What's the worst job you've ever worked?

[BigBoss]

I once was a busboy at an overnight restaurant across the street from a crack shelter. I would literally see people smoking meth and crack, and child prostitutes on the street. The glory days.

[Draz]

Real estate assistant.

[Im so nba'd out]

target overnight stocking

[bdreason]

I did some landscaping over the summer my last year in college. Digging ditches in 110+ weather isn't fun... although we typically stopped by noon.

[Real14]

getting over your mom's rolls while im phuckin her.

[Lebowsky]

I worked at a brewery's malt house one summer. Starting at 5 A.M., shoveling germinated barley for about 5 hours and then shoveling roasted barley for another 3 next to the ****ing malt oven.

[Milbuck]

getting over your mom's rolls while im phuckin her.
Agreed, that sucks dude.

[MrC1991]

Fastfood quite easily.

[Myth]

Worked at an athletic club doing whatever was asked of me.

Job duties included:
-Dragging out 150lb mats and power washing them (female boss had no idea how heavy they were the first couple hours, so I asked her to grab the other end once just so she knew what she was demanding of me. She immediately realized what she was asking, gave me a gatorade and a 15 minute break)
-Landscaping
-Daycare
-washing equipment
-picking up new exercise equipment in my boss's truck
-pulling giant wood planks out of a huge crevice
-washing a pool (required getting in the pool to scrub shit down)

Job lasted only a little over a month. Not a terrible job. I just had a lot of not too bad of jobs.

[russwest0]

Working preload at UPS waking up at 3:30 am everyday and loading 3 trucks with boxes. They realized early on that I was a really hard worker and moved me onto the highest seniority belt on the hardest 3 truck pull in the building.

needless to say everyday was a ****ing battle. every second couldn't go to waste. I had to be an efficency warrior. taking time to drink water was a waste of 10 seconds and a setback. the 10 minute break in the middle of the day HAD to be used to load the stuff I didn't have time to prior.

I had to memorize the general way each trucks packages were designed (packages come down the belt with a numbered label on them, this tells you where in the truck the package goes)

by the end of the day each of my trucks had each shelf loaded full with packages lined along the back wall and the whole entire middle aisle was full with packages as well so you couldn't see through the truck. and these were stacked to the ceiling just about.

it was crazy ****ing shit and one day I just decided "**** this" and stopped showing up and then they offered me a number of other positions saying they really didn't want to lose me but I left regardless because I was tired of waking up so early.

[Myth]

My dad owns his own pool business, in the summers when I was in high school I used to help him with big projects for extra money. It was horrible in the bottom of a empty pool in 120+ degree weather

Weather wasn't as hot (did probably get up to 100) and the pool actually had water in it. I went around the perimeter of the pool scrubbing with Borax. I was worried that it would cause rashes or something (Borax isn't the worst thing, but swimming in it is questionable), but it didn't do anything.

[ihoopallday]

Worked at UPS too. Didn't last long. Decided I'm not gonna **** up my back before I even hit 19 years old. Supervisors are wack and they give you unrealistic expectations.

[Akrazotile]

When I was in high school my parents used to make me empty out all the wastebaskets in the house once a week. AND take all the newspapers out to the recycle bin.

Shit was ****ing brutal. I honestly dont know how I lasted through it. Had to get the half bath wastebasket, then trudge upstairs to get the guest bath, then go all the way down the hall to the master bath, then all the way back down stairs and empty it all out into the big garbage in the garage. Without a break. And I had to do this literally once every single week.

Looking back tho I do feel a pretty strong sense of pride that I managed to persevere. Like a bawz. :pimp:

[Tarik One]

Fastfood quite easily.
The tolerance of working in fast food is 90% about what type of manager your work under. The actual job itself and dealing customers is the easy part.

A bad manager can make your life hell

[christian1923]

Target. They expect so much for 9 dollars an hour.

[JohnnySic]

Toys R Us during the holiday season. Just awful.

[nightprowler10]

I worked at Wal-Mart for over 2 years. Terrible, terrible place.

[rufuspaul]

Working preload at UPS waking up at 3:30 am everyday and loading 3 trucks with boxes. They realized early on that I was a really hard worker and moved me onto the highest seniority belt on the hardest 3 truck pull in the building.

needless to say everyday was a ****ing battle. every second couldn't go to waste. I had to be an efficency warrior. taking time to drink water was a waste of 10 seconds and a setback. the 10 minute break in the middle of the day HAD to be used to load the stuff I didn't have time to prior.

I had to memorize the general way each trucks packages were designed (packages come down the belt with a numbered label on them, this tells you where in the truck the package goes)

by the end of the day each of my trucks had each shelf loaded full with packages lined along the back wall and the whole entire middle aisle was full with packages as well so you couldn't see through the truck. and these were stacked to the ceiling just about.

it was crazy ****ing shit and one day I just decided "**** this" and stopped showing up and then they offered me a number of other positions saying they really didn't want to lose me but I left regardless because I was tired of waking up so early.

