What's the worst job you ever had?
 

Mine was hauling small square bales of hay. It is hot, often over 100 degrees in the barn. You have to wear a long sleeved shirt or your arms will get bloodied. And it is damn hard work. Bales of alfalfa can weigh up to 90 pounds. No way I could do it today.

Zarda BBQ - Blue Springs location.

Note - I have too bailed some hay at my great grandfather's farm back in the day......not fun, that shit sucks, talk about some hard work.


Another was I used to work at the marina at Lake Jacomo. Around this time of year was when we would winter-ize the motors on the pontoon rentals and store them up in the shed. a 40HP outboard motor is ****ing heavy and it's odd because its on a swivel for when it turns and it's very top heavy. Had to unbolt them in areas you couldnt reach and it was on a boat which was in the water so you would be in an awkward position to begin with trying to lift them and then you haul them up to a garage that was on shore. Pain in the ass. The overall job at the Marina was the funnest job of my life......but everyone would dread this time of year when we would close up shop for the rental season.

McDonalds. Had to empty/scrape clean the pickle buckets that were filled with old grease from the griddle. They wanted to reuse the buckets. Finished my shift and never went back.

delivery of phone books in houston in the summer heat with no ac.

Door to door encyclopedia salesman.
For about one week.
A Guy in Atchison, KS pointed a loaded shotgun at me and said:
"Get off my Goddamn porch or somebody will have to scrape you off..."

I was a furniture delivery guy for a day back in high school. We drove around all day in 100 degree heat and dragged couches, dressers, matresses, and beds to people's houses. The guy driving the truck wouldn't stop so I could eat something (I am hypoglycemic and I crash every now and then) and get some water. We stopped at one crazy cat lady's hosue and it stunk so bad that we could smell it from the OUTSIDE of the house. I could barely carry the couch through the house because I couldn't breathe because of the nasty ass cat stench. Also, that day I learned that people are incredibly rude to delivery guys.

I never went back. $6 an hour. Gay.

How 'bout when those square bails got rained on.

I know there are some Midwest fans that did corn de-tasseling. Terrible job.

The chassis assembly line at the Winnebago motor homes plant in Forest City, IA. My God, I DESPISED that job. :cuss:

I've baled hay many times in my youth. Our barn sucked, too. The top part was long and sort of flat, so a lot of times you had to bend over while you were stacking the hay because you couldn't stand straight up.
The worst though was Enterprise Rent A Car. I'd go to a car dealership in the morning and have like 20 people there who had put their car in for service waiting for a car, and I'd have like 2 cars available. And the customers would rightly get super-pissed, and Enterprise would just leave me hanging out to dry with a roomful of pissed off people. Then when cars were returned for me to rent they'd be empty on gas or filthy.
Then after all that you'd have to try and sell them collision insurance. They'd be like "hell no, get me the hell out of here."

Roofing.

roofing ****ing sucks.

Haha I worked at Two Men and a Truck......More like Two Men who dont give a ****.....our driver was an avid pot smoker.....would be higher than a kite most of the time. Wouldnt do shit. I lasted at that job about 2 weeks and said **** it. They changed my hours and wanted me to work like 70 hrs a week **** that.

I worked Maintenance at a beef plant on the kill floor. Talk about some nasty work environments. Thank goodness I switched to IT.
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Part time roof extraction job in miami during summer using a jack hammer. Kicked my ass and I was a strong 20 yr old buck.Land lord gave me job as a favor I went to him to say he's not getting his money's worth and should hire someone else. He hired a miami native who handled the jack hammer like it was a broom and barely sweated in 100 plus heat. I am convinced he wasn't human.

I once had an internship with Hog Farmer..

LOL I work in the auto claims dept at State Farm. I work with ERAC all day long. People ALWAYS call back complaining they dont have cars.....or you guys sell them insurance, and then when they return the veh we don't pay for that because their own ins policy covers them while in the rental when their veh is getting repaired. ERAC is very very sneaky.

i done all that country shit and thought it wasnt hard atoll.

then again i aint no bitch.

What year was that and what furniture company, I use to work at Jantzens in KCK.

I worked at a plastic bag factory. Try standing at the end of a conveyor waiting for a counter to hit 50, then fold and box the trash bags for 8 hours. **** THAT. I lasted a week... you would HAVE to be stoned out of your mind just to NOT go crazy. I would live under a bridge before I did that again.

