Your worst job
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- NotByHand
While in college, I had a job where I would pack various breads on pallets for grocery stores, supermarkets... etc. The 'workday' was from 10 PM to 6 AM, and basically consisted of running around at a frantic pace inside a giant warehouse building full of bread, filling orders ridiculously snappy in order to please a grade A asshole of a supervisor. The reason I took the job, was that one night payed equally to working 2-3 days at the typical student jobs. So I worked Friday nights only. Consequently I was always completely fried on Saturdays. As you can gather, that meant I was basically unable to do anything on Friday and Saturday nights then.
I lasted about 3 months.
-What's your story?
- iCanHazQBN1
she wouldn't swallow.
- ninjasavant0
Taking surveys in the mall
- Llyod0
3d artist
- chossy0
macdonalds
I was in the store cupboard trying to work out the best way to stack all the burger boxes and things like that so it would be tidier and easier to get the things that we used more regularly than others, the shift boss came into the cupboard and said 'what are you doing?' I said 'I am thinking, I;m thinking about how to make this rooms a bit easier to use' he said 'don't let me catch you thinking again' I said 'likewise although I am yet to catch you thinking' I left the building seconds after saying that never to return judd nelson style yo! "don't you forget about me don't don't don't"
- chossy0
- I spread my cheeks and everythingLlyod
- You see what you want to see.Jnr_Madison
- It's really annoying that the ignore script doesn't do the notes as well :(chossy
- you put me on ignore? lolzJnr_Madison
- mcLeod0
5pm to 2am at an imaging lab. hi-res scanning and large format digital printing. boring ass work and it was an hour commute.
- Jnr_Madison0
Chossy...
- jay_jay0
packing variety size bags of cereal into flat packed boxes, so basically a line of people, conveyor belt, me and a moaning old bitch at the end that had worked in this factory since the place opened (20 odd years) she kept yelling "fold the flaps in" as the asains beside me wasn't doing it properly. One day I just couldn't take any more of that shit so just walked out. damn! i hated that place.
- epete220
my worst job ever was also at a large format printer.
- locustsloth0
i worked doing dishes in a dining hall at Plattsburgh State in NY, where i attended college for a couple years. But not just dishes; dealing with all the trays that would come in from the dining hall. Heaped high with food that had been piled, smashed, strewn, smeared and otherwise made a mess of by 18-20 yr olds who were just finding their "independence" (meaning they felt like they could do whatever they wanted, at least in this situation).
What's worse is they were on a conveyor belt; and endless stream of filth that it was my duty to manage.
i lasted 3 days until i told the boss i couldn't do it any longer.
- magnificent_ruin0
selling cheap portrait photography to poor people south of SF
- but i only did it for an hourmagnificent_ruin
- Elaborate, please...NotByHand
- pics pleasemcLeod
- mcLeod0
I worked at another imaging lab (different from the above mentioned lab). I started out processing film in a pitch black room breaking open film canisters and hanging them for the dip and dunk processors. i then moved up to scanning film of car crash photos for 8 hours a day.
then the owner went bankrupt, closed the doors without telling me then didn't pay my medical bills for shoulder surgery. He declared personal bankruptcy so I couldn't sue him. what an asshole.
i consider that paying my dues.
- kalkal0
Making cardboard boxes.
- hiimerik0
oil rig
- Jnr_Madison0
Being a bank was a bit shit.
- robco0
I had a similar job at a grocery store, stocking shelves. it was also the graveyard (10 - 6 am) shift. it paid well, but it was strange because i was working with a few 35 - 40 year olds, which made me feel strangely underqualified for the work even though it was the most brainless job ive ever done, oh wait - lifeguarding was the most brainless, and also the most rewarding :)
- I had you down as the traffic warden type.Jnr_Madison
- traffic warden? why?robco
- lolz, I'm just joking after your thread about NSFW images,Jnr_Madison
- watch yer speed! theres more where that came from.robco
- :pJnr_Madison
- haha... yeah, my job had that age-group as well - dudes that had been there for many years (and had clout because of it !!???)NotByHand
- iluvsoul0
diggin graves.....