Jeebus that stressed me out just reading that.

[The Iron Sheik]

wal-mart. didn't help that the place was understaffed

[nightprowler10]

Jeebus that stressed me out just reading that.
Not the first time I've read a story like that from a UPS employee. It really sounds ridiculous. I've done truck unloading at Wal-Mart too and it's a non-stop gig.

[Rake2204]

I've been very fortunate. My worst job was not terribly awful at all, but it was enough to re-enforce the value of a college education.

I used to work at an affluent country club best known for being the home of the 1998 Women's Amateur Golf Championship and Mike Tirico (oh yes). I worked at the pool house during the summer, cooking simple foods and more or less having a good time working with lifeguards and tennis assistants all in my same age range (18-20). Made some great friends.

Then summer ended, but I enjoyed the club so much I decided to stick around and save up some more cash for college (this was the summer after my senior year of high school). Thought I'd keep the good times rolling and push back the start of my secondary schooling a little bit. However, since I'm an idiot, I failed to account for the fact that the pool would close and all my friends and coworkers would be leaving for college themselves. As such, I was on my own without a job.

Luckily (if we can call it that), the head chef happened to be in the midst of firing two suspected illegal immigrants as I came in begging for a job. I think the feds were on to them (no joke). As a result, I became the primary dishwasher for a giant country club hosting 400 person galas and whatnot.

I know, it was not awful in the scheme of things. But the head level dish racks made it nearly impossible to interact with fellow employees, my hands cracked from all the moisture, leading to wearing dish gloves (which led to being the "yellow gloves guy"), the work was monotonous, and everything that seemed like it could go wrong, did. I spilled a mop bucket down an elevator shaft, I shattered 70 glasses in one fell swoop, I nearly locked myself into the walk-in freezer - the works.

Some good came out of it. I'd always planned on going to college, but I'd grown weary of the educational system a little. However, many times while washing dishes deep into the night, I recall thinking to myself, "You know what? I'd rather be sitting in a classroom listening to a lecture right now." Definitely made me appreciate what I had and what I planned on working toward.

Regrettably, I called in sick on my last day there. I had to drive west a few hours to finalize some college things. I assured my boss I'd be back the next day. He was doubtful. I was a little bitter from working a couple hours longer than scheduled the night I was due to leave, I guess. And I didn't want to drive back east two hours in the winter. So I called in the next morning and just as I was delivering the news, my boss hung up on me and that was the end of my employment. Lame on my part, but I suppose sometimes we learn best from our mistakes.

[nathanjizzle]

doing nails. i was 16, slinging bud and doing nails was making really good money. i hated doing nails though. when i started my own business and left doing nails i vowed to never do nails again and never have never will. Although having the skills to paint nails comes in handy when youre trying to whoo girls.

[DukeDelonte13]

The tolerance of working in fast food is 90% about what type of manager your work under. The actual job itself and dealing customers is the easy part.

A bad manager can make your life hell


this is true, but dealing w/ customers was the worst IMO. People treat you like an animal because you work in fast food. Some people are so vicious when they have to wait for their f*cking chicken nuggets.


I'll never forget this time i was cleaning off tables and I spilled a cup with some ice in it.

Literally one drop, ONE TINY ASS DROP of water lands on the back of some lady's sandal and she tries to order me to clean it off for her. She starts berating me when i refuse and my manager had to kick her out of the store.

[rufuspaul]

As a result, I became the primary dishwasher for a giant country club hosting 400 person galas and whatnot.



I had a similar job the summer between undergrad and dental school. Like you it solidified my decision to continue my education.

[~primetime~]

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Grandy's :oldlol: ...are these even found across the US?...might just be "southern-fast-food"

that was my first "real" job, did it for like 1 or two years, was around 16-18 years old. It wasn't that bad because several of my high school buddies were also working there and we made things fun. I haven't eaten there once since leaving though, yuck.



I also worked at a beer & wine store for around 3-4 years while in school. I didn't mind that job much though, just cash register work, carding people. Restocking the freezer with beer sucked though.

[Rake2204]

this is true, but dealing w/ customers was the worst IMO. People treat you like an animal because you work in fast food. Some people are so vicious when they have to wait for their f*cking chicken nuggets.


I'll never forget this time i was cleaning off tables and I spilled a cup with some ice in it.

Literally one drop, ONE TINY ASS DROP of water lands on the back of some lady's sandal and she tries to order me to clean it off for her. She starts berating me when i refuse and my manager had to kick her out of the store.Awful. I'll say, I think it'd be beneficial for certain types of folks to experience customer service jobs at least once in their lives, even briefly, so they can better understand how things work.

