Worst job ever?

[dandia89]

Share your stories at your worst job ever. hopefully some of these stories will make mine a little more bareable. :)

[bulaian]

what's so bad about your job?

[Dilmah]

I once had a job dipping radiator cores into molten solder, the heat was unbearable, I lasted about 3 hours before I walked out. I was 20 years old at the time. To my surprise I actually got a pay check in the mail a few days later.

[speedog]

Remember in my teen years cleaning rotten grain (mixed with stagnant water) out of the bottom of the elevator shafts in the old style wooden grain elevators. The smell was unbelievable - so bad that the flies wouldn't hang around.

[theken]

tow truck driver

[speedog]

Better yet, cleaning 2 inches of dead floating mice out of TELUS manholes east of Calgary in the 80's. Smelly and you certainly didn't have an appetite for lunch after wards.

[Awd-Tsi]

The worst full time one i see is the guy at my shop who is hired just to sweet shit, 9 hours a day. The shop is about 2 soccer fields big.

[NoMoreG35]

Sweep you mean?

[dj_rice]

Originally posted by Awd-Tsi
The worst full time one i see is the guy at my shop who is hired just to sweet shit, 9 hours a day. The shop is about 2 soccer fields big.


He shouldn't eat too much sugar then

[Awd-Tsi]

yeah i meant sweep. It looks like it would be horrible. I would push a broom for like 2 hours then peace out

[Lex350]

Judging by the other thread, the worst job would be a cabbie that doesn't work for Associated. :D

[MGCM]

Originally posted by rotten42
Judging by the other thread, the worst job would be a cabbie that doesn't work for Associated. :D

damnit, beat me to it :rofl:

12 hour night shifts doing security and your not allowed to even read a newspaper, no books, no cell phones, stare at the security monitors all night:nut:

[tilo]

My worst job was working at the stampede as a park laborer. I worked as a "swamper" as a side job where they paid an extra 2 bucks an hour for doing. Since I was a young dumb teen at the time, I thought that was a amazing for a whooping $17 per hour.

For 2 days I drove around in this septic tank truck in RV park (this was where all of the people who were involved in the rodeo stayed) and had to take a giant vacuum to suck up each RV's holding tank. HUNDREDS OF RV'S. These holding tanks are made to hold USED toilet water, USED kitchen sink water, and USED shower water. I thought it couldn't be THAT bad suck up a little shit. But wtf was I thinking. Oh yeah, money....

On my first day I wore rubber boots up to my knees, rubber gloves up to my elbows, rubber apron, safety glasses, two face masks, THE WORKS. Anything that could help me smell clean at the end of the day.

I might have smelled clean but nothing could control the smell's I had to encounter. I had to encounter THE WORST SMELL's IN THE FUCKING WORLD!!!!!!

Imagine sucking up logs of shit and rotten piss and trying not to gag. The combination of that wasn't even close to what I think is the worse smell in the world. It was not until I emptied out the kitchen/bathroom sink water that I encountered such foul odor. Imagine dish soap, sour rotten eggs, pickles, a recycling depot and bad morning breath all rolled in a concoction of what I liked to call the devils piss.

The thing is I never threw up from that smell. :barf: Not even once...Stomach of steal baby!

I still came back for a second day. But the worst part that got to me was at one point while sucking up the devils breath, the vacuum got jammed and the container that held the shit mix overflowed and spilled. There was SHIT EVERYWHERE. After I cleaned up that mess I quit right there and then.

So in my opinion, don't work as a "swamper."

:barf:

[dandia89]

Originally posted by MGCM


damnit, beat me to it :rofl:

12 hour night shifts doing security and your not allowed to even read a newspaper, no books, no cell phones, stare at the security monitors all night:nut:
wow that sounds agonzing.

and tilo, thats terrible to hear :nut:

[jsn]

Worst job ever. I drove the golf cart that sold drinks on the course. I didn't think it was that bad at first because I rarely went to courses with beverage carts so I didn't know what the norm was. Biggest regret ever. Wanted to quit after the first day. :banghead:

[xorina]

IGA super market,
i bagged groceries
at the time, minimum wage was 5.90...after 6 month i got a raise .10c, i have no idea why i stayed there.

