Crappy jobs
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Crappy jobs
In my near infinite boredom at work, I got to thinking about how much better a job could be... then remembered my past jobs and realized how much worse it could be... So here goes:
Busboy, Robbin's Restaurant
Business type: Food Service
Jan - Mar '95
Pros: I got paid.
Cons: Not very well. Ruined social life.
Highlights: 2 minute walk from home.
Lowlights: I had to work nearly every friday and saturday night, and occasionally sunday, too. Pay was minimum wage + a small portion of waitresses' tips. Got accused of stealing tips off table on more than one occasion. On nights that I closed, I had to wait until the last customer left. Frequently, the last customer would talk to the owner for several hours. Kitchen was hot, and smelly. Food was expensive, even with my 1/2 off discount. Owner was an a-hole. God, I hated that job!
Guest assistance - camera & sound, Target
Business type: Retail
May '95 - June '96
Pros: Chicks, employee discount
Cons: Fockin customers
Highlights: For some odd reason, there were a lot of good looking girls working there at the time. None were interested in me, but the frequent rejection was good training for the rest of my adult life. I was one of the few people who got my 26 hours per week (max for under 18ers) because I was a department
. Employee discount was used and abused. My boss was a total stoner, cool as shit though.
Lowlights: Customers can be a real pain in the rear. During EAA (big airshow/convention, city population effectively quadruples overnight), it was a zoo. The dickheads at corporate wouldn't send extra trucks, so by the 3rd day of EAA there wasn't a camera or roll of film to be found. I remember a group of aussies who were particularly dismayed (flew half way around the world and forgot the camera!). Black friday (day after thanksgiving), the store opened early, I got there at 6:45 for a 7:00am shift, practically had to fight my way into the building.
Peon/co-op drafter, Nercon Eng & Mfg
Business type: Product handling (conveyors)
June '96 - Aug '97, May - Aug '98
Pros: Co-op (got out of school at noon), good hours
Cons: Being the peon
Highlights: Left work at noon. Pay was good for a 17 year old. Never had to work weekends. Boss was cool as hell (we still talk now and then). Got my brother a job there (where he still is, and makes more than I do
).
Lowlights: Was the peon. Lots of folding humongous drawings (one guy was fond of 90" x 44" plots). Paper cuts. Not enough drawing time.
Custodial work, MTU dorms
Business type: Cleaning up other peoples' messes
Sept '98 - May '99, Sept '99 - May '00 (Supervisor)
Pros: Beer Money
Cons: Everything else
Highlights: Fringe benefits were good - lots of ice cream, soda, ice (handy for parties), and dishes were acquired.
Lowlights: Stupid hours. Shitty pay. Working every weekend, hung over or still drunk from the night before. Running trash compactors when it's 10 below and snowing. Kitchen was always a mess. I swear the retards that worked back there had food fights on a nightly basis. Seeing the source of your food (half gallon containers of egg substitute
). Cleaning bathrooms. Trying to find a dozen people to help clean kitchens and bathrooms for minimum wage. Getting called out to clean up other people's PUKE.
I still have nightmares about this job.
CAD Manager/AutoCAD Trainer/General Labor, Square D
Business type: Electrical transformers
May - Aug '99, May - Aug '00
Pros: Total fock-off environment
Cons: Trying to teach complete idiots autoCAD.
Highlights: Another "kid" started sometime after I did. He and I had a riot, and we're still good friends. The 2nd summer the place was pretty much empty (the plant had closed), so he and I took control of the radio (bob & tom every day!), constantly screwing around and playing pranks on each other (and the other engineers). Pay was good.
Lowlights: Damn corporate internet access blocked all the good shit! Engineers had been using an archaic DOS based CAD program forever. Simple concepts like drawing a line took step-by-step explanations during AutoCAD training. Had to do a lot of other crap work (though I passed most of it along to the other kid
).
AutoLISP programmer/AutoCAD Trainer/Check&Balance for IT idiots, Nercon
Business type: Product handling (conveyors)
May - Sept '01
Pros: Paid for the S2000
Cons: IT guys. LISP.
Highlights: Driving the S2000 in to work every day. Driving the S2000 home every day. Occasional lunch drives in the S2000.
Lowlights: Staring at LISP for 8+ hours per day. IT guys, while nice, were complete idiots when it came to CAD management. Spent a lot of time fixing their
ups. The new drafters were idiots. Not that the old ones weren't, but the old ones at least listened to me.
Designer, Rolco
Business type: Product handling
Sept '01 - Dec '01
Pros: Paid for the S2000 and food!
Cons: Boring. Repetitive.
Highlights: Longer drive to work in the S2000.
Lowlights: NO INTERNET ACCESS!
