Whats The Worst Job You Ever Had

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 4:12 am

A student summer job in a nursing home for elderly people. There were three of us. The bloke was lucky and got the outside gardening. My girlfriend and I escorted old people to the bathroom and cleaned them up afterwards, we cut their nails, we made their beds, we held their hands and listened as they told us that nobody cared about them, their families never visited, and we were the only people they had to talk to. We heard about their ailments. We spoonfed some. We helped give them loads of meds so that they would be quiescent and not cause anyone any trouble. When 'Aunty Podge' went walkabout one day, I found her. Occasional respite was when we got to do the ironing or worked in the kitchen. One day I was told to pick apples - in sunshine - without the smell of age and decay. That was bliss.

I've had some great jobs since. That nursing home job was totally awful. It may also have been the most worthwhile one I ever had.

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:31 am

Dairy Queen. I hated it.

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:21 am

AussiePam wrote: I've had some great jobs since. That nursing home job was totally awful. It may also have been the most worthwhile one I ever had.

Excellent point!

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:46 am

Working from home for a chatline.

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:53 am

Pants, I hear you there. I once worked in an assisted living center for old folks. Most of the people were great, bit it was the actual job I hated. I worked in the kitchen. They served all 3 meals in the dining room. So, it was setting the tables for each meal (70 residents), serving the meals, cleaning up after, doing the dishes and then doing it all again for the next meal. You really had to move fast and keep up on it. The worst was between breakfast and lunch, the shortest "down time" to get everything cleared, washed and set up between the two meals. Plus we were always short staffed, making it even worse.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:10 am

It is hard working in nursing homes, I saw 3 of them in action when my husband was in them. Not evnough staff, too much to do. Kudos Pam and Marie for doing such hard work which is needed. I don't like the chores I have to do at home for my husband, nursing wasn't my calling. I just had to learn it. Does that count as a job? Otherwise, one school district I worked for overcrowded the kdis, I had up to 51 in a class, with 39 seats. Tell me how I was going to teach them a thing, sitting on floors and tables!

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:10 am

AussiePam wrote: A student summer job in a nursing home for elderly people. There were three of us. The bloke was lucky and got the outside gardening. My girlfriend and I escorted old people to the bathroom and cleaned them up afterwards, we cut their nails, we made their beds, we held their hands and listened as they told us that nobody cared about them, their families never visited, and we were the only people they had to talk to. We heard about their ailments. We spoonfed some. We helped give them loads of meds so that they would be quiescent and not cause anyone any trouble. When 'Aunty Podge' went walkabout one day, I found her. Occasional respite was when we got to do the ironing or worked in the kitchen. One day I was told to pick apples - in sunshine - without the smell of age and decay. That was bliss.

I've had some great jobs since. That nursing home job was totally awful. It may also have been the most worthwhile one I ever had.
I missed the 'f' in that sentence the first time I read it. :-2

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:11 am

:wah:

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:19 pm

I once carried the flamethrower for an asphault crack-sealing crew in Phoenix, Az. It's 115F in the shade and we were in the Intel parking lot with no shade and here I am blazing cracks with a flamethrower. We used to eat salt tabs like they were candy, then throw up at the end of the day and go home sunburned, dehydrated, and filthy.

Seriously harsh.

BillyMadisonfan · Post by **BillyMadisonfan** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:46 am

Probably the worst job that I ever had, had too be about 4 years ago when I worked at a daycamp on the kitchen staff. It seemed that every time I started a job my manager would come out and need another job done at that very moment. And man it seemed like every 5 seconds I had too run up too the kitchen and get another tray of food for a different age group of campers and then run back down.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:48 pm

Winchell Donut Shop had to be there at 4am to start making donuts to this day I can't eat donuts..

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:24 am

CARLA wrote: Winchell Donut Shop had to be there at 4am to start making donuts to this day I can't eat donuts..

I love Donuts, i once worked in a bakery and had to put the jam in the middle of donuts. :-4

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 3:48 am

Working for Miller Brewing Co., in their recycling plant. For 8 1/2 hours a day, 6 days a week, we would sort clear bottles from dark bottles into their correct empties cases, load a conveyer with cans to be crushed, adn stand at another conveyer and feed bottles, according to color into different sections to be broken down into tiny bits of glass.

Do you know what loves to live in recycling plants where there's LOTS of stale beer and cardboard?

Cockroaches.

