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Title: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Pike on July 23, 2009, 08:58:43 PM
Beat this:

I worked at IHOP in Manhattan. Totally sucked balls. I quit after 2 months

Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: willie83 on July 23, 2009, 09:02:24 PM
Setting concrete forms for basements. Not awful putting them in, but getting them out sucks. Working concrete in general isn't fun. :crybaby:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: TAFNA Dude on July 23, 2009, 09:03:19 PM
Beat this:

I worked at IHOP in Manhattan. Totally sucked balls. I quit after 2 months


know a redhead named Tabetha?
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: cyclist on July 23, 2009, 09:06:43 PM
Was a busboy at Big Boy's Restaurant.

Also drove an ice cream truck. 

Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: RonLongshaft on July 23, 2009, 09:10:56 PM
GoGreen Curbside recycling in 'tan

used my own truck and gas, drove around pickup up nasty moldy beer cans/bottles and moldy milk jugs- rain, shine, snow, wind, hot etc  :mad:  and  made $70 a week  :banghead:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Perry on July 23, 2009, 09:17:25 PM
In like half an hour I gotta go in to Wal-Mart for my first overnight shift, will be working 10pm-7am 5 days a week. Only other job was at Arby's, which had it's ups and downs. I think this should be better.  :hope:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Chingon on July 23, 2009, 09:18:01 PM
can't say for security reasons
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Pike on July 23, 2009, 09:19:43 PM
Wow it's between Cyclists ice cream job and Ron's trash man job. I thought IHOP was pretty bad...

I also worked at Pats Blue Rib'n. It sucked...but at least it was fun because I could get hammered.

In like half an hour I gotta go in to Wal-Mart for my first overnight shift, will be working 10pm-7am 5 days a week. Only other job was at Arby's, which had it's ups and downs. I think this should be better.  :hope:

I'm interning for a food company right now, i worked 7pm - 5am last week. Im back to normal shifts now and I still haven't recovered

Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Thin Blue Line on July 23, 2009, 09:41:58 PM
Toss up between building bridges and delivering pizza in Manhattan.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: hemmy on July 23, 2009, 09:47:38 PM
Only had a few jobs:

Painter, Roofer, and Software Developer.


Roofer is by far the worst.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Babytears on July 23, 2009, 10:16:26 PM
Wow it's between Cyclists ice cream job and Ron's trash man job. I thought IHOP was pretty bad...

I also worked at Pats Blue Rib'n. It sucked...but at least it was fun because I could get hammered.

In like half an hour I gotta go in to Wal-Mart for my first overnight shift, will be working 10pm-7am 5 days a week. Only other job was at Arby's, which had it's ups and downs. I think this should be better.  :hope:

I'm interning for a food company right now, i worked 7pm - 5am last week. Im back to normal shifts now and I still haven't recovered



You know Gabe (at PBR)?
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: FelixRex on July 23, 2009, 10:34:57 PM
I started to LOL at this whole thread until I saw "roofer". That job legitimately sucks. There's a difference between jobs that suck because they're boring or you're allegedly underemployed, or jobs that suck because you have to do sucky things (roofer, hay hauler, assistant crack whore, etc).

I hated my job as a DC paralegal, but it was mostly just because I was frustrated with what I believed to be my "under-employment." As jobs go, it really wasn't that bad.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: willie83 on July 23, 2009, 10:40:07 PM
can't say for security reasons

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Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: pwrcat1 on July 23, 2009, 11:23:05 PM
Abercrombie...  :suicideispainless:

Drove the catering van for Hy-Vee  :Driving:. Which could have been worse, but when business was slow I would get stuck working in the kitchen... It's been 4-5 years but I would recommend not eating at the Hy-Vee kitchen on Shawnee Mission Pkwy.  :barf:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: fatty fat fat on July 23, 2009, 11:25:07 PM
Quote
Hy-Vee kitchen


deli? sliced meat place? chinese? salad bar? v. interested as MHK is adding a Hi-V soon.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: pwrcat1 on July 23, 2009, 11:38:02 PM
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Hy-Vee kitchen


deli? sliced meat place? chinese? salad bar? v. interested as MHK is adding a Hi-V soon.

Salad bar and restaurant(if that is what you want to call it).  Chinese was connected with our section but they had their own set of staff.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on July 23, 2009, 11:41:29 PM


Also drove an ice cream truck. 



Hey, little girl, I gotta popsicle for ya!   :P
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: dlew12 on July 24, 2009, 12:46:11 AM
Sonic, Painting, and Working as a warehouse temp...
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: nicname on July 24, 2009, 04:40:06 AM
Grain elevator during summer.  Climbing hundreds of feet in the air, shoveling out boot pits etc.  definantly worst job ever.  Close second was at McCall's in Manhattan I lasted a week.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: cireksu on July 24, 2009, 06:30:36 AM
Bank Teller 1 summer.

Batting cage guy 1 summer.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Stupid Fitz on July 24, 2009, 06:46:37 AM
Washed dishes at Little Apple Brew for a month or so, also made the donuts at DK's on Tuttle.  FYI, the cake donuts are made the night before.  Worst job was in HS when I worked at a park and had to pick up trash and clean bathrooms.  People do some pretty bad stuff to a park bathrooms. :'byecruelworld:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: WillieWannabe on July 24, 2009, 07:47:24 AM
farmhand...Helped lay and pull irigation pipe out of 9 foot tall corn fields in the middle of summer. Inside the pipe was nasty water that had been sitting there for about a month. To get it out of the field you had to hold the 20 foot pipe above your head and walk out, which means your arms get cut up all to sh*t. All this while it is 100 degrees out and no wind.

