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

[Angel of Distraction]

I am going to have to take the first one that comes along so I can afford Chicago, and I demand that you all cheer me up by describing in detail the most horribly shitty places you've ever worked.

[AAlgar]

Midnight shift at 7-11.

[sleep]

My current one. :(

[V-Man]

Man-Whore.

I've never been able to escape it.

[TRILL, THE CARBON BASED LIFEFORM]

Archaeologist.

[greg donovan]

working in the stockroom at a shopko unloading 95 degree trucks at 5 in the morning.

[sumopanda]

I worked at a hole in the wall clothing store, where my boss was a racist jewish man who only liked other Jewish people, and very openly expressed how much he disliked my race. In fact, any time someone who wasn't very obviously jewish walked into his store, the string of insults that followed after they had spent their money and left was unending. It could set things on fire, that's how much he hated other races/religions. That had to be the worst job i've ever had in my life. The real bitch is that I told my boss I quit, and he fired me for it haha.

[Angel of Distraction]

Archaeologist.

That sounds awesome to me.

[Patton]

11-7 shift at a convenience store will fuck your head.

[Patrick J]

Radio Shack.

[AAlgar]

11-7 shift at a convenience store will fuck your head.

That's the shift I had. Ugh, the worst is when you have to lock up the beer and wine at 2AM (maybe different in other states) and you get all these drunk people trying to be your best friend at 2:10. That friendliness becomes hostility VERY quickly.

[Angel of Distraction]

Radio Shack.

Uh-oh, I applied there. :scared:

[icemanx62]

Usps

[TRILL, THE CARBON BASED LIFEFORM]

That sounds awesome to me.
It would have been cool if my superiors weren't complete tools. Plus low, low wages, no benefits/vacation or sick time/paid holidays, and blatant sexual discrimination. Also, the fact that we were busting our asses to get the projects done by deadlines yet they hadn't written a single report in more than 10 years. That's quite embarassing in the scientific community. I'm sure there are good archaeology jobs out there, but I loathe that place.

[BenitoCereno]

Ditch digger. True story.

Thanks, college degree!

[icemanx62]

Like the Undertaker?

[Patrick J]

Uh-oh, I applied there. :scared:

That's going to be a problem.

You have a brain my-friend. In order to work at Radio Shack, and be successful, you have to have no brain.

Of course I've heard stories of wonderful Radio Shacks. I have a two friends who worked at one, and they loved it; keep in mind their manager had very laizes faire approach to management, and everything ran smoothy, no problems, everyone was happy: employees and customers. So of course that manager got fired some bullshit reason. The new manager was a tyrant who recieved all his "managerial training" directly from Radio Shack, and of course the store basically fell apart within months. And they quit.

My manager was a tyrant. I don't think that Radio Shack is even there anymore.

http://www.radioshacksucks.com/ (http://www.radioshacksucks.com/)

[Angel of Distraction]

It would have been cool if my superiors weren't complete tools. Plus low, low wages, no benefits/vacation or sick time/paid holidays, and blatant sexual discrimination. Also, the fact that we were busting our asses to get the projects done by deadlines yet they hadn't written a single report in more than 10 years. That's quite embarassing in the scientific community. I'm sure there are good archaeology jobs out there, but I loathe that place.

I couldn't do it unless I was higher in the ranks. I'm too imersed in history to settle for being a grunt. And discrimination if I was in charge would be immediate dismissal, and no ride back into town.

[Angel of Distraction]

That's going to be a problem.

You have a brain my-friend. In order to work at Radio Shack, and be successful, you have to have no brain.

Of course I've heard stories of wonderful Radio Shacks. I have a two friends who worked at one, and they loved it; keep in mind their manager had very laizes faire approach to management, and everything ran smoothy, no problems, everyone was happy: employees and customers. So of course that manager got fired some bullshit reason. The new manager was a tyrant who recieved all his "managerial training" directly from Radio Shack, and of course the store basically fell apart within months. And they quit.

My manager was a tyrant. I don't think that Radio Shack is even there anymore.

http://www.radioshacksucks.com/ (http://www.radioshacksucks.com/)

I'm not going to get anything within the month that requires the use of my intelligence anyway. I have only one proffession I want to be permanent, and none of the places I applied are it. I'm just looking to pay my way into Chicago so I can whore my scripts.

[Angel of Distraction]

Ditch digger. True story.

Thanks, college degree!

Yeah, even if I manage to get through the one class holding me back, I can't see how it's going to help much. People who say you can't make it on your own steam anymore aren't trying thier hands at the right profession, as the only way to make it as a writer is to force yourself on the literary world.

[Susan BANthony]

Well, if you mean literally shitty, I'd have to say my current job.

Shitfinger. :scared:

[Angel of Distraction]

Well, if you mean literally shitty, I'd have to say my current job.

Shitfinger. :scared:

Which is?

[Susan BANthony]

Which is?

I work in a group home with four developmentally disabled (retarded) people. The one guy likes to stick his finger in his ass and wave it at people.

Shitfinger.

[DrMachine]

a tie between construction and the highway dept.

