diverkristi
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Front Desk Clerk at the local Holiday Inn when in college. Totally mis-managed!
Worst Job You Ever Had?
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When I was 16, I worked in a chemical plant that my weird uncle and his even stranger brother owned. There were some wicked, evil odors in that place. The job didn't last, thankfully, and I escaped to New York City and then Honolulu for decades and never returned home again. The site of that wretched plant is now an EPA Superfund site, the even stranger brother got killed a few years ago in a motorcycle crash at the age of 70-something on his Harley, and my uncle is an absolute dead ringer for Gollum in The Lord of the Rings' movies..
After college, I worked as an autopsy diener. Dieners (German for servant) do all the "non-medical" stuff that doesn't require a physician. Think sewing back up after the modified Rokitansky procedure, digging through stomach and bowel contents, and, basically, whatever the pathologists and residents didn't want to do. My very favorite was washing up the autopsy tables.
Although, come to think of it, my *worst* job ever was that one night I worked as a waiter at Gaido's <shudder>. I was pretty happy mopping up the drips in the roll-in cooler after that.
Although, come to think of it, my *worst* job ever was that one night I worked as a waiter at Gaido's <shudder>. I was pretty happy mopping up the drips in the roll-in cooler after that.
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wetrat
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As a teenager I worked in a steakhouse washing dishes. That sucked. Grease everywhere and it made my teen acne look like Craters of the Moon National Monument. After high school I worked as a grunt laborer roofing a high school gym in the dead heat of summer. Nothin' like working with boiling tar on a 105 degree day.
I found that sandblasting inside electrical boxes (big ones) to be very dirty. The sand and paint/rust dust gets everywhere.
Worst was maintainence shift supervisor at an aluminum forge. It looked like Dante's Inferno with fire and black smoke everywhere. Nearly everything was hot and there were caustic or toxic chemicals everywhere. The bad part was that management was not concerned about doing anything properly and would never plan anything. On top of that it was in a bad part of Compton, CA. we would hear gunshots every night.
Worst was maintainence shift supervisor at an aluminum forge. It looked like Dante's Inferno with fire and black smoke everywhere. Nearly everything was hot and there were caustic or toxic chemicals everywhere. The bad part was that management was not concerned about doing anything properly and would never plan anything. On top of that it was in a bad part of Compton, CA. we would hear gunshots every night.
mack50md
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4 summers while in high school working in a hospital laundry. Let your imagination runaway with this one.
BigWhiteSquare
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First job (age 14-15) was the worst job: picking tobacco.
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