I could not walk into my house after a day of work, I had to strip down in my screened-in back porch and shake out my clothes and HAIR and rush right to the shower. And I always smelled like stale beer. Blech.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 3:58 am

A rag-wringer for a one-armed window cleaner

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:05 am

Yucko BR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uncle K - this one armed man wasn't also in The Fugitive??? I have visions of Tommy Lee Jones not caring.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:08 am

AussiePam wrote: Yucko BR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uncle K - this one armed man wasn't also in The Fugitive??? I have visions of Tommy Lee Jones not caring.

He may have been Pam. We kinda lost contact after he quit his window cleaning round to become a juggler

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:14 am

Now I'm sure you're kidding me!!

Aren't you????

grin

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:21 am

AussiePam wrote: Now I'm sure you're kidding me!!

Aren't you????

grin
Would I lie to you Darlin'?

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:33 am

Of course you wouldn't Uncle K !!!! :-4

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:38 am

Two jobs would have to vie for the honour - luckilly both summer jobs paying my way through Uni.

The first, for sheer mind numbing, soul destroying, boredom was as a hydraulic press operator assembling two parts of a metalastic bush - by the thousand or you didn't get the peicework rate.

The other was working night shift at a meat pie factory - I still cannot face one of their pies. The hygene was non-existant and the ingredients disgusting. After an inspection condemmed a batch of pastry it was put aside to be dumped - until the inspector had left. When a tray of filling was dropped on the floor it was scraped back into the mix. Not isolated incidents and not the worst either.

Apparently, the cleanest food processing plant in the area is the one making petfood.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:55 pm

I was once a hod-carrier for Lego

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:04 pm

ArnoldLayne wrote: I joined a circus once to be a clown but no one would take me seriously

I had the same problem when I was a Bouncer at Mothercare

CheshireCat · Post by **CheshireCat** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:16 pm

I can totally get where Pam and Marie are coming from working in Nursing Homes and Assisted living. I was dietary aide at an assisted living place. We actually had room service as well as dining room service. There's nothing like a 90 year old man greeting you nude for is supper!

BR, my sympathies to you as well, girl. I never worked at a recycle place, but you must have some kind of cast iron stomach, or will. I would get nauseous just loading them into those machines at the grocery store. Good Job!

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AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:57 am

Offputting and sad CheshireCat.

Love your sunny av, by the way.

Do you know Jasper Fforde's "Lost in a Good Book" where the Cheshire Cat has transmoggyfied into the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat, due to a change of county boundaries?

CheshireCat · Post by **CheshireCat** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:53 am

I have not heard of that book, but I am looking it up on Amazon right now.

Thanks Pam

shelleybelle73 · Post by **shelleybelle73** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:44 am

The worst job I ever did, was selling Posh designer bathroom suites to extremely posh people who had more "money" than sense

These were the type of people that had several bathrooms (just in the west wing), :wah: I hated the falseness of it, and you cant believe how boring selling bathrooms, toilets, sinks and accessories can be... (believe me)

I was only 18 at the time and I just hated it. zzzZZZZZZZZZZZ

As for Unkle Kram & Arnie... shame on you for not taking the post seriously enough.... hee hee (you made me laff though)

I also worked in a popular shoe shop which was great for getting dates but not very glamourous, smelly feet are a big turn off

(pheww)

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:50 pm

CheshireCat wrote: I have not heard of that book, but I am looking it up on Amazon right now.

Thanks Pam

There's I think four books in the series. The Eyre Affair is the first. Really wacky stuff. A kind of literary Terry Pratchett. People either go insane with joy when they discover Jasper Fforde, whose own website is like unto his books, or they just go insane...

http://www.jasperfforde.com/

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:07 pm

Me too !!!

Have'nt read the Humpty Dumpty one yet.. hey that's an idea. I know I've a copy around here somewhere. Don't say a word about the plot!!!

LottomagicZ4941 · Post by **LottomagicZ4941** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 6:40 am

When I was working at a temp service in College I got sent to a uniform cleaning place. I was assigned to tossing rags that smelled like ether through a counter. Some of the workers enjoyed this task; but, it gave me the worst headache of my life.