Yeah, we have a winner there, I lasted one damn day doing that.

I actually don't mind roofing, but the conditions in the summertime are brutal. I could never do it for a living for that reason alone.

2...

HR Block Seasonal employment and the one I'm in now...

Can't stand micromanaging and this is turning into a micromanaging sweat shop.
Doing what I used to do at Sprint, There was A TEAM of us that usually did a max of 4-5 software packages a week (2-3 was the norm). Now I'm turning out 1-3 a day and she's wondering why I can't do more.

Our lil Napoleon Mgr, doesn't understand that these things take time as I've spoiled them with quick turn-arounds in the past.

So in between compiling and working on my packages I use the Internet. Now that's being monitored and she wants a status report on Inet usage over the last month from all of her emps under her. Gave us the thumb drives to decipher. This is RIGHT AFTER she blurts out, "she doesn't want any negativity around". SHE'S THE ONE CREATING IT!

I explained to her that during compiling my scripts or whatever, I habitually search the Net. She offers another Computer on top of the 3 I already have at my desk. So now instead of surfing the Net, I find myself pacing. My co-workers wonder what the hell's wrong with my pacing and I tell them that's what I've resorted to since Big Brother is all over it.

She doesn't understand that giving me another machine would be the same as asking a writer to switch between pieces instead of giving one piece the attention it deserves. Packaging can become very confusing very quick.

Needless to say, I've been toying more and more of actually tattooing full time as I'm starting to really hate my job.

Selling subscriptions to the KC Star door to door (high school summer job long ago). Of course, we were always in the worst neighborhoods because people were transient in those locations, so there were alot of non-subscribers. I also suck at selling, so that didn't help.

Small baled hay, I ran a crew,corn de-tasseling, setting up concrete foundation forms, pouring it, and taking them down was a pain in the butt as well.

I hauled plenty of hay when I was in my teens, but that wasn't my worst job. My worst job would have to be the janitor's job my Dad got me when I was 15. I had to clean the bathrooms/breakrooms in a couple factories and office buildings. That sucked, but I guess it was probably good for my character.

Done that too ....... I was scared of heights, that didn't help. Rough end carpenter, walking around on the inner 2x4 walls wasn't my bag of tricks.

I've worked as a janitor, a stocker at a grocery store and at a warehouse before, so I've had my share of grungy and hard work, but my worst job was as a cleaner at Royals Stadium.

Back in the early '90's when the Royals were still good and packing the stadium I decided to try working on the clean-up crew as a second job one summer. I lasted one night. We had to sweep all of the garbage from the seats to the aisles then down to the landings to be bagged and dragged out to the dumpsters.

Popcorn and especially sunflower shells would stick to the ground because of spilled beer and pop and we would have to sweep that out and use a scraper to get any gum. After this someone would come in with a giant hose and power spray all of the rest of the stuff into the aisles which we had to sweep up and throw into garbage bags.

I ended up with blisters on my hands which popped while trying to sweep up the sunflowers and popcorn. Then the open wounds were soaked in muck while getting the wet garbage into bags. I had to toss my shoes because they filled up with a mixture of beer, pop and garbage sludge which stunk.

After that one night, I vowed to never take that job again. Instead I got extra overtime work in a hot warehouse which was preferable.

Laughing at 'Nut..........delivering phone books ROFL ROFL

When I was in high school I was involved in a fundraiser once hanging Taco John coupons on the doors of houses within a few mile radius of one of their locations.

We had the buddy system working, so this other guy and me (both suburban white kids) ended up in a really nasty neighborhood in KCK. We decided to bolt after hearing "what are their kind doing here" a couple of times then hearing what we assumed was a gun racking behind a door.

Worked one summer on a work-over rig. Basically went around to oil wells and changed out pumps, which required pulling thousands of feet of rods to get to the pump. Sometimes we would have to pull tubing also, if there was a leak. Working the floor completely sucked, as you would basically be covered with crude all day long. Worked from sun-up to sun-down. Although the work sucked, I made good money for a college kid, got in really good shape, and I suppose it did build some character.

K-Mart and Toys R Us. they were both Christmas jobs. i have never worked another seasonal job again. people are mean.

Cleanup crew at the Circle Jerk Lounge...............

UPS.

unloded trucks for $8/hr for about 1 month after high school. I was in great shape from playing football, track (discus and shot put) etc...and that job kicked my butt.

non-stop work out for 4 hours. Non......stop. ...ok, well, there is a '10 minute' break in there.

