Just for fun (and because I am at a "real job" as I type this), I thought it would be fun to list the worst non artistic jobs you've had that you did purely for the paycheck.



1) Inventory specialist: Most people who work retail dread inventory day. Imagine doing it as a job!



2) Catering specialist employee: This was my first ever job and still ranks as one of the worst. I had various positions for this company that hosted and catered events including moonbounce attendant, hayride attendant, ponyride attendant (including cleaning up after them), and various cooking and serving jobs. Hated, hated, hated this job! I burned my uniform (which was basically a T-shirt) after I quit.



3) New York Times distributor: This was a promo gig I did once a week for four weeks where I handed out a special section of the NY Times. The first week it rained, the second week they were late dropping off the papers, the third week they didn't tell me they changed the location, and actually the fourth week was fine except I was right near an ice cream truck the whole time and got annoyed by the music. At first I thought this job would be great because I was paid a flat rate and if I got rid of all the papers I was done early. But people were not taking the damn papers!



4) Waiting tables, all three places I worked at sucked in their own way. One I didn't make enough money and hated the management. One I made decent money, but it was poorly run and a lot of the staff was lazy. One had a long commute and was also poorly run.



That's all I can come up with for now. Anyone else?

1) cotton candy factory
(the wisps of puffy sugar stick to
your entire body after an hour including--(if
you missed covering a spot on your hair it takes
hours getting the sticky mess out)

2) clerk at UPS
The trucks come in at the end of the day
at blow exhaust right into your office
being that they are only 4 feet from your
door

3) Working as a cashier at K-mart on Dollar Days - NO NO
please not again = aaaaahhhhh!!!!!!

4) Clerk at the DMV (never did this but it has to be
horror-endous (spelling?)

5) Respiratory therapist
Nobel job but (never been one
but I think there is a special star
in heaven for people who deal with
mucous plugs)

6) Waste management (must be tough -- but I thank God for
them)

quote:

4) Clerk at the DMV (never did this but it has to be
horror-endous (spelling?)

HA! I'm playing a DMV manager in the show I am developing with my group. It got changed from a casting director to the DMV because we wanted a more universal place that everyone would be familiar with.

LOL, great post.



Casa Maria, Rt. 17 Ramsey, NJ: Waiter.



First day, TWO birthday parties in adjacent rooms for 20 1st graders in one and a bunch of third graders in the other.



The ice cream was frozen like a brick and I had to dish it all out. I frantically started stabbing it with the ice cream scooper. (I had to dish out like 30 bowls and I could barely scoop one.) In a frenzy of pressure, madness and abject psychosis, I scraped the skin off my fingers as I hacked at the ice cream. Blood all over the ice cream. I then brought the huge tub of bloodied ice cream to the sink to wash it off.



Me: Ahhh SHITT. Somebody get me a damn BAND-AID. I gotta rinse off my bloody fingers and the blood off this ice cream! Damn, it looks like strawberry ice cream now!



After that nightmare I see the kids lined up. Another waiter asks me: �Where�s the pi�ata?�



Me: What?



He: you were supposed to fill up a pi�ata. The kids then break it open and scramble for the candy.



Me: Are you fukking KIDDING me??????????????????



So I fill up the pi�ata, and while the kids are beating it with a stick, the OTHER party is getting impatient:



They: �Where�s our ice cream?�



OH FFFFUCKKK ME!



I left that job pronto.

Lesson learned. DON'T WORK AROUND CHILDREN!

1. Anything related to fast food work
2. Anything related to retail work
3. Telemarketing
4. Any 9-5 job that requires you to wear business attire, sit in a cubicle on a phone all day and pays low wages and no health insurance benefits.
5. Non-union extra work on a call with 1000 people.

A door to door salesman selling something that no one is gonna buy at 11pm (I used to sell KIRBY vaccum cleaners).

Anything tied to corporate america.
A Police Officer
Teacher in a inner city school, hell, a state school as well.

And the worst job of all...TO BE PRESIDENT of the USA.

[[[HA! I'm playing a DMV manager in the show I am developing with my group. It got changed from a casting director to the DMV because we wanted a more universal place that everyone would be familiar with.]]]

:grin: :grin:

Just go down to the local DMV and watch the staff with the flat affect and twinkle of something that is ready to explode.

Good luck with your role.

ROFL Peter, You shud check out the horror flick "The Ice Cream Man" So sickening!!!!!!!

