What was your worst job?

[Shawn101589]

So I work at Olive Garden, the only one in Rhode Island. I'm gonna run this down into categories, in a bit, followed by a TL;DR so bare with me for now.


Ok, WORKING IN A RESTAURANT SUCKS. Sure, I make good money. Sure, the work environment is (for the most part) very pleasant. But I am going to be talking specifically about one of the most irksome things about working at Olive Garden specifically.





SOUP AND SALAD.

This is just one of many situations that happens at my job daily.


My thoughts displayed in brackets.


Me: "Hi, my name is Sh-"






Guest: "We'll just take the soup and salad lunch special with water."






Me:[sad;lfjas;lfjs;lgnasdf;gwaertupoiwt3q45iqjw253289uer;lgnmsdfp03498t7y324jkwrnmgpogyu3p9u5ju2439p8j;oiug34098t3u5toi;ejgw;j **** YOU ITS NOT A SPECIAL YOU CAN GET IT EVERY DAY]


After I calm down, it's usually






Me: [Relax Shawn you'd get the special too if you didn't work here. Take a deep breathe.]







Me: "Yes you can get it all day, and after 4 it becomes 9.95. Now, my names Shaw-"







Guest: "What kind of iced tea do you have?"







Me: "We have a Belini Peach Raspberry Mix, and we have unsweetened."







Guest: ".... We'll take water with lemon and can you bring out the endless salad and bread?"








Me: [Well you haven't even ordered yet you piece of ****, you still don't know my name, and I HAVE TO OFFER YOU A SAMPLE OF WINE. LET ME SPEAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK]







Me: "....Ok."


So then ensues an hour and a half of running back and forth, back and forth, refilling the endless soup salad and bread, over and over. 6.95 per order, both with water, a two top comes out to the devil's number: 15.01.


Not to mention, the in betweens of "What kind of soups do you have? Can I have extra dressing? Do you have blue cheese? Extra dressing? Can We split one soup and salad special between us."


Then, after all of it is over, and they leave, I walk up to the table for my two, or sometimes three dollar tip. Usually. Naturally, working in a restaurant you are going to have the cheap *******s that leave you nothing on 100$. But working a lunch shift at Olive Garden is awful because you know you are doomed from the start.


I'll post more general stories if this thread catches on. I just really wanted to vent and I figured I could do it and at the same time get to know some people that go to the forum. So, fire away with your own stories.






TL;DR



Get out if your to lazy to READ on a FORUM.

 

[Skrlx]

IMO this would work in a blog but funny read

 

[Fuelbi]

Hahaha funny stuff here.

Man I wish I could get a job at McDonalds. Free food, screwing people at the drive in window WITH THE ****ING WRONG ORDER, Free food, being close to the food I love, free food, getting to meet a bunch of pricks, free food, oh and did I forget to mention free food?

 

[Shawn101589]

I worked at Mcdonalds. It sucked *** v_v but the free food was nice. But now they have cameras in the kitchens too so stealing isn't as easy. I've come to the conclusion that I wouldn't mind suckin' D's to make my guests happy if I had a wage. And at least at Mcdonalds I didn't have to deal with people.

Making 2.25$ an hour (minimum wage for a waiter in RI) and relying on "the goodness of people" can be very tiresome and discouraging at times.

 

[Fuelbi]

Wait, you can't actually have free food? I could have sworn that when I went to my nearby mcdonalds one day, I saw a poster saying "Employees get free food" on a poster with benefits for employees

 

[Shawn101589]

O_o where are you from? That's not how it was when I worked. Half off was all I got. Unless I was working the back and just made myself something as I pleased.

 

[Fuelbi]

Florida.... apparently about 10 states south of where you are....

 

[Shawn101589]

Ya lol idk I find it odd that it would change since it's corporate. Maybe it's just changed since I worked there (2006). Oh well v_v

 

[victra♥]

lol i like this. I agree, should probably be in user blogs. Lucky you though, working at the only olive garden on rhode island.

