Your best job, your worst job, your current job

[Alzar]

Valk getting a job has made me think about all the jobs I've had, and how much they've sucked. Sometimes. But there are good and bad.

Best Job: Video Worker for University during Volleyball games
Overall, video worker was a pretty terrible job. However, to tape voleyball games, you went there, set up the camera, pushed "record", and played gameboy/did homework/stared at hot volleyball girls. And maybe switch the tape at halftime. It's one of those "I'm getting paid for this??" type deals.
Result: Quit via moving to another state.

Worst Job: Assistant at a Music Store
It was my first job, and it was stupid. I was all into music so I was very happy to work at a music store. But the place was a godawful mess, always loud because some jerks would come in and wail on a guitar or drum sets or whatever for hours and then leave, and I got to see how sleazy retail was. Life lesson, yes. Good job, no.
Result: Quit because "it was interfering with my schoolwork" after finding out that my store discount was only 5%.

Current Job: Lab Attendant
This job is pretty awesome, unless the lab is busy. Which it isn't on Saturday. Hence posting on the pavilion.

How about y'all?

[Owl of Parliament]

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Best: Butterfly conservatory. I was the youngest person there, a teacher got me the job when I was a kid. I was there before I could legally work, it's complicated. I was there until I was 16, two years after I started getting paid, I was making enough money to do whatever I wanted and I still have money from that job, my dad had me put a lot of the money I made into savings bonds. I actually used to have a lot going for me.

Worst: Working in a kitchen, I've worked in a couple, it doesn't matter where, I've never lasted longer than a month, and I hate working down town.

Current: Green house.

[Red Dragon]

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My worst. Gas station/sandwich place/pizza place. I was the only male there, so everyone hated me.

[JPS]

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Best Job:Tough call between the one I have now and Auto Value
At auto value I was a Relay Driver, just sat in a car all day and cruised around to all my stops, it was fun
Result:Quit because they moved me to warehouse for getting too many tickets

Worst Job:Chef @ Massanutten Resort
I hated this job, I was a chef getting paid a lousy $8.50/hr and only working 20 hour weeks when I was suppose to be getting 40....btw if you ever go there remember....they're a firm believer in the 3-second rule seriously
Result:Quit because not enough hours(hard to support a kid and a wife on a $200/wk paycheck)

Current Job:Material Handler @ R.R. Donnelley and Sons, Inc.
This is by far the best...but physically hardest, job I've ever had, startoff pay is $11.37/hr and overtime every other week, overtime starts at 34 hours instead of 40, holdays you get paid 3xpay for, and you only work 3 12 hour days a week and off for 4, nice to make nearly $2000/month for 15 days worth of work

[irate giraffe]

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Best Job: Night Security Guard for Apartment Complex. I only walked around the complex like 4 times in an eight hour shift. I laid on a couch and read and slept the rest of the shift. I wanted to keep the job forever, but it was off to college for me.

Worst Job: I've had some bad fast food jobs, but I quit all of them in the most dissed way possible (like when I was supposed to open the store and the only other person there was a week-old employee), so I have sort of good memories of those jobs (Taco Bell, Submarina, Quick Wok) now.

Current Job: Accounting for a military freight forwarder. We contract for the government. Paper-in Paper out sort of office. We have agents all over the world and we ship military personell's household goods (via trucks and steamships) when they get relocated (international and domestic). I just sit at a desk and process invoices. It pays the bills, but can be boring as hell. At least I have a lot of time to spend at the Pav all day long.

[Nixon]

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Best Job: Volunteer at the Witte Museum. I got to be in charge of the junior volunteers, and I was the only 15 year old that could go off-site for my lunch. I worked in the Ecolab, tending to various reptiles, insects and bees (<3) as the assistant to the person in charge. I also got to run around in the lab area, which was filled with tons of specimens, either frozen or in stuck in formaldehyde jars. If my work for the day was done, I could wander around the museum, filling in for others, or just go into the restricted areas to check out the older exhibits and all the weird stuff they kept in storage. I could also play around with the guests since I knew the place like the back of my hand.

Worst Job: Pet Store (small animal specialist). Although I loved having that title, and I really enjoyed taking care of the animals (I wasn't limited to taking care of the animals in my section), the store owners were scum and they'd sooner let their animals die than get them any sort of proper medical attention from a vet. I mostly quit due to the lousy pay and my cruel boss, but also because I was tired of the constant mistreatment of the animals by the management. After one of my bosses asked me to kill a treefrog he accidentally mangled by sticking it in the freezer to die, I decided I needed to find a better place to work. I miss playing with the ferrets and the exotic birds.

Current job: I really can't say.

[John Mora]

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I thought you worked at a non-profit thing, Nixon.

[The_Real_Crunk]

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Worst Job
Cleaning stalls and paddocks on horse farms. Why do horses have to poop so much?! I did it all the time for my mom, since we lived on a farm. did it for some other lady too, but she fired me after a month becasue she said she had too many employees. Total french canadian biatch. She had a mentally handicapped guy working for her. He was a pretty cool guy, but he messed up his leg pretty bad, and she wouldnt give him time off to let it heal, so he was limping all over the place, carrying heavy stuff and leading big horses around....

Best/Current Job
Cooking in a restaraunt. This place to be exact.
http://www.chaptersviewpoint.com/
I go to school and work in a kitchen, then I go to work, to work in a kitchen some more. I almost dont know what to do with myself when Im not in one sometimes.

[Nixon]

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I thought you worked at a non-profit thing, Nixon.

That's about as detailed as I want to get, but yeah. I've been working there for two years. It's a good job, but very stressful.

[Fushigi na Renamon]

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Best Job: EPCOR, Service Consultant, Contract Management.

