Post the worst job you ever had

[superpatriotman]

Mine is tough - there were SO many - but I'd say cleaning (oil, metal shavings and rust) gigantic WWII-era metalworking machines. Second place would be trying to sell meat and seafood door to door. Third is digging sprinkler systems during the summer. All before I was 20.

[marmar]

1. Mrs. Field's Coookies one summer while I was in high school....

.... I quit after 3 days.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I debeaked and vaccinated baby chickens.

[rurallib]

7. Debeaked? You actually removed the beaks from baby chickens?

I have never heard of such a thing. Is this for the meat packing industry?

Just sounds terrible.

No judgment on you.

I live in the heart of CAFO country and seems like I am always hearing of more inhumanity every week.

[Arkansas Granny]

14. It involved touching the tip of the upper beak to a heating element for just a couple of seconds to

inhibit growth and keep them from pecking each other in the brooder houses. It would be similar to scorching the end of your fingernail. It was not painful to them.

[rurallib]

54. Thank you for the answer. Today I learned something valuable.

[Vinca]

59. I learned something I never knew before. Guess it makes sense.

[jmowreader]

25. It's for the egg industry

And it dates back to before large-scale egg operations like they have today. Chickens kept in good-sized flocks will eat each other if their beaks are intact, so they cut the tip off the beak to keep that from happening. Even free range chickens will do it. Chickens are not nice animals.

[rurallib]

55. Thanks for the info!

[superpatriotman]

8. -------end thread-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

We have a winner!

[jpak]

3. Pulling dump trucks full of dead rotting chickens a day

At an egg farm for $2 an hour.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. I've worked many an hour at egg farms, collecting the eggs of 10K hens a day

The ammonia smell is horrendous. It permeates your body.

[jpak]

43. The barns where I worked had 250k hens

A heat wave killed half of them - and they were STILL collecting the eggs,

[Ferrets are Cool]

73. WOW

[Maru Kitteh]

4. Detasseling sucked pretty bad.

Getting shredded by corn leaves. Freezing in the morning, throwing up from heat exhaustion in the afternoon. Getting stuck in the mud and having to walk at a near run in gravel/mud filled shoes all day. Sunburn. Rats. Snakes.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. Picking watermellons for $2 an hour. Backbreaking work

with no breaks for 4 hours at a time.

[Zorro]

33. That was my worst job, too

10 hours picking watermelons under a Florida sun in July. Got paid a whopping $10 for a day's work.

The second job wasn't much better; $1.25/hr (not even minimum wage at the time!) as a dishwasher at a Howard Johnson's restaurant. The dishwashing detergent left rashes all over my arms and fingers.

Third job was frying chickens at the Red Barn after school my senior year. Came home every night smelling like I just came out of the fryer.

Those jobs convinced my 17 year old self to find something better to do to earn some money.

[Ferrets are Cool]

74. LOL I can relate to the Red Barn job. I worked at Colonel Dixie

for about a year when I was in the 11th grade. I made a whopping $1.35 hr which worked out to just 1 dollar for every hour worked after taxes. And thought I was rich because I could go out and buy me that brand new Close to the Edge album.

[Mike 03]

9. French Fry cook at Burger King.

But it wasn't really that awful. We had a lot of laughs, actually. But I did get chewed out really badly one day by the owner of the franchise for having soggy fries.

[Demovictory9]

10. didn't have jobs as physical as the ones described above.. dealing with horrid bosses

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Packaging soap in a soap factory.

I didn't last long because it made me sneeze constantly. A different kind of bad was waitressing in a restaurant/bar where you had to wear a very skimpy uniform, and after a couple of evenings of nonstop sexual harassment I bailed out of that one, too.

[ProfessorGAC]

50. Related To That

Not my job, but was in the manufacturing plants many times.
Powdered laundry detergents.
It was a little dusty, but not bad. Problem was the fragrance.
When smelling the fragrance in a million boxes, we couldn't smell anything else after an hour or two.
Sinuses swelled up. Lunch they brought in tasted like the fragrance.
Then, in the days of powders, the enzyme are delipidizing.
So, had to remove watches, rings, any other jewelry, and wear the paper bunny suit. That stuff would dry the skin horribly.
All the plants I went to were responsible and PPE was abundant. And enforced, strictly.
But, I know after a few days I was always glad I didn't work there all the time.
Now, laundry, dish and personal care are massively dominated by liquids.
They're very different places now.

