Your "shiitty" first job

[Levity]

This probably doesnt apply to everyone, but i feel a lot of teenagers generally choose a shiity part time job as their first experience in the work field. so if you fall into that category, id love to hear about it

my first job was indeed a shit one

my friend and i were both looking for a part time job for some extra cash on the side. still being a senior in highschool, my time was limited, and this one girl i knew told me to apply at her work, "adventure city" a theme park for children. She gave my friend and me the idea that we could work in the always empty video arcade, which in my eyes, seemed great

so we show up to the theme park and ask if theyre hiring. the supervisor asks how old we are; both 18, so he offers us jobs as ride operators, since it was the only job opening available. being a lazy ass and a teenagers, we said yes without even thinking about it because it was a hire right then and there

easily the worst job of my life. i honestly like kids and think theyre great. but after working there, i would never want to work with children outside of a school setting. 8 hours saturday and sunday checking safety belts, dealing with unruly kids and entitled parents for $6.75. (it was 2005)

after about 2 weeks, i was completely over the job and its minimum wage pay. we'd be closed on days it rained, so when i woke up in the morning and even a slight drizzle greeted my outside, id go back to bed and say fck work today. i ended up going on a family vacation 3 weeks after getting the job, and just didnt show up for those two weeks i was gone. the work was so desperate for employees that they didnt even write me up. regardless, i quit as soon as i got back from vacation. and the only reason i went in to tell them im quitting was to get my uniform deposit back.

[Draz]

Assistant to an real estate agent.

Your pay is a slice of what you do.

[BrownEye007]

Mcdonalds. Worked there for 2 years and I didn't even think it was that bad most of the time. Then I got a new job and realized just how shitty a job mcds is. My new job is still shitty but not even close to on the same level.

[FlagrantOne]

Worked at Gamestation for my first job, was the opposite of shitty though, it was kosher as **** :pimp: On quiet days we just used to play video games or read the gaming mags that we had for sale. Met one of my best mates there too, we used to go upstairs into the store room and swing Wii nunchucks around and generally **** about :lol Was hilarious.

I remember on one Easter Sunday it was dead so it was just me and my manager working, we literally had five customers come in the shop and sold nothing all day (noone ever goes out on Easter Sunday, dont know how it is in the US), so we played FIFA and Tekken all day, ate subway sandwiches and generally just chilled out, was awesome.

On Sundays we used to close at four, go across the road to Tesco, get a load of booze, order pizza and get pissed up til the early hours while playing LAN games like Halo 3. We once ended up re-painting the staff room while pissed which was quite fun.

Luckily I got out before they got took over by GAME, apparently its crap now, have to listen to shitty GAME radio instead of our own iPods and you get tracked on sales, cant stay in the store after hours and get pissed, no nunchuck swinging :(

[pauk]

My first one was as a paperboy, the one without a bike and instead racing with a heavy bag running up & down millions 3-4 story no-elevator appartments with a deadline.... used to KILL me.... :banghead:

[DukeDelonte13]

my first "real" job was working as a dish washer in an italian restaurant was I was 13. Hardest job of my life. working from like 4 to midnight in a sweltering kitchen getting 5.25 an hour under the table. When I told them I couldn't work weeknights during the school year ( i was going into eighth grade) they fired me. :oldlol: Lasted the whole summer though.


After that when I turned 14 and could legally work I got a job at Wendy's and worked there for 3 years. It kinda sucked but it was a hell of a lot easier than working in that kitchen.

I've had a number of other part time jobs through high school and college but those two were the sh*ttiest.

[DukeDelonte13]

My first one was as a paperboy, the one without a bike and instead racing with a heavy bag running up & down millions 3-4 story no-elevator appartments with a deadline.... used to KILL me.... :banghead:


i was a paper boy too but in the suburbs it was easy. I rode my bike up and down the streets and threw the papers in the driveway.

[B-Low]

First job ever was as a telemarketer when I was 17. Everyone was sitting in a room about the size of a high school classroom with a computer and a phone in front of them.

You'd basically sit there on these cheap ass computers (They were the classic black background with green words kind from the 80s). A phone number and a name would pop up, and you would call that person. When the person answered, you would read the paragraph that was taped to the computer screen, word for word. Then based on the person's response, you would put an X next to the result of the call on your computer screen. Either "sale", "rejected", "hangup" or "no answer".

And you would do this for 5 hours straight. Then at the end of the day you would log how many of each result you had that day. I did that for about 3 week. Might not have even been that long.

