What is the Worst Job You Have Ever Had?

Question

After thinking about it, I was stuck between my job in the summer of 2000, between semesters mowing lawns for this perverted scu*bag and the one I had last fall working at a mobile office leasing firm, across from this incoherent, angry blue collar stereotype woman who never smiled, never said anything nice or even liked her life for that matter. My favorite jobs were as a reporter, I think. Now I do research. It's pretty boring. Anyway, I'm going to say the mobile office leasing one was the worst. At least when I was mowing lawns I was outside all day. What about you?

Answer 1

It's a toss up between three really dreadful boughts of employment. One was unloading by hand forty foot trailers filled with one hundred pound bales of rock wool insulation for twenty five dollars a trailer. That was back breaking but I was young and strong then and could do two in twelve hours. Another was taking seventy five pound metal components off of a paint line that had just come out of a blast dryer, those puppies were hot, one every eight seconds, all day less two ten minute breaks and twenty minutes for luch. I believe at the time I was paid $3.45 per hour. The last of the three was shoveling asphalt from 5:00A.M. till 7:00P.M. down the middle of a highway with a crew of criminally insane sociopaths. That one was nightmarish but it paid a living wage at least, still it remains a toss up between the three. They did teach me a valuable lesson in life though, work is for chumps!

Answer 2

I worked for a small community's sewer department when I was 16 yrs. old. One day we went to the city park where a few hundred tourists were having their anual "Avion" camping outing. My partner and I knocked on the doors of every single camper and asked if they needed their holding tank emptied. If they said yes, we went to the side of the camper and placed an 18 gallon open container under the drain pipe. After the container was full of waste, we hand carried it over to an awaiting tractor with a suction tank attached. We then inserted the hose into the waste and it was sucked out. It was 95 degrees fahrenheit that day. When it was all said and done we had emptied 99 campers. Later that evening, my partners mom cooked supper. Sweet corn was one of the side dishes. My partner, having a weak stomach so to speak, didn't make it through supper. I however, survived. The memory is embedded in my mind for eternity. We were each paid $4.50 per hour. This was the summer of 1977. Our boss told us that there was a lesson to be learned. He said that everybodies ***t stinks. He was absolutely right.

Answer 3

I would have to say a dog groomer.
I had just moved out on my own when I was 18, and needed extra money, (I worked as a coctail waitress at PM) so I took the job.
I hated it b/c I could never get the smell of wet dirty dog off of me, like it was permantly stuck in my pores and in my nose, ya know. Then I was told on small dogs I would have to milk their anus glands, well I tried once and puked all over the place! I ended up shaving down & dying blue the towns mayors king size poodles, (it was an accident) just before a show, and the owner fired me! It was the worst job ever!

Answer 4

The worst job ever had was salad bar attendant at shoney's. The other salad bar attendant alway managed to weasel her way into getting off early, leaving me stuck with all the work. I had mountains of dishes to wash, with crusted on crap that took forever to wash off, mountains of dishes that stood taller than me. I stayed there till about 3 in the morning one night washing dishes....i was supposed to get off at 9. Folks were argueing with me because I was alone and could not keep the salad bar stocked. I ran myself sick one time, without a lunch break. I worked there 1 week and quit. I'll never work in another restaurant again.

Answer 5

My worst job was working for a pizza place where the manager was corrupt. He used to bribe us UNDERAGE girls to stay late and close with beer. Once he forged my signature on my paycheck and cashed it in for me minus $100 because the register that I was sharing with this other thieving beech was short.

Answer 6

mine was dishwasher at a seafood restaurant. i smelled like fish everyday, not in a good way. it was my worst, but probably favorite job i ever had.