What's your least favorite job you've ever had?

[McHoop]

• Top, worst job.. (summer during college).. worked at Service Supply in Indy(The House of a Million Screws). I essentially took mini-barrels filled with fasteners, removed them with a big magnet, put them in smaller boxes filled by weight, labeled them and stocked them. TEDIUM.
• 2nd worst..... (summer during college)...... worked "Special Events" for Pepsi Cola in Indy. The job itself wasn't bad. I had a rack truck that I used to deliver product(pre-mix and CO2 canisters) to area little league concession stands and replace out the empties. Again, not a bad gig in and of itself. However, my boss was a work-aholic -asshole who sometimes had us out making deliveries well into the night(our shift started at 8:00 a.m.)
• 3rd worst..... (summer during high school)..... worked for the Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative in Indy. Specifically, in the Wool Department. I put raw wool fleeces on a conveyor that were then sorted and graded by my boss. Boss was a good dude though and one bonus..... the girls said I had the softest hands in Morgan County due to all that lanolin......

McHoop

 

[AWilli6995]

I’ve only had 2 jobs my entire life. The Navy and currently USPS. I can’t complain about either one.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

I used to pick tomatoes, tobacco work, and bailed hay during middle and high school summers.

Once got tobacco poisoning while hanging.

Tobacco is horrible to work with and that was our money crop when I was growing up on the farm. The biggest reason that I went to college was to not have to raise tobacco.

 

[lurkeraspect84]

Tobacco is horrible to work with and that was our money crop when I was growing up on the farm. The biggest reason that I went to college was to not have to raise tobacco.

Since you're a gold member, send me a pm.

 

[IUfanBorden]

Oops...

 

[mebeblue2]

I used to pick tomatoes, tobacco work, and bailed hay during middle and high school summers.

Once got tobacco poisoning while hanging.

my ex wife's family raised tobacco so naturally i got to help despite working 80 hours a week
cutting tobacco is a miserable job
i wish i would have kept count on how many rattlesnakes i killed cutting tobacco, they love laying under those big leaves

 

[sven187]

I worked as a telemarketer for 2 weeks when I was a senior in high school. The only time it was fun was when people cussed me out. Which didn't happen nearly enough.

 

[MileHighSpartan]

Worst job was probably my first, as a dishwasher. It was actually fun to work in the kitchen and the people were fun, but smelling like wet food / bleach after you get out of work always sucked. Never worked in a restaurant again afterwards.

In college I cut grass for a doctor, which was awesome. He had like 5+ acres, and I would just write down my hours and every few weeks leave it on his front door, then he'd put cash in an envelope on the lawn mower in his garage afterwards. No interaction was great. I'd always round my hours up, and always went to work SmokinSmile.

Other summer jobs included building wooden shipping crates with my buddies which was fun, working in a newspaper plant which wasn't that cool but was good money at the time, and prob the best college job.... working in the Meijer photo lab near MSU. Got to see a lot of "good" pics.

 

[boiler1987]

Worst for me was working in a factory that made seat belts. It was assembly-line stuff and it was hot as hell and brutal. Quit on day 3 haha.

 

[jace46555]

Security for a coal company. 12 to 16 hour shifts. Sometimes had to stay 24 hours or more due to weather or other dead beats not showing up.

Usually didn't have an office or electricity to use. So just had to be in or around your vehicle in the middle of no where up on a mountain. 100+ degree summer temps and one foot of snow in winter.

If there was a holiday you worked. Often had 74 to 86 hours a week. It sucked, but it led to an almost 6 figure job at the company. Then Obama happened.

But, because Obama happened, someone who doesn't work has insurance now. So, there's that..........

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Since you're a gold member, send me a pm.

It will not let me. We have discussed this before.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

my ex wife's family raised tobacco so naturally i got to help despite working 80 hours a week
cutting tobacco is a miserable job
i wish i would have kept count on how many rattlesnakes i killed cutting tobacco, they love laying under those big leaves

That is a fact. We once raised an acre next to Mammoth Cave national park boundary. They were everywhere. We carried a snake stick and a burlap bag with us and clean the field up of snakes, both rattlers and copper heads, before starting work.

