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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-03-08 10:32 PM Original message |
What was the worst job you ever had? |
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Kingofalldems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-03-08 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. Dishwasher |
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Roon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-03-08 10:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I like washing dishes |
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Dave_Fl_50 (186 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-03-08 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
2. Unfortunately the one I have now. I went from a software company |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 10:24 AM Response to Reply #2 |
30. a software company where they think Bush is brilliant? How do they get past the first 0 to 1? |
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Dave_Fl_50 (186 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 03:23 PM Response to Reply #30 |
42. No in Cambridge it was a software co. Down here I'm in-house it |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 03:29 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. oooh. So you track the cocaine as it comes in? |
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Roon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-03-08 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
3. Answering the hotline for the firestone tire recall |
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Chovexani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-03-08 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
5. Customer service for a major credit card company |
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BarenakedLady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-03-08 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
6. Cashier |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-03-08 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
7. Cafeteria... |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
8. I worked in the warranty claims department of Toyota |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
9. Busboy at a "family style" seafood restaurant... |
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qb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
10. I win... stuffing live chickens into little cages in an egg-laying warehouse. |
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av8rdave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 11:18 AM Response to Reply #10 |
36. I did that too....taking them out when it was time to send them to Campbell's Soup was worse |
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qb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 11:55 AM Response to Reply #36 |
39. Wow. Imagine if they were required to print pictures of those hens |
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av8rdave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:02 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Believe me, it would hurt their business. |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 06:44 PM Response to Reply #10 |
56. I saw one of those places.. |
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Fox Mulder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
11. Janitorial assistant at the local high school. |
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LeftyFingerPop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
12. I had to clean out a six foot section of sewer line clogged completely with tampons. n/t |
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qb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:11 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Ok... maybe you win :) |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:13 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Bloody helluva job! |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 10:25 AM Response to Reply #12 |
32. in other words, you had to douche an elephant? |
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ptvet (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:13 AM Response to Original message |
15. Operating a hickory plow |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 02:35 AM Response to Reply #15 |
24. I gots a stupid question: What's a hickory plow? |
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ptvet (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 02:22 PM Response to Reply #24 |
41. Long standing tradition.... |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 03:30 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. I thought it meant a gigolo for old ladies--plowing the old hickories |
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grace0418 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
16. I wish it were easy to choose. Unfortunately, I haven't had very good luck with jobs. |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 06:34 PM Response to Reply #16 |
54. it sounds like Hell |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
17. Tossup: telemarketer for Verizon |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:23 AM Response to Original message |
18. I was a telemarketer for a day |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
19. Barley harvest |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
20. I think telemarketing was the worst. The bosses harass you about being more aggressive, and I ... |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
21. I think telemarketing was the worst. The bosses harass you about being more aggressive, and I ... |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 12:28 AM Response to Original message |
22. H.R. drone in advance of a massive layoff |
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Awsi Dooger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 02:32 AM Response to Original message |
23. Handicapper for a sports service in '87 |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 02:46 AM Response to Original message |
25. Wife & mother |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
26. Cleanup crew at a slaughterhouse. |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 06:32 PM Response to Reply #26 |
52. yucky 7 hours |
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momophile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
27. McDonalds |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
28. digging shit out from under an outhouse with a garden trowel and a five gallon bucket |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 10:22 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. that's what other people would think is the worst job. The real worst was working for a Hollywood |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
31. Shoveling sewage. |
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dropkickpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
33. Night shift donut finisher/counterperson |
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VenusRising (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
34. Cleaning hotel rooms at the Holiday Inn. |
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av8rdave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
35. Shoveling chicken $#!& on a massive poultry factory in Ohio |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
37. I was an "environmental engineer" (janitor) at the hospital one summer in highschool |
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gbate (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
38. Either this one or the one I had working at the seafood store. |
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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
43. Picking rocks out of dirt |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
46. Vaccinating baby chickens for Marek's Disease. |
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ceile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
47. Trying to sign up people for TX-PIRG |
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Mutley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
48. Waiting tables. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
49. I made a street map atlas of an entire county |
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intaglio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
50. Toss up |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
51. I tried to be a waitress |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
53. Call room jobs. |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
55. Working as a sales-rep for a sales training company. Selling training in car sales. |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 08:11 PM Response to Reply #55 |
58. So YOU'RE the one who got waterboarded by your boss! |
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WeRQ4U (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
57. I delivered Tacos. |
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southerncrone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
59. Cleaning off tables at a Picadilly Cafeteria. |
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seemunkee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
60. pizza delivery on UofMD campus |
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triguy46 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-04-08 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
61. Selling home medical equipment. What a frickin' scam.... |
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