Your worst job

[troutman]

A stranger grabbed me out of line at Hire-A-Student to drive him around a SE community - he was going door-to-door offering to spray weeds. It was awkward as hell, so after an hour or two I asked to be dropped off back downtown.

Dishwashing (Chi-Chis, St Huberts, Heritage Park) was a hard job, but I always worked with great people, so we had fun with it. Listened to a lot of Flames games while working.

[Matata]

Working in pump sales. I hate sales work and I don't give a #### about pumps. Pay and environment were good, but I only took it as it was the only work related to my degree I could get out of school and everyday was accompanied with the crushing realization that I should have been more serious about laying the foundation of my career during school and I was becoming just another dullard with a nice degree. The good news is I was eventually fired for low sales.

[CaptainCrunch]

Castrating Bulls, as part of a roving branding team.


Telemarker for the Herald. Two hours into it, I hated it, and decided to get my self fired so I picked a fight with a rude prospect, called him ma'am multiple times and told him to go F hemself. I got a paycheck for 11.00.

[The Yen Man]

Easy one for me.

The worst job I worked at was the evening on duty manager at the old Quality Inn on the corner of McKnight Blvd and Edmonton Trail. The owners of that hotel were super cheap with regular maintenance on that hotel, so we constantly had issues with no hot water, water leakages, elevator malfunctions, you name it. Coupled with having to deal with the shady bar that was attached to it, the crappy restaurant, and the overall shadiness of the neighbourhood, and it was easily one of the worst job experiences I've ever done. Doesn't help that I had to work from 7pm-4am, on the weekends, and then go to University Monday to Friday.

Guess silver lining is, I did eventually get fired from that job for getting into a heated argument with the owner on one of those nights where the hotel was fully booked, and we had a big leak on the 7th floor that made wrecked about 6 rooms. As I was trying to deal with all the customers, the owner called me on the phone and berated me for not dropping everything and calling him right away. I basically told the guy I was too busy trying to solve the issues on hand first before giving him any calls, and that I'd be more than happy if he came down to the hotel after hours to help me deal with it if he wants to know first hand what the situation was. He got pretty angry, and then I just lost it on him on telling him what a crap hotel he had going on.

That at least pushed me to go look for a real job, and I guess I owe my current career to that moment. I'm thankful everyday that I got fired from that job lol.

[Inferno]

My worst probably would have had to have been the printshop assistant job I had a few years ago. My supervisor's mom owns the business so he wouldn't show up for days at a time because he decided to go on a weeklong drinking binge and leave me there alone. I can't really think of one week where he was there all five days.

When he would come back he would freak out because I wasn't doing things as fast as he figured. I have a disability so standing for 6 hours straight takes it's toll after a while but he didn't understand that. Finally after 6 weeks weeks I had enough and quit. The money sucked too but it was better than nothing.

[GordonBlue]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Easy: Dishwasher.

I was trying to work after school to make some extra cash of my own. I had never worked in a restaurant before and this was a pretty busy one. They knew I had no experience.

The training consisted of a 10 minute conversation with the executive chef and a 2 minute demonstration of the job. No discussion of how the restaurant operates or what my specific responsibilities were. No discussion of best practices. The work wasn't especially hard, but I often had other people yelling at me to do this or that with no clear expectation communicated to me ahead of time.

The hours were terrible. I'd start at 5 or 6 and stay until after closing, which is fine, but they would often have me do the deep cleaning and set up for the next morning which meant I would be there until 2 or 3 in the morning...on a school night. I think I was making less than $5 an hour at that time. Just not worth it.

The absolute worst part was that the menu consisted of a lot of food that had cheese melted over it or onto the plate. When you are trying to spray and scrub that off, there is a distinctly awful smell that results when lots of hot water is sprayed onto cheese stuck to a plate. It took a long time to get off, and so the smell was there for a vast majority of time on the job. I still have flashbacks to that experience.

Needless to say I didn't do it long, perhaps a few weeks. Just an awful, awful job. I feel for people who do that kind of work every single day.

and also having to clean the grease traps. when I was doing dishes, I had to do that at least once a week, too. disgusting. and where I worked, they also had the dishwasher be the one who went out to mop up the puke in the bar.

still wasn't the job I hated most, though.

[Madman]

[OMG!WTF!]

My first job was promoting mmmmMuffins. I stood out in front of South Center in a mmmmmMuffin costume and waved to the people. If you ever threw anything at the mmmmMuffin kid, if you ever yelled muffin insults at me, stuffed muffin wrappers in my eye holes or tried to pull off my muffin top...F U!



Then I worked at that new driving range...Tee to Green in Midnapore. It was brand new and the guy didn't own a tractor so I went out with a shag bag picking up balls all day while customers tee'd off on me. He finally hired another kid and gave us a sheet of plywood to hold up. That just made it worse though. And then at the end of day he wouldn't let us leave until all the balls were gathered up...thousands of them. The other kid's mom came and picked him up at 10 so the owner had to let him go. But I didn't have parents so he just kept me there, teaching me the value of working hard and making something of myself. Still mad.



I'd have killed to work at a McDonalds.