I worked as a dishwasher before. LOL. Sucked :<

 

[jamlosingthegame]

**** I feel lazy. My mom is probably gonna get me a job at her hospital.

 

[Fuelbi]

I just realized, I am now legally able to have a job since I'm 14... I wonder where I could get a job?

Maybe I should be a bag boy at my publix...

 

[Shawn101589]

lol i like this. I agree, should probably be in user blogs. Lucky you though, working at the only olive garden on rhode island.

I worked as a dishwasher before. LOL. Sucked :<

To be honest, I didn't even know there was a user blogs forum until It was pointed out to me here :D if you'd like to move it feel free.

And I was a dishwasher/busboy at my old job. I couldn't agree more. My house is filled with paper plates and plastic cups cause I HATE washing dishes. The only exception is icecream. Cause lets face it, who doesn't like icecream? v_v

Being a busboy was like being a slave. Work harder then the servers for less money and do there slave work. As much as I think being a waiter can be unpleasant at times, busboys have it so much worse. I always take care of mine cause I know the hell they have


Edit:

I just realized, I am now legally able to have a job since I'm 14... I wonder where I could get a job?

Maybe I should be a bag boy at my publix...

I say enjoy not having a job. It's not all its cracked up to be v_v enjoy being a youngin', at least till your 16 lol. In RI you can't work till your 16 unless its under the table. But thats the age of consent too :D I wonder if there is a correlation....

 

[Fuelbi]

Hmmm.... but then again, I don't want people talking behind my back if I place the eggs below all the other food....


Anyways, why don't you just rename this thread to What is your Worst Job? or something? Makes it much more simple

 

[Shawn101589]

Hmmm.... but then again, I don't want people talking behind my back if I place the eggs below all the other food....


Anyways, why don't you just rename this thread to What is your Worst Job? or something? Makes it much more simple

Done. And being a bag boy is easy. Having a first job is always nerve wracking. but a job like that becomes clockwork on day 2. Don't worry about that stuff.

 

[victra♥]

nice. Thread is pretty legit now for the PRoom

 

[Fuelbi]

Done. And being a bag boy is easy. Having a first job is always nerve wracking. but a job like that becomes clockwork on day 2. Don't worry about that stuff.

Eh, I know, Ive already had a job. My father made me work at his office over the summer. I would've continued when school started, but for some reasons the monkeys that run the school made my get up time 1 hour earlier, which is bad for my metabolism...

Ahhh I had it good there. 100$ a week and I didn't do THAT much work. I mean when I got work it was a PAIN IN THE BUTT to do, but I could manage ^^

So I guess since that has been my only job, it is my worst AND best job

 

[Mota]

Only had the one job, working at Ford Motor Companies, pretty much ran office errands, eg: photocopy, organise and make coffee, most of the time I was on Youtube, reading newspapers and buying bacon and cheese rolls.

Good timesss

 

[cutter]

Reading this thread makes me so happy of my current job being a tutor .

 

[Fuelbi]

@Mota hehehe good one XD

When I was working, I was 70% of the time on here XD. Although I hated the work I got there. I was once given the work to organize about 200 CDs by the country labeled and was then required to to check each CD off of a list.... T_T please no more torture. Another time I was made take merchandise out of 30-40 boxes and count each item in it and then check it off the list. Have I ever told you how much I hate doing inventory?

 

[Shawn101589]

I agree, inventory is complete ****. I get distracted easily so I wouldn't be able to handle it. At least as a waiter I'm constantly moving so I don't have time to **** around. I could never handle a job where you just sit there and count ****.

 

[Fuelbi]

I swear, I was always relieved when I had a job to move boxes around or something. I swear, I would prefer to be overly exerting myself rather than sitting being tortured by doing inventory right in front of a computer I could easily distract myself with. Time passes so slowly when you do inventory

 

[victra♥]

man. When i was a dishwasher, it was hella stinky and gross and stuff. Never again.

