You want fries with that? / Well..do ya punk?!

[Borderstone]

If you couldn't tell by the title,the question I'm asking is,what is "THE" worst job you ever had? I mean the lowest your pride took you in accepting employment for a paycheck! Mine? Mine was every fast food job I took! First I worked for Jack In the Box and was let go after 3 days for "not learning fast enough". Then I worked for a place called Pioneer Chicken where one night in Oct. of '85 I got to clean out (dun-da-dun-dun!) the grease trap! The next closest to that was making a paltry $3.35 an hour (in 1996) being a busboy in the concession stand at a horse racing track! Yuk! : Then I also had 2 jobs as a dishwasher. One was not too bad but the other was a little odd. It was a Mexican Restauraunt and I got paid in...cash?! Of course,I later figured out that it was a no-no to get paid that way. They went O.O.B. in just a few months,(hmmm..I wonder why?) Well,those are my pseudo-horror stories. Where has the want of dough,caused you to go? Later!

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Borderstone (Hello! )

It's a toss up. Lasted six hours at Subway. Left of my own accord, still have the hat.

Spent four months fitting rental ski boots, $6.75 an hour. That was bad. Particularly the part where the rude people we rented the boots to came back at the end of the day and literally threw the wet muddy boots back at us. Course the folks in snowboard boots had it worse at the end of the day; the smell of hundreds of wet heavy canvas boots in a small enclosed space . . .

Spent five months parking cars for above mentioned ski resort at $7.00 an hour. Standing out on an icy parking lot at 7am with a foot of snow on the ground in a blinding snow storm with gigantic SUV's skidding on ice all around me driven by people with no clue. I wore a sweat shirt, the official shirt over that, a heavy ski jacket two pairs of socks gloves and pants and I still froze.

Best job ever was a ten hour shift on air for a Classical station on Christmas Eve. Magic!


quote:Originally posted by Borderstone:
If you couldn't tell by the title,the question I'm asking is,what is "THE" worst job you ever had?




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Born once - Got it right the first time. )O(

[TheWatchman]

Cleaning restrooms at a state park during college. I thought I was going to work in the maintenance department but I soon found out that the state of Ohio had other plans for me. $5.15 per hour. Cleaning restrooms in the entire park to took 8 hours and lots of elbow grease.

No running water. Pitfall latrines. Literally had to stand on the backs of the toilets and scrub using all my might to scrub them clean. Sometimes a 2000 psi sprayer was needed to bust lose all the sh*t from the beer drinking hillbillies with overactive colons. They would write all over the concrete walls with there feces and it would take a long time to scrub them clean.

One time I got an emergency call to one of the RR's in the campground. When I got there, I found a very irate hillbilly with crap all down his back. Apparantly, another hillbilly crapped on the door jam to the entrance to of the RR and this other hillbilly didn't see it and stepped in it and fell on his back and landed on the pile. He was so angry I though he was going to have a stroke right then and there.

Sometimes the smell was so bad I would smoke cigars to mask it. Even straight pine tar could not make a dent in that stench. Each pit had 8 toilets and must have held thousands of gallons of human waste. They would not pump them empty until the level was so high it was almost up to the floor.

Still would rather do that then work in fast food. I would not last in that atmosphere for 5 minutes.

[Cathy]

Oh, the worst one I've had was working in a shoe factory. I only did it for two months, between my junior and senior year of high school. We made loafers... every color you could imagine... yellow, blue, pink, red, black, brown, white, butterscotch, wine...
My job was officially called 'line inspector'. I'd inspect the shoes before soles were put on, making sure they were the same length, width, heigth, and making sure the insoles were glued in properly. It was terribly hot inside the factory. I got mad one day because the shoes they were sending down the line weren't making grade. I'd send them back, and sooner or later the same pair of shoes would end up at inspection, still with the same problems. After awhile, I just couldn't take it. I hit the switch to shut the line off and the supervisor came running over. We got into an argument and I ended up telling him where he could put his colorful loafers, then I walked out.
Still, it sounds like a picnic, next to Watchman's job.

Cathy http://www.cathycowette.com

At least you had jobs. I've yet to get one. Flippin' burgers is good for me. But if the manager says I half to be a cashier or something I'll simply tell him "Ya know, I'm not your man for that". I could never be a waiter, though. That's the hardest job anyone could ask for to me.(I'm shy).

[Borderstone]

At 15 (and 20 years ago next month) my first job,which was not as bad as the one's I listed.was delivering "Pennysaver" papers to people's homes. Since there were too many for taking on a bike and my Mom couldn't drive me,I took these literally hundreds of "Newspapers" around the neighborhood in a shopping cart! They were in plastic bags and I hung them on doorknobs. This took almost 90 minutes. My pay? $15.00 a week! Wow. That lasted about 5 months. Then I went on to bigger and messier things! Been me,later!

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Borderstone (Hello! )