Your worst job(s) ever.

[Admin]

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[Schnellders]

Rachel's personal slave. Damn she bosses around a lot. I was worked off my feet.

[Michael]

My ex.

 

... Oh, you meant ... never mind.

[Dr Beinfest]

Insert funny comment here.

 

Err... I've only ever had one job. I worked at Rotelli. It was really boring. Other than that, it wasn't so bad.

[FishFan88]

I've got a few gems...

Panera Bread - One guy put a shoe in the soup and someone else jacked off into the spit filled cream cheese that was served to my highschool.

 

Outback Steakhouse - I was told to make the waffles for dessert on the same surface that i prepped raw shrimp for the fryer. I witnessed, on multiple occasions, raw meat draining into finished soup that was cooling before being broken down and dated for the walk in.

 

A local pizzeria - I was paid under the table in cash. One time my check was 200 short, and the owner told me that since he didn't see me count it he wasn't going to give it to me and called me a thief.(i quit over this) They regularly said things about women that irked me like "bitches aint good for anything except sucking dick and getting back in their cage." Later on I found out that the owner was kicked out of the business by his son because he was stealing money from the company along with the other full timer and snorting drugs on premises. The son paid me what was owed and the restaurant remodeled. It still has the best pizza on earth, the son is a great guy, overall a happy ending.

[Dr Beinfest]

Is that pizzeria Brooklyn Boy's Pizza?

[StantonisKing]

Bagger for a grocery store.

 

Managers wanted you to clear the parking lot and then got mad when you weren't bagging for customers. Then when you were bagging groceries they b**ched about the parking lot.

 

And for $7.00 an hour I refuse to pick up someone's s**t from the bathroom floor.

[Schnellders]

I worked at a garden centre for 3 shifts but it was incredibly boring as all I did was stand with a hose and water plants. Quit cause it was terrible.

[Puma]

Probably my current job. I got a summer gig waiting tables at Applebees and it's the absolute worst. It's got nothing to do with the managers or co-workers or anything like that...there's just never any customers. Most nights i'll have about 3 or 4 tables and i'll make anywhere between $10 and $20 in tips, and that's really really bad compared to other restaurants. Fortunately I'm going back up to school in a couple weeks

[Out of the Past]

There used to be a comedy club in the Marriot by Dadeland and I worked there as a barback. The way they set up the tip splitting was that after the shift the barback was supposed to go around asking the bartenders and waitresses for a portion of their tip. To me it was horrible going around asking for money and I quit in less than a week. I had worked as a busboy at another restaurant / bar (Monty’s) and there from what I remember after the shift the waitresses put a % of their tip into a pool and then the pool was split among the busboys. That made more sense.

[StantonisKing]

There used to be a comedy club in the Marriot by Dadeland and I worked there as a barback. The way they set up the tip splitting was that after the shift the barback was supposed to go around asking the bartenders and waitresses for a portion of their tip. To me it was horrible going around asking for money and I quit in less than a week. I had worked as a busboy at another restaurant / bar (Monty’s) and there from what I remember after the shift the waitresses put a % of their tip into a pool and then the pool was split among the busboys. That made more sense.

 

 

A week or so ago I was watching a show about all the drugs going into Miami in the 80's. They got into what happened at Dadeland back in 1979(?). Crazy stuff.

[EricWiener]

I once worked for The Answer Group in Margate Florida. Just typing those words should permit me to win the thread - that is how bad it was.

[FishFan88]

Is that pizzeria Brooklyn Boy's Pizza?

 

Wow spot on with the town, but wrong pizzeria.

[Dr Beinfest]

I mean, that was absolutely a perfect description of how the people act and operate at Brooklyn Boys. Amazing ass pizza. Trashy ass people. Got renovated and shuffled hands in management though.

 

I'll go ahead and assume I'm not playing a guessing game, though.

[AnonymousAnomaly]

For sure my worst job had to be when I was 15. I was a dishwasher at a place called Big Bats in the Baltimore area. It was a sports bar/restaurant. Scraping food off of people's dinner plates is not cool. We were allowed to use gloves, but I didn't use them because I found it more efficient to go barehanded. Gross, I know. But hey $8/hr when you're 15 and have no bills is pretty nice.

[FishFan88]

For sure my worst job had to be when I was 15. I was a dishwasher at a place called Big Bats in the Baltimore area. It was a sports bar/restaurant. Scraping food off of people's dinner plates is not cool. We were allowed to use gloves, but I didn't use them because I found it more efficient to go barehanded. Gross, I know. But hey $8/hr when you're 15 and have no bills is pretty nice.

 

Ah the soaking and scrappy life of the dishpit. I considered it a mark of personal pride when i officially had enough experience to start at prep rather than the pit.

[FishFan88]

I mean, that was absolutely a perfect description of how the people act and operate at Brooklyn Boys. Amazing ass pizza. Trashy ass people. Got renovated and shuffled hands in management though.

 

I'll go ahead and assume I'm not playing a guessing game, though.

 

Yeah Brooklyn Boys is my number three behind Thick n Thin and Stella's (#1! used to be Perrini's) I'll fight to the death over the fact that Boca has pizza just as good as NYC.

[Dr Beinfest]

Me too! How did I not say Perrini's! Derp! They're Boca's #1 case of what you were describing.

 

When it comes to an actual slice of pizza, I prefer Brooklyn Boys. When it comes to a pizzeria as a whole, I prefer 'Stella's' (bah, Perrini's). Best wings ever. First pizza place I got to know when I moved out west. It was and is magic.

