What's the worst job you've had?

Lemme describe my last job. i got my CNA. i worked at a nursing home. i changed diapers, wiped old people clean and gave grandmas baths! i got hit, swore at, spit on, and had $hit rubbed on me. i had horrible co-workers who treated me like out of the pool of CNAs i was at the bottom. they spent their breaks insulting my intelligence and were flatout disrespectful to me. one time this lady asked me if I could get one of the girls to toilet her. i said yes. i asked a cna if should could do it and she snapped back "WHY THE HELL CAN'T YOU! CAN'T YOU SEE I'M BUSY!" i said cuz she don't want me to do it cuz i'm a guy. the next day she said it again and i asked the same girl. got the same response.my job before that was sonic. now that you're read my description of the nursing home job, i want you to know I hated my job at sonic more than the nursing home. funny how id rather clean shi+ off of grandpa then work at a friendly happy casual environment whats the worst job you've had? describe it

Honey I have been there and done that CNA thing.
after I got out of there I can honestly say THAT WAS THE WORST JOB I EVER HAD!
I loved the elderly don't get me wrong. But I hated getting yelled at, slapped, spit on, pinched..... I hated the nurses thinking that only three CNA's could handle 48 residents in one shift. I don't think so!
I didn't mind changing the briefs on the women, but when it came to men I just felt it should be done by a male CNA and visa Versa.
My son told me once that he didn't want to work fast food to support his family.
I got sooooo mad I said "Do you think I WANTED to wipe old men's butts to put a roof over your head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Being a single parent, it's the hardest job I ever had

Baskin-Robbins.

Cook at Hooters....Doesn't sound half bad but I wanted to walk out everyday.

I was working for a temp. agency and they sent me to this home security firm. The place actually SUBSCRIBED to Muzak, so that was the only music. It was one of those large offices with no windows. I was stuck in the back doing filing for the entire week. I've never been so bored in my life! And after one week of Muzak, I'm impressed I didn't go bonkers!

My first job working in a stationery shop

I can nearly top that, at least equal it. I worked early shifts at a hospital, in the childrens ward. After cleaning 30 toilets and 50 sinks plus mopping the entire length and breadth I had to go clean up puke that found it's way everywhere. I hated the lady who worked with me and she hated me back, but the money was quite good. After a couple months I saw sense and stopped letting myself work there and found something better.

Most of the pretty girls i went to high school with were nitwits. They all went to college to become nurses because they had no other talent, and they ended up fat and ugly, married with children before turning 22, and very, very bitter.

Haha, your story made me laugh at the end. My mom actually worked at a nursing home as a phlebotemist and she hated it just as much as you. Total disrepect, and she even got injured on the job by some old guy who put her in a headlock! However, my worst job was my first job when I was 16 working at a supermarket, Keyfood. They had me train with women who barely spoke english, didn't explain a damn thing and just had me stand there. They didn't explain to me what I would be doing, or how to use the register in a manner that I could actually learn. Then they basically locked me in the store because they thought I stole money! Jeez if I was gonna steal why the hell would I bother with a job. Then they never even called me back, after I repeatedly called them to see what was going on. The worst job ever, and the girls all sat around and gossip. I hated it.

I was 15, and the job was roofing. It was a million degrees on the top of the house in the dead of summer. I had to walk on steeply angled surfaces, always wondering "is today the day that I fall off the roof and die?" I was very young and didn't realize what being paid "under the table" was. The guys who hired me didn't give me my last paycheck and I was forced to do find where they live to get my money. Not to mention, all day long, they smoked pot right in front of me. No joke, these guys smoked pot at least 2 full hours of the time that they were working. I carried heavy packages of shingles off a truck and up a ladder and as if that weren't exhausting enough, I had to take down the scrap garbage and make sure the yard was free of nails and trash. It sucked so bad, I only lasted a month.

I thought I would try child care and was excited at the opportunity I got to be a pre school trainee teacher. I lasted two weeks. ARGH, what was I thinking? I had to wipe kids bums and snotty noses. **** that. I didn't know that was part of the job. What made it worse was it was an alternative school, so there was no structure to the day. It was basically watching kids run amok all day... screaming. The other teachers were so unusual I felt like I was talking to aliens. I turned into an alcoholic for a stint. After I quit..... I couldn't find work, so I ended up at Sizzler Restaurant for a year (sizzler at 30, not a good look!). That was beyond humiliating, I ended up on anti depressants.
All is good now, I finally got my act together.

I had several working as a CNA when i was in my teens and working at K-mart. Retail jobs suck because you have to hang and sort all those clothes.

I once had a job steam cleaning dumpsters. I had to climb inside of these dirty dumpsters with nothing but me and my steam gun. This was before the days of protective clothing. As an aside, many of your readers have no doubt seen corner reflectors hung on sailboats, designed to reflect radar energy back to the source so that the boat will be easily seen. It turns out that directing steam into the interior corners of a dumpster works pretty much the same way. Everything that was once stuck in the corner of the dumpster gets blasted out and comes directly back -- to you -- covering you from head to toe in an instant."

"Airline job, any one right now, you pick."


"A traveling toupee salesman."



"The worst job I've ever had was a one-week temp job for a hosiery company. They produced lingerie and underwear shows on the catwalks of Paris. Instead of discarding the unmentionables once the shows were over, they shipped them back to the U.S. as a part of their inventory, presumably for tax purposes. My job was to sort through each used pair of both men's and women's undergarments. I was put into a cubicle with a computer and Hefty sacks full of the 'inventory.' I was assured that the garments had been washed.


Scraps of paper were pinned onto each piece written with names like "Jean-Pierre" and "Bridgette." I soon found out both by sight and smell that the laundry had not been done. I became familiar with both Bridgette and Jean-Pierre and gained much unnecessary insight into French toileting habits. Because no one in the office could find me a pair of rubber gloves on day one, I continued my task by pinching them up by the least offensive margin I could find (which is hard to determine with a thong) and inhaled through the mouth, and wished myself Godspeed. I'm pleased to report I finished my stint at Sara Lee two days earlier than expected."


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I was a waitress for about 3 months. I was not cut out to be a waitress at all. I worked for a gay male couple who had fights in the restaurant and embarrassed me in front of customers. It's not that their being gay was embarrassing it was how they fought which was embarrassing and in front of people. I just walked out on them it got so bad.

iam also a single mom who goes out working each day then a old man at my work made a move on me the bosses friend sice then the have beern giving me a really hard time

CNA, single parent, office clerk, or cashier @ McDonald's: All of them! LOL. I have a 1 year old so I clean @$$ and change messy diapers all day and get hit on, spit at and cursed out too, but both jobs are very rewarding. As an office clerk I was either too busy or too bored and the paper cuts were the worst. At McDonald's, I came home smelling like burgers and fries everyday and the mealtime rush hours were the craziest cuz that's when folks lost their damn minds. out of all of my crappy jobs, McDonald's was the worst--ain't nothing worst than having a crappy attitude and dealing with 1 too.