Dumb Kwestion of the Week #3

Yep it's that time of week again boys and girls. Time to wrap your brains around some terribly non important query and chime in with your results. So without further ado, here is this weeks question.

What was your worst job ever?

It doesn't even have to be a job you did for long, or even got paid for. But what was the worst job you can remember doing (hmm digging ditches and splitting fire wood was my first thought...).

The worst job I ever had was at a brick factory. I spent 8 hours either placing unbaked bricks on a moving car to head into a kiln, or removing them from the kiln and stacking them on a palate for shipping. The labor was hard and fast paced (and it really developed my forearms), but that wasn't the reason it was my worst job. It was the worst because of the crew leaders, they spent the entire shift yelling at the crew for being too slow. Then during the breaks they would pull select individuals aside and tell us we were doing a good job....then go back to yelling at the whole group once we started working again. I only lasted about 3 weeks before I quit.

I worked at a distribution center for USA Drugs. They stuck me in shipping, and basically threw me to the wolves. 2 minutes of training and I was on my own. And then there was a guy yelling at everyone that we all needed to speed it up.

I worked there one day. Never went back again.

It's a toss up between Walgreens Pharmacy and Vons Pharmacy. I'll have to choose Vons.
Too many negatives to list here. But in a nutshell:
Percentage of work to percentage of employees made it so we were non-stop behind.
Big signs in front created by corporate mucky mucks who never set foot in a pharmacy guaranteeing their prescription will be done in less than 15 minutes.
A pharmacy manager who was not only wet behind the ears, but didn't like to work at all - sat around all day on Facebook while meds were never checked out making patients wait for nothing. (he ended up getting fired for stealing morphine, but not until after I chewed him out in front of everyone and quit).
Other issues were fellow employees who loved to play the "seniority" card on vacations and days off, so that us "lessers" would end up working every Sunday.
I could easily go on, but I think you get the picture.

Building tires for Bridgestone. I worked in other departments before I actually started assembling tires there. The last 6 years of my almost 19 really did it for me. Fast paced work, constant bickering between the company and union over who was screwing over who, 12 hour shifts, being isolated from other people, etc. The environment really got to me.

The job as an administrative assistant at an institute for the blind.
That really wasn't nice.
It only has been for a very short time.

Mine would have to be the 7 years I spent working at a sewage treatment plant. It was a fun time with lots of joking around and such, but the poo-poo was the worst. (Remind me later to tell yall about stealing a co-workers car while there.)
For my first 5 years I drove a tanker truck and hauled the $#!+ to nearby farms. It was hot and it STUNK!!! On a few occasions there would be a malfunction and I would end up covered from head to toe in human excrement. Good thing they had showers available.
On my second day there, we were fixing a part in a holding tank that hadn't been used in over a decade. One of the guys ended up getting a mouth full of 10+ year old crap. Watching him puke and gag was AWESOME!

Ok, I think Sabidoo wins. wow

My current one. I've been with the organization over 5 years, and thanks to budget cuts, I've had 2 forced demotions and lost over $15,000 a year in the last 2 1/2 years.

Oh, and a promotion to the job I made the most money in just came open, I applied and I was basically told the interviews are a formality because upper management knows who they want in the position - she's already moved her stuff into the office and everything.

My last day here will be an interesting one.

Sabidoo wins, that's for sure!

Fundy

Hard to tell, as I've only had two jobs, but probably my paper route (the other is lawn mowing). While mowing = mosquito slapping, the papers barely pay $100 a month.

danielbandfan wrote:

Hard to tell, as I've only had two jobs, but probably my paper route (the other is lawn mowing). While mowing = mosquito slapping, the papers barely pay $100 a month.

I remember those days. But back when I was working a paper route $100 was really good money (but that was back in the early 1980's)

Be patient Danielbandfan, it will be better for you.

I think the story sabidoo has share with us is the most stinky job.

Staybrite wrote:

danielbandfan wrote:

Hard to tell, as I've only had two jobs, but probably my paper route (the other is lawn mowing). While mowing = mosquito slapping, the papers barely pay $100 a month.

I remember those days. But back when I was working a paper route $100 was really good money (but that was back in the early 1980's)

Wow, they had newspapers when you were a kid? How old are newspapers anyway???

ishmael81 wrote:

Staybrite wrote:

danielbandfan wrote:

Hard to tell, as I've only had two jobs, but probably my paper route (the other is lawn mowing). While mowing = mosquito slapping, the papers barely pay $100 a month.

I remember those days. But back when I was working a paper route $100 was really good money (but that was back in the early 1980's)

Wow, they had newspapers when you were a kid? How old are newspapers anyway???

Yes, and believe it or not we had color television as well....but no dvd players (and most homes didn't have a VCR until I was in my 20's)

Staybrite wrote:

danielbandfan wrote:

Hard to tell, as I've only had two jobs, but probably my paper route (the other is lawn mowing). While mowing = mosquito slapping, the papers barely pay $100 a month.

I remember those days. But back when I was working a paper route $100 was really good money (but that was back in the early 1980's)

It still is good money. Most routes around here are $40-$50 a month. I landed a relatively good one.

Hopefully I can get a summer job, whether I'm working for the city (maintenance and stuff) or for a wildlife refuge (maintenance, counting animals, presentations…). If I can't, I'll probably apply for work at Christian summer camps around here.

danielbandfan wrote:

Staybrite wrote:

danielbandfan wrote:

Hard to tell, as I've only had two jobs, but probably my paper route (the other is lawn mowing). While mowing = mosquito slapping, the papers barely pay $100 a month.

I remember those days. But back when I was working a paper route $100 was really good money (but that was back in the early 1980's)

It still is good money. Most routes around here are $40-$50 a month. I landed a relatively good one.

Wow $40 to $50 a month doesn't sound like a good route at all. Back in 1981 I earned about $35 to $40 a month doing my morning route and I had less than 30 customers (all in my neighborhood). The next year I took over a larger route with around 50 customers and I was making something like $60+ a month. It was good money at the time.

I worked one day for a gas company laying underground pipeline........spent the day down in a trench in 100 degree + heat, no shade or breeze, holding pipe sections steady so that the welding crew could join them together......and the welding crew set my shirt on fire twice that day.....I did not show up for day 2.

Ah reminds me of my ditch digging days. Spent about a week digging up the main water line for my landlord so he could find a leak. Didn't have to pay rent that month but I'm not sure it was worth it.
At least nobody tried to set me on fire.