My worst would have to be working in housekeeping for a local nursing home while I was in college. I had to collect dirty (read: smelly, piss-stained, crapped in) laundry and run it through the cycle and was also on bathroom cleaning duty for a while. I thought that job would never end. I know you're thinking that they can't help it, but I swear some of them pissed themselves on purpose just to get their jollies from annoying the staff.

However....my uncle and I were having this conversation last weekend and he was telling me about a job where he worked the night shift doing sercurity at the county mourge. he was in charge of collecting bodies recieved, tagging toes, removing and catalouging personal items and jewlry from the bodies and assisting on emergency autopsies. That just might be the most awful job I've ever heard of.

Restaurant work is Special
The people who work there are special (attracts all kinds)
The bosses are Special
(will say anything, to get you to work, can you say empty promises boys and girls? I knew you could...)
(work you like a slave)
(oh, and some are real scum...)
The Hours and scheduling is Special
The wages are a joke (I'm the one sweating in the kitchen, not making the tips)

The one thing you have going for you is a high stress environment

Sometimes you get a really good/fun/team oriented group to work with

On the plus side, anything seems easy after you've work in a kitchen

Yet Still when I go to Job interviews, people who work in the restaurant industry, will sometimes ask me...
You have a great CV worked in a lot of good restos, but you seem to move around a lot
-Oh, ... yeah ! right...

work my way though college as a garbage man that was a time before those one arm bandit things hated it when it rained and people would leave the lids off the can and then the cans would leak

Passing out samples of bar-b-que beef in this awful dump of a grocery store in Texas. That job lasted for exactly 8 hideous hours.

The other terrible job was working in a dinky plumbing store where I was expected to hold up the counter for 8 hours all while staring at mounds of PVC pipe. That job also lasted for 8 hours.

I've had so many...

Burger King (my 1st job) - Never mix people and food....it's a BAD combination.
Grocery store - not too bad....just had to pick up the slack for lazy coworkers.
Research lab - Started off fun but then got boring and repetitive pretty fast.
College Teaching Assistant - Best job I've ever had...loved teaching.
Garden Ridge - lil old ladies and special sales events....crazy.
Dorm Receptionist - always worked the late shift....saw some interesting things...
Animal Hospitals (2) - the first one, one of the vets was a son of a *beep*...the one where I am at now...it has its moments...
Kennel Assistant - really lazy coworkers (and dishonest ones at that)...SUCKED
Factory - moving heavy parts to their storage racks and assembly lines in a metal building with no air...lost 30 pounds that summer...that was the only thing I liked about it.

prison guard ...had urine thrown at me, and alot of people threaten to kill me

I guess I blocked it out, I did do a few months in a mall food court (before they were known as food courts)...& yeh, restaurant work is lower pay, because tips are supposed make up the difference...anybody ever tip the kids in the food court? Thought so...

Still, not sure if that was worse than 11-7 cashier duty at the local Stop n Rob...the low pay is offset by the risk of being shot & killed on any given night :yikes: