Worst job you ever had

[Dungannon]

I was a telemarketer for 2 weeks once. Only job I've ever been fired from and the only type of job I'd refuse to go back to.

 

[EricNoah]

A few bad ones...

Bus-boy in an all-you can eat restaurant.

Dried cars at a car wash.

 

[alsih2o]

best and worst- working at a reptile shop.

worked for a fellow who owned a reptile pet store and wholesaler of reptiles. no puppies, kitties or birdies. just lots of pretty frogs, huge snakes, multicolored lizards and ancient looking tortoises.

i learned a lot, got to see some amazing things and got peed on, pooped on and bitten by everything you can imagine.

the pay was low, i worked 6 days a week, 10-12 hours a day, the customers were either rude or freaky and i would do it again in a heartbeat

we also got called by the police several times to wrangle some critters here and there.

 

[Mystery Man]

Cleaning smegma from geldings at the race track.

Okay I never held that job, but its an actual job.

Worst job for me was a telemarketing outfit fow a few months to tide me over until I could get a better one.

 

[Dimwhit]

*telemarketer hawking meat filled refridgerators*

No #@*$ Way!! I was the guy they sent to the house to sell the meat-filled freezers after a telemarketer set up the appointment! Too funny.

That, by the way, was my worst job. I'm not a salesman. 3 1/2 months in college, and I had 1 sale. Nothing like going to someone's house "for only an hour" (more like 3-4) to sell them frozen gourmet meats and other groceries--a 6-month supply no less. "Oh, no where to put all the food? Funny enough, we sell refrigerators and freezers, commercial quality. Will that be a check or credit card?" Of course, the freezers were $1500-$2000. I have to admit, though, the meat was amazing, and I'd kill for one of the freezers. But definitely the worst job I've ever had.

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

I worked there as well, for about a week and a half. The thing that made me quit was, after I helped a customer choose a gift for someone that he was quite happy with, my manager told me "Always show them something $25 or more first." Sorry. No.

I quit because they made me work doing inventory till 4 am for 3 nights during my college final exams and when I tried to explain to them that working till 4 am during exams was not a good thing, they informed me they would not make an exception for anyone.

 

[Silver Moon]

For me it was working as a financial analyst for a multi-hospital system. The job itself turned out to be more basic accounting than actual analysis, dull but do-able. The problem was the supervisor - a major control freak who trusted nobody ever. Every day he would do a walk between 8:00 and 8:10 AM to make sure everyone was in their assigned work location, and again from 4:20 to 4:30 PM to make sure that nobody left early. Over half the times when you came back from the bathroom there would be a yellow post-it from him saying "Please see me." And whenever I worked off site he'd call several times to make sure I was putting in a full day's work. This is not the way to tread salaried professionals. It was a huge contrast to the job I had before that, where I was a regional manager, traveled to multiple sites whenever I wanted to and made my own schedule, checking in with my supervisor once or twice a month.

 

[pogre]

One summer in college I used a gas-powered pressure steam cleaner to clean out milk trucks for a food distributor. Not pleasant.

 

[Buttercup]

Waiting tables in a coffee shop/lunch place wasn't so great. The pay was pathetic, and the tips were lousy. After I had been there for about three weeks, some jerky customer grabbed my backside while I was taking his order. I walked away from the table and quit on the spot.

The other lousy job was selling shoes in a JCPenney in a farming community. I can't tell you how many farmers came in with manure covered boots and expected me to take their shoes off. Yeah, Like I'm gonna touch that.

 

[der_kluge]

I'm fairly fortunate with my jobs, since I didn't work until my junior year in college. I like many worked at Wal-Mart. Typically, college students work in the actual departments, and high school students work as cashiers. So, as a college guy, I worked in the paint/hardware department. Didn't know jack about paint or hardware, but I sure did learn a lot. That was kind of fun, mixing paint, and helping people navigate the hundreds of screws and bolts that we sold.
Later, they moved me to household chemicals/paper goods, which was great since no one ever bothered me with questions (what kind of questions do people have about bleach, anyway?), so that job was primarily just finding boxes of toilet paper and paper towels in the back and stocking them. I think that department was intended to be one of the more cushy in the store, since the guy that was in that department before me moved into management.

I then transferred to the Wal-Mart corporate office after I graduated, and that's when the suckiness began. Mandatory 9 hours days, amd like Silver Moon, I had this ass of a boss (he was actually our director) that would scroll the aisles at 7:30. And, according to him, "being here at 7:30 doesn't mean that you're booting up your PC, it means you're sitting at your desk, 100% writing code". Nice. That culture there promotes s. Amazingly, I endured the place for 3.5 years, which was slightly above the average for programmers there.