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[SSGMUN10000]

Here is a list of my past jobs I have had. Some crappy..some not as crappy as others.

Let's start with my first job ever..

Kroger:

It was during the summer when I 16-17 I think. I was a sacker and would round up the shopping baskets from time to time. I live in Houston and the weather was at a consistant 95-100+ degrees so rounding up those carts were the least fav part of the day.

The mall:

I worked at a clothing store at the mall. I was a sales associate. Not too bad but since this job I avoided getting jobs were I have sale. I really hate pushing and selling things to people.

Whataburger:

I was a cashier and worked drive-thru. Boy did this job suck bad. I had to deal with bitch manager. The place got robber several times during my tenure and luckily I wasnt there during any of those times sure had me scared though. The only fun times were during the night on weekends when the drunks would come by. I would get girls that would flash me for free food.

Domino's:

I was a delivery boy. This job wasnt so bad. I always had cash in my pockets because of the tips. It looked like I was ready to go to the srtip club with the wad of 1's I would collect.


Watkins:

Worked in a warehouse moving freight from one trailer to the other. Too much manual work for me. I quit after 2 months.


Currently work for Time Warner

I work in Networking/Tier 3 dept. for TW. I enjoy it to an extent but it is still over the phone. They hook me up with free cable and internet so its pretty cool. Im aiming to go to the outside Networking dept. Get hooked up with a Ford Ranger if i get over there.

How about you guys? Were have you all worked?

 

[Iceman]

OMG, I totally blocked this memory out until I saw this thread. I worked for about a month for a ventillation/duct cleaning service. Great people. Sucky job. There was a dead opossum once. Ugh.

 

[demi]

I've only had one job...my resume is not going to look good.

 

[Bristow]

Uhh, far too many to list. A few notables would be...

Marble production plant: Making marble countertops, wall panels, and soap dishes. At the end of the day you would be high off all the chemicals and be covered in marble.

Door-to-door Webhosting Salesman: 9/10 people in my town don't want their business advertised on the cities homepage.

Walmart: Self explanatory.

 

[WasabiKing]

TGI Fridays for about 6 months. Had a bartending job dangled in my face, but after being passed over so many times, I threw down my gear and walked out. Ended up being a doorman at a club for some time after that, but that job rocked.

And yes, it was as bad as Office Space made Fridays out to be... if not worse...

 

[DarthWoo]

Well, not much can be worse than four years at McDonald's during middle and high school. I think the incompetency of some coworkers contributed most to my hatred of the job. I have nothing against drugs, but there was one kid who was a major slacker who accidently dropped a ziplock bag full of weed out of his pocket right in front of a manager. Naturally, the managers have to do something about it, so we don't see him at work for a while. However, whether or not they actually fired him, he's back on the job no more than a month later, and still a pain in the ass. There were a few stereotypical bitchy overweight high school females there as well, who didn't compensate with any workplace proficiency either. Once I started opening on weekends, it was painfully apparent that the closers were completely inept as well.

My least fond memory of working there was on one weekend when the weekly supply truck had arrived. If I remember correctly, there must have been a few people that called out, because we didn't have enough people to both man the store and have a full complement of unloaders for the truck. I had single-handedly put away most of what had been delivered after the driver placed it all on the ground right outside of the truck (since I obviously couldn't do it as fast by myself as if I had a partner, he had to do this so he could be on his way to the next destination). This building was also pretty stupidly arranged, as it was an older McDonald's. The supply room was in the basement, so normally you had to have the truck back up at a stupid angle so that its door was near the top of the stairs, and if you had a couple people, you could slide everything down a ramp. As it was, I had to carry everything down by hand instead, since with the ramp down, it was too precariously narrow to walk down the stairs carrying anything. It was also something like 90 degrees that day too, being during the summer. I guess the only good part was when I was standing in the freezer.

