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ferretmom's picture

The one that I HATED the most was in a hosiery mill. The department I was in made house slippers for hospitals.The kind with rubber soles. The rubber for the soles was melted and formed right there and about a dozen of us had to take razor sharp scissors and trim the rubber off each slipper and then match them. We had to do around 100 pairs an hour to make production. Keep in mind these were 12 hr shifts, in NC, in July with no ac. To this day I can't wear house shoes, I wear thongs.

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TinaKay's picture

Depends on what you call worst as the pay doesn't have to reflect bad working conditions.
The worst job I ever had was at a giant electric company working assembly, not because of the work but the 2 guys who were in my station. We were all in our early 20's with me being the youngest at 20.
These guys were insane. Both were hitting on me big time desoite the fact I had a BF who I lived with. They were gross and immature.
I hated to go to work and it ended up I quit and made the choice to seek another line of work.
A few years later I learned one of the guys hung himself in his parents closet and the other one was diagnosed as a paranoid skitso and fired for stealing.
It was really horrible to be around them because when I rejected them for romantic interest and sex, they became nasty and gross. I always felt they were seriously insane and in a few years
everyone was made deeply aware of how bad.
I vowed never again to work with all guys, although in the last 30 years I'm sure things have gotten much better for women who do.

ferretmom's picture

Mustang I know what you mean about the wallpaper. I'm trying to redo my bedroom now and it has the most fugly paper I have ever seen. It's pink and white striped with some kind of pink flower on it. I rented a steamer, it helps some but it's still a nasty job. It's funny, we've lived here almost 2 yrs and H never knew what color the paper was. He's color blind and I never told him. He was giving me a hard time about wanting to repaper until I told him it was pink, FIL confirmed it. He couldn't wait to get to Home Depot.

Sasha's picture

and pulled several layers of plaster off the walls...in some places all the way down to the base coat. We ended up having to pay someone to skim coat all the walls. He used a brush to make purdy designs and when it was all said and done, it looked pretty nice!

Nymh's picture

I worked for a timeshare company in the contracts department. Any time someone purchases timeshare, land or a house from that company, the women in contracts prepare all the legal paperwork. If it were that easy, the job would have been a breeze. But the salespeople were horrible to work with. One was a sleazebag old man that called me "sexy little hussy" despite my asking him not to several times. One woman had it out for me and would ridicule and degrade me until I cried at least once a week. And any time something didn't add up, it was always MY fault - when most of the time it was their math that was wrong and I had been right all along.

I HATED that job.

*~So sayeth Nymh~*

ferretmom's picture

Mustang, the woman that owned our home before us put wallpaper over paneling. GROSS!!! It's a mess but hopefully the new paper will look great. I want to get it up before we lay new carpet.

Rags's picture

My boss at the time called me to his office and told me to go home and change in to some old clothes and be back in an hour. He and I spent three weeks rewiring garbage trucks at the factory in Phoenix Arizona (yes, in the middle of the summer).

The first two weeks were spent on new trucks. The problem was the last week. Yes, a whole week of rewiring used garbage trucks. The only date I could get for a couple of weeks was with a turkey vulture because the smell permeated my skin and hair. GROSS! :sick:

The previous cable assembly manufacturer had messed up the cable harnesses and we had been given the job to redesign, upgrade and reinstall the cables.

The sad part is that I actually had a blast at that job.

Best regards,

KittyKat's picture

Sure, I teach high school and college, but about two years ago I got a job in the food preparation section of a supermarket.
It's the BEST job I ever had because:

1. I get to MINGLE. Teaching can be very lonely. You're trapped with "kids" all day, very little adult interaction.
2. I'm learning new "culinary skills".
3. No lesson plans!
4. I get to work holidays and weekends which means I have a
built-in excuse to NOT have to hang out with adult SDs for long
periods of time. They get to have "daddy" time, and I get to
have FUN.

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."-Eleanor Roosevelt

bewitched's picture

"To Thine Own Self Be True" William Shakesphere

I worked as a secretary at a chemical company...and all was well until the other secretary, who was on maternity leave when I was hired, came back. She hated me. BIG TIME! She would sit and read the newspaper while I did all the work-and when I had to leave early for a Dr. appointment one day-cleared with the boss btw, she demanded to know where I thought I was going! She tried to put the blame on me for any errors-she'd intentionally go in earlier than I did and take my desk...on and on and on it went. She was young enough to be my daughter!

Then she started sex jokes with the guys. She'd ask if they wanted to come help her pump her breast milk. She even (close your eyes on this on if you're a guy) told one of the guys she would squirt breast milk across the room for him if he wanted to catch it in a cereal bowl.

I found another job as quickly as I could!

Sasha's picture

My first was in an Italian restaurant washing dishes. When management wanted to train me to be a waitress my parents made me quit.

Second job was in a fast food restaurant. I had lots of fun working there. Then I joined the military. After that, I worked in doctors offices...I even worked in a radio station. Then I went to school and became a nurse.

There were some jobs I didn't like as well as others, but for the most part I learned a lot from all of them. I don't regret a one.

kaffonseca's picture

It sounds like a dream job..but I HATED it..working for a CPA firm..the two accountants were NEVER in the office and I NEVER had a thing to do..my ONE job of the week every week was to order COFFEE!! I went crazy bored at that job..but they were also very uptight..there was no computer (so I couldn't surf internet)..and I didn't dare bring in a magazine in case they came in the office and caught me. The phone never rang..matter of fact I don't even remember there being a phone!

I left after three weeks.
"He grew up in my heart, not my belly"

now4teens's picture

It was a small company where I was a CS rep/office assistant.
The company was run by a family- a DYSFUNCTIONAL family.
They employed about 20 workers total, but we had 5 BOSSES telling us what to do. And each one would fight over the way we did things.

Every day, it was like going into "Soap Opera Land". The son of the guy who "offically" owned the place was an idiot, but thought he ran the place. The brother-in-law who really ran the place HATED the son, and they would literally have FIST FIGHTS in the middle of the office- all while you were trying to answer the phone and take orders in your "happy customer service voice"!

Then there were two sisters. And THEY fought about EVERYTHING they did and changed everything on a daily basis, just to get under each other's skin. But then, if you put a number in the WRONG CORNER- oh, you heard about it!!!! Remember the movie, "Office Space" and the TPS Reports??? It was like that!

It was CRAZYLAND! I could not wait to get out of there. I worked there because it was close to home and they would let me leave if I needed to get home early for my kids (being a single-mom), so it had it's advantages, but man oh man, what a nut house.

"Of course things worked out nicely for Carol Brady...she had a live-in maid and Mike's first wife was DEAD!"

now4teens's picture

It's an ADVENTURE! Wink

ALWAYS an adventure...

"Of course things worked out nicely for Carol Brady...she had a live-in maid and Mike's first wife was DEAD!"