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February 19, 2011 at 8:56 pm #598011
Real1MemberWhat is the worst job you had in Seattle?
February 19, 2011 at 8:57 pm #717997
Real1MemberCactus restaurant… The worse!!!!
February 19, 2011 at 9:13 pm #717998
IrukandjiParticipantGene Juarez Corporate Office. For an operation largely supported by women, they had no qualms shutting me out when I had been assaulted by a co-worker’s husband and filed a police report. Shame on them.
February 19, 2011 at 9:41 pm #717999
ZenguyParticipantSweeping a five and half acre parking lot with a push broom with a radio taped to the handle of the broom. YIKES!
February 19, 2011 at 11:21 pm #718000
redblackParticipantworking the graveyard shift (masonry construction) at what is now the qwest field exhibition center – in november.
there’s nothing quite like dealing with insane homeless people who break into a closed and fenced construction site in the darkness, put themselves in danger, then get belligerent when you discover them and try move them along.
then again, masonry construction itself is no picnic.
February 19, 2011 at 11:29 pm #718001
CaitParticipantBen and Jerry’s… It was my first job and my bosses were unimaginably terrible. It’s too bad because it’s an AWESOME company.
February 19, 2011 at 11:35 pm #718002
shihtzuParticipantSafeway grocery bagger when I was 16.
February 19, 2011 at 11:37 pm #718003
GinaParticipantSelling Girl Scout cookies. More of an internship since there was no pay involved.
February 20, 2011 at 12:28 am #718004
maudeParticipantTemping for Kelly Service. I dusted light fixtures at Home Depot (tedious) and was harassed at Gai’s Bakery because I complained about their sexism.
February 20, 2011 at 12:33 am #718005
F16CrewChiefMemberThe W Hotel. I was a bellhop over at Cavanaughs for a couple years before taking a job as a bellhop over at the W before they opened. After the W opened, they stuck me on graveyard’s because of my experience supposedly. It was about a month later I found out from friends that were bellhops at the Four Seasons that all the folks at the W’s front desk area were hired from modeling agencies. I guess I should of been flattered I was the only one not from a modeling agency. But at the same time, I felt slapped being that I was stuck on graveyard where nobody made any tips. It became really hard to support my family at that point. So I quit a month and half into it and joined the USAF to become an F16 Crew Chief. Best choice I ever made employment wise.
February 20, 2011 at 1:00 am #718006
SonomaParticipantMy first job in Seattle was in at a small office. It wasn’t bad for the first few years. And then the head of the company, a rather arrogant fellow, decided to have an affair with one of the account executives. Both parties were married. In fact, the boss’s nice, attractive wife worked at the same company, and his two very cool teenaged sons worked there in the summer. A horrible, sleazy soap opera ensued. “Awkward” would be an understatement. The company ended up going kaput.
February 20, 2011 at 1:42 am #718007
Genesee HillParticipantDelivering the Seattle Times in Kirkland in the mid 60s. Horrible pay, plus, we had to collect the subscription payment every month from each customer, a whopping $2.25 a month.
I well remember a particular Sunday Times, where the newspaper bragged it was their largest paper, EVER. 308 pages. Try lugging 40 of those for a couple of miles.
I always delivered perfect service; I put the paper where the customer wanted it. At one house on my route, the customer had a metal newspaper tube (remember those?), marked The Seattle Times, next to his front door. But this particular customer did not want me to use that tube, he wanted the paper on his front doorstep. On this one particular cold, rainy, windy Sunday morning, I decided it best to put the paper in that tube, to protect the newspaper.
Well, he did not see it on his front doorstep, so he called in a complaint (missed delivery), and I got demerits! There went my perfect record!
Not Seattle, I guess, but as a teen living in Kirkland, I always said I was from Seattle, when asked!
Sorry to bore you all!
February 20, 2011 at 1:45 am #718008
SonomaParticipantGreat stories, all! Definitely NOT boring. Looking forward to reading more.
