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What was the worst job you had?

I have had a lot of jobs for a couple days or even a couple hours. The diabetic sales job just made me sad. They actually told me in training, The services we are offering are comparable to the ones they already get. These people are lonely and will sign with us if you just talk to them a lil. I had 1 grueling shift in a busy kitchen. I got a job as a security guard once. The clothes barely fit. They put me on an electric golf cart, had me drive people around the airport parking lot. I kept getting lost. :D
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M Best Comment
Making headstones for graves. It involved standing for hour moving a smoothing polishing machine back and forth over the sawn face of the marble or granite stone until it was mirror smooth. Granite often took a couple of days to complete.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@DanielChristensen: The heavy lifting was all done by machine and the pay was minimum wage plus 5 cents. It was the sheer monotony of standing day after day watching this big coil spin round and round and round and round while I added various grits and polishing agents to the water being dribbled onto the stone. The company owner then found out I could drive a standard transmission and had me deliver and install the stones in the various cemeteries. I was there for about 3 weeks total until my reserve unit called me up for service.
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
Were you glad to be called up?
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@DanielChristensen: Never so glad in my life! My job in the reserves was teaching aircrew how to survive in the bush so I went from hell to heaven. 4 months of camping!

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DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
Damn. Sounds like a crime scene. I hear crime scene clean up pays pretty good, if you can stand it
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Fast food worker. I am not cut out to be one. To be fair, the place I worked out lost like 10 workers in under two weeks
@DanielChristensen: It's okay. I'm trying to get everything under control. Once, I do, I plan on trying to work from home, so I can manage to work. :)
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
I hope you have a swift recovery
@DanielChristensen: Thank you :)
Selling life insurance on straight commission. It was an unprofitable waste of time. The HR recruiter overhyped the position with the line about limitless income. BS. After a few months of near-starvation, I discovered, at long last, that things were not as advertised.
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
My mother had the same experience. She warned me away from that line of work recently. How about now? Doing something you love?
@DanielChristensen: The position I have now isn't something I love, but it plays an important role in protecting the public's health and I'm compensated well for it.
But I still aspire to win the Powerball Lottery and move to a secluded island in the South Pacific.
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
@Maverick1962: haha ikr
berangere · 80-89, F
Working in a factory sorting pieces of steel and shredding my fingers in the process.Actually it was the worse job you could be given there.
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
Damn that sounds awful
berangere · 80-89, F
@DanielChristensen: It was!
At age 18 I was a church organist and pianist. It was a Southern Baptist church, and the job req stated that applicants did [b]not[/b] have to join the faith to work there. In spite of previous reassurances that my being Catholic wouldn't be an impediment to a job as their musician, as soon as I was hired, church members started to pry with proselytizing and questions about my religious beliefs. Worse, the (married) pastor began making suggestive comments and putting hands on me during choir practice. That, at least, stopped when I told my mother and she started coming to the practices and sitting in the front pew, arms folded. 😅
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worked as a busboy for like a week. got cut as they were limiting people who they were hiring. went from 8 to 3. didnt like the job. they want you to smile all the time and i dont really smile much and the kitchen was bad. i wouldnt want to eat there.
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
The kitchen I worked at was very clean, but it was such hard work. When I put my arms in the hot water, I thought the skin was gonna slough off. It was volcanic!
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yep done that too. i did dish washing there too. extremely hot water. stung so bad putting your hands in the that water.
juiceyangel333 · 31-35, F
Quite a couple
DanielChristensen · 46-50, M
Examples?
juiceyangel333 · 31-35, F
@DanielChristensen: having a boss

 
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