Wal-mart is a close second....
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Rick Daris on July 24, 2009, 07:57:56 AM
worked for six months at the "downtown" wichita enterprise car rental place for almost six months after i got the old bachelors degree. words can not describe how horrible this was. scared me straight into grad school. horrible deal that was. worst period of my life.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: jthutch on July 24, 2009, 08:16:08 AM
putting up hay!  100 degrees Putting it in the hay loft sucks no breeze at all and dusty, coughing sneezing.  Your blowing dirt out of you nose for weeks after putting up hay.  Oh and your shoulders and back hurt for awhile too.  But as my dad always said it build character. 
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: catdude33 on July 24, 2009, 08:20:44 AM
lumberjack.  Wildcat Tree Service.  Cut down a tree one time and a whole family of racoons fell out. 
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Kat Kid on July 24, 2009, 08:27:47 AM
You guys are all pvssies, except for the farm jobs.

KK's worst jobs:

1) USD 383 janitor
2) KSU Dairy Farm
3) McDonald's
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: FelixRex on July 24, 2009, 08:30:16 AM
QFT on the hay hauling. Grew up on a farm, and it was one of several jobs that consistently inspired me to study hard.

Used to hate cleaning out the grain bins, too. Rotten grain is unbelievably gross. Almost worse than cleaning out the pit beneath the scales.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on July 24, 2009, 08:38:31 AM
You guys are all pvssies, except for the farm jobs.

KK's worst jobs:

1) USD 383 janitor
2) KSU Dairy Farm
3) McDonald's


Did the school janitor and McD's thing one time, too.  Not that bad.  Except when you had to change the big trash can in the retarded kids room (diapers).
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Paul11 on July 24, 2009, 09:19:11 AM
I have worked in a bunch of restaurants

McAlisters
Quiznos
Jimmy Johns

Quiz and Jimmy in Manhattan

Working in food service sucks because the customers are a-holes and so are the managers.

McAlisters was by far the worse. I rarely got breaks, didn't get to keep tips and the manager was a douchenozzle
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Ghost of Stan Parrish on July 24, 2009, 09:38:12 AM
Food service jobs are cake (except dishwasher).  The hardest job I had involved doing yard work in the summer.  The most boring job I had was filling tiny baggies with grain samples and stapling these little bags to pieces of paper, for the International Grain Program at KSU... several hours a day... five days a week.  Mind-bogglingly boring.  Both jobs sucked in different ways.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: cas on July 24, 2009, 10:28:24 AM
putting up hay!  100 degrees Putting it in the hay loft sucks no breeze at all and dusty, coughing sneezing.  Your blowing dirt out of you nose for weeks after putting up hay.  Oh and your shoulders and back hurt for awhile too.  But as my dad always said it build character. 

I can hear that.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Pete on July 24, 2009, 10:33:42 AM
I cleaned the kill floor and butcher lab in Weber Hall....I lasted 1 day at that job.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: hiyahowya on July 24, 2009, 12:36:43 PM
Hicks.  LOL
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: WillieWannabe on July 24, 2009, 01:42:39 PM
Hicks.  LOL
:lurk:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: KSt8er on July 24, 2009, 02:05:19 PM
Worked at a foundry pulling 1600 degree plow shanks out of the high heat furnace, no AC, no breeze, in mid KS summer.
Same place but grinding the bulge left from the punch that made bolt holes in the shanks, they weighed 35 pounds.  Wore me the frack out and hands would be numb for hours. 
Shoveling hot asphalt laying down road surface in KS summer.


Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: pwrcat1 on July 24, 2009, 02:14:17 PM
Worked at a foundry pulling 1600 degree plow shanks out of the high heat furnace, no AC, no breeze, in mid KS summer.
Same place but grinding the bulge left from the punch that made bolt holes in the shanks, they weighed 35 pounds.  Wore me the frack out and hands would be numb for hours. 
Shoveling hot asphalt laying down road surface in KS summer.




Outside of shoveling asphalt I have no idea what you're talking about. 
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: jthutch on July 24, 2009, 02:19:38 PM
Hicks.  LOL

Nice first, post welcome.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: KSt8er on July 24, 2009, 02:38:35 PM
Worked at a foundry pulling 1600 degree plow shanks out of the high heat furnace, no AC, no breeze, in mid KS summer.
Same place but grinding the bulge left from the punch that made bolt holes in the shanks, they weighed 35 pounds.  Wore me the frack out and hands would be numb for hours.  
Shoveling hot asphalt laying down road surface in KS summer.

Outside of shoveling asphalt I have no idea what you're talking about.  

Steel foundry.  Picture an oven running at 1600 degrees about 40 feet in length with a 3' wide by 12" high gap at each end.  One end you are the guy reaching in with a rod that has a hook on the end to grab the plow shank and pull it into a press machine to form it.   The other end you are the guy who has to grind down bulges that occur when a previous process punched holes in the ends for bolt holes.   Suffice it to say it is hard, hot work. 
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Rick Daris on July 24, 2009, 02:42:11 PM
Worked at a foundry pulling 1600 degree plow shanks out of the high heat furnace, no AC, no breeze, in mid KS summer.
Same place but grinding the bulge left from the punch that made bolt holes in the shanks, they weighed 35 pounds.  Wore me the frack out and hands would be numb for hours. 
Shoveling hot asphalt laying down road surface in KS summer.




Outside of shoveling asphalt I have no idea what you're talking about. 

what's asphalt?
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on July 24, 2009, 02:54:55 PM
Food service jobs are cake (except dishwasher).  The hardest job I had involved doing yard work in the summer.  The most boring job I had was filling tiny baggies with grain samples and stapling these little bags to pieces of paper, for the International Grain Program at KSU... several hours a day... five days a week.  Mind-bogglingly boring.  Both jobs sucked in different ways.

