What did you do at your WORST job?

[Garybake]

I was a step-father to two young girls, in name only..... never took..... Probably the worst effort I ever had... and likewise the outcome. And one of my biggest failings in life...

I doubt that Jerry just by making a statement like that I know they learned compassion.
After getting my reprieve from the Draft in 1973 I set out to make the big money on the Detroit assembly line. Got assigned putting the tires on truck chassis line every 50 seconds at Dodge Truck Plant in Warren, MI. The vans were not as bad (2 wheels 6 lugs/each) as the box truck chassis that required two rear tires with offset wheels together and a single alignment pin on twelve lug axles. My partner oppasite me said to grab the ceter hole and roll the top of the tire off your knees and throw it up at head level as chassis dropped by and on its way angled down to the steel conveyor (No misses allowed had to have tires on). If it does not line up let it fall... I tried to catch a miss first day and the steel wheel edge shaved the skin off my forearm being followed by "told ya"! The synchronized lugnut torque machine never worked and hand impact was the norm.
Two years and hot summers with the drinking age dropped to 18 in 1/1973 I can not believe I ever got out of that rut alive trying to beat the monotony and boredom combined with exhaustion (supervisors handing out salt pills on 100+ days???).

 

[tcartwri]

Worked as a doorman in university for two years at $4/hr. Dealing with drunk stupid people night after night took me to a dark place and I quit after one particularly nasty fight.

I also learned what pigs women are in a public washroom. :laughing:

 

[Bird]

I also learned what pigs women are in a public washroom.

Yeah, I thought the men were the nasty ones in public restrooms until my dad bought a service station.:laughing: I soon learned that the women were far worse.

 

[RoMad]

I spent a good part of my career working in power plants where there are plenty of hot, dirty jobs, but the worst, In an old plant when I was the new guy all of the toilets were filled to overflowing with *&%%$ and I had to go in with a plunger and get them all working while wading in the nasty water.

When I was in my early teens in Indiana I baled hay every summer. It was hot and itchy and I was always the one put up in the hay loft of the barn because I could take the heat.

During my days as a boilermaker / welder any time my working partners would complain about whatever crappy job we were doing I always said: "it beats baling hay" and I meant it.

 

[farmboy12]

my worse job had to have been when I was a Sophomore in High School...I worked for my girl friend's father who owned a HVAC company ( She became my wife a few years later) He had me threading pipe on a manual pipe threader for a whole week..Up until that week I was just an average student and my parents were always telling me I had to go to college....I yawned...After that week on that manual pipe threader in the hot sun...I decided I did indeed need to get serious about school and go to college...I began to get A's and B's and did indeed go to and finish college..I have never threaded pipe since that week so many years ago...But I did marry the bosses daughter..LOL and its been 47 yrs. now of wedded bliss

Moral of the story...Sometimes good things come from bad jobs...

My family owns an HVAC company. I do mostly installations and duct cleanings, and also work as a helper for some service calls sometimes, or just doing anything around the shop. I haven't thread pipe by hand...but I hear stories all the time, and I know it's bad. But HVAC can be an all around terrible job year round depending on what you're doing.

Of course, you have to know that if you are fixing heat it's cold, and if you're fixing AC it's hot. Some of the worst are filthy duct cleanings, in attics or crawlspaces, in the summer time. Or roof tops in 90+ degree sunny temps, or well below freezing with a biting wind. Or ladders, while carrying over 50lbs of tools and equipment. Going as high as 40ft sometimes. Sometimes it is a decent job though, and I am thankful to have the money. But sometimes, it just plain sucks.


Kyle

 

[ncnurseryman]

worst job? sitting in a bank back office in same cube everyday, looking at the same numbers, seeing the same people and hearing the same crap from same jerks day in and day out. It seemed like the only way people could enjoy themselves was by seeing who they could talk about the most and backstab the most. Needless to say, i mostly work alone and outside. :thumbsup:

 

[Short Game]

Picking oysters on mud flats. It was before I ruined my back, but I never had a good enough back for that job. It was physical torture for me. I did it for two summers. A shift was only while the tide was off the beds, but it seemed like forever most days.

 

[MissouriSprayer]

I steam cleaned the manure pits under small research swine buildings. Was not very popular after work and going back to the dorm. But it was a little money and when you were as broke as I was, it wasn't so bad.

 

[timswi]

Service manger in a car dealer where the manufacturer was trying to start up in the US...Fresh out of college and promoted from the service desk of an established manufacturer..Most parts had to come over on the boat....Tech-line was a rotating group of actual engineers...It was a nightmare once it got to the customer level...I've had some lousy jobs, but that one took the cake.

 

[MasseyWV]

worst job? sitting in a bank back office in same cube everyday, looking at the same numbers, seeing the same people and hearing the same crap from same jerks day in and day out. It seemed like the only way people could enjoy themselves was by seeing who they could talk about the most and backstab the most. Needless to say, i mostly work alone and outside. :thumbsup:

I agree. Office work is the worst thing I've ever done, and if I can help it, I'll never do it again. Working alone and outside is much better.