Ugali 0 #1 May 2, 2006 personally, kitchen bitch in a casino. floor was so greasy i couldnt stand up half the time, roaches everywhere, and the mess that i turned up to every shift was unbelievable. crap wages too. cleaner in a retirement home was pretty awfull as well. Tom, Tom Tom, Tommy, Tom Love Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thegreekone 0 #2 May 2, 2006 telemarketer, definitely. (summer job after HS) LASTED 2 days Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydive4u2 0 #3 May 2, 2006 shoveling dog shit at a Vets office.I was 14. Fast EddieLet's have some FUN !!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RkyMtnHigh 0 #4 May 2, 2006 I was in my teens, working at Godfather's Pizza, not old enough to serve beer, so they wouldn't let me work the register. I had to wash dishes which meant scraping melted, wet, stringy cheese from the plates and scrubbing longlasting lipstick from the plastic glasses before putting them into the steam dishwasher. Blaaaaaaaak! _________________________________________ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Icon134 0 #5 May 2, 2006 I laid sod for a few summers while in High School... it is very dirty, hot, and tiring work... and I wasn't paid very well... Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingnut 0 #6 May 2, 2006 high speed internet (cable) tech support...... ______________________________________ "i have no reader's digest version" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jamdiablo 0 #7 May 2, 2006 Either Dish Bitch in a kitchen where the drains constantly backed up so we were walking in 2+ inches of water all the time.... or painting houses, inside and out. Inside sucked when people changed their mind on what colors to paint the room (spent 16 hours in 1 room!!!) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ltdiver 3 #8 May 2, 2006 16 years old. Factory worker unstacking cuts of 2x4's, lining them up on an automatic sander/feeder, then stacking them back on a pallet in a pre-determined order. First day on the job I was amazed at the amount of black dust in my nose and ears...and I think I lost 1/2 my hearing. The other 1/2 of my hearing I'm losing on this skydiving thing. ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rookie120 0 #9 May 2, 2006 Maintenance man in a hotel. Shitty pay and assignments. I wanted to drink bleach every day that I was there.If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #10 May 2, 2006 My parents have a horse farm. So........I grew up shoveling shit, getting hay bales from the fields and stacking them in the barn (Hot nasty work), and having to feed and water them every day. Then I worked in a grocery store. That wasn't bad. Didn't pay much but food and beer were ALWAYS free. Then I was a QA guy at an auto auction. I inspected the cars after they went through the detail shop. That pretty much sucked. Delivering pizzas was cool. Got paid decently and made great tips. Food was free as long as I made it myself. Lawn care was OK. Made decent money and riding from one job to the next all day wasn't bad. Laying sod sucked though. Hated new yards. Then I went in the Air Force. It entertained me for almost 10 years before I couldn't stand it anymore. Then I was a computer geek. That got old old old. Listening to morons on the phone that made 10K more than me and I had to tell THEM how to set up their routers. Air Marshal after that. That was sorta cool but being a professional passenger had a limited amount of entertainment. Got bored and moved onto a job in Iraq. I love this job. Depending on who is in charge on any given day. I got paid to basically go on a 12 hour sight seeing tour yesterday. I haven't had any jobs that were really awful. They all taught me something.......even if it was just that I DIDN'T want to do that for a living. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ugali 0 #11 May 2, 2006 QuoteMaintenance man in a hotel. Shitty pay and assignments. I wanted to drink bleach every day that I was there. Tom, Tom Tom, Tommy, Tom Love Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MF42 0 #12 May 2, 2006 Spent a summer in an iron foundry. 110 degrees outside, so the temperature inside was at least 130, usually more. Hot, filthy, toxic, dark, noisy, dangerous work. My usual assignment was cleaning the shaker: All the very large iron parts (some up to 25 tons) were cast in sand. When the casting cooled enough to be solid, the bin holding the sand and the casting was moved over the uphill end of the shaker, then the bottom of the bin opened and dumped out the tons of hot sand and cherry-red iron. The shaker was a steel grate, about 50' long by 20' wide, sunken 3' below floor level, built at a slight incline. The grate would constantly vibrate in order to shake excess sand, rebar, and other debris off the castings as the whole mess gradually slid down the incline to where various machines could pick the casting up. My job was to gather up all the red-hot pieces of rebar and other chunks of iron that were too big to fall through the grate. While the whole system was running, I would hop down into the shaker, pick up the trash, chuck it over the side, then hop back out. It was kind of fun riding the "waves" when a fresh casting would hit the shaker. I had gloves similar to high quality oven mitts, and I would usually melt four pairs in an average day. I liked watching the smoke trail that a piece of iron would leave as it arced away from my hand. I went home rusted like the Tin Man everyday. The godawful heat guaranteed a constant coat of sweat, and the wind from all the fans kicked up iron dust that stuck to the sweat. Sweat + iron = rust. Being a stupid 18-year-old at the time, I thought the extreme conditions were something to be kinda proud of. I only really began to wonder about long-term effects one day when I blew my nose and saw black snot on the tissue. It was a good motivator to get back in school. Matt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diablopilot 2 #13 May 2, 2006 Don't want to go there really, except to say it had really great points and really shitty points.....made the decision to leave difficult.