[dawg day]

12. I also had some bad jobs-

But one really bad one was a furniture factory an hour away-- non-union, Dickensian, horribly paid. We got 15 minutes for lunch, and I was sort of pleased when two cute-ish guys approached me.

Then they asked if I could "score them some pills". Turns out they were on work release from the local prison. One of them BRAGGED to me that he'd been convicted last year of killing his girlfriend- "And I'm already on work release!"

When the long workday finally ended, and I started to leave, he pointed at me and then kissed his finger.

I decided not to go back the next day.

[tavernier]

13. I was a nurse, sooo...

It isn’t the career, which I love, but there are individual tasks that have to be performed. I never minded anything that involved human waste, but I always gagged when I had to clean someone’s dentures. But that was mostly way back in nursing school. I didn’t like to do procedures that were painful to people so I learned to do them as smoothly and quickly as possible . Catheters and NG tubes, injections, stuff like that.

[kimbutgar]

15. Working for Toys r us during Christmas my freshman year in college in the mid 70's .

And being the one who had to approve people writing checks. during those days people didn’t have credit cards like now. To this day I don’t know it was a reward or punishment job. I had to look at IDs and match with their checks. About 15% I had to turn away and send them to the manager. Some would yell at me and I learned how to keep a straight face early on.

They asked to stay on after the holidays. I passed.

[Hoyt]

16. Roofing company in July in deep South. I'd sweat so much during day, and cramp up all night from

lost electrolytes. No Gatorade back then.

A few years later, had a job that was just about as bad. Cleaning out frozen food lockers at near zero degrees.

[superpatriotman]

21. I forgot about roofing!

I did that too in high school.
Carrying shingle bundles up ladders then up onto sloped roofs with no ropes or harness (hello OSHA?)
God, I've had some shit jobs.

[uppityperson]

17. One springs to mind

It was a greasy fast food joint. The person I replaced had slipped on the greasy floor and fallen hands first into the never changed hot oil cooker. I was promoted to manager on th morning of day 3 , walked out a few hours later. I was 18.

[prodigitalson]

18. Construction was the hardest. Little Cesar's Pizza was the shittiest.

They literally do not give lunch breaks. Or any other break. Totally legal. And they pay minimum wage.

[pdxflyboy]

19. Summer of 1976. 22 years old...

State of Connecticut Highway Department. Roadkill removal detail. Removed roadkill from state highways and turnpike. Junior workers, like me, were assigned this detail on Mondays, when the squirrels, raccoons, German Shepherds, ect. that were run over on Friday nights cooked in the summer sun on Sat. and Sunday. Ohh God, I'm sorry. Why am I even typing this? I never brought in a lunch on Mondays.

[Ferrets are Cool]

75. That had to be rough. nt

[Ferrets are Cool]

76. Funny, but the more terrible the job (with few exceptions) the worse it pays

[Corgigal]

20. Working at a call center,

for a bank. Heard more crying on those lines, then I did after 8 years working 911 in Tampa Fl.
I just couldn’t do it, I gave everyone back their over draft fees. I should have known better to take that job. Wasn’t there long, maybe 3 weeks.

[pnwest]

27. Ugh. I worked at a call center for an insurance

company. I understand about those heartbreaking calls from crying people. Also angry, infuriated people. 8 hours of terribly depressing stress, or angry vitriol downloaded directly into your ears via headphones, it was awful. I feel ya.

[Me.]

22. Working For A Vet Who DeBarked Dogs

Had to leave

[Sneederbunk]

23. Cleaning the inside of milk tanks at a cheese factory.

[CanonRay]

24. Working on an asphalt crew in summer in Chicago

The unbelievable heat and fumes. I had Dr. Scholl's inserts in my work boots and they melted. Dangerous equipment. After I left, several guys were burned to death when one if the gas tanks caught fire and exploded. This was pre-OSHA days.

[pnwest]

26. Waiting tables at a major chain,

2” of disgusting dishwater and goop in the dishwasher area of the kitchen, where the ice machine was located, ice bucket on the floor, that was used to scoop ice out of the machine. Dish machine so old you had to run the dishes thru 2-3 times to get clean, one poor guy running the area alone, even on weekend nights during waitlisted hours. No bussers, so wait staff was completely overworked and unable to have enough time to give good service, so there were always complaints. So the word got around to the cheap-ass people in the area that if you complained at this place you’d get free food. All topped off with a shitty computer system that crashed multiple times per shift, so it took forever to get your orders in, making food orders take forever to get out. The place was a shithole from the top down, and still fuels my waitress nightmares 25 years later. It. Was. Hell.

