What's The Worst Job You Ever Had?

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[quote]The Other Titan wrote:

[quote]Mitch87 wrote:
Attempting to sell pay TV door to door. I just didn’t have the gift;
Me: Hey, Im just in the area today having a chat about Foxtel…
Person: Oh, we don’t watch TV (TV is blasting in the background)
Me: Oh, really? Fair enough then. Sorry to bother you! (walk away thinking that did NOT go as planned)
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You just needed to be a lot more assertive. Years ago I sold gym membership packages and I was making almost what I’m making now. If they were undecided or reluctant to buy I would turn the heat up, way up, maybe to the point of intimidation. Some skinny assed 18 year old kid would come in and I would assure him that he too could look like me, but the only way would be to buy the package. I did as well selling to women too. My strategy was different but equally successful using a combination of instilling hope and flirting, maybe even a light touch on the arm to seal the deal. [/quote]
Where do I sign Bro!! I over analyze shit all the time. It’s what I do

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[quote]WhiteSturgeon wrote:

[quote]Mitch87 wrote:
Attempting to sell pay TV door to door. I just didn’t have the gift;
Me: Hey, Im just in the area today having a chat about Foxtel…
Person: Oh, we don’t watch TV (TV is blasting in the background)
Me: Oh, really? Fair enough then. Sorry to bother you! (walk away thinking that did NOT go as planned)
Repeat[/quote]

LOL! I wasn’t cut out for sales either. [/quote]

Life is a giant sales pitch.

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I think everyone should have a really terrible job in life. It’s great perspective in relationship to people’s work place attitudes and what really is a shitty job.

Fencing, shoveling shit, demolition, throwing square bales in the summer, fast food. Done them all. Some were rough, I don’t really mind hard manual labor though. I do dislike working on equipment in very cold weather, no fun.

Probably the worst type of job in my opinion is having some talentless MBA micromanager as a boss nitpicking everything he might slightly understand just to sound half way intelligent.

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[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

[quote]WhiteSturgeon wrote:

[quote]Mitch87 wrote:
Attempting to sell pay TV door to door. I just didn’t have the gift;
Me: Hey, Im just in the area today having a chat about Foxtel…
Person: Oh, we don’t watch TV (TV is blasting in the background)
Me: Oh, really? Fair enough then. Sorry to bother you! (walk away thinking that did NOT go as planned)
Repeat[/quote]

LOL! I wasn’t cut out for sales either. [/quote]

Life is a giant sales pitch. [/quote]

True true.

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[quote]Chushin wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

[quote]WhiteSturgeon wrote:

[quote]Mitch87 wrote:
Attempting to sell pay TV door to door. I just didn’t have the gift;
Me: Hey, Im just in the area today having a chat about Foxtel…
Person: Oh, we don’t watch TV (TV is blasting in the background)
Me: Oh, really? Fair enough then. Sorry to bother you! (walk away thinking that did NOT go as planned)
Repeat[/quote]

LOL! I wasn’t cut out for sales either. [/quote]

Life is a giant sales pitch. [/quote]

For some of us it’s more about quality control.[/quote]

Well Cushie, it depends on the context of the sale and productivity of the market. As you’re well aware of. That is a rather hierarchical statement, which I do understand the context. However, I’m not the one running some slick old bull game on an internet forum. I see no need to reach out due to the endless local markets :slight_smile:

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[quote]pushharder wrote:

[quote]theBird wrote:
…I did try convince my team that we should drop of a whole lot of books into the bin and take the afternoon off, and then tell the boss that we did deliver those books…
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Somehow the folks around here who’ve been scraping birdshit off their windshields these past few years have little doubt as to the above.
moo[/quote]

Come at me bro.

tweet

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[quote]Chushin wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

[quote]WhiteSturgeon wrote:

[quote]Mitch87 wrote:
Attempting to sell pay TV door to door. I just didn’t have the gift;
Me: Hey, Im just in the area today having a chat about Foxtel…
Person: Oh, we don’t watch TV (TV is blasting in the background)
Me: Oh, really? Fair enough then. Sorry to bother you! (walk away thinking that did NOT go as planned)
Repeat[/quote]

LOL! I wasn’t cut out for sales either. [/quote]

Life is a giant sales pitch. [/quote]

For some of us it’s more about quality control.[/quote]

What’s the context?

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[quote]dmaddox wrote:

[quote]beachguy498 wrote:
I had this one job, off the books and I was collecting unemployment. It was at a warehouse unloading tractor trailer trucks. We worked in teams, 2 of us. We each got $25 for every trailer we unloaded, on a good night we’d do 3 trailers. Some stuff was on pallets and we used pallet jacks and maybe a forklift if one was open to use. Sometimes it was all boxes that we had to hump onto carts. Once we opened a trailer, we had to see it through, no matter what. A few times I got out of there at 3 AM. I did that for 2 months.

