Friday Night Drinking and What Was the Worst Job You Ever Had Thread
Mates,
Way busy this week, way busy. Glad to be home now and about to start on an adult beverage or two. It occured to me also that summer time is the time when most people start to get their first 'real' job and that as you look back, some of those jobs you've had were dandies.
So I ask you, what was the worst job you ever had, and what are you drinking tonight to get over it? And while you're at it, share fun stuff about your weekend plans.
Cheers.
XM
I moved to Athens, GA in 1993 with a new B.S. degree in psychology, a work history that included waiting tables and working as a mover, and no job prospects. My brother played bass in one of many locally popular bands and I liked the climate. These were reasons enough for me to move in my early 20's.
Upon arrival in Athens, I had trouble finding and work and had to take a job through a temp agency working with a crew delivering whatever this small ironworks plant created. When I hired on, they were fabricating 20-30 foot long balcony supports for 2nd and 3rd floor balconies at an assisted living village. Our job was to take the supports off the truck and carry them to their destinations and hold them vertical until they could be bolted into place.
The units under construction were about 200 yards across a muddy field from the access road. The truck was not able to cross the field. It was February in late Georgia, which meant the red clay froze into a rutted doomscape overnight only to melt into a boot grabbing suction trap in the afternoon. Every morning, 4-6 of us would stumble 200 yards across the ruts to deliver the massive iron poles in the morning and then slog through ankle deep mud to do the same in the afternoon. I only stayed on for two weeks.
This job beat out the 80 hour per week salaried methadone counseling position with the medical director who through things at the staff during abusive meetings and the community mental health counselor job where I was not allowed to cut a 12 hour shift short by 3 hours to get home to my family as Hurricane Katrina approached!
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
Why invest in mudmats when you have slave labor?
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
After dinner: diabolical ipa
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
Blue Moon, Coors Banquet, various New Holland selections.
Worst job? Once I had to lay off pretty much all the people on all the teams I was responsible for -- most of whom I had hired or recruited, or promoted -- after the board decided to sell the company in a surprise move. The severance packages were terrible and those people deserved better.
New company wanted to keep me on, but I quit; didn't want to be a part of that. The whole thing sucked.
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
I've had lots of shitty jobs, from fast food to cleaning poison dust in factories.
I was a chminey sweep for a while. Fell off a roof doing it. Fortunately, it was only a one-story building, or my avatar would be Dead-Dog.
Worst job? Husband. Not cut out for that bullshit.
Drinking Ardbeg 10 neat and listening to Randy Newman
for 3 days! Enough said!
Drinking Woodchuck Hard Ale.
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
Worked part time at a grocery store shortly after high school. The pay sucked and my boss looked like Ray Combs (former Family Fued host back in the day) he thought he was funny and was a total douche canoe.
The final straw came when I told him I would not be showing up to work on a Saturday, because my sister was playing in the State Championship softball game for her high school and it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to see her play in that type of setting . He said I was scheduled to work and that I had to be there. I told him, I am trying to do the honest thing and be up front with you and that I could have called in sick.
Needless to say, I did not show up for work and went to my sister's game and do not regret that decision to this day. I got put on probation at the store, but I quit 2 months later.
Will be drinking something at a hofbräuhaus in Munich tonight!