(pretty much anything involving manual labor)

[Angel of Distraction]

I work in a group home with four developmentally disabled (retarded) people. The one guy likes to stick his finger in his ass and wave it at people.

Shitfinger.



:scared:

[Susan BANthony]

:scared:

Apparently when I was off on Thursday, he punched out a glass window in the side door of the house! AWESOME!

That's almost as fun as having a desk hurled at you from upstairs! Or getting punched five times in one day!

Please hire me, Marvel. :Please:

[Angel of Distraction]

Apparently when I was off on Thursday, he punched out a glass window in the side door of the house! AWESOME!

That's almost as fun as having a desk hurled at you from upstairs! Or getting punched five times in one day!

Please hire me, Marvel. :Please:

I've worked for school cred in that setting. I don't care what anyone says about fair treatment of the disabled, I don't ever want to work with them again.

[Blandy vs Terrorism]

My current job.

[Susan BANthony]

I've worked for school cred in that setting. I don't care what anyone says about fair treatment of the disabled, I don't ever want to work with them again.

The fucked up thing is that the other three people I work with are awesome. The other two guys, absolute sweethearts. The lady is fun and likes to go out and do fun things.

But this guy ruins it all. We've been trying to get him out of this house since he got here.

(Some of this is chronicled in the Misfit Comics anthology available at Chicago. Nice segue.)

[Persevering Guy]

Working in the factories as a temp. Basically, just stand for 8 hours and repeat a 20 second task ALL DAY LONG WHILE PEOPLE ARE LISTENING TO RADIO STATIONS REALLY LOUD THAT YOU LOATHE for under $7 an hour, 40 hours a week.

[Angel of Distraction]

My current job.

Which is?

[Angel of Distraction]

Working in the factories as a temp. Basically, just stand for 8 hours and repeat a 20 second task ALL DAY LONG WHILE PEOPLE ARE LISTENING TO RADIO STATIONS REALLY LOUD THAT YOU LOATHE for under $7 an hour, 40 hours a week.

I'd throw myself on the conveyer belt.

[HoneyDippinDan]

Customer service rep at DirecTV. It seems a large portion of our population feels that the best way to resolve any sort of problem is to scream hysterically at the first person they could get on the phone. Plus there was the daily dead beat jerkoff that wanted to scream about how wrong it is that my company actually expect them to pay their damn bill and that shutting them off for nonpayment was "terrible customer service." Then there were all the jackasses with the overblown sense of entitlement that thought they should be showered with gifts because they paid their bill on time for once or because they've been a good loyal customer for almost three months. These types were really fucking shameless. I had people call up and demand literally thousands for dollars worth of freebies. Plus there was the clueless upper management that decided that every customer is a great customer and we should do anything to keep them happy, which is why I saw accounts where the customer had received three times the amount in credits than they actually paid and accounts where customers managed to go almost an entire year without paying for a single damn thing. The pay was decent and the benefits were great, but I was stressed out all the time and looked and felt like shit after a while.

On the flip side, I was crammed into a building with lots of college age women and I got laid more in the one year that I worked there than the rest of my entire life.

[alexlannin]

telemarketing.

[ihategravity]

Apparently when I was off on Thursday, he punched out a glass window in the side door of the house! AWESOME!

That's almost as fun as having a desk hurled at you from upstairs! Or getting punched five times in one day!

Please hire me, Marvel. :Please:

God, HE'S still there. I remember at least a month ago you were sent home early because you had such a bad day. That guy needs to go, along with his shitty finger.

My worst job was as a grill worker at Papa Gino's. I gained 25 pounds in one summer, and went home every night smelling like fat and grease.

[Patton]

wayno's dad.

[Genius J]

Shoveling horseshit at a stable.

[Angel of Distraction]

Shoveling horseshit at a stable.

From that to shoveling through horseshit here. ;)

[Genius J]

I'm pretty good at it now.

[Opus Croakus]

11-7 shift at a convenience store will fuck your head.
I did that one in college. Messed me up bad.

But my worst job: I worked in a muffin factory for a month. :D

[Angel of Distraction]

I did that one in college. Messed me up bad.

But my worst job: I worked in a muffin factory for a month. :D

How can free muffins be bad?

[Opus Croakus]

How can free muffins be bad?
Yeah. They used to set aside the reject muffins during the day and the employees could take them home. My first day at work, I came home with three dozen blueberry muffins. You get tired of that crap real fast (especially after seeing how they're made :sick: ).

[stevapalooza]

I once worked as an escort on a bus that shuttled mentally challenged people around. I wish I could say I was kind and loving and patient, but holy shit they got on my last nerve. One woman used to come up behind me and shriek in my ear, one guy took a crap on the bus (a very watery crap no less), one guy came running out of his house bare-ass naked (I had to chase him down the street). Another one sucker punched me. The worst part was how people in other cars would look into the bus, see all these re--er--mentally challenged people, and think I was one of them! Every day I'd go home with a splitting headache.

[Freeway]

11-7 shift at a convenience store will fuck your head.

I, too, am a convenience store alum. I had fun for the first week, then got into a year and a half rut. My mind is broken.