 

Boca does have great pizza. Granted there's more in NYC, the quality compares. But what Boca has better than NYC for sure is Chinese food. Hands down.

 

Anyways, I worked at Rotelli over in Mission Bay Not the same as a real pizzeria of course considering it's a chain, but still. Relevant to the location and topic at hand

[bobbob1313]

Valet driver in Williams Island in Aventura. Good money, but f*** that.

[Hotcorner]

I once worked for The Answer Group in Margate Florida. Just typing those words should permit me to win the thread - that is how bad it was.

 

 

lol i remember that place, wasn't it a tech support call center or something? i think i had a couple of coworkers who had worked there.

[heat84]

Bagger for a grocery store.

 

Managers wanted you to clear the parking lot and then got mad when you weren't bagging for customers. Then when you were bagging groceries they b**ched about the parking lot.

 

And for $7.00 an hour I refuse to pick up someone's s**t from the bathroom floor.

 

Let me guess. Publix. Did your store not have cart duty? At mine 2 people are on cart duty for an hour. I actually preferred that because time went faster when you were out getting carts. And I liked to walk all over the shopping center to find them. Anything to kill time. I'm a stock clerk now. I don't have enough time to do that job. But at least I have to think. Being a bagger is mind numbing, especially when its slow or dead. But Its better than being a cashier. At least you get to move around. They're pretty much stuck behind the register for hours on end. I'd go insane if I had to STAND in one place for so long. Also they have to worry about money and fake coupons(and fake money too)and their tray has to balance out and they have to deal with WIC and douchy customers. Cashiers are actually a higher job class than baggers but they have the worst job in the store IMO.

 

Publix is the only job I've ever had for the last 14.5 years, but I'll be finishing my Bacholor's degree in Information Systems Security in December. So I'll be getting a better job. Maybe even in house, but computer forensics sounds really interesting. And you get paid to snoop through people's computers and cell phones. But part of that job is testifying in court and I'm anything but a public speaker. And I've never even been in a courtroom before. 34 years old and I've never been in a courtroom. I don't think there's too many people that can say that.

 

 

I once worked for The Answer Group in Margate Florida. Just typing those words should permit me to win the thread - that is how bad it was.

 

 

lol i remember that place, wasn't it a tech support call center or something? i think I had a couple of coworkers who had worked there.

I almost got a job there(They recruit ITT Tech students) Thank god I didn't. I've heard bad things about that place. Its not TAG anymore. Its called Teleperformance now(for the last 2 years I think). And I don't think its any better. A girl who was in my class last semester quit from there during that time. She couldn't stand it. She didn't even wait until she had another job lined up.

 

 

My dad is from Pittsburgh and one of his jobs was working in a steel mill around 40 years ago. I think we're CEOs' compared to what he went through in that job.

 

 

I also think I'm never eating at Outback Steakhouse again. :o

[Guest Lissy]

-Abercrombie & Fitch.

[StantonisKing]

Bagger for a grocery store.

 

Managers wanted you to clear the parking lot and then got mad when you weren't bagging for customers. Then when you were bagging groceries they b**ched about the parking lot.

 

And for $7.00 an hour I refuse to pick up someone's s**t from the bathroom floor.

 

Let me guess. Publix. Did your store not have cart duty? At mine 2 people are on cart duty for an hour. I actually preferred that because time went faster when you were out getting carts. And I liked to walk all over the shopping center to find them. Anything to kill time. I'm a stock clerk now. I don't have enough time to do that job. But at least I have to think. Being a bagger is mind numbing, especially when its slow or dead. But Its better than being a cashier. At least you get to move around. They're pretty much stuck behind the register for hours on end. I'd go insane if I had to STAND in one place for so long. Also they have to worry about money and fake coupons(and fake money too)and their tray has to balance out and they have to deal with WIC and douchy customers. Cashiers are actually a higher job class than baggers but they have the worst job in the store IMO.

 

Publix is the only job I've ever had for the last 14.5 years, but I'll be finishing my Bacholor's degree in Information Systems Security in December. So I'll be getting a better job. Maybe even in house, but computer forensics sounds really interesting. And you get paid to snoop through people's computers and cell phones. But part of that job is testifying in court and I'm anything but a public speaker. And I've never even been in a courtroom before. 34 years old and I've never been in a courtroom. I don't think there's too many people that can say that.

I worked for two different stores in New Mexico. The first store I worked for was horrible about cart duty. That was the store that the managers would complain about everything. They would sometimes assign you to be outside for 3 hours straight. What sucked was the store was on a hill so when you were bringing carts in sometimes they would get loose and start rolling back towards the parking lot. I'm talking about 3 or 4 carts and you would have to scramble to get them before they hit any cars.

 

I refer to baggers as the b**ches of the grocery store. They may get to move around alot but they take so much crap. At the first store if you disappeared for a couple of minutes the managers would go looking for you. They would bs and flirt with customers for 20 or 30 minutes while on the clock but if you saw a friend in the store and stopped to talk to them for a minute you would get in trouble. The second store wasn't nearly as bad but it was a store for lower income people.

[Guest Lissy]

Blockbuster sucks too; the hours were awful.

[FishFan88]

Blockbuster sucks too; the hours were awful.

 

i've heard the training program is brutally dumb. The one thing i liked about Blockbuster was whenever a new one cropped up it usually did so intandem with an icecream shop.