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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-08-09 12:31 PM
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100. The worst part about that "job" is you can't tell the boss to shove it and quit.
Even worse for me, I joined the marine crotch for 4 long, completely useless, years.
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  -On this Labor Day...What's the worst job you ever had? senseandsensibility  Sep-07-09 05:19 PM   #0 
  - Knee deep in human shit.  YOY   Sep-07-09 05:22 PM   #1 
  - Wow! You worked at the Republican National Headquarters?  Ikonoklast   Sep-07-09 07:12 PM   #62 
  - One would make you vomit...the other would make you vomit.  YOY   Sep-07-09 09:58 PM   #82 
  - Yeah you win for sure. But I get second. I cleaned porta-potties on construction sites.  Edweird   Sep-07-09 07:40 PM   #64 
  - I think you're actually talking about a sewage treatment plant  Art_from_Ark   Sep-08-09 12:03 AM   #92 
     - County had both of them.  YOY   Sep-08-09 07:17 AM   #96 
  - I used to run blood and paunch dryers  abumbyanyothername   Sep-07-09 05:22 PM   #2 
  - Oh, yuck  Art_from_Ark   Sep-08-09 12:05 AM   #93 
  - Easy. My FIRST paid job. I was a ... dishwasher and busboy at  CurtEastPoint   Sep-07-09 05:23 PM   #3 
  - I made one dollar an hour  abumbyanyothername   Sep-07-09 05:31 PM   #10 
     - this is off topic  barbtries   Sep-07-09 06:26 PM   #35 
        - +1  jmm   Sep-07-09 06:57 PM   #51 
  - some days it's my present job  Maureen54   Sep-07-09 05:24 PM   #4 
  - making fiberglass snowmobile bodies  madrchsod   Sep-07-09 05:24 PM   #5 
  - Fiberglass work can be some nasty stuff  Taitertots   Sep-07-09 06:38 PM   #41 
  - Buildling logging roads in the Shasta National Forest  tularetom   Sep-07-09 05:27 PM   #6 
  - Scraping barnicles off the bottoms of boats in Miami one summer  ThomWV   Sep-07-09 05:28 PM   #7 
  - A friend and I thought it would be sooooo easy to pick blueberries for a few hours...  BlooInBloo   Sep-07-09 05:29 PM   #8 
  - Cowboy  WeDidIt   Sep-07-09 05:30 PM   #9 
  - US Army draftee  Elwood P Dowd   Sep-07-09 05:31 PM   #11 
  - The worst part about that "job" is you can't tell the boss to shove it and quit.  Tierra_y_Libertad   Sep-08-09 12:31 PM   #100 
  - Two of them...  givemebackmycountry   Sep-07-09 05:32 PM   #12 
  - Mine isn't smelly or physically demanding, but it is the worst job I've ever had.  PassingFair   Sep-07-09 05:36 PM   #13 
  - debeaking turkeys for a local turkey farmer.  Thothmes   Sep-07-09 05:41 PM   #14 
  - Convenience store clerk.  Vickers   Sep-07-09 05:41 PM   #15 
  - Worst: Keeping the semi-annual officer promotion list until the release date.  sarge43   Sep-07-09 05:41 PM   #16 
  - Galvanizing freeway guard rails  Bozita   Sep-07-09 05:41 PM   #17 
  - Standing on the sidewalk in a refrigerator box with arm, leg, and face holes cut out of it...  niceypoo   Sep-07-09 09:24 PM   #76 
  - Working at a department store  democrat2thecore   Sep-07-09 05:43 PM   #18 
  - Vice president for tourism in paradise. Seriously.  Faygo Kid   Sep-07-09 05:43 PM   #19 
  - taking the filled natural casing from the end of a hot dog machine & twisting to form the individual  eShirl   Sep-07-09 05:43 PM   #20 
  - Telemarketer  blogslut   Sep-07-09 05:47 PM   #21 
