Worst Job You Ever Had

[WileE]

While reading another thread, I thought of mine. Many eons ago when I was a teenager, I got a part time job at a gas station. It was pumping gas. My thought was, I could show the boss my capability of auto repair, so I could work in the garage in no time at all. It took one day. Only ONE day. No, not to get to work in the garage. To quit. One day was all I could take working the pumps. Amongst a myriad of reasons, the rude treatment to me ( the snot-nose kid who could dis & 're assemble the engines ) from the customers was one. To them, I was a piece of crap. I hated that job. Since then, I 've always been courteous and say thank you to the attendant. And sometimes tip him for a cup of coffee, especially in cold weather.

 

[Dennis H]

I learned a lot working at a full service Arco Station back in the 70's. Remember dry batteries? Filling them prior to charge with that chemical was quite an experience. Brake dust etc. Got to see some cool cars and recognize the demise of the industry as the mid 70's cars came in. Junk.

 

[Dibbons]

My first job was attendant in a Chevron Station right out of high school (73-75: minimum wage $1.65 hr then $2.00 hr when raised by federal law). Highlights: Working alone one foggy night some creep pressed a knife blade to my throat and forced me to open the cash drawer. On the bright side, one day we had three Superbirds (driven by local Mexican lettuce pickers) fueling up at the same time. CHP Dodge Polara 440's got fuel there also. In '83 I was a CHP officer (for a short time).

 

[mopar 3 B]

Farm hand.
Yea Bee Kool I was raised on one. I understand it. It problems that go along withit and how the government has screwed it up.
I just can not do standing in another mans **** for chicken feed 24/7/365.

 

[flypaper]

My worst job was working in a liquor store in a rough town
Dealing with the lowest forms of life
Trying to pull some bullshit over on you
on a daily basis
It was Even worse then gas station and landscaping and dishwasher
Been thru them all..

 

[tmaleck]

Cemetery worker where my dad was buried. Lasted one day.

 

[GetX'd]

The worse job I ever had was in My late teens, early twenties - I took a job working in a steel foundry. They paid good money for the day. I started out planning on working there a year and saving up some cash for my next adventure. I was using a air chisel chipping off little lumps on the inside of valves they molded. Yep - one at a time - finish one toss it in the dumpster - then pick up another. Over and over and over. Mentally I went to 6 months, then to 3 months, then to a month - two weeks to save that cash. Bottom line was I went to lunch on my first day and never came back! Didn’t even go pick up my 4 hour check. My God I’ll never forget the misery of those 4 hours. It was then I finally broke down and decided I needed to quit screwing around and go to college and find a career of some sort.

 

[khryslerkid]

I had auto Vo-tech for two years. Worked on teacher's cars, even the Principle's car. He actually got me a job at a local dealership. Graduated on a Saturday and started work on Monday. I was in seventh heaven!

I had got myself into a situation that I never expected. The service manager wanted me to do things to customers cars that I would never do. He wanted to rip off everyone that brought a car in there. I would tell him that what he wanted me to do was dishonest. He'd reply with "do what I tell you or don't bother coming here to work anymore." So I finally got the nerve to tell him off and asked for my paycheck.

What a way to start ones career! Several years later I started at another dealership and wouldn't you know it, that service manager was the same way. Never worked at a dealership again.

 

[HT413]

It was then I finally broke down and decided I needed to quit screwing around and go to college and find a career of some sort

You should thank that guy.

 

[Moparstyle]

My Worst job was washing commercial airplanes and i was the belly man was always soaked sucked during the winter lol

 

[HT413]

Worst job I ever had was actually a pretty good job, just a terrible boss. I ran a little quality control department for a little tape factory nearby.

Good work, clean and safe place. Decent pay, short commute. Liked it.

Boss was super bipolar, he was fine most of the time, but when he didn’t take his meds he would dig into a random employee with the worst, rudest attack. Like personal stuff.

One day, after 2 years on the job, he lit into me right on the shop floor... in front of all the operators, the two foremen, everyone. Well I was young, maybe 25... so I tore him a new asshole. Haha, really let him have it. He walked away and I followed him right trough the office f bombing that guy.

Everyone hated him so much that as I was escorted out of the building EVERYONE high fived me. Like a freakin movie.