 

[AntoneM]

the worst job I've had was summer of 2001, I got a temp job for the summer to clean up smoke damage at a local Middle School, you see some kid started a fire in the shop class and it got large enough to cause smoke damage through the whole school, of course the closer you were to the shop the worse it was. There were some days when I was working in the shop room where I would come home completely covered in soot. But for me, that was better than when I was stuck in the gym and had to clean the ceiling 80 ft from the floor. In fact cleaning ceilings in general was the worst part. They were those tile ceilings, so we would have to take each tile out, wipe them down, wipe out the area above the tile (framing and and ducts or anything else that was up there and then put them back, we would also have to clean the light fixtures. The redeeming factor, was that the crew I worked with was cool, and I was really fit by the end of the summer.

 

[Mike Works]

These are the jobs I've had, you can determine whether or not they're crappy:

Electronics Boutique Sales Associate: 1.5 years part time

Data Entry for a Law Firm: 4 months full time

Misc. Duties / Assistant for WCB: 2 years part time

Extra/Background work for movies/tv shows: 1.5 years part time


The data entry one easily sucked the most. EB was the first job I ever had, and I loved videogames, so it wasn't so bad. The last two jobs listed are the ones I still have, though I dunno if I'll be able to do them when I go back to school.

 

[Triumph]

Retail drone. Bleah.

 

[Vlad]

I worked in a movie theater for about a year during my first week of college, and that was easily the worst job I've ever had. Each position in the place had its own particular things that made it really suck...

Usher: This is where you start when you first start working there. You spend the majority of your day cleaning the theaters after every show, with the occasional bathroom cleaning and checking to make sure all the exit doors are closed to make sure nobody can sneak in. This wasn't so bad on weekdays, as not a whole lot of people go to the movies, so you can just run one of those big push broom/dry mops up each row of seats and be done cleaning. The weekends, especially opening weekends for popular movies, were an absolute nightmare. The worst one, by far, was the weekend Space Jam opened. We had five theaters (out of seven) showing it, and every single showing for the whole weekend was sold out, with around 75% of the audience in each showing being little kids. Needless to say, the place was a madhouse. We were constantly short on booster seats, causing a miniature riot every time we managed to free some up, but the worst part was the mess. Even with a cleaning crew of around 30 people for each theater, we could barely clear all the rows before we had to start letting people in for the next showing. The floor was just coated with popcorn (the very sight of which still makes me uneasy to this very day), soda, garbage, vomit, and other odds and ends like used diapers and such.

Ticket Taker: Once you worked as an usher for a while, you could then work some shifts as the place's lone ticket taker. After the insanity of being an usher, it was a bit of a relief at first, but once the novelty wore off, the boredom set in. You had to stay at your podium for the entire time (minus breaks, of course) without anything to sit on, and your sole duty was to tear the stubs off of the tickets for every person and direct them to the correct theater. You either had the slow days that just had you standing there not doing anything, or the busy days of tear ticket, "First door on the left", tear ticket, "second door on the right", tear ticket, etc all day. Tedium defined.

Concession Stand: Probably the overall easiest job of the bunch on a slow day, but on the busier days, a complete nightmare, due to the pressure from the managers to try and sell people the bigger sizes of stuff. Otherwise it's your standard food service gig, except with insanely high prices. It was always fun when some family would come in, order a ton of stuff, then start yelling at you when the total broke triple digits.

Box Office: Easiest job in the place, as you were right by the door, closer to the fresh air of the outside world and a tad further away of the stifling smell of popcorn. Only problem is that the computers we were using didn't make change for you, so you had to stay mentally sharp all day to avoid pissing off a customer with incorrect change or coming up short on your drawer. Also fun was the times when you'd be calling up to the managers upstairs for ones or more change, and they don't come down, and when you finally run up there to ask wtf is going on, they're just chatting and ignoring the phone.

And then you get written up for leaving your counter, even though there's another person at the other station... bah.

Of course, being that the theater was in Hayward, CA, and the box office didn't have the protective glass and speaker that all theaters seem to have nowadays (there was absolutely nothing seperating you from the customer), you ran more of a risk of getting held up there, but thankfully I never got to experience that.

Finally, being one of the stronger people there, I ended up getting roped into doing the restocking. What this entailed was moving all the weekly shipments of food into the stockroom. One problem is that the stockroom was upstairs by the projectors. The other problem was that the bulk of the food was 70+ pound bags of popcorn seeds and 40 pound boxes of soda syrup...

