Worst Job Ever?

[HEWSINATOR]

I am the proud graduate of 2 jobs featured on "Dirty Jobs".

1. Hot tar roofing. This one sucked and did not last long, though with the exception of this I have never quit a summer job. However, it was very unsafe and I did not get paid when I was supposed to. Doing flat roofs, you use a bunch of tar and gravel. My job...filling the 5 gallon pale with the gravel and pulling it up the pulley (3 or 4 stories) all day. Hundreds of buckets. There was a guy with scars on his face from when (they say) they put a bucket over his head as a joke and there was still bits of hot tar in it.

2. Asphalt paving. Burned holes through the soles of my work boots every few weeks. Do I need to say more?

The above job was not too bad, I do not mind hard work if the people are OK. But I did work for the city doing roadway maintenance too. It was pretty tough working with a group of people who for the most part did not care at all about quality or efficiency. We would do things patently wrong then everybody would have a laugh about being back next year. I was in business school before doing the degree I am in right now and they always said money compensation was below satisfaction/feeling of job well done on the list of desired rewards and I thought it was a bunch of crap. But then I worked there, where there was 0 satisfaction and it was tough.

 

[designprofessor]

Janitor cleaning out public restrooms after outdoor rock concerts.
I can honestly say I've stood in six inches of soggy cigarette butts as I shoveled piles of debris into storm drains. Then there were the restrooms. We busted in like swat team with a gallon of pine -sol and blasted everything with a fire hose.
To this day I will not eat concession food at any event after seeing it fester in the sun near arcs of vomit.
Definitely gave me a perspective on humanity.

 

[JetBlast]

Originally Posted by mikejones

I have alot of family living there, and there are parts of it that would not only qualify for aid from the World Food program and Unicef - but possibly UN peacekeeping troops as well.

The seaport is nice, as is the ballpark, but like philly there are large parts of the city that walking in after 5 pm would not be considered too wise...

BTW, who is that blond in your avatar? She looks like one of my conquests...

Fair enough. Most people just generally give the whole of Balmer a bad name, some parts of it are actually very nice.

No one seems to know who my avatar is, we just call her the beer wench, per the link in my signature.

 

[thinman]

My first real job in high school was cleaning a butcher shop, for less than minimum wage (legal at the time). The job became really nasty when the butcher made me clean the meat locker floor. It hadn't been cleaned in more than a year, so there was about a 1" thick layer of dried blood under the sawdust. Once it got wet, the stench was absolutely revolting. To top it off, the butcher decided the ammonia I was using wasn't working, so he added chlorine bleach to the mix. Moron.

 

[teddieriley]

Originally Posted by Jayhawk1412

Working as a berry picker. I worked for an entire week when I was 15 as a Raspberry picker. 10 hour days, with only 1 break.

I got paid $35.00 at the end of the week. Total bullsh!t

reminds me of napoleon dynamite.

 

[thinc]

First job in high school was stock boy at a book store located in the apple complex (5 infinite loop I believe). Lots of heavy lifting and the sales manager had a bit of a holier than thou attitude, a real dick. But it funded my arcade addiction at the time.

 

[X-It]

Originally Posted by bbaquiran

You seem to enjoy it.

Tremendously! Enormously! Extremely!

Originally Posted by amerikajinda

and she's quite good at it!

My worst job was when I was 15 and had to deliver coupons for a new hairdresser shop door-to-door throughout local neighborhoods...

Well thank you, love.

But... I thought your worst job was had to bang married East-Asian women when you were 25, true?

 

[Spilotro]

Trophy shop. Boring and redundant work, didn't really learn anything, and the pay was sh*t.

 

[highgrade]

fed ex warehouse during summer. had to empty out 50 + foot trailers when it was 100 degrees outside. it was like working in an oven. people routinely passed out bc of the heat and there were many sprained ankles and other injuries when an entire wall of packages would collapse on the poor idiot that didn't move out of the way quickly enough. interestingly enough, it's the reason i never use fed ex for shipping. you would never believe how we treated those packages, and how many of them ended up on the factory floor, ripped open and trampled.

the benefits were 1) excellent pay that allowed me to not have to work during the school year and even better 2) you can eat whatever you want b/c you will lose a lot of weight