Worse Job You had?

[Merf]

I guess my current job is my worst but best paying. I work at a Lumber mill. I pull green chain (stacking 2x6 and 4x4s) Run the Trap ( Separate the good wood from the bad wood before the green chain) Run an Edger (making the 2x4s 2x6s and 4x4s) Or even change chipper knives or round saws or band saws. You have to lock out the machinery because most of it could kill or seriously hurt you. i work with fellows with less then 10 fingers. I have been hit in the head and body by a few stray boards. I have been hit with a 2x4 that had a broken end and I got an inch long sliver in my wrist that hit most of the tendons and I pulled it out myself. I told the boss about it and he took me to the hospital and it swelled way up. The Nurse at the emergency room said I was fine. After returning to work they wanted to know if I could go back to my job. My wrist hurt like hell and told them hell no. Also I work in 10 degree weather in the winter and then in the summer it will be like 115. Thats just the extremes though. Its not always that cold or hot just for a few weeks out of the year. Stay moving during the winter and keep hydrated during the summer.

Although its not all bad this is the second time working there. I worked there for 13 months and saved up money to travel around the world. They hired me right back when I returned. They also let me have basically every friday off for 3 months so I could help coach Wrestling at the local high school. They said they were happy to help out the kids.

Nothing like hard physical labor to get you motivated about school! Looking to quit this fall and head for a junior college and start my education back up.

Merf

 

[nikopolidis]

I was working in drug store chain. I was appointed to the online-drug store project manager position. The Online-drug store project was new so I need to start it up. But tops didn't let me to hire any assistants or other employees. So I had to do all! Absolutely everything I did alone. I prepared web-site, I created data base, I received orders I packed orders and I even delivered the orders...
that was awful.. But experience is good and useful however...

 

[jSunbeam]

Where was this?

this was in a small town on the outskirts of cambridge (uk). it was truly grim.

 

[ctt1wbw]

The worst, by far, job I ever had was working in Shipping and Receiving on the USS Enterprise. My GOD, I hated that job. You can not fathom the amount of supplies, parts, and food that an aircraft carrier can bring aboard in the two or three weeks prior to a deployment.

 

[Melrose]

I held a night job at the local grocery store (Tops Markets - ugh). The management was crap and the hours sucked. The back stockroom always stunk like rotten whatever tat had leaked and not been cleaned - it would make me gag every time I went back there.

The store (most Tops stores actually that I've seen) are dirty around the edges.

 

[letsgorangers]

Worked in a call center for deaf relay. Unfortunately, we got A LOT of scammers (we could tell right off it was a scam and since we weren't allowed to address caller or recipient directly, we couldn't let a merchant know -- usually the card number wouldn't go through and they'd get a clue). There was also a lot of prank calling. Because we were required to say ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that was typed to us, people thought it was hilarious to make us curse and say "dirty" things. I found that using the most bored, lackluster voice possible really annoyed them and made them hang up.

 

[Sesshi]

My "worst job" in terms of what I took away the least from in terms of job satisfaction as well as money was probably as an R&D consultant for a large consulting firm in the 90's. Salary was mediocre - then-equivalent of $110K after taxes - bad management attitude and people working in the department without any sense of interest or passion in what they were doing. I thought it'd be an opportunity, didn't turn out to be the case. Quit in under a year.

 

[true777]

My worst job was passing out flyers on a street corner in constant snow storms at 20 degrees below zero all day. I was a poor college student and could not afford a winter coat or hat, so I was standing there in a thin, unlined fabric jacket in this awful snow storm that lasted weeks, with my hair frozen to my face, my lips bleeding, my hands bright red and completely numb, and tears running down my face because I was so miserable. My wage was $5/hr, and I quit after a few weeks.