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Talaminiatures => General Discussions => Topic started by: luckyone on May 29, 2009, 06:14:22 PM
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Post here yor worst job(s) ever.
Mine was working at Little Ceaser's Pizza.
Never could eat one again. Still smell like onions (or at least think I do)
Alos worked at a phot-processing plant. Mandatory OT as a salary employee meant sometimes working for less than min wage. Management did not like it when I pointed this out to them.
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they never do.
I think working cold storage as a full time employee and never getting a full week of work, being forced to use equipment even Marines would refuse to use because they weren't safe and being frozen all night... is pretty damn bad.
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Heh, I worked as a home salesman for a few months.
at least 12 hours work day (used to be more like 15h), with payment being 100% dependent on what I sold that day. Easy to say, it was not worth it. Specially if I split it out across the hours for a day to see what I earned an hour. A good day, I earned perhaps 50-75% of a minimum wage had been if I worked hours with hour pay with minimum payment. Some days it was 0. Seriously, not worth it.
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i worked at a rehab. i very, very quickly learned to lose any sense of compassion for the "victims" of addiction, when most turned out to be gang-member teenagers who did not want any help but were forced to be there by the state. very unpleasant job and i quit after a few months.
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"victims" of addiction
they are, and they canīt help to be a**h**** (or winey puddles, esp. true for alcoholics).
after all they are, beside the drugs, just young ppl. with few life-experience and guidanance.. remember "lord of the flies" (now with drugs).
*edit* my worst job was unloading trucks with big boxes of shoes, put them in the small boxes and later collect orders from the storage.
not as bad as other jobs here, but still back and feetpain every day...
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The one I couldn't get. I've worked all kinda gigs and I liked them all especially since it was better than the alternative -- being unemployed
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While I agree with Top that being unemployed sucks, I'd have to say that my worst job - ever - was as a diswasher at a local restaurant. Made $5 an hour, and was non-stop from 7 -12 pm, Friday nights. So, $25 per night, and the loss of Friday nights for fun during my teen years - it sucked.
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Gamestop..store manager. Took over right after the assistant quit and the key holder went on maternity leave...12 hour days 6 days a week... had to walk out to save my sanity
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mine wasnt just one job but when I work 3 jobs at once. That sucked
At one point I got up in morning forgetting what day it was and which of the 3 jobs I needed to be at :P
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working for this company called Excelsior Entertainment...god the boss was such a slave driver, and we weren't allowed breaks, or time for sleep, and only got fed once a month. :-D I had to take the shot
Worked security at a sunoco plant, 9pm-5am 7-days a week....was about 300 yrds from one of the flame towers and when that thing went up I would dive under my desk. Just consider it the worst for fear of life and not getting extra pay for it.
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I worked at a McDonalds for about an hour in High School... when I saw "McLard" written on the fry oil boxes, I walked out. As far as I know there's still a paycheck for four dollars sitting in their safe...
I had a great job working as a civilian technician in my Air Guard unit, it's still the highest paying job I've ever had, but it was ridiculously stressful. There were incredible union politics issues in the shop - the shop chief had 'retired on the job', and the three guys who were up for his position all thought that the best way to show their 'leadership' was to make my life hell. I remember one occasion when I was standing up on a scaffold, rivet gun in hand, ready to do a simple, apprentice-level patch repair on a KC-135R, and the three of them were standing at the base of the scaffold arguing over the best way for me to do the work.
I used to wake up in the morning, feeling fine, then as soon as I realized that I had to go to work, I'd get a splitting headache.
I quit after less than three months, and it was a good decision (I was too young and politically/socially inexperienced to know how to work at a job like that anyways), but I do miss the pay and benifits...
-Alex
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I worked at a McDonalds for about an hour in High School... when I saw "McLard" written on the fry oil boxes, I walked out. As far as I know there's still a paycheck for four dollars sitting in their safe...