(remedied after a month or so). Drive in was boring (interstate drive, no 100+ mph stretches). Job basically entailed redesigning an existing machine to fit different product/conveyor layout.
Test Engineer
Business type: Big focking trucks
Dec '01 - Current
Pros: Fun once in a while
Cons: Boring most of the time. Crappy location.
Highlights: 75' long tractor trailer through the slalom!. Plenty of time to
Lowlights: Long stretches with little or no work. Boredom. Fort Wayne.
Busboy, Robbin's Restaurant
Business type: Food Service
Jan - Mar '95
Pros: I got paid.
Cons: Not very well. Ruined social life.
Highlights: 2 minute walk from home.
Lowlights: I had to work nearly every friday and saturday night, and occasionally sunday, too. Pay was minimum wage + a small portion of waitresses' tips. Got accused of stealing tips off table on more than one occasion. On nights that I closed, I had to wait until the last customer left. Frequently, the last customer would talk to the owner for several hours. Kitchen was hot, and smelly. Food was expensive, even with my 1/2 off discount. Owner was an a-hole. God, I hated that job!
Guest assistance - camera & sound, Target
Business type: Retail
May '95 - June '96
Pros: Chicks, employee discount
Cons: Fockin customers
Highlights: For some odd reason, there were a lot of good looking girls working there at the time. None were interested in me, but the frequent rejection was good training for the rest of my adult life. I was one of the few people who got my 26 hours per week (max for under 18ers) because I was a department
. Employee discount was used and abused. My boss was a total stoner, cool as shit though. Lowlights: Customers can be a real pain in the rear. During EAA (big airshow/convention, city population effectively quadruples overnight), it was a zoo. The dickheads at corporate wouldn't send extra trucks, so by the 3rd day of EAA there wasn't a camera or roll of film to be found. I remember a group of aussies who were particularly dismayed (flew half way around the world and forgot the camera!). Black friday (day after thanksgiving), the store opened early, I got there at 6:45 for a 7:00am shift, practically had to fight my way into the building.
Peon/co-op drafter, Nercon Eng & Mfg
Business type: Product handling (conveyors)
June '96 - Aug '97, May - Aug '98
Pros: Co-op (got out of school at noon), good hours
Cons: Being the peon
Highlights: Left work at noon. Pay was good for a 17 year old. Never had to work weekends. Boss was cool as hell (we still talk now and then). Got my brother a job there (where he still is, and makes more than I do
).Lowlights: Was the peon. Lots of folding humongous drawings (one guy was fond of 90" x 44" plots). Paper cuts. Not enough drawing time.
Custodial work, MTU dorms
Business type: Cleaning up other peoples' messes
Sept '98 - May '99, Sept '99 - May '00 (Supervisor)
Pros: Beer Money
Cons: Everything else
Highlights: Fringe benefits were good - lots of ice cream, soda, ice (handy for parties), and dishes were acquired.
Lowlights: Stupid hours. Shitty pay. Working every weekend, hung over or still drunk from the night before. Running trash compactors when it's 10 below and snowing. Kitchen was always a mess. I swear the retards that worked back there had food fights on a nightly basis. Seeing the source of your food (half gallon containers of egg substitute
). Cleaning bathrooms. Trying to find a dozen people to help clean kitchens and bathrooms for minimum wage. Getting called out to clean up other people's PUKE.I still have nightmares about this job.
CAD Manager/AutoCAD Trainer/General Labor, Square D
Business type: Electrical transformers
May - Aug '99, May - Aug '00
Pros: Total fock-off environment
Cons: Trying to teach complete idiots autoCAD.
Highlights: Another "kid" started sometime after I did. He and I had a riot, and we're still good friends. The 2nd summer the place was pretty much empty (the plant had closed), so he and I took control of the radio (bob & tom every day!), constantly screwing around and playing pranks on each other (and the other engineers). Pay was good.
Lowlights: Damn corporate internet access blocked all the good shit! Engineers had been using an archaic DOS based CAD program forever. Simple concepts like drawing a line took step-by-step explanations during AutoCAD training. Had to do a lot of other crap work (though I passed most of it along to the other kid
).AutoLISP programmer/AutoCAD Trainer/Check&Balance for IT idiots, Nercon
Business type: Product handling (conveyors)
May - Sept '01
Pros: Paid for the S2000
Cons: IT guys. LISP.
Highlights: Driving the S2000 in to work every day. Driving the S2000 home every day. Occasional lunch drives in the S2000.
Lowlights: Staring at LISP for 8+ hours per day. IT guys, while nice, were complete idiots when it came to CAD management. Spent a lot of time fixing their
ups. The new drafters were idiots. Not that the old ones weren't, but the old ones at least listened to me.Designer, Rolco
Business type: Product handling
Sept '01 - Dec '01
Pros: Paid for the S2000 and food!
