Friday Night Drinking and What Was the Worst Job You Ever Had Thread

Fluffer.

Can't ever drink that away.

Jizz mopper

My current one.

Three contenders:

1. Squeezed the roe out of dead salmon for a bait company - had to dispose of the fish due to high levels of PCB's. Took hours to get the fish stink off me when I went home.

2. Hydroblasted (extremely focused high pressure water driven by a cummins diesel powered pump through a hand held gun that looked like a metal rifle), you would have to lean into the gun to keep from being pushed over backwards.

We cleaned huge multi story Detroit Edison coal-fired boilers that you would have to crawl into to get at the heat transfer pipes. We would blast out the "clinkers" which were rock-like masses or coal ash that had built up inside the boilers. The water would run off the ash and become acidic and it inevitably would get inside our rubber gear and would start to burn like hell during our 12 hour shifts (Edison would have us work like hell to minimize boiler downtime). We also cleaned sewage treatment plants - yuck!

A guy on the crew nearly cut himself in two after he wired shut the deadman switch cause his hands would get tired and one day he lost control of his gun.

3. Fought forest fires in Priest Lake Idaho and we had to do occaisional smoke chases where we would backpack a chain saw and gasoline up and down mountains through the forest using a map and compass to find the lightening strike then cut down the smoking tree and use an axe and shovel to put out the smoldering tree.

on Silver Lake celebrating my twin daughters' 12 birthday with at sunset swim...day was full of tubing and hanging with family. so..on my 4th Two Hearted Ale... worst job was selling advertising for minor league baseball team. most arrogant bunch of self important jerks in management...and crappy pay

My worst job was a #$%*ing picnic compared to some of the ones described here. Really, except for the low pay (minimum wage) it was somewhat pleasant.

I was a lifeguard / lawn boy / janitor at a place just west of Ann Arbor that may be familiar to some of you: Huron Valley Swim Club.

When I was there it had a vibe unlike any of its peers. Interesting blend of state park and country club ... good times, mostly. I'm guessing it's still somewhat like that, though I haven't been there in many years.

Drinking a Two Hearted. Only summer job I had as a kid was washing cars at my dad's dealership. Did it for 5 summers. One of the worst things was getting a trade-in that was just beat to hell--vacuuming up dog hair was the worst. But that job was not as bad as one I had 3 years ago. I'm a teacher, and when my wife and I moved to Lansing in 2012, the only school with a posting in my subject area was Lansing Eastern. I lasted two months before I had to get out. I'm sorry, but the place was like a prison. I felt bad for the few kids in each class that actually wanted to learn.

Howard Johnsons on I95 in Connecticut when I was 17. A truck stop hooker hanged herself in the bathroom stall with her pantyhose and I found her when had to clean the restrooms. I am drinking Bronx Pale Ale at the Strand Smokehouse. They have a great whiskey selection but I gave up whiskey a long time ago. Long, bad story resembling a bad Russ Meyer's script.

Then maybe a Dragons Milk!

Dipping into some Crown tonight, straight, had it in the freezer.

Worst job ever: shoveling slag at Great Lakes Steel.

Total quality logistics. If you're almost finished with school and you're thinking about it...just bar tend instead you'll be much happier...drinking a dogfish head 120 minute

Blue Light, simply because it was the first thing I grabbed.

Three are tied for Worst:

1. Substitute teaching. Remember when you were in school, and you'd walk into class and see that you had a sub? Remember how the class dickheads would salivate at all the shit they were going to pull? Remember how it was kinda fun to watch them pull it? Now imagine that you're the schmoe on the other side of the desk making $40 a day with no bennies to put up with that shit, just because you thought educating young minds was a worthwhile calling.

2. Waiter. It's a sucky job that runs your ass ragged for little pay, and too often, patrons act as if they own you while they're seated at your table. So not worth it.

3. Temping in an auto parts plant. I got a gig with a supplier that made swing arms for sun visors. I had to take hundreds of parts which hadn't passed the specs, arrange them on a huge cookie sheet, stick them in an industrial oven, and bake them at 140-degrees for a half hour, all day long. So I was basically working over a cauldron for five weeks in the middle of summer. At the end of that time I lost 11 pounds of all sweat. They offered me a full-time job, and just couldn't understand why I declined.

Stella and senior financial analyst was the worst job, but due to shitty directors. Well, actually the job sucked too.

Drinking bud light

I worked as a substitute paraprofessional at an intermediate school district, changing adult diapers is terrible and the pay was very low. Working with the younger kids was rewarding at times though.

Had 3 Good People IPA in AL with some raw oysters and low country boil.

Worst job was ripping up old apartments at the Univ. of Toledo during the summer in college.

312 Wheat Ale. Never, EVER be a schwan's man.

Also, not a job, but laying sod in my yard really fucking sucked balls

Drinking Four Roses Single Barrel with 2" Tivolo ice cube.  Too damn hot for it neat.

Watching Kingsman with the wife.

I'm a doctor; have done all sorts of nasty shit during internship and medical school.  Thankfully have nothing to do with orifices for my practice.

Being a cashier at one of those seasonal Christmas decoration pop up shops. There was something terribly depressing about being part of the merchandising of Christmas. 

Harvey's Grill and Bar in Saginaw when I was a senior in high school. I was a busboy for all of three weeks, and then, thank God, I got appendicitis and never returned.

7up right out of school. Got what I thought was a great sales manager gig and promptly the rank and file went on strike. Management had to fill in. I made pop. People spat on my car as I went into the plant, and one guy threatened to break both my legs. 6 mos later I found myself next to him in the beer line at the Christmas party. Crazy. Am drinking Glenlivet tonight; flying the Mooney to Steamboat for breakfast am tomorrow with the best mother-in-law ever. To quote Joe Walsh, life's been good to me so far.

Cheap vodka and diet grape pop. I dare you to drink more trashy then me to to tonight

Worst job was substitute teacher for Flint Public schools for a month or so at the end of undergrad.  I had few problems with high school or junior high, but I just could not do elementary school. It was the most stressful job I've ever had.

Through grad school I worked summers as a janitor to pay the bills.  My wife's grandmother thought I was a janitor till the day she died, since that was what I was doing the summer we got married.  She worried about how I would support her grand daughter on a janitor's salary.  The work actually wasn't so bad, but the pay and hours sucked, and janitorial staff are mostly either completely ignored as if we didn't exist or treated as though we were an affront to decency. Most of my work was scrubbing and waxing floors, with a majority of the actual work being dragging furniture out of the way at the beginning of the night, then at the end of the shift carefully carrying it back so as not to scratch or mar the new wax.

I'm a frugal bastard, so I'm drinking tap water and Miller High Life.