 

[JC for 3]

My first one.... I was 16 years old @Lee's Famous Recipe

 

[toonces11]

Anybody ever worked as a butcher or in a meat locker?

 

[treyforuk]

Anybody ever worked as a butcher or in a meat locker?

A buddy of mine did one summer. At the time I don't think he knew where bacon came from. Harsh lesson learned. Barfed alot his first few days. Got used to it though and didn't mind it much later on.

 

[treyforuk]

I grew up in tobacco and hay fields. It didn't seem so much as work, than a way of life. With that said, I'm 58 and cringe when I drive by a field. And there are hundreds of acres around me. Miss the money though from the 70s. All day for 20 bucks.

 

[mebeblue2]

I grew up in tobacco and hay fields. It didn't seem so much as work, than a way of life. With that said, I'm 58 and cringe when I drive by a field. And there are hundreds of acres around me. Miss the money though from the 70s. All day for 20 bucks.

in my late teens and early 20's i became friends with a farmer that was in his late 70's he had 700 acres and about 200 acres of hay. i actually enjoyed getting the hay up, it is very hard work but it was enjoyable

 

[bkingUK]

K-Mart. Christmas department. First day on job at age 15. People are animals.

 

[toonces11]

A buddy of mine did one summer. At the time I don't think he knew where bacon came from. Harsh lesson learned. Barfed alot his first few days. Got used to it though and didn't mind it much later on.

I imagine you see stuff that the general public never gets to see. I'd like to see a tyson plant

 

[treyforuk]

I imagine you see stuff that the general public never gets to see. I'd like to see a tyson plant

My son works for Aramark. Twice a week delivers coats by the thousands to a chicken plant. Almost turned him against chicken...almost. I had to meet him this morn To pick up and package 40 lbs of boneless breasts, while he finished his route.

 

[toonces11]

My son works for Aramark. Twice a week delivers coats by the thousands to a chicken plant. Almost turned him against chicken...almost. I had to meet him this morn To pick up and package 40 lbs of boneless breasts, while he finished his route.

That whole system is grisly I'm sure.

 

[mebeblue2]

i can tell you all one job i would never do
dairy farmer, it is a twice a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year job
those cows do not milk themselves

 

[BobbyBoucheer]

Never forget a job I had for 1 and 1/2 shifts.

High school before senior year. got a job at a local pizza restaurant. It was a sit down place with no delivery. My job was to wash dishes and keep the pizza stocked on their pizza buffet they did from 11-3 every day. Sounds easy enough, right?

Well, for some reason, they had the head manager and asst managers that ALWAYS worked at the same time ( from what I was told ). They would stand around a little island type deal and bullshit and yell back in the kitchen when the buffet needed attention. I mean they did nothing but stand there and bullshit all day and there was just a couple of us mopes working in the back doing everything.

I asked the older African american gentleman why we had to wash dishes and make the pies and stock the buffet and they don't help.....he said, you should quit man.... I would quit but I have to be here ( never found out why that was the case and he never elaborated )

Anyways, The second day, I had my Dad come to eat at the restaurant to watch the goings on because I wanted to quit but I also didn't want him to think I was some slacker that was making excuses. So, he watches for about an hour during the buffet, I was already there for a few hours, and he tells me......**** them lazy pieces of shit. lets roll.....

That was long ago, but that has always stuck with me......lots of life lessons in the very small time I was there.. went on to be a pizza delivery driver in a university town which was AMAZING...( in comparison ) worked that job until junior year at WVU....the stories I could tell....

 

[DukeRulesBasketball]

Worked at Amazon as a picker!

 

[boiler1987]

Never forget a job I had for 1 and 1/2 shifts.

High school before senior year. got a job at a local pizza restaurant. It was a sit down place with no delivery. My job was to wash dishes and keep the pizza stocked on their pizza buffet they did from 11-3 every day. Sounds easy enough, right?

Well, for some reason, they had the head manager and asst managers that ALWAYS worked at the same time ( from what I was told ). They would stand around a little island type deal and bullshit and yell back in the kitchen when the buffet needed attention. I mean they did nothing but stand there and bullshit all day and there was just a couple of us mopes working in the back doing everything.