Well, if you screwed anything up I say bless you. I work at an RV dealership, and we make significant $$ fixing factory goof ups.

As far as worst jobs, I consider myself lucky to say that I never had a job that I just hated. Hmmm...probably the least fun, I suppose, was crawling into a school boiler at 16 to clean out all the crud with a wire brush.

I actually liked bucking bales for some reason. The pay wasn't good, but...

My worst jobs had to be roofing and when I worked at Sweetheart doing lids. You stand next to the 300 degree lids coming out of the oven and load/unload them on narrow shelves...with a cotton rag to protect your hands. The first week I had burns from finger tip to bicep.

THIS !


And all you pussies out there that can't handle a job because it's hard work or stinks are the same people bitchin about the mexican immigrants taking American jobs.

I worked at the same marina many years ago. It was just a summer job since I was still in high school, so we never had to do what you described. I also thought it was one of the most fun jobs I ever had. When did you work there? I was there in the late '70s.

My worse job was at Schneider Bailey in midtown. They sold aftermarket AC systems for cars. The owner was a total dick.

I worked at the Millers woods baseball complex in south Johnson County the summer I finished high school. Anyway I worked in the batting cages and my job was to fill up the pitching machine with the rubber batting cage baseballs. It was hot as hell and I couldn't leave my post unless it wasn't busy which was almost never. Sometimes to break the monontony I would **** with some of the people batting by reving up the machine to pitch 100mph. It was funny as hell to see the astonished look on some peoples faces as they had no clue it was me messing with them. Kind of an evil thing to do.

The worst job literally put my life at risk. When I was in college I worked a lot of overnight security jobs. Usually it was a piece of cake as I could study, do my rounds and watch movies all night. I wanted to make some extra cash so I got offered this temporary armed post at this textile factory for almost double what I was making. What I wasn't told was that the textile factory was in a shitty part of west Dallas and the reason they needed some armed security guards was because the factory had recently laid off a bunch of employees and the employees later returned to shoot up the place. Luckily nothing happened the 2 or 3 weeks that I worked there but I was on edge the entire time.

Worked shift work at a fiberglass insulation plant in McPherson during the summers when I was in college. Outstanding pay, but it was pretty tough. Worked 6am-6pm for a few days straight, then a few days off, then a few more days working 6pm-6am. The ovens that melt the glass were always running at around 3000°, so it was very very hot in the plant. And the fiberglass insulation would get in your pores because you were sweating so much, the itch would be unbearable for the first few weeks. And every once in a while, we would have to do an oven cleanout. Which required us to bundle up head to toe and crawl inside the ovens and scrape off the baked crap on the oven walls with a hand jackhammer. It was like being inside a ventilation shaft that was about 140°. Hot, dark, and claustrophobic. Awful awful work. But it was incredible motivation to finish college.

Quaker Wheat Germ plant in Manhattan, KS in August. Basically it's a giant warehouse with a 30 foot long 10 foot diameter oven. You dump three kinds of 100lb bags of wheat germ into a hopper that's up on a platform just below the ceiling. To keep the hopper full you dump a bag every 30 seconds or less which means you have to pick it up off the pallet, carry it about 10 feet, put it beside the hopper, cut it open, then pick it up at almost arm's length to dump it in.

Hot as hell, dust in the air all day, and one 30 minute break for lunch. I lasted a couple of days before I decided it was better being broke.

Piecing dead hookers back together. They're always missing a limb or two...

Do I need to go into detail. I think not!

I worked there too.....the one downtown off of James St. Around Xmas time. 1 person to scan and load. ****in bullshit...here in the UPS in Columbia they have 2-3 people per truck. and KC gets 1000x the load CoMo gets. I worked there 2months and that was it. I'm a tall guy and my back was killing me, no matter how great my lifting technique was.

Yep; one dude per 50’ trailer to unload (which was me). I tried very hard to keep my technique firm, but after 2 hours of non-stop lifting, fatigue sets in and you lose the technique. I bought some batting gloves to help with my hands - which were damn near bloody after the first few days; - and the batting gloves lasted ½ of a shift.

Lol.
That place was brutal. Get there – whistle blows….and it’s non-stop (aside from that 10 minute break) for 4 hours. Trailers were so hot in the summer you almost had to stay kneeling because if you stood up it was so hot you nearly passed out. The trailers were translucent – which made them feel like a green house.