Lotto

"Former temp worker"

MagicZ4941

Hugh Janus · Post by **Hugh Janus** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:25 am

I have had a couple of disgusting jobs. The first was as a toilet cleaner/attendant, for the local council. (this was in my young stupid days) You would be amazed at just how filthy some people can be. Some of the mess that was left behind would put animals to shame. Speaking of animals, brings me to my next "job"

I was inbetween "real" jobs so I signed up to an agency. (first mistake) They sent me to a place that makes "dog treats." The "factory" was just some jumped up shed. The treats in question were cow bones that have been bleached in an autoclave. They are then sawn in half and the resultant halves are packed with some kind of flavoured mush, the mush being a meal powder mixed with warm vegetable oil. Guess who was stuck at a table filling the bones, by hand? Yup. Lil ole me. But the worst was yet to come. They then went onto filling cow hooves, with the same muck. I stuck it out for three days. The funny thing is, all the "brain dead inmates" who worked there full time, couldn't understand why I wasn't willing to go back! The phrase "I would rather try to plait fog" went right over their heads. I feel sure that most of them relaxed by playing a banjo, whilst perched on a bridge over a river...

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:17 pm

Ah... one of my absolute favourite movies, Huge !!!!

Adam Zapple · Post by **Adam Zapple** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:41 pm

Selling cars. You have to be a lying snake (at least at the dealership I was at) willing to cheat people. I quit after less than a month.

P.S. If you leave a dealership thinking you got a great deal, you most likely got taken to the financial woodshed without knowing it.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:29 am

shelleybelle73 wrote: The worst job I ever did, was selling Posh designer bathroom suites to extremely posh people who had more "money" than sense

I was only 18 at the time and I just hated it. zzzZZZZZZZZZZZ

As for Unkle Kram & Arnie... shame on you for not taking the post seriously enough....

You think selling bathrooms was boring? You should have tried one of my jobs when I was a perforation counter for Tetleys tea-bags. It was bad enough, but when someone interrupted you......

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:56 am

Concierge on Noah's Ark. "No, you can't have leg of lamb from room 4E. She's a patron!"

NefariousSaint · Post by **NefariousSaint** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:28 pm

By far working in a box planet. By far working in a box plant. Made boxes out of cardboard. Made boxes out of cardboard. All repetitive. All repetitive.

Fold box

Stick thru machine

Stack

Fold box

Stick thru machine

Stack

Swore after that I'd never work in a factory again and haven't. Swore after that I'd never work in a factory again and haven't.

~NS :sneaky: ~NS :sneaky:

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:49 pm

Would you like to switch avitars with me???

I meant to say, "Borrow."

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:03 pm

NefariousSaint wrote: By far working in a box planet. By far working in a box plant. Made boxes out of cardboard. Made boxes out of cardboard. All repetitive. All repetitive.

Fold box

Stick thru machine

Stack

Fold box

Stick thru machine

Stack

Swore after that I'd never work in a factory again and haven't. Swore after that I'd never work in a factory again and haven't.

~NS :sneaky: ~NS :sneaky:

:yh_rotfl

:yh_rotfl

jaggedlittlegirl · Post by **jaggedlittlegirl** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:03 pm

The worst job I've ever had has been working for my mom. I learned the hard way that going into business with family is NOT a good idea. My brother and I ran for her first a pharmacy and then a bakery but both did not end up well, work problems became home problems and viceversa...soooooo that wasn't fun. At least I learned my lesson

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:51 pm

jaggedlittlegirl wrote: The worst job I've ever had has been working for my mom. I learned the hard way that going into business with family is NOT a good idea. My brother and I ran for her first a pharmacy and then a bakery but both did not end up well, work problems became home problems and viceversa...soooooo that wasn't fun. At least I learned my lesson

Did you ever smuggle drugs out in the French loaf ?

charity2k4 · Post by **charity2k4** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:49 pm

Uncle Kram wrote: I had the same problem when I was a Bouncer at Mothercare

lmao :wah:

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:54 pm

NefariousSaint wrote: By far working in a box planet. By far working in a box plant. Made boxes out of cardboard. Made boxes out of cardboard. All repetitive. All repetitive.

Fold box

Stick thru machine

Stack

Fold box

Stick thru machine

Stack

Swore after that I'd never work in a factory again and haven't. Swore after that I'd never work in a factory again and haven't.

~NS :sneaky: ~NS :sneaky:

You're funny.

You're funny!

charity2k4 · Post by **charity2k4** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:17 pm

Pinky wrote: God, I really admire people who do nursing home / care work.

I know I couldn't!

My worst job was working in a fish and chip shop a couple of evenings a week for a bit of extra money. I'd leave school in the afternoon, go to the chippy and spend another four hours getting covered in grease and serving grumpy people!

l.

Now i did that too for a while, people always turn up 5 mins before your due to close or worse stlll start ordering for a family of 24 and get upset when you look puzzled and say thats pie and chips for one open:-3