XSellSide Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Working a drill press at a factory for 40 hrs / > week over a summer in high school sucked pretty > bad. Most repetitive job ever. > > Then there was the car wash, also in high school. > You can learn a lot from working with a bunch of > 30 something transients missing teeth. Had a similar experience. In my case, it was a summer job running a computer driven cutting machine that cut out printed circuit boards. It was pretty mindless - tape the board down, let the cutter do its job, take the board off. When you’re done with the board, standard procedure seemed to be to ball up the used tape as tightly as you can and throw it at someone else to see if you can hit them in the head. It was noisy, the room was full of fiberglass dust (great on contact lenses), and the work force was a bunch of yahoos (yes, these are my people). I grew up in a Northeast Mill town, and I can vouch that White Trash ain’t just a Southern thing. Everyone should have to work a crap job at some point in their life, if just for a sense of perspective. Oh, and did I mention that although it was summer, I had to walk uphill five miles in the snow both ways?
handing out porn cards on the vegas strip with the mexicans.
that’s awesome
I don’t know if I buy it - I don’t remember seeing any non-hispanics CorvetteMan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > handing out porn cards on the vegas strip with the > mexicans.
goldenboy09 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > worse job for me was a dishwasher at a hot wing > place… > > I dont think people know but soap is not used on > dishes in most places. simply power hot water… > that jobs sucked and only paid 5.15 a hour. I was > 15 This is just nasty!!! What about at the higher-end restaurants? Is that also powered hot water? I like going to eat at fine establishments, but hearing this news pretty much ruins my appetite. I might as well just leave my money in my high-yield savings account and just cook at home instead. At least my own dishes are clean.
We could bring paper plates to Le Cirque, maybe… In all seriousness, I think the hot water is boiling hot, so it kills bacteria, and it comes out hard and fast enough to get rid of grease, so I wouldn’t worry too much about it. I’ve seen the machines that some of these restaurants use to clean the glasses, and although it’s not great from an aesthetic point of view, it looks relatively safe. The real danger, I suspect, comes from the hands of people handling the stuff afterwards.
Mine was in a call centre. It sucks getting yelled at day after day… It was just during university though. Now I know all the right things to say when I talk to customer service.
needhelp Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > chrismaths Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Selling doors door-to-door > > Thats from some movie…I cant recall. Bill Bailey - Part Troll
wearing a giant sunflower outfit and handing out seed packets to cars stopped at traffic intersection. that sucked. the stupid outfit was so big you had to kind of waddle around and i looked like a complete loser. there were a few other suckers with me though so we had a misery loves company thing going.
Worst job ever? I was 19 y/o telemarketing computers and IT equipment B2B for www.insight.com (Nasdaq NSIT) It would have been ok if the company didn’t suck so bad. They had a zero marketing policy so they could “pass the value on to customers.” In reality their products were overpriced and the company had no brand so nobody had ever heard of them. Who on earth would hand out their company credit card number to some random who called them on their lunch break pushing the latest laptop? All sales staff lived in perpetual fear of the massive layoffs the company performed on an annual basis. No sales prospects were provided so you would have to work tons of hours overtime creating lists of companies to call the next day. Your manager would measure the number of hours you spent talking on the phone each day, and if it fell below a certain level it meant trouble. In reality it was great experience because you develop really thick skin working unders such awful pressure. It’s also the reason I decided to pursue higher education.