 

[Blimblim]

My worst job, by far, was when I worked for a cleaning company that only did the final work on building sites. We had almost nothing to work with, and lots of pressure since we had to finish everything in 1/2 days so people could start moving in. For example we had to clean a very big building for old people. Everything was wood, even the ceilings. Since I'm very tall it was my job to clean the ceilings. Of course I only had a big bucket (reversed) to reach the ceilings, and since it was varnished wood I could not use the metal things I used usually. They had me use my fingernails to remove the various concrete stuff that was everywhere on this wood. And they actually yelled at me when I started bleeding and put a blood stain on the carpet under me.
A few days later I got an IT job at Volkswagen/Audi France. Best job ever

 

[Deleted member 1235]

McDonalds.

Fuck that place. If you ever ate a burger in New zealand that tasted like the floor between 1995 and 1996 I probably made it. It was preferable to just put a dirty patty in some bun than take shit from some 19 year old nazi fuck about "wasting product" sorry if anyone got sick.

Also this thread reminds me of an article I read on the worst jobs ever. Apparently there is a guy who is in charge of masterbating elephants and collecting the cum. And he has to glove up and stick his hand up the elephants ass and get it off via prostate massage, not regular wanking. Must be hard to meet chicks.

 

[AntoneM]

I once knew a guy who collected Bull semen as a job once, not quite the same scale as an elephant, but still rather unpleasant.

 

[tt_deeb]

I've only done one summer job the last few summers: caddying. I'd have to say it was pretty damn crappy though the money was very good! I like golfing and all but most of the people I met were just assholes ( I guess it dawned on my during this time that there are alot of idiots around). One big problem was that I wasn't terribly good at it. I'm small so the first year I would mostly worry about getting a big bag or not.

You got to choose when you worked, so you could take like a month off and then starting do it again every week - there weren't many of us so they would take anything they could get. It really is an awesome job (no taxes either) but some moments I would just get so bloody bored or I would just hate the fuckers so much. I forget the story but my worst outting was when I had a hugemungous bag and the guy didn't really give a fuck about me (throwing clubs, expecting me to find everything). I was the only caddy in the group, and technically someone else was suppose to have his bag and another golfy had to carry his own. I (stupidly and regrettably) asked if I could carry his other partners bad since this one was a complete bitch. And he just freaked out on me and gave a very inpolite no. I mean, yeah, I'm the caddy - he's paying me and I should be his bitch for the next six hours but some of these golfers just have NO consideration for the caddy. Technically we're suppose to tell them if a bag is too heavy or if they have too many clubs (only allowed to bring out 14) but I never ever did that and I'd usualyl just take it (cause you want the tips).

Whatever, I'm just mindleslly rambling, I'm still going to do it next year, and I'm going to do it a lot. The money is, like I said, good. And I've had some very awesome golfers sometimes (buy you food and drinks). But all my friends found other jobs so I'll be all alone this time. Bah, I could say a lot, it's a really interesting job but I suck at story-telling as you can already notice if you lived through this post.

I'm going to try to join a friend at Modell's over the summer and then just caddie every other week or something.

 

[JayFro]

Some of the worst jobs I've had........


I worked at an insulation factory, I remember having to jump in 5 feet of deep insulation one time to unclog the damn thing. You of course had to wear long sleeves and jeans in this enviroment to avoid itching like no other. It was also hard as hell to get the stuff out of the clothes you wore, had to wash work clothes and regular clothes seperately so the insulation wouldn't end up in everything.


I was a salesman for a log home company. The job didn't really suck that bad but it was sooooo boring.


I worked on a farm shoveling shit and bailing hay, do I even have to explain this?


So the job I have now I certainly can't complain about, all of the above experiences made me want to go to college pretty damn fast.

 

[mj1108]

Taco Bell -- 15 months and hated it.
Wal-Mart -- 5 1/2 years and got fed up with bullshit there.
I went back to school after that (which was 2 1/2 years ago) and I landed an IT job with the local school district last October and loving it.

 

[number386]

I also worked at McDonalds too during my senior year of HS. I wanted to buy a roland XP50 synthesiser IIRC it was $2800 so I worked for it. At that time minimum wage was $4.25 an ungodly amount, I would literally get pay checks for under $100 after busting my ass all week.

