I don't generally make topics but I thought of some of my worst jobs and kinda wondered what the worst job the other forum members have had. Probably the worst job I ever had was a janitorial job cleaning houses and apartments, average pay but the job just didn't fit me.

likewise, I did janitorial work. $25/hr, isn't bad but you can only clean so many houses a day. it got old way fast. Especially when you have to clean places like palette factories, where everything is covered in 1/2" of sawdust, and the company wouldn't pay to get their floors bufered and a new layer of varnish put down, so the beige linoleum was basically a dull gray/black, and not even soaking it in pure ammonia would dislodge the dirt.

Phone salesman... one word, Don't do it... oh well three words then..

Sitting in a basement dialing numbers to people who all they want is live their life and NOT being bothered by some fake-kind attitude that tries to sell them stuff they really don't want nor need isn't the best job I've had..
And the worst thing, no succesfull sales = no pay.

Just thought I'd necro this thread and see if anybody around here wanted to chime in about their most loathed jobs.

It has been quite a while since I created this theead so my most hated job has changed. I worked for Glad manufacturing as a temporary employee for two and a half years.

The factory was hot all year round and the full time employees treat you like crap because you're considered disposable. You get to stack cases of trash bags for 12 hours straight four days per week and get paid about $8.00 per hour. The job isn't horribly demaning physically but the environment is depressing and the other temp employees are miserable.

Out of more than 70 temporary employees, I was there longer than any other temp after about a year and a half because everyone else had quit and been replaced. I hated working for Staffmark at Glad because you got treated like human garbage and were constantly reminded where the door was if you didn't like something.

Oh and the icing on the cake? You miss more than three days in around six months and you're gone. No sick time and you get three days of vacation per year.

So? Anybody else want to rant about a crappy job?

Not anymore XD

What do you mean?

I used to be a mall security guard. It was horrible

People scream at you when you tell them they are breaking the rules, and I once got a hotdog thrown at me, a lost little girl puked on me, and a dog peed on my shoe!

Because?

I don't know. The job I have isn't difficult. It's very easy. Except for the customers. and the mnagement. And the cashiers who never listen.

Yup. It sounds like a walk in the park

And the shoplifters...money problems...the fact that I don't get paid enough to eat half the time.... OH! we cn't take breaks, either. We're supposed to, but if the lines get long, there's no one else to help the cashier from getting mauled by customers. So, if we're there for a 13+ hour shift, the longest break we get is long enough to sit down, use the bathroom, and walk back.

That sucks. How do you have the patience for that?!

His name is Snuggles. He occasionally needs food, and sometimes diapers XD

Kids can change your life, and give you a reason to put up with all the [censored]

You work for a great cause

Yeah I'll get to know about the joys of parenthood soon enough. My wife is due in 7 months.

O.O CONGRATS!

Start buying diapers NOW.

Congrats kiln, I'm happy for ya

Thanks guys. I'm sure it'll be an adventure.

As soon as you run out of diapers, it will be XD

And expect to be up at 3 am with a screaming infant

Maybe we shouldn't be talking about parenting in the "Worst Jobs" thread XD

TO THE COFFEE SHOP!

Not long after uni, I got a job packing metal fittings into hessian sacks. I think a little bit of me died with each piece I packed. Still, it did pay.
Just.

Disposing of corpses for the mafia. That job sucked.

Wait a minute.

Actually, just pretend you didn't read that...

Read what?

Atta girl.

Testing light fittings on an assembly line. If I got an electric shock when I plugged them in, they were rejected.

It wasn't supposed to work that way, but nobody had done the safety test on my equipment, or that would been rejected instead.

Oh my god!!!!

And it wasn't that wimpy 110-volt US stuff, this was full-fat European 240-volt (with extra smoke).

Of course XD

Just looking at everyone else's experiences... I can't complain.

Sure you can!

Can't believe I never mentioned the job that still causes me to break out in... something or other.

Working the serving line at the residence hall cafteria at the university.

The pay was below minimum wage- the hours were awful- the students (who paid like a 1.85 to get in and could go through the line as often as they wanted) all asked "Is that all you get?", plus I liked having actual hair instead of a crew-cut- which was REQUIRED. The one job I preferred was considered punishment duty- washing up the pots and pans.

