What is the worst job you ever had to endure and why?

Answer 1

Working in a seafood packing plant...they(skilled usually asian workers) would gut fish and make fillets...we would have to dump that **** out...blood and guts everywhere...we would shovel conkfish (a deshelled shellfish with female and male sex organs) into a conveyor to be sorted out and packed out for overseas transport...we would make a scallop paste with a big blender machine and the smell would be horrible...then the next door, we would chop the frozen result into bigger scallops made with perservatives and rubbery like plastic...get that ready to be packed out and transported overseas...loading trucks was easy with powerjacks and forklifts...but taking out the trash was horrible...me and one other guy had to dump a whole shipment of sharks that are used to make fillets because there were pregnant...you could see little sharks emerging from the vaginas and everything....the smell was bloody awful...needless to say..the smell from the dumpster was horrible..it was summertime...the flies, bees, and misquitos would hang around...we would throw lye or acid on the trash to kill the smell....seeing maggots squirming in rotten fish carcasses or stray cats hopping out of the dumpsters was a everyday thing....being that we were near the water, huge wharf rats the size of healthy kittens was commonplace as soon as the sun went down....if you dared to go outside to smoke a cigarette while working overtime....I used to take a shower for 20 to 30 minutes everyday because I smelled like a raw seafood platter mixed with my own sweat...disgusting...I ended up quitting the job and leaving the city after me and my wife of 2 years seperated.

Answer 2

Cook. Left school in 1972 and took on the job because my girlfriends' mum at the time was the manager of the restaurant. The first 18 months wasn't too bad, and had taken my City & Guilds in catering, and shone - until the pot-washers didn't turn up. Terri's mum by this time had left, and some snarly bastard took her place, and when the pot-washers didn't turn up (usually at weekends), Tom - the new guv'nor ordered me to go to the sink. For the first week, decided to say nothing, then was told that Tom hated me preparing the food (as I was a 'darkie'). I wrote to the organisation, telling them that I have my C & G award, and washing the dishes was not what I came here to do. Tom was sent to a branch in Cambridge, after complaints from others, and a 'mature' old boy took his place (with the worst attitude - he hated anyone under 20), and as it goes in the UK, they try to get rid of the complainers as well, and in the next few months, was accused of stealing deliveries, pestering waitresses - and even smoking weed in the toilets...they expected me to kick off and supposedly do what 'darkies' do - and bite the bait, but left without ill-will in summer '74 after reading up on teaching courses at university. Decided to take it easy, and help da with his business about until I was 20. Maybe the reason why it was my worst experience was because it was my first job, and perhaps many people see their first as their worst.

Answer 3

I was a telemarketer for 6 months....I would call and have to sell credit cards... I would have to get an application with a social and date of birth... and read a 2 minutes disclosure without them hanging up.... I am a fast reader from that! Worse part is my pay was $5.25 plus comission. So for example if someone signed up with me and I got through the application I got $5....if someone called in and cancled the card after I got it activated I lost $3. If someone activates their card afer receiving it I got $1.50... and if one of my applicants use their card for purchases, every month I would get a percentage of the purchases they made. So if an applicant purchased $100 I would get .5% of it which is .50cents! I averaged about 150 applications a month with $4000 in purchase volume which is an extra $20 a month!! I got $150 a month in activation fees and $750 in applications...however I ususally lost about $145 a month from cancelations.. so 40 hours a week at $5.25 an hour was $210 a week an extra $775 average a month was bonus... so monthly for this hard shitty job I was making $1615 a month/$19380 a year!

OVER WORKED, OVER STRESSED, AND UNDER PAID!

Answer 4

Well it wasn't a job, it was just volunteer work. My youth group and I cleaned up a polluted and littered beach on Staten Island in New York. It was cold, rainy, and the beach smelled and was really dirty. You couldn't even have a picnic or go swimming. It was that horrible. But overall we were doing a good thing for the marine animals and the citizens of Staten Island.

Answer 5

Cleaning the latrines at a Girl Scout retreat because some of the girls got into serious trouble by sneaking over to the Boy Scout side of the campground and cleaning the toliets with toothbrushes was our troups' punishment.

Answer 6

I once had to do a research paper on the state of media. The initial part was fun, but when it came to calculating and compiling the data, giving numerical evidence to my findings, I was way out of my depth. Yet I was working on contract and they had already given me a fat advance payment. I managed to struggle to the first draft report, after crossing many deadlines. It was embarassing when I had to tell them I couldn't really complete the job. I normally pride myself on my professionalism so this was pretty painful an experience for me.

Answer 7

My current job. I'm an office manager for a moving company and I hate sitting at a desk all day♥ I miss waitressing but the money wasn't there♥

Answer 8

I worked at a bank once with the most chatty, snotty women I've ever met. I guess I stuck around because it paid the bills but in the long run, I walked out.

Answer 9

dockside imports- me a 130 lb girl- was unloading all of the freight including 600lb marbel sinks- with very little help- while the strong manager who is younger than me- was in his office and the only other strong male had the day off- he was always doing mean **** like that!! all for 6.00 an hour, but hey I needed a job- it only lasted 4 months though!

Answer 10

I haven't had this job, but I have always thought that this would be the worst job in the world, bar none:

Being the janitor at an all night adult movie parlor.