Question of the Week, September 21

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Question of the Week, September 21

« on: September 22, 2009, 02:07:53 AM »

Tell us about the worst job you ever had.


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Re: Question of the Week, September 21

« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2009, 12:05:20 PM »

Well, my first job was kind of crappy. I worked for Wal-Mart. I worked in the garden center during the summer. When the trash compacter would lock up, I'm the guy they would get to climb into the chute to clear the blockage. It smelled awful, I learned a lot there but it wasn't fun most of the time.


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Re: Question of the Week, September 21

« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2009, 04:42:56 AM »

My worst job would have to be my first job where I worked at Once Upon a Child. You'd get people coming in with torn up clothes expecting to make "loads" of cash. Plus we had a small ball pit right next to the registers and people would put their kids in there and expect us to watch them. hrm


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Re: Question of the Week, September 21

« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2009, 05:15:47 PM »

Detasseling corn. Got up at the crack of dawn to catch the bus that took me to the corn field and I worked until almost dusk. For two weeks it was work, eat and sleep and nothing else. I would sleep for 12 hours straight I was so tired. I never want to do that again! It suuuuuuuucked! Then I worked for Wendy's. That sucked too.


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Re: Question of the Week, September 21

« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2009, 09:47:52 AM »

I'm not sure I've had a BAD job, when I look at the world spectrum any job in the USA is a good job. The worst one I think; was working for a family owned printing business. I wasn't family so I was always wrong, or it was always my fault, because the 'family' were always right. It was long hours and not very good pay (although I didn't realize it at the time). I had been laid off a few times, they would lay you off for two days without pay, because you couldn't collect Unemployment for a two day lay off. This happened whenever a 'family' would get mad at you. So one day after too many 14 to 16 hour days in a row, a family member accused me of mixing the wrong color ink and I snapped and really told them off. Unemployment is worse than any bad job. The bright side was I landed a good job after about three months and worked there for 14 years.


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Re: Question of the Week, September 21

« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2009, 02:49:50 PM »

My worst job had to be caddying for Cress Creak Golf Course. You would have to show up at 5 AM to get to the head of the line to be the first caddy to leave at 7 (otherwise, you were likely to wait longer), you would caddy for 4-5 hours, with maybe a 15 minute break between the 9th and 10th hole, and make $7.50 plus tip, which was often $2-3. Now, if you stayed there for a long time, you could get upgraded, and make more, or eventually be requested, but you likely had to caddy for them for more than a summer for that to happen.

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The one near us has a play pen, so the kids are contained, but yeah, what part of "Gently Used" don't people understand?


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