Worst job you ever had ......

• Belly35

  

  Little take off for " What your profession" but we all have had the experience of a terrible job.
  
  I ve work many a job from farm hand, roofer, truck driver, gas station, steel mill, fork lift drive, slaughter house, bouncer, meat loader, sale manager, computer CAD expert, photo repro expert, computer consultant. marketing director, vp, coo, owner and retired .... just to name a few jobs
  
  But the worst was slaughter house Sugardale meats summer of 1969 two weeks ..... What was I thinking...
  
  What was your worst job experience?
• 4cards

  

  ...janitor at a steel mill in the 70's. It was only for a couple weeks until I moved to another open position but it was horrible!
• Wally

  While working as an engineer at a manufacturing plant that built Chevy and GMC trucks-the UAW went on strike. To keep us non-union guys working they came up with some things that needed cleaned. I had to clean a paint booth. This was back in the 70's-this was a water filtered booth where the water/paint went into a pit below the floor. Shoveled paint sludge out of that pit for 3 days. Thought the smell was going to kill me.
• Automatik

  

  "Commercial" debt collector. Call center, cubicle life. AWFUL.
• Curly J

  

  Construction job, mainly roofing, back in October through December 1990. Spotty work due to the time of year and I hated heights.
• Spock

  

  Automatik;1845780 wrote:"Commercial" debt collector. Call center, cubicle life. AWFUL.

  probably same.....HR recruiter for an employment agency. Dealing with losers all day looking for temp jobs.
  
  
  THe hardest job was humping wall panels on a concrete crew in the summers while going to college.
• justincredible

  

  I crawled through 100 year old 24" and 36" natural gas pipes in Boston to seal the seams between pipes. It could have had it's own bit on Dirty Jobs, but I actually kinda liked it.
  
  I worked for Accenture for about 9 months. I was on an on-shore/off-shore dev team and was the only non-Indian in the group. I loved working with the 3 other on-shore folks but the remote team in India was miserable to work with. I bailed as soon as I could.
• BRF

  

  1976-77. Outdoor construction in the winter.
  
  Made me look a lot harder for an indoor job.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Auto winz.
  
  @ Curly I've done roofing for one weekend, ONE. That was enough.
  
  I've had my fair share of shit jobs 2008-2009 was humble pie time.
  
  I took a temp job as a box folder. The position was for a company that made films that hospitals use in the xray machines, they arrive in essentially a pizza box. Someone has to fold every single box. That was my job, 8 hours a day. Hands would cramp like a mother fucker, dry as fuck from dealing with paper every day, in a warehouse with no air and loud machinery.
  
  However the absolute worst job was working for a screen printing company. Worked with harsh chemicals on a daily basis, I got yelled at for using too many plastic gloves (yeah I'm not working with mineral spirits bare handed moron), and was fired for refusing to cut fiber glass signs without training and breathing apparatus.
  
  Douche, "COA, go cut me some 7x9 Fiber Glass Signs really quick."
  COA, "You got a "hey go cut me some 7x9 Fiber Glass Signs really quick" mask?"
  Douche, "Just cut them quick and get out of there before the dust cloud rises."
  COA, "I'm not cutting my lungs up for you, you think I'm stupid?"
• like_that

  

  Busboy at Outback Steakhouse, before my first semester of college. Haven't eaten at one since.
• j_crazy

  

  I was a tomato picker for 2 summers. Not that bad of a job, but the hours sucked and I made $4/hr (it wasn't taxed and I was 13/14). I chipped a tooth when the blade of a hoe i was using to clean weeds between the roes snapped off and flew up and hit me in the mouth. Overall it wasn't that bad of a gig, but it was the worst I've had.
• Fab4Runner

  

  Probably the book factory I worked at the first three summers after high school. We had to swing shifts every six weeks, it was hot AF with no AC anywhere, it was loud, and I had to lift 50-70 lb. bundles of signatures up onto tables, cut them open and then feed the sigs into gathering machines all day. That said, I did enjoy the people I worked with, and I was in really great shape.
• Zunardo

  - my first job, working at Arby's in 1975. Lasted almost two years. I wasn't mature enough to deal with the problem customers, and I took everything personally. Most every job after that was easier by comparison
  
  - worked a stint as an injury compensation specialist - federal, not state of Ohio. Stressful, because of the actual injuries involved. One really bad car accident - a rural carrier at a mailbox got slammed by a speeding car, broken pelvis, broken legs, broken ribs. Two really bad dog bite situations with carriers. One carrier who was beaten up by delinquent high-schoolers while on his route, had psychological issues afterward, and had to change jobs.
  
  The other part of it I hated was dealing with injury claims with no real basis as job-related, and dealing with people who were milking the system, and their shyster doctors. Had a few cases I took over, the doc would list an employee as totally disabled, they couldn't get out of bed without assistance, while investigators had footage of the person out and about shopping, exercising, riding motorcycles. One of them finally got fired for the false claims - then an arbitrator gave them their job back. I couldn't believe it.
  
  On the other hand, I did enjoy writing challenges for claims that had a lack of evidence - I had an 80% success rate on my challenges. Didn't make a lot of friends, though.
  