  - Good for you!  stuball111   Sep-07-09 05:54 PM   #25 
  - You sir or madame are a decent human being. n/t  Fire1   Sep-07-09 06:16 PM   #30 
  - My worst job was the same  drmeow   Sep-07-09 06:40 PM   #43 
  - Telemarketer here too  dccrossman   Sep-07-09 08:46 PM   #70 
  - It amazes me that telemarketers sell anything.  Dulcinea   Sep-08-09 01:16 PM   #102 
  - You, ma'am, are a MENSCH  Canuckistanian   Sep-07-09 09:27 PM   #78 
  - can't match any of these! but for me  corpseratemedia   Sep-07-09 05:48 PM   #22 
  - Every Non-Union job I ever had!  stuball111   Sep-07-09 05:49 PM   #23 
  - Good point.  senseandsensibility   Sep-07-09 06:01 PM   #27 
     - Most of the stuff I read...  stuball111   Sep-07-09 06:18 PM   #32 
  - Toss Up. Riveting plastic jewelry parts together by burning skinny plastic bits with a lighter  KittyWampus   Sep-07-09 05:50 PM   #24 
  - I think cleaning horse stalls is very pleasant work, compared to shoveling out chicken coops  struggle4progress   Sep-07-09 07:09 PM   #58 
  - The ninja job I had seemed awesome at first,  ZombieHorde   Sep-07-09 06:00 PM   #26 
  - Pizza delivery driver in 1963. I backed the pizza truck into the boss's new Cadillac. nt  Speck Tater   Sep-07-09 06:03 PM   #28 
  - can you laugh about it yet?  barbtries   Sep-07-09 06:32 PM   #38 
     - It only took me a couple of weeks to be able to laugh about it. The boss was an a**hole. nt  Speck Tater   Sep-07-09 06:49 PM   #47 
  - I worked in a foundry for one day.  Morning Dew   Sep-07-09 06:14 PM   #29 
  - Token Democrat  bhcodem   Sep-07-09 06:16 PM   #31 
  - when i was 17  barbtries   Sep-07-09 06:23 PM   #33 
  - Off to the greatest!!  Fire1   Sep-07-09 06:25 PM   #34 
  - taking pics of criminal records in dirty laundry room of Las Vegas  jasmeel   Sep-07-09 06:29 PM   #36 
  - My current job  Rob H.   Sep-07-09 06:30 PM   #37 
  - Hope you find something soon. Working for idiots is the  Fire1   Sep-07-09 06:34 PM   #39 
     - Thanks for the good wishes!  Rob H.   Sep-08-09 03:01 PM   #103 
  - Motel maid in a rural town where some asshole skinned and gutted a deer in the shower--  Mrs. Overall   Sep-07-09 06:36 PM   #40 
  - oh yeah, memories..not at bad as yours but I was also a maid at a historic honeymoon-type inn  corpseratemedia   Sep-07-09 07:03 PM   #55 
  - it's a toss up.  Synicus Maximus   Sep-07-09 06:38 PM   #42 
  - sardine packer at a fish factory  Donnachaidh   Sep-07-09 06:41 PM   #44 
  - Cashier at Marshals "price check please"  proud patriot   Sep-07-09 06:42 PM   #45 
  - Selling encyclopedias door-to-door.  Kip Humphrey   Sep-07-09 06:48 PM   #46 
  - I'll second the OP.  Fearless   Sep-07-09 06:52 PM   #48 
  - Working in elementary school cafeteria  Hansel   Sep-07-09 06:53 PM   #49 
  - The job itself was fine, just one project we had sucked  Taitertots   Sep-07-09 06:53 PM   #50 
  - I loved roofing houses by myself.  Gregorian   Sep-07-09 06:57 PM   #52 
  - Worked in the office of a sweat shop  pipi_k   Sep-07-09 07:00 PM   #53 
  - A summer job while I was in college.  Moondog   Sep-07-09 07:01 PM   #54 
  - Long distance operator for MaBell. It was also the  Cleita   Sep-07-09 07:03 PM   #56 
  - Did that also, back in the Seventies-Eighties  IDemo   Sep-07-09 10:28 PM   #87 
  - Close to a toss-up but plopping down "city titties" was really dreadful  struggle4progress   Sep-07-09 07:06 PM   #57 
  - All of them.  alarimer   Sep-07-09 07:09 PM   #59 
  - I just started a new job  drmeow   Sep-07-09 10:20 PM   #83 
     - It was (sorta) tongue in cheek.  alarimer   Sep-07-09 10:45 PM   #88 
  - Night shift in a small town in FL  windoe   Sep-07-09 07:10 PM   #60 
  - Scooping "M&M's" into bags as a teenager back in the late 60's  KoKo   Sep-07-09 07:10 PM   #61 
  - I was a dishwasher for years as a kid, with and without machines.  Usrename   Sep-07-09 07:35 PM   #63 
  - Getting less than minimum wage to clean toilets and the grounds...  DatManFromNawlins   Sep-07-09 07:41 PM   #65 
  - Target loader at a trap range  jmowreader   Sep-07-09 08:02 PM   #66 
  - Working in a kitchen coop  nadinbrzezinski   Sep-07-09 08:04 PM   #67 
  - roofing  druidity33   Sep-07-09 08:05 PM   #68 
  - in the days when nobody wore masks or respirators  G_j   Sep-07-09 08:43 PM   #69 
  - Landscaping, in Phoenix, in the summer...  Still Sensible   Sep-07-09 08:51 PM   #71 
  - Picking Buds Off of Carnations  otohara   Sep-07-09 09:04 PM   #72 
  - Door-to-door insurance sales in rural Idaho  IDemo   Sep-07-09 09:12 PM   #73 
  - Replacing a 70-year old tin roof  Canuckistanian   Sep-07-09 09:17 PM   #74 
  - As a dishwasher...  Javaman   Sep-07-09 09:18 PM   #75 
  - Third shift at a 7-11 in 1978  SalmonChantedEvening   Sep-07-09 09:27 PM   #77 
  - When I worked at a PR agency...  Tutankhamun   Sep-07-09 09:46 PM   #79 
  - A day at Disneyworld  quaker bill   Sep-07-09 09:50 PM   #80 
  - I clipped together gigantic wooden produce boxes -5000 a day-  roguevalley   Sep-07-09 09:52 PM   #81 
  - Summertime job unloading Refrigerated Rail Car ....  Blackhatjack   Sep-07-09 10:22 PM   #84 
  - Unloading trailers on a tow motor.  OnyxCollie   Sep-07-09 10:24 PM   #85 
  - My current job, lawyer  treestar   Sep-07-09 10:28 PM   #86 
  - Looking for a job - what could be worse?  Poiuyt   Sep-07-09 10:50 PM   #89 
  - Agreed.  Dulcinea   Sep-08-09 01:07 PM   #101 
  - Remodeling a KFC 3 weeks after it caught fire. Opening the walk-in freezer after 3 weeks of no power  stevedeshazer   Sep-07-09 11:00 PM   #90 
  - makes me queasy  barbtries   Sep-09-09 10:21 AM   #108 
  - The job you mentioned was my very first one I worked at during high school  TK421   Sep-07-09 11:10 PM   #91 
  - Tossup  MilesColtrane   Sep-08-09 01:00 AM   #94 
  - It's a toss-up  XemaSab   Sep-08-09 01:26 AM   #95 
  - picking strawberries back in the early 60s...  alterfurz   Sep-08-09 12:17 PM   #97 
  - Hard to say...  redqueen   Sep-08-09 12:20 PM   #98 
  - Mixing cement for a bricklayer.  Tierra_y_Libertad   Sep-08-09 12:26 PM   #99 
  - Admissions Representative for a college  TheKentuckian   Sep-08-09 03:07 PM   #104 
  - I've never had a horrible job. Just horrible bosses.  gauguin57   Sep-08-09 03:08 PM   #105 
  - My present job. I am actively looking for a new position.  AllieB   Sep-08-09 03:09 PM   #106 
  - Oh, Jesus, I've had so many jobs, I don't know where to start....  Joe Fields   Sep-08-09 03:12 PM   #107 
  - shoveling pig shit out of livestock trailers  guitar man   Sep-09-09 10:24 AM   #109 
  - Fast Food - similar to McDonalds  trayfoot   Sep-09-09 10:24 AM   #110 
 

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