[marie999]

28. Open burning of all documents and books when they changed the SECRET and TOP SECRET CODEWORDS at NSA

I can't tell you why specifically except it was because a bozo in the federal government gave a speech on TV after coming from a security meeting and not having a cover sheet on a report he was carrying. This had to be done all over the world.

[Music Man]

29. Soccer referee.

Did it for a number of years, and I really wanted to enjoy it. I love the sport, grew up around it, and it's not like it didn't have its benefits: Good exercise, paid well, and I can't say it was ever a boring job. And I was good at it, so I stuck with it a long time.

But you put up with a lot of angry, uninformed people. Parents, especially, saying absolutely nasty things, and by and large, from a place of ignorance. If you don't have a referee certification and you are 100 yards away from the play, maybe your opinion is... irrelevant? And whatever the call was, I doubt it is important enough in life to be literally yelling about.

Eventually, my love of soccer was not enough to counteract the bullshit.

[mokawanis]

68. I have a grandson who loves soccer

and I used to watch him play, before this awful virus began. I saw many instances where the parents and other spectators acted like idiots, yelling at the refs and sometimes even yelling at the kids. I witnessed one situation where a kid ran off the field and told his father "dad, I hate the other team. I hate those fuckers" and the dad replied "I know. I hate those fuckers too".

[Mossfern]

30. Working check out at the local A&P

when I was in high school. It was before electronics (early '60's), so we actually had to calculate change and tax in our heads. I felt horrible one day - feverish and chills. When I told the manager that I needed to leave because I was feeling so bad, he told me that if I left that I was fired - I left. It turned out that I had pneumonia.

Some customers were unbearable - they were "Karens" before the appellation for that kind of person.

I've had so many different jobs, from cleaning houses to waiting on tables to a County Director. What I learned was that no matter what job I had, no matter how distasteful some may consider it - I just made up my mind to like what I was doing, find something good about what I was doing, and I never hated my job. Working as a case manager for a Welfare to Work program was emotionally exhausting.

[gibraltar72]

31. Working on a chicken farm.

Just couldn't kill the chicks that were not perfect.

[brewens]

32. Commercial hydroseeding. Up on top of a truck handling bags of the mulch which is dusty even

in the rain. Then it has this tackifier in it that gets slicker than hot snot on a doorknob. Cold, wet, eating dust, slippery deck, and working around dangerous machinery all at the same time. I used to use those cheap wool rubberized gloves. They help a little in cold wet conditions, and would tear away if I got finger caught in a belt or something. It's not Deadliest Catch dangerous, but nastier than most.

[Iggo]

34. Dishwasher. (n/t)

[jalan48]

35. Aluminum plant. Toxic environment with redneck racists to boot.

[TreasonousBastard]

36. Wow! I've had some shit jobs over he years, but nothing like the stuff here. Maybe we should...

revive "Dirty Jobs".

(Actually, I just saw that it is back-- set to start next month)

[GusBob]

37. My response may be considered politically incorrect

I’m old so I apologize in advance
Worked since the age 11 hard jobs
Apprentice cook in a lumber camp
I trapped varmints for food and fur. Scrubbing toilets as a janitor for years
Our village got overrun by rats got a nickle for each I killed. That sucked

But my worst was a boy toy for a retired French Canadien prostitute. She married a senile millionaire
She musta been something back in her day but man not when I was her escort
The pay was good at age 19

[superpatriotman]

41. Your post is Dickensian

You should write your story.

[GusBob]

56. Just bringing it up touches me a bit of PTSD

Smothered in large breasts for 100$ bills

Speaking of Dickens have you ever seen that movie
Mr Pip with Hugh Laurie?

[chowder66]

38. I had my share of encountering crappy jobs but not so much in the work itself, just the people.

You all just made my sucky jobs seem soooo much better. Thank you but I'm so sorry you all had to go through this.

