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What's the worst (real) job you know of or have had?
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May 24, 2015 11:18
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When I lived in AZ there was a daylabor place that made you rent their equipment/tools at a daily rate, so youd do like 8-10 hours of hard labor for well under minimum wage.
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May 24, 2015 11:19
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Crack whore trainee.
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May 24, 2015 17:18
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Customer service representative in a call center.
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May 25, 2015 18:17
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First job was pretty bad, making potatoes at a McAllister's Deli. Since adulthood, probably running the online sales program for a general contractor through the home depot. He was just awful to work for.
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May 25, 2015 20:49
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Cable technician for a contractor. e: this everywhere regardless of suits that say otherwise: http://www.wagehourinsights.com/independent-contractors/court-cable-installers-employees-not-independent-contractors/
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May 25, 2015 20:55
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Peep show jizz mopper.
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May 26, 2015 08:05
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Room cleaning at a truck stop motel.
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May 26, 2015 19:14
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Worst job I ever had was at a Kirkland's in a mall. Way, way worse than mopping floors at a gas station.
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May 26, 2015 19:19
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Do you know how much a jizz mopper makes? The secret is to wipe that jizz off quickly else it will streak. Worst job has to be anything dealing with the general public. Everything from retail to prostitution where you have entitled poo poo bags throwing around "the customer is always right" to justify their poo poo bagginess.
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May 26, 2015 19:53
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Being a back-end web developer is like being a surgeon that will never save a single person. Every patient just waits in ICU until you are the one that dies.
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May 27, 2015 08:51
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BossRighteous posted:Being a back-end web developer is like being a surgeon that will never save a single person. Every patient just waits in ICU until you are the one that dies. That is because the family of the patient are arguing about what type of scalpel you should use and if you are as qualified as Hugh Laurie since he starred in House and must know a thing or two about doctoring.
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May 27, 2015 14:13
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Anything outbound in a call center. I was group-hired with 32 people and when they fired me 90 days later the count of people hired with me went from 3 to 2. Telemarketing is the worst job- it has all of the horror of dealing with the general public without any of the satisfaction of even occasionally feeling like you might have helped someone. I mean even a clerk in a porn shop is going to sometimes help someone find what they're looking for, you know? Outbound telemarketing, you never ever help anyone or make their day better in any way. You have no satisfaction. All you have done is piss people off and interrupt their day. Everyone hates you, you contribute nothing to anyone, and your bosses are constantly looking over your shoulder hassling you for a bunch of made-up numbers poo poo with stupid acronyms. I've had worse bosses by far, but I've never had a job I hated as much as outbound call center work.
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May 27, 2015 14:31
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Back when I lived in southwestern KS, some of the high school guys had summer jobs castrating steers and/or painting anti-fungal/anti-insect medication on the bulls. It had all the factors of a great lovely job: summer heat, clippers being used on animals' junk, poo poo and flies, and dabbing great big paint brushes on a bull's testicles all day long. I just bagged groceries. 
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May 27, 2015 15:53
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I was an apprentice admin for a scummy as gently caress debt collection agency. Which meant I was first point of contact for phones, which alternated between answering to people who wanted to kill me or people who wanted to kill themselves. I had to take payments from people who had nothing because the actual managers didn't bother putting payments through. This was all for £2.50 an hour. But I imagine the worst job would be crew member for a Kevin James movie.
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May 27, 2015 17:52
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Family business. You're not paid and when you complain you are now homeless.
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May 27, 2015 18:36
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I was a kirby salesman for a week and one night went delusional because I didn't drink enough water after walking for 8 hours in some strange neighborhood. It was in summer also and pretty miserable. The job was so bad that when I applied for food stamps they said that the job was so bad that they wouldn't deny me because I had good enough reason to quit the job. I probably still would have hated it if I sold one, even though the product was actually good.
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May 27, 2015 18:57
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Kirbys really aren't that great though. Better than the $200 vacuums at Wal Mart, but not better than any comparable Serious Vacuum Brand like Miele or Riccar. Sort of like how the stamped Cutco knives don't stand up to Serious Cutlery Brands in any meaningful way.
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May 27, 2015 19:32
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canyoneer posted:Kirbys really aren't that great though. Better than the $200 vacuums at Wal Mart, but not better than any comparable Serious Vacuum Brand like Miele or Riccar. Like I said they're good. I don't think you could justify the price, but it's not on any level as cold calling debt consolidation poo poo level product. As a company though they're horrific and gently caress Warren Buffet for that... somehow.
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May 27, 2015 19:45
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I sold used mobile homes. The only people who consider buying a used mobile home, can't afford a used mobile home.
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May 27, 2015 22:17
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Juanito posted:I sold used mobile homes. Holy poo poo that's a thing? Were they even on property that would be sold along with it? Where do all the used mobile homes go?
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May 27, 2015 22:26
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Veskit posted:Holy poo poo that's a thing? Were they even on property that would be sold along with it? Where do all the used mobile homes go? Sucks that I know this. He also made me call old leads, and see if there was interest. I made sure I was really, really bad at talking to people, so he didn't make me do this much. To be fair, there are nice mobile homes. I think a lot of the newer stuff looks good and is better quality. But a lot of the older, dark, grungy homes are serial killer material.
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May 27, 2015 23:39
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How much does a used mobile home go for? How decrepit can they get before you wouldn't sell them?
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May 27, 2015 23:52
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Pekinduck posted:How much does a used mobile home go for? How decrepit can they get before you wouldn't sell them? Eventually a young couple that was getting married bought it. Her dad showed up a day or two after the sale, demanded to know which one she'd bought, and was really angry, and berating me about how we could sell a home like that to someone. Hey, nobody forced your daughter into that home.