[adidas]

Posted this story a few times already on beyond so ill keep it short.

Purolator, shipping and receiving.

Quit within 2 hrs of my first shift. It wasnt that the job was hard, it was the fact that i knew i was better than this and there was no way i was gonna do that full time.

I was by far the happiest person ever when i walked out of Purolator and into the nice sunny summer day.

[dandia89]

Originally posted by xorina
IGA super market,
i bagged groceries
at the time, minimum wage was 5.90...after 6 month i got a raise .10c, i have no idea why i stayed there.

i'm in a similar position. i'm doing engineering and it feels terrible going into a job you are way over qualified for while all your friends are on internship at engineering companies

[derran.m]

Truck wash ... cleaning cattle liners ... need I say more? :barf:

[derpderp]

Originally posted by xorina
IGA super market,
i bagged groceries
at the time, minimum wage was 5.90...after 6 month i got a raise .10c, i have no idea why i stayed there.

When I was 15 I worked for $5.90/hr, I remember when we were short staffed once so I got tons of extra hours, I was pretty excited to get a pay cheque over $300.00, when I got it the tax brought it back under $300.00, I couldn't even break $300 with 55 hours work, I wasn't very happy.

[dj_rice]

Worst job would have to be the people who have to swim in the sewage pipes cleaning up clogged shit and etc.

Or people who have to come empty out septic tanks, they get paid good money but :barf:

[Lex350]

Worst job = paving crew. I didn't last long.

[911fever]

Worst job would be working for Day & Ross driving a forklift all day. Not that bad of money and I made a lot of it ($20 an hour), but it got so monotonous and suicidal that it drove me insane.

[masoncgy]

I worked in a tree nursery in BC where we were hired on to begin the process of harvesting & packing up the millions of seedlings for shipment to various parts of the province for planting.

This was pure assembly line work... ie, pull seedlings & drop on conveyor belt... pull seedlings & drop on conveyor belt...

8 hours of this shit... I wanted to stab myself in the head... so that was my one & only shift.

Being a dishwasher at age 14 in a busy restaurant was pretty crappy too... you get shit on by everybody... then a bus comes in.... and you have no help... fffffuuuuuuu!

[Tik-Tok]

I worked for a temp agency once. I only had two jobs through them before I quit. One was feeding wood planking through a planer... all fucking day... 8 hours of standing there feeding the planer... that sucked.

The other was at a meat packing plant. All I did was open boxes of 100% beef, and feed them into a grinding/mixing machine while someone else added fat, so the end result was turning 100% beef into whatever % of beef/fat the customer ordered. This specific plant was the only producer for A&W Canada wide, and also did DQ, and P.C.'s hamburgers.

Obviously both were assembly line style jobs, and there's no way I could hack that, no matter what the pay. SO mind numbing.

[n1zm0]

my first job, at one of the Bull and -----'s in the city :D , was the dishwasher which was shitty to begin with but at 14 and first job, you didnt care, but then soon found out it was worse than should've been, the manager underpaid the staff and made them bend over backwards everyday. There were some prep ppl there, E.I mother and son, who got there at 4 AM on wednesdays for wing nights in the summer and 5 AM on SAT/SUN when you only had to be at work for 7 am, from the get go, i never agreed with all that work your ass off for an asshole who gives nothing, probably why i got canned. but the real problem besides the managers were the cooks...