I basically worked for an energy company who sold contracts, and I would enter the contracts into the system. Once we stopped selling contracts, I was responsible for doing all the moves, setting up the power to be disconnected and then re-connected at the new home for such and such a date. The work was challenging and they were constantly changing the processes, so did I ever learn to adapt! Best of all, our group was really close. We were like a family there! Sometimes our department went out to the movies together. There was this one time a coworker of mine went out and bought everybody finger puppets from the dollar store. They were all plush sea creature finger puppets. Another coworker got this shark with kissy lips and ran around the department making his shark kiss all the other puppets. I stuck my seahorse puppet in the pocket of my shirt and carted him around with me all day.

Some people had really wonky names, too. I still remember processing a contract for someone named Gaylord Shirley, and that was his honest to God legal name. >.>

Result: I was going to be temporary for nine months and then hired permanent, but I got laid off because the company ran out of work for us to do when they stopped selling contracts.


Worst Job: WasteLess, Receptionist

I used to do part time reception from 9 - 1, Monday to Friday. Where do I begin? The boss was 65 years old and, as such, was completely old fashioned. He would call me on his way to work and ask me to put his coffee on for him. When I started, I was trained as to how much coffee I had to put in the filter and everything. It was a small office and there were only six people, myself included. One of them was a heinous, raging, hypochondriac *****. When she wasn't calling in sick, she was making my life hell. She loved to drop a foot tall stack of paper on my desk at 12:30 on a Friday and tell me "This has to go today!", then get angry at me when I told her I would do my best but couldn't guarantee anything.

No one else knew how to do her job, so when she called in sick (which was often), the work would pile up and screw everyone else over. I was the person who got the work after she did her part, so of course when it got that bad and she came back and threw it all at me, I was the one who got in trouble for being too slow. I stopped asking how she was every day, because her life always sucked and everything was wrong with her. My supervisor was a lady who was going through menopause, so she'd be snippy and bitchy at random. We had two guys named Don in our company, and one was in Calgary and one was in Toronto. One day one of them phoned and I asked which Don he was, and I swear I heard him say Toronto. It wasn't him, so after my supervisor called him back, she stormed out to my desk, slammed the message on it and said "This isn't who called, is it?!"

Worst of all, I had to wash their dishes every single day. I asked about it on my second day on the job and was told that if I didn't want to clean up after my coworkers, I wasn't useful and would be fired. I should have just fled for my life, but I needed the job and the money, so I stayed. Also, I was told that my coworkers were all lazy slobs and no one could get them to clean up after themselves, so I should do it instead. They were constantly leaving food gunk in the sink, and it was so disgusting. After I washed dishes, I'd want to wash my hands with sandpaper and bleach.

Result: Laid off because they made my position full time and wanted someone with more of an accounting background. I was thrilled to be out of there!


Current Job: Government of Alberta, Ministry of Justice, Maintenance Enforcement Department

This is my first full time, permanent job. I started on October 23rd and am on probation until April 22nd, but damn! I love this place. I have benefits, life insurance and a sweet salary. Maintenance Enforcement deals with parents who split up and get court orders. We collect money from deadbeat dads and/or moms, and if they don't make their payments we can punish them by doing things such as restricting their drivers licence or passport. Of course, once we do that they come in and demand to see someone right away to get their stuff back, but we only take appointments and not walk ins.

I do reception and filing on a rotational schedule, so one week in the file room(which is so huge that if you stand at one end and yell at someone on the other, it sounds like you're talking through a funnel), and one week in reception. Reception is AWESOME. Not only are there surveillance cameras everywhere, I work behind BULLET-PROOF GLASS. The security guards carry guns and everything. One of these days, I'm going to ask one of them if I can borrow his gun to test out the glass.

It's a pretty neat job so far, and everyone is really nice. Score!

Great topic, Alzar.

[IRC]

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Best: A couple of years ago I was working for a lawyer in Austin. I'd copy files from the court house and file motions and stuff like that. He also was producing an independent movie and I worked on it as a PA and they just gave fourty hours a week on my check from the law office. It was alot of fun and I paid for it. In fact, since they still haven't done anything with the film and everyone was working for defered pay, I think I was the fourth or fifth highest paid guy on set.

I still do the occasional favor for them too.

Worst: Working for a car wash. It wasn't really that bad, but I was working at a car wash.

Current: Computer Lab Assistant on campus.

[Chad]

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That's about as detailed as I want to get, but yeah. I've been working there for two years. It's a good job, but very stressful.

Especially when you MAKE PEOPLE INTO DOG FOOD!

[Red Dragon]

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Especially when you MAKE PEOPLE INTO DOG FOOD!

It's most likely she just gives soylent green to the homeless. You don't have to be so negative PostulateMan!

[Nixon]

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If I was turning people into dogfood I wouldn't be stressed out. ^^

[Czechs Mex]

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Best Job: Resident Director at an Apartment Complex
Hire people and make schedules for a front desk, look over timesheets from the other housing staff, and let people into their apartments when they get locked out. For that, they pay my rent and give me a stipend to boot. And my coworkers are sweet. Can't complain.
Result: Still there.

Worst Job: Dish Washer at a Bakery
My first job. Had to ride my bike 6 miles uphill to get there, then sit in a hot room and try to scub crusty donut grease off of pans. The only redeeming quality of this job was the snowball lard fights we'd have when the supervisor was gone. And the downhill trip to get back, I guess.
Result: Quit when school started.

Current Job: Resident Director, Research Assistant, and Receptionist.
Resident Director - See above.
Research assistant - Studying artificial intelligence and human decision making. Right now modeling voting behavior.
Receptionist - Working graveyard shifts. In fact, working one right now until 7:30. Someone entertain me with some humorous shenanigans or a puzzle or something.