# What is the worst job you have ever had? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-you-have-ever-had/760355 "2016-07-19T21:21:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-you-have-ever-had/760355/41 "2016-07-23T21:47:27Z")
Worst I ever had was working in the kitchen at a local high school. It wasn’t the work itself, but some hateful coworkers, a real cliquey bunch. It would take too long to explain it all. I can be tough but that was the only job I’ve ever had that I simply quit, walked away from, without having another job lined up. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-you-have-ever-had/760355/42 "2016-07-23T21:50:58Z")
Dish pit, washing dishes, at a college cafeteria. I didn’t last long. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-you-have-ever-had/760355/43 "2016-07-23T21:52:40Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > While I have never encountered this, nor did I ever hear about it during the 4 years I worked at Target (albeit as a cashier), several people on another website have said that women will not hesitate to use dressing rooms as a bathroom. :mad: :eek: > > I’m not talking about changing a diaper and leaving the dirty one there (although that happened too) or even vomiting, which is understandable because that can strike with little or no warning; I’m talking about going #1 or #2 right there on the floor, or that bench thingie. I don’t remember any of them saying that men did that, or left evidence of masturbation. > > :rolleyes: Are these women not afraid of being judged by the person that walks into the room immediately after them? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-you-have-ever-had/760355/44 "2016-07-23T22:03:58Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Kerning. 40 hours a week, for seven years. Every character pair in over 6,000 fonts. How much to kern “&T” in Snell Roundhand Light? Yeah, I did that. > > I went on vacation to Hawaii, and was kerning palm trees. One of my students (typography class), rushing in late on a Monday morning: “Damn you for spoiling my commute! Now I’m mentally kerning billboards on the way to work!” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-you-have-ever-had/760355/45 "2016-07-23T22:27:24Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > I worked as a nurses’ aide one summer in a nursing home. My job was to change sheets while people were still in bed, clean up after the incontinent patients, empty catheter bags (and record the volume for the nurses’ charts), bathe patients, feed them suppers, transfer patients from beds to chairs or back, help the mobile walk around a bit, fetch things the patients wanted, break into the kitchen after hours to fetch snacks for people (occasionally, I’d make a milkshake for my mom and leave it on her meds cart on my way past her – she was the RN who hired me). > > It was mostly cleaning poop off of old people and watching them die. It was very physically and emotionally demanding. People who want to go into nursing are heavily recommended to get a CNA beforehand, and do this kind of work. They will know IMMEDIATELY if they wish to pursue it any further. As for kerning, the closest thing I can say to that was when I was taking organic chemistry, and saw a reference to the movie “Psycho” and read it as P-S-Y and an aldehyde group. 😛 In second place was a couple years later, when I was a hotel banquet server and after setting up a table of 14 with two adjoining tables of 6, saw it as an erythromycin molecule. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-you-have-ever-had/760355/46 "2016-07-24T04:08:17Z")
I knew I’d been spending too much time in Photoshop when I pulled over in front of a skyscraper that had one of its windows out of line. It took me a second to realize I couldn’t lasso that area, CTL-C/CTL-V, and nudge it in line with all the other windows. Scared me; I switched to doing most of my art by hand… before I needed to join Adobe Anonymous. ETA: And to stay on topic, I did the grueling dish crew thing at a Scout summer camp. Since we got room & board and were only paid $10/week, it came out to NINE CENTS AN HOUR. ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-you-have-ever-had/760355/47 "2016-07-24T05:32:46Z")
> [@Old\_Goat](#): > > Death notification US Army New York City Feb-DEc 1969. Every 40 days. Briefly held the record of 8 or 9 in one day. Only remember three or four cases. Went back to harvesting salmon roe in Alaska after I got out. :eek: You win the thread. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-you-have-ever-had/760355/48 "2016-07-24T14:03:54Z")
Flipping burgers … longest 5 days of my life (thanx to **jtur88** for that clause). My current job is the filthiest, so ugly and dirty even Mike Rowe couldn’t do a segment on it … rental manager … throwing babies into snow banks “Sorry kid, but your mama’s a crack whore”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-you-have-ever-had/760355.md?page=2)