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re: What is The Worst Job You've Ever Had?
Posted on 4/9/25 at 4:41 pm to MorbidTheClown
Posted on 4/9/25 at 4:41 pm to MorbidTheClown
My worst job turned into a pretty decent job.
For a college summer job I got on with an industrial contractor doing work in a chemical plant. They stuck me on the sandblasting crew as a helper. Hot, sweaty, stinky work. But after two weeks they switched me to be a gopher for the job superintendent. I had a bicycle with a big basket and they gave me a walkie talkie. I would shuttle small parts and supplies to different crews working in the different areas of the plant. For larger stuff I had a pickup truck. Three or four times a week I’d have to go off site to pickup supplies or parts. And half the time I was idle and could hang out in the A/C in the job site trailer.
For a college summer job I got on with an industrial contractor doing work in a chemical plant. They stuck me on the sandblasting crew as a helper. Hot, sweaty, stinky work. But after two weeks they switched me to be a gopher for the job superintendent. I had a bicycle with a big basket and they gave me a walkie talkie. I would shuttle small parts and supplies to different crews working in the different areas of the plant. For larger stuff I had a pickup truck. Three or four times a week I’d have to go off site to pickup supplies or parts. And half the time I was idle and could hang out in the A/C in the job site trailer.
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Posted on 4/9/25 at 4:49 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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hauling hay
I always liked hauling hay. I always worked with other school friends and while it was hard work, we also had a good time.
The only time I hated it was when we hauled some odd hybrid hay and the bales weighed about four times as much as the coastal Bermuda bales. I can't remember the name of the hybrid, but it was some type of sudangrass or sorghum hybrid.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 4:56 pm to chinhoyang
I never had a decent job for as long as I have been alive.
Currently work IT but the worst job was front desk at this awful hotel. I would be alone at the hotel at the desk and have to check in 75 people and answer all phone calls by myself.
I have applied to 3-4 thousand jobs over the last few years with only a few interviews.
Currently work IT but the worst job was front desk at this awful hotel. I would be alone at the hotel at the desk and have to check in 75 people and answer all phone calls by myself.
I have applied to 3-4 thousand jobs over the last few years with only a few interviews.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 4:57 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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That’s why you do consulting baw.
I thought you were in public accounting, not doing a cushy consulting desk job.
How can you say you’re in public accounting if you do no book work or taxes for anyone?
Posted on 4/9/25 at 5:05 pm to MorbidTheClown
Decided that I wanted an easy job one summer in college—worked as a day-camp counselor for the city summer camp supervising thirteen 8-year olds…all of whom had been taken off their Ritalin for the summer. It was hell on earth.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:40 pm to cubsfinger
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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
but how many ducks was ya pulling baw?? I know that's some (high paying baws work right there!)
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:53 pm to MorbidTheClown
Busting out refractory in a cat cracker in Phillips 66 in Sweeney TX.
Had to crawl through a small tube, into an even smaller tube, squeeze through a passageway and then down into a tornado. All the while there is this coal black stuff that gets on everything and jagged metal that tears at your tyvex. In fresh air, jackhammering and grinding. And then sometimes the air would get cut off, or the power, and you'd just be there in the dark.
It was wild
Had to crawl through a small tube, into an even smaller tube, squeeze through a passageway and then down into a tornado. All the while there is this coal black stuff that gets on everything and jagged metal that tears at your tyvex. In fresh air, jackhammering and grinding. And then sometimes the air would get cut off, or the power, and you'd just be there in the dark.
It was wild
Posted on 4/9/25 at 8:52 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
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I didn’t mind it but I jacked off boar hogs
The winner and it wasn’t even a worst job for him.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:21 pm to MorbidTheClown
Worst job was I worked a few months on a well service rig. Favorite job was working on drilling rigs.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:23 pm to MorbidTheClown
Bacteriology lab at East Jeff Hospital.
Arrived each morning to two dozen small gray containers of poo from patients waiting for me to smear on agar plates.
Disgusting to think about now, but I needed the paycheck and health insurance.
Arrived each morning to two dozen small gray containers of poo from patients waiting for me to smear on agar plates.
Disgusting to think about now, but I needed the paycheck and health insurance.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:25 pm to Tigertittie
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Bro... c'mon, you've got to have some good stories. Share
Also, is it possible to get tired of seeing titties?
It was about an 11plus hour shift and my job was to continuously walk around. There was no break or lunch. 7pm to about 6-7am. My feet would hurt pretty bad by the end. It only paid around 100-200 per night depending on crowd. The owner was super strict but rarely there. Everyone still walked on egg shells knowing he could come in at any minute.
