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Posted by 1FAST93NOTCH (Member # 10722) on :
 
What is the worst job you've had in the past or currently have that you would not recommend for others? & why?

I'll start it off, when I was 15 y/o advertising for a car dealership on the side of the road dressed up in a costume.

[ July 18, 2012, 02:30 PM: Message edited by: 1FAST93NOTCH ]
 
Posted by 66_5.0 (Member # 9974) on :
 
KFC cook in the hood. Hated the 1st of the month
 
Posted by macthizzle (Member # 3492) on :
 
I managed a carniceria (meat market) for my parents when I was 18.It was basically mine my dad had his own business and my mom worked full time. I worked from 5:30 to 9pm Monday-Friday. Had 2 other employees. I picked up vegetables ordered products that we needed. I had to commute to San Leandro from Menlo park everyday.
 
Posted by 510.86.notch (Member # 9892) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by macthizzle:
I managed a carniceria (meat market) for my parents when I was 18.It was basically mine my dad had his own business and my mom worked full time. I worked from 5:30 to 9pm Monday-Friday. Had 2 other employees. I picked up vegetables ordered products that we needed. I had to commute to San Leandro from Menlo park everyday.
I'm from S.L.What was the name of the market.Mine was working as a laborer when I was 16 shoveling mud in a creek all day every day.
 
Posted by macthizzle (Member # 3492) on :
 
We owned it under the name mercado latino. Little meat market next to Pericos
 
Posted by Blind (Member # 3052) on :
 
When I was 16...baja fresh, hired as cashier.

shift manager noticed I was the token white boy on staff, so put me on the salad bar/bathroom cleanup/cleaning tables.

I quit after 2 weeks.

food service takes a special kind of person to be able to make it, lol.
 
Posted by 87MclarenMustang (Member # 10695) on :
 
My dad has been a roofer for 30+ years and i started working for him when i was 13. There's nothing worse then doing complete tear offs in the middle of summer on a roof when you have a fear of heights!
 
Posted by DIRTY SALLY (Member # 7845) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by macthizzle:
I managed a carniceria (meat market) for my parents when I was 18.It was basically mine my dad had his own business and my mom worked full time. I worked from 5:30 to 9pm Monday-Friday. Had 2 other employees. I picked up vegetables ordered products that we needed. I had to commute to San Leandro from Menlo park everyday.
NO WONDER NEGHITS RICH [Embarrassed]
 
Posted by DIRTY SALLY (Member # 7845) on :
 
i got a job right outa high school working for a bolt company. one day i had to put bolts on anchors for 8 hours in the sun for 2 weeks [Mad] in the middle of summer. not only that i had to invertory counting thousands of nuts and bolts washers fuckin sucked after i finshed the inventory fuckers layed me off [Mad]
 
Posted by 90coupe50 (Member # 10848) on :
 
At a winery doing bottling I had to stand all day in the same spot and look at bottles
 
Posted by DIRTY SALLY (Member # 7845) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by 90coupe50:
At a winery doing bottling I had to stand all day in the same spot and look at bottles
i woulda been fucked up in the frist hour just sayin [Big Grin]
 
Posted by adower (Member # 5955) on :
 
Ups loading trucks...Fuck that!
 
Posted by x Raelsmar x (Member # 9804) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by adower:
Ups loading trucks...Fuck that!
I did that for FedEx. Luckily it was a 26 foot bobtail truck. It wasn't so much the job I disliked as it was the hours. Had to be there at 3-4am(depended on the week) and only worked 3-4 hours. Shit was whack.
 
Posted by fredfifty (Member # 10320) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by adower:
Ups loading trucks...Fuck that!
fed ex small package co called RPS, tossing boxes from 11pm to 3 or 4 am...
 
Posted by LXjames (Member # 10791) on :
 
Large scrap recycling. Worked in a warehouse unloading thousands of pounds of multiple tv's a day breaking them down without them exploding sending shards of glass through your body. Then when I got noticed that I could do just about anything I became in charge of all the large shit. We had 4 bins all with different purposes. I had to sledge hammer off motors to appliances throw those in the bin then load up dishwashers refrigerators safes and everything into the bin too. After that I had to climb in the bin and ARRANGE and ORGANIZE that bin by throwing fridges and dryers from one bin to another then back into the proper pin.
Then the roll off truck comes an I had to tarp the pin strap it down load it on the truck send the driver on his way. Then go back inside and breakdown tv's computers and microwaves. Oh yea and I did all this every day 7 days a week 7-5 and fully clothed with a jump suit on top of that. Oh yea and I got payed 8 an hour until they let me go and a couple other guys off an gave everyone else a raise we all been bitching about!!
 