I like to think I was always pretty polite to employees in that position, but working in that realm keyed me in to some other aspects I never realized before. For instance, I've been a lot more reluctant to patronize an eatery if they're within 10 or so minutes of closing because I know the feeling of preparing to shut things down only to have a family of 12 come in at 9:59 and orders a four course meal. I mean, it's the customer's right to do so, but I like to look out for those employees when I can.

[Stuckey]

it's a toss up between telemarketing and dishwashing

[rufuspaul]

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Good lord they can't even make the food look good in the promo picture.

[Kungfro]

I did some landscaping over the summer my last year in college. Digging ditches in 110+ weather isn't fun... although we typically stopped by noon.

I had a similar experience with landscaping. Definitely gets you in good shape though.

Worst for me would probably be when I worked at a furniture factory. Just extremely monotonous. 8 hours a day of loading wood into a machine. I remember they would send out a monthly newsletter, and when I started the first one I saw had a memorial section for an employee that recently committed suicide. Then I saw that he used to be the moulders assistant, which is the job I just started. Not the greatest sign when the guy you replaced killed himself.

[macmac]

Telemarketing, car wash and working as a cashier at a grocery store. All terrible jobs.

Now I play a game for a living, can't fathom ever working for someone again

[ItsMillerTime]

Worked at a brickyard while I was in between jobs just to generate some income. They didn't have much work for me to do at the time, so they gave me some busy-work while they figured out what to do. They literally had me disassembling a brick pile and stacking it back up 10 feet away from the original pile. In the middle of summer in the blazing hot sun.

On my 3rd day, I walked out on my lunch break and never came back.

[Rake2204]

On my 3rd day, I walked out on my lunch break and never came back.I did something similar once. I dated a girl in college who really thought I should always have a job of some sort, even if I was going to school full-time and whatnot. So I appeased her by getting a job a the local Blimpie's. I know nothing about food and I didn't realize that place (sandwich shop) had a drive-through window as well. Things looked so hectic and weird on the first day, even when I was more or less just observing. So when they gave me the menu to take home and study, I just kinda never came back.

[DukeDelonte13]

Awful. I'll say, I think it'd be beneficial for certain types of folks to experience customer service jobs at least once in their lives, even briefly, so they can better understand how things work.

I like to think I was always pretty polite to employees in that position, but working in that realm keyed me in to some other aspects I never realized before. For instance, I've been a lot more reluctant to patronize an eatery if they're within 10 or so minutes of closing because I know the feeling of preparing to shut things down only to have a family of 12 come in at 9:59 and orders a four course meal. I mean, it's the customer's right to do so, but I like to look out for those employees when I can.


i've seen so much worse... There were a couple of middle aged older people that worked day crew at the wendy's i worked at...

I worked with this guy who was an engineer for 30+ years, graduated from purdue, got into a major car accident that his health insurance refused to cover, he started working at wendy's on weekends to try and get extra money to pay down his debt, his engineering job fired him and 50 something engineers are pretty unemployable... This dude winds up managing the wendy's and this poor guy gets sh*t on, day after f*cking day by rude ass customers...

It's really sad. Just like you, i'll NEVER go into a dining establishment minutes before close or be condescending to any food service worker. You aren't a better person because you think you work a better job.

[DeuceWallaces]

I cleaned out horse stalls in high school.

It's not the poop, it's the urine...

[Just2McFly]

Telemarketing, car wash and working as a cashier at a grocery store. All terrible jobs.

Now I play a game for a living, can't fathom ever working for someone again
still trying to figure how to get to that mac mac, rufus level in life

[AlphaWolf24]

Working preload at UPS waking up at 3:30 am everyday and loading 3 trucks with boxes. They realized early on that I was a really hard worker and moved me onto the highest seniority belt on the hardest 3 truck pull in the building.

needless to say everyday was a ****ing battle. every second couldn't go to waste. I had to be an efficency warrior. taking time to drink water was a waste of 10 seconds and a setback. the 10 minute break in the middle of the day HAD to be used to load the stuff I didn't have time to prior.

I had to memorize the general way each trucks packages were designed (packages come down the belt with a numbered label on them, this tells you where in the truck the package goes)

by the end of the day each of my trucks had each shelf loaded full with packages lined along the back wall and the whole entire middle aisle was full with packages as well so you couldn't see through the truck. and these were stacked to the ceiling just about.

it was crazy ****ing shit and one day I just decided "**** this" and stopped showing up and then they offered me a number of other positions saying they really didn't want to lose me but I left regardless because I was tired of waking up so early.

- Did the same thing for Fed Ex Ground 10 years ago....sh!t was Horrible.

[AlphaWolf24]

Real estate assistant.


what was bad about it?

[senelcoolidge]

I had a job at a restaurant where in the mornings I had to throw out big garbage bins of food outside in the hot sun. The heat and the stench of rotting food was terrible. I nearly passed out once. When I got home from work I would stink. It was incredible how much food these restaurants throw out every day. So much food wasted.