Rob [/quote]

Did you work for the Mob?[/quote]

No idea. It was a huge place with trucks coming and going all day. The products varied quite a bit. One truck was from Coca Cola, skids and skids of that coke syrup in 64 oz cartons. I saw someone puncture a few of those cutting a corner too close. What a mess…

Rob

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[quote]Chushin wrote:

[quote]The Other Titan wrote:

[quote]Chushin wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

[quote]WhiteSturgeon wrote:

[quote]Mitch87 wrote:
Attempting to sell pay TV door to door. I just didn’t have the gift;
Me: Hey, Im just in the area today having a chat about Foxtel…
Person: Oh, we don’t watch TV (TV is blasting in the background)
Me: Oh, really? Fair enough then. Sorry to bother you! (walk away thinking that did NOT go as planned)
Repeat[/quote]

LOL! I wasn’t cut out for sales either. [/quote]

Life is a giant sales pitch. [/quote]

For some of us it’s more about quality control.[/quote]

What’s the context? [/quote]

Doesn’t really matter.

Quality relationships with quality people.[/quote]

So are you saying you haven’t “sold” yourself as a candidate for a job? Or used charm, wit, guile, etc to produce a desired result that was beneficial to yourself?

<slightly hungover this morning, so ol brain is running a little slow.

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You have to be able to present yourself in a light that makes you appealing and desired to work for someone at some point in time. Unless you inherited money or are self employed in a field where you provide a service and your personality can be that of wall paper. Thinking out loud here. Bird your a lucky dude if that was your worst job bro, I envy you.

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Night cashier at a porn shop. I thought it would be cool, I quit after 2 months. That’s all I have to say about that.

Third shit at a paper mill. I had to load these 25 lb bricks of recycled cardboard fiber into a hopper and add a cup of crystalized pork fat every 10 bricks. They made livestock feed filler or some shit with it. That job sucked ass, I got two 15 minute breaks and a half hour “lunch” around 2 A.M.

I honestly can’t say which job was worse.

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[quote]Chushin wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

[quote]Chushin wrote:

[quote]The Other Titan wrote:

[quote]Chushin wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:

[quote]WhiteSturgeon wrote:

[quote]Mitch87 wrote:
Attempting to sell pay TV door to door. I just didn’t have the gift;
Me: Hey, Im just in the area today having a chat about Foxtel…
Person: Oh, we don’t watch TV (TV is blasting in the background)
Me: Oh, really? Fair enough then. Sorry to bother you! (walk away thinking that did NOT go as planned)
Repeat[/quote]

LOL! I wasn’t cut out for sales either. [/quote]

Life is a giant sales pitch. [/quote]

For some of us it’s more about quality control.[/quote]

What’s the context? [/quote]

Doesn’t really matter.

Quality relationships with quality people.[/quote]

So are you saying you haven’t “sold” yourself as a candidate for a job? Or used charm, wit, guile, etc to produce a desired result that was beneficial to yourself?

<slightly hungover this morning, so ol brain is running a little slow.
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No, of course not.

But it’s a matter of degree, and I don’t cross the line about important stuff.

My reaction was to, “Life is a giant sales pitch.”

It’s a really minor part of my life, IMO.[/quote]

Gotcha, I need a sarcasm button for my posts. I do agree if you establish yourself as a person of high regard/value many things in life just fall into place.

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[quote]caladin wrote:
Personal Trainer at a 24 hour gym… Graveyard shift…

Masons apprentice → that job just fukin sucked![/quote]

Brick mason?

I have done concrete work before, that will convince you to stay in school. Really sucks when it is cold out but not so cold you can’t still pour. BUST ASS and get all sweaty then stand around and get chilled until the next truck shows up.

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Worst job I ever had was so bad it was the final impetus to consider college many years after high school. The situation is important.

1 - buy home on easy pizza delivery $
2 - move into a nice high-end custom construction field
3 - real estate goes busto 2007
4 - laid off
5 - finally get a job in a terrible market, working 12hr shifts from 4 pm to 4 am power washing grease hoods in fast food restaurants.

Power washing grease hoods in fast food restaurants. At 1 am.

All of the suck.

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[quote]mutantcolors wrote:
Worst job I ever had was so bad it was the final impetus to consider college many years after high school. The situation is important.

1 - buy home on easy pizza delivery $
2 - move into a nice high-end custom construction field
3 - real estate goes busto 2007
4 - laid off
5 - finally get a job in a terrible market, working 12hr shifts from 4 pm to 4 am power washing grease hoods in fast food restaurants.

Power washing grease hoods in fast food restaurants. At 1 am.

All of the suck.[/quote]

Doesn’t sound like much fun to me. The 4:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. shift sounds like a killer.

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Furnace line operator making transport truck springs. Bending heavy, red hot steel when it’s an arms length away is something you have to experience to appreciate. Some parts you really had to wrestle to get them into the die, you’d swear you were going to burst into flames on the hundred pounders lol. You only had some much time to form them before the metal got cool and it was no good anymore. Did that from 98’ to 08’.

Breathing in metal dust and burnt oil smoke all day I can do without thanks but it helped pay for my home and I did what I had to do regardless of the risk’s to provide for my family.