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I was just thinking about when I was a garbage man for four days. It was rough. After having to load a roach infested bloody mattress into the hopper I called it quits.

 

Money was great but I truly hated the gig.

 

It was a learning experience that gave me a whole lot more respect for garbage men.

 

Have you ever had a job you just hated?

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Only had one that I hated.

Working for Airgas.

Management was horrible, place was dangerous and they broke my contract trying to force 12hr days and a rotating schedule.

I quit with reason and Alabama forced them to pay multiple benefits.

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At age 18 had a short job driving a bob tail truck for a regional chemical and seed company.  Around Bakersfield CA around 1966.  Had to load and unload by hand 18K loads of palleted 80# sacks of seeds, pesticides, herbicides and various other nasty farming chemicals.  The warehouse was a large total toxic dump.

 

Leaking 55 gal drum of "Sistox". (sp?) The boss told us all NOT to go into that area.  Shortly called agent orange.  Low pay, hot weather, no A/C.  My cousin led me onto the risks involved and I quit after 2 months.  Glad I did. A shitty job.  But .... the flatbed truck had a Detroit, a crisp Jake Brake and a 10 speed! :)

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I've had two jobs I truly hated.  I loved the work, I hated the assholes I worked with and for.  I quit both jobs for the same reason. It sucked being unemployed, but now years later, all those assholes are either in jail, or under investigation.  As my father says, you make a deal with the devil, eventually he shows up to collect.  

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Being a C.O. for that last 25 years has been cakewalk, compared to working at a grain elevator for a year and a half when I turned 18! That is the only job I ever quit without another on the hook.

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I did Asbestos and Lead abatement right out of high school in Texas. I hated that job. Hot, sweaty, noisy, negative air preassure, and no way to get a drink for hours at a time while you were inside the bubble wearing the gear, and then you got the joy of decon every time you came out.

 

It did prepare me for chemical warfare training suits and masks in the military. Having a drinking tube inside the mask made it much more bearable.

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Yes. Very much so. I worked for Sprint doing DSL/network/pc tech support. WOW! What a progressive fag-loving commie company that HATES conservatives and shits on their employees.

 

How would you like to work almost your full shift and then get told you're not going home, but have to work ANOTHER full shift. Didn't matter what you had going on. If you left, you were GONE.

 

How would you like getting awarded for best tech company-wide and then get passed over for promotion because they wanted to give the job to a sissy?

 

They got in trouble with the Feds over unfair labor practice too.

 

I could NOT WAIT to walk out of that place!

 

FUCK SPRINT!

 

Oh, their customer support is horrendous, DSL stands for Don't Surf Long there, as it drops out constantly due to errors. Their cell phone service sucks too. Crappy signal quality. They screw up your bill frequently too. One good thing about them: If you call and bitch enough, they'll give you money to shut you up. They won't fix your problem, but they'll give you credit on your account.

 

I liked digging out broken septic tanks more than working there.

 

Grenada was a LOT more fun than that place. (Urgent Fury)

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I was in a union for 9 years. I hated it, mostly the brainwashed union members and other union tradesmen around me. I finally realized that just because I was really good at the work I did it didn't mean I belonged there.

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Air Force, removing fiberglass insulation from aircraft A/C ducts in 100+ degree heat. Most of the ducts were overhead, ensuring you got liberally covered with shredded fiberglass every day. I itched for months.

 

And a decade later in the Army, babysitting elderly dementia patients and changing their diapers.

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A couple. One I won't even mention, simply because most people will misunderstand a brief description and think badly of me.

 

The other one could have been a job I loved, Fun range of skills required, we made easily the best and most innovative product in the industry... But the company was a small family biz managed very badly. The owner constantly let us know in every way that he didn't trust us- he even accused me of being on drugs. He would literally jump out from behind things like "Aha! gotcha!".... and be surprised to find me working each time.

