It's summertime, and millions of high schoolers and college students across the country need to get a summer job. Ah, memories -- I think everyone has at least one story about a bad summer job they had way back when.
For our next contest, we want to hear about your worst summer job! Leave a paragraph in the comments about your worst summer job and we'll pick one random winner to receive a $100 American Express gift card!
Contest Rules:
-You must be at least 18 years of age to enter
-One entry per person
-Open to US residents only
-Retail value of prize is $100.00
-All entries must be submitted by 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time on June 30
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136 comments:
As a 16 year old junior in hig school I took a job as gas check authorizer at a local truck stop. I did this excited to be able to work with computers, but did not consider I would be out of my normal surroundings. Needless to say after two months I was fired for being caught on their cameras slapping a very rude and vulgar truckdriver! So much for that career choice.
My worst summer job was when I was 18 years old. I sold grave stones for that summer and hated it! I would call people who recently lost a loved one and set up appointments for them to pick out a grave stone. Really depressing.
Thanks so much for this giveaway.
My worse summer job was when I was 18. I got a job in a candy store that sold only chocolate candy, every kind of chocolate you could imagine.
On the first day I was told I could not 'nibble'.
Needless to say I was a chocoholic
and could not take it anymore and quit.
I only lasted 2 days.
lumping fish off of fishing boats.
the messiest, smelliest job on earth. could not get rid of the fish smell no matter how hard i tried. very angry girlfriend..
ppoverboard@aol.com
I wish I could tell you about a worst summer job, but I never had a bad summer job. I liked them when I had them
worse summer job was working in a nursing home changing/cleaning bedpans- the people were nice- the bedpans were awful
Making customized t-shirts. You wouldn't believe the stuff I had to letter on t-shirts!!
emvark at gmail dot com
I had to handle all the recyclables at a bottle shop. people brought in the nastiest stuff on and in cans and bottles and i had to process them.
I was a dental scrubber - washing all the used dental instruments - yuck!
tvollowitz at aol dot com
The summer after graduating high school I got a job in the seafood department at a Winn Dixie grocery store. I would work the night shift because we weren't very busy during that time. The problem was though that I would have to clean up and close the department for the night. I would have to pack up the fish that didn't sell, clean out the glass case, and wash everything down with a bleach solution. So I would go home at night smelling of fish and bleach which is about the worst combination. I would go home and take a shower but somehow the smell would just stick to me. After about 2 months I just couldn't stomach the smell any longer and I left to go to work at Pizza Hut.
hkropog [at] yahoo [dot] com
I was highschool student who had babysitting duties of 6 bratty kids. The parents went out with their friends who brought their kids. They raced around the yard and house and jumped into the car in the garage, all playing "Let's freak out the babysitter". Then when the parents got home, they wrote me a small check which I couldn't cash (being a Sunday). I barely had money for busfare home, and I was dying for something cold to drink. I will never forget that horrible day!
bantibus@aol.com
When I was 17 I worked for the school district during the summer. They had a hard time keeping me busy, so they had me repeatedly test the locker combination. That process involved me standing at a locker, turning the lock left and right to open it, then repeating. It wore the skin of the thumb and index finger of my right hand.
When I was 15, I decided to work for my uncle. We live in a small town, and he is a local handyman who does everything from working on cars to carpentry. When we had to mow lawns, he would drive me to the site and make me do all of the mowing by hand. He only paid me from the time I started mowing to the time I finished. He sometimes docked my pay for 'taking too long.' The breaking point was when he instructed me to sell a car to a family with a newborn child, even though we both knew the car was in horrible condition. I told them about how often the engine quits and how he glued panels onto it, hoping they wouldn't buy it. He found out, of course, and I immediately quit. We haven't spoken since.
I was 16 and got a job at the local pizza shop in my town. I thought it was the perfect after-school and weekend job except the owner was a tyrant. There was never any sit-down time when you were working, if you sat down you folded pizza boxes. They paid me waitress wages for the small dining area they had but except for Friday nights during high school football season, the dining room was rarely used. Since I was paid less per hour based on the fact that I was supposed to be getting "tips", I wasn't making a whole lot of money.
Not only was the owner a tyrant he was cheap. Nothing ever got thrown out and he bought this cheap pink powder dishwashing soap by the case. No automatic dishwasher, just me standing in front of this massive metal utility sink trying to make suds out of this cheap powder. While it didn't sud, it had the ability to turn my hands pink and make them itch every time I didn't wear rubber gloves to wash. Washing those greasy pizza pans was the worst.
