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He was a fascinating and brilliant doctor I worked for at Memorial Sloan Cancer Center in New York. Dr. Moshe Shike.

He was nice but the job? ahahah

My desk was covered with color photos of people's insides, their polyps on their colons, specifically.

He did about 4 Endoscopic Gastro procedures a day. Translation: A camera going up somebody's asss.

All day long I'd be on the phone telling people how they were supposed to prepare their asss for the procedure.

AHAHAAHahahah.

That job lasted about a week.

Just to add some stories, the first job I listed (inventory specialist) was awful for so many reasons. My first shift was at 9:30pm at a mall card store. I didn't go home until 3:30am! One time we were at MJDesigns (does that store still exist?) and I had my own aisle to count through. I got to these thin Christmas stockings made of some kind of plastic I guess. I counted about 150 in the first row and there were 7 others! I was like no freakin way and just guesstimated the rest. This didn't happen to me but I did a pet store and someone had to individually count the loose bulk pet food. Probably the worst shift was meeting at 4:45am to go to a grocery store about an hour away (carpool). It dawned on me when we got there that we had less than 10 people to do an entire supermarket! There was good reason this job has high turnover, advertised in the classifieds every week and gave me a raise when I came back to work on my winter break in college even though I only worked for them about a month the previous summer.

PB,

Your pic looks great. You gotta move to L.A. now! I can see you ranting with Julia Louis Dreyfus in her show. LOL.

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PB,



Your pic looks great. You gotta move to L.A. now! I can see you ranting with Julia Louis Dreyfus in her show. LOL.

Thanks Cap.



Funny you should mention Julie because there was a Seinfeld the other night that had me on the FLOOR laughing. I was convinced Elaine had channeled my spirit, ahahah.



She was on the subway, crammed in with a lot of folks, when the train stopped. The voiceovers were all her thoughts. I was dying, cause she sounded like me taking the S train crosstown:



�Why do these people smell? What�s so difficult? Just rub deodorant under your arms!�



�Why is there a delay? There�s NO TRAFFIC; we�re on a TRAIN.� Ahahaahahha



Her complete disgust and overall subway misery pretty much describes my morning commute.



I am sooooo tired of hearing �Tyrell� give his morning speech about how he helps the homeless and would anybody care to help and this train ride lasts a full 105 seconds, blah, blah, blah. I�ve memorized that guy�s monologue. ENOUGH.



Just deliver the damned toilet paper and toothpaste and leave me the fuk out of it!

toll booth attendant
hotel maid
night watchman
supermarket checkout person
any fast food job

this is hilarious!
thanks!

Okay, here are a couple of really ROTTEN jobs that I've had and wouldn't recommend to anyone:



1. A '411' operator. Talk about ANNOYING!! Every moron who has a cell phone would call. They haven't a clue what they're looking for, where it's located, or the name of it but we're supposed to find it. Yeah, okayeee.



2. Waldbaums cashier. IKES!!! Hey, it's the EXPRESS line! Please get your 78 items OFF my belt and go to a regular register!!! And have your $$$ ready and at least START packing your groceries! (for the rude ones who didn't even help packing, I would just throw all their stuff in the bags in no type of system. Bread and cans together. Frozen and paper products together, etc.)



3. 1-800-FLOWERS.com customer service rep. That place was GHETTO CENTRAL! The building was filthy and moldy. Everytime I walked in, I would have breathing problems and start coughing and wheezing. There was about as much professionalism as you would find in a pre-school. If you put your lunch in the refridgerator, it was guaranteed to be stolen by someone. Heck, if you left your station for a few minutes to go to the bathroom, you can guarantee when you came back, your pen would be gone, along with anything else you may have left there. Needless to say, that didn't last long.

I have to say that waiting tables in a Dinner Theatre was the worst job I've had yet. Old people yelling "DECAF!!!" at you while you're onstage, having to hear the heartstopping 11th hour number in "Nuncrackers" 100 times while preparing to serve cheesecake to 400 girl scouts, the horrific food that makes in into the buffet that you're technically not really allowed to eat... ah, memories.

