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$1000 a week isn't exactly impressive for a salesman.Originally Posted by LabelKing
Keeping in mind that we were but college sophomores, it certainly was to us!
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Worst Job Ever?
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Keeping in mind that we were but college sophomores, it certainly was to us!
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I picked bananas with a friend once, surrounded and managed by drug and alchohol dependent rednecks in an alarmingly isolated, roasting hot, snake and spider infested spot in far north Queensland, Australia.
We got payed $10 an hour and worked ourselves to verging on exhaustion 5 days a week for 3 and a half months. I remember one time the pair of us shifted 27 tonnes of bananas in 3 days ...
We got payed $10 an hour and worked ourselves to verging on exhaustion 5 days a week for 3 and a half months. I remember one time the pair of us shifted 27 tonnes of bananas in 3 days ...
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I'd imagine working in an East Asian sweat-shop would qualify. But I wouldn't know from personal experience.
*runs away*
*runs away*
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I picked bananas with a friend once, surrounded and managed by drug and alchohol dependent rednecks in an alarmingly isolated, roasting hot, snake and spider infested spot in far north Queensland, Australia. We got payed $10 an hour and worked ourselves to verging on exhaustion 5 days a week for 3 and a half months. I remember one time the pair of us shifted 27 tonnes of bananas in 3 days ...Originally Posted by sybaritical
Daaaay-O! Ironic avatar.
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Yiiiiiieahhh.
I thought that as I was posting.
I thought that as I was posting.
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Working at CVS as a clerk/stock slave/whatever else for 2.5 years. My co-workers were either teenagers or failed middle-age folks who hated their lives. The supervisors were the worst...a butch lesbian, an always-PMSing single woman in her 40's, and the most passive aggressive manager the world has ever seen. It was quite the comedy of errors.
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I used to bus tables at a restaurant frequented by senior citizens. I used to have to clean the bathrooms every night. These old women would crap ad pee all over the place. I remember one night I stocked the bathroom with toilet paper and the floor was clean. A woman comes in so I leave. After she finishes and leaves, I enter to see crap all over the floor. She went and told the manager someone crapped on the floor and it needed to be cleaned. It was her. I couldn't believe it. In the guys room, pubes would be all over the place. It was disgusting. It helped pay for college though. It was bar far the worst job I had till Marshall Field's became Macy's.Originally Posted by mrpologuy
That's some disgusting, repugnant type ****. Are they even legally allowed to make you clean that stuff if its a biohazard?
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That's some disgusting, repugnant type ****. Are they even legally allowed to make you clean that stuff if its a biohazard?Originally Posted by FidelCashflow
My friend worked at a pizza place and they all took turns cleaning the bathroom at the end of the day. He said some rank stuff would get caught in the womens' toilets. When I washed dishes it was for my grandma, despite the physical abuse when messing up, she usually cleaned the toilets.
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Washing dishes is prolly the worst job I've ever gotten paid for. But, we used to live in this older house with a basement when I was about 11 and occasionally sewage would bubble up from this one pipe during bad storms. It was my job to clean that **** up, good times.Originally Posted by tiecollector
First and worst job was washing dishes at a Chinese restaurant. Well washing dishes, cleaning toilets, shucking shrimp etc. The restaurant also had a separate bar and was popular with a fairly interesting crowd. I came into the men's bathroom to mop one night and interrupted a guy snorting coke over the sink. The manager was an Asian guy who was trying a little too hard to ditch his accent and he ended up sounding like John Wayne(not exaggerating). He also drove a really cheesy yellow Corvette Stingray. He fired me with out any reason. I know what you're thinking but I wracked my brain trying to figure out what I could have done to deserve it and I could not see anything that I had done wrong. I was on time, did my job, didn't complain and when I asked him he couldn't give me an answer. When I came to pick up my final check 5 days later he asked me if I wanted my job back. I just shook my head and laughed.
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I've had jobs that probably seem worse objectively (incredibly mindless factory/warehouse work), but I've never hated anything more than I hated working at Nordstrom. Oh God.
i used to tutor grade school kids on the side. there was one kid who was SO UNMOTIVATED it was hell teaching this kid for 1.5 hours every week. i dreaded seeing this kid , i mean all kids have some lack of motivation by nature, but this kid was the king of UNMOTIVATION.
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A few summers ago, I worked in a garlic factory owned by a taiwanese guy with some friends of mine.
We peeled the garlic with our hands and put them on a conveyer belt where we would then inspect the pieces we had peeled and package them into plastic containers. The boss would walk around and "encourage" us to work faster.
All the workers were immigrants who couldn't speak English (besides us) and the whole operation seemed shaddy.
We peeled the garlic with our hands and put them on a conveyer belt where we would then inspect the pieces we had peeled and package them into plastic containers. The boss would walk around and "encourage" us to work faster.
All the workers were immigrants who couldn't speak English (besides us) and the whole operation seemed shaddy.
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I've had jobs that probably seem worse objectively (incredibly mindless factory/warehouse work), but I've never hated anything more than I hated working at Nordstrom. Oh God.Originally Posted by tundrafour
whats to hate about nordstroms? nice department store, get paid to hang around clothes all day, employee discounts. Seems like a pretty good deal.
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