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10-27-2003 | #1 |
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and thought it deserved its own thread. Whats the worse job you ever had? I had a bunch:
My two worst were for a electrical contracting company in VA, I heard people used to say, "Could be worse, I could be digging ditches or a living" Thats this job. I dug trenches for electrical feeds to new homes. 36" deep for a single feed and the higher the line rating, the deeper it went. Time that gave me a nightmare, digging a trench through someones backyard (by a VERY old church) and 'finding' a gravestone. City official came out and spent the next serveral days determining if the new housing development had been built on............let's just say they were telling us to look closely at what was in our shovels. Thank GOD we didn't discover anything. Next worst job, Honda Of America Manufacturing (HAM) here in oHIo. My very first factory job and non union. If your one of those people that hate unions, this is the job that would convince you of how good and nessesary they are. The first four months of working there, at the end of the shift it was painful to walk out to my car and I had a five speed. The clutch liked to kick my ass. cramps in the legs and all that. So physically hard taking a deep breathe made my back cramp, and i am no fragile little pussy. They viewed their employees as "industrial atheletes' had to do exercises before the shift every day LOL so what ya got? Lets hear some horror stories. spaz |
10-27-2003 | #2 |
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My 'real world' job wasn't that bad actually... I'm an electrical mechanical engineer by trade. The area we specialized in was envelope machinery, well mainly second hand machinery.
I used to travel all over the world installing refurbished machinery and removing the surplus. These machines might sound like small desktop machines but the smallest one's we dealt with were in the range of 9 tons per unit and an average of 15 units per machine. The job was great but the down side was that I was the boss’s son... Hence I got slapped around quite a bit while I was in my apprenticeship! I could never get back into that work again because the workload is just too physically demanding and I'm a hundred miles away from being up to it. I got to see some fantastic countries along the way though
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I worked in a vets surgery as a Receptionist for short while and had to leave because of the heart ache that I felt when the animals came in to be put to sleep.
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I worked for a commerical real estate broker starting when I was 16 until 19 or 20. I made a lot of money for someone my age and it was considered a prestigious company etc. The guy I worked for was the biggest asshole on the planet. If I made the smallest mistake he would take me into his office, shut the door and scream in my face until I cried. I was in high school and then college and needed the money. He was loaded but would do shit like go out of town and not pay me etc. but then when I graduated from high school he gave me a grand as a gift. It was psychological torture. I was just too young and dumb to realize I didnt have to put up with shit like that. The last straw was that he would get drunk at night and leave his car places so I would have to take him to get it the next day.....one day in the care he asks me if I would ever date a black guy. I said yes and he says "the only reason a white girl would date a black guy is if she is a coke whore". Ummm, right.
He owed money to the FDIC for some bullshit real estate scam in the 80's. He had a 100k commission coming to him and he somehow convinced the real estate company to issue the check into another brokers name to avoid the FDIC garnishing it. My boss goes out of town and tells me that I need to drive to the bank with the other broker and CASH the check and give it to his sister in law to put in a safety deposit box. Needless to say it was a very interesting experience watching someone cash 100k in Anchorage, Alaska, lol! It took hours. I was 17 or so and had 50k in my purse, I should have jacked it |
10-27-2003 | #5 |
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MsEve, doesn't sound like the worst job to me, just the opposite, this job got you a GREAT peak inside of human nature and taught you valuable skills you used alter in life
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I was a newspaper delivery boy for a few years in my younger days. Wasn't a particularly distasteful job, howver the pay was less than peanuts.
Oh well.. gotta start somewhere
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10-27-2003 | #7 |
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At 17 I did fill in for a garbage collection company in the summer. The people were great, but the rout included several camping spots and people on vacation are freaking pigs. Could not even stand to smell myself after a summer day of picking up trash.
Worst full time job I had was a shoe factory. Piece rate shoe production, once you got good enough to make $4.00 an hour they either changed the job you were doing or changed the rate of pay for the process you were doing. They also fired you for one days abscence with a note from a doctor. |
10-27-2003 | #8 |
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I've had some gems..
