Worst job youve ever had

[Spencer]

...but it wasnt mud at all.

I loled

[RobertK]

Telemarketing.. blah!

I thought I had erased that one from my memory. I did telemarketing for some fly by night firm during a winter break selling Dish satellites. It was so half-assed though. They're setup was so cheap they couldn't monitor calls and it was an outbound call center so half the time we would call friends and family to bullshit with them. Managers would just walk around and when one passed by your cube you would just start talking as if you were making a sale.

My roommate worked there as well and our main job was to get Primestar customers to get a Dish instead of switching to Direct (the company that originally bought Primestar.) Eventually we schemed up a plan. To get sales we would call people saying that we were scheduling appointments for locals installers in the area to come swap out their Primestar dish for free. 90% of the time people never even asked what company we were with they just gave us their information and once we confirmed an appointment with them it counted as a sale. It was crooked as hell but we made due.

[Jscotty]

To get sales we would call people saying that we were scheduling appointments for locals installers in the area to come swap out their Primestar dish for free. It was crooked as hell but we made due.

Yeah..they call that "slamming". I am currently having a problem with people calling up my office doing that and some of my employees fall for it. In particular there is this guy that calls up every now and then saying, "This is Ed from the copier company.. can I get the make and model number off of your copier?" They usually hang up on me when I start asking questions. So apparently one day they call up and one of my idiot employees answers the phone and gives the guy all of our information.

And I am aware of this because they call again telling me that they are going to send me some toner for my Konica H47E. My response was, "WTF ARE YOU GUYS! MY MACHINE BROKE DOWN AND YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO FIX IT!" They hung up on me again.

[mrsleeve]

Ive had two pretty shitty jobs so far.


The second shitty job ive had is working with a truck that did pipeline video. For thoes of you who dont know what this is, when new pipes are laid they have to be inspected so to ensure that they are not broken and flow downhill evenly; older pipes(containing live sewage) also need to be inspected to for a number of reasons like locating laterals, sometimes there is a 1yr after install inspection install, sometime there are regularly scheduled inspections, sometime they have a problem that needs to be looked at, and various other reasons for me to be there. My job was to take the robotic camera and place it into/remove it from the manhole, i also had to work on the camera to change for different pipe sizes, clean the lense, fix problems and what not. when the camera comes out of a live line it is literally covered in human shit and piss. When i came back from work sometimes my jeans were covered in mud; sometimes it looked like they were covered in mud, but it wasnt mud at all.

Ahh so you understand my job then, I am the guy who puts in an fixes those said lines. I feel for you on the whole covered in shit thing. BTW way most of the TV guys I have meet cant even spell BMW, so you are alreday way ahead of curve.

[AndrewBird]

My first job was working at Wal-Mart as a cart-pusher.... God that was such a shitty job. I worked there for over a year. Being out in the hot ass weather, rain, snow, etc.... I only made like $8.06 by the time I got outta there.

I used to work at Shopko and LOVED to do the carts. I can see it being bad after doing it for 8 hours, but only having to do it twice in an 8 hour shift was awesome. Got to go out and get some fresh air. My record number of carts pushed inside at once was 23. Gets a bit hard to steer after ~18. In the winter I used to put spikes in my shoes just so I could get traction on the ice. Otherwise I could only push 2 carts at a time. lol

[JGood]

I worked at a car wash for my first job when I was 15. My job was to spray the cars before entering the automatic wash. This included winter time. So I'm standing there, spraying water from a 2000 psi gun (which soaks you from head to toe after about 1/2 hour), in weather as cold as 10 degrees, for 8 hours with one half hour break. For $5.25 an hour.

When I got home (I had to ride bike 5 miles, I didn't have my license yet), I couldn't get a shower for two hours because my toes were blue and it hurt like hell to have warm water touch them.

I left that job 6 years later as site manager making 3 times what I started at. It pays to not bitch out.

But now I'm working in an air conditioned office making over double what I left that company at.

[CleanAzzE30z]

I worked at an Italian Deli. The owners wife was some really bitter Italian lady that gave me shit the whole time. I was going through a TON of bad things at that time. The worst time in my life and she kept fucking with me. Her husband (the fucking owner and namesake of the store) even was like "Well, what can I do?" and was cool with me. I left very soon after that cuz Im not one that takes a lot of shit. Long story made very short. She evenhad a very screechy voice I have it in my mind even 12 years after.


Mariano

[ivo316]

The shittiest job I had was working for YPF (the Argentinean oil company), don't get me wrong, they paid great, but the job was removing gummy oil residue from the inside of the pipes at the refinery, we did that with a rotary machine that had knives on the edges for scraping the gum (something like tar from the inside of the pipes, the job was to go behind the machine making sure that the gum got into the conveyor belt to be taken out.

They payed me around US 3000 a month, which at the time was a truckload of money, but we had to use breathing gear inside the pipes, cleaning 100 meters of pipe at a time (about 1 block) in total darkness.

It was really spooky and if your breathing gear failed you were as good as dead.

We just worked 4 hours a day and they treated us great, but the job was terrible, also it took hours to wash up and the stink would never go away totally.

[Jscotty]

I used to work at Shopko and LOVED to do the carts. Got to go out and get some fresh air. My record number of carts pushed inside at once was 23. Gets a bit hard to steer after ~18.

Collecting and pushing the carts is not the same job that it used to be. At walmart they have this machine that pushes the carts for you. I see the guys out there pushing a good 35-40 carts at a time. I think that they have to steer the "train" from the front but other than that it appears to be a much easier job.

When I worked in retail as a stock clerk(which sort-of sucked), going outside to get the carts was the highlight of the day. I didn't care whether it was raining, cold, or ice in the parking lot. That only meant that I had more time to goof off while I was preparing to go out and then I would have more time to goof off as I was "recovering" from the extreme elements after getting the carts. The store had a half-mile long parking lot so when the manager would ask me what took so long, I could tell him that there were 20+ carts on the far end of the lot.

[CleanAzzE30z]

The shittiest job I had was working for YPF (the Argentinean oil company),

Yeah YPF is all over the place down there.


Mariano

[bimmer8604]

I worked night shift at UPS sorting boxes for a month. that sucked.

kyle

[CleanAzzE30z]

I was the morning ripper for Ralphs. Graveyard shift. Man I hated that job. I had to go to sleep at like 7PM after soccer practice and get up at 2AM.

Mariano