My coats would smell like burgers, I would smell like burgers, get hot oil drips smash my arms while working the french fry traps. I remember making big mac's we used this gun type thing to shoot the special sauce out of the can. Once I took home a whole box of french fry containers when they had the monopoly promotion, and all I won was free mcdonalds food. =(

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Worked at a Shoe store while in college like my hero Al Bundy.

 

[kumanoki]

Once I was hired by a guy to rake up pine straw out in a planted pine forest. He had a baling machine, and me and this other guy raked straw until we had enough bales to fill up the back of a U-haul every week.

 

[Funky Papa]

When I was a student I used to work at a beauty salon. You can laugh if you want, but getting hit by soccer moms on regular basis gets from middly amusing to deranging pretty damn quickly, specially when they begin to STALK you.

Oh, the histories I could tell...

 

[cloudwalking]

retail, retail, retail.

perry ellis
k-b toys
a home decor place
the gap

all at the
same
damn
mall

>_<

 

[SSGMUN10000]

When I was a student I used to work at a beauty salon. You can laugh if you want, but getting hit by soccer moms on regular basis gets from middly amusing to deranging pretty damn quickly, specially when they begin to STALK you.

Oh, the histories I could tell...

Usually guys that work at a beauty salons are gay. So maybe they thought that.

 

[Funky Papa]

=(

 

[cloudwalking]

You can laugh if you want, but getting hit by soccer moms on regular basis gets from middly amusing to deranging pretty damn quickly, specially when they begin to STALK you.

getting HIT by them? so they were abusive?

those bitches can be pretty nasty. did you say something about one of their 2.3 precious honor students?

 

[firebricks3]

Custodian at a highschool. It technically isn't a past job, as i still work there.
I go to a university so i can get my ass out.

 

[robochimp]

I get to cut up dead people.

I work in a pathology department in a hosptial, I get to do all the cutting and organ removal during autopsies.

 

[disabledHeliocentric]

Lets see...

Dishwasher- This seemed like crap at the time but in retrospect the lack of responsibility or any real skills combined with the fact I spent my breaks getting stoned with the cooks out back made it alright.

Bussing tables- This kind of sucked. But then again, as a grunt you have less to worry about and less things to know.

Retail- This was one step up from where I bussed, at this Deli. I felt a bit more dignity being able to make change and rattle off the names of countless cheeses. But it was basically on the same level as bussing.

Tending Bar- This job was cool. i'd leave a shift with more money in tips than I made from my hourly wage, I could sip a drink before work if I wanted, I could pick up on chicks, hang out with friends. But I eventually got sick of it because I didn't like having to deal with all of the old drunks, that got depressing. It also kinda sucked because I was related to the owner and I felt like I needed to become more independant of the family business otherwise I'd get sucked into doing that rather than pursuing a real career.

Loading boxes into trucks- This by a long LONG shot is the worst job ever. Before loading for UPS I never knew how low the bar could be set for working conditions. Some days I'd think my supervisors were trying to kill me by making me work to death. People got injured all the time, or quit. Those that stuck around got sucked into the corporate newspeak and you could watch their personalities slip away into that collective UPS brown identity of corporate speak. It was made worse by the fact so many were hired and so few stuck around; total social darwinism. Yuck. Plus they had all kinds of computer print outs tracking the statistics of your performance and you constantly be on you, ride your ass.

 

[keiichi]

Extra/Background work for movies/tv shows: 1.5 years part time

Do you need a SAG card or anything just for being an extra? Or is that only for speaking parts?

I've never had a job that I haven't liked in someway. The closest would probably be working at Pepboys but that was only because I didn't know that much about cars at the time.

 

[Mister Zimbu]

Ugh... had a nice post going, then Mozilla fucked up.

Supermarket: Cart pusher. In the winter. In upstate NY. Sucked ass. Horrible dress code (dress shirt, tie, and khakis? I'M TREKKING AROUND IN THE FUCKING MUD.) Idiot management, as well. Long story short, I requested Tuesdays off because I needed mandatory meetings then for the school's robotics team. The manager replied with (and I'm dead serious): "Robotics... is that swimming?". I put in my two weeks shortly thereafter.