I only liked it when I was in the back stacking dishes >___>

it was definitely not my scene. I dont know what i was thinking when i worked there. Desperate for money I guess. >_> at the time anyways.

 

[Fuelbi]

Hey Shawn, you misspelt your in the title. It should actually be YOUR not YOURE. LEARN YOUR CONJUNCTIONS MISTER!!!

 

[Shawn101589]

man. When i was a dishwasher, it was hella stinky and gross and stuff. Never again.

I only liked it when I was in the back stacking dishes >___>

it was definitely not my scene. I dont know what i was thinking when i worked there. Desperate for money I guess. >_> at the time anyways.

In this economy desperate is not something to be ashamed of money is always nice to have.

And roacherman, idk what you're talking about ;D (lolcwutididthar)

 

[victra♥]

Hey Shawn, you misspelt your in the title. It should actually be YOUR not YOURE. LEARN YOUR CONJUNCTIONS MISTER!!!

lol

In this economy desperate is not something to be ashamed of money is always nice to have.

And roacherman, idk what you're talking about ;D (lolcwutididthar)

yeah thats true. ._. I quit after 2 months though, even though I only worked 2 days a week XD

 

[Mr.Freeman]

Sooner or later I'm gonna have to get a job. My bro doesn't have one, despite him being 20.

He's still in college, though.

..yay, 200th post.

 

[Sizzle]

My first job was a landscaping job, but since I was only 15, I couldn't run anything like a lawnmower or even a weed eater. So I pretty much trotted around the territory I was assigned to each day, pulling weeds by hand. I worked alone almost all day. The times I did have company, I was working with Spanish speakers, which at first was a bit hard. Luckily, I had been taking Spanish classes in school, so I practiced a lot, which turned out ok. Eventually I got good enough at speaking Spanish that I could understand all the **** talk they did with each other, so they kind of accepted me into their group rather than being the outsider. This helped when my boss was around, since he was someone we always tried to avoid, mainly since he was kind of awkward and annoying, and since I could understand my co-workers, I got to know how they truly felt about him. Anyway, the hours were long, the job was beyond tedious and time went by very slowly. I had been saving up to buy my own PC, so at the conclusion of the summer, I was finally able to purchase the computer I had been working for that whole time. That final call giving my boss the two weeks notice was such a relief. So even though the job sucked, I guess I got a bit out of it.

 

[Jonas]

Skinning minks. There would be two guys operating to machines doing the actual skinning, and I would put the skin in a machine that would scrape all the fat of the skin's inside. Lemme tell you that job sucked. I had to get up every morning at like 5 am and go on a 20 min bicycle ride to the mink farm. It was December, so it was cold like ****. When I got home every day I smelled like dead mink.
So yeah, I would basically stand there for eight hours every day (with a few brakes inbetween though) and put mink skins in the machine. The machine kept soaking my gloves with hot water, which sucked because it hurt and because the wet gloves got really cold after a while. Wearing tight, soaked gloves is also really uncomfortable.
Sometimes I would also muck out the mink stables or manually skin some of the minks that got ruined by the machines.

Working at the mink farm for a month earned me about 4000 dollars (I obviously got paid in my local currency, so I'm not sure of the exact amount in USD), so I guess it's worth it, but I don't feel like ever working with minks again P:

 

[Shawn101589]

Skinning minks. There would be two guys operating to machines doing the actual skinning, and I would put the skin in a machine that would scrape all the fat of the skin's inside. Lemme tell you that job sucked. I had to get up every morning at like 5 am and go on a 20 min bicycle ride to the mink farm. It was December, so it was cold like ****. When I got home every day I smelled like dead mink.
So yeah, I would basically stand there for eight hours every day (with a few brakes inbetween though) and put mink skins in the machine. The machine kept soaking my gloves with hot water, which sucked because it hurt and because the wet gloves got really cold after a while. Wearing tight, soaked gloves is also really uncomfortable.
Sometimes I would also muck out the mink stables or manually skin some of the minks that got ruined by the machines.

Working at the mink farm for a month earned me about 4000 dollars (I obviously got paid in my local currency, so I'm not sure of the exact amount in USD), so I guess it's worth it, but I don't feel like ever working with minks again P:

That sounds absolutely awful. If you don't mind me asking, how old were you when you worked this job?

 

[Colonel Cuddles]

Last summer I worked for my dad, I did yardwork on some dude's house. He had me build a f*cking moat around his mansion. Dead serious. I got paid 5 bucks an hour. He called me "My little Mexican", and addressed me occasionally as Pedro. Quit after 2 weeks. Worked 5 hours a day. Sometimes I did easy things like tractor some sticks over to the fire pit. Other times I did things like picking rocks out of his garden (Mind numbing).

 

[soju]

Last summer I worked for my dad. . .

Man that really sucks he literally did work you like a mexican XD jk jk


Well my worst job was cooking at a Japanese Sushi House, the owner gave me a terrible wage no insurance and all around was just a ****. It was pretty cool though being able to cook for money at only the age of sixteen, I quit only after 2 weeks though XD

 

[Jonas]

That sounds absolutely awful. If you don't mind me asking, how old were you when you worked this job?

I was 18

 

[Fuelbi]

Skinning minks. There would be two guys operating to machines doing the actual skinning, and I would put the skin in a machine that would scrape all the fat of the skin's inside. Lemme tell you that job sucked. I had to get up every morning at like 5 am and go on a 20 min bicycle ride to the mink farm. It was December, so it was cold like ****. When I got home every day I smelled like dead mink.
So yeah, I would basically stand there for eight hours every day (with a few brakes inbetween though) and put mink skins in the machine. The machine kept soaking my gloves with hot water, which sucked because it hurt and because the wet gloves got really cold after a while. Wearing tight, soaked gloves is also really uncomfortable.
Sometimes I would also muck out the mink stables or manually skin some of the minks that got ruined by the machines.

Working at the mink farm for a month earned me about 4000 dollars (I obviously got paid in my local currency, so I'm not sure of the exact amount in USD), so I guess it's worth it, but I don't feel like ever working with minks again P:

Hell Id work there for 4k a month! I don't care about the cold or the minks (whatever they are) Id work for that much... although 4k may seem like a lot for a guy my age though... well thats atleast 10 times what I won when I had a job...

 

[Shawn101589]

Man that really sucks he literally did work you like a mexican XD jk jk


Well my worst job was cooking at a Japanese Sushi House, the owner gave me a terrible wage no insurance and all around was just a ****. It was pretty cool though being able to cook for money at only the age of sixteen, I quit only after 2 weeks though XD

Under the table restaurant work is pretty common these days. It's very prevalent in the area I live, Oakland Beach in Warwick RI. There are like 7 or 8 nice fancy restaurants by the shore, and I swear I've been served by 12 year olds before, or at least they looked it.

 

[Shök]

I still haven't had a job. Rofl..

 

[OfTheEarth]

I worked at a independant video game store, like GameStop, except ****ty-ER
it was called GameZone
maybe you've heard of our Smash Tournaments 0_o
they were in orlando, Fl
anyhoo

before i got promoted to T.O. with my little brother, K-Love
We used to dance outside, in floridas heat
with signs,advertising our store
and here's the best part:

We were dressed up as mario and luigi -_-
Our boss has made us go to school in those suits on certain days for school,
with anothe employee(who i hate)
dressed in a monkey suit
and chase us around

what a great highschool life it twas :D

 

[sabbrinak55]

My worst job was a Emergency Medical Technician.

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Lanzarote

 

[Deleted member]

I just realized, I am now legally able to have a job since I'm 14... I wonder where I could get a job?

Maybe I should be a bag boy at my publix...

You should work at Albertson. I plan to start working there this summer.

 

[Slhoka]

Stretcher-bearer in a hospital. Taking patients who just died to the morgue isn't funny =(
Same with patients with some weird diseases, especially skin-related ones as symptoms are visible.