My current job all I do is drive around the city and pick up sick people or dumbass druggies and take them to the hospital. It's probably one of the easiest jobs I've ever had and I have co-workers complain that it's hard...:facepalm younger people are so ungrateful and lazy. They want everything easy.

[rufuspaul]

still trying to figure how to get to that mac mac, rufus level in life


mac mac's situation is pretty unique. Mine is boring: study+hard work+time.

[DeuceWallaces]

Yeah, having a solid career isn't a big mystery. Just takes a lot of dedication and work.

[nightprowler10]

Yeah, having a solid career isn't a big mystery. Just takes a lot of dedication and work.
A little bit of luck never hurts.

[IamRAMBO24]

3rd one in to say UPS. Quite possibly the worst job ever.

[DukeDelonte13]

A little bit of luck never hurts.


throw in some nepotism too while you are at it

[DeuceWallaces]

The luck has to come after all the hard work and studying.

[MrC1991]

Sometimes its the people you know I got the job I have now because someone in my family was in the business.

[ForeverHeat]

To all of you guys who have shitty jobs and feel like your stuck, just remember you are living in an age of opportunity. An age where just turning on your computer can be a way to make money. You dont need any education or experience, just a idea and dedication.

The way its done is simple, but arduous and difficult to execute successfully. Just start with one project, a website for example, get it up and running and generally successful, then find people to maintain that (interns or assistants or even volunteers who have interest in your sector and want to be able to put the experience on their cv). Then you just take the money you make from the first project and invest it into something else. If you can get a second project up and running, and after a long time of hard work you manage to get that maintaining itself, you just rinse and repeat.

You will fail a lot, but eventually you can find yourself in a situation where you pretty much have 5 different self maintaining businesses running and money is coming into your bank account without you even lifting a finger. Im just starting out but people who have significant wealth have told me thats the most foolproof way to make a lot of money over a certain period of time.

[Tarik One]

I don't get how a person can work as a CNA for multiple years without even attempting to advance to a Medical Assistant, Pharmacy Tech, Phlebotomist, etc. All it takes is 2-3 months of financially aided schooling. Yet they are content with wiping 80 year-old asses for $10/hr and complain about it every other day.

I'd NEVER become a CNA. Spare the "You'll get used to it" nonsense.

[BigBoss]

To all of you guys who have shitty jobs and feel like your stuck, just remember you are living in an age of opportunity. An age where just turning on your computer can be a way to make money. You dont need any education or experience, just a idea and dedication.

The way its done is simple, but arduous and difficult to execute successfully. Just start with one project, a website for example, get it up and running and generally successful, then find people to maintain that (interns or assistants or even volunteers who have interest in your sector and want to be able to put the experience on their cv). Then you just take the money you make from the first project and invest it into something else. If you can get a second project up and running, and after a long time of hard work you manage to get that maintaining itself, you just rinse and repeat.

You will fail a lot, but eventually you can find yourself in a situation where you pretty much have 5 different self maintaining businesses running and money is coming into your bank account without you even lifting a finger. Im just starting out but people who have significant wealth have told me thats the most foolproof way to make a lot of money over a certain period of time.

Thats great but you need money to take care of necessities. A lot of people have zero support. A lot of people dont break through because their too stressed making ends meet to think about an idea.

Go to college. Land a job. Use a portion of your income to create a second stream of income. And so on. The first 2 steps are fundamental if you have nothing in your account and no support.

[russwest0]

Jeebus that stressed me out just reading that.

and if I accidentally put just ONE BOX in the wrong location it pissed off my driver for that truck because it meant he'd have to waste time trying to dig it out among the others and if he couldn't find it then would have to waste time going back on his route later when it was found.

[russwest0]

3rd one in to say UPS. Quite possibly the worst job ever.

:oldlol: not hard to see why they have such a high turnover rate.

though it really isn't that bad if you get the right job. they were willing to keep me around just to dump bags in the top part of the building but at that point I just felt betrayed and said nah

[ForeverHeat]

Thats great but you need money to take care of necessities. A lot of people have zero support. A lot of people dont break through because their too stressed making ends meet to think about an idea.

Go to college. Land a job. Use a portion of your income to create a second stream of income. And so on. The first 2 steps are fundamental if you have nothing in your account and no support.

Thats very true. You need money to make money. However, for someone who is in that situation, it doesnt mean its impossible. It just means it will take a lot longer since they have a lot on their plate. Everyone has a chance in this Western society, some more than others, but we only have one life. It would be stupid not to try.

[Just2McFly]

The luck has to come after all the hard work and studying.
You are right man, maybe that's why I keep taking short cuts and shit...in my mind there just has to be another way and i end doing more work than if i just took the traditional route