What is the most demeaning job you've done?

Worked in a library for an extremely racist woman. She truly thought she was [b]complimenting[/b] me when she once told me I was the “hardest working [i]nigra[/i] she’d ever met, not [b]lazy[/b] like most of ‘em.” I worked for her after classes for as long as I could stand it, until I found another job. 🙄

Wife

Selling meth. I was already used to selling drugs so it didn't seem too crazy to sell meth next but after seeing the types of customers & how badly they needed it... It made me hate doing it.

They could look homeless, have nothing, & yet they'd still spend all their money on it. So I quit & went back to selling weed & pills (which I also don't do anymore. This was all years ago)

Stripping and it was also the most rewarding financially- go figure. IT was mostly monotonous

What was then called a "Surgical Orderly" I had to ensure all bodily waste including urine and feces were removed. Pubic shaved if indicated.

Ensure suture kits were complete and assembled to the EXACT specifications of the surgeons.

Sterilized surgical instruments, read the specific surgeries scheduled and ensuring instruments were packaged perfectly for the surgery scheduled. There was a triple check system for doing this. First myself, 2nd.with a rotating surgical nurse. 3rd,in concert with the surgical supervisor. There was NO margin for error, one missing instrument could put a patients life at risk.

I would keep forgetting to mask and glove up as I entered the surgical unit. My supervisor, the surgical nurses, t he surgeons would SCREAM at me.

Tempers flaired easily, being the bottom of the totem pole, I got the brunt of it.

The day I gave notice the surgical supervisor looked disappointed, "We were hoping to train you to be a circulating surgical nurse" ( I was shocked, turns out they actually liked me)

When I was a teenager I worked in a hair salon for a couple summers. I wouldn't call it demeaning but when I touched & washed dirty hair that was drenched in oil I couldn't help but curse myself 🌚

It’s hard to say a job is demeaning but I definitely have one.

My started a trash collection business or aka the trash company. They called it “Happy Trash” and gave away trash bags with smiley faces on them.

Anyway one rainey summer day several workers did not show up to work and I get a call to go pick up trash on the back of a trash truck with a huge smiley face on the side. It was awful.

Just awful until a pic of me picking up trash was circulated all around.

It’s funny now and that company made big bucks when it was sold but not funny at the time. Lol

Teaching

bill collecting

that'll drain your soul

Don't know if it qualifies as a job because I wasn't paid; was just helping my cousins. But I held the piglets up by their hind legs while my cousin castrated them. One had diarrhea and squirted me head to toe when the blade hit its target, but I held on, earning a lot of respect from the cousins.

Oh, maybe babysitting... for this one child whom had power/control issues. Like watching him was like watching Stewie from Family guy...

EXTREMELY EXTREMELY smart kid... but he had a temper that he couldn't control at times, and so got in trouble for throwing "punches" (he would go through the motions of a punch, but it was more like a touch in the form of a punch, trying to get a reaction, and cat walking on you had more power behind it)... though he would also pitch would could seriously hurt, as he wouldn't let go, and he might get SE.skin, though that was rare.


But this kid had the dream of being in full and complete control, and no would could ever tell him what to do... he basically had the definition of napoleon complex, and he could boss everyone else around.

Cleaning piles of lint from under looms in a textile mill. The weavers and fixers spit their tobacco juice in the lint, and I had to use bare arms to pull it out. I was covered in while and brown gunk. Welcome to your summer job, Schoolboy!

Digging ditches in the desert during the summer way above 100°f near Palm springs.

BTW I have done many so called hard jobs that many have refused to do.

House keeping at a camp for kids was among the easiest jobs that some refuse to do.

1 year internship at a hospital. You're the lowest of them all and get spat at all the times. Many times it wasn't even work related. I was sl.ut shamed for wearing modest western clothes. I literally looked like a fervent Mormon. But nope. I was a wh.ore. and told so in front of everyone. Take blood pressures day in and day out. Everything that goes wrong is the intern's fault. My hands were sore by the end of the year. I was extremely depressed and convinced I was in fact a s.lut. I stopped going out of the house and would cry all the time. I loathed myself so much that was afraid to apply for a job for 2 years. They had drilled it in me that I was in fact an incapable bimbo.

I wouldn't say demeaning. I've respected every job I've done. Taught me humility and the value of every job, and how they're all essential in keeping things running.

When I worked in a laboratory I found out the receptionist got the same pay as I did and didn't need the qualifications I had.So I applied the next time the reception job came up and didn't get the position.I waited patiently and sure enough a position as a receptionist opened up again.This time I broke interview dress code and wore a skirtsuit with a skirt so short it barely showed beneath the fitted jacket,left my legs bare and wore white sandals with 6 inch pencil thin stiletto heels....and was successful.

The majority of the manual labor jobs that I've had over the past several years.

Probably septic tank pumper for a portable toilet company

Nurses aid. Very hard work back in the day with low pay.

pizza delivery. Lasted one shift

Waitress. Hated it with all my guts.

I've done many jobs including cleaning toilets but I didn't find them demeaning.

I think the worst was when I was in my 20's I was serving Blackberry employees at a function in a buffet line and one was mocking our lack of education (like he knew my intelligence or education level).

Busboy at a nightclub

jiggolo... jk

Probably manual labor... but really I don't think my jobs have been demeaning, I think it's been more certain people or certain management... crappy management, that's been demeaning having to work with or for them.

Can’t say I’ve ever had a demeaning job
One summer job I had during high school was working for a pest control company
Since I was the smallest person, I was the one who had to crawl under pier and beam homes to do pest control
Absolutely nasty

Pumping gas

I worked as a deli clerk in the supermarket and it was mostly old people that went to the deli. So I'd have to almost yell for them to hear me, oftentimes had to repeat myself.

Public school teacher in the Bronx .

When 16 or so spent one weekend working for an auction. Low pay, long hours, berated on stage in front of hundreds of people.

To Help someone I don't want to help because it's the right thing to do and also what they pay me for.

None, I've always needed the money, no help from mommy and daddy, was well trained in the USMC as a grunt.

I was a manager at an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet. Things were chaotic sometimes. 😖

I always tend to go for such high demanding matters. Probably that's why I failed mostly 😂

Nothing is demeaming if you take control and do it with dignity

bill collector
care giver for evail step-mother

Supervisor, the paperwork was horrible !!

Being a male stripper

Staff car driver for some Pentagon shit birds. Arrogant fekkers who liked to toy with staff because they [i]"could."[/i]

Sam's Club cashier. I dunno if I'd say the job was demeaning, but there was a lot I didnt care for in that job.

all of them

i would say working in Walmart as a cleaner

Convenience store clerk 🤮😭

Working in a cannery.

Dm me.

Super market deli. It wasn't the work. It wasn't the bosses. It was the customers. I don't understand how anyone can feel they are so much better than another person based on job and treat them like trash as a result. This is basically any public service job that has direct customer interaction though.

I guess what I did in 2020 to late 2021. Which was largely warehouse-kinda-stuff

When I first started at the hospital I worked in the lab and I answered the phone and a man was inquiring about giving his sperm sample after having a vasectomy.

I guess he really loved my voice because he said it was really sexy and he wanted me to keep talking to him while he jerked off in his sample cup 🙄.

Janitorial work. People would just shit and not flush nor wipe. It was really gross.