Now the manager was some italian wannabe mobster who drove a black or grey merc w140 or a w126, i'd go out for a smoke in the back with some of the waitresses and they'd just bitch and bitch about how much of a pedo he is, always caressing them subtly out of nowhere etc even some ass-slapping but they never did anything about it as they didnt want to lose their job - that fked up kinda situation, anyways the fker always had Brylcreem on his desk and fken gold chains like he was in some mob movie, he had 2 cooks, of course both italians and i mean FOB italians (like occasionally smoking in the kitchen type of shit, yelling at e/o in italian in front of customers). I already questioned the cleanliness of that shithole working downstairs stockroom but i was given quick confirmation on a wing night...

walking up the stairs with a tub of wings, the guy in front (one of the italian cooks) tripped and dropped about 20 or so wings on the steps, he looks at me then quickly starts shuffling the wings back into the tub, like when you put the dustpan on the edge of a ledge and sweep the shit into the pan, then turns the me and says 'IT'LL BURN OFF IN THE DEEP FRYER' , really buddy? after you just literally mopped the steps with them.

Second and final time before i said fk this place was again with the dropping of food on the floor, watching from the corner of my eye, the same cook, already cooked a hamburger on the grill, turning around and walking to the plate with fries and bun, drop the fken patty and without looking around or hesitation, picks it up and PUTS IT IN THE DEEP FRYER, then subsequently puts his foot in the dropped oil mark and starts displacing it trying to wipe away the evidence.l

I had already stopped eating the food they gave to me while working since the wings and brought my own lunch but now i just wanted to leave, didnt know how to really quit a job, as this was my first one ever, so i just stopped coming in on time but still did my shitty job, finally called one day and asked if i had to come in to work that day, the other cook says 'no, we wonta be needing you anymora' , ecstatic, i went and got wasted with my first 3 paychecks worth lol

maybe not the worst job labor wise, but morally and ethically it was the worst for me, told myself i'd never work in the food industry EVER again and never have thankfully, also sometimes have flashbacks when i go out for wings with friends and cringe slightly.

[sh0ko]

washing dishes in the sunterra supermarket in a little box about 7 x 7 feet (NO JOKES)...(wow that place was filthy.. i refuse to eat at sunterra or buy those showcased foods from the sirocco landing location now)

[Awd-Tsi]

My friend worked at a place where dead animals of all sorts come down a conveyer belt and they have to strip them and take the bones, and crush them into powder

[dj_rice]

Originally posted by Awd-Tsi
My friend worked at a place where dead animals of all sorts come down a conveyer belt and they have to strip them and take the bones, and crush them into powder


And I bet you the end result is gravy powder mix for KFC :rofl:

[arian_ma]

^Why? What did they do with the powdered bones?

[thrasher22]

Working in the 411 call center for Telus. You sat at a generic cubby along the wall in front of a computer straight out of the late 80's.

You know how mad you get when the stupid ass computer can't figure out what you're saying 3 times when you call 411? I was the guy that you'd get forwarded to when it didn't work (they never work). So I spent 8 hours a day dealing with pissed off drunks the computer couldn't understand.

Because I was new I always got the shit friday-saturday night shifts from 6pm-2am, so 90% of the people I talked to were drunk, perverts (had a BUNCH of guys ask how big my dick was), or just straight up assholes that would call you retarted when you couldn't find "that pizza place in winnipeg" or tell me to go back to school and get a real job (I was a student).

To make it worse, they timed your bathroom breaks, had those stupid telus animals all around the floor with inspirational sayings. It was common to show up at work and find out they'd moved my shift 3 hours back 20 minutes before I got there.

I always used to get angry old men calling for escort lines sunday morning and would cuss me out, so I'd connect them to male sex talk lines.

I went in to quit after a few months and was informed "Didn't you get the letter? You were terminated yesterday."
Who mails a letter terminating you? And when I got the letter 2 weeks later, it was post dated the day after I quit.

Never work for telus. Good riddance.

[Nissan_Fanboy]

Originally posted by dj_rice



And I bet you the end result is gravy powder mix for KFC :rofl:

Agh that's fucking gross haha
I'm a cashier, not too bad , sounds like I got it easy

[Tomaz]

Cleaning storm drains and hand sweeping the streets of construction areas. Shit job, shit pay.
Fuck that place.

Matrix Logistics, forklift. Everything was ISO controlled. I was given 36 seconds to get the pallet into the rack. Needless to say, I was only working at 70% productivity.
Fuck that place.

