taterhill Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 I worked at KFC on Main and Bailey by the UB south Campus for 3 months before spring break in 1993...cooking chicken in the back...it was funny..I was there 2 months and they wanted me to go into the management program...my roomomates loved it as I brought home about $100 worth of leftover chicken and taters every night...nothing better than free KFC in sollege Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Worked Temp one winter after finishing college. One fridgid day I got a call to go to a plant where they had a water main break. Had to dig down through frozen ground to the main using a pick. Weather sucked, job sucked, pay sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duey Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 While at UB, I worked for Consumer Surveys, which was located in a room at the beautiful Ridge Lea campus. I would sit there and call person after person trying to get them to tell me which products they used. In return, they would get some coupons in the mail. Brutal four hour shifts...all for minimum pay + a couple of pennies extra for every survey that was completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taterhill Posted December 6, 2006 Author Share Posted December 6, 2006 I also worked for Goldhaber Research..forgot about that..calling people to do surveys...It was awful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungee Jumper Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Selling cookbooks door-to-door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajzepp Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 I've had good luck with my jobs, but the worst one was not all that long ago. I was hired to a sr. mental health unit (as an RN). They sold me on the position (it's not that I'm special....there's an RN shortage and we ALL get sold these days) as being perfect for me since I have a prior degree in psychology and my preferred population is geriatrics. Well, basically the MD who was running the program was a total !@#$. He himself was certifiable and taking at least three psychotropic meds that we knew about. He was also a very aggressive businessman and very driven in terms of wealth. As it turns out, he was one of the few people who specialized in ECT, or, as many of you may know it, 'electro-convulsive therapy'. You may have also heard of it as 'electro-shock therapy'. From a clinical standpoint, I did some research and found that it DID have value for a certain segment of folks suffering from depression and/or bipolar disease when other treatment modalities (i.e. drugs and therapy) weren't successful. The problem is that the guy was making $1500 per 'zap', so he was basically zapping the living sh*t out of everyone who crossed his path. I even herad there was a nurse who he was zapping from time to time Why did the job suck? Because all too often I would see some poor 90-year old lady whose family was tired of caring for her (or NOT caring for her in most cases....) be admitted to the unit, only to see this assshole doc look at her with dollar signs in his eyes. Families loved this guy cause he's admit their mom, dad, brother, etc....whoever needed a good zapping....get them out of the family's hair for weeks at a time....so they never had any problem signing off on the "therapy". And of course this doc lvoed it cause it was money in his pocket. Once I learned that the hospital system itself was just pretty much letting this guy run carte blanche as long as he didn't kill anyone, I had to get out of there. This guy's practice was nothing but a cash cow for everyone involved and it made me sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cugalabanza Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but the worst was doing toxic waste disposal. I would have to put on a tyvek suit and respirator and climb into acid tanks to suction and squeejee all the caustic gunk and bits of metal out. You could only do it for about an hour at a time because your rubber gloves and boots fill up with sweat and you start to get dizzy from heat exhaustion. I only did it for a few months. I was shocked when I found out that some of the guys I was working with were much younger than I thought. These guys looked like they were in their 50's, but they were in their late 20's & early 30's. Not for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajzepp Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but the worst was doing toxic waste disposal. Okay, you win! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffan00 Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 The One i am currently at! (Fire Inspector) What a load of crap this job is! Bad boss and all!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marv's Neighbor Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Selling cookbooks door-to-door. 858650[/snapback] NURSE RATCHETT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 I've had good luck with my jobs, but the worst one was not all that long ago. I was hired to a sr. mental health unit (as an RN). They sold me on the position (it's not that I'm special....there's an RN shortage and we ALL get sold these days) as being perfect for me since I have a prior degree in psychology and my preferred population is geriatrics. Well, basically the MD who was running the program was a total !