You could not stay hydrated at that place.

$8/hr. lol.
F that.

The second worst job I ever had was being a janitor in a KC hospital. One of my jobs was to empty the autoclave waste in the lab. An autoclave is a big machine that looks like a torpedo tube. It's a high pressure, high heat machine that is used to kill bacteria and germs. They would take all these biopsies, and blood samples and body parts and god knows what else and steam heat them, then throw it in the trash. Nasty Nasty Nasty.

That was bad, and the infamous brown washcloth that would end up in the dirty laundry was bad too... gag from the stench....

worked at Jacomo from 1999-2002

It was a fun job because its on a lake, boats, girls in bikinis, drunks coming back giving you the rest of their beer for us to take home and us putting it in the cooler in the shed. And the entire staff were all of my closest friends growing up. Had pontoon parties after work and would stay out at night on the lake. couldnt have had a better 4 summers.

Unloading boxes of solid wooden hangars and brand new car batteries from 18 wheelers. It was just me.....and I didn't have a box dolly or a forklift. And that was for $9 an hour. **** that shit....

Raytheon Aircraft (was Beechcraft, now Hawker-Beech).
They treated everyone lik $hit.

Mid to late 1980s. Teen. Massachussetts instituted the Bottle Bill for recyclables. I worked in a liquor store, where we had to take back any product we sold, which meant empty beer cans and bottles, soda cans, and soda bottles.

Oh, let me count the ways:

- Stinky cans and bottles that weren't washed out. Ever smell moldy beer? Not pleasant.
- Stinky people bringing in the cans and bottles. Homeless street people. By law, we had to take 'em.
- Cockroaches. Everywhere. Especially in bottles from (not to stereotype, but) Asians for some reason. Nothing like having to check your cuffs and pockets for tiny hitchhikers. People would slam a case on the counter and the little ****ers would literally run OUT of the case AT me.

However, the job did have its perk: as much booze as you could drink without getting caught. :D

Luckily I only worked the bottle return counter for a year. Then I left and came back a year later and worked in the beer chest, stocking the shelves and filling up the chest. Even MORE free booze, and the cockroaches moved verrrrrrry slowly in there (mental note: cockroaches DO NOT like it when it's 45-55 degrees).

Left again, came back again, this time as a shelf-stocker/pricer/cashier. Best job of the three there, since I got to hang around the coutner and flirt with the MILFs who also worked the register.

Since that liquor store, I've worked for store chains (Underground Camera which later became Ritz Camera; Electronics Boutique), science musems (Boston, Tampa, Syracuse), and now a movie theater chain. And let me tell you, every single one of those treat(ed) me like shit. Few if any bonuses, no Christmas cards, no "thanks" for a job well done. The liquor store? Every employee got a free bottle of booze, a free turkey, and $50 on Thanksgiving, and a free bottle of booze and $100 on Christmas. For the mid to late 1980s, working a shit job for shit pay, that was pretty damn nice.

Definitely a suckfilled job.

Unemployment. . .

My neighbor is the Controller for Hawker

You beat me to it.

This. I spent one tax season doing phone support for Taxcut software. It SOOO sucked. Paid OK, but so not worth it.

Im sorry you had to experience that. Nah, this job happened after I moved to Texas. It was Lack's Furniture in Wichita Falls, Texas circa 2000.

Yeah. . .biggest problem was trying to spend all that money I didn't make.

Worst job???


"Hand" job by girl in high school ... she played catcher on the girl's softball team and her hands were rough like sandpaper.

my pee pee cried itself to sleep for a week after that bitch cranked on it. :deevee:

Did that one for a while, wore shorts and a short sleave shirt for alfalpha(sp?) bales.

My worst was being a burger cooker, at Griffs burger bar, back in the mid 60s. Miserable, and the old ****er that ran the place would come up and grab raw frozen patties, then eat them.

I don't know man. I bet there are a lot of Americans, myself included, who would shovel shit in 100 degree heat all day, or beat off pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, whatever animal you can think of if it paid enough.
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I cant really complain.

I have nothing as bad as many of you.

The worst was washing dishes and going home every night smelling like garlic.

buried my dad. that job the shity suck of all time.

Yet it "Hurt so Good" while she did it, right. Please, stop it some more!