Dishwasher's not that bad.  You are just all sweaty and smell like skanky food when you're done.  Did it at Applebees in Manhattan way back.  The daytime guy was mildly retarded, so it can't be that hard.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: jthutch on July 24, 2009, 03:00:02 PM
Hicks.  LOL

Nice first, post welcome.
Nice punctuation placement retard.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: LimestoneOutcropping on July 24, 2009, 03:01:47 PM
pixie dust spreader on the tilt-a-whirl.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: jthutch on July 24, 2009, 03:04:26 PM
pixie dust spreader on the tilt-a-whirl.

Sounds like you would just hover in one place what is so hard about that?  Damn Pixies always complaining about there enchanting jobs.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Hercules Antigua on July 24, 2009, 03:17:02 PM
Farmhand, worst job I had to to was dismantle and remove an entire sprinkler that had been blown over by a storm. 
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Pike on July 24, 2009, 03:31:53 PM
Grain elevator during summer.  Climbing hundreds of feet in the air, shoveling out boot pits etc.  definantly worst job ever.  Close second was at McCall's in Manhattan I lasted a week.

I'm working at a mill right now. I did some elevator work on Wednesday. Smelled pretty bad.

Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: pwrcat1 on July 24, 2009, 03:52:19 PM
Worked at a foundry pulling 1600 degree plow shanks out of the high heat furnace, no AC, no breeze, in mid KS summer.
Same place but grinding the bulge left from the punch that made bolt holes in the shanks, they weighed 35 pounds.  Wore me the frack out and hands would be numb for hours.  
Shoveling hot asphalt laying down road surface in KS summer.

Outside of shoveling asphalt I have no idea what you're talking about.  

Steel foundry.  Picture an oven running at 1600 degrees about 40 feet in length with a 3' wide by 12" high gap at each end.  One end you are the guy reaching in with a rod that has a hook on the end to grab the plow shank and pull it into a press machine to form it.   The other end you are the guy who has to grind down bulges that occur when a previous process punched holes in the ends for bolt holes.   Suffice it to say it is hard, hot work. 

Gotchya.  Sounds terrible. :yuck:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on July 24, 2009, 05:15:33 PM
GOLDbRICKGANboss sez: I worked at an f-ing factory.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Weird Roberts foam finger on July 24, 2009, 05:20:57 PM

Dishwasher's not that bad.  You are just all sweaty and smell like skanky food when you're done.  Did it at Applebees in Manhattan way back.  The daytime guy was mildly retarded, so it can't be that hard.

I dunno, three hours of that and I was ready to kill someone.  Maybe location makes a difference (I worked at the Derby - bleargh).

Worst job for me was being a telemarketer (needed the money).  You got 30 minutes for lunch and maybe two 10 minute breaks.  Other than that, you were stuck in a tiny cubicle all day, calling jagoffs who hate your guts, with no break because they set the thing up to autodial the second your previous call ends.  So basically, the best calls were the ones that droned on for 40 minutes because the person on the other end of the line was too stupid to hang up.   :whatthe:

This is why telemarketers don't want to let you go ... they have to call someone else up the second you hang up.

After nine hours of people telling you to  :suicideispainless: , you generally felt like they might be right.  The only real way to entertain yourself (and keep from slitting your wrists) was to try to be a bigger creep, just to piss them off worse and see how far they would go.  It was a never-ending cycle of escalation.

Good times.  :beerchug:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on July 24, 2009, 05:24:04 PM

Dishwasher's not that bad.  You are just all sweaty and smell like skanky food when you're done.  Did it at Applebees in Manhattan way back.  The daytime guy was mildly retarded, so it can't be that hard.

I dunno, three hours of that and I was ready to kill someone.  Maybe location makes a difference (I worked at the Derby - bleargh).



Did that during Frosh year.  Saw a guy take a swig of pop that came down on one of the trays.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Weird Roberts foam finger on July 24, 2009, 05:29:05 PM
Yeah, there was always the one weirdo who would eat off the trays.  And then the lazy ones that wouldn't keep up, giving you more work to do.

I sort of liked it when one of the trays would get caught in the assembly and then a ton of glasses and plates and crap would come tumbling down.  Then some dude had to crawl up into the hole to fish it out.  Meant more cleanup, but at least it broke up the monotony.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Stupid Fitz on July 24, 2009, 05:34:17 PM
Nothing on my original list tops cleaning up after park people use the bathroom, but washing dishes at Little A was pretty terrible. 
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Pett on July 24, 2009, 05:43:19 PM
Worst job for me was being a telemarketer (needed the money).

Wouldn't mind this. Would be incredibly boring though. Pay is pretty good isn't it?
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: mjrod on July 24, 2009, 09:46:10 PM
Worst job was a newspaper delivery boy for the Manhattan Mercury when I was 15 except for one really f-ing winter cold morning I was delivering papers at 4 am and walked by this house delivering a newspaper.   In the front window was a neighbor chick I had known and thought she was particularly hot.    SHe was standing in front of the window - completely nude.

When I got home, my mom asked "What took you so long?"

I didn't answer.  I went back to bed.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: RonLongshaft on July 25, 2009, 07:36:13 AM
some of you guys are pussies, i hauled hay for about 8-10 summers in a row until we finally got a little advanced and went the accumulator/farmhand route, and it didn't even cross my mind as some of the worst jobs :cyclonecarlemoticon?WTFisit?:

and cleaning grain bins is not as bad as shoveling pig crap all year round  :blindfold:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on July 25, 2009, 09:22:33 AM
Worst job was a newspaper delivery boy for the Manhattan Mercury when I was 15 except for one really f-ing winter cold morning I was delivering papers at 4 am and walked by this house delivering a newspaper.   In the front window was a neighbor chick I had known and thought she was particularly hot.    SHe was standing in front of the window - completely nude.

