Shittiest job

[Chaddy]

Take a stab at it. If you think you have the worst job out there lay down why. Got crap pay? Boss a total twat? Work with shit? Tell us why you have the worst job.

[Apotheosis]

Jesus never pays me, and I go around all day doing good deeds. I demand my paycheck!!

[The Ponzzz]

I currently have a great job, but the worst job would be anything in fast food. I worked fast food in my high school days and even 8 years later I still get nightmares of it.

[Apotheosis]

Oddly enough, the most favorite job I had was working at a pizza joint. That was fun as hell and kept me out of trouble through highschool (mostly).

[ElanthianSiren]

My job is pretty awesome possum, unless I lose money, then it's... :flamed: my job

-M

[Hulkein]

During the summer I'm a plumbers (and HVAC) assistant.

Some days it's cool, other days it's hell. Whether it be 130 degree attics we're putting vents and units in, or digging ditches through basement floors, it can be rough.

Pay is cash and we get to drink on the job some days so as I said, it can be cool.

[Wezas]

A few companies ago:

Working for a condo agency who's putting up a new high rise. All the specs of what people want in their condo are on individual hand-filled in paper packets. Each packet is about 20 pages long.

They are to be input into a Lotus Notes spreadsheet. All 300+ condos. They won't hear of any use of Excel or MS Access.

Your boss (who sometimes has to take time off during the day to go to doctors appointments for breast cancer treatment) is always screamed at by the director because she misses deadlines (because of her appointments). All of this within earshot because of course the walls are paper thin.

No air conditioning in the office. The computers still have 5 1/4" drives. Most have no CD-roms.

You get offered a full time position that is 20% higher then the other offer you have from another company that is twice as far away. You pass it up because it's not worth it.

[Tromp]

1st job job out of college was working for Danka selling copiers! The thought of it pains me still.

[Ebondale]

I think the worst job I ever worked was night shift crew at Toys'R'Us. I was the only dude that spoke English (which made it dull), and I got fired after only 10 days of working there because I was actually a lot better than the Manager and he didn't like that.

I guess the ability to fire somebody just because they're a better worker than you are makes for some pretty good job security, huh.

[Wezas]

I'll also add the first job I ever had to the list.

Working at the only gas station in the area (possibly the US) that gives every customer full service no matter what lane they came into. Everyone got their windows cleaned (front and back). We had to ask them if they'd like their oil checked (though the car had been running), tire pressure checked, and all fluids checked. Work issued black pants, white shirt, red tie.

Hours weren't horrible, 4pm - 9pm (after school shift), but the occasional Sunday or Holiday (9am - 6pm) seemed to drag on forever.

At least the mechanics would buy beer for us or exchange beer for working on our cars. :up:

Shittiest job was working for Victory Supermarkets. It was my one and only highschool job and then I just said, "Fuck it" and sold pot.

Anyway, what I did was go in there, hide so I wouldn't have to clean the bathrooms, be unpleasant to stupid customers, and always just goof around. When they wouldn't give me a 25 cent raise I just stopped going in.

- Arkans

[CrystalTears]

When I worked at McDonalds during high school. That was hell.

The job I had working for Wyndham in the sales department was also complete crap. They moved me to work with the international sales manager (cause I was the only one willing to do the job AND spoke Spanish fluently) although still had to work for one of the regular sales women. She was a total beeyotch. She hated my guts because.. I don't know.. I was efficient and the customers liked me more than her.

The int'l manager quit 3 months later and wasn't replaced until 4 months after that. I wound up doing that job by myself. Yes, I was a temp manager for 4 months. Do you think anyone cared? No. The bovine sales manager I was still working for continued to assume that I was always on personal calls because she would hear me speak Spanish all the time. Yes, dumbass, to our clients! A client even overheard her telling me to get off the phone to finish her contract. I hated her.

Although because I had to get approval for the bookings from the director or this bitch of a sales manager, apparently that didn't mean anything to anyone there. Then when the new guy came in, he kissed everyone's ass, including the bitch, expect mine whom he had to basically learn the job from, and then gave me a crappy review at the end of the year. I quit during my review. I hated that job.

[Chastittee]

I used to have this shit job cleaning rooms at a hotel in Connecticut, but I can't post that here cuz my ex-boss posts here. :-P

Seriously though, if you're talking technical shit...Try being a preschool teacher. I went back to visit the other day and in a matter of about ten minutes we had one shitty diaper leak, one kid puke, one kid shit his underwear, one kid pee her pants, and another kid clog up the toilet. Sure the kids are cute and all...but thats far more shit than $9/hr is worth.

[Wezas]

Originally posted by Chastittee
I used to have this shit job cleaning rooms at a hotel in Connecticut, but I can't post that here cuz my ex-boss posts here. :-P


PB?