There were mouse traps all over the kitchen and storage area. I always tried to make a ton of noise when I went into the storage area to chase the mice away. Of course, you could never chase away the ones on the mouse traps, another job I was in charge of...dispatcher of the dead mice.
The final straw was the day I went into the storage area for some of those pizza boxes to fold. I reached up on the shelf to pull them down and pulled a mouse down right on top of me. I don't ever recall screaming that loud in my life and did the "dance of the super-icky thing" all the way back into the dining area, flailing my arms around. I quit the very next day. Since then, I'll eat pizza but only if there's nothing else around to eat.
shel704 at aol dot com
Y'all need to quit whining, I had the worst summer job! In college I changed my major to from engineering to biology, and that summer I got a job working in a small research lab. I should have been a little more clear regarding the kind of research that they were doing before I started. Their research grants were all based on diagnosing different diseases using fecal smears! YES, I spend the summer using popsicle sticks to smear various kinds of poop (dog, cat, human...) onto different culture slides...not to mention poop assays...and the worst was the dog poop that came from the pound...gross, full of plastic baggies and all sorts of weird things that stray dogs eat. Now we did all of this in a hood...but it still smelled to high heaven. The only good thing that came out of that summer, is that when the time came to have kids, nothing that they could do to me would be any worse than what I had already been through.
My worst summer job was looking through the newspaper, finding companies and asking them to advertise in our local town paper. I typed up little paper cards then sent them out in window return envelopes. Yuck!
Every summer from the age of 10 through 18, I had to babysit my 2 brothers (without pay). I haven't spoken to them in 22 years.
I worked aboard a ship that had these old dangerous boilers. My job was to walk around the engineering space once per hour and take readings from the dials and the gauges. Mark down the pressure and whatnot on a clipboard. Now this was down down down at the bottom of the ship. The temperatures sometimes reached 120-130 degrees. Humid, wet, superheated cramped spaces. UGH. I worked an eight hour shift and would sweat out 4-5 pounds. It wasn't unusual for me to eat eight or nine scrambled eggs for breakfast just to try and keep on weight. I quit after three months. Jumped ship in Naples, Italy.
patricjames@hotmail.com
My worst summer job was babysitting little "Nickles" all day long. He cried at least 4 hours a day, his house smelled like old cabbage soup and his mom accused me of stinking up the place because of her dislike of my inlaws.
My worst summer job was at a veterinarians office cleaning the kennels. Oh...the bad memories...
I worked at a Pizza Parlor when I was 19. It was 90 degrees in there at all times. I spent my time washing pots and pans for the Italian food that was stuck on, caked on so thick and burnt that the dishes looked like they had not been washed in years. All they gave me to wash the pots and pans was a sponge (no scrubbie or anything). I scrubbed until my fingers bled. When I was done with that they sent me into the mens bathroom. I was shy obviously having never been in a mens bathroom but when I went inside I was mortified. When men complain about how nice our bathrooms are they are NOT lying. This bathroom was unbelievable. The floors which had originally been beige were black, the toilets were a grey/brown color (looking as if they had never been washed). I scrubbed and mopped and in the privacy of the bathroom even cried a bit. The mop they gave me had about 10 strings left on it and did not do a whole lot. When I left that job I don't think I went back. I was lucky enough to find a "better" job doing something that I was MUCH better at. When I graduated from college I became a Vocational Counselor, and when people complained about jobs I always remembered this one so I could empathize and understand how many tough jobs are actually out there.
rmc1ra(at)aol(dot)com
At 14, I was hired to work in a clinic in a hospital. My job was to collect the urine samples left by the
patients. It was the worst summer job I ever had ... but I was glad to have a job that summer.
Worst summer job was making telemarketing calls for a pesticide company. Talk about no one wanting to talk to you. Plus I sat at this ugly metal desk in the middle of a hot, dusty room with nothing but a phone and a list of names/numbers. No computer, no a/c, nothing. It was horrid. I think I was paid $5.00 for every appointment I scheduled.
Taking care of 3 rather obnoxious children during summer vacation. I earned enough money to pay for my uniforms in nursing school, so I guess it was worth it!
clynsg at yahoo.com
As an 18 year old, my dad got me a temporary job at a local bank through one of his friends. I was a teller for abour four months while two different people were off having surgery or babies. Sounds like a decent enough job, huh? Since my dad got me the job, I had no idea how much I was getting paid, or when. No one at the bank wanted me there, so no one told me much of anything -- not even where the restroom was!