Oh honorable mention goes to working at the St Louis but I was old enough to know better. My first shift the bouncer goes..."Go kick Glen out of the bathroom" I'm like..."That huge biker guy?" "Yeah, he just had open heart surgery so punch him in the heart.".

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by pepper24

Any job with a union.

How did those compare to your job in the war room?

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Easy: Dishwasher.

I was trying to work after school to make some extra cash of my own. I had never worked in a restaurant before and this was a pretty busy one. They knew I had no experience.

The training consisted of a 10 minute conversation with the executive chef and a 2 minute demonstration of the job. No discussion of how the restaurant operates or what my specific responsibilities were. No discussion of best practices. The work wasn't especially hard, but I often had other people yelling at me to do this or that with no clear expectation communicated to me ahead of time.

The hours were terrible. I'd start at 5 or 6 and stay until after closing, which is fine, but they would often have me do the deep cleaning and set up for the next morning which meant I would be there until 2 or 3 in the morning...on a school night. I think I was making less than $5 an hour at that time. Just not worth it.

The absolute worst part was that the menu consisted of a lot of food that had cheese melted over it or onto the plate. When you are trying to spray and scrub that off, there is a distinctly awful smell that results when lots of hot water is sprayed onto cheese stuck to a plate. It took a long time to get off, and so the smell was there for a vast majority of time on the job. I still have flashbacks to that experience.

Needless to say I didn't do it long, perhaps a few weeks. Just an awful, awful job. I feel for people who do that kind of work every single day.

My favourite part of this story is your hilarious expectation that the executive chef was going to sit the 15-year-old dishwasher down and explain how the restaurant operates or that the training required anymore than two minutes.

It's like, dude, you see all this food on the dishes? get it off. good luck! Pretty much all the training required.

[White Out 403]

Originally Posted by pepper24

Any job with a union.

#### off. sin bin me i dont care.

[Locke]

Lets see....so many to choose from.

Its not like doing Taxes for a living is a dream come true or anything. I just happen to be good at it.

I liked being a dishwasher. I found it relaxing. I hated being a line-cook. That sucked.

Working construction sucked. We specialized in installing vinyl decking. That there is a brutal job. You're on your knees all day dealing with glue and contact cement going from job site to job site.

Greyhound was another one. That was a crappy Union job but I'll leave the Union digs out of this one as that appears a touchy topic at the moment.

Just an awful job, the potential to be hurt was crazy. Not even just by your coworkers zipping around on forklifts stoned out of their minds. Passengers are crazy.

You ever have a gun drawn on you? I have. More than once. Over a piece of luggage that all I was trying to do was take out of a bus. I dont know whats in it, I dont care. The luggage is in the bus and my job is to make it not be in the bus.

The knives are always there and thankfully I had taken the weekend off during the Pipe Bomb scare.

The drugs though....my God. Who ships drugs by Greyhound? The world's worst criminals? I will say this, I've been heavily critical of the RCMP but when I was working at Greyhound I'd go get a coffee and see the two dudes in trenchcoats with a German Shepherd and just pray that it wasnt my bus this time. Somehow the RCMP knew and were there.

Yeah...I think Greyhound wins.

[Rhettzky]

When I was 15 I had a summer job washing rental equipment for a party rental place. Popcorn machines and cotton candy machines were pretty bad but the absolute worst thing ever was the dishes. They would rent dishes out to weddings and get them back days later and I'd have to clean them. It was the worst.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Locke

Lets see....so many to choose from.

Its not like doing Taxes for a living is a dream come true or anything. I just happen to be good at it.

The constant helicopter rides have to make a big difference, I imagine.

[WhiteTiger]

A manager for a small chain of local drug stores. My staff consisted of 6-10 teenage girls and 2 teenage boys (all hired by someone else, I got no say in it), a 'pharmacist/owner' who didn't give a crap about anything, another pharmacist who has never heard of 'customer relations', two 'intern' pharma techs and the 'district manager' who was always at some other store, and only stopped by mine to crap all over whatever decision I'd made that didn't give with his 'vision for the store', despite him never actually telling anyone what that was.

I lasted about 3 months before I bailed.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

#### off. sin bin me i dont care.

People can have different opinions and are able to voice them. If you think his opinion is wrong shouting #### OFF doesn't really set the stage for finding out the reasons behind his opinions or trying to change those opinions.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

The constant helicopter rides have to make a big difference, I imagine.

I would have thought the groupies would have made up for the dreary work.

[Locke]

Yeah...I was on the 'Random job' scene in Alberta from 2000 until graduating. That was a wild time to need a job. I'm reminded of that scene from 'Always Sunny' where you get shot out of a job cannon into a job tree.

Work was everywhere. I did so many jobs.

I have to say, I like that people stick with jobs, but being able to jump to so many different jobs taught me a lot of different things and I got to do it with the safety net of the killer Albertan economy. If this job didnt work out I just moved on to the next one.

They were only means to an end. Pay my tuition.

[surferguy]

If mmmmmmMuffin man isn’t a prime example of a custom user title waiting to happen for OMG!WTF! then I don’t know what is.

[peter12]

Jump crew at Spruce Meadows for half a summer.