 

He had literally impossible standards for quality, with crooked tools. It was almost a joke, but too insane. Supply was a mess, because his cute daughter would constantly order the wrong things, and didn't care. So we might be 3 weeks behind on a delivery on a $300K machine waiting for a box of bolts to come in two days later that we could drive 10 minutes and pick up from a hardware store. We typically used around 3K each of 3 sizes on each machine, and we would get them 200 at a time. And send the extras back and pay restocking. Then sweep floors on over time while waiting on getting the same bolts back.  We also had genuinely bad and dishonest workers. The boss couldn't deal with direct defiance so he would ignore them, physically looking the other way. Instead he would hound the people who were working very hard for him. I never had any assurance that I would get full hours, or overtime pay when I worked overtime. I was constantly being threatened with being fired (while completely worthless people were immune). It's hard to pick the worst part, but I think mostly it was that I really wanted the company and even the owner to succeed. There were so many things that individually should have driven the company out of business. Eventually it did go down and I was laid off. It's up again and a friend works there. Sounds like it is not as bad now, but still similar.

 

Sometimes I wondered if the whole place was a social experiment to test the limits of madness.

 

I don't ever want to have a job again where my pay or job security is unrelated to the quality of my work.

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That was my first job, at Baskin Robbins, at age 15.

 

The witch owner/manager plopped her ass up on a table one night, to supervise me mopping the floors. She had no communication skills and expected me to read her mind. Called in sick to go to a football game and got fired. Didn't care at that point.

 

I had a lot of jobs that I quit at the first sign of BS.

 

12 years in aerospace and 13 years being a self-employed contractor have been my two favorite careers.

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In my 50+ years of working, there were too damn many jobs I HATED!

 You do what you have to do to survive! - ESPECIALLY when you have 5 kids and a disabled wife.

Running night elevator calls in Wash.D.C. public housing was the worst. Clifton Terrace and Edgewood Terrace were BAD, but Arthur Kappa was a 6 man call for the Metropolitan Police - I had to go there with just a baby Beretta (that would get me 10 years in club fed) and a 'fuck with me and I will rip your head off and shit down your throat' attitude!

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Air Force, removing fiberglass insulation from aircraft A/C ducts in 100+ degree heat. Most of the ducts were overhead, ensuring you got liberally covered with shredded fiberglass every day. I itched for months.

 

And a decade later in the Army, babysitting elderly dementia patients and changing their diapers.

you win

 

 

I mostly enjoyed the jobs I had.

Owned a small neighborhood gas station when I was 19.

Spent six years in the Air Force...liked that and had a great commander

A decade at Los Alamos labs as an engineer ,I did hate the boss not the job.

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A couple. One I won't even mention, simply because most people will misunderstand a brief description and think badly of me.

Come on GunFun tell the truth............you were a gigolo weren't you. :)

You beat me to it.lol

 

One job I hated was dominos I worked not night. Decided food service was a nono. I was 16.

 

Then I worked making pvc bar mats. Loved the work but the owner was a pro football player for one year and still had the attitude of one.

 

Thenot I worked as a CO in the state prison. I liked it a lot but the pay was horrible, in GA if you work in food service and work a little OT you'd make more a year than the start pay for a CO.

 

Now I'm back making polymer but medical polymer for a major medical company and love it. Truly blessed with my current job and I'll retire from my current position. In 30 years.

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A couple. One I won't even mention, simply because most people will misunderstand a brief description and think badly of me.

Come on GunFun tell the truth............you were a gigolo weren't you. smile.png

You beat me to it.lol

 

 

Obviously not. The leches here wouldn't think badly of me, they would be jealous. Also I'm the resident -opposite of whatever Gaddis is-.

