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crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

Aug-24-2006 01:11

I'll start. For me, it's a toss up between two singularly horrible exercises in gainful employment.

At 17, I worked door canvass for Greenpeace. This entails hopping in a van with 7 or 8 other people who, like you, can't POSSIBLY find work in elsewhere, and enduring a ride of a least an hour with some dude who is trying to think of a way to make underwear last six days between washings (His name was Tony, and his idea was that all underwear should have three leg holes, and that the wearer would just move over one leg-hole every day, then turn the whole thing inside out after day 3 and start anew). Upon reaching your destination, you jump out and have about six hours to wander around knocking on doors and asking for money. And they all have dogs.

I started carrying a knife. One man told me he didn't have time to give me money because he was giving his wife her monthly enema. Not kidding.

#2: when I was 21, I was a waiter/cook/maintenance dude in a Mexican/Lebanese/disgustingly over-chic part of Toronto called Yorkville, where people go party when they want to look like they're at a casting call for extras in a Fitty cent video. The tips were for crap but the work wasn't so bad. BUT: my boss had these two gigantic dogs she would bring to the restaurant every day. Part of my job was to sweep up their fur (which daily amounted to the weight of a small chow-chow) and to prepare their (organic) vittles.

In the same food processor we used for human food.

Hummous out, raw kidneys in.

Kidneys out, avocado in.

Avocado out, steamed rat livers in.

Yuck much?

There's more (bridal registry for illegal Mexican ceramics in the back; forcing me to go hawk gay pride T-shirts) but the kicker is she would scrape up all the customers leftovers, invite me to 'buffet' and serve the rest the next day.

Incompetent bosses. Micromanagers. Freaky co-workers. 'Dave' from accounting who scratches himself in public. What are some of your worst jobs or job experiences, sleuthies?

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jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Aug-24-2006 03:18

(Can we tell I am a tad bit angry and emotional around this, hahah.)

yoyofoshow
yoyofoshow
Old Shoe

Aug-24-2006 04:34

I don't get it what was your last job?

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Aug-24-2006 10:27

News paper delivery.

Kidding, senior manager at an IT company, program manager director.

Reese Withers
Reese Withers
Well-Connected

Aug-24-2006 10:46

Worse job ever? Hummmm.....I'd say being a Gal Friday for an accountant during tax season. In case noone knows what a 'Gal Friday" is.....its a gal that is basically a "go for" girl. Run their errands, bring coffee and shit like that to them, when they are having meetings.(i was even picking up their personal things, such as their clothes from the dry cleaners, etc..Im like wtf? lol) I got tired of being a slave for them lol (they were a husband and wife,and they were both asses) I dont cater to anyone......so that definitely was the worse job I ever had. I was a teenager then, so, just needed a job. Blah!



sunny
sunny
Lady of Shadows

Aug-24-2006 10:55

Nik, I thought your worst job ever was your 12 hr stint working for EuroDisney.

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Aug-24-2006 11:48

lol why only 12 hours?

this should be good....

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Aug-24-2006 17:17

I have ticked people off at many jobs in my life :)

1) my first job was at Dunkin Donuts, where I was running the illustrious drive-through. Let me tell you, people are NOT happy campers in the morning when trying to get their coffee and go to work, I pissed off many

2) while in college, i took a work study job as a telemarketer calling alumni for donations. I learned very quickly that people did NOT appreciate my calling them during dinner and asking them for money when they already paid thousands upon thousands of dollars to go to my school *note that I hang up on said telemarketers when they now call me during dinner for money i dont have b/c ill be paying them for the rest of my life

3) I then proceeded to work for a collections agency. Of all my jobs, this might have been the one which produced the most insults and cursing. Not only are you calling them for money during dinner, but its money they owe and you're threatening to screw up their credit for life

4) Ahh the illustrious life of a worker's compensation investigator! I got more ppl fired than I care to admit for various offenses such as carrying their crying children, grocery shopping, going on vacation, going out to dinner, etc.

5) now, I work at a tool company which is linked with a construction company where every person hates us for overcharging their jobs for the various things that we provide, and hates my boss even more, and so now come to me with all their issues with him pissed off and yelling at poor little me whos just trying to be the nice office manager that i am.....

BadAss
BadAss
Charioteer

Aug-24-2006 17:27

I remember when I was 17 I worked for a month at a General Motors plant. It was during shut-down. I had to clean the filter cabins of dust, they were located right above the place where assembled cars got their first coating of paint. Nothing wrong with whiping of dust I hear you think...

Well first of all I always had to be there like 5 AM. Those cabins were only like 5 feet high. Considering I'm 6' 4'' you can imagine what a predicament it was the whole time. And I just couldn't sit on my knees the whole time as the floors needed to be moped as well...

While spending time in those cabins you had to sniff that annoying, breath-taking stench of the carpaint, giving you headaches after about an hour. But the worst thing was that while working you didn't get to see any daylight at all. I usually arrived there at dark and only got to see my first sunlight after nine hours or so. Still remember how it hurt my eyes when I my shift was finally over.

On top of that there were two regular workers who were allowed to boss around the students during that whole period. Normally they were the ones being bossed around, but at this vacation period they could have a little taste of what it's like to be in His Master's Chair, if you catch my drift.

Gotta love working class heroes :-)

Ms Helen
Ms Helen
Con Artist

Aug-24-2006 17:58

My worst job has got to be my work experience that i did in school. I spent two weeks at a riding school. I must have picked the worst two weeks of the year.

We had nothing but storms. One of the rooves came off the stables. One horse got collic and we couldn't get hold of the vet so i had to walk the horse around the school in the pouring rain.

Then i had to do so much s*"t shovelling that i think i stunk for about 2 months after.

Then i got bit by a horse that was in livery because the owner had forgotten to mention that he had a bad temperment.

And to top it all off at the end of the two weeks i was full of cold because i 'd spent 14 days in the rain in the middle of winter hehe.

All my jobs in comparison have been quite good


jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Aug-24-2006 18:54

Oooooh Sunny you are mean. I have been denial about this, as are most considering the place where I have seen more drugs done in employee housing there, then I have the average college dorm or red light district. (And coming from Amsterdam that says something.) It's the only way you can cope having a permanent smile on your face all day, and abiding by "the euro disney" indoctrination.

Yes my turnstile watching, pointing at exit, and guarding the parade job for a day, then quitting my job......was something I banned from my mind all together.

For any of you who plan to have a career as a mouse, or a duck. Don't do it.

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