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re: What is The Worst Job You've Ever Had?
Posted on 4/9/25 at 8:51 am to MorbidTheClown
Posted on 4/9/25 at 8:51 am to MorbidTheClown
Back in college I had a buddy who's dad ran a tank cleaning business off Airline Highway. They clean the big tank trailers that 18 wheelers pull. Like this:
It paid $5.50 an hour at a time when minimum wage was $3.35. So it was "good money" to a starving college kid with a penchant for spending all his money in bars trying to chase women.
There are different methods to clean these things, depending on what was in it, and what's going in it next. Most of the time you open the manhole covers on top and drop in the "spinners" (upside down high powered lawn sprinkler looking things) that shoot boiling hot caustic liquid all over the insides. After that you rinse the tank out with a fire hose. Seems not so bad right?
Well, some stuff doesn't come out that easy and you have to climb down in there and scrub, or even worse, scrape with a razor blade, the residue. Remember how I said that the caustic was boiling hot? Well now the tank is a sauna, and you're down in there scrubbing.
And some chemicals are a real bitch to clean. One is some shite that is invisible when it's wet, but shows up when it's dry. So you have to scrub the whole tank, rinse it, dry it, and go see what you missed. It was always a literal rinse and repeat over and over with that shite.
Another chemical that was a bitch is can liner. Did you know that soda cans are lined with a thin film on the inside? Yep. Have you ever seen it come out of a soda can? No? Well, that shite doesn't come out of a tank either.
The last one that was tough was paper whitener. It's mostly titanium oxide I think. It's what makes paper white. You really had to scrub that shite. One night we had a rush job and 4 of us climbed down in there to knock it out. That shite gets all over you. The one white guy (me) and 3 black guys. went in, 4 white guys came out. We were all laughing our asses off. The black guys were saying they were going to go to the bank and get a loan. Exhaustion can bring out some serious laughter.
That was a job that helped convince me to get off my arse and study and graduate.
It paid $5.50 an hour at a time when minimum wage was $3.35. So it was "good money" to a starving college kid with a penchant for spending all his money in bars trying to chase women.
There are different methods to clean these things, depending on what was in it, and what's going in it next. Most of the time you open the manhole covers on top and drop in the "spinners" (upside down high powered lawn sprinkler looking things) that shoot boiling hot caustic liquid all over the insides. After that you rinse the tank out with a fire hose. Seems not so bad right?
Well, some stuff doesn't come out that easy and you have to climb down in there and scrub, or even worse, scrape with a razor blade, the residue. Remember how I said that the caustic was boiling hot? Well now the tank is a sauna, and you're down in there scrubbing.
And some chemicals are a real bitch to clean. One is some shite that is invisible when it's wet, but shows up when it's dry. So you have to scrub the whole tank, rinse it, dry it, and go see what you missed. It was always a literal rinse and repeat over and over with that shite.
Another chemical that was a bitch is can liner. Did you know that soda cans are lined with a thin film on the inside? Yep. Have you ever seen it come out of a soda can? No? Well, that shite doesn't come out of a tank either.
The last one that was tough was paper whitener. It's mostly titanium oxide I think. It's what makes paper white. You really had to scrub that shite. One night we had a rush job and 4 of us climbed down in there to knock it out. That shite gets all over you. The one white guy (me) and 3 black guys. went in, 4 white guys came out. We were all laughing our asses off. The black guys were saying they were going to go to the bank and get a loan. Exhaustion can bring out some serious laughter.
That was a job that helped convince me to get off my arse and study and graduate.
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Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:14 am to SwampCollie
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Worked as shrimp boat deckhand for a few months -- F'n brutal
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:36 am to MorbidTheClown
Cleaning a movie theatre. The shite people leave in there. Free cokes though.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:39 am to MorbidTheClown
I worked in chicken houses as a teen for a family member.
Stupid chickens would knock over a watering system so you would end up with pile of wet rice shavings mixed with chicken shite, we had to shovel and wheel barrel these out.
And walk through picking up the dead chickens every morning.
I've sworn my allergies have been F'ed ever since from breathing all the ammonia.
Stupid chickens would knock over a watering system so you would end up with pile of wet rice shavings mixed with chicken shite, we had to shovel and wheel barrel these out.
And walk through picking up the dead chickens every morning.
I've sworn my allergies have been F'ed ever since from breathing all the ammonia.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:39 am to MorbidTheClown
I didn’t mind it but I jacked off boar hogs as part of my job as a research assistant. Some people find that objectionable.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:41 am to MorbidTheClown
I loaded hay one summer. It sucked. Extreme manual labor.
I checked cotton one summer. This is where you walk fields to see what bugs are on the cotton and then they spray for that. It sucked. Hot and boring as frick.
I chased buggies at a grocery store for three years in HS. Not the worst, but being on the asphalt in july and august was a mofo.
I checked cotton one summer. This is where you walk fields to see what bugs are on the cotton and then they spray for that. It sucked. Hot and boring as frick.
I chased buggies at a grocery store for three years in HS. Not the worst, but being on the asphalt in july and august was a mofo.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:42 am to MorbidTheClown
Electrical at home Depot.