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The worst job I had was managing a 400 acre horse farm , the job was easy , working for the office manager was the hard part , I know if I had stayed 1 more week I would have strangled her with a phone cord that bitch was full blown , I am in charge and  bat shit crazy . I can get along with just about anyone [ Jesus couldn't get along with her . ]

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Ugh, sanitation specialist while in Korea.  wacko.png

 

Okay, guys.  Drop your cocks and unass the cans. 031.gif

 

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(after I get done here, I gotta go fill the water buffalo with potable drinking water.  Dammit, where's the bar of soap?). :angry:

 

G_damn, some dipshit dropped a can of bug spray in the shit bucket again. 015.gif016.gif

 

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I guess I shouldn't complain, but I look back at 2 1/4 years with Boeing in Everett, WA as a bad time. I realize I was caught-up in a hiring wave, was just a number there, pigeon-holed in my department, and caught-up in a lay-off wave. Trying to transfer to another branch of Boeing was like applying to a totally different company. 

 

Saw my "boss" maybe three times while there. He was like Lumberg in "Office Space." Couldn't figure-out how to advance. I'm convinced the depressing weather up there affected Boeing's culture. Summers were nice though. Hate to sound wimpy, but I was often bullied, picked-on, or teased like it was middle school again. 

 

HR wouldn't let me transfer to a department that was directly relevant to my degree. Boeing HR seemed schizophrenic. I met one guy who literally was hired and laid-off in the same month. 

 

I remember an article in which the CEO at the time - Phil Condit - compared Boeing employees' morale & motivation to that of SEAL teams. We all wondered what planet was he from? 

 

My overall impression was you need a degree in political science to succeed at Boeing - not engineering. Boeing is lucky to not have more competition, and they have a really good P.R. department for my impression of Boeing was shattered. The place was nuts. It's a very top-heavy company. I wondered why I went to college because there were union guys making much more money, and they could seriously damage equipment without losing their jobs - no punishment at all. 

 

I worked for another aerospace company that made landing gears right after college. I realize I got used. They initially wanted a co-op student. I got hired as a new entry-level full-time employee. I got laid-off after less than a year, and I realize I was there for about the same amount of time as a co-op student would have been there. I am proud to say I did some tool design for the F-22 though.

 

Unlike another responder. I can't share his joy of the aerospace industry. It's crazy. Not everyone needs a 747 or an F-16. I will always wonder how one succeeds in the aerospace industry. However, I've found stability in medical jobs. 

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I've worked retail, food(fast and higher end), auto, window production, delivery, GIS, and now tech.

 

The last being the worst, I'm looking for new work but can't quit till I find something new.  No raises, bonuses, jack shite.  Answering calls logging support cases and doing others work that would be paying double what I'm making now.

 

I hate how companies are now using Vendor companies(aka perma temps) to fill positions.  Following the Microsoft lead.  We've gone from about 6 temp agencies to too many to count in the area.  Been contacted by atleast 10 for the same position with one particular company.  Unfortunately non have been able to secure me the position.

 

Issue being in ND, the larger companies are all about paying the lowest wage possible.  The cost of living is up 3x it was just a couple years ago and yet the pay is still $10-$15/hr. and the cost of an apartment is $1200 minimum. And thats not even in the oil patch, the complete opposite side of the state.

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I loved driving the fire engine.  After leaving the fire department early and being kinda banged up, went back to school and got my degree and a RN license.  Went to work, gained experienced.  OK job then.  Then years later another degree and soon I was in management.  No union protection back then as medical unions were just starting out.

 

Medium small house.  350 beds.  My 36 people under me were the greatest.  All women.  Policy then was not in your chain of employment.  Lots of single ladies in the house.  Had a grand time with my RN and LN and equal peers.  No problem there.  The problem was the dyke bosses over me.  Did not like men at all.  They won, I left.  Good decision.

 

The job is the job.  It is the people who make or break it.  We had great guys in the fire department.  Tough selection process.  Less so in the private sector, especially at the beginning of equal opportunity, particularly queers, fags and dykes in the medical profession ... read hospital high managers.  They let the politics drive the job downward.  RN.

 

Moral of the story?  Research your new profession more carefully.  Consider all angles, including the recent political correctness which I did not do.  Do not hang around a job that makes you sick to your stomach.  We are talking bosses and bigger bosses here.  I voted with my feet.  Best decision I ever made.  Some bosses are very unqualified at least.

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