[2naSalit]

39. Harvesting tobacco...

I lasted one day. Also, working in service industry... it made me hate tourists and the destinations they flock to which is a shame since one of them was my study focus in grad school with the hope of working at the federal level. I finally got hired but not in the positions I wanted and always dealing with the GP who have become a large herd of assholes with a few nice people sprinkled in for the sake of confusion.

[Dave in VA]

64. Yes tobacco...

I lasted two days. We were just topping it. Sitting on the back of a pickup. The burning of the nicotine, the tobacco worms. Vomiting every afternoon from the nicotine poisoning. Yeah, didn't need that every day.

[randr]

40. I was a caddie at our local golf club in my teens

Had to listen to fat white racists all day. Set my mind for the rest of my life.

[superpatriotman]

44. My first job was caddying

Though as you can read in the OP it was not even in my top three worst! Though it was physically brutal, hot and socially demeaning.

[GoCubsGo]

42. Conducting biological surveys in mucky, cottonmouth-infested swamps in the summer

in the Deep South. Also full of mosquitoes, deerflies, biting gnats, poison ivy, feral hogs, massive walls of blackberry and greenbriar vines, and the occasional rattlesnake, copperhead and wasps. Lots of 90+ degree days. Got heat exhaustion at least once every summer I had that job. I quit wearing waders, because they became pointless. They weren't keeping me dry, as I was pouring liters of sweat out of them each day. Still have lots of scars from it, as well as a couple of deformed toenails I got from wearing ill-fitting muck boots. I'm just lucky I didn't get Lyme disease or any other tick/insect-borne disease. I was pushing 50 at the time, and was having to keep up with kids half my age. It was brutal.

[dixiegrrrrl]

58. I hear every word you say..

Esp., on top of all that, pushing 50.

Climate down here is brutal enough without having to be in deep swamp water on top of it.

[GoCubsGo]

60. The water wasn't even deep in most places.

The muck was, though. There were places where I'd get sucked down past my knees in mud. It was often a struggle to get out of it. Deep water would have been welcome. It was a lot cooler. Actually, there were times were we had a river or stream nearby, and we'd cool off there at the end of the day--and wash off all the mud.

[Victor_c3]

45. Stuffing body bags in Iraq

A close second was working for Amazon as a production manager when I first got out of the army. Both jobs were soul sucking and quite terrible.

[superpatriotman]

49. So Amazon was barely better than stuffing body bags?

Paging Jeff Bezos.

[Solly Mack]

46. Chicken plant

More years ago than I care to count.

[Polybius]

47. Supermarket cashier

It was the early 90's, so it was tough. People still wrote checks then, and SNAP was not on a card.

[Binkie The Clown]

48. Pizza delivery in the 60s when I was in college. nt

[Aristus]

51. Account manager for a sales-training company.

Horrible, horrible job.

It was my job to sell training seminars to salesmen at car dealerships. I only took the job because I was starving and had to pay rent. The owner of the company was an arrogant asshole with a degree in something called Industrial Psychology, and would tell anyone he met within just a few minutes of meeting them.

He loved to keep people worried and stressed out, and would pit his employees against one another.

Then there were the clients - car salesmen; never the most pleasant of people in the best of times. Catch them during a bad month, and you'd find yourself wishing you were anywhere else. But we had to visit with them on a regular basis because part of the job was maintaining each salesperson's monthly newsletter to his regular clients.

A male-dominated profession, nearly every dealership had at least one female sales rep, whom the men treated like dirt and said horrible things about behind their backs.

I took the job in the middle of winter, and still remember waking up in the dark of an early morning, dreading getting out of bed to go do this rotten job.

I wish I could say I got fed up after a while and quit on principle; but the truth is, I got fired because I was bad at the job. I had lasted three months. It was the first time I had ever been fired, and it stung. It took me four months of scrambling before I finally got another job. Four months of having everything in my already tiny apartment shut off to save money, four months of eating rice and not much else. Four months of wondering, if I got fired for not being able to do such a shitty job, if I was ever going to be good at anything.

That was in 1997, and I still have nightmares that I'm back in that job, schlepping from one car dealership to another, trying to get some movement on those shitty sales-training packages.

[bottomofthehill]

52. Moving company

day labor, show up, hope to get picked, work your ass off while the company employees supervised. summer job so it was always hot!. on the days I worked the pay was good. $10.00 an hour in the 80's was good money but some weeks I would get 30 or 35 hours some weeks 10-15 hours.