The worst part was the witch who supervised the tellers. She was always the first one at work every day, and POUNCED on someone every morning with all the mistakes they had made the day before -- loudly and in front of everyone. Everyone just prayed it wouldn't be them.
And, come to find out, we only got paid once a month! Tough, for a new high school graduate.
I was a kid alone in a trailer with no air for most of the summer
My worst summer job was selling Aluminum siding for a construction company. Talk about people slamming down the phone nobody wants to buy any kind of aluminum siding. I couldn't pay my rent with this job.
My worst summer job was working as a house cleaner (people can be real pigs), and I feel lucky after reading some of these others (especially the poop processor) LOL
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The worst summer job was when I was 17 and did work for a telemarketing company. I sold those memberships to a buying club (furniture etc you see it advertised on tv) and it seemed kind of scammy to me (meaning the prices weren't that great and the membership fee was high) but the owner was aggressive and salesy. We had to be on the phone and pushy 7 and a half hours with only a 30 min break for lunch. We couldn't have bathroom breaks unless it was an emergency. It was miserable work, long days and the owner was a tyrant. I quit after 3 weeks and she never paid me. When I asked her about it she never submitted my W2 info and said I couldn't prove I worked there. That made me certain the whole thing was a scam. Live and learn I guess.
my summer job was standing in a barn and cutting peaches in half, dropping the pit into the garbage can in front of me and the peach halves went into a lug box. i made $.50 for every lug box. it was hot, dirty and by the end of the day i was sticky and stank.
Mine was probably working in a plastics plant. The worst job was working the injection mold machine. It was hot, fast, tiring work that I couldn't keep up with. You had to put brass fittings into the mold, put them in the machine and then use a power saw to cut off all the extra bits from the imperfect mold, all while wearing these big thick heat-resistant mittens. Most of the time I just assembled plumbing fixtures. By the end of the summer, I couldn't make a fist with my right hand. I still have carpal tunnel from it 30 years later.
Paneling factory, I only lasted 2 weeks
The absolute worst summer job I had was helping to clear out an old college dorm. We had to move smelly old mattresses, box springs and dorm furniture from 3 floors of dorm rooms-NO elevators to another dorm. THEN they after they fumigated we had to move the stinky nasty mattresses back to the old dorm UP the stairs.
theresamchambers@hotmail.com
Back in 1966 when I was 16,I got a job "collecting"garbage.This was before the advent of the Glad trash bags.It was a foul smelling,filthy job.In the heat of the summer when it was in the upper 80's and 90's was bad enough but throw in the stench and all the fly's you can get an idea of what it was like.Oh,all that fun for $1.25 an hour then!!!
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Working in a cannery, I had to push 5 cherries into each fruit cocktail can as it twirled around.
I spend two summers working as an Animal Health Technician at a dog boarding kennel. Besides the smell (also next to a chicken farm), I was charged with cleaning the cages. Since I was a trained tech, I would have to administer medications. Most often to large 100 poound plus dogs in soiled cages, who would thrash and bite anyone. I remember one animal that pinned me in its own filth as I tried to give it ear drops. I kept thinking, "You are doing this to buy school books".
My worst summer job was when I was 16 and I had to sort bus tickets at the Cleveland OH Greyhound bus terminal downtown which was the pits. There was no air-conditioning and the restrooms smelled foul. This was in the sixties.
My worst summer job was babysitting full time for one of the neighbors while they were at work. They had three kids who were horrible, and they thought it was funny to pull pranks on me. I quit after two weeks and I never babysat for anyone again.
My worst summer job was when i worked in a kitchen of a retirement home. The food they were serving these folks was so nasty. I can't believe I lasted 6 weeks.
My worst summer job was selling magazines door to door. I hated doing that,and having the door slammed in my face. I hated begging strangers to buy those mags.
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I worked at a dog kennel camp where owners left there animals while on vacation. I had to scrape up poop out of there pins every morning.
When I was 16, I worked at a animal rendering plant. They took road kill, etc and boiled them down to seperate the fat from the other tissue. I cleaned the filters over the fat vat. Also used a snow shovel to shovel bone meal into an auger. The smell was something else.
worst summer job is having to work at the cemetery and be the last one to leave the gravesite due to having to make sure the last bit of dirt was on the grave. Houston is really hot and waiting at the grave for the grave diggers could take a while. You could die of a heat stroke just waiting for them.
