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Apr 26, 2018
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ByuImaginesDragons
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Trying to sell satellite tv to people. A saleswoman I am not! I can’t convince
People to buy what they don’t want. I didn’t even last through training.
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ByuImaginesDragons
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What's the worst job you've ever had?
Funke
4/26/18 2:03pm
Gift shop at the airport
Huge Manatee
4/26/18 2:04pm
Inbound Call Center. Sold lots of Didi Seven and crap like that.
Turnpike Lane
4/26/18 2:05pm
Outbound call center is worse. Calling strangers about refinancing mortgages
Sir_Ten
4/27/18 11:32am
Dollar Tree. Started in recovery and then worked the register. I still can't
supertux
4/26/18 2:05pm
Working in a library where I had to check the public card catalog against the master list
Indy Coug
4/26/18 2:05pm
That, or digging trenches in rock hard soil to lay down sprinkling pipes
Indy Coug
4/26/18 2:05pm
Chopping cotton. cleaning gas station toilet, cleaning ditches...
cdr88
4/26/18 2:05pm
Car dealerships. Different jobs both times, both times were the worst.
Dillinger
4/26/18 2:05pm
I've always wondered if I could sell cars. Doesn't seem that hard. What specifically did you hate about it?
Str8CashCougar
4/27/18 11:14am
It was really easy actually. I hated the employees. Everyone that worked there
Dillinger
4/28/18 1:03am
Insulating houses
Sea Chicken
4/26/18 2:05pm
Did you make sure to inhale deeply while doing it?
Indy Coug
4/26/18 2:06pm
Under floors was cramped and dirty, but not as hot. Attics were oppressively hot. Also working in the truck
Sea Chicken
4/26/18 2:20pm
Forgot about that one.
cdr88
4/26/18 2:08pm
Most boring job was probably the one where I put stickers on boxes. Would do like 4000 a day
buffgato
4/26/18 2:07pm
Car Dealer Service Advisor
Plato
4/26/18 2:10pm
Managing a telemarketing team.
Mathew
4/26/18 2:10pm
Booking at the jail. I've seen some dark things.
Zedhead
4/26/18 2:11pm
Walmart
realtall
4/26/18 2:11pm
I love telling people that I worked at Walmart
Cheesy Gordita
4/26/18 8:38pm
Cook at Sonic Drive-Thru
IceBlueCoug
4/26/18 2:14pm
Outgoing Call Center. They had the suicide hotline at every cubicle
Alpi Gusto
4/26/18 2:14pm
Cleaning out massive chicken coops and hauling manure
El Pasco
4/26/18 2:14pm
... with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
Sea Chicken
4/26/18 2:26pm
That
BlueTeach
4/26/18 2:36pm
DId the chickens have large talons?
Santos L. Halper
4/26/18 8:22pm
Construction or Big 5 (when there were five) Accounting Firm
Carnac
4/26/18 2:15pm
7-11 working the 11pm - 7am shift.
Belboz
4/26/18 2:16pm
I worked weekend graveyards (11pm-7am) at Mr. G's Gas and Goodies on
UMWolverine
4/26/18 2:35pm
Call center or selling Potpourri Pies at a kiosk in the mall (then moving to
fattycoug
4/26/18 2:16pm
Door to Door sales, specifically home security
doubled1981
4/26/18 2:17pm
I thought you were describing missions there for a second...
Carnac
4/26/18 2:28pm
I don't say this lightly as my door knocking days as a misisonary in brazil
doubled1981
4/26/18 2:55pm
I worked as a lease hand on an oil rig in high school for a couple weeks
JohnnyComeLately
4/26/18 2:29pm
4 -7:30 AM janitor in the JFSB
OlanchoCoug
4/26/18 8:17pm
Meant for OP
OlanchoCoug
4/26/18 8:17pm
Digging treatment holes around existing telephone poles with a shovel. My job
PGVikingDad
4/26/18 2:32pm
Unloading trucks at a KMART at 4 in the morning.
mokelembembe
4/26/18 2:33pm
Cart runner at the local market. In the mountains with the parking lot on a hill.
Blue Print
4/26/18 2:36pm
Hustling "jugs" on a seismograph crew in the Williston, ND oil basin summer 1979
UMWolverine
4/26/18 2:37pm
behind the camera or in front of it?
Belboz
4/26/18 2:39pm
Smack dab in the middle of farmer's fields that went on for miles and miles
UMWolverine
4/26/18 2:51pm
BYU intramural basketball ref
Memmo
4/26/18 2:39pm
Sellilng shoes at Kinneys.