Job #2 was a cart boy at Toys R Us, and that's not even a real position. They basically just let me and my cousin do that because we begged them to hire us because we needed jobs. It was during the holidays so they were pretty busy, and our job was basically t stand in the vestibule (that little section between outside and the actual store where the carts are) and everytime the cart supply would get low we would go out into the snow and get the carts. We never even took our coats off because we went outside so often. I ended up staying with Toys R Us for about 4 and a half years but eventually i was the RZone (electronics) guy which was fun. Just had to tough it out with some shitty positions first

[rezznor]

paperboy, burger joint in the mall, chuck-e-cheese, checkout at a grocery store, busboy, and retail in the mall when i was a teenager.

[Fresh Kid]

a factory line attendant:lol :facepalm

[ROCSteady]

Kitchen Prep in a Japanese Steakhouse when I was 15. Got the food ready to be cooked on the Hibachi grills by those Asian chefs. Making the sauces, gutting lobsters, swiftly getting the correct proportions of rice/chicken/steak/vegetables ready for at table entertainment.

[Stuckey]

dishwasher then cold side prep in a bar grill in summer

wasn't that bad

10.50 to start, a pint of beer on fridays even tho i was underaged and a free meal every shift

was busy as hell but can't complain

[TylerOO]

Worked at some deli and it was the worst job I've had. The lady that owned it was so dirty and gross. Her old ass dad who was like 95 would always come in and bitch and moan. He could barely talk too. I had to clean the store and do shit like that. She wanted me to sweep the cigarette butts in the parking lot, I said hell no. Had to sweep, take out garbage, mop, clean the bathroom. I actually got fired for not showing up one day because my high school gave out free Net-Piston tickets :roll: I don't like the Nets or Pistons but just said fcuk it

[AirMike]

I worked at Hooters as a cook, the job was terrible, but at least I could watch some great ass all day long....

[FlagrantOne]

I worked at Hooters as a cook, the job was terrible, but at least I could watch some great ass all day long....

I noticed the Hooters chefs are always happy...

[Rake2204]

I actually fell into my first terrible job. Initially, I worked in a pool house for a high scale Ann Arbor country club (home of the great Mike Tirico!). My co-workers were all in my age range and our boss worked a quarter mile away in the actual country club house, so our days were a solid mix of a small bit of cooking, some boredom, and fair bit of enjoyable poolside hijinks. I worked this job for a couple of summers.

Then, as the summer after my high school graduation wound down, I decided I'd continue working at this country club, as a means of saving up for college and carrying on with the co-workers with whom I'd grown close (including the tennis instructor, my dream girl of Lebanese-American decent). However, like an idiot, I never really thought about what I'd do after the pool closed for the summer. Combine that with the fact that all my co-workers moved away for college (or at least into dorms on campus), and I was left college-less and with no real job.

As such, I begged my boss at the club for some work. Maybe it was good timing, maybe bad, but I happened to beg for a job at the same time he was firing two Mexican dishwashers, who were presumed to be in the country illegally. I remember following my boss through the kitchen while being followed by the two Mexicans begging for their jobs back in Spanish.

So that was that. I went from awesome work at the pool with friends, to being one man taking over the job of two as an isolated dishwasher. It was awful. The club held huge parties so there was always tons of dishes, I knew no one, I sucked a cleaning things, and there was even a huge rack on head level that blocked my face off from everyone else in the kitchen, so it was like I didn't even exist. Everything bad happened to me. I broke 70 glasses at once, I spilled the mop bucket down the elevator shaft, I almost locked myself in the walk-in freezer... just the worst.

I'd planned on pursuing a college education all along, but it was that dish washing job that really put things into perspective for me. Many times during my shifts, I'd step back and think, "You know what? Sitting in on a lecture actually doesn't sound half bad right now."

Also, I quit like a jerk. Called in on my last day. The boss hung up on me. I regret that move.

[Kungfro]

First job was as a gas jockey, which wasn't all bad. Most of my co-workers were classmates or people I knew from school. It was a small town too, so a lot of friends and people I knew would stop by and hang out. Sucks pumping gas in the winter, but besides that the job was a breeze.

[Angel Face]

My first job was a soap seller. We steal human fats from liposuction clinics at night to create soap from it. We sold it on stores at daytime. They didn't knew that it was created from human fat. Profit.

[Bandito]

I worked at MCD's. Worst job of my life by far. They treat you like shiet, make you work almost full time but they don't give you that last hour so you are technically a part timer and you realize that the way they make the food is just horrible. MCD's is just disgusting food.