I asked the older African american gentleman why we had to wash dishes and make the pies and stock the buffet and they don't help.....he said, you should quit man.... I would quit but I have to be here ( never found out why that was the case and he never elaborated )

Anyways, The second day, I had my Dad come to eat at the restaurant to watch the goings on because I wanted to quit but I also didn't want him to think I was some slacker that was making excuses. So, he watches for about an hour during the buffet, I was already there for a few hours, and he tells me......**** them lazy pieces of shit. lets roll.....

That was long ago, but that has always stuck with me......lots of life lessons in the very small time I was there.. went on to be a pizza delivery driver in a university town which was AMAZING...( in comparison ) worked that job until junior year at WVU....the stories I could tell....

Would love to hear some of those stories haha

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Worked at Amazon as a picker!

I love and use Amazon. What does a "picker" do?

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

i can tell you all one job i would never do
dairy farmer, it is a twice a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year job
those cows do not milk themselves

hehe.

Old folks like me have lived long enough to do many thing.

When I was a kid we owned a two-hundred-acre farm on the edge of town (I-65 goes thorough part of it now). We milked 20 cows twice a day. That was bad enough, but we then would pasteurized the milk, bottle it and then delivered it around town. After that you took a bath and go to school.

But those were great days. I would not take a million dollars for that as it set me on my path for success. Work hard, good rewards.

 

[Mac9192]

Internet Political board moderator

 

[jace46555]

I was a "fluffer" for a porn company when I was younger. I quickly found out that it wasn't what I thought! I knew immediately that I couldn't do this job. It was the worst 2 years doing it before I could quit because it was hard to find another job.

 

[jace46555]

Another shity job was as a kid/teenager, I worked for my dad who had a small construction company. Theres not much worse than being on a roof in the middle of summer in 100 degree heat! Absolutely miserable!!!!

 

[lurkeraspect84]

I love and use Amazon. What does a "picker" do?

When you order from Amazon, someone has to "pick" your order in a huge distribution center. There's one in Campbellsville.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Another shity job was as a kid/teenager, I worked for my dad who had a small construction company. Theres not much worse than being on a roof in the middle of summer in 100 degree heat! Absolutely miserable!!!!

I have done that also.

 

[UL_1986]

When you order from Amazon, someone has to "pick" your order in a huge distribution center. There's one in Campbellsville.

I’ve done that for GE parts at a distribution center in Louisville, before my undergrad. Hot warehouse, mid July was hell.

 

[Big_Blue79]

Selling sweet corn out of the back of a pickup truck. Pay was okay for a summer job - from $50 to $120 cash - but it was a heatwave summer in the Minnesota/Wisconsin area. And people are so damn cheap they try to haggle every. Last. Nickle. It's effing corn from a truck, just buy a bag or don't.

 

[precise02]

My first "official" job was a dishwasher at an all you can eat buffet. It was during the summer and hot as hell in the back too. Had to bus the tables and wash them, there was no downtime. At the time the minimum wage was $3.35 hr. I earned a couple of paychecks and got another job.

 

[IUfanBorden]

hehe.

Old folks like me have lived long enough to do many thing.

When I was a kid we owned a two-hundred-acre farm on the edge of town (I-65 goes thorough part of it now). We milked 20 cows twice a day. That was bad enough, but we then would pasteurized the milk, bottle it and then delivered it around town. After that you took a bath and go to school.

But those were great days. I would not take a million dollars for that as it set me on my path for success. Work hard, good rewards.

Amen...

 

[treyforuk]

I've done some crappy work. But the cheapest was as a trayman at Boone Tavern, at Berea College. .84 cents an hour. About 40 bucks a month.

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

I've done some crappy work. But the cheapest was as a trayman at Boone Tavern, at Berea College. .84 cents an hour. About 40 bucks a month.

Damn man, you like 110 years old?

 

[schoonerwest]

Damn man, you like 110 years old?

I just looked up the historical minimum wage scale. Looks like it was around 84 cents an hour sometime in the mid-1950’s. I think Trey has mentioned before he’s in his late 50’s right now. That means he did work for 84 cents an hour like 20 years after it was the national minimum. Sounds like he got fvcked.

 

[treyforuk]

Damn man, you like 110 years old?

Close. 58. You have to understand how Berea works. You work for your tuition. This was 1979.