I worked as a "run around girl, get the files, get me a pizza fix, everything up etc" for a bunch of LAWYERS! I quit after a month.

I have had several jobs through high school and college.One in particular comes to mind:: Chuck E. Cheese!! Yes, I worked at Chuckies and I even worked in those hot,stinky,sweaty character costumes......When I wasnt sweating it in the costumes, I was a birthday party hostess...I wasnt paid enough...and much worse than that
Drum roll please::::::::
And now the absolute worst job I ever had:::
school teacher...I am very sure those of you who had that thankless job will agree!!Esp if you taught in a city....I have way too many horror stories!

Gosh lately its been everything....
-dental equipment service technician
-copier tech
-hygiene & patient lift tech
-gbc tech

haven't had luck in the job department, it's like the man upstairs is saying I shouldn't waste my time doing that and stick to acting. but I need money so I'll keep trying to find something flexible etc..

Diane are you a 411 operator? Its at the top of my list. Let me tell you. Not only do they not know what they are looking for but they are in a bad area and all you get is static. Talking about horrible!!!!

2. This one is not the worst job but it takes a special person to do it. A childcare provider.

3. Fast food restaurant

4. Retail Clerk on sales days or Christmas time

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Originally posted by eyeska:
Drum roll please::::::::
And now the absolute worst job I ever had:::
school teacher...I am very sure those of you who had that thankless job will agree!!Esp if you taught in a city....I have way too many horror stories!

Oh I hear you! Sure PB will chime in here!
The 1st day I was a substitute teacher (in an affluent LI school district) I had a kid climb out of the 1st floor window!

Worst job: during college I worked an overnight shift in a department store taking inventory of the shoe dept.! Forgot all about that stint til I saw this thread!

Yes, I too had a kid climb out the window! We were on the second floor. He jumped to a roof and from there worked his way down to the ground. Thankfully, he made it.

The school had no scale for the science teacher's projects. A student had one at home and brought it in. Why would a kid have a scale like this? Well, judging from the POWDER on the scale, you can guess why.

I worked in a Mink Factory. I stood for 8 hours and adjusted the dead animals as they passed me on the conveyor belt. That was it. Just turn the corpse so it'll fit in the machine to the next station.

I lasted one day.

I've had so many one day jobs, they probably add up to a WHOLE YEAR by now!

Momactress you had a kid climb out of a window in LI?? No kidding!! I thought those things mostly happened in the city or inner city.........I can relate to you and PB as well...YIKES< PB........ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, a scale..wonder what that was for??
I have had students tell me Cant be here cause ya know I got court that day....
Me: So why are you going to court?
student:: Cause I told my other teacher that I was gonna slice her and dice her..
Me: Ohhhhhhhhh, you mean like when you use one of those Ginsu Knives??
Student: UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH??
Of course the kid has no idea what I am talking about.any one over 30 hs no idea what I am talking about.so that ended that conversation.
PB, and yes I do loathe those movies about teachers who somehow change the world.........I have been dragged through the Board of education far too long to believe any of that fairytale.......Hillary Swank I love you but there is no reality in what you " acted".
Can you tell I miss teaching so much! LOL

I know, what about when the principal says to Swank (I’ve seen the commercial only, I’d never see this movie), “We have procedures that you have to follow.”

She: “I’m not doing it.”

Oh, RRRIGHT, AS IF.

AS IF she’d have a job. AS IF they wouldn’t fire her for insubordination or spite her and undermine her.

AS IF!

City schools need to be dismantled. Take out the ones who want to learn and let the others go. They eff up the entire system, sap the teachers, dilute the education for the school. For 10 years they eff things up and then they quit school one year short of graduation anyway. Get rid of them early.

Save the few who are held hostage by the 90%.

You can’t save them all. If you’re going to save any of them, let it be the 10% who want to learn.

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Originally posted by eyeska:
I have had several jobs through high school and college.One in particular comes to mind:: Chuck E. Cheese!! Yes, I worked at Chuckies and I even worked in those hot,stinky,sweaty character costumes.....

This guy I knew in high school used to work there and he told me one day when the person who usually wore the Chuck E Cheese costume didn't show a manager went to him. It led to possibly the funniest quote of my entire life..."Jonah, hop in the rat".

Eyeska, okay, I'm only 16, but I watch way too much TV, so I totally know the Ginsu knives!

But back on topic.

My current job is as a retail slave at a church. (it's a gift shop inside of a major toursity church.) My coworker is one of the most hideous, horrible people in this world. And I've met a lot of nasty people.

"Hop in the rat" hahaha! That's amazing!

HOP IN THE RAT

AHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAAHAAHHHAH

I worked at the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, NJ when I was in college. I was dressed as a moose, shaking kids' hands for Christmas.

My name was "ChrisMoose," get it? ahahahha I walked the mall with a petite girl in her "ChrisMouse" costume, like Minnie Mouse.

One day she couldn't do it, so this small guy filled in. He quit because he was being groped in the costume! AHAHAHHAHAAH

HOP IN THE RAT! NOW! ahhaahahhaah

This reminds me of a holiday job I did a few years ago at a mall where I was the voice of an animatronic teddy bear. The nice thing was I just sat in a room with a monitor and a microphone and didn't have to physically interact with anyone. Here's some of the various things that happened while working this job:

1) Young children can't pronounce their R's properly and would say what sounded like "Hi Bale!" (not sure if the bear had a resemblance to Christian Bale or not).

2) It's really fun to scare the crap out of them. I'd have the eyes closed and when the kids would look to see if he was awake I would scream "HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOO" Jerry Seinfeld style really loud.

3) The kids who were in that in between age of believing the bear was real and being respectful that someone is working would say "I know you're not real, I see the camera", "where are you talking from" and so on. This probably irritated me more than anything.

4) There was one time where someone climbed over the fence and started humping the bear.

5) There were also times when cute girls would flirt with me (better luck than in real life LOL) and I couldn't be as dirty as they were. There were definitely a couple times where they made me blush (probably more so because I couldn't respond cleanly to what they had said).

6) There was this tape of Christmas music that I would play when I was taking a short break. The kids didn't know the difference between that and me talking live so they would yell "STOP SINGING!" but then if I did they'd have very little if anything to say.

It was quite an interesting job, I have to say.

i have scrubbed toilets as a personal housecleaner and picked up after a bulimic cat. i have packed straws in a factory at 3 AM. i've been a telephone researcher for a marketing company. i've worked in sports bars in shady neighborhoods. i cleaned post-occupied houses where the owner was recently deceased and cleaned a basement after the septic pipe backed up and flooded their belongings with S***water. so i've literally scrubbed s***. and perhaps more humiliating than all of this, i've been an extra on las vegas.

I haven't done this thankfully but you know what job has to really suck? Those people who stand on the street all day holding a sign for a nearby restaurant or some other business. It's bad enough you have to be outside if it's cold, but you just stand in one place like you're a friggin human billboard or something. That has to be pretty demeaning to the person doing it.