by SYN 26 Replies latest jw friends
Can U guess?
Window cleaning!
Guarenteed to turn you into an old man at 16 shivering your nads off in the freezing cold, and for what?
So you can spend more time shivering your nads off in the freezing cold with people you don't even like.
Can't help but laugh when I think of my life as a brain dead JW ...good job innit!
Worst job I ever had........being a witness
Ah you mean a job that pays.......................As long as it pays well, I won't complain.
Years ago, I worked (briefly) in a cream cheese factory where one of my lovely jobs was to cart 70 lb. boxes of hot cream cheese that didn't settle properly, up a dozen steal stairs and pour it back in to these huge boiling pots to be processed again.
If that wasn't bad enough, another part of the job entailed standing on line with these plastic gloves on, and wrap the boiling hot cheese before it settled. If you didn't wear the gloves you instantly burnt the shit out of your hands, but if you DID wear the gloves, they heated your hands up to twice the temperature of just "burnt", but in a slower fashion. Not only that, but the tables were just slightly too low and after two minutes, I thought my back was going to break.
They were shocked when I came back after my morning break, because I guess most people just walked out and never came back.
I stayed one full week.
It's a toss-up between that and another job which was at the opposite end of the spectrum. It was in a chicken processing factory where my job entailed standing in a room that was at 28 degrees F with 40 other people, feeling for small bones in half-frozen chicken breasts. After 2 mintues, your fingers are completely frozen and you can't feel a damn thing anyway, and you realize that you only have another 7 hours and 58 mintues to go.
And if you're foolish enough to try and warm up your hands under warm water, then pain takes on new meaning as it feels as though your fingers are burning in the flames of hell, and you scream and yell like a donkey as you slip slide your way back to the line. There was one guy standing next to me and he says "this is really hitting the bottom of the barrell." Well, we both started laughing and laughing and laughing, and then we walked out right then and there and never went back.
I have a wrist-watch inscribed and given to me by my former colleagues that reminds that: "whenever things look bad they were once worse."
I worked for a small sales and service outfit of a machine-tool company after I quit my nice production-engineering job because the of the military contracts I was working on (can you guess why?)
I worked on installation and service for a couple of years and worked in some of the most attrocious and Dickensian places in industrial Britain. Some factories had no heat in winter, were sh*tholes so bad I refused to wash-up in their facilities. I burnt my self with acid, nearly severed a finger and narrowly avoided being crushed by a machine that fell-over. I worked unpaid overtime frequently and I worry that I may have damaged my hearing. I had to drive a left-hand drive truck on roads designed for right-hand drive vehicles and once jacked-knifed a trailer on the M6 in north Birmingham.
I did well, sort of and became service manager but finding a similar job of similiar wage and with knowledge of a narrow section of industrial processing was difficult. It took 8 years and I found a job that simplified life so that I could retrain and do something different. I do something different now.
Thirdson
In my employment experiences, the worst jobs are temp assignments through staffing agencies. I have worked in many different industries: insurance, doctor's offices, engineering, and mortgage companies. My worst, awful, hell-on-earth office experience was for Commonwealth United Mortgage (the 3rd and the most Evil mortgage company of my temping career).
I was a receptionist who was responsible for answering phones (that would ring off the hook...throughout the day I'd have over 10 people on hold), delivering hundreds of faxes (I'd be responsible for three fax machines located throughout various locations in the office), and when I'd get up to deliver the paperwork, the trainer told me I must turn up the ring volume of the phone to max so I could hear it throughout the office. I'd have people complain to me all day about the deafening volume of the phone, and would turn it down and get lectured. It was an entire female office, with no testosterone to level things out . The worst, ghetto part of the job was logging all incoming mortgages and paperwork by hand, in a logbook, with a pencil. I don't know of many companies in the US who don't use computers in the 21st century to log info! I called my temp agency to get me the hell out of this nightmare and low and behold, I am informed I am the 6th temp to quit this job.
Working on my in-law's dairy and hog farm. The work wasn't as bad as the in-laws involved...and daughter's-in-law don't need to actually be paid, you know.
hands down the worst job I have ever had was scrubbing pots, pans and tubs at a taco bell...good grief..it seems so long ago...I worked there like 2 weeks and finally threw the hat that the manager had given to me (for some reason he thought that I was under the illusion that I was happy working at taco bell and was proud of my hat) into a dirty vat of beans and mystery meat...never went back...
-Z-
