What was your worst job?

[INTP_Polly]

We have a best jobs thread so I thought I'd start a worst jobs thread.

1. Telemarketer - I lasted 2 days and never even went back to pick up my pay cheque. Something just felt too evil about it.
2. Medical Secretary - People actually expect you to be on time and all that. You are constantly dealing with people who feel people have different stations in life and treat them differently. I never had to bite my tongue so much in my life.
3. Liaison - I was totally out of my element having to liaison with community representatives. I was like, can't I just email you?

I've had a lot of jobs that weren't very glamorous but I would have had to been seriously medicated to continue doing those three jobs.

[Dirac]

1. Seaweed harvesting. Back breaking. We were paid by the kilo and we made less than minimum wage.

2. Surveys at the airport. 8 flights a day, each one took about 5 minutes. The day was thirteen hours. Good money but huge boredom.

[LordLatch]

Graveyard Inventory

[INTP_Polly]

Graveyard Inventory

Are you shitting me?

[jigglypuff]

restaurant cashier / front of house with a manager that yelled at me a lot

Graveyard Inventory

please share this story

[LordLatch]

Are you shitting me?

It was a day labor gig I had once and is not disturbing like it sounds but it was grueling work. Basically using a slide hammer, you pound a six foot probe into the ground till it hits a casket then pound it back out. Grave after grave- thousands of them. Most people on that job never came back after the first day. I made it through all four. One dude who was not too bright essentially skinned his palms when all his blister came off. It was awful.

[INTP_Polly]

@latch I think you win

[LordLatch]

I also was on a detail in the army where I had to empty a food service trash truck with a shovel. I didn't know maggots could get in oranges before that.

[INTP_Polly]

Probably some of the grossest/most laborious jobs I had were working on farms as a teen. I didn't really mind it that much though. I can put up with a lot if I mostly have to deal with plants and animals.

[gator]

A couple temp jobs I worked really sucked. The worst was the month I spent at a financial holdings company preparing documents for scanning, which consisted of spending all day pulling staples and paper clips with a half-hour break in the middle. The task itself was miserable and mind-numbing, but the worst part was the people I was in there with. We all sat in a circle, facing each other. Everyone hated being there and everyone dealt with it by taking the piss out on each other. Whenever management was out of the room it got nasty. I was seriously depressed when I left that job.