re: What is The Worst Job You've Ever Had?

Worked one summer for my dad who was an AC repair man. I had to dodge wrenches being thrown at me and endure some emasculating verbiage.

I used to deliver frozen euthanized animals from a vet to a disposal facility. Would just pile them up in the bed of my truck. They were in trash bags but after a 20 minute drive in the summer…kind of gross. Sometimes a dog leg or something would poke out of the bag while driving. I always wondered what a cop would say if I got pulled over.

I stacked 60lb bags of horse feed one summer at a manufacturing plant that cooked it. That summer gave me an excellent appreciation for an education. Coming home smelling of dog food sucked.

it was a joke targeted to a specific group of posters.

One summer in college I worked for a fireworks distributor. The summer started by unloading multiple 18 wheelers chock full of fireworks. Then in mid June, we were putting up those huge tents and delivering cases of fireworks. Mid-July was taking the tents back down. Miserable job with some very low educated people.

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I used to deliver frozen euthanized animals from a vet to a disposal facility.

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this might be a winner.

Managed a lab in El Dorado. The lab should have been shut down. There wasn't a single thing the lab was doing that was correct. Quality control was faked, no quality assurance, billing was using the wrong codes, lab was overstaffed by 50%, lunch breaks were in the lab so they could all go to the breakroom and watch a hour long soap opera on their 30 min lunch break, all but 2 of the techs either did not care about putting out the correct results or weren't intelligent enough to know better (seriously). My peers were dunces and the administration's IQ was exceptionally low. Women using the bathroom in the breakroom didn't close the door so they wouldn't miss their soap opera. I had to fire one because she stunk and patients complained,. even after I warned her. One of the pathologist friends inspected our lab and I expected it to be shut down (2 weeks after I got there). He gave it a 100% score. I told him he didn't help us at all and pointed out an obvious lie my techs told him. I had to implement 2 federal mandated programs (medical necessity) so docs blamed me and I was gone within the year. Thank the Lord.

Bailing hay was probably toughest.

Sign holder at the highway department the summer before I went to college in 2006. $6.25 an hour.

100+ degree heat in the middle of the Ozark Mountains with zero breeze. In the more rural spots, I'd see maybe 4 or 5 cars over a 10-hour shift. No headphones allowed while working. Just standing on black top in the sweltering heat and staring straight ahead for hours at a time for a $350 check every 2 weeks.

Turrible.

My worst days all revolve around fricking with hay. Throwing bales when it's hot as balls in confined dusty spaces is a terrible life with terrible pay.

As far as a summer job goes, I worked a couple summers in college assembling, disassembling, and moving temporary school units. The work was tough, but the pay was good, as we were knocking down 60 hour weeks, hotels and meals paid for, and getting overtime. I'd make enough in the summer to pay for half my tuition and like 70-75% of my college living expenses.