What is the WORST JOB you've ever had? Why?

I really, really hated hanging and cleaning gutters. I had that job like 7 years ago.

A pet photography job. They still owe me $1,600. That's why I quit. The funny thing is about this thread, I volunteer to clean up marine mammal poop for free! And I drive over an hour each way to do it. Hehe.

Wow, your story makes my worst job look absolutely pathetic. I worked as a dishwasher/food prep guy after high school and had to wash food off people's dishes, getting splashed by hot water and food 10 hrs a day. The worst part of the food prep duties was having to peel and chop onions-- one 50-pound bag at a time. I also had to trim surplus cuts of meat and grind it into hamburger. You know that saying that if people knew how sausage was made no one would eat it? Yeah, I felt that way about hamburger for a long time after that.

the worst job i did is the medical transcriptionist in CKar systems

I was a maid at the Holiday Inn for a couple of days while on summer break from college. My best friend and I started together and both of us quit the next day.

to work in a call center, i got sick and tired of answering and saying the same thing over and over and over and over again. sorry..

Disconnecting electric service for delinquent consumers is a risky job, most of them get angry with you because you disconnect their electric service. In some place consumers are cool. But in shanty area is different. Most of them are drunkard.

A certain job I had involving children during high school was the worst..I love kids..but I was underpaid, overworked, and not appreciated at that job.

Worst job I've ever had was in the laundry room at the local hospital. You had to be there at 5 am, mess with huge piles of dirty, bloody, awful laundry to send out. Folded tons of sheets and towels and then you had to push the laundry carts all over the place. I didn't last long. :)

Telemarketing was my worst job ever, I don't ever want to do it again.

That is a bad job you are right on that one. I guess for me it would be cleaning out a dog kennel that too was stinky. I lasted 3 days. and quit

I guess the grossest job that I ever had would be when I worked on a dairy farm. Like you, I had wash the cow's udders off before they were to be milked. These cow udders usually had lots of dirt on them and then they would sometimes poop while you were washing them at get it all over you. The grossest part was when we had to clean the holding stall that they stayed in, because we used recycled sewege water from the cows to clean it. It was like hooked up to a pressure washer.

My worse job was last summer. I worked in a print shop as a pressman's assistant. More commonly known as a pressman's um...b word...just to keep me from getting in trouble on here. Anyways, I stood at the end of the press and waited for these huge posters...they were like for elections..come to the end and then I would stack them evenly on a forklift. This job was nightshift. I worked from 4 in the afternoon until 5 in the morning. The posters smelled so bad, between the cardboard and the ink. Oh, the ink was the worse! I would go home smelling like it and it would be all over me. I would have to scrub for like an hour just to get enough of it off so it wouldn't get in the bed. I think I could still smell that ink on me a month after I quit. It was horrible.

Oh man, the worst job I have ever had I just recently quit. My boss only came to work 2 days a week and didn't want to do anything while she was there. She would push everything off on to me and another girl. I had to do the job of 3 different people and I could not keep up. She knew I was overwhelmed and did not care. She had no idea what I was working on during the day. She didn't even know how I did my job. She was so rude and was spreading the worst rumors about people. The other girls at work kiss her butt to keep on her good side. As long as you are on her good side she is your best friend. If you don't agree with something she says she hates you. I would get sick to my stomach every morning before work and couldn't enjoy my weekends because I would be stressing the whole time about monday. She freaked out when I left and wouldn't talk to me. She acts like she is still in highschool. I am just so glad to be away from her. I have a great job now and I am so happy.

wow that is pretty yuk job! I've never really had a bad job (well ok maybe when I was a maid) - had many that I didn't like but was glad to have never the less. And as I look at today's economy, young adults, I appreciate all of those jobs I was made to go out and get which molded me into what I feel to be a worth while contributor to society.

The worst job u can have is doing nothing yourself & getting things done by others, still u get paid by your employer.. It is like wasting your talent.. Learning nothing.

Worst job I ever had is driving a long distance to other our province. It would be a great experiences but for money it would be a low price to pay my fatigue. Even my worst job wouldn’t compare to your job, but It need long time period to finish our trip with our minimum low prize.

WELL .. I am looking for my first one!!

I worked at McDonalds briefly while I was in high school. What a nightmare that was! Not only did I have to deal with the grease and the rude customers, but I had a manager who was on a total power trip. She just liked having control over people and would order us to do the stupidest things. She always gave people the worst schedules and we always wound up trading shifts around to sort things out ourselves. She'd have cashiers doing clean up while the janitor sat on his butt and talked on the phone. I finally quit because she wouldn't let me go home one day despite the fact that I was running a fever and nauseous. That's one decision I will never regret!

today is my first job ever in my life but tomorrow's i'm not coming back to it. you know why, i hate it. i never thought that transcribing could be that hell, heller than hell, even satan would hate it!!! i should tell you the story, i know i'm sort of ranting, but i want to tell it. the schedule given to me through phone call from the boss was 9 hrs, 8am to 5pm. when i got in the office this morning, i didn't get to sign the contract because the boss was out of town, and still i was assigned to finish a job that's why i had to take my time until 9pm. you could imagine, i was teary-eyed while transcribing those voice documents, and it was a 30-minute voice document considering the slang accent which wasted my whole time rewinding and correcting stuffs. on my way home, i couldn't kept myself, i swear i cried a bit, which i know is really ridiculous. i just realized it's not the job that i want. i'm glad my mother is supportive of my decision to leave the job. fortunately, there would be no problem because i haven't signed the contract yet. but i really swear, i got a headache after that. not only would a transcriber in that office worsen his eye sight, but his hearing as well. O_x I'm seeking a job to make money, not to put myself into sickness.