What was the worst job you've ever had? Why?

In my whole life, I only had one job (canvassing) and it sucked so much. You feel like a whore going to people's house, and providing them with 'products'.

I worked at a car wash for less than minimum wage for a real butt-hole of a boss. I was sixteen, and afraid to stand up for myself. I got fired for using window cleaner on a dirty car window. The boss wanted me to use wet towels he had stolen from the holiday inn.

Working in a nursing home-it was so depressing, all those forgotten people.

Vampire Hunter. All that blood gushing out all over my clothes and the screams-I think I may have lost part of my hearing because of the screams.

hhhhmmmm, worst would probably be a part time or prn job i had in an emergency room in NY and because i wasn't there that often and i never got into the swing of things. it was always crazy busy there!
i have liked all of the jobs that i have had for the most part so this is the worst, but i still liked it somewhat.

Running a machine at Hillman-Fastner. It was very loud, I had to stand the entire shift. I had to set the machine for how many nails I wanted dumped into each box, fold small boxes to be pushed around for the nails to get dumped into, and close them and put them into big boxes. It SUCKED.

A dishwasher. The pay was lousy. It was sooo monotonous and boring, and hot and sticky. I always smelled like greasy food, the smell would not wash out of my clothes. The people I worked with were incredibly slow, we were there til the wee hours of the night. I actually had nightmares about doing dishes. I woke up thinking I had a big stack of dishes next to my bed. I lasted about three weeks before I quit.

What a psycho boss!

Cleaning out a dirty old man's apartment.

Night Shift maintenance supervisor. The people I worked for completely forgot I existed(except at yearly evaluation time. then they wanted to know what I had done to make them look good.) Most of the people who worked for me were glad I was there. It was the highest paying job of my life and the least rewarding.

Serving in the breakfast line in the food service at R.I.S.D. when I was in school there. I had to go to the caf. at 6am, hungry, but then the smell of the food made me want to puke. The first time I ate out of the cafeteria that term (at an Indian restaurant) I cried because the plate of lentils was so good.

Construction. I couldn't stand the people I had to work with. They disgusted me.

Food service. People who own restaurants always seem to have trouble making the distinction between "employee" and "slave".

I had a job once where all I did was stand at a copy machine and make copies all day long arrrggghhh!!!!

I dont understand how people can pay less than minimum wage. I had a job like that too. They could pay me less than minimum wage just because I was a full time student.

How funny. lol

Driving a podstripper (the humongous tractor-like machine that harvests peas).

I worked 12 hour night shifts (6 pm to 6 am) and it was sometimes difficult staying awake. The only bathroom was an outhouse on the back of the supervisor's truck, and it was pitch black inside. A couple times a night I'd get an hour break from driving, but the break consisted of walking around the outside of all the machines in the field while they were moving, and using a big stick to pull pea vines out of areas that would otherwise get clogged up. The only thing that saved me was having a walkman and some good music with me at all times.

I've never had a job.

Yeah, he was!

McDonalds. I was only there a week, got told off for leaning when I could be cleaning and was called a fudgewit by a customer for screwing up her order. I also had to deal with a customer who found a band-aid stuck to the bottom of her tray.

that sounds really awful to me.

But messy!

I bet!

> is what my face looks like when I'm done.

lol you are crazy!

Yes I am! >

Ech! Delivering papers and pamphlets, rain, hail or shine, and working at KFC. Fatty, stinky, yuck! Very un-smurfy!

When I was young I worked for a dog groomer in Montana. 12 hour days in a sweatshop of sorts. Assembly line dog washing and drying in 80 plus degree weather with no air conditioning. The worst part was before we bathed the dogs we had to clean their anal glands out by pressing in and up under their little bumholes until this green gooey stuff squirted out and could be wiped away. I was paid one dollar per dog.

I was bitten badly by a Schnauser(sp?) and instead of comforting me or showing concern the owner yelled at me to wrap up my hand and get back to work. I quit on the spot!

Never had a regular job...and the ones I've had I've liked.

counting bullets in the sun

I agree, of all the jobs Ive had, 2 were fast food, and they were the worst. McD's and Corn Dog 7. McD's was worse though. I stayed there about 3 weeks. I had another job anyway. (my favorite job)

All of them have there bad spots, but one was for 6 years at ryan's steak house in baytown, texas..they train there manager's to be bastards on purpose. I had so much hell with them jerks..getting in my face and being really hatefull..If I had a chance to do that crap over, i'd get back in there faces and knock the ever living hell out of all of them and then throw the food all over the floor and walk out..

I left on the busiest time at the place..and gave them a dirty uniform back..lol!!! he said "YOU MEAN YOUR LEAVING NOW??!!!" I smiled and knodded, he looked as if he was going to cry..hahahah!!
A few days later I got a call from the head manager, a real piss head..asking me "what BEHOOVED you too quit????" i said "YOU IDIOT!!"
i felt so darn good...since then ive learned not to take so much crap..I dont get paid to be treated like that..EVER..noone does actually...

Probably working at our local shop when I was a kid. The pay was terrible, but it was really convenient. It really wasn't that bad.

Cleaning an alley while crack-heads watched. I am not making this up.

Working as a mechanic in a small garage.

I'd rather forget it.

Security guard one summer when I was in school. It was incredibly boring, and I had to wear a tie. I quit two weeks after I started, to teach summer school instead.

That description made me nauseous.

Um, is it par for the course that one can make green goo shoot out of dog's ass.

I ask in order to make a bet later on.

It's very difficult and if you don't get it all they will inevitably soil themselves again right after they'vebeen bathed

Ewwww...I'd probably never feel like eating lunch if I had a job like that.

Cleaning a company that had gross leaky stuff in the garbage and no matter what you did the place stunk. Also the mens room was always dirtier then the womans bathroom.

I've never had a real job, but I guess the worst job I've had that payed was in my grandfather's shop, for I had nothing to do but was getting payed. It was boring and I felt bad.

I worked at Burger King for a summer while a freshman in high school. I HATED coming home smelling like french fried and grease.

Oh wait, I worked ONE DAY as a telemarketer while in college. I was awful at it and quit - I just couldn't stomach conning little old ladies into buying magazine subscriptions they didn't want.

CONSTUCTION WORKER I was a single ply roofer.
Roofing building like:
McDonald Duglas,Northrop,Rockwell,Etc. The pay was excellent,but the job sucked.Being the only woman roofer,made for a bad situation for me.The other roofers would steal my tools,send me on wild goose chases to retrieve miscellaneous roofing materials.Only to find out that when I'd bring the item back they would say that they needed something else instead,so then I'd have to go back & get the other item,they would hide my heat welding gun, my roller,the list goes on.In the summer it would get upwards of 115 degrees up on the roof.Sometimes I'd get so sick from the heat,that I'd have to go down the ladder to the ground to cool off.In the winter I'd put on 3 under skives & then my roofing clothe.The up side to that job was that I lost weight & starting getting toned & strong. The down side was that I had lost so much weight that my husband got me pregnant & I ended putting the weight back on.I did that for three years. Finally when I was 6 months pregnant with my last child I quit work.Gosh I miss the $$$$$$$$$.The money was the only reason why I hung in there that long.

Pizza Hut. I was too nervous to be a waitress and I only stayed for 4 hours.

Picking blueberries. I lasted one day. It was hot and they wouldn't let us have water with us while picking and got real pissy if we left the field to get a drink of water. It's a good thing that someone didn't pass out from dehydration.