I only worked there 3 weeks in 2003, and another 3 weeks in 2004 in between jobs. There was a heart surgeon that would go in often, a cop that would go in there and get wasted all the time. One guy would always fall asleep midnight on Fridays LOL. A lot of the dancers would drink and do drugs on the shift. But I got to know a lot about that scene, met some cool girls. On a Friday night they might have close to 100 girls working and at the time it had just opened. They mostly liked me and I could go in their dressing room when I wanted. Having 4 sexy nekkid girls kissing and grinding on you at the same time is some fun shite. And this was nothing they were getting paid to do either . But the low pay and work demands was too much.
That place eventually changed owners again and closed for prostitution years later. Even when it was thriving it's definitely a tough life for everyone in it.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 10:27 pm to MorbidTheClown
Full service gas pumper at 15. Smelled like gas all the time. People would pull in for air, window cleaning and oil check and get no gas. Customers were dicks.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 10:30 pm to MorbidTheClown
Bailing and stacking square bails of hay.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 11:06 pm to MorbidTheClown
Construction helper during the summers as a teenager. Swamp nuts by 0745. Usually kept a shovel in my hand or moved lumber\bricks all day.
Was good for me but back then it sucked.
Was good for me but back then it sucked.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 11:42 pm to MorbidTheClown
Was a senior in college during Covid. Got furloughed from my part time job at a physical therapy clinic since I was a non-essential worker, so I decided to go work as a fry cook at a very popular bar in Starkville.
We had to wear masks—in a kitchen with no AC—In the summer—in Starkville Mississippi. Making $7.50 an hour.
After about 4 months that I finally thought to myself “what the hell am I doing?” and used savings to pay for my last 3 months of rent and fun
We had to wear masks—in a kitchen with no AC—In the summer—in Starkville Mississippi. Making $7.50 an hour.
After about 4 months that I finally thought to myself “what the hell am I doing?” and used savings to pay for my last 3 months of rent and fun
Posted on 4/10/25 at 12:02 am to MorbidTheClown
Parts line at Genuine Auto Parts.$2.65/hr. Dad made me to teach me a lesson. Thanks pop.
Posted on 4/10/25 at 1:07 am to MorbidTheClown
Machinist at a place where they rebuilt industrial electrical motors.
No ac, nothing to move the air thru the shop, antique equipment that had been crashed every conceivable way, parts had .0005 of an inch tolerance that their machines couldn't hold, so you had to get em as close as you were comfortable with then polish them to size, shiit pay, incompetent management, just everything was shite.
It did make me a lot better at my job, but I don't even put that job on my resume. I don't want a prospective employer to know I would put up with the kind of bullshite.
No ac, nothing to move the air thru the shop, antique equipment that had been crashed every conceivable way, parts had .0005 of an inch tolerance that their machines couldn't hold, so you had to get em as close as you were comfortable with then polish them to size, shiit pay, incompetent management, just everything was shite.
It did make me a lot better at my job, but I don't even put that job on my resume. I don't want a prospective employer to know I would put up with the kind of bullshite.
This post was edited on 4/10/25 at 1:23 am
Posted on 4/10/25 at 1:11 am to TheHarahanian
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In college, digging under cracked foundations to jack them up. As in digging with shovels, deep enough under slabs to pour a little concrete on rebar, then jack the corner of the slab up until it meets up with the rest of the foundation, then adding permanent support to keep it there.
I was a supervisor for a company that did that. I wasn't even digging and it sucked, the owner was full on insane. Hardly the shittiest I've ever had though.
The owner, after he got comfortable around me made one of my responsibilities procuring hookers for him, among many other weird and questionable things.
One of the hookers I found on Craigslist for him ended up being hired as his personal assistant, and the last I heard he elevated her to his business manager.
She got him audited by the IRS, but she blows him on demand, so I guess he's got his priorities in the right place
This post was edited on 4/10/25 at 1:30 am
Posted on 4/10/25 at 6:16 am to Shanegolang
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but how many ducks was ya pulling baw??
It was more like Cornish hens. I was a B class at the time and only pulling 22/hr. This sadly wasn’t but 10 years ago.
Posted on 4/10/25 at 6:25 am to MorbidTheClown
For a brief time as a teen I had a job at a sea cumber processing plant in Alaska. Those things were gross. But apparently some sort of delicacy in Japan.
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