Working as a painter for a half-assed owner who sent his guys 50 feet in the air on old wooden ladder with no harness. It wouldn't be so bad to be this high on an old wooden ladder but half the time we would be working on the side of a house where the ground wasn't level and his solution would be to stick a piece of 2x4 under the low side of the ladder to balance the ladder.

Second day on the job one of the guys finally bounced his ladder of the piece of 2x4 (shocking huh) and was taken away in an ambulance unconscious. Walked off the job right there and kicked myself for following that assholes lead.

I've done dry wall, construction, landscaping and worked as a molder in an iron foundry for a year while not pleasant I never felt my life was in danger.

Ugh that's something that almost everyone has to go through. I haven't had to do it yet and I am soo dreading it. I don't know what I'll do. :(

I had to do that when I was 18.

Yeah, that's probably not the most emotionally stable time in a young man's life, is it?

Corn Detasseling at 4 a.m. was some pretty big suckage

Selling cotton candy, sno cones and such in the aisles of Royal's stadium. The work wasn't that bad beside worrying about falling down the steps when in the upper deck. What sucked about it was the pay, damn near working for free. Highlight was watching bo jackson taking batting practice almost daily before work started.

My cousin sold beer like this for years at Royals stadium and Arrowhead, too. He LOVED it.

I have 2.

1. I used to work for an inventory company when I was in high school. Yes, I worked in air conditioned stores and didn't have to do any manual labor. But counting boxes of cereal and bottles of ketchup for 8 hours made me absolutely crazy.

2. Also in HS I was a ref for youth basketball. I'm not the type of person who can just block it out when people are screaming at me. So basically I got paid $10 a game to get called every name in the book by parents of 3rd grade girls who are mad that I'm not calling every travel. I even had to kick one dad out of a game because he came onto the court.

Working on the oil rigs, work-over rigs to be exact. Paid really well, but was very hard dirty work. 10-14 hours a day, in all weather, which really sucked here in Wyoming with the wind and snow.:eek:

2nd place would have to be when i was the GM of a fast food restaurant, nothing more than an overpaid babysitting job in reality:grr:

Boy, this thread makes me really appreciate my brain, education, and good fortune.

I did plenty of detassling and rouging milo when I was a kid. I thought it was easier than the work I normally had to do on the farm, and I got paid for it.

How about cutting thistles all day long? That was a bitch. Made detassling seem like vacation.

Cutting hogs. Ohh my. Wrestling a hog down in the mud and the shit and clipping off it's nuts. That was a PIA...

I agree. I think a big part of it is after you've worked a bunch of mind numbingly dull jobs it makes you appreciate what you have. I hate what I do but at least I can afford to pay for rent on time and fun on the weekends.

Yeah, that's where all the money is, beer sales. But, I was 15 at the time.

Yea makes me really appreciate the job I have now.

Great boss
Great employees
And I get to dress nice & work inside :)

Why do they detassel corn? They don't do that around here. Is it seed corn or something?

Hahaha....**** that!!!!

Loading trucks at EFD (Every Frickin Day we called it). Weight limit was 100 lbs and I weighed 125. Lots of car parts and awkward packages. 1st day on the job, I slice my hand open on a fender. 2nd day on the job I dropped an axle on my big toe. To this day my toenail looks alien. They had rollers to push the boxes on and I remember one cold January day where my drawstring from my hoodie got caught and thought I would be decapitated. lol.

Didn't quit though. Stayed there for 2 years and made it to the sort aisle making 20% more than the other guys. Since I didn't go to the military, I would consider it my boot camp. Better off for it today.

I worked two years on the live dock at Hudson foods when I was in and right after High School. Trucks of Turkeys would show up and our job was to take them from their cages and hang them by the feet in metal shackles. There is nothing like being outside at 4am covered in turkey piss and shit when its 15 degrees. Most of my co-workers were on the work release program from OCC in Fordland. That job sucked.

pumping out the shit pits under hog confinements. pump it out, then haul the tank out to a field w/the tractor and cut it into the ground.
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It's to control pollination. The tassels contain the pollen. Most farmers plant cheap normal strains of corn and put a row or two of really good high production strains of corn in the midst of all the normal strains of corn. You detassel the cheap normal corn plants so that the cheap strain of corn doesn't pollinate itself. You want the pollen to only come from the few rows of expensive high production strain of corn, and pollinate all the other varieties for a hybrid of much better yield.