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

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Use to weedeat around the signs on the interstate

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That's called community service.

Back in college I worked in an ice cream vault loading delivery trucks and also working the conveyor belt stacking freshly manufactured ice cream on pallets to be relocated for hardening. After it was frozen, I was one of the route loaders that loaded the route delivery trucks. Backbreaking working in minus 20 degree cold. The company shall remain nameless to protect the innocent and the guilty. The “vault” was basically a large frozen warehouse where all the ice cream was stored before it was shipped out. Very long hours in the summer for mediocre pay but this job gave me just the motivation I needed to make damn sure I got my degree. For frick’s sake! There was no way I was doing that kind of shite my whole life!

Cutting weeds on the ROW back in the summer of 1976 in Hinds County, Ms for $600.00 per month. What ever the tractor couldn't get to with sling blades, jo blades and kyser blades...no weedeaters as they had not been invented yet.

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Cutting weeds on the ROW back in the summer of 1976 in Hinds County, Ms for $600.00 per month. What ever the tractor couldn't get to with sling blades, jo blades and kyser blades...no weedeaters as they had not been invented yet.

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I did this kind of work for three summers while on break from college. I would take my sling blade and plow through some thick stuff. I would use the kyser for the bigger plants. I would clear out entire lot size areas so people could get back there and work. I actually enjoyed it. Got a good tan and I worked alone. The rest of the time I was mowing with a big tractor. $6.00 a hour and 40 hrs a week was balling back then for me.

Order selector at Associated Grocers warehouse on Anselmo from 92 to 94. Worst morale of any job by far, highly demanding physical labor, company always out to get you, stewards that were paid off by the company.

Jay Campbell is as big a piece of shite as I've ever run across.

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I did a couple months in manufacturing. Making metal components without air conditioning and I'd come home covered in oil.

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Did this when I was in college. I was the part time grunt (full time in summer) at the bottom, so I ended up weeks in a row either cutting stainless steel on a cut off saw, heliarc welding or sandblasting outside wearing a heavy coat and helmet, inside steel boxes where the air temperature outside was over 100. Had to be 130 inside.

Academy for 1.5 months. I had to do everything for my department but got paid shitty and got no recognition.

Early to mid 90's.

As a teen, I worked in a drug screening laboratory...specifically urine screening. I would help open, log, and prepare samples for testing. Not too bad in itself, but I was also responsible for specimen disposal. By the end of the week, there would be 8 to 10 50 gallon trash cans full of negative samples. At the time, the only way to dispose of them was to open each individually and dump it down a sink.

I got to where I could grab three samples at a time, open them simultaneously and dump them. The smell was worse than any gas station restroom you could think of...venting hood be damned. The gallons of piss I poured down the sink is immeasurable.

There is a lot you can tell from people by the color and clarity of their urine. Hydration levels, medications, menstruation, etc. Some bottles would vent like beer when opened (and have a similar odor)...those patients had yeast infections.

It was disgusting work but paid very well. Now, the same company has a whole automated process that crushes the samples, drains them and chews up the plastic bottles...fricking robots stealing some teenagers beer money.

Newspaper Reporter. And it's not even close.