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Worst job ever?

joel kelsey

joel kelsey

Aug 1, 2006
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#1
There is a kid dressed up in a hot-dog suit in 90 degree heat on a busy street dancing in front of a Rallys trying to entice people to dine there. Is this really nessacary? Last I checked, here in Indiana fastfood places already had plenty of business without having to humiliate minors that are making minimum wage. I feel bad for the kid, but he seems to be enjoying himself. Talk about paying dues.
 
#6
That's pretty bad but I think I can top it...

FOr a while in college I worked on a concert set up crew. We set up the stages, cleaned the arena, prepared the backstage area, etc. My job title was carrier.
The arena (I believe held around 35K) was your typical bowl type arena. The boss would station people on every row, all around the bowl. Their job was to clean the seats and surrounding areas. The water that they used came from five gallon buckets brought to them by carriers.
Each carrier was assigned a section on the bowl and he had to carry water to them constantly, all day, for 12 hour shifts. So literally, I was walking up and down stairs all day, carrying water. The way that it worked out, since we didn't have enough people, was that each carrier covered like five sections, I think it was. So basically, once you dropped two buckets at each station, the first station was ready for more water. So we basically, never stopped climbing stairs all day.
It was brutal.
Of course after just a few weeks of doing that, my legs were solid muscle and freakin' huge. But I would never do that again. It was the most physically demanding job I've ever had.
 
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#8
I once worked at a(very ghetto)local lake resort. Garbage trucks could not get up the dirt road to the trash cans, so I loaded them onto Fred Sanford's old truck(not the nice one in the show), drove them down the hill to a dumpster & unloaded them next to the road. To ice the cake there hadn't been anyone willing to do this for a couple of weeks, it was in August(norcal temp: 100+)and on a 'good' day at least half-a-dozen jeeploads of hotties on the way to launch their jock boyfriend's waterski boat would pass by, stopping to pay their fees as I scraped writhing maggots from the bottom of the dumpster w/a shovel. :eek: Memories...

In my defense, I didn't finish the day.
 
#9
The worst job ever is working at Guitar Center. I worked there for 3 years when I was in college. I still have some buddies that work there and the new pricing policies are killing them. You get to listen to poorly played renditions of terrible metal songs at loud volumes all day. When I got home, the last thing I wanted to do was play bass.
 
#11
They got a guy at the Dominos by my house who dresses up in a gorilla suit and waves a sign advertising the daily special at cars driving by. It never really gets super hot up here, but it will touch the mid 90's for a couple days in August. I feel extra bad for Gorilla guy on those days.

-Mike
 
#14
The worst job I had was in a metal forging factory. The heat was unbearable in the summer, there was so much REQUIRED overtime (which was OK for money, I guess). But the thing that killed me, I looked around at all the faces in this factory: Misery. Ruined lives. These men and women were making decent money, but they never got to enjoy it. Work 7 days a week, killing your body, so that when you are 70 you can live in Florida?! And probably live to be 72!

I can't do it. I know it's the case with almost all factory jobs, it's so sad. :(

This job also made me realize: Eh, now is not the time to have kids. :D I know that's the main reason those people worked there, and bless them for being so selfless and working their fingers to the bone for their families. I know that's what my dad did... I'm not ready to give up my life though.
 
#16
Let's see....

90 degrees in a hot dog suit, waving at people.

135 degrees in body armor, hoping people aren't going to shoot at you, or pop an IED off....

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Which sucks more again?
 
#20
I fully respect our armed forces, moreso the ones at the 'bottom of the heap'. I question the economics of paying some poor slob to wave at/annoy strangers driving by. Does this bring anyone in to a business? I've seen guys hawking $900,000 houses for crying out loud. :confused:
 

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