Walmart Cashier: Upon reflection this wasn't too bad a job. Pay wasn't shabby- $7.25- as opposed to other customer service jobs in NY where you're lucky to get anything above minimum wage. Management was mostly cool, though they made me do some odd stuff... On my 4th or 5th day, they made me work the entire snack bar by myself. No training. I had to work the grill, register, everything at the bar, alone, past my shift (still got paid for it, though). Management apologized profusely afterwards. On my last day, the lower-level managers literally begged me to stay, going as far as to show their numbers (apparently I was the fastest clerk in the store as well as the one with the least errors .

Saratoga Race Track/Parimutuel Clerk: I took bets! This job kicks ass, with the one horrible exception that if your drawer is short at the end of the day, it comes out of your pocket. A funny aside- at one point, all the clerks had to attend a financial integrity seminar (anyone from New York knows that NYRA, the people running the track, got into trouble over the past few years because there were alot of shady clerks abusing their powers and committing tax fraud and laundering money through the track). A riot nearly broke out at the seminar regarding the "shortages come out of your paycheck" rule because the high-up NYRA execs were there. Regardless, the lower level management were really cool (you could essentially take breaks as long as you wanted whenever you wanted within reason, and they ALWAYS sided with the clerk in any disputes with the customers- no "the customer is always right" bullshit here), the pay was pretty good, the tips were okay, despite my lack of breasts (ok, very small breasts) due to my gender, the hours were pretty nice, and the fact that the job is only 6 weeks long helps a bit. On peak days (Travers stakes), traffic was a nightmare though.

 

[shuri]

I was a mover for a while. My uncle worked for him, and the first time I met the boss, He was sleeping in his car behind a warehouse in the montreal industrial area :lol . Everyone that I've met there was a mafia henchman stereotype. Cool people, They were cool, but everything was shady and I didnt like it at all but the pay was good. We had to deliver furniture from shops to random people, and on the second day, I fucked up my arm so hardcore carrying stuff, thats it still feels weird when I carry stuff thats it's heavy

The guy that I worked with was a total psychotic dick. He had done time in a psychiatric ward, I was stuck with him the 2 days, holy fuck I kept joking in my head that he would stab me with a screwdriver, rape my body and ditch the corpse on the highway :lol

Then A few months after, I learned from my oncle that the guy stole money from the boss and that he was .. reprimended :O

 

[Amneziak]

Various retail clothing store jobs: Nordstrom, Banana Republic, etc during college. Lots of girls to look at and hook up with (esp. at Nordstrom... damn a lot of whores work there). Not bad while going to school.

GameStop, 1 year as a sales associate; pay sucked, but it was fun.

Game Crazy, 2 years. Pretty much the same as GameStop, except a much smaller store. Hired as an assistant then became manager. Being a manager really sucks in retail, lots of hard work for shitty pay (though I miss the nearly unlimited free rentals). After these two jobs I got so burned out on video games that I hardly play anymore.

Now I work for this company called Newgen as a phone operator setting appointments for various auto service centers. Classic "Office Space" environment. The money is actually pretty good, though; I make more now than I was as a retail manager, and I have practically no responsibilities other than taking calls. I even work less hours now (37-40 versus 50+ at Game Crazy). It's fucking boring though. Hopefully this will be my last "regular" job once my career as an illustrator goes somewhere.

 

[placebo]

Paperboy -- the good news was that it was afternoon delivery Monday-Friday, the bad news was waking up at 5am on the weekends. Oh, and Sunday papers are really heavy.

Grocery -- bagging groceries at first, then moved up through the ranks to night manager. Good money in the grocery union, but a fair amount of freaks work there too.

 

[Flynn]

Labor Low Points:

Flea Market Sales -- I helped some hick load, unload and sell crappy plaster pedastals and statues, cow skulls and other crap he imported via U-Haul from Mexico.

Warehouse/Shipping -- Packaging and assembling compressor supply parts for rigs in South America and the Middle East. Florida. No AC.