When I got home, my mom asked "What took you so long?"

I didn't answer.  I went back to bed.


 
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Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Stupid Fitz on July 25, 2009, 09:25:52 AM
I don't count farming as I have never done it.  Obviously hard work.  That is the main reason I didn't go to ku, too many farmers.   :nahnah:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Bookcat on July 25, 2009, 09:06:29 PM
Putting up shingles in the summertime.

Horrible hard labor.

I also worked at a Burger King in high school and we weren't far from I-35 that ran North/South through Iowa...just North of Des Moines so we'd have to serve late night traveler weirdos at 1am. Closing that place down sucked.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Bookcat on July 25, 2009, 09:08:43 PM
I cleaned the kill floor and butcher lab in Weber Hall....I lasted 1 day at that job.

geeeezus, dude. surprised you lasted the day.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: schreds21 on July 25, 2009, 11:41:46 PM
Never minded putting up hay too much.  It would probably kill me now though since I'm fat and out of shape.  The job I hated on the farm the most was chopping/spraying muskthistles.  It seemed like it was never ending.  Worked at an elevator for a couple of harvests and didn't think it was too bad.  I agree with Felix though,  cleaning out under the scales sucked big hairy balls.  Worst job I had was in a manufacturing plant one summer during college.  The work wasn't that hard but the swing shift just blew.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Thin Blue Line on July 26, 2009, 12:34:40 AM
some of you guys are pussies, i hauled hay for about 8-10 summers in a row until we finally got a little advanced and went the accumulator/farmhand route, and it didn't even cross my mind as some of the worst jobs :cyclonecarlemoticon?WTFisit?:

and cleaning grain bins is not as bad as shoveling pig crap all year round  :blindfold:

Unless you're highly allergic to moldy grain.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: royalswild on July 26, 2009, 05:00:48 PM
Sonic, Painting, and Working as a warehouse temp...
Sonic is an easy job, I worked there as a sophmore and the only part that is bad is the smell.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: kst8cat on July 26, 2009, 05:40:04 PM
Worked on the clean-up crew for KSU football and basketball games one year.  The only reason I chose that instead of usher was that it paid $5/hr instead of $4.50/hr.  Big mistake because it was basically handling garbage the whole time getting dirty and smelly, and I never got to see much of the games themselves.  Would have been wayyyy better to be an usher or concession worker (although maybe not as many working hours available). 

Also was a warehouse temp one summer (learned to drive a forklift  :Driving:).  The work itself wasn't that bad, but most of my coworkers were very unpleasant to be around, and I had to drive over an hour each way to and from work. 
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Ginger on July 27, 2009, 01:08:14 AM
dishwasher, manko, mow/weedeat cemetaries.

The worst was the summer I worked as an inspector packer at an insulation factory in McPherson. Incredibly hot and 12 hour swing shifts. Worst job in all of history.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Rick Daris on July 27, 2009, 09:27:26 AM
i think that people are seriously overstimating how hard manual labor is and underestimating how terrible it would be to work at a car rental place in downtown wichita while having to wear a shirt and tie and sell damage waiver to people who shouldn't even be allowed to drive.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: pwrcat1 on July 27, 2009, 09:48:06 AM
i think that people are seriously overstimating how hard manual labor is and underestimating how terrible it would be to work at a car rental place in downtown wichita while having to wear a shirt and tie and sell damage waiver to people who shouldn't even be allowed to drive.

I'm with you on this.  It's "worst" job, not "most physically taxing."
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Weird Roberts foam finger on July 27, 2009, 09:52:08 AM
Worst job for me was being a telemarketer (needed the money).

Wouldn't mind this. Would be incredibly boring though. Pay is pretty good isn't it?

That part is right.  Pay sucked.  Most people quit within the first week out of sheer boredom.  I somehow managed to hang on for 3 months, which I think was a record for a non-pregnant person.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: pufizzle on July 27, 2009, 11:03:41 AM
Food runner at Timberline steakhouse.  So much pressure.  Trays were incredibly heavy.  "Hey, little 15 year old scrawny boy, go take this tray of 7 full stack of ribs with 7 drinks to that table over there with important business men."

Still have nightmares...... :runaway:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: LimestoneOutcropping on July 27, 2009, 12:12:39 PM
Barkin' for the yack woman.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: JTKSU on July 27, 2009, 12:23:42 PM
Food runner at Timberline steakhouse.  So much pressure.  Trays were incredibly heavy.  "Hey, little 15 year old scrawny boy, go take this tray of 7 full stack of ribs with 7 drinks to that table over there with important business men."

Still have nightmares...... :runaway:

Aren't there some sort of child labor laws that apply here?  Were you only allowed to work like 17 minutes a day, and only on non-school days or something like that?
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Ghost of Stan Parrish on July 27, 2009, 01:00:24 PM
IMHO, the only bad part about waiting tables is cheap-ass bastards who don't know how to tip.  (The best part, in my case, was drinking Boulevard beers free off the taps all night.)
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: WillieWannabe on July 28, 2009, 08:37:37 AM
i think that people are seriously overstimating how hard manual labor is and underestimating how terrible it would be to work at a car rental place in downtown wichita while having to wear a shirt and tie and sell damage waiver to people who shouldn't even be allowed to drive.

I'm with you on this.  It's "worst" job, not "most physically taxing."

There is a difference between a boring job and one where you physically work your ass off. "Worst" and "Physically taxing" go hand in hand in my book.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: bigDcat on July 28, 2009, 11:20:25 AM
last summer i worked 10 hour days on a ranch where myself and 3 other guys took down barbed wire fences every day all day in the Texas heat with only pliers.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: jthutch on July 28, 2009, 12:22:33 PM
I don't mind physical work, But putting up hay is fine if it were 75 degrees out and some breeze.  But it's not it's 100 degrees out maybe a breeze outside but inside the barn there is no air and lots of dust.