Direct Distribution, Warehouse bitch. I looked after the Princess Auto account all by myself. I guess it was ok, but the pay was shit. One the plus side, i have a garage full of tools and supplies thanks to that place. ;)
Fuck that place.

[Vagabond142]

Delivery driver for TopMade

yeah.... they gave me a refrig van and about 300 places to deliver to downtown... per day....

Another fun one was Green Drop... when I worked landscape maintenance with ULS, I had maybe 30-40 sites a day to go fertilize and they were intelligently laid out so that it could be done in 8-9 hours with a decent lunch and a hard day's work... Green Drop, first day in the fert truck and I was given a stack of ONE HUNDRED sites, and told "don't come back till these are all done."

13 hour shift, balls to the wall the entire time, ate my lunch while driving between sites -_- After a week of this I had some nice overtime, so I took the shit shifts in stride, but I learned that the management had all quit that friday... literally, everyone but the guy that owned the place had said "fuck you and this shit" and walked off the job. I did another week of the shifts, got my cheque, said "I quit" and walked off too :D I went and worked for another landscape company (I forget who, it's like 5 years ago no, I think it was Apex Landscaping) and when your 8 hour shift was done, no matter how far into your orders you were, you were DONE... but they also only gave like 50 sites to maintain per day, or one or two giant commercial sites, which is easily doable with hard work :D

[ExtraSlow]

I worked as a temp back in uni, and had a couple bad jobs. Worst one was swamping for Shoemaker Drywall. You spend 60% of your day lifting drywall sheets two at a time. Some of the sheets are 4x12', so it's pretty fucking heavy. The rest of the day was sitting in the truck in the middle of a bench seat between the driver, a fat fuck whom I despised, and another temp, who was fat as well, and a huge slacker.
Worked one day for them. My hands and forearms were on fire for three days afterwards. I literally couldn't hold a glass fo water in one hand, had to use two.
The driver said very few temps worked more than one day.

Once had a job at a fertilizer factory putting manure into bags, but actually, that was pretty decent, way better than it sounds.

[sevewone]

Originally posted by masoncgy


Being a dishwasher at age 14 in a busy restaurant was pretty crappy too... you get shit on by everybody... then a bus comes in.... and you have no help... fffffuuuuuuu!

man your a baby, thats one of the most interesting jobs ive ever had. Dishwasher in BC at this busy 5 star restaurant, would just smoke reefer with the guy i was working with and put on some tunes in the background. As for being shit on by everybody? Those are called assholes, show them their place..even if you are a dishwasher haha.

Worst job ever?

http://www.stonetile.com/images/template/logo.png

smoothing out concrete on moulds for 8 hours. dusty, shitty old concrete in your face while your forearm gets a workout like the first time you busted a nut. :nut:

[sevewone]

Originally posted by n1zm0
my first job, at one of the Bull and -----'s in the city :D ,

Yeah the owners of that place are a close family friends. As for the creepy old wanabee italian guy...Im pretty sure he is italian, as for the creepy part, couldnt agree with you more. Since a couple of them are now under new management they have really turned there stuff around, dont think alot of that shit would fly now.

[picmerollin]

When I was 16 I had summer a job at a lumber yard. My position was to stand at the exit end of a machine that chopped 16"x16" lumber into rough 4x4's. All day catch and stack 4x4's 4 at a time. The pace of the machine was approximately 33% faster than I could work at my most blistering speed.

Collection agency job was terrible as well but I have to say it was serious motivation to get into and out of university, and was not physically hard. Dealing with deadbeats all day long was a downer.

my last boss and his croneys were all nascar fans, so you could imagine how inspiring that place was.


shit after writing this up - i like my current job a little more.

[911fever]

Originally posted by picmerollin
When I was 16 I had summer a job at a lumber yard. My position was to stand at the exit end of a machine that chopped 16"x16" lumber into rough 4x4's. All day catch and stack 4x4's 4 at a time. The pace of the machine was approximately 33% faster than I could work at my most blistering speed.

