Under floors was cramped and dirty, but not as hot. Attics were oppressively hot. Also working in the truck

Apr 26, 2018
2:20:54pm

Sea Chicken Surly

loading the hopper with the blower engine running when it was 100+ degrees outside was brutal. And then there is the itch, that never goes away even after you go home and shower. Awesome job!

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What's the worst job you've ever had?

Funke

4/26/18 2:03pm

Gift shop at the airport

Huge Manatee

4/26/18 2:04pm

Inbound Call Center. Sold lots of Didi Seven and crap like that.

Turnpike Lane

4/26/18 2:05pm

Outbound call center is worse. Calling strangers about refinancing mortgages

Sir_Ten

4/27/18 11:32am

Dollar Tree. Started in recovery and then worked the register. I still can't

supertux

4/26/18 2:05pm

Working in a library where I had to check the public card catalog against the master list

Indy Coug

4/26/18 2:05pm

That, or digging trenches in rock hard soil to lay down sprinkling pipes

Indy Coug

4/26/18 2:05pm

Chopping cotton. cleaning gas station toilet, cleaning ditches...

cdr88

4/26/18 2:05pm

Car dealerships. Different jobs both times, both times were the worst.

Dillinger

4/26/18 2:05pm

I've always wondered if I could sell cars. Doesn't seem that hard. What specifically did you hate about it?

Str8CashCougar

4/27/18 11:14am

It was really easy actually. I hated the employees. Everyone that worked there

Dillinger

4/28/18 1:03am

Insulating houses

Sea Chicken

4/26/18 2:05pm

Did you make sure to inhale deeply while doing it?

Indy Coug

4/26/18 2:06pm

Under floors was cramped and dirty, but not as hot. Attics were oppressively hot. Also working in the truck

Sea Chicken

4/26/18 2:20pm

Forgot about that one.

cdr88

4/26/18 2:08pm

Most boring job was probably the one where I put stickers on boxes. Would do like 4000 a day

buffgato

4/26/18 2:07pm

Car Dealer Service Advisor

Plato

4/26/18 2:10pm

Managing a telemarketing team.

Mathew

4/26/18 2:10pm

Booking at the jail. I've seen some dark things.

Zedhead

4/26/18 2:11pm

Walmart

realtall

4/26/18 2:11pm

I love telling people that I worked at Walmart

Cheesy Gordita

4/26/18 8:38pm

Cook at Sonic Drive-Thru

IceBlueCoug

4/26/18 2:14pm

Outgoing Call Center. They had the suicide hotline at every cubicle

Alpi Gusto

4/26/18 2:14pm

Cleaning out massive chicken coops and hauling manure

El Pasco

4/26/18 2:14pm

... with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

Sea Chicken

4/26/18 2:26pm

That

BlueTeach

4/26/18 2:36pm

DId the chickens have large talons?

Santos L. Halper

4/26/18 8:22pm

Construction or Big 5 (when there were five) Accounting Firm

Carnac

4/26/18 2:15pm

7-11 working the 11pm - 7am shift.

Belboz

4/26/18 2:16pm

I worked weekend graveyards (11pm-7am) at Mr. G's Gas and Goodies on

UMWolverine

4/26/18 2:35pm

Call center or selling Potpourri Pies at a kiosk in the mall (then moving to

fattycoug

4/26/18 2:16pm

Door to Door sales, specifically home security

doubled1981

4/26/18 2:17pm

I thought you were describing missions there for a second...

Carnac

4/26/18 2:28pm

I don't say this lightly as my door knocking days as a misisonary in brazil

doubled1981

4/26/18 2:55pm

I worked as a lease hand on an oil rig in high school for a couple weeks

JohnnyComeLately

4/26/18 2:29pm

4 -7:30 AM janitor in the JFSB

OlanchoCoug

4/26/18 8:17pm

Meant for OP

OlanchoCoug

4/26/18 8:17pm

Digging treatment holes around existing telephone poles with a shovel. My job

PGVikingDad

4/26/18 2:32pm

Unloading trucks at a KMART at 4 in the morning.

mokelembembe

4/26/18 2:33pm

Cart runner at the local market. In the mountains with the parking lot on a hill.

Blue Print

4/26/18 2:36pm

Hustling "jugs" on a seismograph crew in the Williston, ND oil basin summer 1979

UMWolverine

4/26/18 2:37pm

behind the camera or in front of it?

Belboz

4/26/18 2:39pm

Smack dab in the middle of farmer's fields that went on for miles and miles

UMWolverine

4/26/18 2:51pm

BYU intramural basketball ref

Memmo

4/26/18 2:39pm

Sellilng shoes at Kinneys.

