Worse Jobs You've Held?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

I wonder if pulling insulation bats from a ceiling and loading them into a trailer to be reused later on a hot and humid summer day counts as one up on that one.

I don't think "one-up" counts. If you had a job you absolutely hated it counts for something.

I must be odd, I'd rather bust my ass in a ditch or do some kind of manual labor then deal with workplace politics or customer service. It's much more honest and straightforward.

I like customer service work, but I haven't had a CS job yet that didn't ask me to lie to the customers in one way or another. For this reason I'll never own a Sprint or Verizon phone, and I'm very reluctant to have a credit card of any kind.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I don't think "one-up" counts. If you had a job you absolutely hated it counts for something.
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Hell, I've had a TON of jobs I've hated. It's hard to pick just one. Aircraft Revetment is at the top of my list of worst jobs I did in the Air force, but i doubt anyone here has a clue about that, so I'll spare the story.

[Stealhead]

I know exactly what you are talking about not about constructing one personally but I have seen it done of from a I am busy doing this they are busy doing that point of view.You are right though most people have no idea what we are talking about.

It never really said what worst really meant though that could be from many different perspectives.Bad management,bad co-workers,difficult manual labor.

I know one thing for sure how the management works has a huge effect I think if you have some jerk wad bossing everyone around using the threats and crap to stress everyone into doing a better job
that is just hell in a hand basket.I never understand that strategy and it only makes the job harder which means a poorer quality of work.I saw this old film clip once some Procter & Gamble film showing them how to motive workers and the guy is screaming and yelling and he says something about having a heart attack if I was working with someone like that I would say please do that would make me work so much harder.

Sure you have to have a boss,foreman,supervisor whatever but you get so much more with mutual respect.Something that many people in supervisory positions seem not to understand.

[nikimcbee]

Dishroom hands down.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Dishroom hands down.

I saw you more as a potato peeler

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Dishroom hands down.

I worked one for 3 days. That was enough for me.

[Platapus]

When I was first in college, I had a night job as a morgue orderly at our local hospital. I actually liked it, but it involved some pretty disgusting work

Good preparation for the times when, in the military, I had to deal with picking up dead guys from aircraft accidents.

At one time I wanted to be a pathologist.

[nikimcbee]

I've had some really disgusting days doing custodial work, but I'm not going to mention details.

But consistently, day in and day out, I hated dishroom work.

[Stealhead]

I had to do the "KP" detail a few times in basic training part of that of course involved running the dish machines I would say it was pretty lame but the pots and pans are worse because those you have to do by hand.

[fireftr18]

Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp

Maybe I'm different in this respect, but I never considered any job I've had to be "the worst". I always felt blessed to have a job and I've never had more than 2 weeks of unemployment between full-time jobs. My first job was at the age of 10 where I sorted the Sunday Papers for a couple of hours at a local Deli for the sum of $1.00.00. When I was 16, I worked part time (summer work) in a local lumber yard.
Right out of High School, I worked 6 days a week (full time) at a Church owned cemetary for about 2.5 years (guess how much the church pays?).

The most physically demanding job I had was when I worked for a Municipal Water utility company full time. There, I worked my way up the ladder from manually digging ditches and using a Jack-Hammer to being a senior plumber. I was then in charge of the workmen under me who did the digging I once did. During this full-time job with the municipal utility company, I also worked part-time both as a Tiler and Landscaper. I would work at the water company from 7:30 to 3:30pm, drive to my part-time landscaping job and continue working until about 9:30 to 10:00pm at night. On my days off (Sat. Sun., holidays, vacation days), I did my part-time work as an assistant to a Tiler from 8:00 to 4:00pm. One year, between full & part time work, I worked full time every day of the year w/o a single day off (except Xmas).
I always felt blessed/thankful to have a job when others didn't, no matter how hard my work was.
As a municipal water worker, I had been inside most of the homes/businesses in the three major cities of Paterson, Passaic and Clifton New Jersey. I got to see how some people lived, in homes where I could see sunlight through the cracks in their walls in the dead of winter, graffiti sprayed across kitchen walls and refrigerators, homes heated with a box-fan on the door of their kitchen oven, ottomans pushed together to form a bed. After seeing all that, I found it hard to complain about anything ever again.

Oh yeah, after all this, I also worked for over 25 years as a law enforcement officer. I saw enough during my tenure as a cop to realize, nobody should complain about their lives.

Amen, brother! Likewise here. The job in the store really wasn't what I would call a bad job. Only a few years experience on the fire dept did I realize how petty the constant rushing around in the store was. And I can say the same thing as your experience as a municipal water worker and law enforcement officer. Wern and I have seen so much bad, and stupid, that most people find it difficult to believe it. Some movies have tried to copy reality, but the reality is, the movie wouldn't be able to qualify for an "R" rating. They can't even get close for TV.

[fireftr18]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

I must be odd, I'd rather bust my ass in a ditch or do some kind of manual labor then deal with workplace politics or customer service. It's much more honest and straightforward.

Don't have to deal with people. You can just quietly go about your job and no one bothers you. Maybe that's why I like doing my paperwork at home.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Originally Posted by fireftr18

Amen, brother! Likewise here. The job in the store really wasn't what I would call a bad job. Only a few years experience on the fire dept did I realize how petty the constant rushing around in the store was. And I can say the same thing as your experience as a municipal water worker and law enforcement officer. Wern and I have seen so much bad, and stupid, that most people find it difficult to believe it. Some movies have tried to copy reality, but the reality is, the movie wouldn't be able to qualify for an "R" rating. They can't even get close for TV.

It's funny that, even working for the municipal water company, we worked closely with the fire departments from various cities. The worst part was having to drive around, shutting off the fire hydrants during the hot summer months. The crowds that were using them to cool off would hurl rocks, bottles or sticks at us. It got so bad sometimes that we would be running around with FD shutting hydrants down. Some of the FD guys got assaulted as well as our own.

Then there were the scary times, when FD would call us to shut down the service lines during "working incidents". I got to one scene, parts of the house were still burning, other areas smoldering, home partially collapsed and the FD commander on the scene was looking at me with a grin. I swallowed hard and asked; "Are you certain it's safe to go in there?"
He just nodded his head without the slightest change in facial expression. I had to put on hip-waders to access the basement, shut the valves and pull the meter. That was freaky.

[antikristuseke]

Probably my previous security job for then atural sciences buildign of the Tallinn University of Technology. Terrible hours, some 24h shifts with no rest time and the pay was attrocious, minimum wage with no overtime. The only benefit from there was gettign my qualification which was instrumental to gettign the job I have now.
I once did a 48h, no sleep, shift there because a coworker simply dissapeared for a coupel of weeks on a drinking binge. That job almost broke me in a year.

[nikimcbee]

My most stressfull job was my last dept. I just barely transferred out (It's my 2nd day in new dept)

[BossMark]

Today!! had run in with my supply manager because I cancelled some overtime a few days ago because I decided to go out on the piss I gave them over 24 hours notice, so I just cant see what the problem was no matter what my excuse was.