Annual What Was Your Crappiest Job Survey

[jennygirl]

I have just started by career consulting/HR and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Services business.
In my next E-zine I am going to list the crappiest jobs you ever had.

Also, DUers in the ARK-LA-TEX area (and anyone else interested) I would like you to see my new website at www.bizshrink.net. If anyone has any career or HR questions I need them for my Jennifer's Corner (FAQ) section.

Notice that I charge much less than other career coaches so that the average person can afford my services and I also work on a payment/sliding fee scale unlike others who charge from $250-$1000 per session. What do you think? Thanks.

Jennygirl

[Buzz Clik]

1. You know what a pin chaser is? Probably not. I'll hold that one up against a lot of crappy jobs.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. Ten of them?

Yeah, that's a pretty crappy job.

[Buzz Clik]

12. I know that there are worse jobs around, but it was just awful.

As with most jobs, a lot of it has to do with your colleagues and your boss.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

2. The crappiest job i ever had was in the 70's

when I lived in Iowa for a short time. I was a chicken (poultry) sales rep.

I spent my day contacting butchers and taking orders. Needless to say it
didn't last long. Actually I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but that was the worse.

[Walk away]

11. My cousin was a chicken flicker...ick!

plucking and burning feathers off of dead chickens on an assembly line. He put himself through his freshman year at Georgetown doing it. He later became a highly respected international lawyer.

[Canuckistanian]

3. If you've got a product or service to sell, take it here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=327

Or here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=264

[Capn Sunshine]

4. Boiler Room

without a doubt. Total scam, selling office supplies that were overpriced. Especially the pens. But all those sales techniques and exhortations you saw in the film "Boiler Room"? Totally realistic. Including the Alec Baldwin character.

[Marlana]

5. Customer Service for a credit card company.

God, it was awful. They pay was decent and the benefits were good, but it totally wasn't worth it.

[theHandpuppet]

6. Crappiest job I ever had -- literally

Cleaning the large, encrusted sewage valves removed from large ships. You had to take them apart, pile them into huge steel bins where they would be lowered into vats of boiling, nasty chemicals. After you got to breathe in a load of that crap, then you removed the valves and cleaned any hardened remainder with wire wheels. I don't think even Mike Rowe wants to try that one out, especially for ten bucks an hour.

[Xipe Totec]

7. Roustabout on a drilling rig at age 18 n/t

[RoyGBiv]

8. All of them n/t

[TexasObserver]

9. Industrial janitor at Texas City Refinery for a summer

I had just graduated from college and was headed to law school. I worked at the refinery because it was the highest paying job I could find. I worked all the overtime I could get, too.

Hard hat, goggles, ear protection, and a steam hose to clean engines the size of a room. Hot work.

[kestrel91316]

13. My very first job - in HS - cashier at a small burger chain in OH.

I got "laid off" after a month. I guess the manager noticed my lack of enthusiasm for the job, lol.

[conscious evolution]

14. Chicken rendering plant

A temp company sent me to work a shutdown in a chicken rendering plant.The place had already been shutdown for a couple of weeks.
Unfortunately,they did not bother cleaning out the piping that moved the chicken parts from one place to another.
Imagine what two week old chicken parts in summer heat smelled like.
I left after three hours.

[ashling]

15. shoveling sawdust from under the saw deck of a sawmill

[undeterred]

16. Burger King

It was a quarter century ago and I haven't eaten there since.

[greennina]

17. Throwing bunnies into fire.

Oh wait, that wasn't me. That was some guys I read about here that burn bunnies for heat.

[jennygirl]

18. Working at Books-A-Million

And cleaning those filthy restrooms as a children's book stocker because unlike other big stores they were too cheap to hire REAL JANITORIAL firms. Those men's restrooms were so nasty and smelly that I had to hold my breath and pretend to clean it to hastily get out of there. I at one time saw feces in a urinal! I lasted all of two months at that job.

[Nay]

19. Insurance adjuster. What finally broke me was the idiot woman who

wanted me to replace her whole wooden fence (around about 10 acres!) because a car had broken ONE railing, and any railing I could possibly get for a replacement wouldn't "match" her fence cuz her fence was weathered. Had to drag my manager in for that one.

Anyway, being subject to so many irrational morons, day after day, was way more than I could handle. I hate people.