[ElanthianSiren]

I feel blessed. I've never had a job I outright hated, and I've never worked in fast food.

-M

[CrystalTears]

Originally posted by Wezas

Originally posted by Chastittee
I used to have this shit job cleaning rooms at a hotel in Connecticut, but I can't post that here cuz my ex-boss posts here. :-P


PB?

:lol: Oh man I was thinking of that too! However PB doesn't live in CT or I would have been all over that. :D

[Wezas]

I thought he might have transferred or something. I'm still keeping my hopes up.

[Chastittee]

He'll probably kill me, but yes, it was PB. He did indeed transfer..first from Florida to CT then from CT back to Florida. Haven't seen him since I quit in..1995.


The stories I could tell.....

[Edited on 9-13-2005 by Chastittee]

[Wezas]

Originally posted by Chastittee
He'll probably kill me, but yes, it was PB. He did indeed transfer..first from Florida to CT then from CT back to Florida. Haven't seen him since I quit in..1995.


The stories I could tell.....


FUCKING PWNED!

[Skeeter]

How much do you think a Jiz mopper makes?

Worst job I had was cleaning the meat cutting machines at Krogers. I really got desensitized to the whole blood and guts scene after a summer of working there.

My shift ran from 5 to 10. It took me about 2 hours to clean up all the animal parts. The next 3 hours I had NOTHING to do, unless someone wanted their meat cut a special way, which might happen 2x/week.

I wasn't even allowed to help in other departments because it was that strict of a union. and the morons would file grievances if I helped out.

[CrystalTears]

Originally posted by Chastittee
He'll probably kill me, but yes, it was PB. He did indeed transfer..first from Florida to CT then from CT back to Florida. Haven't seen him since I quit in..1995.


The stories I could tell.....

[Edited on 9-13-2005 by Chastittee]

Holy crap! :lol:

PWNED!!!!1!!!11111

[The Ponzzz]

Jizz Booth Cleaners get paid 7 an hour in Syracuse NY. I just but an ad in a few weeks ago for one. They are called "Adult Novelty Store Assistant." They also havta keep the poachers out that just like to listen and get off on that alone.

[Jorddyn]

I worked directory assistance.

Why was it terrible?

I sat in an office in Phoenix, answering phone calls from New York. People would call telling me they wanted a listing for "John Smith" somewhere near "XYZ". There were 800 John Smiths and I had no idea where XYZ was. It made me want to shoot them. Or my boss.

We weren't the phone company, so we had crappy lists to work from. When we couldn't find a listing (which happened way too often), people would ask us to look it up in the book. Yes, we do the entire state of New York and half of New England, and we keep a stash of phone books on hand. Really. It's only 94 feet high. And we reprint it every day. [/sarcasm]

People wanted unlisted numbers all the time. My screen would read "unlisted." I would tell them that. They would do one of three things: call me a liar and hang up, yell and ask to speak to a supervisor, threaten suicide. Option 1 was fine with me. Options 2 and 3 drove my call time up and took away my bonuses :(


The friggin' beep. Average 6 to 8 seconds per call, 8 hours per day. At least 3000 calls (the phones weren't always busy). Beep. What city please? Beep. What city please? Beep. I had nightmares about the beep.

I actually once answered my home phone "What city please?" My mom laughed at me.

Jorddyn

[Chastittee]

Originally posted by CrystalTears

Originally posted by Chastittee
He'll probably kill me, but yes, it was PB. He did indeed transfer..first from Florida to CT then from CT back to Florida. Haven't seen him since I quit in..1995.


The stories I could tell.....

[Edited on 9-13-2005 by Chastittee]

Holy crap! :lol:

PWNED!!!!1!!!11111

Who do you think introduced him to GS??


And, you guys are getting way too big a kick out of this. lol

[Parkbandit]

LOL..

Yea.. I blame Chastittee for my damn GS addiction. We worked together in CT at a small hotel.

And WHAT stories can you tell?? I was a perfect GM!


Looking back, I liked that job more than my stint with Hilton. The management company was small, but at least they cared and didn't treat you like a number.

[Gigantuous]

Working for a farmer.

6AM to midnight, six days a week, manual labor for most of the day, then driving a POS tractor for the remaining hours. Every. Day. The pay was crap. One of the bosses was a major dick. It sucked.

It was the only job I could get at 14 though, and it bought me my first two vehicles, so...I can't complain too much I guess.

[Jayvn]

Not saying it's as bad as some of my jobs got but I once worked in a gas station, in this little square cut out area that made pizzas...only these pizzas sucked so no one would order them.. So I had about a 4 foot square to pace in while nobody asked me to do anything.. yeah I got paid to do nothing..and i'd pull double shifts for the loot... 12 to 16 hours of pacing in 4 feet fucks with your head.

