
Yes, you learn from each job. Imagine some people realize at the end of their carrer that what they were doing was real boring!
Make your hobby your job or business and you will enjoy your job and life. -
Actually, $14 an hour is quite a bit more than I've ever made - but I appreciate how tedious the job must have been. That sort of re-filing isn't my strong suit.
I've had a job or two that were very unpleasant.
Beet chopping, for instance, isn't an occupation I'd recommend to anyone with a sense of smell. I didn't mind it so much, since if I could see as well as I can smell - I'd be legally blind. Still, I didn't like the noise and the repetitious nature of the work. But, it paid the bills for a while.
There are others: but I've learned something in each job I've had - and can't afford to dwell on what was (on occasion, extremely) unpleasant about any one of them.
Pollyannaish? I don't think so. Gnawing on old grievances won't - can't - hurt those responsible, and will hurt me, directly or indirectly.-
I agree with Norski. I think the worst jobs I ever had probably weren't all that bad now that I look back at them. Plus I think with every job you get there will be parts of it that you don't like. But I will say the worst job I ever had was one where they continually laid people off every week. And you never knew who would get the ax next. It led to some pretty nervous workers!
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Dish washer at a high end Japanese restaurant/sushi bar. It was my first job, and if I had known they used a seperate dish for everything, I wouldn't have ever signed up.
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In grad school, I did research for a prof - which was more like being her personal secretary.
When her dogowners' club made a poster about picking up the doggy's poo, someone had to laminate them all. Guess who? -
I wish I had a $14 an-hour job! 8-(
Beggars can't be choosers in this economy! -
managed a $10 store in the mall - everything under $10. These ghetto hood rats would bring their chicks in and tell me "my woman gets whatever she wants" and I'd have to bring all sorts of outfits back for these bitches to try on. You're buying her clothes that are $10 or less, big spender, i'm not impressed.
most of the time i was hungover and sending the teenie boppers who worked for me to the food court for food and coca cola. it was a joke of a store. and i always cashed my paycheck via the register. when i quit, turns out, that was one of the no-no's. LOL -
Picking shrimp. Standing in line in front of a conveyor belt, where it's so loud you have to wear earplugs. You pick up a shrimp, one in each hand as they're moving by, and squeeze their heads of with your fingers, and throw the tails on the floor. For twelve, sometimes 14 hours at a time.Your clothes get so disgusting and smelly you have to throw them away every couple weeks. I think I lasted a month, with no days off. -
Tim Horton's. Evil, evil empire.
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