[jordan michael]

there was this one job i had where i babysat my neighbor's kids, and i kept it for so long and didn't get a real job because i was afraid i would get a real job and it's turn into a career. i still babysit

[Opus Croakus]

I, too, am a convenience store alum. I had fun for the first week, then got into a year and a half rut. My mind is broken.
I almost made it a full year. Couldn't take it. Actually lost track of the number of times the store was robbed while I was working.

[Supajoe]

video editor at a news station. i had to do a job meant for two people. between being yelled at by idiot news producers and dealing with the moronic, robot-like anchors, i was in hell.

[niceguyeddie]

tie between janitor at unemployment office, which seems kinda ironical to have a job at an unemployment office.
and field work sucks ass.
especially working tomatoes.

[Victor Cabanelas]

Selling mailing services for almost a month. Quit because paying me wasn´t in my employer´s plans

[The Robot Lord of Tokyo]

7 years as a night shift manager at White Castle.
Imagine dealing with millions of drunks that think they are the funniest fuckers in the world and that in order to impress their friends enough to let them drive it up their ass later and blame it on the alcohol.
Imagine breaking up fights in the parking lot and having wiskey bottles brandished at you while you try to interpret the monosylabic grumblings of a man who has pissed himself several times over.
Imagine having to learn how to desensitize yourself to the everlasting presence of vomit and coping with the new creative locations the drunks found to deposit it.
Imagine doing a shit job like this because you were 20K into debt and it was the only thing that would pay enough to keep the collectors at bay while in the back of your mind each night you're tortured by the thoughts that your friends are out living life while yours is forfeit to mistakes of youthful stupidity.
Imagine a job where you pray for death to claim you and to drag you to a purgatory where you live in a perpetual state that resembles Flint, Michigan,

Whew!!!

Thank god I left that crap heap 6 years ago.

But deep inside there still is a part of me that died.....and I can only fill it with cynical rage. And beer. Lots of it!!!!

[Angel of Distraction]

Selling mailing services for almost a month. Quit because paying me wasn´t in my employer´s plans

Did you beat it out of him?

[Amos Moses]

I used to work at Wendy's. It was very unpleasant. I came home smelling of grease and hamburger meat. I'm glad I quit =)

[Amos Moses]

I wanna hear why working at a convienance store is so bad. It actually seems kind of fun, minus the possibility of getting mugged.

[Adam Witt]

My current [and only one] at Elsewhere Comics.

[Angel of Distraction]

My current [and only one] at Elsewhere Comics.

How can a comic shop be that bad?

[Adam Witt]

It's a comic shop that no one comes into, I get paid below mimmum wage, I do way too much and get too little thanks, and I work for a sonuvabitch named lynn, possibly the most detestable human being on earth...sometimes. I'm not gonna bitch anymore.

[Angel of Distraction]

It's a comic shop that no one comes into, I get paid below mimmum wage, I do way too much and get too little thanks, and I work for a sonuvabitch named lynn, possibly the most detestable human being on earth...sometimes. I'm not gonna bitch anymore.

You know she can't legally pay you less than minimum wage?

[Adam Witt]

Yeah, I know, but I can't get the shop shut down, because that's where I shop. I have this twisted sense of guilt over it. For every bad moment, there's something great, and I'd end up feeling bad about it. I've been shopping there for 12 of my 16 years on earth.

[Amos Moses]

Yeah, I know, but I can't get the shop shut down, because that's where I shop. I have this twisted sense of guilt over it. For every bad moment, there's something great, and I'd end up feeling bad about it. I've been shopping there for 12 of my 16 years on earth.


Thats still a crime man. You should report this, comics shouldn't be used as a guilt tool.

[Adam Witt]

It's not just comics. I've been shopping here for fourteen years. I've known the boss for that long, and I couldn't live with it. It's not like he holds it over my head. It's my own ethical code. Besides, sooner or later, I will get a new job...

[Amos Moses]

It's not just comics. I've been shopping here for fourteen years. I've known the boss for that long, and I couldn't live with it. It's not like he holds it over my head. It's my own ethical code. Besides, sooner or later, I will get a new job...


Have you talked to her about it? Did you even discuss this during the hiring process?

[Adam Witt]

There was no hiring process. Orignally, I wasn't supposed to do anything but stock, and that was on a volunteer basis. Now, I end up running the shop more than he does, doing orders, grading shit, blah blah blah blah. There was no way to discuss it--I just ended up working there, and I went along with it. I don't get a paycheck--it's more of an independednt contractor type thing. If I quit, or discuss it and piss him off, I will have absolutely no money. So, I'm biding my time.

[Ryan_ZOOM_Turner]

cable

[J. Wilson]

I worked at McDonalds.....Nuff said!

[anThONY_s]

Concessions for the local baseball stadium. Ugh. Middle age men who can't play baseball so they work the freaking stadium going power-trip-nutso on 15 year old workers. Fun times.

[Pat Loika]

None. Even my McDonald's job was great...

P.

[J. Wilson]

None. Even my McDonald's job was great...

P.

You must have a high tolerance level for management dickheads.

[Pat Loika]

You must have a high tolerance level for management dickheads.

Not really, but half of the female staff was my dating pool for the better part of 2 years...

P.