I guess the one that stands out the most is working for a healthcare company that did the laundry for local hospitals. All the linnens and stuff from operations, deaths, bedpan mishaps and such. Pretty nasty stuff, plus the place was hot as hell inside. |
10-27-2003 | #9 |
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Mine weren't horrible, but:
I worked at a family run dry cleaning store for a week. Then I found out I was pregnant and quit due to the fumes. Went to work at Honey Baked Ham (went to school with the founder's grandkids). THAT was fun except since I was pregnant, it was a pain lifting the hams. It was during the Christmas rush but most the people I went to HS with were working there. Plus since the store was where I lived, I got to see a lot of people I knew as customers. Then when I was about 5 months pregnant, I worked at a comedy club. Again - a crappy job but I had a ball because of the entertainers there. I worked telemarketing in HS but I was making $7+ an hour when minimum wage was $3+ an hour and people didn't hate telemarketers back then. Oh, and in college I worked at a fish house, lol! :P I've had weird jobs, but I loved them all in some way - no grunt work crappy jobs. |
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Worked at a telemarketing scam/outfit complete with a post and bell. We were what they called "toner phoners" basically you'd call fortune 500 companies, get some low level person to tell you what model of printer they had, then you'd call the purchaser and say you were "from the warehouse" and you had an extra shipment of toner that matched the kind they used. Some very fuzzy language later, you often had a big invoice.
Thing is i dont really think they ever got the toner :-/
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Never had a "shit" job here. My worst moment was probably working as a techy (for a certain type of consultancy), and we only got half the commission for repeat clients that the sales people got (and we did all the work) - Which was still high paid.
After leaving the job, i took great delight in hearing how these fucks had spent their last year or two saving up 10k GBP to go travelling. And more delight into saying i was jobless and couldn't even imagine that kind of money in an account. *evil laugh*
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Worst Job? Hmmmm, been a few of those.
I was a maid for about a year, and damn was these people pigs. No really, they were. I cleaned pig pens in College for beer money. Now I grew up on a farm, but with cattle, no freakin pigs. There was 6 buildings each housing 3000 pigs. That's alot of pig shit. Then, I worked for a drilling company as a roughneck on an oil rig. That pretty much sucked as well. |
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Had a few interesting and very challenging positions when I was younger
Worked on a trash truck - that lasted 3 days Cleaned out oil tankers - yes someone actually goes into the holds and has to hose and scrub out the tankers Worked construction - once working a concrete job with my brother he got concrete down his pants, by the time he got off the job site and home it hardened on his penis, his dick was so sore from it he had to wear a sock on his cock - ala Chili Peppers (true story) First job I ever had was shining shoes as a 7 year old child, my grandfather built my shoe shine box. He found it a few years ago and gave it to me for Christmas with a note on it that read "Your First Business Venture" One of the best Xmas presents I ever got, it sits in my office Did a lot of landscaping as a teenager and early twenties, landscaping sound like a interesting job. It reality it can be laying sod in the rain after fire ants have gotten into the pallets of sod, that's after you rake and shovel all day to even the slope of the yard and to ensure rain runs away from the house or building Also worked in warehouses in my twenties - hard physical labor (much like landscaping), in the tile warehouse I worked in I was the smallest guy there - as a result I can drive almost any forklift ever made Worked a Hot Dog cart one summer at a college, lots of cute college girls Worked on the lawn maintenance crew at a huge graveyard one summer, lots of strange stories there Sure I'm forgetting a few Moved into professional positions in my mid-late 20's with marketing firms - 60-80 hour weeks That was after I had worked 40+ hours at the tile warehouse and then went to a part time job in the evening. Got the nick name Clark Kent because when we worked overtime in the warehouse I had to go into the bathroom at the end of the day, clean up as best as possible and change into decent clothes for the part time job and head straight to the second job |
10-27-2003 | #15 |
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Yeah I am one of the foruntate people.... My wife claims I have never had to work a day in my life. But that is not true. I worked as a waiter for awhile, I was good at it.... Did the battender thing in college, at a country club - very easy job as well.
While in law school I was working for my uncle in construction, I tried to modernize the way things were done over there and we butted heads a lot - so I resigned, and decided to do something on my own.... Hence the internet and porn! |
10-27-2003 | #16 |
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my worst job ever is hearding MORONs on GFY
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