One summer when I was in high school, I was hired to sell magazine susbscriptions over the phone. We were supposed to say the magazines were free and the customer was only paying for postage. In fact, these subscriptions could have been purchased cheaper almost anywhere else. Once I figured it out, I couldn't rip off any more people and I quit after four days.
My worst summer job was my job as a telemarketer, I always got yelled at (very badly) and even threatened to be sued or even killed, it was indeed the worst, NEVER AGAIN!
cweller75@gmail.com
the worse summer job I had was when I was a teenager and my Mom convinced me to clean our nieghbors house. I walked in and it was so dirty that every dish was in the sink or on the counter and there were mouse droppings and cockroches all over. The smell was so bad I had to keep going out side to keep from throwing up. Needless to say I only went that one time.
One summer, I worked for a dating service. My job was to call and recruit new clients. One day, while engaged in one such phone call, I developed a pretty decent rapport with my prospect. We chatted for a while about general BS; he was pleasant and it was nice diversion. After I hung up, my boss called me into his office and told me that he listened to my entire call!
My worst job was cutting grass with a hand mower and doing lots of trim work with a weed eater.
As a teen I Spent several weeks one very hot summer scooping out the pits at a small hog confinement farm. NASTIEST thing ever and pigs are mean!
When I was 18 years old, I worked at a local dog grooming shop in North East Texas. They were fairly short-handed, and I was very much needed receptionist help - the head receptionist was working over 80 hours a week! I worked 12 hour shifts for three weeks - without a lunch break, and sometimes wasn't even allowed home once the shop closed because we had to wait until every dog was picked up by their owner. I arrived at 7am and had to open the shop, enter files from yesterday, feed the shop pets: three birds (one was a parrot that liked to try and bite you), a cat and a piranha fish! I spent most of my time slotting appointments, playing cashier on one of the oldest cashier machines + drawer I had ever seen in my life, taking dogs back, and interpreting what an owner wanted for their pet in enough sense to convey it to the owner/lone groomer we had. In any spare moment I had to clean the front of the shop or help pick up in the back of shop. At the end of the day I cleaned out the kennels. I was constantly running around holding on to dogs that didn't enjoy being groomed or helping bathe huge dogs that wanted to jump out of the tub.In the middle of the second week we started to pick up on business and I was tasked with calling other shops and trying to find a groomer looking for work! Despite the awkwardness of that, I found one, who was hired. A week later (after I refused a job from Petsmart) I stopped getting any hours for work, and after a week of phone tag with my boss, I get fed up and come down to the shop... to find out that I had been replaced by two ditsy women who had to ask me how to operate the computer while my boss was cutting me a check for the last two weeks. They were two older women who had come in looking for work earlier the previous week. Boss told me she had to get more permanent help and hadn't realized I was going back to school two states away in August. Even though my application said I had a degree in progress at Colorado State. (I was in Texas).
280 bucks, lots of scrubs, smelling like wet dogs and lost a job with Petsmart after effectively helping to get applications for my replacements because I was only around for the summer after saving the boss from stress of being the only groomer in a busy shop. Worst summer ever.
My worst summer job was my first. I was hired by a low-end department store to work in the shoe department. It was hot that summer and the people who patronized that store did not always smell too good! I worked with hot fragrant feet and from my boss, learned the tricks of the trade, such as how to use the shoe stretcher in back to make small shoes fit! Fortunately, after a month or so I was promoted to a better job.
My worst summer job was working night shifts at a cardboard box making plant. Counting stacks of boxes making sure there are 10 in a pack at 2 am is quite mindnumbing
I worked at an ice cream shop...the job wasn't so bad...it was just that the boss was a total pervert!
I worked at a sub shop when I was 17, and the boss was an old, married smiley fellow with bad breath and a toupee who was constantly hitting on me and the other girl who worked there. It was really unnerving, and years later looking back, it makes me sick. Too bad I wasn't smart enough to tell his wife (she called the shoppe all of the time).
