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post 142 - bad job

Journal Entry: Wed Jul 16, 2008, 8:38 PM

What's the worst job you ever had.

I once worked at a Pioneer gas station between my first and second year of animation. Man was that a bad job. The owner hired me put me on the midnight shift... and never took me off. I quickly became a basket case since I would rarely see the sun. He had all his employees work 40 hour work weeks, which most people want, but if you where short 40 hours one week he would make you make up those hours stating that "you owe him" that time.

God was he an asshole. Worst part was that he would call me "Poncho"... Poncho? WTF?!

It was awful. I needed the money and so I ended up there for a month before I could find another job. Even after I left I would have flash backs around the 6pm mark as that would be the time I would usually wake up to and start to get ready. I would have this shock type feeling and a think for a moment that I would have to go back to that place.

At least justice came at last. After animation was all done I just happen to be at the little mall where the Pioneer was. It was all shut down and was going to be bulldozed. Awesome! When I found that out I think I smiled all the way home and then some. ^_^ I'm sure my jerk of a boss during my stint as a gas monkey just got placed at another station and is currently making more lives miserable. But deep down inside... I picture him losing his station and becoming some grunt worker somewhere or sitting at home... jobless, while I've become a lead artist and work in the games industry.

Hey... a guy can dream...

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~FoxyTangerine

Jul 16, 2008, 8:43:36 PM

i got fired after working as a waitress for a week and a half for "not fitting in"

at a wings joint. All I had to do was answer phones. I didn't fit in... sitting and answering phones and taking orders...

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*MoonDarter

Jul 16, 2008, 8:51:58 PM

Well, all my jobs have had their less-than-wonderful stretches, but none have been uniformly awful. I guess in my case it's more like dying from a thousand tiny cuts.

=foreverwhiteknight

Jul 16, 2008, 9:02:36 PM

None have been universally bad for me.. but the one that stands out for me is Dollar General.. I was supposed to be the lowest of the "manager" class yet they barely gave me any hours and acted like the cashiers were over me.. especially under that last store manager we had..

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*TheGreatZarquon

Jul 16, 2008, 11:37:12 PM

I had a job during the spring up in Minnesota rebuilding boat docks after the lake ice broke up. When lake ice breaks up, it can do a lot of damage to a small dock, so I had plenty to do. The work usually consisted of putting on hip-waders and standing in 33°F water, swinging a 22-pound maul at a timber until you had driven it far enough into the ground. Then you moved onto the next one and did it all over again, for about 12 hours or so. Needless to say, it was freezing, boring, and dangerous if you were the guy holding the timber in place; I almost got my skull crushed one time. Also, if you bent too far forward, near-frozen water would rush down your hip-waders to your crotch and cause instant, painful shrinkage.

I'd have to say it was definitely more miserable than that stint I did working as a carnie; at least then I go ton the rides for free and got unlimited nachos.

~telofax

Jul 17, 2008, 3:59:48 AM

I once worked the night shift at a car impound. They also went out and did wheel clampings. I worked the phone and the front desk. I had to take payments from people to get their cars released from the impound or to have clamps removed from their cars.

Think about it, it's 3 AM, all you want to do is go home, but there's a big, yellow clamp on your car. You then find out that you have to pay a huge fee to have it removed. You're tired and pissed off, and who's the first person you speak to on the phone? That's right, me.

As you can well imagine, I had a lot of angry people yelling at me on the phone in the wee hours of the morning.

To this day, I still jump every time a phone rings.

~triadenforcer

Jul 17, 2008, 4:33:11 AM

reminds me of the job tony montana had before being hired for a drug mission that would give him the name we know him as.......

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~Timekeeper9

Jul 17, 2008, 4:35:05 AM

Delivering pizzas for a local establishment. Inevitably once a week I would be the only driver on duty at peak. Then cap it with the fact I could only drive the clapped out company cars. Nothing like stalling out in the middle of a major four lane intersection! Bastards then expected me to clean out the ovens and food prep areas. Every night I went home so filthy I couldn't stand myself.

Cheets rocks!

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Jul 17, 2008, 6:39:31 AM

Funcoland. 1 month.

=spasemann

Jul 17, 2008, 7:35:14 AM

when i was 15 i delivered newspapers to a large route,
this was during the winter in erupe, 600 houses, temperatures belov cero, and i rain and thunder

I would die before doing that again!!!!

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