I have waited table at manhattan CC.  Was kinda fun, waited on Snyder a couple of times (he drinks johnny walker red label.)  I did drop a dish off of my tray on the back of some rich ladies head (still had some food on it.)  She was pretty nice about it.  I was all :frown:.  Washed dishes at the fraternity house I lived at wasn't too bad but probably not the same as a resturant though.

Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Pett on July 28, 2009, 01:28:20 PM
dishwasher, manko, mow/weedeat cemetaries.

The worst was the summer I worked as an inspector packer at an insulation factory in McPherson. Incredibly hot and 12 hour swing shifts. Worst job in all of history.

Is being a ginger considered a job? :dunno:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: willie83 on July 28, 2009, 01:30:45 PM
dishwasher, manko, mow/weedeat cemetaries.

The worst was the summer I worked as an inspector packer at an insulation factory in McPherson. Incredibly hot and 12 hour swing shifts. Worst job in all of history.

Is being a ginger considered a job? :dunno:

Probably pretty hard, IMO.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Saulbadguy on July 28, 2009, 01:44:53 PM
Worked at an upstart dot.com company in 2000 that lasted about 6 months. Didn't do anything.  Surfed the net for the entire day, and then went home.   :peek:

Worked at a daycare for about 3 years. That was kind of nasty at times.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: pwrcat1 on July 28, 2009, 11:18:05 PM
i think that people are seriously overstimating how hard manual labor is and underestimating how terrible it would be to work at a car rental place in downtown wichita while having to wear a shirt and tie and sell damage waiver to people who shouldn't even be allowed to drive.

I'm with you on this.  It's "worst" job, not "most physically taxing."

There is a difference between a boring job and one where you physically work your ass off. "Worst" and "Physically taxing" go hand in hand in my book.

I guess I disagree.  I liked working construction/contracting way better than working retail. 
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: WillieWannabe on July 28, 2009, 11:42:47 PM
i think that people are seriously overstimating how hard manual labor is and underestimating how terrible it would be to work at a car rental place in downtown wichita while having to wear a shirt and tie and sell damage waiver to people who shouldn't even be allowed to drive.

I'm with you on this.  It's "worst" job, not "most physically taxing."

There is a difference between a boring job and one where you physically work your ass off. "Worst" and "Physically taxing" go hand in hand in my book.

I guess I disagree.  I liked working construction/contracting way better than working retail. 

Yeah...all about preference i guess. Working at Walmart did suck ass
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: bigDcat on July 29, 2009, 12:52:29 AM
dishwasher, manko, mow/weedeat cemetaries.

The worst was the summer I worked as an inspector packer at an insulation factory in McPherson. Incredibly hot and 12 hour swing shifts. Worst job in all of history.

Is being a ginger considered a job? :dunno:

Probably pretty hard, IMO.

this.  :lol:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: kst8cat on August 01, 2009, 08:46:02 PM
last summer i worked 10 hour days on a ranch where myself and 3 other guys took down barbed wire fences every day all day in the Texas heat with only pliers.

That's not a bad job at all IMO.  I did plenty of that as a farmhand back in high school, and I really liked tearing down barbed wire fences, rolling the wire into great big balls, and pulling the posts.  Sure it's a little physical, but more fun than at lot of things.  I'd much rather do that than sit in an office and stare at a computer screen all day.  Building fences is cool, too.  Once you get the corner posts set, the rest is a piece of cake.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Pike on August 01, 2009, 08:55:00 PM
I don't mind physical work, But putting up hay is fine if it were 75 degrees out and some breeze.  But it's not it's 100 degrees out maybe a breeze outside but inside the barn there is no air and lots of dust.

I have waited table at manhattan CC.  Was kinda fun, waited on Snyder a couple of times (he drinks johnny walker red label.)  I did drop a dish off of my tray on the back of some rich ladies head (still had some food on it.)  She was pretty nice about it.  I was all :frown:.  Washed dishes at the fraternity house I lived at wasn't too bad but probably not the same as a resturant though.



I almost killed myself putting up hay last summer
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: JTKSU on August 01, 2009, 09:57:56 PM
I don't mind physical work, But putting up hay is fine if it were 75 degrees out and some breeze.  But it's not it's 100 degrees out maybe a breeze outside but inside the barn there is no air and lots of dust.

I have waited table at manhattan CC.  Was kinda fun, waited on Snyder a couple of times (he drinks johnny walker red label.)  I did drop a dish off of my tray on the back of some rich ladies head (still had some food on it.)  She was pretty nice about it.  I was all :frown:.  Washed dishes at the fraternity house I lived at wasn't too bad but probably not the same as a resturant though.



I almost killed myself putting up hay last summer

Putting up hay sucks.  You always look like the world's biggest junkie afterwards, no matter what approach you take.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: KITNfury on August 01, 2009, 11:20:35 PM
Manko
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: powerof10 on August 02, 2009, 04:41:22 PM
helped pour concrete for a swimming pool today, not the worst, but not the easiest either.  I used to build bridges, infact worked on the bridge by famous daves
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: ksudrew on August 02, 2009, 10:05:18 PM
Beat this:

I worked at IHOP in Manhattan. Totally sucked balls. I quit after 2 months



cleaning showers at the "house" - n e 1 confirm? :barf:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: RonLongshaft on August 23, 2009, 03:14:58 PM
roofing... i don't mean shingles I mean tin, the galvanized, shiny ass tin, hot, slick, steep ass slope that is a million feet of the ground, fing sucks, makes hauling hay a breeze
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: BigCat on August 23, 2009, 03:46:25 PM
Physical labor is fun/good most of the time. But like I would rather dig a ditch and sing black ppl songs than do anything with moisture or allergens involved.