I lasted a week and half. It was then that I came to realize- "Yes- there actually IS a job I am too good for." I also vowed to never work in the "food service" industry again.

Yep. I worked maintance before. When people asked me what I did, I always sugar-coat it with "I am a custodial engeneer."

Haha. But it paid good enough though. I was the highest paid employee in that area.

Barbacking is kinda tough. You run alcohol from the back to the front through throngs of drunk people. Then when you get behind the bar, these same drunk people don't understand that you aren't a bartender and will try to place orders with you. You can a) avoid eye contact act like you're a bartender except you don't pour their drink because you can't or c) point to the real bartender. Whatever option you choose, people get mad because they don't understand that somebody has the job of keeping the bar stocked, and there is no possible way that you're not a bartender.

Plus cleaning puke sucks. And your weekends are shot.

That sounds awful, Dantrag.

I'm waiting for Kiln and Acadian to tell us the horror stories of moderating a forum.

Well aside from the ancient ritual and blood sacrifice (similar to the joining in Dragon Age) it isn't that bad.

Was there chanting? I bet there was chanting.

This forum is easy to moderate. There are other forums out there filled with trolls and x-phobes (you name it, someone hates and fears it and thusly cannot resist any opportunity to slander it). Not just in the regular forum-goers, but staff members as well. I was a moderator once on another forum, and eventually resigned due to the latter.

It was that bad? Wow

Yeah I've moderated a few forums and this forum is probably the easiest one because people here are respectful to each other and can disagree without fighting.

I'm a member of only one other forum that gets along so well and I think that really says something about the members and staff.

Also, Liz: There was chanting.

Sweeet.

I've moderated a forum before. It was easier than this one because it was dead. XD

I wanna be a moderator


Liz, it will be easy moderating that dead forum until it turns into a zombie

When I STARTED it was pretty happening. (I can't think of.. oh. active. Active would have been a better choice.) But once facebook came out, we all added each other on there. There was like...20 of us.

Is being a mod fun?

Nobody ever did anything. Any disagreements were taken to a private chat and since most of us were good friends, worked out privately. The owner had strict rules about that.. The only bad thing was the occasional troll/spambot. That only happened 3 or 4 times.

This has been fun. At first I thought that I didn’t really have any bad employment situations to share. Then I realized that they were all pretty bad in one way or another. Let’s start at the beginning.

When I was little we lived in the country. There was a big field between our house and the neighbor on that side. One year he decided to grow potatoes. He paid us cash to pick rocks up out of the field before he planted. 25 cents per 5 gallon bucket. Now we (the kids around my age) were way too small to drag a bucket full of rocks, so we would pick up all that we could carry and run them back to the buckets on the edge of the field, then run back out to get more rocks. After we got paid the older kids (ages about 10-12 years old I guess) would come over to where we had collapsed under the bushes after getting a drink straight out of the garden hose and sell us candy bars and sodas that they had likely swiped from their parents. At that time you could get a Coke or two candy bars and a pack of gum for a quarter. We would all put our quarters together to buy a Coke to share from those swindlers. It worked out great for a while though since none of us was allowed to have Coke. Then the neighbor realized that the big kids were sneaking over at night and throwing the rocks back into the field so that we little ones could keep earning quarters.

Also I should mention that while we were running all over the place with our shirts full of rocks the neighbor’s beagle would occasionally get loose and try to chase us down for the purpose of humping. That was an overly friendly dog, and what a stink on him. Poor thing couldn’t help the stink. But good grief, what a leg hound.

Anyway after the harvest there were still too many potatoes in the ground for the neighbor’s liking, so he had another job for us 5 to 7 year olds. For every bushel of potatoes we picked up, we could run home with as many as we could carry in our hands. That worked out to about three potatoes per bushel. So I have actually worked for small potatoes.

Grits. . .

I second that. Lol. At least there were no dogs where I worked.

I did construction work a couple of times and while it pays good, the work is extremely difficult. I would always come home so sore after work that all I wanted to do was lay down and sleep. I'd wake up and go back in for another day of hard labor with my back, arms, and legs still hurting from the day before.

It also didn't help that it was 100 degrees outside so I was sweating like crazy and had a hell of a sun burn.

That's one of the cutest stories I've ever heard!