I worked at a sub shop when I was 17, and the boss was an old, married smiley fellow with bad breath and a toupee who was constantly hitting on me and the other girl who worked there. It was really unnerving, and years later looking back, it makes me sick. Too bad I wasn't smart enough to tell his wife (she called the shoppe all of the time).
michiganderz123@yahoo.com
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I went to work in the Bradford Company factory making Chritmas tree green electric cords. I had to pour the liquid into a mold and put it into some type of machine that heated and hardened it . Next I would remove the mold from the machine and on the conveyor belt it went for packaging. Talk about a hot, hot, hot and boring job, low, low pay and no air conditioning...horrendous!!
My Worst was when I had to keep our local fairgrounds restrooms clean. The carnies( They are the ones that put up amusement rides and run them and tear them down) Well they would use the restrooms to wash off all their grease they collected in the day and they also would crap huge piles and miss the toilets so all was smeared on the seats and floor. and the smell from the hot outdoor restrooms were awful. never again.
govgirl@gmail.com
I was also lucky and never had a summer job I didn't like.
kg4rmt at arrl dot net
My worst summer job lasted several summers in a row, and it started early because I lied about my age to get hired on the first summer. It was detassling corn. You rode, along with your crew, on a big machine and pulled tassles out of cornstalks. All. Day. Long. For the whole summer, or maybe it just seemed like all summer. I got the most awful blistery sunburns on my back (it was way too hot to wear anything but a bathing suit top & short-shorts), and I've got the scars on my back to prove it. Why did I do it several summers in a row? Very small town, few jobs available to students, and that's how I paid for my school clothes. (I almost didn't post this after I read the one about the fecal smears person).
One summer I worked in a physical therapy office in an assisted living home. I just worked at the desk and there was one old man that was always talking about "pretty ladies" and would hit on me every day he had an appointment!
I worked for an industrial lining company...for the entire summer we lined a new location for a city dump with extremely heavy duty plastic and cloth. We worked in 80 to 90 degree weather on glossy black material for 10 to 12 hours a day! I also carried thousands of sandbags to hold down the plastic while they welded the edges of the plastic together.
Beverly:
When I was 14 that summer I
took care of a neighbors poodle.
I only lasted one day the poodle
bit me. Been scared of dogs every
since.
littlebevi@aol.com
My WORST summer job was when I was on a cleaning crew picking, scrubbing, vacuuming, and mopping up on-campus apartments. The student residents knew that they didn't have clean up after themselves. There was no accountability like a real apartment where if you left it a mess then you wouldn't get your deposit back. On the night before the last day of school year, these students would "party" and intentionally left their places in the nastiest, smelliest, and chaotic way possible. The bathrooms were disgusting- they would leave (insert grossest bathroom related substance you can think of here) all over the floors. The kitchens would have smashed beer bottles and jars of food all over the place-- ketchup, mustard, pickle juice, Hot Pocket guts everywhere. And we had to arrive at work at 5AM on the dot for this job!
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banzonj1 AT gmail dot com
My worst summer job would be handling recycled bottles and cans. This was the nastiest, smelliest job I ever did. It also attracted a lot of bees around me which is one of the things I'm scared of the most. I kept thinking I didn't sign up to be a bee keeper.
I worst summer job was when I was 14 years old. One of my neighbors at the time wanted me to watch over his mother while he was at work because she was disabled. I didn't mind being around the lady (she was really sweet), but it wound up being a lot more than just making sure she was okay (eventually I began to clean, cook and run errands, too).
And I wasn't even paid minimum wage for it!
elkaye[at]gmail[dot]com
I worked a the local horse stable when I was 15. Yep cleaning up the poop. Boy was I ready for school to start back.
I worked at a pet collar manufacturer for a summer. On orientation day I put on my application that I wanted an office position. I showed up my first day and they put me in shipping. Complete waste of my talents. I walked for 8 hours straight per day, no time off the floor, putting orders in boxes in uncomfortable shoes, and at 16 ended up with heel spurs. No fun! The place was run so strict, 2 15 min breaks and a half hour lunch that came in periods like high school..horrible!
Worst summer job, that's easy. Cleaning up after clients at a hot tub hotel. Yuck.
If you grew up in the country you will know why detasseling is the WORST summer job ever -- it's hot, bad hours, and prety bad pay!
autumn398 at yahoo.com
My worst summer job was in 1983, when I went door-to-door to promote a non-profit organization defending women's rights in the workplace. I was in college in the liberal Boston area, thinking, "Who could not agree that women deserve equal pay for equal work?" Boy, was I ever wrong! I got yelled at a lot, sometimes by women who really DID NOT want to be equal (and, of course, a few cavemen).
