Worse Jobs You've Held?

[Wolferz]

The worst job I ever worked was as a termite technician. Always crawling around in the dirt under houses. Digging, drilling and spraying chemicals. Worked for a monthly salary and that's how they paid us, monthly. Which also came with one of the most unfair overtime systems on the planet. We generally worked a 40 to 48 hour week with the first eight hours of overtime paid as straight time and any hours beyond that were paid at half time per hour. All legal beagle thanks to the Feds. It doesn't seem that bad on paper until you factor in three months of spring where we were literally forced to work 80+ hours a week or be handed a pink slip.

I was only their shmuck for thirteen months until they wanted me to lie to customers for them. That's when I told them;
"Take this job and shove it, I don't lie for me and you can't pay me enough to lie for you."

[soopaman2]

Flipping burgers over a grill, in an open air beach shack down on the Jersey shore where I live, in the summer.

Constant sweat, and dealing with snooty tourists too poor for Cape Cod or the Hamptons, but just as entitled.

I didn't mind the sweat, but the people were beyond repulsive.

It is not a good idea to piss of people making your food...

Things happen...Bennies.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Work as a fetish like it is today, and work-related diseases and burnout as a status symbol? Our society is sick, I say. We were not born to serve factories' needs. Again my advise: work as much as you must, check your demands on living standards and see if you can tweak them and still be happy, do not work more than necessary, as long as you do not really love your job. No man on Earth has any claims to make for you and has no demand that you should serve his interests, as long as you do not live at his costs and do not spend what is his.

And if you do not know what to do with your time if you must not work, and have no interests of yourself, then you have a big problem, me thinks, and you may want to talk with a counselor on that.

Time when you are happy and are absorbed by what interests you, is living time well spent. May be hobby, may be work on your farm, may even be your profession if you are lucky, may be whatever it is. Time when you count the seconds until your shift is over is a waste of life. Maybe needed to make your living, but nothing that gives meaning to your life. Cut it as short as you can afford, for you will not get back that time.

We may not see eye to eye on a few things, Sky, but I can't disagree with you on this at all. After all, at the end of the day, you can't take it with you.

In regards to me and jobs, honestly, I've only been in three different paid jobs, and whilst none of them have been particularly earth-shattering they've also not been terrible, so I mustn't grumble.

[soopaman2]

My second most horrifying job I ever held was as a tele marketer, thought it would be an easy gig selling PBA stickers.

I got a talking to on the first day, when I didn't Rebut (or push my sleazy sticker.) to people who sounded obviously older then dirt, who stated nicely, "I am on a fixed income"

I was yelled at the first day, Despite me selling 1k$ worth of the stupid stickers the next day, I was fired for not giving rebuttals on all my calls. They expect constant pressure, and I felt like dirt pushing on the elderly, as most of the calls I did were.

I was expected to be heartless, and couldn't do it.

I quit and went and earned my CDL, that crap job showed me that I better go and learn something, other than pot smoking and bar hopping.