Edited title cause I can't freaking type tonite!!!!
Daggone boring at dummieville tonite. I found this though:
Let the lie fest begin!!OP:
Star Member senseandsensibility (11,853 posts)
Happy Labor Day! What's the worst job you ever had?
I've peeled onions (yes, peeled onions manually) for a temp agency, and worked in a sauna-like basement loading an enormous dishwasher in hundred degree heat.
But I think the worst job I ever had was a preschool teacher. I had a Masters Degree, yet it paid minimum wage. There no benefits, sick days, or healthcare of course. I had to cook lunch for fifty or so kids every day and clean their bathroom (imagine a huge room with miniature toilets) in my "free time." No breaks of course. Planning activities to do with the children all day? Of course that was my responsibility, but I had to do that on my own time. Good thing I was young, because I was on my feet all day standing in the hot sun, or cooking, or cleaning, or leading activities,, and I was lucky to have a minute or two to use the restroom.
I think the above is the Education "reformers" dream for public education, by the way.
Anyone else want to share their really bad job experiences?
I'll let others talk about the OP..... and awaaay we goooooo!!!!
gopiscrap (3,705 posts)
1. Picking dead rats out of bushels of strawberries
that's why I won't eat jam or jelly
PETA hates you
Dreamer Tatum (7,786 posts)
2. Worked at a packing supply retailer owned by a racist
who wouldn't even interview non-whites.
So that's all we sent him when people came into the store to ask for a job.
Sure ya did.
theHandpuppet (12,608 posts)
4. Cleaning huge sewage valves from tankers (ships)
Really ruined my health.
SS Disability anyone?
mike_c (31,929 posts)
8. laborer for a concrete construction company, in my misspent youth....
I lasted about a week, if I recall correctly.
Translation: They made me work and I quit the first day!!!
Ron Obvious (1,958 posts)
9. Night shift at a convenience store
I was all alone managing the store and the gas pumps.
Some of the scariest people shop at night. All sorts of trolls and mutants and people who slept under a bridge during the day would come out at night to visit me. Although I don't remember him, I'm pretty sure the Green River killer shopped at my store as he was working the night shift at the nearby Kenmore truck painting plant and lots of their employees came by.
I worked 7 10 hour nights a week for 3 months straight for $4 an hour, and lived like a zombie during the daylight hours and barely had the energy to look for a better job.
Paging LFR... please pick up the red phone!!!
Art_from_Ark (17,632 posts)
24. I was seriously considering a graveyard shift job at a convenience store
during the Reagan Recession, at a time when I was lucky to have $10 in my pocket. But then there was a robbery at the store, and I thought, "Screw this"!
Paging LFR... please pick up the red phone!!!
Jenoch (3,109 posts)
34. To be perfectly blunt,
President Obama inherited a recession from W. just as Reagan inherited a recession from President Carter.
Freeper troll.
rustydog (8,203 posts)
13. dishwasher and graveyard cook at Dennys!
I had more fun as a teen picking cherries and apples for extra money back in the late 60's, early 70's.
I could not do that very hard work nowadays.
Cooking and washing dishes is hard work!!! Who knew?
Lars39 (18,285 posts)
15. Painting curbs with my husband.
I didn't get paid, he did, but only slightly more than minimum wage. If I didn't work for free we wouldn't have eaten that summer.
I guess food stamps did not exist back then
MH1 (13,038 posts)
23. Call center. Taking orders for Ginsu knives and "prayer" trinkets.
Sundays were the worst. Oh, and Christmas morning. Yes, those 1-800 number folks work on Christmas. I can't express the revulsion I developed for the religious shysters. From listening to people with all kinds of issues tell me their troubles and insist on giving $5 that they probably couldn't afford. And of course my job was to take their money then get them off the phone as quickly as possible, but most sounded really lonely and just wanted someone to talk to. If I didn't get them off the phone quickly enough the supervisor was on my back.
One day I just quit. The economy was less bad then but it was still irresponsible on my part. Oh well. I made it out ok, thankfully.
Behind the Aegis (29,284 posts)
28. Telemarketer selling funeral plots.
I quit after 4 hours. I should have taken the escort job, but they insisted I "date" women too.
Sarcasm or the truth? You decide!!!!
Jackpine Radical (37,708 posts)
32. Bleeding into the ground out of 3 AK bullet holes
for 24 cents an hour in the middle of the night on a holiday.
I did get medevaced out, though, or I wouldn't be writing this.
Another dummie warrior.
Not big right now. Sure to be a big bonfire by the morning.