[LEFT4DEAD]

I had couple of them, all part of my studying time. I was on my own most of the time and I had to get that money from somewhere.

I was working on a construction site for a year, 3 days a week.

I found a job at a private hospital, but not as a doctor or some shit like that, but as a cleaner. Just 4 hours per day, free weekend, and I had to work at night only. So I had a whole day for myself and I earned about 1500$ per month and that was just so much for me as a student. But I was there just for 6 months.

I was working in a hotel too and places like that. But now Im near the end of my IT study, and will finally get smt better.

[Swaggin916]

Working sanitation at a Rice mill. All I did was clean all day long... shoveling rice or sweeping up rice and dust. I had other jobs there that I liked, but that one made me quit. Easily the best decision I have ever made though.

[mr.big35]

I worked at MCD's. Worst job of my life by far. They treat you like shiet, make you work almost full time but they don't give you that last hour so you are technically a part timer and you realize that the way they make the food is just horrible. MCD's is just disgusting food.

Do you still eat MCD any more

[lbj4kb8]

My first job was a soap seller. We steal human fats from liposuction clinics at night to create soap from it. We sold it on stores at daytime. They didn't knew that it was created from human fat. Profit.

Like the scene from Fight Club?

[hateraid]

I delivered flyers. A nickel per house. I had 80 houses on my run. There'd be 3-5 flyers per house

I also worked in a pie factory that delivered ready made pies to mainstream restaurants. Man I took home a ton of pies. I would literally eat banana cream pies for dinner

[PHX_Phan]

My first job was working in a ma and pa pizza shop. Best job I've ever had, but mainly when I was old enough to do deliveries. Worked a ton of hours and made a good hourly ($2 over minimum) and doubled my hourly in tips. My only expenses at the time were gas and $150 a month for phone and car insurance :lol

Worst job ever was working for Jimmy John's when I wanted to get back into delivering as a second job for extra money. $5 an hour, no mileage or delivery fee compensation and the tips for that area were shit. I averaged close to minimum wage with my tips and that didn't take into consideration gas or beating on my vehicle. After about 2 months of giving it a chance to be worth the time, I quit. Told them I wasn't going to work through a two week notice because it got to the point where I was coming close to cutting even and was wasting my time being there.

[longhornfan1234]

A busser. :facepalm

[JebronLames]

Computer lab technician at my university. 95% of the job was free time. Only needed to help students or faculty when they asked. :rockon:

[BLAM I AM]

My first job i was a teachers assistant during the summer. It was a continuation school, so the kids that were there didnt give a fack about school. Iwas 17 at the time. Easy job though...take attendance, grade a few papers and bs in the office with the staff. I also hooked up with a few honeys that were going to school there. I remember some girl throwing the vag at me because she wanted to give her a better grade on her test... oh yeah and the breakfast at the school was excellent not the usual school food. They had a food truck that cooked to order, inever had to pay for my food so it was great.

[Angel Face]

Computer lab technician at my university. 95% of the job was free time. Only needed to help students or faculty when they asked. :rockon:

where's that?

[IamRAMBO24]

I worked at Hooters as a cook, the job was terrible, but at least I could watch some great ass all day long....

:oldlol:

[JebronLames]

where's that?
University of hawaii.

[Angel Face]

University of hawaii.

true story...

[JebronLames]

My first job was a soap seller. We steal human fats from liposuction clinics at night to create soap from it. We sold it on stores at daytime. They didn't knew that it was created from human fat. Profit.
How did you steal it?

[Angel Face]

How did you steal it?

at night, we slipped through the clinic's fences where they keep those fats in a bin bag.

[ihoopallday]

UPS when I was a senior in high school. Got tired of asking my mom for money. Job was cool, just had terrible supervisors. Plus I'd always fall asleep in class the next day. Job was pretty exhausting. Quit when I went off to college after high school. Now I'm in the military. I'd say everything worked out perfectly.

[East_Stone_Ya]

worked at a construction site...did all the minor things like cleaning, painting, and digging holes.

[Bandito]

UPS when I was a senior in high school. Got tired of asking my mom for money. Job was cool, just had terrible supervisors. Plus I'd always fall asleep in class the next day. Job was pretty exhausting. Quit when I went off to college after high school. Now I'm in the military. I'd say everything worked out perfectly.
what branch? I was in the Air Force until a year ago. Went Air guard for a lot of reasons.

