Shitty jobs? We've all had them!

[J$tyle$]

The worst was when I was 19 yrs old ... digging ditches literally .. small ones for fence poles ... in the winter in NY! The ground was nearly frozen and my back was always killing me!

The other was in my 20's doing collections for the L.A. Times in gang infested parts of Pacoima! Saw some crazy episodes and was lucky I never got robbed myself

What about you?

[citizen tower]

Package Handler at UPS. Pay is shit and you get treated like a slave.

BTW, GO UNIONS!

[halfpint]

My worst job was when I was around 16-17 years old working with my dad when he was alive. He had his own building company, we just never got on when we worked together and most days he would end up swearing at me, Even remember having to offload all of his tools by myself from one of the trucks because I pissed him off, Was so glad when I found another job

[OY]

Summer job at 16 cleaning barrels that used to contain chemicals.

After that job I started focusing hard on school to make sure I never had to do something like that again.

[Some Guy]

Originally Posted by J$tyle$

The other was in my 20's doing collections for the L.A. Times in gang infested parts of Pacoima!

Man, they couldn't pay me enough to do that job! You're obviously a lot braver than I am.

[Rochard]

I worked for Swisher - A public bathroom janitorial service. We would go in and clean public bathrooms (think gas stations) from head to toe and then maintain them every week. It was fucking horrible.

[PSSuperstars]

Hostess @ Bob Evans at age 16. I still can't stand the smell of mass amounts of breakfast food.

And telemarketing for Millenium Teleservices age 16-18...It was mostly only criminals working with me.. and I was this little cross eyed nerd... watching them snort pills on the desk.. while I tried to sell Discover credit cards.. of solicit for the police funds...

Then Dial America telemarketing after that..

Telemarketing was easy money for a student.. and for some reason all the crooks, lies, cheats, and druggies liked me.. lol

[Luscious Media]

Had a job circumsizing elephants, the pay sucked but the tips were HUGE!

[PSSuperstars]

Originally Posted by Luscious Media

Had a job circumsizing elephants, the pay sucked but the tips were HUGE!

[Ayla_SquareTurtle]

Some of my best/most memorable and worst working experiences happened when I was 18 or so being a scary, bleeding vampire bite victim in a "haunted house." Those things bring out all kinds of crazy aspects of people's personality so you never know what they will do.

[BFT3K]

I used to work at a chicken assembly plant. I worked my way up to Head Beaker. Once the chicken was finally assembled the last step was attaching the beak. This was the most prestigious position in the whole plant!

[BFT3K]

Originally Posted by Luscious Media

Had a job circumsizing elephants, the pay sucked but the tips were HUGE!

[HookUPcom]

I think I win!!!

In college I was fixing a sewage line for a guy that I did regular maintenance work for, 2 doors down from huge party house where 12 girls lived and we partied there every Sat. night... 4-5 kegs a weekend.

The morning after a big party, I was standing in sewage trying to fix this pipe when a condom came out... And I knew it could have only come from the house 2 doors down.

Do I win?

J.

[LexiLexxx]

My 2 best friends and I went to work for some of our friends parents...they had 2 daughters working for them, running a cleaning company. The daughters were both real lazy and were stealing from everyone.

We did residential, new construction and model homes all very upscale homes. I'm talking like 5/6 bathroom homes, if you have have a house built.....visit the job site often, construction workers can be real lazy!!! Food in vents and walls ect...

The job was hard-core work, sometimes the heating and air wasn't working. Model homes were easy. Residential was a total trip, the thing's you would run into were wild.

One home I was working in one day, the wife had all her toys all lined up in size in a cabinet, her husband also like to run around in his underwear while he curled his hair. LOL! Freaked me out, but he was a well known builder of some really nice homes.

It was really hard work cleaning, but sometimes we worked around some pretty cool guys and their wifes would visit for lunch. The only bad part was everyone peeing all over, not hitting the toilet. EWW!