 

[nitewulf]

waiter at a catering house. ppl actually blew smoke on my face on few ocassions and told me to hurry up with the food.
...

 

[speedpop]

First ever job was the afternoon cleaner for the local butcher's. Meat stank like shit when he used the mincer and left it in there for several hours, and the constant washing of certain tools/crap made my hands shed skin constantly since I never used gloves cause they were so tedious and slow whilst washing. Not very good.

Then I quit, straight after graduation I hopped into a bar.. just started as a glassie on Fri/Sat nights and that was decent till they taught me behind the bar and I stayed there for 2.5 years. Got fed up with the in-fighting between staff and left to the city.

Got a job in an Irish Pub who had just finished renovating and shit, it was probably worse than the place I left before. No roster rotations (I was stuck on 5pm-3am shifts every day), managers/supervisors were complete elitist arseholes and overall it was not a fun mood there. Literally it was a fake Irish Pub, only people who had the Irish accents were backpackers who had come to work for a month or two then leave and some of the regulars who made your shift a bit brighter. One guy spat the dummy because it wasn't a real Irish Pub, literally took on 2 bouncer's and I felt sorry for him. I think that was the moment when I said well fuck that I am leaving this shit.

Then my mum needed a hand at her restaurant so I became a dishie for a two months which was fun, speaking trash to my 2 sister's who also work there and getting free hot yummy meals every day was tops. Only bad thing about that was me taking a cut out of my pay due to me feeling bad taking full-money from my own mother and the very very very busy nights when everyone would be on the edge but afterwards we'd joke around.

Now I'm at another bar, in a Bowls Club. Fucking piss easy job, great atmosphere, I know some of the regulars etc. One of the easiest bar's to work at, there's only 1 chick I dislike cause she looks like a blowfish and acts like one, but she's leaving in a few weeks so yay.

 

[mattx5]

McDonald's for 6 months.

The customer is never right. They are however, annoying, idiotic soccer moms 90% of the time.

 

[lordmrw]

Burger King - first job. Worked there from August 1996-May 1998. At first, I didn't mind it, because I was happy to have a job and know that I would have a paycheck coming. Of course, since minimum was $4.25, I'd bring home a measly 60-100 dollars after working 20 some odd hours. I felt incredibly stupid for staying there that long when everyone I know was getting a job at Rhode Island Hospital, where they were paying $7.25 an hour (that was like the fucking holy grail back in high school.) OF course, when i applied, they didn't have any positions left. I think I quit the day before my birthday.

Target - About 7 months, from June 99 -January 2000. this job I actually enjoyed except for one thing-my boss. If there were anyone that was the epitome of being an ass, he was it. I worked in the stockroom, and we would process and put away all the shipment that didn't go out on the salesfloor with our LRT guns. There was awful lot of functions to learn, and the fucking guy expected us to master it in one day. He was also the type that had no life, so he would end up staying HOURS after his shift was over. Nothing made me happier when he stopped working weekends to look after his father, since I was going back to school and working friday, saturday, and sunday. No supervision in the back was the shit. I left right around the time his father died, and he went back to working everyday.

Old Navy - 4 years or so, from august 2000-July 2004. I left early in 2003, but went back to work weekends for extra money. This was my first retail job, and like everyone else, I liked it at first. THen all the cool managers started leaving, and then they introduced the bane of every retail job: the store credit card. iF you ever work retail, and they introduce a credit card, leave. It went from not really being important, to all of a sudden EVERY employee supposedly having to get one every hour of your shift. Bullshit. Its hard enough convincing motherfuckers to buy the damn shirt they've been staring at for 2 hours, now I'm supposed to convince 8 people every day to sign up for a credit card? RIght. I switched to doing shipment in 2002, but that was a big mistake. They never scheduled enough people to do shipment, and if they did, rather than getting people that knew how to do shipment, they would get new employees to do it. So then we spent half the day fixing their mistakes instead of getting the shit done. We were supposed to work 5:30am-2:30pm, but that usually went til 5 or 6pm. The last straw for me was a day we got the biggest shipment ever, and we were seriously understaffed. To make it worse, the vice president was coming the next day, and we had to get it done. We all worked from 5:30 to 11:30 at night. I gave my 2 weeks notice the next day, and when the manager asked why, I told him "this place is a circus, and I'm tired of being a trained monkey". If we weren't in the store, I think we would have wound up fighting.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield - july 2003 til now. I do data entry, and truthfully, aside from being inhumanly boring, I have no complaints. I go in, log into the computer, they tell me what work to do and that's it. No one bothers me, and I listen to music while i work. Can't ask for anything more, really.