Contractors buy a truckload of receptacles and wiring more than they need and return it. Leaving me with thousands of plates to put back. Can you tell the difference between eggshell and off white? No just look at the UPC or SKU for each one. Then do it again 10,000 more times. Not for ten bucks an hour. Even in 2019.
Contractors buy a truckload of receptacles and wiring more than they need and return it. Leaving me with thousands of plates to put back. Can you tell the difference between eggshell and off white? No just look at the UPC or SKU for each one. Then do it again 10,000 more times. Not for ten bucks an hour. Even in 2019.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 10:19 am to MorbidTheClown
I was a manager at Chick Fil A in college. From the incompetent workers/other managers to dealing with the public in a food setting. Awful.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 10:24 am to MorbidTheClown
Car Salesman. I quit after a month and a half.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 10:53 am to MorbidTheClown
Worked at a tire shop for about a year. Terrible work and shite pay.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 11:50 am to MorbidTheClown
In high school, spent a summer working maintenance at a cemetery which was basically weed eating around headstones from 8-4 every single day.
Made decent money for being 17 but that sucked.
In college, spent a summer working at a warehouse without a/c.
Those 2 jobs made sure I finished college and got a cushy desk job indoors.
Made decent money for being 17 but that sucked.
In college, spent a summer working at a warehouse without a/c.
Those 2 jobs made sure I finished college and got a cushy desk job indoors.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 11:59 am to MorbidTheClown
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But, the worst job ever. I took a job at a Delchamp's store.
Damn Delchamps, I have heard that name in a long time. I had a couple of buddies that worked there in my teenage years in the 90s.
I worked down the street at a rival .. Bruno’s. It was the best funnest job I ever had though.
Is there any Delchamps still around?
Posted on 4/9/25 at 12:01 pm to MorbidTheClown
Bouncer at a popular strip bar. Truly horrific job
Posted on 4/9/25 at 12:08 pm to JEC119
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Delchamps
They've been long gone. The one I remember on Bluebonnet became a Matherne's.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 12:10 pm to MorbidTheClown
Did refinery work for years if that wasn’t bad enough. During that stint, had to climb a 226’ vessel by ladder cage, then pull tools and materials up by rope. As if this isn’t bad enough you had to wear mono goggles, dishwashing gloves as it was in a hydraflouric acid unit. It wa source misery. Then when I got I had to drive from the West Bank to Hammond, so traffic was terrible
Posted on 4/9/25 at 12:22 pm to jeffsdad
A lab for testing oil and/or liquids?
Posted on 4/9/25 at 12:30 pm to MorbidTheClown
Installing residential duct work for a sheet metal company back in the early 70's. Cook in the attics in the summer months or battle cat crap and fleas under houses when installing the boxes and pipe under the house on 2 story ground floors.
Damn attics would get to 120+ every day and my tools would be hot to the touch right out my tool pouch.
Damn attics would get to 120+ every day and my tools would be hot to the touch right out my tool pouch.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 12:30 pm to MorbidTheClown
Unloading trucks for Lowe’s. That shite succkkkeeeed hard. Also had to assemble items to put on the sales floor. Very exhausting work and I lasted 2weeks as a young college aged lad.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 12:31 pm to The Torch
This post was edited on 4/20/25 at 3:08 am
Posted on 4/9/25 at 12:33 pm to MorbidTheClown
psychometrist for DDS in Ouchita parish. Basically if someone wanted a gov check for being mentally disabled anywhere in Ouchita parish I was the guy that assessed them for about a year. I would book maybe 10-12 appts a week and of those dozen appointments I'd be lucky if ONE was legit.
It was trash person after trash person trying to scam the system. People who drove themseleves there testing at the intellectual level of a 4 year old. Kids with a future ahead of them being poorly coached to fail so they could get on the check. One kid that sticks with me was 16, on the football team and from my initial conversation a bright kid. We started the test and he was giving answers that indicated about a 2 year old level of functioning. I stopped and asked him to give a sincere effort but he kept on until I eventually stopped and told him his test was voided. The kinda kid that could have done something but he was born to a garbage family who told him getting on a gov check was the family business... all of those appointments were the same..once I walked into the waiting room and saw the whole family was there... brothers sisters, mom, auntie grandma etc I knew it was about to be some bullshite.
It seriously withered my faith in humanity in a big way and after a bout a year I resigned.
It was trash person after trash person trying to scam the system. People who drove themseleves there testing at the intellectual level of a 4 year old. Kids with a future ahead of them being poorly coached to fail so they could get on the check. One kid that sticks with me was 16, on the football team and from my initial conversation a bright kid. We started the test and he was giving answers that indicated about a 2 year old level of functioning. I stopped and asked him to give a sincere effort but he kept on until I eventually stopped and told him his test was voided. The kinda kid that could have done something but he was born to a garbage family who told him getting on a gov check was the family business... all of those appointments were the same..once I walked into the waiting room and saw the whole family was there... brothers sisters, mom, auntie grandma etc I knew it was about to be some bullshite.
It seriously withered my faith in humanity in a big way and after a bout a year I resigned.
This post was edited on 4/9/25 at 1:37 pm
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