Florwood

4/26/18 2:43pm

Crack whore

Jeff Spicoli

4/26/18 2:44pm

RE: Crack whore

vagabonder

4/26/18 3:47pm

Golf range ball collector. He gave me a batting helmet and a bucket

mosterlow

4/26/18 2:45pm

I did that at 14 & 15. But they gave me an old VW bug with a ball collector in

sevenIDcougs

4/26/18 3:24pm

Computer assembly at Dell factory.

rtNelson

4/26/18 2:50pm

Done that a few times

bluelands

4/26/18 2:59pm

Janitor at the Richards building at from 10pm to 1am

Cougarealist

4/26/18 2:50pm

Grading basements by hand. Just me, a shovel and a lot of dirt

Bonoman

4/26/18 2:52pm

Laborer for Layton Construction on MTC extension

bluelands

4/26/18 2:55pm

Construction jobs don't generally attract the salt of the earth.

NorCal Cougar

4/26/18 3:03pm

did the persecutors have Pac 12 stickers on their hard hats and/or Chevy Camaros?

Str8CashCougar

4/26/18 4:34pm

This sounds horrible and gets my vote for the worst - daily verbal abuse from people who hate you for no reason

Str8CashCougar

4/27/18 11:21am

Potato factory in Rexburg

greatbam

4/27/18 4:23pm

Did you yell "At least I have all my teeth!" as you walked out?

Bert609

4/27/18 11:25am

I’m not a litigious person, but you should have sued Layton Construction.

BYU Folsom Fan

4/28/18 3:09pm

From 1:38...

Division Bell

4/28/18 3:33pm

Septic tank cleaner

Archaea

4/26/18 3:08pm

potato roguing

jaromp

4/26/18 3:13pm

I was selling mens shoes at a nice department store and was getting burned out

JOPE

4/26/18 3:33pm

BM Al Bundy

indocoug

4/26/18 9:52pm

Washing dishes at Dennys - graveyard shift

mcnasty

4/26/18 3:35pm

Waiter at Frontier Pies in Provo - students came from games with free pie coupons - then stiffed me on the tip

Str8CashCougar

4/26/18 3:39pm

Inside sales at a bro culture tech startup

cougarnerd

4/26/18 3:43pm

You don't like flat-bill hats, jogger pants and/or lifted trucks?

Str8CashCougar

4/26/18 3:52pm

Same. PMI, not sure it exists anymore....

Santos L. Halper

4/26/18 8:30pm

Life coach at an inpatient mental health care facility for young adults.

vagabonder

4/26/18 3:45pm

Moving sprinkler pipe. 5 quarter-mile lines, twice a day every day all summer long.

John Doe

4/26/18 3:57pm

That was one of my favorite jobs. Lots of time for meditation.

jaromp

4/26/18 4:01pm

The only meditating I did was on how to walk with a pipe full of water without losing a boot in the mud.

John Doe

4/26/18 4:33pm

Where was this? Changing water is a fantastic workout, especially if your boss

El Pasco

4/26/18 4:24pm

On a potato farm. After 5 years it no longer becomes a 'workout' and turns into a chore.

John Doe

4/26/18 9:14pm

I've done this. Innumerable mosquitoes, but I liked it other than that.

Santos L. Halper

4/26/18 8:31pm

Worked for a moving company during the summer before my mission. That sucked.

cougfanblue

4/26/18 4:08pm

Dish washer at a pizza and subs place. It wasn't hard necessarily but it sucked.

sgriff

4/26/18 4:09pm

Planting trees in the coastal hills of western WA. Uphill, downhill, up, down . . . in the rain, in the mud

lightmann

4/26/18 4:41pm

Telemarketer or Customer Service Rep.

crazY

4/26/18 4:53pm

Documenting potholes

cruiserhead

4/26/18 6:59pm

Quality Manager for JetCorr6 (Pratt Industries)... at the time, the largest BOX plant in the US.... when

ChinaFan

4/26/18 7:54pm

I worked for a company that sold reclaimed wood - all day long I'd drive nails out of old wood with a punch and hammer.

Santos L. Halper

4/26/18 8:34pm

RE: What's the worst job you've ever had?

85fan

4/26/18 10:02pm

Trying to sell satellite tv to people. A saleswoman I am not! I can’t convince

ByuImaginesDragons

4/26/18 10:20pm

Being an Analyst/Therapist was tough. Couldn't give those business cards away if they were solid gold.

Probable Sacko

4/27/18 9:04am

you need a new start!

mcnasty

4/27/18 9:59am

Love A new start! Perhaps on my license plate shall I place it...

Probable Sacko

4/27/18 3:10pm

Call center for Security Metrics

Division Bell

4/27/18 10:46am

When did you work there?

Veracruz

4/27/18 10:57am

Years ago... when they were on 800 N, 600-700E

Division Bell

4/27/18 1:01pm

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Referee

4/27/18 1:52pm

Bad, sure; but the perk of seeing everyone's FO posts is worth it. ;).

Bert609

4/27/18 2:42pm

Walking back & forth on a 50ft high mound of clay, picking up big rocks

cougarmeister

4/27/18 4:16pm

I guarantee that any of us who had jobs in the 60s had worse jobs than the rest of you

HighHorse

4/27/18 5:46pm

Tire shop

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