Collection agency job was terrible as well but I have to say it was serious motivation to get into and out of university, and was not physically hard. Dealing with deadbeats all day long was a downer.

my last boss and his croneys were all nascar fans, so you could imagine how inspiring that place was.


shit after writing this up - i like my current job a little more.

what lumber yard was that job? I had that job as well, I lasted 1.5 days, it was CRAP. Mayfair Lumber I believe

[top_speed]

Originally posted by arian_ma
^Why? What did they do with the powdered bones?
im pretty sure they make soap out it.

EDIT: nvm it was human bones that they made soap from.

[D. Dub]

When I was a teenager I was hired at a sleazy junkyard to strip huge barrels of copper/aluminum wire. I was paid a pittance by the foot of wire I stripped -- this was in Medicine Hat on a 35 Centigrade day -- I lasted 2 hours before I dropped the hard hat they gave me into the office and told them to piss up a rope.

[SRT]

Lots...

Welding job (or so I thought). After welding 2 motor-mounts in a HD lift truck the boss goes..OK..Those machines over there need to be cleaned and you'll have to grind that basket of parts when you are done. I walked out.

Lifting 50lb bags of road sand from a trough at a sand pit and loading them onto a skid...by hour 6 I couldn't even lift them anymore and was rolling them onto my back off the conveyor belt and heaving them onto the skid, never went back.

I've had many jobs, factories (all shifts), fork lift driver, welder, dishwasher, lumber yard (same duties as mentioned in this thread) etc etc.

Of all my BS jobs the best had to be the nightshift at a Super8 hotel. At the strike of 2am it was a steady stream of feature strippers and other strippers that lived there, they always came back to the lobby to shoot the shit. Got fired after 2 weeks...wonder why.

And my advice to the young guys stuck in "shitty job la-la land" go get a driving job. They pay the same as the others and you can beat the can off a delivery truck or possibly something better. And get your ass back to school!!

[911fever]

Originally posted by SRT
Lots...

Welding job (or so I thought). After welding 2 motor-mounts in a HD lift truck the boss goes..OK..Those machines over there need to be cleaned and you'll have to grind that basket of parts when you are done. I walked out.

Lifting 50lb bags of road sand from a trough at a sand pit and loading them onto a skid...by hour 6 I couldn't even lift them anymore and was rolling them onto my back off the conveyor belt and heaving them onto the skid, never went back.

I've had many jobs, factories (all shifts), fork lift driver, welder, dishwasher, lumber yard (same duties as mentioned in this thread) etc etc.

Of all my BS jobs the best had to be the nightshift at a Super8 hotel. At the strike of 2am it was a steady stream of feature strippers and other strippers that lived there, they always came back to the lobby to shoot the shit. Got fired after 2 weeks...wonder why.

And my advice to the young guys stuck in "shitty job la-la land" go get a driving job. They pay the same as the others and you can beat the can off a delivery truck or possibly something better. And get your ass back to school!!

It's so funny that me and you have had so many of the same jobs (forklift, lumber yard, car sales, etc). I totally agree with you, get back to school to get anywhere!!

[SRT]

Originally posted by 911fever


It's so funny that me and you have had so many of the same jobs (forklift, lumber yard, car sales, etc). I totally agree with you, get back to school to get anywhere!!

No doubt..LOL

The worst part about all those was seeing older people with families doing those shit jobs while trying to pay a mortgage and support a family.

[soccarfan]

ya but u guys all think u will get millions. truth of the fact is that u wont!!

[SRT]

Originally posted by soccarfan
ya but u guys all think u will get millions. truth of the fact is that u wont!!

:facepalm:

[911fever]

Originally posted by SRT


No doubt..LOL

The worst part about all those was seeing older people with families doing those shit jobs while trying to pay a mortgage and support a family.