  - The worst? My last job before I retired - supervising a unit of 10 women, ages 45-60. Most of the time they got along, but every other week or so it was like being principal at a middle school. I couldn't believe the drama involved, and how high-maintenance some of them could be.
• Benny The Jet

  

  Picking blueberries at a patch in town. Paid by the lb in the summer. Bees all over...not awesome.
• Iliketurtles

  

  Working night stock at Kroger. It wasn't even that terrible of a job and the people I worked with at night were cool and we had fun. It's the worst though because it was not what I envisioned doing after college and I did it for almost 2 years because I never tried to find something different. I've also have only had 4 other jobs besides that one.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  Trying to make a buck during Grad school at Maryland. I found this position about providing marketing sales and I figured ok, cold calling people for a few hours sure, kinda sucks, but not that bad.
  Nope, turns out it was walking around going door to door in neighborhoods trying to sign people up for whatever. After one day of walking around various parts of DC and sounding like an idiot, I was like nope, not for me.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  ptown_trojans_1;1845797 wrote:Trying to make a buck during Grad school at Maryland. I found this position about providing marketing sales and I figured ok, cold calling people for a few hours sure, kinda sucks, but not that bad.
  Nope, turns out it was walking around going door to door in neighborhoods trying to sign people up for whatever. After one day of walking around various parts of DC and sounding like an idiot, I was like nope, not for me.

  I got hit with the same scam on the east coast, trying to sign ppl up for Fios. Went for a job interview in a suit (the secretary said dress up) and they wanted me to walk around in the summer heat. Told them to fuck off.
• Automatik

  

  LOL
  
  I did that too. "Respected Marketing Firm".....fucking going door to door asking people to sign up for Verizon cable.
  
  Also had to wear a suit, and do dumbass team building exercises for the first two hours...unpaid. It was 100% commission. I lasted one day.
• like_that

  

  ptown_trojans_1;1845797 wrote:Trying to make a buck during Grad school at Maryland. I found this position about providing marketing sales and I figured ok, cold calling people for a few hours sure, kinda sucks, but not that bad.
  Nope, turns out it was walking around going door to door in neighborhoods trying to sign people up for whatever. After one day of walking around various parts of DC and sounding like an idiot, I was like nope, not for me.

  Commander of Awesome;1845808 wrote:I got hit with the same scam on the east coast, trying to sign ppl up for Fios. Went for a job interview in a suit (the secretary said dress up) and they wanted me to walk around in the summer heat. Told them to fuck off.

  Automatik;1845809 wrote:LOL
  
  I did that too. "Respected Marketing Firm".....fucking going door to door asking people to sign up for Verizon cable.
  
  Also had to wear a suit, and do dumbass team building exercises for the first two hours...unpaid. It was 100% commission. I lasted one day.

  You guys didn't do a google search on the firm contacting you? :laugh:
• Automatik

  

  Yeah, after day one.
  
  This was also in 2008, horrible time to be a college grad. I was open to anything, hence why I landed at a call center.
• like_that

  

  Automatik;1845812 wrote:Yeah, after day one.
  
  This was also in 2008, horrible time to be a college grad. I was open to anything, hence why I landed at a call center.

  Same kinda boat graduating at a shitty time, so I was pretty skeptical when a company was very quick to contact me for an "interview." I had several "marketing" firms contact me and since I figured it was too good to be true, I did a google search. A bunch of stories like yours came up and I didn't even contact them after that.
• Bio-Hazzzzard

  

  Back in 2010 when we had basically nothing to do when the economy tanked, I sold cars for 4 months. 70 hours week with generally no more than $300 per. We had a 300 lb Italian loud mouth as a sales manager pushing for sales when you couldn't buy a customer to walk through the doors during the week. I made a few good sales but the bottom line was never good, but it was something to do until we had work again at my primary job. I remember the day when that 300 lb piece of shit sent me home for not selling a car for three days, packed up all my belongings out of my desk and hauled ass. Went back the next day to let the GM know I was quitting then the SM, didn't surprise me that he didn't say a word. He was a genuine dickhead.
• iclfan2

  

  Commercial roofing for 2 summers. Knew the owner so it wasn't terrible, but up at 4 am to beat the heat, tearing off pitch, and being up on roofs when it's 90+ degrees with jeans and a long sleeve shirt on was pretty terrible. It's also where I learned that union employees act like trash a lot. Oh it's raining I'm going home, don't worry about finding something else to do out of the rain you lazy fucks. Their saying was "rain at 7, drunk by 11".
  
  By commercial we did high schools, covelli center in ytown, and some college sites.
  
  
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• superman

  Food packing.
  
  Stood in a 40 degree room tossing 75 pound boxes of 50/50 beef in a grinder then shoveling tomato paste with a snow shovel on top to make industrial spaghetti sauce.
• Spock

  

  superman;1845905 wrote:Food packing.
  
  Stood in a 40 degree room tossing 75 pound boxes of 50/50 beef in a grinder then shoveling tomato paste with a snow shovel on top to make industrial spaghetti sauce.

  that sounds horrible