niviene Posted May 17, 2005 Report Posted May 17, 2005 After reading the Happy Birthday Hypo thread and what people were doing 5 years ago when hypography was born, I was wondering... what is the worst job you have ever had? For me it was a brief period when I had a job killing turkeys. It was awful and I still can't eat turkey or even smell it. Quote
bumab Posted May 17, 2005 Report Posted May 17, 2005 Working in a fish processing plant up north. 16 hour days of gutting fish on a slime line. i still love salmon, though, and can clean a fish in 5 seconds (given the right knife, seriously). Quote
Smokinjoe9 Posted May 17, 2005 Report Posted May 17, 2005 About 26 years ago a band I was in went to a VFW club out of town. When we started to rock and roll they gave us $10.00 and told us to leave. That was the worst job I ever had...... ;) Quote
niviene Posted May 17, 2005 Author Report Posted May 17, 2005 Working in a fish processing plant up north. 16 hour days of gutting fish on a slime line. i still love salmon, though, and can clean a fish in 5 seconds (given the right knife, seriously). Dang... I can still cut chicken apart with a good knife (still won't touch turkey..), it's like riding a bike. Before that I never really knew the difference between what a good knife would do. ;) Quote
rockytriton Posted May 17, 2005 Report Posted May 17, 2005 My worst job was doing construction. My girlfriend at the time wanted me to get a "real" job, so her mom got me a job with her boyfriend. I only did it for 1 day, but I (a 125 lb weakling at the time) had to use a 95 lb jackhammer, and then they gave me a sledge hammer so that I could break a wall with it. That was absolutely humiliating. Now I'm a software engineer making much bucks though, so I just look back at my relationship with that gold digger and laugh, cause I ditched her after that and just continued to study programming. Quote
Buffy Posted May 17, 2005 Report Posted May 17, 2005 Sorting "Kimball Tickets" at a major SoCal department store's central office. In the old days before computerised point-of-sale devices, merchandise had these little price tags on them that were perforated down the middle, and when you bought them, the clerk would rip one half off and put it in a bag under the register. When I was working with them, they'd gone to bar codes, but the originals were tiny punch cards. These things were sent in from all the stores and they had to be read into the mainframe to deal with daily sales/inventory. So, you got a bag, with all these little pieces of paper and you had to stack them up and put a rubber band around them so that the data input machine operators could hold a pack of them on the input device which would zip them in and read their bar codes. I did this one summer in high school, and it just about drove me bonkers.... Not as gross as some of those above, but mentally torturous... Cheers,Buffy Quote
C1ay Posted May 17, 2005 Report Posted May 17, 2005 Making fiberglass pipe components. Talk about an itchy, itchy job.... Quote
Queso Posted May 17, 2005 Report Posted May 17, 2005 secretary-like guy for an insurance company. ;) Quote
Queso Posted May 17, 2005 Report Posted May 17, 2005 let me ellaborate:it was my fathers company and i worked on my own time and well, it was the only job i've ever had. ;) Quote
infamous Posted May 18, 2005 Report Posted May 18, 2005 Breaking rocks with a 90 pound jack hammer in a 20' deep trench with a noonday temperature of 104 degrees. Geezzzzz I love my air conditioner now. Pass that lemonade on down will ya. Quote
infamous Posted May 18, 2005 Report Posted May 18, 2005 i think you win :eek:Hey Orby, I didn't know we were in a contest. But if there is a prize, donate it to Turner Classic Movies. ha, ha, ha, ha. Quote
zadojla Posted May 18, 2005 Report Posted May 18, 2005 Sorting "Kimball Tickets" at a major SoCal department store's central office. You didn't have to spindle them? Keypunching reject tickets was pretty nasty, too. My worst job was at J.C.Penney, selling athletic and children's shoes on 9% commission for five years. Quote
niviene Posted May 18, 2005 Author Report Posted May 18, 2005 Well... I should also say I had one job that might have been worse than the turkey job...I worked for about one hour as a phone sex operator when I was 19 or so....I thought it would be fun, or even funny to talk about sex as a job, and as soon as I got my first call, I answered it, this guy started talking about something really weird, and I just sat there slack jawed... until I burst out laughing at the guy (absolutely wasn't supposed to do that). I hung up on him, walked out, and never went back. I never told my parents about that... however, it is on my background record with the police department. :eek: Imagine taking a polygraph about that... talk about embarassing. Quote
Buffy Posted May 18, 2005 Report Posted May 18, 2005 Sorting "Kimball Tickets" at a major SoCal department store's central office. You didn't have to spindle them? Keypunching reject tickets was pretty nasty, too.No spindles, these were the "new fangled" ones with bar codes on heavy cardboard, and when they went through the readers, they went straight into a bag for recycling. The night shift keypunched the rejects... Cheers,Buffy Quote
zadojla Posted May 18, 2005 Report Posted May 18, 2005 Sorting "Kimball Tickets" ...And, BTW, you date yourself even knowing what a Kimball ticket was! :eek: I have, as a souvenir, a ticket weight from an old reader. Quote
Buffy Posted May 18, 2005 Report Posted May 18, 2005 And, BTW, you date yourself even knowing what a Kimball ticket was! :eek: I have, as a souvenir, a ticket weight from an old reader.Haha! Actually, both of my parents were in the retail business, and I grew up with the dang things. They were putting in the POS systems the year I worked there and the folks in the group I was in all lost their jobs 6 months later.... Cheers,Buffy Quote
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