I know, like the 40 and 50 year olds who worked at the lumber yard and had been there for 10 - 15 years... like wtf is wrong with them, day in day out of pallet stacking and chopping lumber isn't mind destroying? Can't understand it. Almost as brutal as trying to live through a slow incentive-less December in car sales


Originally posted by soccarfan
ya but u guys all think u will get millions. truth of the fact is that u wont!!

:rofl: :facepalm:
get back to the factory, next shift starts at midnight

[SRT]

Originally posted by 911fever


I know, like the 40 and 50 year olds who worked at the lumber yard and had been there for 10 - 15 years... like wtf is wrong with them, day in day out of pallet stacking and chopping lumber isn't mind destroying? Can't understand it. Almost as brutal as trying to live through a slow incentive-less December in car sales



:rofl: :facepalm:
get back to the factory, next shift starts at midnight

What they lack is drive...something yourself and I learned we have. Keep going...you cant go wrong.

The car sales guys made $5000 one month and based their living on that..so they chase sales and lie..

Finish your school..get GOOD internships and you'll be golden, trust me.:)

[Graham_A_M]

1st job right out of high school. I was building pallets for this pallet company based out of Shepard, which is a small town in the east portion of Calgary.
They said there is a posibility of making $20/hr if you work quickly. Okay, for a 18 year old that sounded like great money at the time.
Alright, so the payment works like this: You get paid on a per pallet basis. For the kind of pallets I was making; I'd get $0.20/pallet. Problem is; each pallet had 12 or so boards, and required about 50 nails. The nail gun weighed as much as a watermellon, so not surprisingly your arms would be like noodles by the end of the day. I worked it out, some days (going on a per "coil" basis; ) I was firing from 1000-1500nails a day, everyday. Thing is; each time you fire a nail the gun bucks in your hand a fair bit.
The guys who DID make $20/hr were given the easiest to make pallets, that paid much more then what I was getting.

I found out after about 150 pallets a day on average; I was making about $8/hr or so... :banghead: :banghead:
Not surprisingly after a few weeks I developed severe tendinitis that I still have today (it flairs up with repetitive task types of jobs). Eventually it was such that it took me about 30-45minutes to take a piss, since lowering my zipper and pulling out my dong took an amazing amount of effort since I lost the ability to open or close my hands thanks to this wonderful condition.
It was at the point that I was unable to work anymore thanks to the tendinitis, and even so why bother? why keep working with a bunch of low-life loser co-workers for a job that barely beat minimum wage at the time?
So it was kind a mutual Fuck-off at that point.
God, that still sends chills down my spine thinking of that shithole. If you weren't part of the cherished few people the owner/boss liked, be prepared to shovel a lot of shit... a LOT of it.

My last job was almost as bad, just from a management perspective, not exactly the hardest work, but everyday my bosses would threaten to fire me if I didn't jump through X,Y and Z hoops. After a string of intentional fuck ups I walked out at the worst time to thank them for all their emotional abuse. Honestly they were some of the worst managers in all of Calgary... wow.
:eek:
I took the job only because I was laid off of my line of work thanks to this recession. I now know I'll never get back in landscape maintenance ever again, I dont care what the state of desperation is. Decade 90 isn't the only company that likes to fuck over their employees. :nut: :rolleyes:

[chkolny541]

Originally posted by Awd-Tsi
My friend worked at a place where dead animals of all sorts come down a conveyer belt and they have to strip them and take the bones, and crush them into powder

100% fake




well my current job to MANY would be considered a job from hell, but honestly i fucking love it. I work at shepard landfill, on the main lift, its fucking hot ( we hit 40C+ regularily throughout the summer), smelly ( o boy like you wouldnt believe), and we get shit on quite regularly (thousands of gulls). But i can honestly say that i get waaaaaayyyyy overpaid ( i wont say how much, but lets say its just retarded for what "work" i have to do, which is literally nothing). I work literally on the ass end of everyones rotting stinky garbage. Anyone top this?

Legit gayest job i had was TDL group, picking and stacking skids of tim hortons shit, boring, tiring and pay was wayy to low for the amount of work.