[Artha]

My worst job (out of two, one of which rocks) was doing manual labor in a woodmill.

All that trim you bastards put in your fancy schmancy houses, I cut and stacked. Not the cool, hand-cut cutting though. Me standing at one end of a machine and another guy standing at the other end and running them through. For hours on end. And I swept a lot. A LOT. It was really bad on the days that were so hot where even if you were sitting around pulling nails out of stairs, you'd be sweating buckets.

[Chastittee]

Originally posted by Parkbandit
LOL..

Yea.. I blame Chastittee for my damn GS addiction. We worked together in CT at a small hotel.

And WHAT stories can you tell?? I was a perfect GM!


Looking back, I liked that job more than my stint with Hilton. The management company was small, but at least they cared and didn't treat you like a number.

You know I'm teasing you. Yeah cleaning rooms was a shitty job, but it had nothing to do with you being a GM. Of course you coming in hours early to finish your work so you could spend the days playing GS and then calling your wife to tell her you had to work late so you could play some more did have me a little jealous. :-P

And, for the rest of you, he's right. I haven't any other stories to tell. He was a good boy.

[Keller]

I pay $36,000 to work 12-14 hours each day (including Saturdays).

Beat that.

[Terminator X]

Cleaning stables.

Even though I was never kicked, I was headbutted several times by the same horse, that hated my guts and, apparently, my nads too, which she always pleasently aimed for :(

Changing each stable with a pooper scooper originally designed for a chihuahua. Me and my co-workers (teenagers at the time) used to have contests on who could lob horse poop the farthest :saint: It reaked horrendously of ammonia and other than the obvious smell, prolonged exposure inside one of the dirtier stables really messed with my eyes.

Carrying 100 pound bags of lime up a flight of rickety balsa steps and hoping you would make it into the loft each time, not dying, was interesting, as well...

[Wezas]

Bumping this thread because I have a winner.

George Bush's White House Press Secretary (currently Scott McClellan).

I would never want that job. Every clip I see of him, he's getting torn up or called a liar by the press.

Plus the fact that you're considered a "secretary", and not even of a section, like labor or agriculture. Though getting paid $161k/year might help.

White House Staff List - By Salary (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/administration/whbriefing/2005stafflistb.html)

[Sean of the Thread]

Since there has been a bump.. prolly one of the worst jobs I ever had was picking corn for a local farm. 5 am -9 am and only got paid 1 cent a pound...80lb sacks of corn.. freezing soaking wet fields.. bugs.

Would make like 20bucks a morning when I was like 16. Got me in mad shape tho.

[Wezas]

I hauled hay one summer in Colorado. Got up early as shit, and moved a shitload of hay bales either onto or off of a truck using the hay hooks (kinda like the hooks they use to pick up big blocks of ice). I worked all summer, only made about $200.

That pretty much blew.

[Tromp]

Copier salesman at Danka.... totally blew. I hung in there for three weeks which consisted of one week of training then 2 weeks of cold calling my butt off. I set about 10 appointments which amounted to 1000 phone calls. Then I was suppose to go and meet with these people to sell 1 fapping copier. Too much work for a $500 commission. Real estate is much more lucrative.

[Daniel]

I worked at an art gallery

[Showal]

I work in research. I have animals shit on me. I have to deal with a boss who has not been in the animal facility more than 3 times in over 14 months when he got hired but still tries to act like he knows what's going on in there. My supervisor is a bitch. She doesn't like me, mainly because she doesn't like men as a whole. She always undermines my boss, calls him an idiot, lies to us about things he or the other supervisor does. My HR manager tells us he'll keep things confidential. He usually does not. My boss does ridiculous things like send us on a car ride to a place 45 minutes away in a blizzard and when we finally get there, we find out our boss was told that morning that we didn't have to be there because we had actually passed the medical exams. Your opinion is not listened to, regardless of your experience in the matter. If your boss thinks changing the food or restricting the diet of the animal is not going to change the activity of the animals but you were involved in almost 2 years of research covering just that, it doesn't matter, he's right. You get told to ask for help if you don't have time to complete a task, but when you ask for help, you get yelled at and written up for not alloting enough time for the task.

Lets see, I could write several pages on why my job blows. Research sucks because everyone's trying to build a name for themselves, so they often try and delibrately set others up to fail or make them look bad. The result is one person looks good to the boss, but the group as a whole looks like shitty workers to outside groups.

[Tromp]

Originally posted by Daniel
I worked at an art gallery

And that stunk because....?

[The Ponzzz]

Originally posted by Tromp

Originally posted by Daniel
I worked at an art gallery

And that stunk because....?

Just looks like your average trolling...

[Daniel]

No, not trolling. I just figured it would be abundantly apparent to those heterosexual members of our lovely posting community. So far I haven't been proven wrong yet.

