Worst Job You Ever Had

[Ironbuilt]

Was in between jobs as a teenager and a buddy said his boss was hiring. Two masons screaming for mud and block all day and it was 90 degrees...F@CK THAT!!!

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Mike67]

Well it wasnt so much the job as to some of the locations we would have to go and the elements we would deal with as electricians.
One place I hated to go was a company called Plazmet formerly US Zinc in Pasedena. The took pulverized and injected it into a big electrosmelter that would turn the zinc into molten metal. The pot would over run onto this big conveyor that was about 1/2 mile long with 10" long ingot molds.
You could not walk in that place and not be covered in the blueish zinc dust. I showered 2x a day and would wake up the next morning with my pillow stained blue from the dust, it was like flour but finer.
Paper/pulp mills were another nasty place , the smell and chemicals seemed to coat your sinuses for a week....

 

[theman440]

The worst job I ever had was assembling catalogs for a printing company. Talk about monotonous . . . pulling the pages from each slot then attaching the plastic coil binding, over and over and over and over all day. I can remember looking thru the little window in the door leading into the hall to check the time many times a day - hoping for break, lunch, ETC. Mind numbing work - good thing it was only a few weeks during summer break!

 

[hemi71x]

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

I'm going to hafta agree with you in the way of washing aircraft.
During my Air Force years, i hated washing those F-4 Phantom's when the maintenance schedule called for them to be washed.
Hated that job.
I think that's been the worst, in my lifetime.
Had some factory jobs, but looking back, they really weren't that bad, after all.

 

[Budnicks]

I can't compete with the killing of helpless animals/dogs
all damn day {******* ruthless, unethical, unimaginable ****}
as a Animal Control agent...
I wouldn't have made it past the second animal...

He has to have the top shittiest job, bar none...

Any of mine are pale, or just trivial BS, in comparison...

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1st A toss up between roofer for a Union Construction job
Laborer slopping tar buckets & moving piles of pea gravel from
side to side of the roof for no reasons...
All because the foreman thought it was funny,
to have the new guy be razed...
I pretty much took ****, for about a week, but the pay was good,
I wasn't afraid of hard work, I figured it was normal...
{hell I worked for my dad previously for 1/3rd of the pay, a lot harder, longer hrs}
I had a mortgage, my 1st house to pay for, so I was sort of stuck...
I knew the owner very well, he was a friend of my dads,
how I got the job in the 1st place & he asked; how it was going ?
I asked him does he want me to be a good Union/company man
or tell the truth...
He said the truth of course...
I told him the truth, he knew I wouldn't lie...
He didn't say much that night at our family BBQ,
just sat back & drank a few beers...
But; He was pissed, showed up on the job the next day
instantly went to the dick head foreman
& demoted the foreman, infront of everyone &
of course he bitched & moaned
Union rules "this or that, you can't do that to me"...
He still did it anyway, said something like this is still my company
I will do as I will, Union BS or not, I won't stand for any BS...
That foreman got a bit of his own medicine,
or he'd been fired on the spot...
I didn't stay on that job long, the rest of the old Union cronies/dudes hated me...
Didn't matter anyway, I knew I had too many smarts
to be a roofers laborer...
I became a Union Carpenter Appr. a shitty grunt job
for a Termite Repair Construction Co.
albeit the owner was a Drag Racer, race F/C, his/my foreman was a S/C racer
we all got along just fine...
The job sucked ***, dirty shitty work, but the people were cool as hell,
I only worked for a while there...
Back off to school....

2nd Working for a IBEW Union, for Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
after a short stint in the Engineering Dept. as an Eng. Aid
{my degree was arch. eng.} drawing pipeline schematics all damn day
my Bros. In Law was the GC dept. engineer in SF, he got me hired...
but;
I got sort of got fucked by affirmative action, a few months in
to a great guy who was a minority & had kids etc.,
he sort of needed it more than I did
but, wasn't really qualified for the job, but they needed to meet the quota,
I didn't fit the demographic...
Oh well, I hated driving into SF daily anyway...
Being white, young & single, a newbie fresh out of college...
They asked if I wanted to go to the Power plants,
close to where I was living...
I said sure !!, being young & dumb...
I was hired to be a Machine shop assistant,
& for the GC engineering dept. in Antioch Power Plant org.,
they sent me to another plant, telling me nothing about the new job
or what I was gonna' do...
Unfortunately the shut down job at Antioch PP, was delayed
I ended up doing Temporary work detail,
M.E.O.C.C. Miscellaneous Equipment Operator class C
sort of meant Man a shovel & a broom, I didn't know much...LOL
asphalt road/pathways replacement job etc.
at the PG&E Power Plant in Pittsburg Ca., summer 100*+ days
I worked the full days, scalding hot, dirty, nasty heat/smell
& I ******* hated it, after that hot disgusting hard & dirty work...
I respected the guys I saw doing that **** every damn day for years on end...

After the job was done & I was finished, daily I'd walked out to my car,
stripped down to my underwear, didn't want to mess up my 68 Charger R/T
got in my car, I had tar & crap from head to toe, hands to elbows...
It was crazy, I couldn't see me doing that for a career, eventually

I eventually went back to the Antioch Ca. Power plant...
I asked the shift boss plant manager wtf ?,
he said; "there was an opening & he didn't think I'd mind"...
The machine shop was in a big delay, before a planned shut down...
I went over his head & talked with the engineers, Frank my B.I.L.
they transferred his ***, shortly after...
I was there as a rep. of the engineering dept., not to be a general laborer..

I didn't stay in that job long either...
Had to find my niche, I was sort of lost...
I did learn a lot in that shop & eventually became a
Certified Combination welder for PG&E, another dirty shitty job in the Power Plants...
1/2 of them did nothing all damn day, typical Union BS
I wanted to work to make the days go by faster...
120*+ working condition, dusty dirty rusty, carbon dust all in the air,
slag flying everywhere, got a couple of flashes, fucked with my eyes,
working tight spots weird positions, I'm not a little dude really etc.
shitty light, inside boilers, repairing & welding stainless tubes,
doing pipe fitting work etc., sort of a jack of all metal work...
I was the young buck so I always got the shitty high work 100' up on scaffolding,
all different shifts etc.
Decent pay but not what I saw myself doing for life/career...

I do think that ****, made me a better well rounded guy today...

sorry for damn book,
I guess I had more to say than I had thought...

 

[BeeKool]

As somebody who raises livestock, I euthanize animals frequently. Does not compare to putting a dog down though, that's something I've only done twice and not sure if I can do it a 3rd time.

I honestly think I could put certain people down and have a clearer conscience.

 

[Ranger16]

I'd have to say the worst was the first. Busboy/dishwasher at a 15 in a greasy spoon restaurant for $1.00/hr. I found out what "dish pan hands" really meant.

 

[Gone]

I never had a bad job. Besides working on my uncles' farms in south Georgia as a young boy, I worked part time in the local grocery store and one summer with my Dad at the state highway department. Then off to a military college and 37 years in the Army.