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May 28, 2015 01:45
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BigPaddy posted:Worst job has to be anything dealing with the general public. Everything from retail to prostitution where you have entitled poo poo bags throwing around "the customer is always right" to justify their poo poo bagginess. HEAR HEAR. I'd rather clean the worst toilets in the world than have to deal with the metaphorical poo poo thrown at me again, largely by bogan menopausal harpies. It's amazing how people who have never worked in their lives criticize your work. (Largely about things out of my control.) Then again, I supposed they are used to Centrelink kowtowing to them, so they think it carries into the private sector.
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May 28, 2015 03:59
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Juanito posted:This was awhile ago, so my memory is a little rusty, but I think the cheapest was in pretty bad shape (in my opinion) and was still like $650. I genuinely can't tell if you forgot a zero or not. I don't think you did, but..... 650 
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May 28, 2015 04:05
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This literally popped up on my feed 5 minutes ago hahaha
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May 28, 2015 19:25
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Customer service of any kind, in real life, over the phone, whatever. I'd rather clean toilets than deal with the average retardo. I guess thats why I like my current job as an oilfield trucker. Go on weird adventures in the middle of nowhere in extreme weather conditions, by myself. A few minutes a day dealing with Halliburton retardos but for the most part working solo.
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May 29, 2015 04:00
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EAB posted:dealing with Halliburton retardos Literally the worst job. You know when you work in a group where everyone clicks well and helps each other out to get the job done, and then there is that one guy who holds his hand up and says "not muh job!". That guys name is Halliburton. The best part is when you get two of them from different services, refusing to lift a finger for the other one. JohnGalt fucked around with this message at 13:16 on May 29, 2015 |
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May 29, 2015 04:27
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BossRighteous posted:Being a back-end web developer is like being a surgeon that will never save a single person. Every patient just waits in ICU until you are the one that dies. This is something I'm actually trying to get into... why is it so horrible? Another vote for "anything having to do with a call center" here. Inbound or outbound, doesn't matter. My inbound call center job was so bad I used to wish I'd get hit by an insured driver during my morning commute so that I wouldn't have to go to work.
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May 29, 2015 06:04
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PongAtari posted:This is something I'm actually trying to get into... why is it so horrible? It's not horrible at all, I was just trying to make a joke. It can seem hopeless at times but overall it's pretty low key. Godspeed 
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May 29, 2015 07:01
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Anywhere that's a family business.
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May 29, 2015 07:47
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EAB posted:Customer service of any kind, in real life, over the phone, whatever. I'd rather clean toilets than deal with the average retardo. I guess thats why I like my current job as an oilfield trucker. Go on weird adventures in the middle of nowhere in extreme weather conditions, by myself. A few minutes a day dealing with Halliburton retardos but for the most part working solo. I have worked in outbound call centers and also worked through the middle of the night night after night cleaning tour buses before they go out the next day. The tour buses had chemical toilets that had to be dumped, which involved getting them over a floor drain and opening the valve. You didn't line it up right, or some moron designer put the drain for that bus in the center instead of the side? 50 people's poo poo is now splashing all over the bay floor. Better grab a hose. I also got into those toilet-closet things in the back, sprayed cleaning solution all over, and scrubbed the toilet including getting off the crusted-up shitstreaks off the inside of the toilet chute. God help you if the bus had had indian people or people eating indian food. Outbound call center customer service was worse.
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May 29, 2015 18:37
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Sundae posted:Back when I lived in southwestern KS, some of the high school guys had summer jobs castrating steers and/or painting anti-fungal/anti-insect medication on the bulls. It had all the factors of a great lovely job: summer heat, clippers being used on animals' junk, poo poo and flies, and dabbing great big paint brushes on a bull's testicles all day long. That... actually sounds worse than going from fair to fair vacuuming poo poo out of port-a-johns.
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May 29, 2015 19:18
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call center or shipping
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Jun 2, 2015 19:52
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Claverjoe posted:That... actually sounds worse than going from fair to fair vacuuming poo poo out of port-a-johns.  ... eew. No, I think a summer job cleaning portajohns would be worse (at least worse than all the non-ball-snipping parts) because at least the cows can't help making GBS threads all over the place. Humans can, and yet still poo poo all over the portajohn. Where there's an obvious place you're supposed to poo poo, human ingenuity will find a way to poo poo everywhere except that place.
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Jun 3, 2015 01:19
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Uncle Enzo posted:
Why not combined the two, and clean out toilets while a fat menopausal sow ceaselessly complains about how you're doing it?
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Jun 3, 2015 06:05
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Sundae posted:
If you own a truck you can make 20k a week a certain month where I live. Steam does wonderful things to portajohns.
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Jun 4, 2015 05:13
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Sic Semper Goon posted:Why not combined the two, and clean out toilets while a fat menopausal sow ceaselessly complains about how you're doing it? Pretty sure there are clubs where men pay for that kind of thing.
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Jun 4, 2015 19:33
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Worked for an artist, grinding lead crystal blocks on 36" flat grinding wheels by hand with slurry and differ grades of abrasives. The blocks of crystal were ~5 - 7 lbs each, and you would float them on the slurry while the wheels was turning. Once in a while (second shift,msg I was tired from my first job), you would mess. Up thslirry consistency and th wheel would grab your block and fling it off the table, ruining it and all your work. Only lasted five weeks there.
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Jun 6, 2015 01:03
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