Most difficult or shittiest jobs have you worked

[KiraHarden]

What are some of the worst jobs have you done in your life?

My two worst would be

Slaughter house for two years on the kill floor and meat trimmer

Foundry worker for three years pouring molds and tig welding

[Rusty Eldora]

In college I worked one summer graveyard opening and sorting magazine subscription renewals in a mailroom. It was bad.

[GroobySteven]

McDonalds - backroom (cleaning and supply).
Dressing up as a giant dragon at indoor amusement part - sweaty and stinky).
Care provider for people in last months of AIDS (literally shitty and 12 hr shifts for pennies).

Ass.Floor Manager on BBC TV which means - gopher and dogsbody to some wannabe who never fails to make it above directing one episode of daytime TV.


I try to be a better boss, based on some of the wankers I've had as bosses in the past - but there have also been some outstanding bosses whom I've gleaned a lot.

[Turlington]

Dishwasher at a restaurant. That shit SUCKED...and I had a machine to help.

[ElectricWoody]

Working with Females.

[hairyguy]

i never had a shitty job because i was lucky enough to have a choice. i wouldn't work at a shitty job. would rather collect bottles and cans for money.

[CORVETTEDUDE]

My first job was as a 'bus boy' in a Harrah's Casino restaurant in Reno. Didn't much care for that.

I spent my early days in and around music....a tough life but fun.

Then I spent 26 years in the Navy. My experience was very rewarding, or I wouldn't have stayed that long. Long hours, party hard!!

My 2nd career was in the automotive industry, sales and management at a Chevy dealer. After 17 years, I grew increasingly tired of dealing with "know it all" morons.

Now, I'm retired - retired!! didn't make a Million bucks so, I guess I blew that one!!

[iagodelgado]

Probably some of the stuff I did as a schoolkid for pocket money, or as a student to pay the rent and put food on the table.

But I always had a choice of take the money or walk away to something else, so I always felt I had that choice, and so I was the one in control.

Nice to hear from you again, Kira.

[my my my!]

I've only had 3 jobs ever, and 2 of them were pretty good.

the only one that was bordering on shitty was my very first one. I was an apprentice for custom guitar maker, and actually learned how to make guitars to a certain extent. The owner, was a actually a lazy pothead, who owned a few acres of land, where his shop was located. I would show up on time 8 am, and he was nowhere to be found, and I would be freezing my ass off outside waiting for him to finish his bong hit or whatever he was (not) doing.

aside from that, since it was a startup company, the pay was miserable, and based on commission depending on sales. since he was lazy and unmotivated, very few sales came, and i was basically broke, but all the meantime learned a very interesting trade.

[NightmareX0666]

My current job....working with rental and repairs. Fucking hate it! Times when the tenants can be idiots and the owners are too tight with money. Makes it worse working for a relative (they asked me to help) in the past few years I have had my pay cut twice the latest was hitting me for almost $200 a week. But yet he hires his gf while his wife the accountant is out of the country.... trust me the stories are longer and whole lot worse.

Hopefully I will be out of here soon, been turning in applications...just scared to jump somewhere else, no matter how shitty it is here I know it is a paycheck (until the next cut).

[RallyCola]

hmm....well if you count a terrible rotation in grad school for a fucking little gimp that makes kim jong il look like a nice korean...that was the shittiest most recent job because he felt students were slave laborers and had a web cam monitoring the lab at all times.

but...realistically, my worst job ever was when i was an undergrad...i used to manage a 6-bed group home for developmentally disabled adults. i had 4 spastic quads and 2 ambulatory residents, one of which had asperger's and had a ball tossing the wheelchair bound residents out of their wheelchairs because he was resentful that he had to live with them. it is one thing to be a primary advocate and caregiver for family but quite another to make $15/hr on 10-12hr shifts to do it for the disabled.

[Gabicolonni]

Xhahaha

[sukumvit boy]

New York City cab driver.
Bad for your health (the long sitting and the stress) , and dangerous.

[nysprod]

Summer of '75 I worked at the Bronx zoo shoveling every type of dung known to man, all to save up for that Rickenbacker 4001 bass I wanted so badly.

[Charly Spoons]

Here's my list of rubbish jobs...

First job I ever had at 14 years of age - working in a battery hen farm, picking out shit covered eggs to be cleaned. These came down into the unit on a conveyor belt which had previously stolen another colleagues index finger.

Longest job I've ever managed - worked for four years as a 'double glazing salesman'. Money was good, that was how I first got to Thailand, but selling pensioners uPVC front doors for £3k ruined my sense of humanity.

