Recreation Wost Job you Ever had!

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  1. neoblacklady

    neoblacklady ~*Tpyo Godedses*~

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    Yeah well just wanted to know...who of you all had a job and you hated sooo bad.. thatyou wanted to quit but you couldnt!@!!!!
    that is my job now. :) i dont like it ..i hate it.. i cant keep sitting around :(
    So now i have find another job so I won't feel all pissy like. I am glad and yes lucky to have a job b/c others don't have one..and need it. Id rather shovel cow poo tbh. Anywho what about you guys n gals? I wanna know!!
     
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  2. Dante

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    Well.. I've only had one job, so technically speaking I guess it could be considered the worst job I've ever had. :eek: Though, at the same time, is the best. I get decent money, compared to some of my friends, though it's killer on my body, so that sucks. But, alas, oh well.
     
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  3. Dilandau

    Dilandau Highly Disturbed

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    Well, when I was sixteen, my dad had me work with him for the summer doing yard maintainence for minimum wage. x_x That was by far the worst job I've ever had. It was the lowest wage I've ever gotten, the most uncomfortable work (because of the damn heat - spent the entire day dirty and sweaty, blegh), and I couldn't just quit because, well, it was my dad.

    Of course, I also had a job at a greeting card store that entailed some very annoying customer service moments - I swear, nothing will make you sympathize with entry-level cashier workers like being one. Overall I enjoyed the job, since it was pretty easy, pretty casual... but the idiot customers really got on my nerves something fierce. XD I'm not cut out to work with people.

    EDIT: I forgot, I also worked as an assistant at a non-profit group benefitting kids with sickle cell anemia. I hated doing the filing there. Most boring work I've done.
     
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  4. Novus

    Novus Gone

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    Every job I've ever worked has been with the same company.
    Two summers ago, I worked the worst job in the entire plant. It's funny, because my dad's one of the managers, and I applied for the job super-early so I wouldn't get a crappy position. You'd think between family connections, weighted applcation blanks, interviews and early appying I could have landed something better. All my dad's coworkers said he was an *** for sticking me there.
    What did I do, you ask? Well, the company processes fresh vegetables and freezes them for shipping either to restaurants, other companies or retail. My job was working with the unprocessed beans that came in fresh from the fields. My duties included pulling rocks, stones, bugs, rotten beans and dead frogs and snakes out of the beans as they came from the truck. Also, I had to clean the cutting machines from underneath, which meant I was constantly soaked to the bone with water and cleaning fluid, and was perpetually covered in dirt, sludge, gravel and bean leaves and stems. Also, this job was really hard on the back. I'm a pretty big guy, and I had to fit in some tiny spaces in order to be at all effective. And it's really frustrating when you finish cleaning the machines just in time to start over again because they get covered in crap so fast. Also, I worked the night shift. This meant that even though it was summer I was constantly freezing, because a lack of the sun plus a coat of water means cold workers. And on my days off (which I got two a week, so that wasn't so bad) I still had to stay on night-shift schedule, which meant I pretty much could not do anything with my time off because I would wake up every day around 6 or 7 pm, having slept the entire day. And I couldn't stand the sight of light by the end of the summer. Oh yeah, and this job was in the noisiest part of the facility, which meant I had to wear some severe ear protection for safety reasons, and that I had to shout at my coworkers to be heard, and any chance of conversation during the shift was impossible. 12 hour shifts, too. Pay wasn't bad, at $8.50/h, but it's definitely not great.
    And then last summer, I worked in the packaging department, which was much, much better. However, this section of the plant has to be kept at like 4 degrees Celsius or the vegetables will start to thaw and have to be thrown out. So, I had to go to every shift wearing a sweater or something like that, which really isn't fun when it's the summer. And then I had to wear coveralls that couldn't leave the plant because outside clothes might contaminate the product (and this would be very, very bad for business, especially with all the American and British orders we filled). My workboots were so large (I wear a size 13 ... so the boots were close to 12 inches long) that I had to take them off before I could pull on the coveralls. All the other workers said I had clown shoes or pontoons, those bastards ... And I always had old Portuguese women with rotting teeth and foul breath yelling at me in Portuguese because they thought I couldn't understand them ... little did they realize that between French and Spanish I knew more or less what they were saying. There were only four people on this job who weren't total asses to me: one guy my age, this nice Chinese woman, one of the machine operators and one of the forklift drivers. This job just really sucked because it was soooooo boring and because of the old Portuguese women (who were all named Maria, I might add). Hours were great, and pay was so-so, so, yeah, it was mostly boredom.
     
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  5. chiquitabanana

    chiquitabanana finally legal

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    I did one of those test study things, were they make you human guinea pigs. anyways. I did it cuz they were paying upwards 270. I hade to take these stupid bloody pills to see if there was weight loss, and i got really sick and threw up alot. it sucked. oh, and my sister had no effects whatsoever. but at least i got better. easy cash. well, sorta.
     
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  6. Novus

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    I always wanted one of those jobs, but I could only find ones that took volunteers ...
     
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  7. chiquitabanana

    chiquitabanana finally legal

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    You have to check at a hospital, they tend to do alot of studies there
     
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  8. Ciel

    Ciel Unoa Freak
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    hmm. taco bell. the place was full of couples working together .. ?? weird it was like a soap opera. and then they had their damn cliques because of that. lover's quarrels and then the younger workers who thought they were so so cool and had these notions that I was some loser and didnt like talking to me on their breaks. I had more fun talking to the middle-aged female workers. at least they had a personality. plus the food made me sick.. but thats something else.

    then corn field work. and evading fungi and large bugs and itchy bushes and walking around wet. well Happy I don't need to do that anymore. now I'm just telling kids to shut up all day.. I'm not sure which job is worse. :p kidding I like what I'm doing now...
     
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  9. Angel from hell

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    Hmmm... tough choice

    Bouncer; kept getting used as a cannon fodder to make there shift easier only to be threatened to have the **** kicked outta me if i came back when they made a mistake on my shifts

    Telemarketer; So many rude people, though suppose it didnt help that my first day was on a sunday & during a football match

    Whatever the hell im doing currently... um... General assistant; Tis the third year round ive been there & the environment just isnt at all healthy, averaging 60 degree's, constant steam/water not good for my old injuries, having to get up at half 4 in the morning last two years... will probably happen this time to when the season kicks in.
     
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