Posted by 98 ROUSH (Member # 10309) on :
 
Underground pipeline
 
Posted by 1ST0KGT (Member # 10606) on :
 
FedEx slinging boxes and breaking shit in the early mornings, but still working there [Big Grin]
 
Posted by rollin5ive0 (Member # 8592) on :
 
safeway night crew assistant manager, workin nights fucked my life up, ontop of that i moved up from cashier to asst mgr in six months, i had twenty year vets workin for me, then we got a new boss that had been with the company for 40 years, me and him did not get along, he gave me minimal help and if i was lucky the nights that i managed by myself i would get 1 person who knew how to throw frieght and two other new hires it was fucked, frustrating, and stressfull. i finally had it one night, huge order commin in and he pulled me in the office and started to lay into me about havin everything done or else, i said save it fuck off knocked some shit off his desk and bounced! [patriot]
 
Posted by phonso302 (Member # 9260) on :
 
I work for waste management in oakland...i dont mind we get really good pay/benefits/pension so i dont mind. Started in the garbage industry since i turned 21.

People always ask me how can i work picking up garbage, i simply tell them how much i make hourly and their response is always "they hiring"
 
Posted by NEIGHT (Member # 8741) on :
 
I would have to say plumbing. Good money but some days sucked when you had idiots flushing the toilet when you specifically told them NOT TO!
 
Posted by wilit (Member # 3367) on :
 
I worked at a telecom install company and we won a contract to upgrade the waste water treatment facility in Oakland. We used to call it the shit factory. The passageways between buildings had pipes that would transport the shit water from building to building. Sometimes they would burst and spray shit and piss water everywhere. They would fix the pipe and clean up most of the spill but there'd still shit everywhere. We'd have to install new cabling and rigid conduit in those passageways. One time there was a big storm and everything backed up and flooded out our job trailer. That job sucked really bad.
 
Posted by Anderthizzle (Member # 7910) on :
 
Taco bell graveyard shift. They made me chop up 50lbs of tOmatoes. Quit after 4 days.
 
Posted by NotACop_281 (Member # 11498) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by 98 ROUSH:
Underground pipeline
Fuk that heavy ass pipe lol
 
Posted by Robb (Member # 9444) on :
 
Fast food jobs and all those minimum wage high hour jobs.

Going to school now to get a real career where i could make big money and be able to enjoy it.
 
Posted by Robb (Member # 9444) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Anderthizzle:
Taco bell graveyard shift. They made me chop up 50lbs of tOmatoes. Quit after 4 days.
I worked for Taco Bell a couple years ago, They made me go outside and scrape gum off the concrete in the middle of 100 degree days in summer as a daily task. Easily the most degrading job i've ever had.
 
Posted by 87 coupe (Member # 10919) on :
 
Aquatic management in redwood shores getting algie and sea grass out the salt water lagoons for the past 3 years dnt recomend it to anyone u come home smelling a combination of shit, algie,sweat, & salt water.
 
Posted by 5.0 Pro (Member # 6311) on :
 
Spent the better part of the first 6 months of my pipefitters apprenticeship doing demo in a wastewater plant and sitting in a tiny ass aluminum rowboat changing out spray nozzels in the shit pond......


Paid off though, that was 15 years ago. Now i spend most days in my truck under a tree with the a/c on waiting for emergency welding jobs....lol
 
Posted by 2T0NE (Member # 4216) on :
 
cleaning portable potty for tge LOSS, THAT AND DELIVERY OF ANYTHING FOOD TO FURNITURE FTMFL
 
Posted by SSFGiant (Member # 10811) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by adower:
Ups loading trucks...Fuck that!
Ive been doing this for 4 years. Yea it does suck but ill take the full benefits for a part time gig. Just waiting on that driver position to open up
 
Posted by 99 blue bird (Member # 10367) on :
 
one word. REBAR. shit sucks.
 
Posted by sneakyfox90 (Member # 9379) on :
 
Moving company

Wana talk about working hard for the money?

12- 15 hour shifts often office moves in the middle of the night few thousand pound safes executive desks computers everything from one building to another trying to move thousands of pounds down flights of stairs scary ass shit

Household moves in sf....

Busted my ass harder than any job I've ver had for good money but I won't be missing that shit I want to be able to have a working body when I'm old
 
Posted by Stang66 (Member # 10504) on :
 
construction laborer, breaking thick concrete with a sledge hammer at the age of 15 [Mad] during the nice damn summer [Mad] [Mad]
 
Posted by 2Foxes2Five0Coupes (Member # 9154) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by fredfifty:
quote:
Originally posted by adower:
Ups loading trucks...Fuck that!
fed ex small package co called RPS, tossing boxes from 11pm to 3 or 4 am...
RPS was my first commercial styled truck driving job. weren't they outta Hayward? I delivered to Stanford a lot. That job paid nothing back then.
 
Posted by Jaejae5.0 (Member # 7958) on :
 
Fed ex ground was the worst..word as hard as you can nonstop for 4-6 hours..paycheck that was maybe 250$ a week..that was 3 years ago..now I'm making 1k + a week for a safety company contracted through the refineries
 
Posted by 510cpskid (Member # 8277) on :
 
Paintball referee constantly being shot by noobs........glad I'm higher on the totompole now I don't have to ref as much. I do love my job though
 
Posted by 98 ROUSH (Member # 10309) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by NotACop_281:
quote:
Originally posted by 98 ROUSH:
Underground pipeline
Fuk that heavy ass pipe lol
+1 FTL
 




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