What's the worst job you've ever done?

[Longpot]

OK - I don't want to hear how people had to sell their bodies to get subscription fees for WoW, just interested to know what jobs people have done in the past...

When I was a student I used to work at a pharmaceutical company in the holidays and one time made the mistake of asking if there was anything they wanted done when I found myself at a loose end...

Result: I was led right into the centre of the complex to this room that looked like it hadn't been opened in years, the guy shoved the door open to reveal what can only be described as a drug dumping site - there were broken bottles half full of unknown liquids; crushed tablets that left a powdery coating everywhere; bottles with labels that had been turned black from the air, or in some cases completed eroded; not to mention the smell (like a mix between a few hundred bottles of open nail polish and a 3 week old cadaver)... you get the picture...

My job was to 'catalogue' the entire room - in hindsight I should have been issued with a biohazard lvl 5 suit complete with positive pressure hepa-filter... but no it was just me and my lab coat

What's your worst work experience?

[rgirty]

When I was putting myself through college I worked a 7pm to 7am shift at a toilet paper manufacturing facility. I won't get into details but it changed my whole outlook on things.

[Scrapples]

My worst job was when I was working part time for a rubber making company, I would Mix and mold and even color the rubber which pretty tough hot hot work carrying the bags of mix from the trucks. Then only to find out I was making Rubber dildo’s errm……8.55 was not worth the hassle. And I was only 18 at the time.

[Elly]

Washing up dishes (by hand no less, shock horror!) when I was 15 at weekends in a nightclub that had a restaurant called The Gardens in Yeovil, Somerset.

It actually wasn't a worst experience really. It was tiring but I got to have my own money and save for things and it certainly taught me the value of money and how to budget so I guess I'm talking complete tosh, it was actually a good experience:)

The worst job in terms of being miserable was actually charity work I did in Indonesia teaching at a blind school. It was rewarding in as much as it made me feel good that I was doing my bit to help but ultimately I ended up feeling like a spoilt western pig by comparison.

[Longpot]

lol @ paper and dildo manufacturing - when you said 'rubber' I thought you meant contraceptives

Elly - those aren't what I'd call 'bad jobs' although I get ur point re: Indonesia.

Keep 'em coming people these make me laugh

P.S. One of my friends once worked in a carrot factory and had to stand with a pallet beneath this massive hole where all the carrots dropped from - his job was to stand there until he'd 'caught' a full tray off carrots, then carry it off and come back for more. Never thought the phrase 'carrot cut' existed til I met him

[CreslinHellscream]

I also did dish washing for a few years while I was in school - Its soul destroying after awhile. Also working in any food factory is pretty dire.

[Jagzmtg]

My junior year of high school, I ended up as one of the people at the entrance to Six Flags that tries to stop people to get a picture. That was the worst summer of my life, no question about it.

[rgirty]

Actually the toilet paper thing wasn't the worst.

I did some landscaping while in college for a hospital.

It seemed the hospital had built this huge expensive fence with a narrow opening. Too narrow for any large equipment. However they discovered that the ground in this area actually needed to be 6 inches higher and level.

So, it was the duty of myself and one other lucky soul to bring in the dirt via wheelbarrow shovel it out then spread it around.

Do you know how much dirt it takes to raise a 50x30 foot area 6 inches? Neither do I, because I quit after the 2nd day. It was 100+ degrees outside and for 30$ a day after taxes it wasn't worth it.


I worked at taco bell during college too. I did so many dishes they just called me pots after a while. I would work 8 hours straight just washing dishes. I really got to where I rather enjoyed it, no one else wanted to do it so no one really bothered me. No one ever complained at me or anything really....so it wasn't as bad as the toilet paper thing.

[SpiritWalker]

*Mind blocks attempt to type out event..*

I'm sorry

[Scrapples]

So besides working at the *rubber* factory which lasted 1month ? I also had other jobs that were not so great.

Well taking the off the following year to go backpacking threw Spain/Greece I got a job working as a tour guild on the island of Corsica I hope I spelt that right. I would single handedly cook for 40-50ppl then take them on a boring but beautiful 3 hour tour of the island. This would happen 2-3 times a day.

Worked a large grocery chain as Meat sales associate haha I got this job 2-3weeks after I got back to the states. My shift was fri-sun 4pm-11pm so my weekends were shot. I had cut, inventory, serve complaining customers all day and finally at the end of the day I would have to clean a 30foot meat showing case which smelled like a rotten corpse that’s been laying around for awhile.

This would take forever and would get me soaken wet from the hose which sprayed erratically… when I would be finished I would have to call the night manager to come inspect my work (washing meat trays utensil’s lonnnng ass meat counter). This women would always find something wrong and would end up making me clean it again. I plotted this women’s demise daily… I let go after 2months of 6.50/hr

Then finally the last job before I finished college and things started looking up. I seen ad in the news paper stating Great pay! Fun work! Work with your friends! I was thinking score! So I called they set up the interview and I was hired right away! 10.00/hr. I found my self standing in the middle of a busy intersection holding up a sign for 6hours saying mattress sale! I didn’t last 2day’s

Then finally I graduated from my four year degree and was hired! Not 4 weeks after, working for a great company with great pay and benefits….then I got married…………………