[Warriorbird]

Working with the developmentally disabled had its rewarding moments...but was definitely the worst job I've had.

[Viridian]

Originally posted by Tromp
1st job job out of college was working for Danka selling copiers! The thought of it pains me still.

My dad used to be a field specialist for Danka (when Danka bought Eastman Kodak's copier tech division), he said it was the shittiest job ever.

I like my job I get paid pretty well and I get to take care of my family.

[HarmNone]

Working as a nurse on a cancer floor. It took me exactly eight months to get my arse back in school! :lol:

[Flurbins]

I do organic extractions. Not only do the samples sometimes make my nose want to run away and hide, but everything I use causes cancer. Yay!

Upside- I get to tell girls I do Organic Chemistry for a living.

[Edited on 10-26-2005 by Flurbins]

[Bobmuhthol]

High school student.

[Back]

Tele-marketer. To compound it, the company was lame. I got sent home for not wearing socks one day.

:?:

[Edited on 10-27-2005 by Backlash]

[Chaddy]

Originally posted by Daniel
No, not trolling. I just figured it would be abundantly apparent to those heterosexual members of our lovely posting community. So far I haven't been proven wrong yet.

Yes it's truly a shame that us ignorant heterosexuals are too incompetent/close minded to appreciate art.

[Daniel]

Yes it is.

[kranfer]

My own PERSONAL worst job was working at Best Buy. Turn off the fun, Worst Buy!

Was fired from there on passover after complaining to management that other employees were making fun of me for being jewish. My response: JADL and lawsuit :) I won yay!

[Showal]

Originally posted by Flurbins
I do organic extractions. Not only do the samples sometimes make my nose want to run away and hide, but everything I use causes cancer. Yay!

Upside- I get to tell girls I do Organic Chemistry for a living.

[Edited on 10-26-2005 by Flurbins]

Yeah I get to tell people I'm a surgeon for a living.

The only upside to my job.

[Edited on 10-27-2005 by Showal]

[Showal]

Originally posted by kranfer
My own PERSONAL worst job was working at Best Buy. Turn off the fun, Worst Buy!

Was fired from there on passover after complaining to management that other employees were making fun of me for being jewish. My response: JADL and lawsuit :) I won yay!

That's awesome.

[Drezzt]

WTF? I never understood making fun of jews.
Then again, we don't have many down here. What's so funny?
Stereotypicaly speaking all I notice is 1) expanded nose 2) glasses and 3) uber smart.

You gonna make fun of em for glasses and a nose? again...WTF?



More on topic, my worst job ever was groundskeeping at a motorhome vacation area. 40+ acres and instead of using a mower or a tractor they had us on gasoline weedeaters mowing the prarie. It'd take a full week with four guys mowing. When you finished, your eyeballs rattled and your hands were numb. I found out later that your hands can stay numb from a disorder relating to the motor vibrating you for so long. And the most fun? It was in the low 100's for most of the summer. <$roastpig>:wow:

[Edited on 10-27-2005 by Drezzt]

[Wezas]

Penny Pinchers. Don't forget that one.

[Drezzt]

Originally posted by Wezas
Penny Pinchers. Don't forget that one.

yeah, but I'M a penny pincher...Can't fault em for that. Old lincoln howls in agony each time I get change from McDonalds.

:)

[Terminator X]

I'd rather be the executioner at a local prison than have another farm job. They (farm jobs) are so teh suxor, it's scary.

- The Termite

[Daniel]

Where can we sign up to be this executioner

[Flurbins]

Thanks Showal, I was gonna consider trying to get a very similar job to that so I could move back to Ohio. Now I don't want to. :(

[Asha]

My job has it's ups and downs but it's never the worst job in the world.
Wether I'm listening to shit that never ends from the guy in front of me or being threatened, to seeing friends I've loved my entire life order something from me instead of saying hello.
There's the fun too. The commeradery of being part of a team. The feel of the music and of course the attention from girls.

Everyday something new or exciting will happen.
The only reason I posted in this thread is for one second . . I remembered someone saying to me that it's the hardest job in the world to be a barman. Although I don't think I was included, since I spend everyday where the people I respect and call friends, pay to be.

[Showal]

Originally posted by Flurbins
Thanks Showal, I was gonna consider trying to get a very similar job to that so I could move back to Ohio. Now I don't want to. :(

Not all of them are this bad. But for me, I sit in my car when I get to work for about 5 minutes every day and ask myself why I'm going to walk into that building.

[Caiylania]

Worst two jobs I ever had was one that barely counts. Was "visiting" my grand mother's farm one summer and was volunteered to help weed the tobacco fields in TN in the middle of summer. No money, just 2 weeks of dehydrating misery.

The other was as a housekeeper at a hotel but I got promoted quickly and ended up with a very good paying job there.