I had a great job working as a civilian technician in my Air Guard unit, it's still the highest paying job I've ever had, but it was ridiculously stressful. There were incredible union politics issues in the shop - the shop chief had 'retired on the job', and the three guys who were up for his position all thought that the best way to show their 'leadership' was to make my life hell. I remember one occasion when I was standing up on a scaffold, rivet gun in hand, ready to do a simple, apprentice-level patch repair on a KC-135R, and the three of them were standing at the base of the scaffold arguing over the best way for me to do the work.
I used to wake up in the morning, feeling fine, then as soon as I realized that I had to go to work, I'd get a splitting headache.
I quit after less than three months, and it was a good decision (I was too young and politically/socially inexperienced to know how to work at a job like that anyways), but I do miss the pay and benifits...
-Alex
We had a saying in the military ROAD - Retired on active duty.
It happened mainly to the older NCO's who were retiring in the near future.
They would pretty much train their replacement(s) and drink coffee/smoke/B.S. all day long.
Some did not do this though.
When they did retire they usually had a hard time with it. Most were bored out of their minds since they were used to the military lifestyle.
A lot kicked the bucket within 10-15 years of retiring since they were still smoking/drinking/eating like they did when they were in the military.
In the Army we kill more people, get more tattoos and drink more beer before 9:00 than most people do all day.
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Gamestop..store manager.
Really? I managed a Babbage's (predecessor to Gamestop) for 2 years.
My worst job was only my worst job because I had a micro-managing boss that was only good for brown-nosing and acting like he was still the PR guy. Still, that job opened my eyes to the rut my life was in and spurred me on to get my Masters...so I could be in the rut I'm currently in!
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Still, that job opened my eyes to the rut my life was in and spurred me on to get my Masters...so I could be in the rut I'm currently in!
dude thats so funny in such a sad way, though im sure u were exaggerating somewhat. LOLed big time.
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I've seen some crappy jobs on Dirty Jobs but I think the worst would be the squeegee guy for the porn booths. My worst job was when I worked at a laundry. It was really monotonous, minimum wage, and I got my hands burnt a lot.
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Gamestop..store manager.
Really? I managed a Babbage's (predecessor to Gamestop) for 2 years.
My worst job was only my worst job because I had a micro-managing boss that was only good for brown-nosing and acting like he was still the PR guy. Still, that job opened my eyes to the rut my life was in and spurred me on to get my Masters...so I could be in the rut I'm currently in!
Sounds painfully familiar. umm I am pretty sure gamestop and babbages exsisted at the same time..GS bought Babbages out as well as electronics botique
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I work at Wal-mart, nuff said.
Though to be fair, I have a a job. Better than a lot of people who had "better" ones than me.
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When I worked for Babbage's, they 'merged' with EB, even though Babbage's was financially solvent and EB wasn't (it was more of a buy out on Babbage's part). Some Babbage's became EBs, while others stayed the same (like my store). I'm not sure when GS came into the whole Babbage's/EB picture, but we certainly didn't have them where I lived until later. Still, GS is a straight-up game store, especially when compared to what Babbage's was when it finally 'died'.
Sounds painfully familiar. umm I am pretty sure gamestop and babbages exsisted at the same time..GS bought Babbages out as well as electronics botique
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I used to work for this gaming company once .... TERRIBLE! ;D
seriously though, the worst job i've ever had (so far) is working in a cardboard tube factory. yes, cardboard tubes, those things that you see underneath paper towels, shrink wrap, carpets. a whole factory dedicated for that. the worst par was that i was on the recut line - rough cut tubes were loaded into a hopper and cut to exact length - and I didn't even get to do that! I got to stand at the end of a conveyor belt and put them into boxes. did I mention that days were 10 hours?
We also made cardboard corners (pallet shrink corners) and after they realized I was one of the smarter fellows working there, they promoted me to re cuts of these and gave me my own machine! one guy commented that he had never seen a temp promoted so fast. I quit that day.