Worst job I ever had I think was working for a hay farmer near MHK. It was good other than getting screamed at constantly, the crappy equipment he had, more yelling, high humidity, and bucking bales... Bucking bales is kinda fun except when we did it, we had to do two SEMI loads at a time, with one of them being an old reefer. 2200 bales in like 4 hours. And I swung the hay hook into my (tender) thigh meat once. Got yelled at.

Long story short don't work for a guy who farms right next to Flush. :frown:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: RonLongshaft on August 23, 2009, 04:05:17 PM
Physical labor is fun/good most of the time. But like I would rather dig a ditch and sing black ppl songs than do anything with moisture or allergens involved.

Worst job I ever had I think was working for a hay farmer near MHK. It was good other than getting screamed at constantly, the crappy equipment he had, more yelling, high humidity, and bucking bales... Bucking bales is kinda fun except when we did it, we had to do two SEMI loads at a time, with one of them being an old reefer. 2200 bales in like 4 hours. And I swung the hay hook into my (tender) thigh meat once. Got yelled at.

Long story short don't work for a guy who farms right next to Flush. :frown:

unless i just misunderstand your story, 2200 lil squares are not fitting on two semi's, once again if in a drunk stupor i misunderstood my bad
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: BigCat on August 23, 2009, 04:57:10 PM
Physical labor is fun/good most of the time. But like I would rather dig a ditch and sing black ppl songs than do anything with moisture or allergens involved.

Worst job I ever had I think was working for a hay farmer near MHK. It was good other than getting screamed at constantly, the crappy equipment he had, more yelling, high humidity, and bucking bales... Bucking bales is kinda fun except when we did it, we had to do two SEMI loads at a time, with one of them being an old reefer. 2200 bales in like 4 hours. And I swung the hay hook into my (tender) thigh meat once. Got yelled at.

Long story short don't work for a guy who farms right next to Flush. :frown:

unless i just misunderstand your story, 2200 lil squares are not fitting on two semi's, once again if in a drunk stupor i misunderstood my bad

They weren't legal loads by any means. The reefer couldn't hold anywhere near as many as the flatbed, but it wasn't just any flatbed. Drop deck that also had an overhang up front, and he'd welded panels on the side to widen the trailer by a couple feet and had about a 12 ft. extension to lengthen as well. Not a highway-licensed setup. Plus we stacked WAY higher than they should have been. So all in all you could fit a ridiculous no. of bales on the flatbed. They were also kind of small bales dimensionally, maybe because he had the plunger pressure on the baler turned up or something.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: RonLongshaft on August 23, 2009, 05:05:55 PM
Physical labor is fun/good most of the time. But like I would rather dig a ditch and sing black ppl songs than do anything with moisture or allergens involved.

Worst job I ever had I think was working for a hay farmer near MHK. It was good other than getting screamed at constantly, the crappy equipment he had, more yelling, high humidity, and bucking bales... Bucking bales is kinda fun except when we did it, we had to do two SEMI loads at a time, with one of them being an old reefer. 2200 bales in like 4 hours. And I swung the hay hook into my (tender) thigh meat once. Got yelled at.

Long story short don't work for a guy who farms right next to Flush. :frown:

unless i just misunderstand your story, 2200 lil squares are not fitting on two semi's, once again if in a drunk stupor i misunderstood my bad

They weren't legal loads by any means. The reefer couldn't hold anywhere near as many as the flatbed, but it wasn't just any flatbed. Drop deck that also had an overhang up front, and he'd welded panels on the side to widen the trailer by a couple feet and had about a 12 ft. extension to lengthen as well. Not a highway-licensed setup. Plus we stacked WAY higher than they should have been. So all in all you could fit a ridiculous no. of bales on the flatbed. They were also kind of small bales dimensionally, maybe because he had the plunger pressure on the baler turned up or something.
 
BigCat you know your hay biz, sounds like no fun, i assume these weren't over the road loads, if so not very damn far, i didn't believe you tell the plunger talk.  and loadin a reefer sucks, but you ever loaded a pot? &@#% my life that sucks
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: BigCat on August 23, 2009, 05:18:36 PM
Physical labor is fun/good most of the time. But like I would rather dig a ditch and sing black ppl songs than do anything with moisture or allergens involved.

Worst job I ever had I think was working for a hay farmer near MHK. It was good other than getting screamed at constantly, the crappy equipment he had, more yelling, high humidity, and bucking bales... Bucking bales is kinda fun except when we did it, we had to do two SEMI loads at a time, with one of them being an old reefer. 2200 bales in like 4 hours. And I swung the hay hook into my (tender) thigh meat once. Got yelled at.

Long story short don't work for a guy who farms right next to Flush. :frown:

unless i just misunderstand your story, 2200 lil squares are not fitting on two semi's, once again if in a drunk stupor i misunderstood my bad

They weren't legal loads by any means. The reefer couldn't hold anywhere near as many as the flatbed, but it wasn't just any flatbed. Drop deck that also had an overhang up front, and he'd welded panels on the side to widen the trailer by a couple feet and had about a 12 ft. extension to lengthen as well. Not a highway-licensed setup. Plus we stacked WAY higher than they should have been. So all in all you could fit a ridiculous no. of bales on the flatbed. They were also kind of small bales dimensionally, maybe because he had the plunger pressure on the baler turned up or something.
 
