re: What's the shittiest job you've ever had?

First job I had was at Albertsons. Hated every minute of it, but in retrospect I learned a lot about how to deal with people.

Overall I’d had to say the ten months I put in with the maintenance department at Southeast Hospital (the nut hut). The whole atmosphere of the place was depressing as hell. The unhappiest damn group of people I ever dealt with (not the patients). From the top administration down to little ol’ me.

Dan Chase huh?

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Had to detail both of grandfather’s Rolls Royces my first summer home from Cornell twice a week. Just a harrowing experience getting turtle wax all over my timberlands.

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You're one of those fancy lads, aren't you?

Calling random telephone book people for a light bulb manufacturer. I worked on the 2nd story of one of those Florida Blvd buildings.

Quit after 2 days. Did not bother collecting my pay.

Selling Christmas trees

Sap
shite Pay
Pine Needles
Trying to tie a 7' tree to the roof of a pinto
Sap

Pine tree sap sucks.

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What's the shittiest job you've ever had?

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Selling floorcleaners -Filter Queen- when I first got out of the military and was waiting to go over seas as a contractor. They had you drive all over the damn place and do demos in ppls homes, I never got home before 8 pm. I worked there about 2 1/2 weeks and in that time I was the number one seller in the region. They had my name on a plaque and everything for the month, telling everyone how impressive it was for a new guy to be doing that well. I remember thinking i'm number one in the region, I'm gonna need a friggan forklift to pick up my paycheck.... Nope! Not even a grand for all of that work. I drove up to the office where they were training new ppl and emptied my car right there in front of them and left.
fk that place

Working worms corner on a super single. Oilfield guys will know what im talking about.

That product is not to be used in that manor!

Shoveling shite in hog and cattle barns. Hog shite stench stays on you, cannot wash it off. Time is the only thing that gets rid of it!

For one of my early IT jobs, I was put on a 1st line customer support rotation where I had to carry a pager, and my boss promised no longer than 10-minute call backs for all pages. More than once I was paged while showering, or during my commute (pre-cell phone days) and customers raised hell.
About the same time, we went to a fixed cost contract and the money got very tight. So my reward for PITA pager support was typically either no raise or a 1% raise, and no bonus.

I got the hell out ASAP.

Also working with a digging crew for a foundation shoring company was awful. I didn’t last long.