[ZoPunde]

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[STATUTORY]

almost all first jobs even out of college suck

part of it is perceptual. no one likes working

[Bucket_Nakedz]

definitely working at a chicken farm at 16. basically had to pluck chickens in the coop and toss em in the trucks to be served in a dinner table near u.

the job was pretty fast pace and really kept me in shape. it was only 3 times a week but i pocketed $50 for each day. it wasn't that bad at all, its just that you'd smell like chicken shit and you'd need half of a soap bar to get the stench off.

[magic chiongson]

my current job is the same as my 'shitty' first job out of college, it just pays a lot more than the old one

[Bigsmoke]

little lady foods

[glidedrxlr22]

Carl's Jr. age about 14. A couple of times I had to go clean up the bathrooms after people had clogged the toilet with sh!t and everything overflowed.

The cool part was that one of the older workers let me borrow the first porno I ever saw. Funny thing is that even though I knew my folks would be out of the house for a while, I kept checking out the window every 5 minutes just to make sure they didn't come back home while I was watching it.

[moaz]

I worked in a gas station as a teen, no issues, was fun but my first summer job as a student was almost literally shiity:

The pic below shows a furnace in the oil industry (only pic I could find). I worked in chemical plant producing soaps, detergents and so on.

It is huge, 5 story plant, where components are added in the various levels to be processed in the furnace. The residue (bottom of the pic) came out in a 10 feet deep hole. It was sticky, smelly, could burn you and it was hot as hell (after all under a furnace), but someone had to climb down and shovel the paste manually, then climb up and load it in a cart and bring it away (7 min limit or the shiit would clog).

I did it for a month and then one day while I was carting the residue a guy with a pallet truck hit my ankle. I couldn't work for a week and when I came back, I was placed with the plant safety and fire crew. These were the best 6 weeks of my working life. There were no accidents, so we just sat there doing nothing, except some driving around. The supervisor had porn magazines all the time, others were watching TV non stop. I even enrolled in a summer class and did some credits.


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[Bandito]

Carl's Jr. age about 14. A couple of times I had to go clean up the bathrooms after people had clogged the toilet with sh!t and everything overflowed.

The cool part was that one of the older workers let me borrow the first porno I ever saw. Funny thing is that even though I knew my folks would be out of the house for a while, I kept checking out the window every 5 minutes just to make sure they didn't come back home while I was watching it.
I did the same thing when i was watching my first porno. Those were the times...

[ihoopallday]

what branch? I was in the Air Force until a year ago. Went Air guard for a lot of reasons.

Army.

[Bush4Ever]

Farm hand.

It was indeed..."shitty".

[christian1923]

Same thing as OP. at some Family fun Park in the summer:coleman: Turn on go karts... i use to let kids ride around for 15 minutes till they got sick of it and never came back to the ride... and closing was brutal!!! we had to lock up all the go karts, clean the whole park and scoop up all the gold balls in the bunkers that were in the driving range :biggums: :biggums: cant believe i did all that more minimum wage:coleman: :coleman:

[CelticBaller]

working on a grocery store, that experience got me working in a supermarket now :lol

[wildchild]

My one and only job. It's a little bit shitty.

I'm a hired Assassin, blade in the crowd. When I stalk my prey you won't notice I'm following you right up until the moment we were side by side. I'll struck my blade on your chest and no one would notice. I get paid a lot. If you want someone to be assassinated, message me in private. Accepting contracts.

[It's A VC3!!!]

My first shitty job was working at IHOP. I was a server and ever since, I have more respect for servers. The reason why I detested it was because part-time employees had set start times but not set end times. What I mean is that my manager would say "Come in a 9 a.m. and be prepared to stay until 1 p.m. but if it's not busy I'll send you home an hour early". On the week days it was never busy so every day I was always sent home an hour or two earlier and what was supposed to be 20-25 hours of scheduled hours per week ended up only being like 12-17. It was horrible. The pay was shit, tips were good but I didn't get many customers on the weekdays and the weekends were reserved for the very experienced servers. I was 17 and there for a few months so no complaints from me.

Even when I worked I just hated it in general. Props to you servers but I can't work so hard for so little pay.

[RedBlackAttack]

-Flagger for Ohio Department of Transportation

-Freezer/refrigerator stocker at Phar-Mor

-Furniture store salesman


The flagger for ODOT was probably the worst, but the other two were bad. At Phar-Mor, I had to be inside the walk-in freezer and refrigerator at all times, making sure egg/milk was at full stock, along with all of the other stuff. It was really cold. I'd have to wear several layers of clothes to work in the middle of summer.

Furniture store salesman was about as boring as it sounds. You're talking about waiting on maybe 5-6 people a day. Luckily I didn't work on commission.