Worst jobs you had.

[Nocturnal Gentleman]

My worst job without a doubt was being a lab aid for about five months. I spent every day making meals for the rats, measuring weight and growth, checking their outward appearances, and cleaning cages. Same routine and nothing else to do otherwise. I was pretty much sent to the middle of nowhere in Iowa for the job so there wasn't even any stores to go to.

After a while I got kinda attached to animals and learned all their little personality quirks. Then at the end of the experiment I had to kill them, dissect the bodies, and send the organs to the listed stations. I felt terrible and ended up buying pet rats afterward.

 

[blaqknoise]

Working at Pizza Hut was a pretty crappy gig.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Worst job ever was when I was hired as a 'cook' for a Cheesetoast restaurant. I just ended up being a janitor who did the prep. The family who owned the restaurant were Greek, which was fine. What wasn't fine was that the father of the three main cooks was an absolute asshole who cut my hours, always wanted everything done faster then complaining when it wasn't done right. And just the constant swearing and abuse. It was the worst job I've ever had.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Working at Pizza Hut was a pretty crappy gig.

So far I rank that as my second favorite job. I've only had four to compare though so...

 

[Kodlak]

I worked as a kitchen porter for a bit, and the quickest way for the chefs to hand me pans was to throw them to me, meaning I ended up catching loads the wrong way and burning myself.

 

[Caduceus55]

I did a temp job where I had to attach plastic handles to plastic pails. It had to be done quickly because if either cooled, you couldn't get the handle on without a great deal of difficulty and then of course you fell behind and made the cycle worse.

12 hour shifts with the smell of warm plastic all around you. Horrible.

 

[loc978]

The job that I had directly before joining the army... skilled labor, building front-end machines for the semiconductor industry in a clean manufacturing environment for 60-84 hours per week... for $9.00 an hour. Shitty pay, even with the mandatory overtime... and no time for anything beyond "eat,sleep,work".
The worst of it is... the goddamn semiconductor industry is still like that here, 9 years later.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Website testing, you know those horribly long and tedious sign up forms some websites make you fill out, well imagine doing that 8-12 hours a day, every day, and every time you fill it out it needs a report on what did and didn't happen, and the worst of it was I knew how to fix the shit that the dev team couldn't figure out for weeks...

After 6 months shoving icepicks through my brain seemed more sensible

 

[Cogwheel]

Current job, translation. Is it a bad job? No. Aside from the increasing scarcity of any work, it's actually pretty great. The issue here is that almost everything I make goes to my parents. The total amount I get to keep amounts to about 0.2% of my yearly income. Fun times.

 

[PeePantz]

Worst job, by far, was working at Casual Male Big and Tall. For starters, I'm what the other employees liked to call, "a norm" aka I wasn't carrying around a Honda Civic on my stomach and one could see the post that holds my head onto my shoulders. Not only was I looked down by this fact and somewhat abused because of this (I did so much more work because the larger folk couldn't quite muster the energy), I had absolutely nothing I could spend my discount on. One time, I actually bought the smallest shirt the store has ever seen just so I could use my discount. I didn't even try it on. That was a silly thing not to do because the fucking thing looked like a dress on me.

Two things that really perturbed me. One was folding. If you have ever worked clothing retail, you know how annoying it is to fold. Try folding a shirt that is the equivalent to three normal shirts. I felt like I was folding sheets all day. I was doing five times as much work as any other retail worker yet getting payed less (I wasn't getting payed all that well). Second gripe was the smell. Larger (obese) people smell. Washing is hard for them; they can't get to many a places. Also, sweat builds up in the folds and make for a bunch of stinky armpits all over their bodies.

Customers wouldn't like to be helped by me and often set out for someone with a similar build as them. This was frustrating because not only was I the best one to help them (I worked with idiots), a lot of my pay was based off of commission.