BigCat you know your hay biz, sounds like no fun, i assume these weren't over the road loads, if so not very damn far, i didn't believe you tell the plunger talk.  and loadin a reefer sucks, but you ever loaded a pot? frack my life that sucks

Yeah I've had to get in the trailer a few times to help the driver get the cattle crammed in there. I'm normally the cool rancher guy bringing cattle to the tub from the pens. :love:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: RonLongshaft on August 23, 2009, 05:25:23 PM
Physical labor is fun/good most of the time. But like I would rather dig a ditch and sing black ppl songs than do anything with moisture or allergens involved.

Worst job I ever had I think was working for a hay farmer near MHK. It was good other than getting screamed at constantly, the crappy equipment he had, more yelling, high humidity, and bucking bales... Bucking bales is kinda fun except when we did it, we had to do two SEMI loads at a time, with one of them being an old reefer. 2200 bales in like 4 hours. And I swung the hay hook into my (tender) thigh meat once. Got yelled at.

Long story short don't work for a guy who farms right next to Flush. :frown:

unless i just misunderstand your story, 2200 lil squares are not fitting on two semi's, once again if in a drunk stupor i misunderstood my bad

They weren't legal loads by any means. The reefer couldn't hold anywhere near as many as the flatbed, but it wasn't just any flatbed. Drop deck that also had an overhang up front, and he'd welded panels on the side to widen the trailer by a couple feet and had about a 12 ft. extension to lengthen as well. Not a highway-licensed setup. Plus we stacked WAY higher than they should have been. So all in all you could fit a ridiculous no. of bales on the flatbed. They were also kind of small bales dimensionally, maybe because he had the plunger pressure on the baler turned up or something.
 
BigCat you know your hay biz, sounds like no fun, i assume these weren't over the road loads, if so not very damn far, i didn't believe you tell the plunger talk.  and loadin a reefer sucks, but you ever loaded a pot? frack my life that sucks

Yeah I've had to get in the trailer a few times to help the driver get the cattle crammed in there. I'm normally the cool rancher guy bringing cattle to the tub from the pens. :love:

no, no, no, bigcat, i mean loaded a pot with hay, a back haul deal.... that is the suck, loading a pot with cows/calves is :madeintheshade:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: BigCat on August 23, 2009, 05:42:15 PM
Physical labor is fun/good most of the time. But like I would rather dig a ditch and sing black ppl songs than do anything with moisture or allergens involved.

Worst job I ever had I think was working for a hay farmer near MHK. It was good other than getting screamed at constantly, the crappy equipment he had, more yelling, high humidity, and bucking bales... Bucking bales is kinda fun except when we did it, we had to do two SEMI loads at a time, with one of them being an old reefer. 2200 bales in like 4 hours. And I swung the hay hook into my (tender) thigh meat once. Got yelled at.

Long story short don't work for a guy who farms right next to Flush. :frown:

unless i just misunderstand your story, 2200 lil squares are not fitting on two semi's, once again if in a drunk stupor i misunderstood my bad

They weren't legal loads by any means. The reefer couldn't hold anywhere near as many as the flatbed, but it wasn't just any flatbed. Drop deck that also had an overhang up front, and he'd welded panels on the side to widen the trailer by a couple feet and had about a 12 ft. extension to lengthen as well. Not a highway-licensed setup. Plus we stacked WAY higher than they should have been. So all in all you could fit a ridiculous no. of bales on the flatbed. They were also kind of small bales dimensionally, maybe because he had the plunger pressure on the baler turned up or something.
 
BigCat you know your hay biz, sounds like no fun, i assume these weren't over the road loads, if so not very damn far, i didn't believe you tell the plunger talk.  and loadin a reefer sucks, but you ever loaded a pot? frack my life that sucks

Yeah I've had to get in the trailer a few times to help the driver get the cattle crammed in there. I'm normally the cool rancher guy bringing cattle to the tub from the pens. :love:

no, no, no, bigcat, i mean loaded a pot with hay, a back haul deal.... that is the suck, loading a pot with cows/calves is :madeintheshade:

Oh! Hell no. Never had to do that. Sorry you've had to though. LOLsiento.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: ksuno1stunner on August 23, 2009, 06:16:45 PM
dishwasher, sirloin stockade ~$5/hr
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: schreds21 on August 23, 2009, 10:23:09 PM
Physical labor is fun/good most of the time. But like I would rather dig a ditch and sing black ppl songs than do anything with moisture or allergens involved.

Worst job I ever had I think was working for a hay farmer near MHK. It was good other than getting screamed at constantly, the crappy equipment he had, more yelling, high humidity, and bucking bales... Bucking bales is kinda fun except when we did it, we had to do two SEMI loads at a time, with one of them being an old reefer. 2200 bales in like 4 hours. And I swung the hay hook into my (tender) thigh meat once. Got yelled at.

Long story short don't work for a guy who farms right next to Flush. :frown:

George Ebert
Worked for him for awhile as well.  First day out there, me and another guy loaded a cattle pot with bales.  Sucked balls.  Gotta turn them length-wise to get them through the side door.  I did get the pleasure of covering him up one time.  We delivered a load to a guy and he was in the shed stacking while I was on the trailer loading the conveyer.  He had pissed me off so bad that day I was working with rage energy.  The more he told me to slow them down, the faster I sent them.  Dude would work his ass off though, I'll give him that.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: BigCat on August 24, 2009, 01:52:45 PM
Physical labor is fun/good most of the time. But like I would rather dig a ditch and sing black ppl songs than do anything with moisture or allergens involved.

Worst job I ever had I think was working for a hay farmer near MHK. It was good other than getting screamed at constantly, the crappy equipment he had, more yelling, high humidity, and bucking bales... Bucking bales is kinda fun except when we did it, we had to do two SEMI loads at a time, with one of them being an old reefer. 2200 bales in like 4 hours. And I swung the hay hook into my (tender) thigh meat once. Got yelled at.

