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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:09 PM Original message |
What is the worst job you have ever worked? |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. I was the softball retriever at a batting cage in Austin, TX one summer |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
2. Infantry. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:13 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Win. n/t |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:09 PM Response to Reply #10 |
63. Win of the month! |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
3. Soda Jerk for $3.25 an hour... |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
4. Rally's Burgers my first year in college. $4.25/hr (minimum). I sometimes worked the late shift |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
5. Pizza Delivery Driver (in 1963) |
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BlueCheese (897 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
77. A story like that requires elaboration. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
6. Discount department stores. Fast food. The usual crap. |
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qb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
7. When I was 14 I got a job removing chickens (many of them diseased) from crates on a truck |
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Connie_Corleone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
8. Besides the current one... |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
9. 4 infinely long, boring, and valueless years in the Marine Crotch. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
11. Burger joint, replaced a person who had slipped on the greasy floor, hand into deep fat fryer |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
12. Janitor at a hospital operating the biological incinerator ( when I was 16) |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
13. Swing shift |
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corkhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
14. dishwasher at a Chinese restaurant |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
15. when i was 17 |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
16. fish cannery - packing sardines |
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chelsea0011 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
17. I worked for a chemical company that probably broke every OSHA and safety rules imaginable |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
18. Digging foundations by shovel for a housing project. |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
19. Packing sheet glass straight out of the furnance |
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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
20. Lifeguarding job where my boss essentially told me I was too stupid to get a scholarship. |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
21. A Chinese restaurant in a college town. |
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givemebackmycountry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
22. Making Dildos - I'm serious. |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:40 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. I had a similar gig. I had to quit because the plaster was SO COLD. |
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EmeraldCityGrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:10 PM Response to Reply #22 |
43. During the 70's I found myself living |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:52 PM Response to Reply #22 |
57. not to mention where they've been |
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Stevenmarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:50 PM Response to Reply #22 |
80. You would think that it would be a stimulating job |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
23. It's a 3 way tie |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
24. Digging ditch |
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booley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
25. It's a tie |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
26. Cleaning port-a-potties on construction sites. |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:04 PM Response to Reply #26 |
37. Phew!!!! |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
27. I worked on an assembly line in a factory in South Boston |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
28. it's a tie between labor at a bindery, and (natural casing) weiner whacker at a hotdog factory |
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TlalocW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
30. This will be a long one... |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
31. Tough one. Cleaning a printing press has to be up there. |
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Rainbowreflect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
32. Cleaning out vans after they were returned at a rental place. |
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EC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
33. Selling cheap furniture in a store that was way over priced |
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Reader Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
34. Wrapping the Sunday L.A. Times to be delivered, 3am–6am |
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Dulcinea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
35. Telemarketing absolutely has to be the worst job ever. |
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Champion Jack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
36. Carrying buckets of gunpowder between buildings at a bomb factory |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
38. 2 contenders for the honor: textile mill. Hard work, boring as hell, |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
39. Digging/basic masonry in the desert of Arizona. |
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d_r (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
40. assistant in the meat department at winn dixie |
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tabbycat31 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
41. 2 of them |
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sylvi (169 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
42. Well, I picked tobacco for $11 a day |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
44. Selling "freezer plans" in a boiler room after school when I was in high school. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
45. packaging christmas cards on an assembly line |
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Tracer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
46. Make-work job at the DPW at 16 ... |
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Gemini Cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
47. Janitor at a tavern. |
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adigal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
48. Chambermaid at 11 and 12 years old - cleaned up after Hell's Angels |
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donco (717 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
49. When I came out of the USMC I got this job at |
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BakedAtAMileHigh (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
50. I was a mall Santa in college |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
51. Probably my big paper route when I was a kid. |
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gmoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 12:47 PM Response to Reply #51 |
72. I didn't mind my paper route... |
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TlalocW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:13 PM Response to Reply #51 |
75. At 10 years old that sucks. As a teenager, it's a good job |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
52. Working at the Ford Stamping Plant that I retired from |
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WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
53. Skimming shit off the top of a large open-air cesspool |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
54. My worst job was working for the warranty department |
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TransitJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
55. Building snowfence in Wyoming in November. |
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XOKCowboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:16 PM Response to Reply #55 |
65. Was that along I-80? |
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47of74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
56. Cafeteria job |
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LuckyTheDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
58. Janitor at a Kmart |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
59. Holy crap! Look at some of the jobs in this thread! |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
60. Dishwasher. |
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mochajava666 (771 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
61. Picking worms out of shit at a parasitology lab |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:07 PM Response to Reply #61 |
62. No job I've had even comes close.... |
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mochajava666 (771 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:42 PM Response to Reply #62 |
67. I only lasted about 3 1/2 months before my nightmares forced me |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
64. Shoe store. nt |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
66. Political aide |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-14-10 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
68. Three words: |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
69. Again, thank you everyone for replying, this is a list of jobs that make me go "ewww" |
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OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
70. McDonald's (grill-guy/burger-flipper)... it's the little details. |
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gmoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
71. I was a senior partner at Goldman Sachs |
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Sen. Walter Sobchak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
73. Sorting disgusting returns at a department store |
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last_texas_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
74. Grocery store cashier |
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Glassunion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
76. Sadly enough it was my one and only union job. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
78. Assembly-line at Hallmark Cards (think Lucy @ candy factory, but with feathers & glue |
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onethatcares (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-15-10 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
79. picking fly crap out of pepper, then my eyes went. |
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