 

[FortNinety]

For a brief stint, I conducted surveys on the phone with doctors and lawyers. I'm glad I wasn't bothering regular folks during dinner time, but we all know what assholes lawyers can be. But the worst was the job conditions... huddled over a crappy phone in tiny booths with the boss cracking the wip... I was sick of the job four days into it and some folks were there for years, and even then they only made a few cents above their starting wage. Plus they all worked the night shift as well, so everyone's wills were broken. I shudder even thinking of those days...

 

[Amakusa]

I've had afew.
One job I had over the summer working for a Day care center for kids with Mental and Physical disabilitys. That one was hard on the heart.

Another job I had was working for Dillards clean up crew in the mornings at like 5am. That one was alright as a part time job while working full time elsewhere. But there was this one guy who worked on the weekend while the store was opened, carry out guy or something along those lines. He was fired for masturbating on one of the manakins, and the real fucked up part about it was, the manakin was a child display.

 

[therock07]

I was working as a stocker in a store graveyard for a year that was pretty bad. Since I dropped high school I couldnt find a regular job. but learned I had SP talents so im doing other things now . reedmed myself big big time

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

Dishwasher - This was my first job, and lasted four hours. No way I'm
changing your grease fryer buddy. :X

Stockboy at Drug Mart - My second job, and I was really green. Always
asking the boss what to do next. I managed to get on his nerves, what
with being an employee eager to do work. :lol

License Bureau - This is the worst job I've ever held. For starters, it
is not some cozy Government job here in Ohio; but that doesn't stop idiots
for believing it is and giving you inordinate amounts of shit. Same
wages and benefits as a taco stuffer at Taco Bell. If you ever want to meet
every stupid motherfucker in your state, just get a job at the license
bureau. Strangely enough, this job had the best boss I've ever had. How
one person could deal with this quantity of morons day in and day out,
and not come to work with a machine gun is a superhuman feat in my eyes.

Display Assembly - I had to resort to temp work once I left my dead end
temp job at Target. There was nothing like working with a crotchety old
coot who was accustomed to yelling at high school drop outs,
ex-convicts, and other social detritus. Look gramps, I made a career out of working
in the IT field, if I can handle a student network - I can handle stapling
boxes together or assembling your damned Play Skool toy displays for
Wal Mart without you walking over with a bug up your ass.

Working twelve hour days five days a week on your feet while stationary
taught me to despise the place.

Mall Kiosk - Actually this wasn't such a bad job. Just the product I
was screwing people for was something I couldn't get behind. After my first
sale, the woman came back and started demanding a refund. Unfortunately
we had a no refund policy and the woman was well aware of what she was
purchasing.

Needless to say, what little lying capacity I had for the product fell
through the floor when she came back. So I didn't have much enthusiasm
for the job. One time this fellow was exerting way too much effort in
making a purchase, and he seemed to lack confidence in what he was about to buy,
so I was trying to steer him away from a purchase at our kiosk. It still
ended with a sale.

I also worked at Software Etc. the boss was a twat, the district
manager was a twat (Someone in the district was stealing inventory
so he comes up with the bright idea of making the opening and closing staff
count each and every console game in the store, every day - Uh yeah, that
might work on dumb criminals, and just pisses off the other emplolyees),
and the clientelle sucked; but my co-workers rocked.

One day we were dicking around and were using comic strip names on our badges.
For some reason I ended up with Bazooka Joe. As I mentioned our clientelle
were fucking morons, so this guy comes in and starts acting the fool
and asks, "Why do they call you Bazooka Joe?" My buddy, who IIRC was
Jughead, responds - "BECAUSE HE BLASTS MOTHERF@CKERS!"

Good times.

Good times.