Tell me about your worst work experience...I'm collecting stories for my blog.?

Answer 1

When I was 14, my mother's boyfriend had a door knocker type of security service. Basically, 2 or 3 times a night, you walk through warehouses and such and punch a clock at the different stations around the place while looking for bad guys or whatever. They thought it would be a good way for me to make some extra money if I worked all night so they teamed me up with this one legged guy (I was too young to drive) and we went around to a bunch of places and 'secured' them. One place we went was a laundromat. We had to close it up at 1 am. He couldn't get out of the car, so I had to do the legwork. He'd sit and wait 'til I got done, then we'd drive to the next place. At this laundromat, he ran out of gas, so I had to hitch hike to a gas station (this was in Phoenix, AZ, a 24 hour town) to get some gas. A Maricopa county cop saw me hitch hiking and pulled over to ask me why I was hitch hiking at 2 am on a school night. I told him the story, but of course, he didn't believe it, but he 'offered' to take me to the gas station and back to the car, which he did. When we got back to the laundromat, the one legged guy was still waiting in his old 1948 Hudson and the cop talked to him and he verified everything I said, so he didn't haul me in. I was pretty happy about that! (This was in 1964)

Also in Phoenix, I worked weekend days at a wrecking yard that year using an acetylene torch to cut up junker cars for scrap. That was REALLY a hot sweaty job, but I got cigarettes and $5 per weekend. That was cool.

Another of my mother's boyfriends would 'hire' winos to work on a cotton farm south of Phoenix. We'd cruise skid row in the evening (Phoenix had a huge skid row) to hunt these guys down and get them to drinking in the back of the panel truck. When they were finally passed out, we'd drive to the farm and take them in this large barracks type building with about 20 beds in it. They'd wake up the next morning not knowing where the hell they were. Pretty funny, cause the farm was virtually in the middle of the desert, so they either had to work in the cotton fields or take a chance on walking back to town without dying.

I had a lot more unpleasant jobs, but these were probably the worst. AND, they are TRUE!

Answer 2

Well this was in the year 2004 (I think__()... Well I had to make practice of what I was studyng it was business and this girl tol me that she made her practice at this chash and carry place well cool now I hava place nice... I went but since the begining a was not very cofortable in the place but whatever may be I will adapt and when I (think) was getting better in the place the ... well one of ther girls I right now dont remember her title told me to send a fax ok cool... I went up the office and easy sended or was in the process or sending the fax the ups I dont know whay the machine like got stuck up the papper and it broke ooh I didnt had the innof confidence in those people to go there and tell hey it broked I wanted to do everything ok,... then the nervousness and I think I started to cry and then the girl went up the office to tell me that my father had come if it wasnt for that I dont know how much more time I could spend there but then I never went back...

Answer 3

My worst work experience...I was working at KFC and we have this huge blender type thing that we make mashed potatoes in. Only one day it broke. It couldn't get fixed that day so my manager says to make them by hand with a wire wisk. You gotta understand that making 40 pounds of mashed potatoes by hand with a wire wisk is very hard. You have to put several quarts of boiling water in the pot and then use the wisk to mix the potatoes.
One day the boiling water splashed up on my hand when I was mixing the potatoes. It hurt so bad I cried right then and there in front of everybody. I had a second degree burn on my hand and it took several months for the scar to go away.
And the really f*cked up thing is that I would have never gotten burned if my manager had just given in and paid to have the machine fixed.
I didn't sue...but I should have.

Answer 4

I used to work for a slaughterhouse where we slaughtered hogs. A guy got mad at work and put too many cracklings in the guts auger and clogged it on purpose then walked off the job and quit. I was the newest employee; this was a summer job of mine in college. They made me climb up on top of the open-topped semi trailer and pull the stuck guts out by hand. It was like 95 degrees in the summer heat and there must have been a billion flies over that truckload of guts. I am not making this up.

Answer 5

When I was only 13, they took me out of school and forced me to work in a shoe factory...I was so sweet and naive...there I worked with the most meanest, nastiest ppl in the world...I mean real white trash....talk about culture shock....but I survived and learned from that scum of the earth how to survive in this world...what an education....

Answer 6

One summer I worked for an equine hospital and once after helping with an autopsy (which was gross enough), they had me haul the HEAD out to the truck....I had to pick up this cold, slimy horse head by the ears and carry it around the barn to a truck. Thought I was going to DIE.

Answer 7

Working in hard rain at about 2 degrees while doing hard labour. Everyone else went home but I stayed to get the job done it was eight hours straight hard rain and sand was everywhere.

Answer 8

I was a restaurant manager for Burger King ,Years ago,. Lunch rush was on!!! I was helping the drive thru cashier,collecting money and taking orders. In my headset i heard a horn blowing ,"Beep, Beep ,Beep ect" for about 5 Min's . it was driving me nuts. so i went out back to investigate. a couple of teenagers were getting it ON in our back parking lot. she was on top of his lap riding him like a horse. "beep beep" get the picture!! she apparently got her foot stuck in the steering wheel in the heat of passion, I had to call "911" . now trying to explain this to the operator with out falling off my chair,I did so with urgency. all the police squad showed up, fire,emt's,ambulance and just about the whole city showed up for this fiasco!!! needless to say they made it on the 6 o'clock news!Now hows that for a whopper!!LOL

Answer 9

a coworker stuck a maxi pad on my back becuase she was a hater. i also got chewed out by my boss in front of my boyfriend, that was so embarrasing becuase he thought I was a "higher up"

Answer 10

when i was 4 i hit the tv and it fell on top of me almost killing me