Shortest job - charity fundraising. Did one shift and quickly realised I was being trained to sell cancer as a guilt product. Quit after my first shift.

Grimiest job - working in various care roles. An austic kid threw his turd at me once which got stuck to my hoodie just under the chin area, an old man threw his dinning table at me because his pudding was...? I never found out what was wrong with it. Also, having to clean the cum up off a bathroom floor each time my client said he needed the 'toilet'. He did this at least twice in a shift.

[KiraHarden]

Here's my list of rubbish jobs...

First job I ever had at 14 years of age - working in a battery hen farm, picking out shit covered eggs to be cleaned. These came down into the unit on a conveyor belt which had previously stolen another colleagues index finger.

Longest job I've ever managed - worked for four years as a 'double glazing salesman'. Money was good, that was how I first got to Thailand, but selling pensioners uPVC front doors for £3k ruined my sense of humanity.

Shortest job - charity fundraising. Did one shift and quickly realised I was being trained to sell cancer as a guilt product. Quit after my first shift.

Grimiest job - working in various care roles. An austic kid threw his turd at me once which got stuck to my hoodie just under the chin area, an old man threw his dinning table at me because his pudding was...? I never found out what was wrong with it. Also, having to clean the cum up off a bathroom floor each time my client said he needed the 'toilet'. He did this at least twice in a shift.
I think I would prefer to go back to the kill floor at a meat packing plant than do your grimiest jobs

[LibertyHarkness]

Currys Electrical Sales person for TV and Audio.. mind numbingly boring and really really bad pay….

Favourite job other than owning my own IT companies twice . was Scuba Diving Instructor ..

[cagney]

Working on the conveyor belt at Fed Ex was a horrible , nightmare of a job. My hours were part time, 3am til 7am. It was a brutally stifling hot warehouse with no ventilation and that belt would send crap over at 50 miles per hour and you would be assigned a truck with 4 zipcodes to load up. Everything would have to be loaded according to the zip code on specific areas of the truck. At 6am the drivers would arrive and bitch about how you loaded the truck. The intense heat made you dehydrated and dripping with sweat. After just a 4 hour shift my body would be sore all over.

[KiraHarden]

I forgot that during my time in military and on deployment in Iraq and being the lowest ranking soldier. they gave me the shit detail. I had to stir and burn human waste in drums with gasoline while we were at a small camp in the desert somewhere to prevent flies and dissease

[Kevin Dong]

I was a dishwasher twice and also a cottage cheese salesman.

[buttslinger]

I had a job selling lots on a resort lake over the phone: Soul-Killing, one shift and OUT.

Maybe my worst was when I was drinking heavily one night, and at 3AM my buddy convinced me to come work at his construction job the next morning.
I showed up at 7AM with no gloves or money, and started digging ditches along Rte One for sewer pipe. The sexiest woman I ever saw in my life was some trailer park hussy strutting her stuff down the Highway in 90 degree heat. Standing in a ditch drenched in hangover sweat with blistered hands and four hours more to go.......She looked like a cool breeze from Heaven. We ended up working overtime and after work I drank beer and went to a high school football game. The next morning the alarm went off and every muscle in my body ached, I couldn't move. Maybe I should have thought things out earlier, but these were my carefree bohemian salad days of youth. I think I still owe G. B. money for my lunch at Arbys.

[KiraHarden]

I had a job selling lots on a resort lake over the phone: Soul-Killing, one shift and OUT.

Maybe my worst was when I was drinking heavily one night, and at 3AM my buddy convinced me to come work at his construction job the next morning.
I showed up at 7AM with no gloves or money, and started digging ditches along Rte One for sewer pipe. The sexiest woman I ever saw in my life was some trailer park hussy strutting her stuff down the Highway in 90 degree heat. Standing in a ditch drenched in hangover sweat with blistered hands and four hours more to go.......She looked like a cool breeze from Heaven. We ended up working overtime and after work I drank beer and went to a high school football game. The next morning the alarm went off and every muscle in my body ached, I couldn't move. Maybe I should have thought things out earlier, but these were my carefree bohemian salad days of youth. I think I still owe G. B. money for my lunch at Arbys.
Better square that debt away :)

[buttslinger]

Better square that debt away :)

Years later I asked him if I had paid him back, he said I had, but he's such a nice guy, I still wonder.........

[iagodelgado]

I was a dishwasher twice and also a cottage cheese salesman.

I'm sorry, you have now lost all respectability. Dishwashers are necessary. But cottage cheese salesman?

[KiraHarden]

I was a dishwasher twice and also a cottage cheese salesman.
Cottage cheese salesman. Was that door to door?

[nevada64]

When I finished University in Oregon and moved back to L.A., I had various odd jobs that I hated. One time I answered an ad in the newspaper. It was selling various things over the phone. When I showed up, I was told to call a stack of phone numbers, trying to sell ice cream flavored lollypops to various stores. My goodness, I couldn't make a sell for the life of me and only stayed two or three days before deciding to move on to some other shitty job.

[sukumvit boy]

Love that cotage cheese.

[wjcdiver]

Cleaning surgical instruments. It was a small part of my job, summer after Junior year in High School, mostly I pushed stretchers and set-up up instrument trays (after they were cleaned). But when the women who usually cleaned the instruments called in sick, I was low man n the totem pole.

I learned all the instruments, and how many were in each set. Next year, after HS graduation, they trained me as an OR Tech.

(The side benefit was making out with one of the (femaie) Aids, in the linen closet.)

[sukumvit boy]

Cleaning surgical instruments. It was a small part of my job, summer after Junior year in High School, mostly I pushed stretchers and set-up up instrument trays (after they were cleaned). But when the women who usually cleaned the instruments called in sick, I was low man n the totem pole.

I learned all the instruments, and how many were in each set. Next year, after HS graduation, they trained me as an OR Tech.

(The side benefit was making out with one of the (femaie) Aids, in the linen closet.)
:cheers: Sounds like it was a good deal for you , I did something similar.

[bimale69]

My very first job, back in high school, I worked as a stockboy at a local supermarket during summer vacation. Since I was the new kid, I had to mop the floors then wipe them dry with a paper towel, clean up the window display, retrieve carts, etc. the boss was a complete asshole, (you know one of those holier than thou assholes for whom you could never squat low enough or jump high enough, anything you said or thought was wrong and he was always right) always getting on my case because I wasn't fast enough(basically I was a foot shorter than most people my age, even women) , since every time I started to do something I would get called to get carts, bag groceries, etc. I had to wear a white dress shirt, tie, black business pants, and a stupid grocer's apron(and I HATE WEARING ANY KIND OF TIE TO THIS DAY), which I look complete rediculous in, not to mention of kids I knew from school worked there, so the bullying in my senior year at quadrupled. Finally after a month, the boss gave me my last paycheck and told me I was "off the schedules". I wasn't sad at all, just relieved lol.

[youngblood61]

Dishwasher Busboy at TJ's Big Boy. SUCKED!

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I forgot that during my time in military and on deployment in Iraq and being the lowest ranking soldier. they gave me the shit detail. I had to stir and burn human waste in drums with gasoline while we were at a small camp in the desert somewhere to prevent flies and dissease

Nice job.

[wjcdiver]

In High School my summer job for 2 summers was working as an aid in the Operating Room of a Hospital. Mostly I pushed stretchers, but every once in a while I had to wash dirty surgical instruments. Using a toothbrush to remove tissue from the teeth of a kelly clamp and knowing all of the interesting fluids the instruments had touched was a little off putting. Add in knowing if you did not do a good job you might kill somebody added a little to the process.

[Vladimir Putin]

My number one worst job was at Travel Planners in New York, a then-unknown fledgeling travel agency. I worked there part-time a quarter-century ago while I was in college. This is a company that today organizes hotel reservations for people in San Diego for Comic-Con. I worked there before the Internet was widely used and before Comic-Con was a client. Tasks involved organizing travel receipts by order number and delivering ticketed reservations to clients in Lower Manhattan. I worked in the mailroom where I was the only white guy there which worked to my disadvantage. Initially my first problems came from management who felt I didn't work fast enough with organizing receipts and delivering items in traffic-clogged Manhattan. My later problems came from my immediate coworkers, who didn't have a problem with my performance, but were racist against whites. On my last day there, tensions almost came to blows between me and a white-hating coworker egged on by our equally racist desk supervisor. The guy who fought with me was immediately terminated, but I quit anyway because he wasn't the only problem. Lasted only seven weeks.

My second worst job came two years later when I worked as a temp through a temporary agency at Zenith Insurance in San Francisco, an insurance company that investigates worker's compensation claims in California. Got the temp assignment while I was looking for a full-time job. I was to assist them until they moved their offices to Pleasanton in the southern part of the Bay Area. Worked as a file clerk in the file room. Immediate coworkers backstabbing jerkoffs who had a beef with temps. We answered to worker's comp investigators, who weren't any better. Our job was to deliver files to the investigators and retrieve files from them to put back in the filing room. Both my immediate coworkers and the investigators made an issue over the fact that I wasn't fast enough and accurate enough with filing by number. At some points one of my immediate coworkers harassed and bullied both me and another temporary file room employee. Temporary assignment was supposed to last several months, was fired after only three weeks.