1. Working at a supermarket as a cashier where you do the same thing over and over!!! Worst transaction was when I was just about to leave in one minute and this freaking lady in a wheelchair was looking in a big box of coupons. Mind you, theyre not filed...theyre all messed up and she kept giving me the coupons for me to TRY to scan to see if it goes through. Then I wud return them cuz she didnt buy that product. Then she kept looking and looking. I am like [censored] be prepared!! I had to get the manager over cuz it was 10 minutes after my leave time. She was very nice and offered a very nice discount to stop this coupon madness. The lady refused...I am like OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would never forget that.

2. Working in a school to clean for the summer with no freaking air conditioning. Thank god I was on leave for my back operation.

3. Cleaning silverware in a college cafeteria. Its a machine just for silverware and it gets hot and you sort them and then they give you more. Quit after 2 weeks.

Other jobs of mine were great.

ahahaha Damien as a vacumm salesman. I can see it now, doors being slammed in your face: "Well do you need a personal trainer, then??" LOL

Cappie: Yes I did the Pathmark, Hackensack, NJ, cashier thing for 7 months when I was 19. To save myself a LOT of aggravation I would never check coupons. I didn't care.

actorgersh:
UPS loader.

Oh man the worst three days of my life! 120 degrees in August, that damned warehouse in Saddle Brook, NJ loading trucks, running up conveyer belts. The supervisor would scream out "WISCONSIN" and then you had to RUN down to the Wisconsin trailer and load that as the boxes kept running down the belt (think of the chocolate factory episode of I Love Lucy). NEW JERSEY! TENNESSEE!

I dehydrated myself the second day. My legs had 10 bad bruises on them because I was too tall and had to run up a conveyer belt in a small space to unhinge stuck boxes.

I was in pain, sweating, dehydrated. On the third day of work, I punched in, walked to my station. A guy said to me while Frank Stallone's "Far from Over" blasted from the stereo speakers, "KICK ASSS tonight, dude, KICK ASSS!" That was it. I immediately turned around. NO, NO, NO, everything in my body, every ounce of my being, said NO, NO, NO not again.

Like Carol Ann in Poltergeist: "No more." LOL

I had gotten a ride from a friend who also worked there (we lived next door to each other.) I had no way to get home, but I found that walking 8 miles was far more appealing than working there that night.

[[[I was in pain, sweating, dehydrated.]]]

aaahahahahahh At UPS, I used to test the sorters on their zip codes, and type any belt changes.
They used to take me out of my office to run the conveyor belt system (every once in a while, it was torture) and I turn the belt off if there was a jam. I used to see new loaders come in and on there first break, go in the bathroom and puke, then sneak out of the building. (You did pretty good to make it to the third day.) It was always the big muscular guys too, that quit. The little skinny guys, could load a whole truck no prob. I used to hear the managers in the office bet on which new loader was going to make it or not, and how long they would hang in there.

(It was not only physical job, it was a mental job. If you weren't good at puzzles, you couldn't load the boxes properly.)

So, reading your post brings back memories!!!! AHAHAHA

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And a LOT of time it was the SMALL box that was the HEAVIEST.

There's a grunt mentality there. The team meets with the leader and everybody asks: "What's the volume tonight"? (As in how many boxes will be moving through)

If it was a high number, the team would be all fist in the air, yahoo, Let's shoot the yellow man! Woo Hoo!

I was like, GET ME the fuk outta here.

This jarheaded grunt with me in one of the trailers, sweat pouring off him: "This job is tough, but I ain't never quit a job in my life."

Well, why NOT?

That was 1983 and I've quit MANY since then and will continue to do so.

ahahahahah UPS SUX!

WOW I always wanted to work for UPS just to wear the uniform.

As far as working for Kirby, there was a quota you have to fill and that was to selll 3 vaccums in a day no matter how early or how late it took. Mind you that I had to wear a tight ass suit in 90 degree weather selling vaccums in the Bronx with people cursing me out, and I was only 18 years old, at least I wasn't on the corner selling drugs.

As far as Cashier-I guess I have to have some sympathy with them after hearing your story because the one's they have in my neighborhood are nasty as hell as if its their money.

[[There's a grunt mentality there.]]

OMG, that is so true.

[[[This jarheaded grunt with me in one of the trailers, sweat pouring off him: "This job is tough, but I ain't never quit a job in my life."]]]]


Wahahahahahahahahahahahaaa I think his twin brothers!! worked here in California

I have to say out of all the places I worked, they had the weirdest people in management. I can't even begin to describe the weirdness.

Sounds like a play in there. UPS, The Musical!

ahahahaha

My cousin used to be a driver. Made good money, though.

Not for me!