Florwood
4/26/18 2:43pm
Crack whore
Jeff Spicoli
4/26/18 2:44pm
RE: Crack whore
vagabonder
4/26/18 3:47pm
Golf range ball collector. He gave me a batting helmet and a bucket
mosterlow
4/26/18 2:45pm
I did that at 14 & 15. But they gave me an old VW bug with a ball collector in
sevenIDcougs
4/26/18 3:24pm
Computer assembly at Dell factory.
rtNelson
4/26/18 2:50pm
Done that a few times
bluelands
4/26/18 2:59pm
Janitor at the Richards building at from 10pm to 1am
Cougarealist
4/26/18 2:50pm
Grading basements by hand. Just me, a shovel and a lot of dirt
Bonoman
4/26/18 2:52pm
Laborer for Layton Construction on MTC extension
bluelands
4/26/18 2:55pm
Construction jobs don't generally attract the salt of the earth.
NorCal Cougar
4/26/18 3:03pm
did the persecutors have Pac 12 stickers on their hard hats and/or Chevy Camaros?
Str8CashCougar
4/26/18 4:34pm
This sounds horrible and gets my vote for the worst - daily verbal abuse from people who hate you for no reason
Str8CashCougar
4/27/18 11:21am
Potato factory in Rexburg
greatbam
4/27/18 4:23pm
Did you yell "At least I have all my teeth!" as you walked out?
Bert609
4/27/18 11:25am
I’m not a litigious person, but you should have sued Layton Construction.
BYU Folsom Fan
4/28/18 3:09pm
From 1:38...
Division Bell
4/28/18 3:33pm
Septic tank cleaner
Archaea
4/26/18 3:08pm
potato roguing
jaromp
4/26/18 3:13pm
I was selling mens shoes at a nice department store and was getting burned out
JOPE
4/26/18 3:33pm
BM Al Bundy
indocoug
4/26/18 9:52pm
Washing dishes at Dennys - graveyard shift
mcnasty
4/26/18 3:35pm
Waiter at Frontier Pies in Provo - students came from games with free pie coupons - then stiffed me on the tip
Str8CashCougar
4/26/18 3:39pm
Inside sales at a bro culture tech startup
cougarnerd
4/26/18 3:43pm
You don't like flat-bill hats, jogger pants and/or lifted trucks?
Str8CashCougar
4/26/18 3:52pm
Same. PMI, not sure it exists anymore....
Santos L. Halper
4/26/18 8:30pm
Life coach at an inpatient mental health care facility for young adults.
vagabonder
4/26/18 3:45pm
Moving sprinkler pipe. 5 quarter-mile lines, twice a day every day all summer long.
John Doe
4/26/18 3:57pm
That was one of my favorite jobs. Lots of time for meditation.
jaromp
4/26/18 4:01pm
The only meditating I did was on how to walk with a pipe full of water without losing a boot in the mud.
John Doe
4/26/18 4:33pm
Where was this? Changing water is a fantastic workout, especially if your boss
El Pasco
4/26/18 4:24pm
On a potato farm. After 5 years it no longer becomes a 'workout' and turns into a chore.
John Doe
4/26/18 9:14pm
I've done this. Innumerable mosquitoes, but I liked it other than that.
Santos L. Halper
4/26/18 8:31pm
Worked for a moving company during the summer before my mission. That sucked.
cougfanblue
4/26/18 4:08pm
Dish washer at a pizza and subs place. It wasn't hard necessarily but it sucked.
sgriff
4/26/18 4:09pm
Planting trees in the coastal hills of western WA. Uphill, downhill, up, down . . . in the rain, in the mud
lightmann
4/26/18 4:41pm
Telemarketer or Customer Service Rep.
crazY
4/26/18 4:53pm
Documenting potholes
cruiserhead
4/26/18 6:59pm
Quality Manager for JetCorr6 (Pratt Industries)... at the time, the largest BOX plant in the US.... when
ChinaFan
4/26/18 7:54pm
I worked for a company that sold reclaimed wood - all day long I'd drive nails out of old wood with a punch and hammer.
Santos L. Halper
4/26/18 8:34pm
RE: What's the worst job you've ever had?
85fan
4/26/18 10:02pm
Trying to sell satellite tv to people. A saleswoman I am not! I can’t convince
ByuImaginesDragons
4/26/18 10:20pm
Being an Analyst/Therapist was tough. Couldn't give those business cards away if they were solid gold.
Probable Sacko
4/27/18 9:04am
you need a new start!
mcnasty
4/27/18 9:59am
Love A new start! Perhaps on my license plate shall I place it...
Probable Sacko
4/27/18 3:10pm
Call center for Security Metrics
Division Bell
4/27/18 10:46am
When did you work there?
Veracruz
4/27/18 10:57am
Years ago... when they were on 800 N, 600-700E
Division Bell
4/27/18 1:01pm
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Referee
4/27/18 1:52pm
Bad, sure; but the perk of seeing everyone's FO posts is worth it. ;).
Bert609
4/27/18 2:42pm
Walking back & forth on a 50ft high mound of clay, picking up big rocks
cougarmeister
4/27/18 4:16pm
I guarantee that any of us who had jobs in the 60s had worse jobs than the rest of you
HighHorse
4/27/18 5:46pm
Tire shop
BYU Folsom Fan
4/28/18 12:52am
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