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haraggan: What is the worst job you've ever had?

pwilz: I worked in a factory, and my job was pulling little metal rods out of a machine and stacking them on a cart. That job lasted one day.
the manatee: Breaking up concrete with a sledgehammer.
Woelf: Unloading hay bales.
spevbot: worked at a Taco Bell briefly.
Sacco: Mail Clerk for a huge company. The names, the job titles that didn't exist, wheeling around a little mail cart...I'm so glad I hustled my way out of that position.
bungeeboy: I worked at Linens and Things.
DasViktor: I was an assistant to a paranoid purchasing agent who thought I wanted her job. It was six months of hell.
BUDDA: toilet cleaner on a holiday camp during adult weekend
jessitron: gardening. for personal reasons.
aleo09: asst. chef at a camp.
matthew.marquand: Cleaning out the "porta potty" after it sat in the sun for a weekend.
D Erasmus: Flat tar roofing for one summer.
kirkusmaximus: Pizza slinger
Leo-T: machine shop
KrisVerbeeck: answering geek questions
heathbar: ShopKo lackey.
1000rpm: Kangeroo Impersonator
bigbadsteve: carwash
personwholives: Bussing tables. W00t for having a real job now....where I get to sit on the computer....and answer geek questions.....
Zelurs: Handyman for my former city's athletics stadium. Sometimes it was ok, but I hated my co-workers, we were living in a whole different planet. They thought the job was their dream-come-true.. me, well I didn't work there long.
heli: BGG Admin -- no pay and loads of crackpots.
DHEK: Calling up people to ask for their photocopy machine serial number... I'm serious! I was a temp job and you won't believe how crappy it can get...
screwnut75: Trimming Raspberry bushes. not fun
PsyJam: Shit-Shoveller, every day
Capitaine Grappin: I prefer not tell you
Grand Moff Skip: stocking at Winn Dixie
watcher_b: At the local drugstore. The managers hated the employees, the employees hated their jobs. It was just ugly. I just was looking for extra cash and I quit within two weeks because of the environment.
mjharper: Potato picker.
POvidiusNaso: I worked at Burger King as a slave.
tagger418: Working Dietary in a nursing home
GrimJester: Jester
engdy: Picking up dog doo in backyard
ZombyDawg: Carving roast beef (and my finger - "oh, you don't like it rare?") at a cafeteria at the mall.
JonBen: splunker
zappothedude: Cleaning out a sewer below a steel mill.
jaycdu: Convergys
vampywife: waitress...not that it's a bad job, it was just bad for me...i know lots of people who are great at it, but i'm not one of them
brainrob: A summer job working in a store where the manageress was a complete tyrant
Musti: Putting apples in wooden crates. I was 16 years old and i paid well enough.
scriptorum: Paper boy. 3AM Sunday bundle pick up was no fun.
ArtGurl: cleaning men's bathrooms in a dept. store
Helenoftroy: Wal-mart
pkreynolds: Retail Management
confuse_a_cat: stock boy at Target
Unitbuster: Leech Farmer
Scott Tepper: When I worked at Arby's in college and had to clean the public bathrooms. That was almost 20 years ago, and I still cringe at the thought.
GuyHill: being a graduate student (it counts as a job where i live)
GrandpaDave: Never had a job
davidme: The one I have now.
kytmuisco: Picking apples.
jellospike: busboy for a fast food
melissa: I was a junior typist/receptionist just after I left school. I "wasn't allowed" to touch the computer - except that I was the only person in the office who knew how to turn it on...
sourwyrm: prison guard
chrisesko: Easter bunny
The Unbeliever: 42
Ardos: I had to unplug the main drain of a bath house at a Scout Camp once. That was just NASTY!
Gamegrunt: Courier
Belash: off loading a truck full of bags of chili pepper... my eyes stung for weeks
Majiken: Landscaper.
Nick Danger: Digging through crated up Georgia swamp land searching for discarded army surplus parts for resale. (no, I'm not kidding)
arkibet: Manual Labor. Ew! I had to carry very heavy stuff... I'm way too nellie for that.
Bearcat89: Farm hand on a cattle farm...I know way too much about animal husbandry.
LudesFactor: dishwasher on midnights
Lord_Prussian: I haven't had all that bad a job.
Kubilai: Manufacturing laminated plastic counters for shops. Too many chemicals.
GornTC: Working at a McDonalds.
MisterCranky: Correcting geeks' spelling and grammar at BGG. It pays virtually nothing.
skrutsch: Working at Bonanza on the salad bar. Ugh!
snoozefest: shoe store clerk
Windopaene: Oilfield Roustabout...Or waiter at the all night restaurant in Minnesota in the middle of winter
erli: My current one
tragicpoet: McDonalds cashier - could have been worse (food prep.)
dakarp: Cashier at an Officemax.
ValJor: A clerk at an urban planning facility. My task was to compare the old and new names of streets in two sets of maps. Totally mind numbing.
2amp: flightline mechanic
Cromaa: Unloading christmas trees from the back of a semi
AlorielLelyn: One that I didn't even get paid for.
isolated: Telemarketer for Sprint. (incoming. but it still sucked)
Dave: Life Insurance Sales Representative. Quit after one week.
gnomehome: Packing Alu profiles
sumo: I haven't had any bad jobs, just bad bosses. Though the paper-round was pretty bad.
jpact: Morning cleaning at a boarding kennel. Or maybe Hardee's.
Debate: Cleaning boy at a butcher shop... although the pay WAS good. ;)
Salt-Man Z: Working at K-Mart. Lousy piece-of-crap dump. Though the solo overnight shifts were fun.
UhhhClem: Overseeing a failed $17m software project.
fanaka66: Selling shoes
BilboAtBagEnd: My second research assistantship.
Nightmare: Data entry job - I was told 'Your not paid to think'
sos1: Commission salesman for something I didn't believe in. I lasted two weeks. It was hell.
haraggan: Dishwasher
CortexBomb: Probably my incredibly brief stint as a laundry attendant. Wretched pay and very, very boring
P.O.G.G.: working at a chicken plant - take 'em from live to packaged
louiseh: Car park attendant
Cavedog_pdx: Shoveling sawdust at a cabinet shop. All the blowers from the saws and other tools blew it all into this little room and I had to shovel it all into barrels. Sawdust gets in your eyes, through your breathing mask and into your nose and lungs, and is just plain miserable. I was coughing up gray snot for a couple weeks after.
jttm: Data Entry
Ryno8: Worked at UPS for 2 nights
Blackwind: Shoe Sales
skelebone: None of my jobs have been particularly terrible, but I'm not too fond of dirty farm labor, nor hay hauling.
ynnen: Telephone yellow page ad sales
Spielfreak: Stuffing ground goose livers and meat into sausage casings. OH! my mistake, I read that as WURST job. Silly me. Truth be told, none of my jobs have been particularly bad.
chaddyboy_2000: Carpentry work was kind of sucky.
CDRodeffer: This one.