Cons: Boring. Repetitive.
Highlights: Longer drive to work in the S2000.
Lowlights: NO INTERNET ACCESS!
(remedied after a month or so). Drive in was boring (interstate drive, no 100+ mph stretches). Job basically entailed redesigning an existing machine to fit different product/conveyor layout.Test Engineer
Business type: Big focking trucks
Dec '01 - Current
Pros: Fun once in a while
Cons: Boring most of the time. Crappy location.
Highlights: 75' long tractor trailer through the slalom!. Plenty of time to
Lowlights: Long stretches with little or no work. Boredom. Fort Wayne.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by WestSideBilly
[B]In my near infinite boredom at work, I got to thinking about how much better a job could be... then remembered my past jobs and realized how much worse
[B]In my near infinite boredom at work, I got to thinking about how much better a job could be... then remembered my past jobs and realized how much worse
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I had a roofing job one summer.. 100+ on top of the roof, carrying load after load of 75-105lb packs of shingles up to the second story, tons of loose nails, dust and dirt everywhere (imagine what happens to cedar shale after it has been covered for 20 years) black snot/saliva for hours when you came home the only good part was my boss was cool and it was a good work out
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jobs i've had in order (from age 15 to current-24):
arby's
-pro's: paid for firebird. landed a hot girlfriend.
-con's: food service blows.
don pablo's host:
-pros: hot latin girls worked there. sweeeet.
-cons: pay sucked. customers sat anywhere they wanted. waiters up my ass all the time for tables or for no tables.
blockbuster:
-pros: free movies. good friend worked there too. we dicked around all the time.
-cons: customers suck. late late hours. mgmt change sucked.
garden ridge cashier:
-pros: one of 2 guy cashiers. lots of girls. sweeeet.
-cons: smelled like potpurri after work. nothing to buy at garden ridge for an 18 yr old. oh. and i got fired.
ups:
-pros: pay at the time was great. assigned to airdock, which was the easiest area besides small sort.
-cons: 130 degree trailers. inhaling box dust for hours. lifting 100 lbs stuff into trailers all day long. then they went on strike, so i left.
computer lab tutor at (univ. north texas)
-pros: easy ass job. slept all the time in the back.
-cons: pay was nothing. boring. alone a lot of the time.
stream services tech support for HP
-pros: good money. good experience. awesome coworkers.
-cons: driving 40 miles to work while going to school full time. idiot customers seeking help. mgmt change all the time. wanted to throw computer out the window sometimes.
univ. north texas rec center
-pros: another easy ass job of sitting. walk to work. good hours.
-cons: paid lower than minimum wage. having to deal with 20+ huge ass basketball players that ruled the gym.
temp secretary (yes secretary)
-pros: was out of work for a long time before this.
-cons: being the office b!tch sucked. got fired.
mci/worldcom (current)
-pros: pay. first job after graduating. close to apt. decent first 'real' job.
-cons: nothing. nothing at all (wonders if they are recording my keystrokes somewhere)
arby's
-pro's: paid for firebird. landed a hot girlfriend.
-con's: food service blows.
don pablo's host:
-pros: hot latin girls worked there. sweeeet.
-cons: pay sucked. customers sat anywhere they wanted. waiters up my ass all the time for tables or for no tables.
blockbuster:
-pros: free movies. good friend worked there too. we dicked around all the time.
-cons: customers suck. late late hours. mgmt change sucked.
garden ridge cashier:
-pros: one of 2 guy cashiers. lots of girls. sweeeet.
-cons: smelled like potpurri after work. nothing to buy at garden ridge for an 18 yr old. oh. and i got fired.
ups:
-pros: pay at the time was great. assigned to airdock, which was the easiest area besides small sort.
-cons: 130 degree trailers. inhaling box dust for hours. lifting 100 lbs stuff into trailers all day long. then they went on strike, so i left.
computer lab tutor at (univ. north texas)
-pros: easy ass job. slept all the time in the back.
-cons: pay was nothing. boring. alone a lot of the time.
stream services tech support for HP
-pros: good money. good experience. awesome coworkers.
-cons: driving 40 miles to work while going to school full time. idiot customers seeking help. mgmt change all the time. wanted to throw computer out the window sometimes.
univ. north texas rec center
-pros: another easy ass job of sitting. walk to work. good hours.
-cons: paid lower than minimum wage. having to deal with 20+ huge ass basketball players that ruled the gym.
temp secretary (yes secretary)
-pros: was out of work for a long time before this.
-cons: being the office b!tch sucked. got fired.
mci/worldcom (current)
-pros: pay. first job after graduating. close to apt. decent first 'real' job.
-cons: nothing. nothing at all (wonders if they are recording my keystrokes somewhere)
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