Those were the only two jobs I had problems with. Never had anything near the same kinds of problems in all the other jobs I successfully held in my life. They were also the only two jobs I never put down on my resume.

[LovinThaTSLadiez]

They all sucked in their own way.

[CoolAwesomeBXDude]

any below minimum wage job i did in the past

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My later problems came from my immediate coworkers, who didn't have a problem with my performance, but were racist against whites.
Asians?

[CD_Sasha]

Dishwasher in my late teens.. Friggin sucks. Quitted in 3 weeks. Too Americanized for that crap

[JenniferParisHusband]

Worst job ever, I spent a couple of weeks one summer working in a crime-scene cleanup crew. Once the crime-scenes were cleared by the police and people could re-enter, they would call my company, and we would come in and scrape all the brain bits, bones, and other gunk (yes, it's a technical term) off walls and floors, strip the carpets that were all bloody and nasty and usually covered in other things as well. It is literally the stuff of nightmares, and for slightly over minimum wage (in 1992) it wasn't worth it.

[Vladimir Putin]

My later problems came from my immediate coworkers, who didn't have a problem with my performance, but were racist against whites.


Asians?

I'd rather not say, don't want to single out any particular group.

[Vladimir Putin]

My number one worst job was at Travel Planners in New York, a then-unknown fledgeling travel agency. I worked there part-time a quarter-century ago while I was in college. This is a company that today organizes hotel reservations for people in San Diego for Comic-Con. I worked there before the Internet was widely used and before Comic-Con was a client. Tasks involved organizing travel receipts by order number and delivering ticketed reservations to clients in Lower Manhattan. I worked in the mailroom where I was the only white guy there which worked to my disadvantage. Initially my first problems came from management who felt I didn't work fast enough with organizing receipts and delivering items in traffic-clogged Manhattan. My later problems came from my immediate coworkers, who didn't have a problem with my performance, but were racist against whites. On my last day there, tensions almost came to blows between me and a white-hating coworker egged on by our equally racist desk supervisor. The guy who fought with me was immediately terminated, but I quit anyway because he wasn't the only problem. Lasted only seven weeks.

My second worst job came two years later when I worked as a temp through a temporary agency at Zenith Insurance in San Francisco, an insurance company that investigates worker's compensation claims in California. Got the temp assignment while I was looking for a full-time job. I was to assist them until they moved their offices to Pleasanton in the southern part of the Bay Area. Worked as a file clerk in the file room. Immediate coworkers backstabbing jerkoffs who had a beef with temps. We answered to worker's comp investigators, who weren't any better. Our job was to deliver files to the investigators and retrieve files from them to put back in the filing room. Both my immediate coworkers and the investigators made an issue over the fact that I wasn't fast enough and accurate enough with filing by number. At some points one of my immediate coworkers harassed and bullied both me and another temporary file room employee. Temporary assignment was supposed to last several months, was fired after only three weeks.

Those were the only two jobs I had problems with. Never had anything near the same kinds of problems in all the other jobs I successfully held in my life. They were also the only two jobs I never put down on my resume.

I forgot, I had a third job that was pretty shitty.

A year after I was fired from Zenith Insurance, I took a full-time job also in San Francisco that was supposed to be permanent. It was a now-defunct small one-office discount brokerage company called Lombard Institutional Brokerage. Although they only had one office in San Francisco, they had clients all over the U.S. My job was to work in the call center and take calls answering questions and mailing inquiring people our brochures and applications if they want to set up an account with us. When things settled down before the end of they day, I was also tasked to stuff envelopes to mail out to potential clients. Two weeks into the job, my supervisor called me into her office to complain that I wasn't stuffing them fast enough and wanted me to work faster. I knew right there my job was in trouble, but I said I would work faster. A week later, she called me into her office to complain again that I still wasn't working fast enough and terminated me right then and there. I told her that she was being unrealistic expecting me to stuff envelopes like if I am Superman or Speedy Gonzalez. Her response was "I don't want to argue with you." Took my last paycheck and was out the door.

So there were three jobs (including this one) that got no mention on my resume.

[Lovecox]

Just out of high school I did construction for a couple of years. At one job we were literally digging ditches in the rain and there were rats everywhere. On top of it being backbreaking work it was a skin-crawling experience to the see the rats scrambling and writhing about, sometimes attacking us and each other. It was the stuff of nightmares.

[KellyKlaymour]

My 1st job ever was for a garden nursery. Shoveling rocks into bags in the heat with a bunch of bigoted rednecks in missouri for $5.15/hr. Didn't enjoy it.