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11 July 2017, 03:48 AM | #31 |
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The worst job I ever had was loading trucks for UPS during a summer break. I lasted two weeks after being told I had to load an extra truck everyday because I was fast.
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11 July 2017, 04:28 AM | #32 |
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A solid example of "If you're good at your menial work we'll reward you with more free of charge".
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I bought a cheap watch from the crazy man Floating down canal It doesn't use numbers or moving hands It always just says "now" Now you may be thinking that I was had But this watch is never wrong And if I have trouble the warranty said Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On J. Buffett Instagram: eastbayrider46 |
11 July 2017, 04:59 AM | #33 |
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I want to leave my current job in the worst way. I have two others that look like will be offered to me, and am having nervous breakdowns deciding which way to go. One is more money, more prestige, but not sure I would like it. The second is less money and honestly below my level, but I absolutely love what I would do and the company I would work for.
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11 July 2017, 05:04 AM | #34 | |
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I bought a cheap watch from the crazy man Floating down canal It doesn't use numbers or moving hands It always just says "now" Now you may be thinking that I was had But this watch is never wrong And if I have trouble the warranty said Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On J. Buffett Instagram: eastbayrider46 |
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11 July 2017, 05:09 AM | #35 | |
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11 July 2017, 05:24 AM | #36 |
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Painting railings. Had a summer job when at school, working at a park. I painted railings,my mate creosoted fencing for 6 whole weeks. Taught me a lesson, and I worked a lot harder a school!
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11 July 2017, 07:09 AM | #37 |
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11 July 2017, 07:16 AM | #38 |
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Summers in college I would mark, with a wax crayon, the glowing red hot rolls of steel as they came off of the rollers at a steel plant in east Chicago Indiana.
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11 July 2017, 07:21 AM | #39 |
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Reminds me a little of the colonoscopy thread - of you think having one is bad there are folk who spend all day shoving cameras up people's bottoms. Talk about same sh*t, different day...
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11 July 2017, 07:28 AM | #40 |
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I never had a REALLY mind numbing job, but working for a guy with a room temperature IQ was rather bad. I did accounting in the early 80's before PC's and EBS systems. All was done with a pencil on greenbar paper and it stunk. We had a old-timer who wouldn't use a mechanical pencil as he saw that as a concession to automation. He DID use an electric pencil sharpener however, for which we constantly and rightly teased him.
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11 July 2017, 07:28 AM | #41 |
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Most mind-numbing job I had was data entry for a leading Stockbrokers, I lasted less than a week, much preferred working in a greasy factory when I was 16.
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11 July 2017, 07:56 AM | #43 |
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Hah!
I'm a teacher. A high school teacher. Is teaching hard? It's impossible. Why and how did you become a teacher? The day I realised no one was paying attention to me every time I talk. My favourite original and personal joke. But really it's the best job I've ever had you just find things to complain about. |
11 July 2017, 08:31 AM | #44 |
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Always thought the worst job would be being a bad boxer.
Mind-numbing, to be sure, but in a different way.
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11 July 2017, 08:47 AM | #46 |
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11 July 2017, 08:53 AM | #47 |
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Well I remember there was a famous $250m fight the winner got 60% of the 250 the loser got 40.. Imwould happily stand there for 3 hours getting battered by a world class boxer for 100m
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11 July 2017, 09:50 AM | #48 | |
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11 July 2017, 10:14 AM | #49 |
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Selling a homeless newspaper at the exits of McDonald's drive thru's. Brutal.
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11 July 2017, 11:30 AM | #50 |
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Apparently there is no one else here from the midwest.
The answer is detassling. |
11 July 2017, 11:52 AM | #51 |
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Decide to go to a couple of auctions when I was 15 and made more in 2 days than my classmates did over the entire summer, so there was no need to go back to that job. |
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11 July 2017, 12:05 PM | #53 |
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11 July 2017, 12:16 PM | #54 |
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Just something about row after row after row and thousands of stocks per row, doing the same thing over and over and over, swearing that it will never end. That is the definition of mindless.
I had dreams.... actually nightmares at night I couldn't even escape detassling in my sleep. |
11 July 2017, 12:22 PM | #55 |
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laying carpet... i helped a mate who does it for a living a few times when his labourer called in sick................ even though i was doing it for free to help him i wouldnt do it for a living no matter how much you paid me lol!
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12 July 2017, 07:54 PM | #56 |
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Oh the memories. I was eager to work and earn some money at 14, so my brother and I took a detassling job. I talked my mom into driving us out to the country for the bus pickup (we were city kids). What a horrible job! The first 10 minutes an ambulance was called because another kid got hit in the eye socket with a cob and required medical attention. We were sunburn like lobsters. The guys literally treated us like slaves, and after all the hard work we got bitched out on the bus for not working hard enough. I quit immediately. I might have only been 14, but I knew disrespect and wasn't putting up with that nonsense.
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One day we had 3 people go down with heat stroke. They stuck them in the bus, (no AC), and the rest of us had to do another row and back. Ambulance calls?????? Whats that? |
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13 July 2017, 09:44 AM | #59 | |
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15 July 2017, 09:33 AM | #60 |
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For me, personally, it was feeding/operating plastic injection moulding machines when I was a kid still at school. However, seeing people in their late teens, 20's, 30's, 40's and beyond doing the same was a very good push factor to want to attain more. A year later when I was the weekend supervisor of the factory and seeing ex school mates working on the machines full time doing overtime was even more of a factor to want more.
BUT...That floor had one of the most fun, friendly and relaxed atmosphere's to date I've ever worked in and I always remember it for that. |
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