Long story short don't work for a guy who farms right next to Flush. :frown:

George Ebert
Worked for him for awhile as well.  First day out there, me and another guy loaded a cattle pot with bales.  Sucked balls.  Gotta turn them length-wise to get them through the side door.  I did get the pleasure of covering him up one time.  We delivered a load to a guy and he was in the shed stacking while I was on the trailer loading the conveyer.  He had pissed me off so bad that day I was working with rage energy.  The more he told me to slow them down, the faster I sent them.  Dude would work his ass off though, I'll give him that.

Yeah he'd be right there with you working but he can't keep help around since all he does is yell. I lasted about a month and a half and found out that I stayed way longer than most. :'byecruelworld:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: powercatpurple on August 24, 2009, 09:00:55 PM
Slaughter floor QC at Monfort in GC before it burned down...
2 years...110° in the summer with 100% humidity and barely above freezing in the winter...  4 guys died while I was there...
One crushed head...2 aphixiated...one from burns from a panel room fireball...
Saw a guy get his arm cut off at the elbow in an auger that hauled the paunches away (cow guts).  He dropped his knife in there and thought he was quicker than the auger...he wasn't.  I then had to wade waste deep in a bin full of guts for an hour looking for his arm...we did finally find it.

Yeah...that job sucked...
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Saulbadguy on August 24, 2009, 09:03:16 PM
Slaughter floor QC at Monfort in GC before it burned down...
2 years...110° in the summer with 100% humidity and barely above freezing in the winter...  4 guys died while I was there...
One crushed head...2 aphixiated...one from burns from a panel room fireball...
Saw a guy get his arm cut off at the elbow in an auger that hauled the paunches away (cow guts).  He dropped his knife in there and thought he was quicker than the auger...he wasn't.  I then had to wade waste deep in a bin full of guts for an hour looking for his arm...we did finally find it.

Yeah...that job sucked...
good first post
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: cas on August 24, 2009, 09:19:09 PM
Yeah, bucking bales isn't bad at all. Especially if the guy you are working for is cool. ANd you have good people working with you.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: kst8cat on August 24, 2009, 09:53:51 PM
Slaughter floor QC at Monfort in GC before it burned down...
2 years...110° in the summer with 100% humidity and barely above freezing in the winter...  4 guys died while I was there...
One crushed head...2 aphixiated...one from burns from a panel room fireball...
Saw a guy get his arm cut off at the elbow in an auger that hauled the paunches away (cow guts).  He dropped his knife in there and thought he was quicker than the auger...he wasn't.  I then had to wade waste deep in a bin full of guts for an hour looking for his arm...we did finally find it.

Yeah...that job sucked...

 :ttiwwop:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: JTKSU on August 24, 2009, 10:26:22 PM
Slaughter floor QC at Monfort in GC before it burned down...
2 years...110° in the summer with 100% humidity and barely above freezing in the winter...  4 guys died while I was there...
One crushed head...2 aphixiated...one from burns from a panel room fireball...
Saw a guy get his arm cut off at the elbow in an auger that hauled the paunches away (cow guts).  He dropped his knife in there and thought he was quicker than the auger...he wasn't.  I then had to wade waste deep in a bin full of guts for an hour looking for his arm...we did finally find it.

Yeah...that job sucked...

Holy crap. :eek:  I'll remember that story the next time I think I hate my job.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Eskimo Joe on August 25, 2009, 06:47:59 PM
I got stabbed at my job last tuesday night.  Does like count for anything?
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: JTKSU on August 25, 2009, 07:05:29 PM
I got stabbed at my job last tuesday night.  Does like count for anything?

Nope.  Now stop being such a little bitch, nobody is going to throw you a pitty party here.
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Pike on August 25, 2009, 07:37:28 PM
I got stabbed at my job last tuesday night.  Does like count for anything?

SO you work at Rusty's or Bushwackers?
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: schreds21 on August 25, 2009, 11:02:24 PM
I got stabbed at my job last tuesday night.  Does like count for anything?
Was LOC there?
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Eskimo Joe on August 26, 2009, 11:04:23 AM
I got stabbed at my job last tuesday night.  Does like count for anything?

SO you work at Rusty's or Bushwackers?

Nope, believe it or not, i work at Dillons in Hutch.
http://www.hutchnews.com/Latestlocalnews/dillonsstab
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Kat Kid on August 26, 2009, 11:20:15 AM
wow.  I guess next time you won't begrudge a youngster his spank mag.

hope you heal up and were bleeding purple!

 :cheers:
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Trim on October 01, 2009, 01:10:55 AM
I got stabbed at my job last tuesday night.  Does like count for anything?

SO you work at Rusty's or Bushwackers?

Nope, believe it or not, i work at Dillons in Hutch.
http://www.hutchnews.com/Latestlocalnews/dillonsstab

Appropriate.

http://www.hutchnews.com/Latestlocalnews/dillonsappropriatewed
Title: Re: Worst jobs you have had
Post by: Leyton on November 02, 2009, 12:10:01 AM
Slaughter floor QC at Monfort in GC before it burned down...
2 years...110° in the summer with 100% humidity and barely above freezing in the winter...  4 guys died while I was there...
One crushed head...2 aphixiated...one from burns from a panel room fireball...
Saw a guy get his arm cut off at the elbow in an auger that hauled the paunches away (cow guts).  He dropped his knife in there and thought he was quicker than the auger...he wasn't.  I then had to wade waste deep in a bin full of guts for an hour looking for his arm...we did finally find it.

Yeah...that job sucked...

Holy balls, man.  I think it's safe to say that meat packing plants are pretty much the scariest / most reprehensible >= semi-legitimate workplaces in the country.  I can't imagine working at a place where employees' lives/limbs are secondary.  :'(