@#$. He himself was certifiable and taking at least three psychotropic meds that we knew about. He was also a very aggressive businessman and very driven in terms of wealth. As it turns out, he was one of the few people who specialized in ECT, or, as many of you may know it, 'electro-convulsive therapy'. You may have also heard of it as 'electro-shock therapy'. From a clinical standpoint, I did some research and found that it DID have value for a certain segment of folks suffering from depression and/or bipolar disease when other treatment modalities (i.e. drugs and therapy) weren't successful. The problem is that the guy was making $1500 per 'zap', so he was basically zapping the living sh*t out of everyone who crossed his path. I even herad there was a nurse who he was zapping from time to time Why did the job suck? Because all too often I would see some poor 90-year old lady whose family was tired of caring for her (or NOT caring for her in most cases....) be admitted to the unit, only to see this assshole doc look at her with dollar signs in his eyes. Families loved this guy cause he's admit their mom, dad, brother, etc....whoever needed a good zapping....get them out of the family's hair for weeks at a time....so they never had any problem signing off on the "therapy". And of course this doc lvoed it cause it was money in his pocket. Once I learned that the hospital system itself was just pretty much letting this guy run carte blanche as long as he didn't kill anyone, I had to get out of there. This guy's practice was nothing but a cash cow for everyone involved and it made me sick. 858655[/snapback] Is that what they're calling it these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkyMannn Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Forest City Auto. Big con game/scam business, jerking people around on price and parts. What few morals I have I had to suppress to work in that place. I lasted 7 months, one of the biggest smiles I ever had was the last time I walked out that door. Now the building houses a porn shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajzepp Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Is that what they're calling it these days? 858681[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udonkey Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Worked one summer during college delivering ice for the local distributor (Home City Ice). Some guys that I know had previously worked there and said they made decent money... The summer that I worked there was pretty mild. Also, I got some of the crappiest routes, commonly having to drive through downtown Cincinnati to deliver to all of the mom and pop convenience stores while getting haggled by crackheads for money. The job was 100% commision and it was common to put in 12-14 hour days...at the end of the summer, I averaged up my wages vs. time and I made less than minimum wage. Now, I refuse to even buy their product...I'd rather my beer be warm than patronize that shithole company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevewin Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 My wife and I were just talking about this the other day - she was putting together a get-together for her area at work and had this as one of the 'guess which manager' questions. Mine was temp work one summer for Manpower while I was in college - I was getting an engineering degree so requested the 'white collar' jobs but they just sent me to all these crappy menial labor jobs - usually lasting a week at a time. One was unloading boxes of ceiling fans into the wharehouse of this ceiling fan company. Our job also included unpacking each fan, using a black magic marker to black out the UL sticker, then putting them back in the boxes. After almost a week of this mind-numbing activity, the 'supervisor' noticed a scratch on one of the poles of the fans. What was happening was that some were gettting scratched by the collar on the fans while we were doing this - but this mental giant determined some must have come damaged from the factory - so he made us go back through all the hundreds of the ones we already did to see if there were any scratches (no doubt creating more scratches along the way). All I could think about was "today's my last day, today's my last day" - and feeling real pity for the people who worked there for a living. By far the worst was a week of cleaning out abandonded apartments in a low income housing development. It still gives me shivers I worked a lot w/ a guy named Stan, and he always told me "You're smart - you're going to college - I should have gone to college". Menial temp labor was his full time job - he could be unpacking ceiling fans now as we speak. I spent one week delivering furniture - and one thing I took away from that was to always give a nice tip to furniture delivery men - I still remember the elation of getting that little extra cash after hauling someone's oversize sleeper sofa up two flights of stairs. My wife's worst was doing cold-calling for an insurance company. She quit when she called someone who's husband had just died I once worked with a guy who's worst job was at some paint factory - they had a room where there was this big hole in the ground they dumped old paint into - when it filled up it was hard to make out where it was since there was paint all over the floor - one day he fell right into it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duey Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 I also worked for Goldhaber Research..forgot about that..calling people to do surveys...It was awful 858639[/snapback] I always got the people who just sat down to dinner or had just gone to bed. And the best was that the manager of the place would tap into your calls to make sure you were saying the right things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 It's a tie: dishwasher at the Windham Mountain Ski Slope, and loading bales of hay onto a flatbed. Didn't take me long to realize there are two kinds of people in this world: those who will do manual labor...and me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dib Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Janitor at a movie theatre. started at 4 am so we could be done by the time the theatre opened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajzepp Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Best manual labor job = UPS Want to get in shape fast? Go unload trucks for UPS a few nights per week. I have never been in such pain as I was after my first few nights working there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Best manual labor job = UPS Want to get in shape fast? Go unload trucks for UPS a few nights per week. I have never been in such pain as I was after my first few nights working there. 858789[/snapback] I can relate. One job I had was loading baggage into Airplanes. One time, unloading a plane from NY, I had to unload a dog create with a dog in it. It had died during the flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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