When I was 16 it was my job to clean up trash at at theme park in Orlando walking around picking up trash. But mainly my job was pouring this kitty litter-like powder on vomit to clean up whenever a kid had too many snow cones and pretzels.
austinreynolds@gmail.com
My worst job was when I was 16 and cleaned house for an elderly man. I don't know what it is with you guys that your aim can be so far off in the bathroom for what you consider your most important organ!
I'm still recovering from my job as a door-to-door fundraiser for a local environemental club. I knocked on so many doors and got them slammed right in my face that summer. I also often got assigned the rich neigborhoods whose residents wanted no part of greening anything. It was sort of amusing to be called a "hippy" since I was a very clean cut kid, but 8 hours a day in the heat and making very little money on the commission system meant a miserable summer for me. The next summer I worked at the library--perhaps not such a noble goal, but it had air conditioning, a steady minimum wage, and no yelling allowed!
My worst summer job was when I was 16. I had to go door to door and advertise for my brother's real estate job. It was so bad because of the 100 degree heat. I was always dehydrated and the people who answered their doors were always in a bad mood.
The worst was the summer that I took a job at Fashion Bug to help them close a store. The real workers were upset cause I could sell more than them and they hated me the entire three weeks I was there. I still do not shop at that store!
I worked at a retail boutique that was pushing its fall-season business suits. We were REQUIRED to get every customer in the dressing rooms to try on a fall suit -- even the ones that were there to try on bathing suits!
I loaded 70 pound mail bags into a semi all day long when I was a teen.
My worst summer job was when I was 12 picking blueberries. We started at 6:00am and worked till noon, it was very hot work and paid very little.
The worst summer job I ever had was when I rogued fields for a local farming company. It was sooo hot and you couldn't wear short sleeves because the corn plants would cut your arms up. The second worst part of the job was carrying around the shovel in the heat!
Babysitting bad kids. I think I learned alot, particularly about meal preparation and clean up.
Punching out cards for that "Magic" card game that was similar to Pokemon but not the same thing.
kaley(dot)hendrickson(at)gmail(dot)com
My worst summer job was when I was working in a booktore. It had a basement that was infested with bugs. They made me go down there and sort and move things and a bug wen in my hair....ahhhhh
My worst summer job, I had to go work on my uncle's farm, cleaning chicken houses, picking up eggs and picking tobacco in the hot fields.
I worked at a little podunk country store one summer, where the place smelled like he had never cleaned it. Everything was dusty, and I wondered why he ever had any customers. Couple that with the fact that he took pay away from myself and other employees, this was a job I couldn't wait to say seeya to.
Winterbreeze85@yahoo.com
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My worst summer job was the Pizza Hut Lunchtime Buffet. I ran around like crazy serving people but they never tipped because it was technically a "buffet."
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robynlnorris@gmail.com
When I was 16 I worked at Grannies Boarding House as a Ceramic Technician(dishwasher). I made two dollars an hour. Every night I would leave soaking wet and have a pounding headache.
When I was younger I took on a summer job replacing a broken sewer pipe under a pier and beam house.I crawled around in sewage for two days replacing the pipe.Never Again!!!
I waited tables for many years as I put myself through college, and that is really hard work, but for me the worst summer job I had was as a telemarketer. It was soooo boring and I hated imposing on people and then getting hung up.
My worst summer job was when I was a teenager and I worked at the local swimming pool. We had to rotate shifts to clean the bathrooms, etc. - it was one of the most disgusting experiences. For some reason, people at a swimming pool act grosser than usual, and all the wetness created really weird kinds of mold. Ugh, looking back on that gives me shivers.
luckymegs1981 AT yahoo DOT com
I applied to work in a large pre-WalMart type store one summer when I was in high school. I was thrilled to get the job and learn that I was going to work in the pet department. I thought it would be fun... but didn't realize that most of my job involved scooping dead fish out of tank after tank.