[Yeehah]

53. Cleaning stalls on a horse farm

#2 working on a cattle farm

[EX500rider]

57. Cleaning Taliban portalets in Kandahar Afghanistan...

Very unpleasant, 30+ POW's using one portalet that they squatted on rather then sat so it was way messy, we had to suck it out then pressure spray the inside clean, the blowback was a petri dish of horrible, it was god awful...that was on top of cleaning the other 400+ ones on the base. Pay was OK but it was 12 hour shifts 7 days a week for 4 months till you got a break. I made my own bio-suit with foul weather gear, gloves, mask, googles and duct tape.

[yonder]

65. I've had my own share of bad jobs but I have to nominate that one of yours as the worst.

[EX500rider]

77. No argument from me, not quite the contest I'd like to win though...lol nt

[Bettie]

61. Burger King, Madison, WI

a block of State Street.

Halloween was the WORST night to be working there. I recall still being there getting pickles off the ceiling when the AM crew came in to prep.

[Talitha]

62. Being the wife of an abusive drunk.

I suppose it wasn't a 'real' job because there was no pay, but still...

[bif]

63. Stock boy at J.C. Penneys

I had to load up a fork lift with huge boxes, drag them through the warehouse and deliver them to various departments. I quit after a couple hours and told them to keep my paycheck.

[Totally Tunsie]

66. Still suffering PTSD and nightmares after 20 years of being away from it...

Would love to post details as they're relevant to today's administration, but can't bear to revisit the particulars. Let's just say I have difficulty catering to rich entitled assholes 24/7, and working through their many business and personal indiscretions. You think tRump's bad? I worked for one of his buddies...

[meadowlander]

67. Shoveling pig shit.

My university had a farm and when i was a pre-vet student I worked there part time and on weekends. Mostly it was to take care of the sheep, goats, horses and deer but if I finished up early, I had to help out with the pigs.

They smell atrocious, roll around in their own filth and then rub against your legs, bite your calves and shoes while you're trying to feed them, won't get out of the way for anything, run behind you so you trip over them when you back up.

All the leftover food from the university cafeterias went into big oil drums to mix together and partially rot and we had to scoop big buckets of slop out to feed them. Everything about them was disgusting. I can't understand how anyone could keep a pig as a pet indoors.

Second worst was a call centre and third worst was kindergarten substitute teacher.

[aikoaiko]

69. Pesticide Tree Sprayer

Had to coat 100 ft tall oaks.

I was covered in pesticide every day -- often too hot to wear masks.

this was what it was like -- raining pesticide all day long.

[totodeinhere]

70. I had a summer job for the US Forest Service going around cleaning vault toilets in the

campgrounds. I got to see some beautiful country but cleaning out smelly public toilets was gross.

[Straw Man]

71. Working security at a Quaker-owned resort hotel in the 1970s ...

... and telling guests that they couldn't drink alcohol in the public areas on New Year's Eve.

I guess they hadn't read the fine print in the brochure.

[MoonlitKnight]

72. Cleaning motel rooms during spring break in Daytona

And it was my spring break too...but needed money for school.
Cleaning vomit was the worst part.

Second worst was as an hvac helper installing ductwork in new construction during summers in FL. Brutal heat, just two people lifting the ac unit up a ladder into the attic space. Working with insulation with no protective equipment, cuts from sheet metal. And did I mention the brutal heat?

[Dirty Socialist]

78. Watching antipersperant dry

Procter & Gamble.

Lots of crappy jobs here and everywhere. Labor is not respected by many business owners and bosses.

[Ahpook]

79. Probably land surveying

It was great employment for a first job. The mathematics involved was quite intriguing and the enjoyment of being out in nature most of the day was awesome.

Every now and again we would get a job to do soundings. Those could be sewer dips, and I absolutely hated those things. So fucking gross

We also had one where we were neck deep in swamp water at 7AM to eventually reach an island for survey work. Being soaking wet and pulling leeches off that early in the morning sucked We had a boat, but someone would ultimately end up getting wet.

Ugh!

[struggle4progress]

80. Industrial re-roofing in the Texas summer would be a contender. So would gluing reflective buttons

onto the highway with head at bumper level while cars whizzed by at 60 or 70 mph

Add on edit: I almost forgot about my brief stint at the lead smelter

[ooky]

81. Once worked at a yarn dying factory

for a short time after getting out of the Navy.