The couple of times I did dinner theatre I only hated waiting on big groups and matinee crowds which was usually was a group from Leisure World or Del Boca Vista (that is where Jerry's parents live on Seinfeld). They tip horribly of course. Can't say I ever had someone yell at me while I was on stage, that is horrible but at the same time funny.

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Old people yelling "DECAF!!!" at you while you're onstage,

OH MY GOD THAT IS THE FUNNIES THING I'VE READ IN MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:

That ranks up there with a quote someobody put up months back. They were talking about temping vs. permanent employment and they said this: "Temping, didn't work for my hair in the 80s, not working for my life now."
:grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:

WITHOUT A DOUBT, HANDS DOWN, THE TWO FUNNIEST THINGS I'VE READ IN A YEAR! :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:

Glad to bring a smile to you my friend. I had the most comical dinner theatre career - there are too many stories....

So this particular dinner theatre was in the round, and we had to walk through aisles to get to the stage. I was in "Annie Get Your Gun" (which was painful enough) and I had this huge stupid dress and a holly hobbit bonnet on, so I had no peripheral vision. I walk down and make my entrance and stand at the base of the aisle and i'm acting away.... and I feel a tugging at the base of my dress. Mind you, I can't look down to the side, so I pull back, thinking that I'm stuck to something. Finally the tugging gets so violent that I have to physically turn around...
and theres this old lady pulling at my dress whispering furiously "I CAN'T SEE!!" I'm part of the show, you old hag!!! You can see me!!!

OMG!!!! Too funny. LOL!! Some people, there is just no explanation for them. What if you didn't turn to see her, and still thought your dress was stuck in something, so you kicked your foot back to unhook it, and accidently kicked her in the face. (just a thought)

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Glad to bring a smile to you my friend. I had the most comical dinner theatre career - there are too many stories....

So this particular dinner theatre was in the round, and we had to walk through aisles to get to the stage. I was in "Annie Get Your Gun" (which was painful enough) and I had this huge stupid dress and a holly hobbit bonnet on, so I had no peripheral vision. I walk down and make my entrance and stand at the base of the aisle and i'm acting away.... and I feel a tugging at the base of my dress. Mind you, I can't look down to the side, so I pull back, thinking that I'm stuck to something. Finally the tugging gets so violent that I have to physically turn around...
and theres this old lady pulling at my dress whispering furiously "I CAN'T SEE!!" I'm part of the show, you old hag!!! You can see me!!!

I CAN'T BREATHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :grin: :grin: :grin:

FREAKING HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:

ROTFL!!!! How did I miss this post????

So - my worst jobs (although I could easily list more than 5):

#5: Working one summer in college for the revenue department calling deliquent truck driver tax payers - actually I had two options when I was at work, when I was hired, it was to spend all day in the basement filing endless paperwork - my other option - chatting w/ the truckers - so truckers it was

#4 Flyering at TKTS - need I say more? Yes, everyone you ever knew who you wanted to see you up there in lights didn't show up when I was in some show somewhere, but when I was flyering for one in times square I ran into people in droves

#3 Graveyard shift paralegal for much-famed corporate fraud case.... there were 100 people working around the clock in makeshift offices - I was 9pm-9am six days a week, the guy who sat next to me and I had this idea that it could possibly be a great idea for the world's most boring reality tv show ("watch the paralegals count pages!" "who will fall asleep on the job tonight?" etc...)

#2 A hotel where a guy 20 years my senior called me "momma"... actually the job wasn't bad, just one socially inept co-worker was

and...

#1 - a party gig where I was hired to "help with the children" and found myself at an adult (as in like senior citizen's) museum opening being a "living statue" and later dancing in a vinyl mini-skirt and handing out beads ... that's the one that made me think temping wasn't so bad after all.....

1. retail slave.
2. fast food slave.
3. Telemarketer
4. Any office job (barely lasted 5 hours. Ugh!)
5. My job.