February 20, 2011 at 2:01 am #718009
SueParticipantWhen I first moved to Seattle in 2004 I was working in the legal department of a now-defunct bank. It was a legal assistant job, but instead of doing “real work” like I’d done as a legal assistant for the past 25 years in 2 other jobs, it was more clerical (and something they could’ve hired as an entry level position at 1/2 of what they were paying me) and I was now spending my days putting in numerical order those 3 hole punched dividers with number tabs on them, sharpening pencils for the board meeting books (and getting in trouble because I dared to put yellow pencils in the board books – apparently the execs only used black pencils), cleaning up conference rooms after meetings and other “fun” tasks. And they didn’t do busines casual, like my other 2 jobs, so I had to spend a lot of money on a whole new wardrobe and dress up so I could stand at the photocopier for an entire day. Nice people for the most part, but the job was so mind-numbingly dull and didn’t even pay well. It was a temporary job that they wanted me to take permanently and they couldn’t believe that after 8 weeks I actually left and got a job that was actually challenging.
February 20, 2011 at 2:36 am #718010
rockhillsMemberWhen I was in college, I used to temp over the summers in addition to my night job. My first assignment was at a distribution center. My job: to color a semi trailer full of shoe boxes with a black magic marker. Apparently they had been mis-labeled and we had to cross out everywhere it said, “genuine leather.” It may sound like easy money but it was absolutely mind-numbing.
February 20, 2011 at 3:05 am #718011
jwwsParticipantDissecting newborn (removed) foreskins for a tissue culture lab; beat that!
February 20, 2011 at 3:13 am #718012
Genesee HillParticipantOk, having it removed without anesthetic. Though, I guess that was not a “worst job”.
But, I was jobbed!
February 20, 2011 at 3:43 am #718013
JustSarahParticipantJwws, sorry to be contrary, but that sounds like respectable work, and I can think of all sorts of worse jobs — some of which were already mentioned in this thread. Some foreskin cells/tissue do go toward research… of course, some go to cosmetics companies to be put into overpriced skincare products, but still… :-)
February 20, 2011 at 4:43 am #718014
DPMemberSome foreskin cells/tissue . . . go to cosmetics companies to be put into overpriced skincare products, but still… :-)
WTF? Sarah, that has got to be weirdest thread-jack of all time.
What has been read cannot be unread . . .
February 20, 2011 at 4:47 am #718015
BlendParticipantMy worst job was not in Seattle, all my Seattle jobs were pretty good..except one was a bit lame. Working at a Breast Pump rental place cleaning breast pumps for hours in the owners cold garage by myself.
And the one that was not in Seattle was when I worked at Chuckie Cheeze and had to dress up as a big rat. The suit was on the verge of falling off and the kids pulled on my tail. Also, one time when a birthday party wasn’t ready I had to wait in the walk in fridge forever cause the suit was so hot…sitting on a beer keg wishing I had a tap.
February 20, 2011 at 5:04 am #718016
JustSarahParticipantWhat can I say, DP? I was taking a brief break from my studies (dream analysis… ooh!) and was excited to find an opportunity to apply my knowledge of infant foreskins. Is that strange?
February 20, 2011 at 6:26 am #718017
AdmiralJanewayParticipantI worked at the Pike Place Market at one of the produce stalls. Two brothers ran the business. One was a real S.O.B. I left after three weeks. Whenever I complain about work, I think back to that job for some perspective.
February 20, 2011 at 10:23 am #718018
HunterGParticipantAn engineering company doing marketing. My boss was reverse homophobic. I am convinced my job load was cut to noting so I could be “laid of”. So she could hire another gay person, which she did. Not that it maters, but, BIG BUT, this person DID THE SAME EXACT THINGI DID.
February 20, 2011 at 11:09 am #718019
acemotelParticipantEarly ’70s: Sitting by myself in a very cold room all night long, in an office building on Ravenna Blvd, changing backup tapes on a humongous mainframe every hour or so.
February 20, 2011 at 3:18 pm #718020
ZenguyParticipantY’all (remember I am in Texas now) reminded me of one of my first jobs, I was 15 and forged my birth certificate with my Mother’s help believe it or not.
I got a job working at the KFC on 35th and Avalon. My third day they made me close by myself and I did not get done until around midnight. Needless to say my Mother was frantic. She didn’t think I could possibly still be at work but she drove by anyway. She made me quit the next day.
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