I was in charge of driving, since the company could afford insurance on me. My friends worked hard, but liked to hit the basement and smoke a few joints. Once my friend bought some killer weed and I took a few hits and couldn't drive! haha

Moral of the story is, if you have a new house built.....show up often :-)

[LexiLexxx]

Originally Posted by Rochard

I worked for Swisher - A public bathroom janitorial service. We would go in and clean public bathrooms (think gas stations) from head to toe and then maintain them every week. It was fucking horrible.

Gawd that's so shitty!

[papill0n]

I have cleaned toilets in an outback mining town only inhabited by miners

[spunky99]

worked selling vacuums that were like 1500$ in a welfare neighborhood that no one could get credit for.. i lasted 2 days i think before i quit

[SBJ]

before porn I worked at a printing factory for 12 years driving a fork lift.. Well in the beginning before I made fulltime i had layoffs.. I worked one summer for a few mos at a tire recycling factory with like 4 employees total working there.. Think about wet tires in the summer in Indiana. Mosquitoes were terrible and the smell was so bad.. That was the dirtiest job I ever had

[Spunky]

I was a dishwasher at 15,and used to make roofing materials with bags of asbestos with only a dust mask before it was banned

[MaDalton]

cutting 50 lbs cardboard boxes of instant coffee open, lifting them and pouring the coffee into a funnel. i did it 3 days till i got a rash all over the body that was itching so heavily that i thought i go bezerk. plus i couldnt sleep from all the caffeine i absorbed through nose and mouth over the day. it was a nightmare.

[J$tyle$]

Originally Posted by Some Guy

Man, they couldn't pay me enough to do that job! You're obviously a lot braver than I am.

I hear ya! Shit was definitely scary at times but I was working 2 full-time jobs then because I needed the $$$.

[SweetT]

<----Apprentice Embalmer. Enough said.


--T

[born2blog]

I worked at a mushroom farm once while in my early 20's, not fun at all

[NaughtyRob]

General Manager of a Burger King. 12 yrs. I can't even eat there now. Quit in 2000.

[Axzar]

House Mover - 2 Houses a Day - Sweat from every pore, people keep nasty houses.

[Sausage]

Before I got into this the worst job I had was standing at the end of a folding machine in a print factory for 12 hours straight filling boxes with flyers as they came out.

Most mundane and mind destroying job you could have, though if I needed money and needed work would do it again. So many friends out of work and broke because they won't settle for anything less than the same plush easy job they have had in their nice air conditioned offices. Me .. would do almost any job if I needed to.

[Fat Panda]

dildo disinfector on granny and tranny porn sets for 3 years....you can't imagine the smells

[Phoenix]

worst job was at a slaughterhouse while i was going to school...good part was i got cheap steak..lol

hardest job ever...was working as a mover out west...there were no elevators...so it was all stairs all the time...ugh

[Profits of Doom]

Right after I turned 18 I was the bartender at the bar in the middle of the Ft. Lauderdale Swap Shop in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. I'm sure you can imagine people that frequent a giant indoor and outdoor flea market aren't exactly big tippers, but that was far from the worst part. If you've ever been to the Swap Shop, you would know they have a giant indoor circus that starts like ever hour and a half, and the bar was right next to it. All day long I had to listen to obnoxiously loud circus music and get overwhelmed by the smell of elephant shit. I was also working the day an elephant handler that was following behind an elephant with a shovel and got sat on and crushed to death. Good times...

[AaliyahLove]

Managing flaky webcam models?

[clicker]

Oh yes what stands out... $6.50 hr
Winter dressed in a snow suite, using a chainsaw to cut frozen logs.
Splitting, stacking and delivering it to homes.

[tonyparra]

Hmmm my list of shitty jobs:
Mcdonalds on the grill
Kfc as a cook
Dishwasher in college dorm cafeteria
Telemarketer trying to make people refi after 9-11
Telemarketer trying to sell direct tv in areas with bad weather
And last but not least my last job dumping the lav on airplnes...Ive never flown but i could not ever take a shit on a plane...to all you assholes who do worst
part is if you dont attach the hose right and you get dumped on and have to ride public transportation home

[JD]

janitor :/

[WinstonTriplexcash]

Originally Posted by RageCash-Ben

I have cleaned toilets in an outback mining town only inhabited by miners

I heard you volunteered for that.

[nosey]

pool maintenance

[PersianKitty]

Drag race track concession stand.

[Farang]

Kitchen porter when I was 18...

[CarlosTheGaucho]

When I was sixteen I was cleaning a dump - that was my first job, shitty but rather good pay (2 bucks an hour was good money those days).

When I was 17, I was cleaning cars that were flooded with shit as there were floods before, and all the sewers were inside the cars.

That was kind of intense, but I worked with a best friend of mine, so we had a lot of fun while trying to avoid cholera.

The problem was the guy who hired us fucked us over a big time, we did 100 hours and should have been given 30 pct. up, at the end he paid us about 1 USD / hour as he:

- stripped us of all the "promised" lunch money
- no 30 pct. plus after finished as a bonus
- some "special" taxes included

Talk about experience!

Then since I was 18, I was a butcher for a year and a half or so, till the end of the high school, that was good, I worked in the fridge, and got cheap discounted red meat, which was great, as I was working out and boxing at that time, and saved some money.

Then during the summer, when I was 19 and 20 I worked in construction, which was cool, because I was muscular at that time so it was a good excercise and a job you did outside, so I kind of enjoyed that and went for 2 weeks holidays both years to Croatia (last holidays I ever had), as I saved some money on the side.

After the summer when I turned 20 and went to the University, I moved to more sophisticated jobs.

[VicD]

I still have one

[seeandsee]

working on construction yard

[sicone]

Originally Posted by SweetT

<----Apprentice Embalmer. Enough said.


--T

Sacramento County Coroners office...

Was a workout on the mind for sure

[Antonio]

2 years in the Army - that's the worse "job" I've ever had

[OldJeff]

Cove Shoe Factory -

Piece rate, with minimum wage guaranteed ($3.35 per hour), as soon as you reached $4.50 per hour on what you could do, they did a time study, and reset the rate so you made less, or changed your job to something you could not do. Miss one day of work without a doctors note and you are fired, you get the job by being in the lobby holding an aplication when someone misses a day of work.

I don't imagine it has changed much, so it is good to know that the US has and supports it's own sweat shops (biggest customer is the government making boots for the military)

[quantum-x]

Originally Posted by nosey

pool maintenance

Not sure what possessed me to make this a few years back:

[james_clickmemedia]

worked 4 weekends at mcdonads and had a full-time job during the week but need the extra cash as full-time job did not pay until end of month.

Worst job I had was when I was 8, worked with my father, at the time he owned his own business fixing Silos and Harvesters for farmers. My job... hand him tools and play with the farm kids to keep them out of his hair... Got paid $5/day doing that for a summer, made a whole $105, I thought I was rich!

Such hard days back then.

[gornyhuy]

My first "real" job ever was working in an explosive test chamber for a navy research lab. 90% of it was cool as shit, and the pay was great for a high school student, but then a couple times a week I had to go clean the bombproof chamber - all surfaces covered with charred destroyed shit and black soot and who knows what toxic mess.

[SweetT]

Originally Posted by sicone

Sacramento County Coroners office...

Was a workout on the mind for sure

The guy I worked for was also the county coroner but it was a small county so I am sure we did not see near as much as you....but it is surprising what humans can do to each other thats for sure.


--T

[gornyhuy]

Originally Posted by gornyhuy

My first "real" job ever was working in an explosive test chamber for a navy research lab. 90% of it was cool as shit, and the pay was great for a high school student, but then a couple times a week I had to go clean the bombproof chamber - all surfaces covered with charred destroyed shit and black soot and who knows what toxic mess.

BTW the 'chamber' was bigger than most people's houses inside.

[Sarah_Jayne]

Cleaning a movie theatre could get pretty gross at times. Especially when we had kid films. During Toy Story we had at least one kid piss down the aisles a day. I will always remember the parent that we heard tell her kid to take his pants down and pee right there in the row but to aim for the drain.

The one I hated the most was over the phone magazine renewals..just felt really dirty and not least because of the office we did it from which was a skanky side door entrance office on a crap street in London.