There was a machine that a continuous string of yarn was coming out of, filling into a bag. My job was when the bag filled up, to cut the yarn with scissors and put the cut end hanging outside the bag, pull the full bag off the line, place an empty bag underneath the yarn that was still coming down out of the machine, and hang the other cut end out of the new bag, and direct the yarn flow from the machine into the new bag so it could fill up. Oh, and there were 10 continuous strings of yarn coming out of the machine into 10 bags at one time. Each one would fill up at different times, and pretty soon the yarn would be spilling over a full bag piling up into the floor while I was changing another. When it got to several bags at once spilling over, they would shut the yarn machine down and yell at you.

The longest any employee worked there as a bag hanger that I talked to was 2 months. I left after a week of this nonsense.

[smirkymonkey]

82. I have had some psycho white collar bosses, but I don't think I will ever complain again

after reading what people have posted here. Psychological abuse is pretty bad, but I think it pales in comparison to what some of you people have been through.

[Xolodno]

83. Roofing. I started at 13 years old and never got paid.

...because my dad was the owner of the company.

At 13, finished school...thinking I had the summer to chill. Nope. He pulls my ass up and the next thing I know, I'm carrying shingles up a ladder....because he thought he was saving money instead of having it delivered.

By 16, I was throwing 100 pound kegs of tar around.

One really nasty job, won the contract on a house in Bullhead City, Arizona, during the summer. Thank God it was next to the river. and we took breaks every half hour to cool off. It was a flat roof, so we put down the felt and tar layers. But ran into a problem, it was so fucking hot, it wouldn't dry. Had to come back the next day, to put the cap on.

On the plus side, I was a bit of a nerd. Playing D&D, etc. But no one would ever mess with me, I was very muscular due to the summer and occasional weekends doing roofing.

Got good grades, then accepted into a University. Then a new set of problems arose. No college fund, I was on student aid and loans. Second week in, I'm in the "zone" reading, researching, etc. My dad comes home and says, "you need a break!". And demands I help him unload the truck. In my first year, my grades suffered due to these constant interruptions. On top of that, relatives on my mom side were encouraging me to quit (one got a GED, the others barely passed High School...thought higher education was "a lazy man's" endeavor...I won't go into what they do now).

I then realized, I needed to make a serious change. I didn't come home. I set my schedule for morning classes and night classes. Studied in between. I also got a job...it would cause me to take longer in getting my degree. But sure beats backbreaking work I never got paid for.

Only time I came home, was to sleep and usually after everyone went to bed and I was out before they got their day started. I didn't even eat at home. My student loan debt is a bit higher than it should be because I couldn't get a square meal at home.

And the irony, my dad didn't like me taking student loans. Which I responded on how would I pay for college? He said, "don't" and work in roofing and I'll pay you and you can save up. And I'm fucking thinking, "Are you kidding me? My entire teenage life was you bullshitting me that you would pay me when I wanted to go out with my friends....and when I asked for some cash, you said you didn't have it. You think I'm going to fall for that twice?" FYI, he didn't even know I was in a University until I was two years into it. Thought I just went to a regular college.

And sad to say, I still suffer the results from roofing. I've herniated a disk four times, I got to the point where just walking 200 feet to the office was a serious endeavor. Chiropractic care was helping, until it didn't. I went to massages, which worked...but, they aren't covered by insurance. I tried acupuncture recently and thankfully, it worked.

It sucks as I love hiking. But to do so now, I have to load up on pain meds which I hate.

[DFW]

84. My official title was "laborer."

It was in the map warehouse of the US Geological Survey in Alexandria, VA. We had to cart large heavy packages, usually 500 maps per, and place them in their proper places in the warehouse so that when they were needed, the could be easily found.

The trouble was, these were freshly printed maps, with the strong colors being made of all kinds of foul-smelling chemicals. I felt nauseous from start to finish every day breathing that crap in. I'm sure that by today's standards, what we were asked to do then would be highly illegal now, at least without some kind of protection from the fumes.

[a la izquierda]

85. Waitressing at Norm's in L.A.

Actually just being a server in LA was legitimately the worst. When I see all the "Karens" in the world today, I'm reminded of that brief, 7 month period in which I waited tables in L.A. and Beverly Hills. I was a good server and made good money, but came home more often than not crying or with a migraine. I once had a woman call me a c*nt and throw a quarter at me as a tip. She was banned.