Ended up on unemployment where I got them to pay for my masters degree in civil engineering... and the rest is history. I literally wouldn’t be where I am today I’d that didn’t happen.

 

[Hwy145]

I was on **** patrol at my uncle’s lake resort. More specifically, I was in charge of picking up the Canadian goose **** that covered the beaches and grass.
I was so good at it, my dad made me do it at our house as well.

 

[biomedtechguy]

Using manual rust chipping hammers to chip rust out of a steel hulled ship's rudder hold in South Louisiana in July. Covered in rust and sweat, burns the skin like diluted acid solution.
I've had a few very difficult jobs, but that one was the first that came to mind.
Doing demolition by hand of a fire damaged building's insides in downtown New Orleans.
Fast forward to 2011-working for General Electric under a complete BITCH who was a corporate ladder climber and an incompetent biomed tech in a position of power, along with a couple of backstabbing cocksuckers who were marginal techs as well.

 

[biomedtechguy]

I was on **** patrol at my uncle’s lake resort. More specifically, I was in charge of picking up the Canadian goose **** that covered the beaches and grass.
I was so good at it, my dad made me do it at our house as well.

THAT is pretty bad.

 

[beanhead]

For me it's a toss-up between my job as a dishwasher in a local restaurant, or road work... the more I think about it, I would have to say the road work was worse. Brutally hot in the summer time with the hot asphalt etc, cold in the winter time... At least when I worked as a dishwasher, I worked my way up to cooking and it ended up being a pretty good overall experience (mmm cocktail waitresses!)... working on the road crews sucked from beginning to end

 

[Dennis H]

Forgot about High Quality Plating. Upper Milford, Pa. Closed in 1983. Superfund Site. Learned a lot there like most jobs. Had a really good Supervisor who's name I wish I knew. After grinding one day, I was switched to dipping items to be chromed into different vats. One was very heavy and I stumbled back spilling a lot of the chemical on me. It burned. The Supervisor came over and handed me a water hose. Told me to rinse (my nuts) for at least 15 minutes. Best advice ever. As time went on, everything continued to work so thank God for that.

 

[Hwy145]

Forgot about High Quality Plating. Upper Milford, Pa. Closed in 1983. Superfund Site. Learned a lot there like most jobs. Had a really good Supervisor who's name I wish I knew. After grinding one day, I was switched to dipping items to be chromed into different vats. One was very heavy and I stumbled back spilling a lot of the chemical on me. It burned. The Supervisor came over and handed me a water hose. Told me to rinse (my nuts) for at least 15 minutes. Best advice ever. As time went on, everything continued to work so thank God for that.

Any job that puts one’s nuts in jeopardy, is bad in my book...

 

[BeeKool]

All of them.
Most tasks I have involve dirt, **** or cold or hot, heights or heavy lifting, but
I have noticed that life's usually only as miserable the people around you make it.
It is difficult to work with whiny or lazy people.

 

[Hwy145]

All of them.
Most tasks I have involve dirt, **** or cold or hot, heights or heavy lifting, but
I have noticed that life's usually only as miserable the people around you make it.
It is difficult to work with whiny or lazy people.

I worked at Subway. I hated that job, but I had two or three people that were a blast to work alongside.

 

[HT413]

Forgot about High Quality Plating. Upper Milford, Pa. Closed in 1983. Superfund Site. Learned a lot there like most jobs. Had a really good Supervisor who's name I wish I knew. After grinding one day, I was switched to dipping items to be chromed into different vats. One was very heavy and I stumbled back spilling a lot of the chemical on me. It burned. The Supervisor came over and handed me a water hose. Told me to rinse (my nuts) for at least 15 minutes. Best advice ever. As time went on, everything continued to work so thank God for that.

Damn, you reminded me of a job I had. Alfred Heller Heat Treating in Clifton, NJ. Totally forgot about it. I had it easy, I was a quality control tech intern in college. The operators had it real bad, my job was relatively posh.

But man, that place was HOT. Break time we’d all walk out to the grease truck and even if it was 100F out, felt like air conditioning.

Few times I had to go up to a the loft to access old QC records... one time I brought a thermometer with me... over 120F.

Though this week some of our friends from Down Under could relate.

Place is closed now: you guessed it, Super Fund Site.