---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bozo 0 #14 May 2, 2006 I spent the summer of 73 as a Union Pacific Railroad section worker "gandy dancer"...changing rail and rail ties. I was in pretty good shape after just having left the Navy but that job almost kilt me. The first day on the job I changed 8 ties...the foreman said youre gonna have to do twelve, which I did. bozo bozo Pain is fleeting. Glory lasts forever. Chicks dig scars. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mindcake 0 #15 May 2, 2006 When I was 14 evrey day after school and every weekend I would get picked up and driven 1 hour to a forest where I had to throw and stack 10 cord of wood in the back of a 2 1/2 ton stake truck, after we would have to deliver the wood then I would get driven home.....sounds like fun for $15 huh??? Don´t belive the hype Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #16 May 2, 2006 QuoteDon't want to go there really, except to say it had really great points and really shitty points..... Yeah..........being a male prostitute is like that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zipp0 1 #17 May 2, 2006 Rosy O'Donnell's personal gynecologist Zipp0 -------------------------- Chuck Norris doesn't do push-ups, he pushes the Earth down. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vertifly 0 #18 May 2, 2006 golf caddy, sheet rock, pizza hut dishwasher, surf/ski shop, marines (harrier aircraft mech), radio shack, fitness instructor, destop support, hardware engineer, landlord, datacenter manager... pizza hut dishwasher was the worst followed closely by radio shack. it is the corporate retail thing that sucks for me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squirrel 0 #19 May 2, 2006 asbestos abatement...worked on the "prep" crew 3 weeks(non hazmat), then went into the "removal" (hazmat, full resperator, suit) area...lasted 1 hour...walked out. ________________________________ Where is Darwin when you need him? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fireflytx 0 #20 May 2, 2006 Working in a swimming pool snack bar, it was GROSS!"Well behaved women rarely make history" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy_Copland 0 #21 May 2, 2006 Easy, working at a supermarket stacking shelves. After a couple of months i just stopped working and kinda drifted around witha bit of cardboard in my hand to make it look like i was working, then the boss threatened to take me outside because i pushed back when he had a go at me (he was really in my face, spitting away while shouting.) Took him up on the offer and went outside, he said sorry and i took my work top of threw it on the ground in style and quit. That job sucked so much its beyond the descriptive words of man. 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
briguy 0 #22 May 2, 2006 i worked in a packaging plant that processed mainly dry soup mixes. the dry soup ould come in and machines would put it in one of those neato envelopes. the machines weren't perfect, sometimes they'd put too much soup or too little soup in a packet, so my job was to rip open the soup packets and dump them into a bin. doesn't sound too bad except that's ALL i did. i think i was 14 at the time. the conditions sucks. dry soup was always floating in the air. i'd blow my nose and it would come out soup. being a foos processing plant, it had to be pretty clean, so there was always somebody mopping the floor somewhere. well, you walk on a damp floor and the walk on a some soup powder and it sticks to your shoes. by the end of the day, i'd be an inch or so taller due to the dried soup on my shoes. taking a shower at the endo f the day wasn'treally a relief either because i'd wash the soup out of my hair and the steam made it smell like a hot soup shower. i still can't eat onion soup to this day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #23 May 2, 2006 Well the wurst job I ever 'ad was collecting Winston Churchill's bogies...... (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpjunkie2004 0 #24 May 2, 2006 When I was in college, I worked in the cafeteria. The worst job ever was the working the conveyor belt. Students place their used trays on this conveyor belt which delivered them to me. I had to sort the dishes, silverware, and dispose of the half-eaten food. Sometimes, they vomited on their trays which really sucked, but the worst was when they spit their tobacco in a glass and crammed a a bunch of napkins down inside the glass after they were done spitting. There was only one way to get the napkins out of the glass quickly. It was so disgusting!Jump, Land, Pack, Repeat... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
waltappel 1 #25 May 2, 2006 Nurse. On the plus side, being in a field dominated by women really rocks. The downside is the sights and smells and the stress. Walt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites