Worst Job You Ever Had

[YY1]

Also in contention was my 6 months at goodyear.

Hired right out of auto shop, while I was still in school.

The first manager was super cool. I worked from 1:00 until either 5 or 7 depending on need, and sometimes 1/2 day on Saturday so I could get somewhere near 30 hours.

I would do tire changes on Coats 20/20 machine and spin balance until closing, then I's sweep the shop. Occasionally, I'd drive the company truck to other stores and deliver or pickup tires. I also got to drive cars in and out of the shop for the mechanics.

Sometimes on Friday or Saturday the manager would bring a case of beer in at closing.

I also got my pick of the "take-offs" and actually made more money selling used RWL tires to other kids than I did in my paycheck.

Holy crap. I thought. This is GREAT.

Then the manager moved on. There was a big party right in the showroom, and the next day the new guy came in.

He was fresh out of training and was the dictionary definition of 'prick".

On day one he made me stop any mechanic or tire work.
All I could do was clean, stock shelves and make deliveries and pickups... and wait around. He must have been horrible at inventory, because the pickups and deliveries greatly escalated. Seemed like every third car, we didn't have the right tires for.
Two weeks later he cut my hours to Saturday only...from 7a to 7p!!
That completely ruined my Friday night and my Saturday night, plus I got less pay and had to go back to full time at school. It was also very illegal but I didn't know it at the time.

After 3 weeks he fired all the mechanics except the alignment guy and the other student intern, and me.

After another 3 weeks he fired all the mechanics again and this time fired me as well.

 

[biomedtechguy]

Numbers are all GE sees, they couldn't care less about a single employee

Yep, GE was part of my "worse job" story.
I compared GE to the imaginary bastard child born from the unholy union of the Evil Emperor of the Sith and The Borg from Star Trek...evil to the core and resistance is futile.

 

[Bill Monk]

Winter of 1985, I worked for a salvage company cutting up a barge that had sunk, filled with foam insulation to float it, It was towed to the river bank where we cut it up on the bank of the Ohio river for scrap metal. Cold, nasty wet coal dust and we were soaking wet as soon as we got there. Got paid $75 a day cash though which wasn't bad for then.....man that job sucked! OSHA, EPA and every other 3 letter government agency would be all over that today.

 

[BeeKool]

I've spent about 8 years working in other jobs. (My dad is a slavedriving prick and very hard to get along with)

Anyway, I did well in every job because I was raised to be a grunt so..
The one job I hated wasn't actually bad workwise.
I worked for 2 years on 3rd shift at a plastics printing company. Yogurt cups, Ice cream buckets, even those little measuring cups you get with ppg paint.
Job wasn't bad, it was physical and you were on your feet and moving.
The bad part was the company politics, 50% of my coworkers were good the other 50% could have come from a sitcom or reality show. Fighting, bickering and ******* each other.
I was the type who only wanted to do my job then leave. The supervisors hated that. Got RANDOMLY drug screened every three months. Passed every one them.
Finally got fed up and got a job pouring concrete then switched to millright/iron worker within the same company.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

I went to Diesel Tech School in NJ in the late 70's and was doing an intern apprenticeship at a Garbage truck company. They Had Mack trucks and after a week or so I could not beat that smell....

 

[jdakrt]

Cleaning commercial chicken coops between "shipments". Dead birds, inches of droppings. I want to say there were something like 10K birds per building. The ammonia smell was breathtaking (literally). Wanted to quit a lunch. Made it thru the day and told the man I wouldnt be back tomorrow.

 

[Roger63]

My worst was working at a fab welding shop. I made $6 per hour in the late 80's. I was really good at it to loved the work. Got disgusted with the pay so he put me on piece work. My pay jumped to a $25 per hour avg. Kept that up for a couple of months all the while bringing in more business. Then one Monday my boss tells me I'm giving you a raise. He put me back on hourly @$8.00 per hour and I told where to stick it.

 

[tak419]

Not my worst but but my labor hands after I made him repair a sewer pipe. We directional bore for fiber optic, the crew hit a sewer pipe 5' deep. We dug the pipe up, sloped the walls to be safe yet 5' is hard to manual shovel dirt out od the hole. The pipe was clean and dry and I told Trace, stop dragging your feet and get the old piece out and loose dirt out. Then you heard the gurgle, a trickle of water and what looked to be a half roll of toilet paper covered in ****, then then the huge turd packed with corn( no lol) followed by something between butterscotch pudding and maybe cat ****. Now Trace had to throw dirt and **** out of the hole. He was so pissed he just started flinging it, most hitting the trench walls and splattering on himself. The ground now wet he was slipping, the **** literally splashing back hitting him in the face, all over his shirt. He didn't come in the rest of week. Then we found out the only person in the building was the secretary lol.

 

[Bladecutter]

As a predecessor to working with wildlife, I got my Certification as an Animal Control Officer over 20 years ago. Your first two weeks were spent in the euthanasia room. Over one hundred animals a day were put down with IV injection. The bad part was watching the techs tell the dogs "shake", and when they offered their paw up the techs took it and found the vein and injected them. F'd me up for a long time and I still can't handle watching somebody ask their dog to shake hands. Worst two weeks of my life.

Very sad.

 

[Bladecutter]

Uh, prison gangs. collecting boulders, breaking boulders, building stone walls with broken boulders, all manual. digging out massive tree stumps & root networks manually, etc, etc, etc.....
starting pay, .02 cents an hour, by the time my time was finished I had moved up to .12 cents an hour, plus junior college credits, in the prison vocational body shop.

 

[GetX'd]

Uh, prison gangs. collecting boulders, breaking boulders, building stone walls with broken boulders, all manual. digging out massive tree stumps & root networks manually, etc, etc, etc.....
starting pay, .02 cents an hour, by the time my time was finished I had moved up to .12 cents an hour, plus junior college credits, in the prison vocational body shop.

This one sounds like the winner to me. Digging tree stumps for .02 cents an hour. I’ll tAke my foundry job back any day......

 

[Bladecutter]

This one sounds like the winner to me. Digging tree stumps for .02 cents an hour. I’ll tAke my foundry job back any day......

I only mentioned the pay for effect,,,after all I was in prison & lucky to get anything. As for the time, the life hard, I have no grudge about it. It kept me from becoming deeper involved in trading cocaine. I had just hooked up with smugglers, setting up to do some serious weight, when I got nailed in a setup to sell a half pound to the man, though I only had an ounce on me to do the test run. Bought myself 19 months & 2.5 years parole. But it kept me from an inevitably much harder fall. Also, at the time I still hadn't realized just how nasty the **** is. That knowledge came later after years of using. When I dealt, my moral policy was to never sell a substance that I wouldn't use myself.....like heroin, never did it, therefore never sold it. Same with barbiturates & speed.

 

[Sahara]

I only mentioned the pay for effect,,,after all I was in prison & lucky to get anything. As for the time, the life hard, I have no grudge about it. It kept me from becoming deeper involved in trading cocaine. I had just hooked up with smugglers, setting up to do some serious weight, when I got nailed in a setup to sell a half pound to the man, though I only had an ounce on me to do the test run. Bought myself 19 months & 2.5 years parole. But it kept me from an inevitably much harder fall. Also, at the time I still hadn't realized just how nasty the **** is. That knowledge came later after years of using. When I dealt, my moral policy was to never sell a substance that I wouldn't use myself.....like heroin, never did it, therefore never sold it. Same with barbiturates & speed.

Man, that rings true with many of us. When I look back on all the times I went to rooms with sacks of cash or sacks of, well, stuff I feel sick. How I never got whacked as just another piece of stupid white trash amazes me. Lotsa nervous people, lotsa guns, lotsa cash, lotsa stuff. Besides God and luck I have to think that the one other thing that got me through was integrity. I showed up with exactly what I was supposed to show up with, when and where I was supposed to. Never asked any questions, never offered any answers, and I left. In legit business that gets me through today.

 

[Fran Blacker]

I only mentioned the pay for effect,,,after all I was in prison & lucky to get anything. As for the time, the life hard, I have no grudge about it. It kept me from becoming deeper involved in trading cocaine. I had just hooked up with smugglers, setting up to do some serious weight, when I got nailed in a setup to sell a half pound to the man, though I only had an ounce on me to do the test run. Bought myself 19 months & 2.5 years parole. But it kept me from an inevitably much harder fall. Also, at the time I still hadn't realized just how nasty the **** is. That knowledge came later after years of using. When I dealt, my moral policy was to never sell a substance that I wouldn't use myself.....like heroin, never did it, therefore never sold it. Same with barbiturates & speed.

Kid next to me spent 7 years in the Gray Stone Hotel for 1600 lbs of pot. I didn't even a joint. Prison knocked the crap out of him. Now he has a store selling tools. Learned his lesson, and he could rat the big guy out.

 

[PeteBell68]

Farming is something you get "from the titty". I have worked in factories, offices, sales, grocery stores, restaurants, retail, gas stations and all of them left me feeling unfulfilled at the end of the day. It's hard to work for someone else when you feel you are the smartest man in the room. LOL When you are a farmer, some days you are a plumber, electrician, mechanic, carpenter, veterinarian all in a single day. And yes it can be a shitty job, but it is YOUR **** and that makes all the difference. Nothing I have found is quite as fulfilling as beating the rain to get the hay put up, finishing a mile of new fence, finally getting a piece of equipment to work right or saving a newborn calf that you though was a goner. And the list goes on and on. I have been involved in farming for around 55 years and plan on keeping on for another 25 or 30, after awhile it just becomes who you are.

Farmers are hard workers , I helped at a friends grandads milk farm moving the filled jugs and bailing hay .
My friends granddad and My friend Brad were two of the strongest men I knew .
When the old man shook your hand you could feel the power .

 

[Bladecutter]

Man, that rings true with many of us. When I look back on all the times I went to rooms with sacks of cash or sacks of, well, stuff I feel sick. How I never got whacked as just another piece of stupid white trash amazes me. Lotsa nervous people, lotsa guns, lotsa cash, lotsa stuff. Besides God and luck I have to think that the one other thing that got me through was integrity. I showed up with exactly what I was supposed to show up with, when and where I was supposed to. Never asked any questions, never offered any answers, and I left. In legit business that gets me through today.

I never dealt in circles with guns & & kept my distance from those who did. By the end of the 70's though, guns were ubiquitous, even in weed dealings. My time was between 77 & 79 & I never got back in the game although I continued partying with coke into the 90's.....finally ending that run. Alcohol was the real back breaker for me.....finally cut that cord in 92. Weed never caused me any social, behavioral problems except a for couple petty possession busts. I'll smoke weed till the day I die, where upon I will be cremated with a pound of good bud thrown into the oven with me. A final statement.

 

[Bladecutter]

Kid next to me spent 7 years in the Gray Stone Hotel for 1600 lbs of pot. I didn't even a joint. Prison knocked the crap out of him. Now he has a store selling tools. Learned his lesson, and he could rat the big guy out.

He get popped during or post hw bush? I don't think anybody ever did that much time over weed before hw bush. Ironic since bush along with clintons are responsible for the largest hauls of coke & heroin brought into the USA. IE, the Mena, Arkansas connection...
running guns out, bringing drugs in.

 

[Fran Blacker]

He get popped during or post hw bush? I don't think anybody ever did that much time over weed before hw bush. Ironic since bush along with clintons are responsible for the largest hauls of coke & heroin brought into the USA. IE, the Mena, Arkansas connection...
running guns out, bringing drugs in.

They wanted the guy above him, no way would go that route, wife and a kid. This was in the 1990's and state police were involved . State trooper pulled into a commuter parking lot as his cousin was doing a deal. I'm sure he was moving other stuff. Guy I worked his kid was involved running stuff from Florida, $10k a trip. He stopped before the s#!t hit the fan.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Moparstyle]