My worst Summer Job was when I was about 12 years old and it lasted three days. First, I had to shovel up chicken manure from the coop of a neighbor onto a pick-up truck. That took the first two days. Then I had to push the manure off the truck onto my families garden as my father slowly drove along. My pay was fresh garden vegetables the rest of the summer. JeansandTs@hotmail.com
My worst summer job was when i was 16 years old. I got a job as a plumbers apprentice and was working on a sewer line at staples in the parking garage. I was standing on a ladder looking into the broke sewer line pipe when all of a sudden a wave of stinky, slimy disgusting poo and pee came pouring out of the pipe all over me because my mentor forgot to tell me that he did not close the valve yet. It got in my eyes, my mouth, my ears!! It was the most digusting moment of my life...especially when your getting paid 6.25 an hour!
minandkenken@yahoo.com
My worst summer job was when i got hired as a babysitter when i was 16. It was a single dad & his two boys. The dad was super creepy & the kids were insane. To make a long story short...i chased them around the house all night or i should say they chased me, trying to hit me with baseball bats & all their toys, one of them even tried to grab a knife. I was scared out of my mind. At one point i was up at the top of the stairs trying to find them. I turned around and both boys PUSHED me down the stairs. I ended up breaking my leg. The boys wouldn't stop laughing and i was in extreme pain. I called the dad and he was so rude to me and didn't believe my story. He called my parents & i had to go to the hospital. The dad told my parents that i made the whole thing up and refused to pay for ANYTHING!! Then get this...he called the next night for me to babysit again! YEAH RIGHT! :)
mindeelarsen@hotmail.com
That is my story above !
When I was 15 I decided to let a friend talk me into going corn detasseling. What an awful job. Bugs, mud, sunburn and cuts all over my hands and arms from the corn. But I made enough to go to the County Fair all week and buy some new school clothes.
i worked as a delivery girl for a florist using my own car with no gas compensation and less than minimum wage pay
Oh My goodness! My summer job nightmare took place last year when my family's income went downhill so i had to do wat it took to earn some extra cash.
I thought my only job would be a cahier at this local pharmacy but i couldn't be more incorrect. I had 2 be the cahier plus a janitor (yes that includes scrubbin toilets). Somehow the nastiest 'accidents' always seemed to happen in that bathroom. A teen even lost her baby in there (abortion) & guess who had to clean it up. No other than ME! Plus my boss was a total perv! I worked there for two months. Wat a nightmare!
Hoeing weeds out of bean and corn fields when I was young ta111@mail.com
My worst summer job was mowing yards in the 100 degree sun. It was hard on my skin and I was horrible dehydrated each evening.
Unloading boards from boxcars - dangerous,difficult and dirty for low pay.
I babysat for two young children one summer. The baby had all the normal "unpleasantries" but the 5 year old was "trouble". He'd get into so much stuff, make a mess, cry, cry cry and just not want to get along with me. In retrospect, I think he just wanted his Mom to play iwth him - poor kid.
When I was 16 I took a job at a nearby cherry processing plant. My job, for four weeks straight/ten hours a day, was to sort out rotten cherries as they passed by on a conveyor belt. There was no music and talking aloud. Yowza! Every night, I would dream of cherries passing me by.
I took a job as a receptionist for a female attorney who yelled at me constantly, and ate greasy food every day from a fast food fish place. She was mean and smelled bad, and it sucked!
When I was in high school, my friend's stepdad owned a clothing store. One summer I worked in an upstairs room (hot) all by myself (lonely) steaming the new clothes (even hotter!) to get them ready to be hung on display on the sales floor. I most definitely earned every paycheck I received that summer, and was SO happy to start back to school that year!
I was 14 + the worst summer job Ever working at Rock City as the information desk. The desk was between the restrooms + even though some folks asked for directions the question I got asked most often was where are the bathrooms....
My worst summer job was when I was 16. An old woman on our street had fallen and broke her ankle. Her husband hired me to watch her while he was at work. Everyday she wanted me to help her from window to window to spy on neighbors. I had to cook for her too and everything had to be creamed, creamed corn, creamed green beans, creamed blackberries...... I thought that summer would never end.
I had a just a few summer jobs overall and I liked them all! I hope I still qualify :)
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When I was 14 and desperate for money I spent the summer babysitting for a 6 year old boy. His mother would count the food when she came home to make sure he and I ate only what she allowed for the day. He was sneaky and went so far as to collect sticks from the yard, sneak them into the bathroom and set a fire in the sink. I did not make it through the summer.
My worst summer job was when I was 16 and working in a little dive of a restaurant as a bus girl and also to help serve food. I remember my manager, telling us to always make sure that we removed the fruit flies, before we gave people their lemon aid!!!!!!
Diane Bum
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worst summer job was working at taco bell because the food makes me wanna puke unless you're into cat food.
when I was 16 I worked for the school one of my jobs was Scraping gum off the underside of school desk.. YUCK :(
Working morning and evening hours at a resort as a waitress. I was always tired and never had any fun. They weren't good tippers either.
As a kid, I really didn't take any summer jobs. But, several years ago, I took a summer job at the mall to sell cell phones and hated it. vidomich(at)yahoo(dot)com
My worst summer job had to be working at the local golf course doing maintenance. Hot work!
When I was 18 I worked at build a bear at downtown disney. Screaming children, crazy parents, and loads of teddybear fluff! That stuff coats your lungs and makes you hiccup for a year straight. I would know. My theory is families plan disney trips months ahead of time. little timmy gets sick right before the trip so his parents take him to build a bear and have him play with me for an hour. I was sick for 3 months straight!
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One summer when I was about 8 years old, my mother had just picked several bushel baskets of fresh peas in the pods to be shelled and canned. Since I wasnt weeding garden as Dad specifed, I was sent to the house to shell peas, peas, peas!!! I thought if I never saw another pea it would be too soon for me!!
My worst summer job was canvassing. Try going door to door to door in hot, humid Florida heat. I was always drenched with sweat, ridiculously dehydrated, there was no shade, and I only got one short break (they were long days too). And if all that isn't bad enough I dealt with constant rejection from strangers slamming doors in my face to full on yelling at me to get off their property. It was terrible and I'm never going through it again.
My worst summer job was doing agricultural surveys by phone. I spend my days and evenings in a windowless room calling farmers and asking them about their crops and cattle. They didn't want to answer and I didn't want to be asking!
I was a telemarketer and the boss told me I sucked intime@myself.com
I was a life guard and I thought it was the coolest job anyone could have.
The sun was so hot that I got burned to pieces. The bugs ate me alive.
The kids treated me like dirt along with the boss
My worst summer job, hands down, was reading and scoring essay responses from fifth graders' standardized tests -- eight plus hours of reading barely distinguishable variations of the same inane response to the same dull and unimaginative question. And on top of the tedium the grading standards were ambiguous, yet we were expected to adhere to them or have to undergo humiliating remedial training each day - which really didn't make anything clearer. The whole operation was just a mess. Definitely don't want to relive that experience anytime soon!
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scraping attic rafters to repair damage after fires.
robertcschulz2003@yahoo.com
my worst summer job was bad all around. You see I spent one of the hottest summers on record mucking stalls. Even worse I was doing it for FREE because the guy I was dating was working at the farm and he wanted us to spend time together. So all summer long I mucked stalls, shoveled manure, and helped milk cows for nothing. Wanna the part that made it even worse? He dumped me at the end of the summer for a girl who would have nothing to do with cows or manure.
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Worst summer job- working the ice cream window @ a restaurant/ice cream shop.
You are standing there hot as all get out cuz the windows are open, serving something yummy to people out having a great time and all you can do is watch and wish you were out there.
I took a job as a "bookkeeper" for a small auto parts place. Their accountant had embezzled from them and left several months of unopened mail and unpaid bills. My job was simple. I was supposed to open all the mail and organize it so they could determine what needed to be paid right away and what could wait.
The problem was that the owners, husband and wife, shouted at each other constantly. I couldn't concentrate on organizing anything and I was a nervous wreck because every once in a while one of them would come back and yell at me about one thing or another. It was never about the job I was doing; it was always about the other spouse and how I shouldn't listen to them. I quit at lunch time.
One summer I worked as an intern at a business for the library of congress and my boss was an old geezer who chased all the young girls around the office. He was a pig!!
My worst Summer job was picking up dog poop. My friend had started her own business picking up dog poop and she asked me to help her. I'll never forget those stinky poops with flys on them.
Thanks for the giveaway... My worst summer job while in college was as a plumber's assistant: 80% of the job was me snaking out clogged sinks & toilets in apartments & homes...the other 20% was cleaning out restaurant grease traps. After work each day it took me 45 minutes to wash off the smell in the shower !!!
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I worked at Long John Silvers as the clean-up person. It was very greasy, and I had to mop the floor 2 times an hour to keep it clean.
When I was 16, I worked at Albertson's as a courtesy clerk. I met some of the grumpiest and pickiest people doing that job, but had to keep my smile....
I've never had a summer job.
The summer job I have had was the same one for four years and I enjoyed it. This year I have tried to find a summer job and cannot find one, so that is the worst!
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