As soon as summer heats up, most of us are ready to go on adventures. We’re jetting off or hopping in the car to discover new places and spend some time in the fresh air and sunshine. But for the teenagers and young entrepreneurs out there, these few months of freedom are also the perfect opportunity to put a little extra cash in their pockets. Whether to save up for their first car or spend it all on long-awaited concert tickets, teens are sizzling with expectations.
However, a low-wage gig is usually rough. After all, it’s work. During the summer! And most of the time, it involves punishing hours, rude customers, and grueling manual labor. So no wonder these memories stay with us long after we collect our nickels and dimes. And they immediately came back after Jimmy Fallon asked Tonight Show viewers: "It's Hashtags time! Tweet out a funny, weird, or embarrassing story about a bad summer job and tag it with #WorstSummerJob."
People delivered some hilariously painful tales from the times they spent clocking in hours in the scorching heat, and we at Bored Panda have gathered some of the best ones. Scroll down to read the funniest responses and share your own experiences with us in the comments! Then be sure to check out even more amusing stories from Fallon’s recent challenges on #PromFail, #NanaQuotes, and #MyHighSchoolWasWeird.
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You’d have to know The Dells….this is on brand with the clientele.
Load More Replies...Of coarse you didn’t apologize, some how you managed to get them back onto his feet without anyone noticing.
What do you call a duck doctor? I’ll let someone else fill in the punch line below…
I feel so bad for children who's parents do this . My neighbor had to watch her siblings her entire life. She was like a little mom and didn't get to be a child and have fun
I started watching after my sister when I was 10 and she was a newborn. I regret nothing and will do it all over again given the chance.
Load More Replies...Wait. You’re in high school, you’re old enough to get a part-time job … but somehow you’re not free to pick what job you want?? That’s definitely not okay. Even if you’re still living at home, you’re still entitled to your liberties. To be forced into a job with family? Considering it’s not what you want to do, that’s borderline enslavement. 🤔
Same, but I was in 7th grade when I got my first job working at my aunt's daycare. Which my baby twin bros also attended. But it was cool. They were fun kids, and now they're great adults
Really sick of people using children as unpaid labor. Once, maybe twice a week, OK. If they're babysitting 5 days a week, pay them! Something! What's affordable, privileges, something!
When I was 13 I used to babysit the neighbor kids during the day. One Friday she asked me if I could come back for Friday night date night. She was newly divorced and was seeing a new guy. They came home around midnight, payed me, and watched me walk home. (Only 4 houses away) Before I shut the front door I heard gunshots! The jealous ex-husband had been waiting for them to get home. He shot her new boyfriend to death, within minutes of me walking out the door!😬
Whether you ever stocked grocery stores or landed a position as a lifeguard at the pool, you know how dreadful these jobs can be. While those experiences lead to the person we are today, our memories often carry a fair amount of icy moments too. Although many excited teenagers feel let down when their part-time positions fail to live up to their expectations, they sure make for entertaining stories.
So this recent hashtag challenge was all about the funniest and weirdest #WorstSummerJob stories. To kick the thread off, Jimmy Fallon started by tweeting: "My friend went on a really bad Tinder date one night. She went on a job interview a week later and her date was giving the interview. In both situations, there was no follow-up meeting."
However, it turns out that people over on Twitter definitely had it worse. Some of the responses include real gems such as fighting ducks while trying to clean a small island and watching jars of jam traveling on a conveyor belt for 8 hours straight. If you’re looking for a job right now, these stories can certainly give some food for thought for your future choices.
If they want the trumpeteer's signature, I don't see why it's a big deal.
Well, it should be obvious. Get more pens for the trumpet player.
Cigarettes at a pharmacy? Is this really a thing? Non American here not understanding 😂
Pharmacies are often located inside what might be considered a general store. The main register usually has cigarettes behind the counter. Separate register from where they fill your medications.
Load More Replies...Imagine an old lady just whacks the guy with her walking stick & says “Wait your turn! I need my medication & you should respect your elders!” 😂
Yes it is real. 1 major chain stopped but many others still do.
None of them by me sell them anymore. It is different now though. There are more options than the local drug store. There are 87 gas stations in every town. 😂😂 Most grocery stores no longer sell them by me either.
Load More Replies...In Ontario Canada, pharmacies stopped selling cigarettes in 1993. Our liquor/booze is not sold there or in regular stores either. Presumably, to help them from being robbed as much.
Cvs and Walgreens here in the states as well as small pharmacies here used to they quit selling them about 5 years ago maybe...
Guess he was just getting on your good side so you won't give him trouble loading the hay sacks 😂
In California, the pharmacy is a part of a larger drug store. In the drug store we can get greeting cards, cosmetics and over the counter medicines like aspirin and tummy ache medicine.
Been there done that. Still even have the t-shirt. But because of this I will never ever work in retail again
Current delivery driver here. Everything the OP said 100% true. It is a miserable job. When the heat index is 108 even that 1 extra arm covered in a sleeve makes a big difference.
Portect yourself with sunscreen. Skin cancer is no joke. I am clear now but I'm sure it will come back.
Load More Replies...That's been called The Trucker Tan for years upon years upon years upon years.
Lorry driver tan. I had that when I worked far from home. My right hand was always against the sun, morning and evening. After years it has only now almost matched my left hand.
Do they not sure condition those trucks? I live in Florida and I'm sure it's an OSHA violation not to!
But however terrible some summer jobs can be, they are often seen as a rite of passage for many kids who set out to learn more about the world and learn some valuable life lessons along the way. According to a blog post on KidsHealth, these temporary gigs have plenty of benefits and can teach people valuable life skills.
First, they provide teens with the opportunity to develop and improve their interviewing skills. And the more jobs they apply for, the better they will get once they seek out to get their one-of-a-kind dream job. Moreover, it can benefit them while trying to get into college as well.
I'd love that job. If I could move back in with my parents... but they're 80 and think they are fine on their own
Load More Replies...Lmao why are you downvoting her when she's right... America is literally going through horrible inflation RIGHT NOW and they're acting like it's impossible that it could happen here and has never happened. There's so much poverty here and we might as well face reality that we are far from a great country where no one is homeless or going hungry etc even while working their asses off. I'd say the majority of Americans are only a few emergencies and spaces away from poverty and/or being homeless
Load More Replies...My first job was as a dishwasher at a breakfast food restaurant on the weekends in 1977 when I was 14 and there was a minimum wage of $2.30 an hour. The federal minimum wage has been around since I think after WWII. I saved enough money after a year to buy my first car (a 1968 VW Bug) but still has to wait a year to LEGALLY drive it.
I worked for these 2 old ladies who ran an antique store. The 1st day they had me working in the shop and on the register and what not, all cool, very nice. 2nd day, they've got me weeding around the property and digging up the garden. Now, I'm 15 years old, not wearing gloves, and knew nothing about how to identify poisonous plants like poison oak, poison ivy, or poison sumac - guess who got exposed to and covered by all 3?! Oh, and did I mention that I get REALLY bad reactions to the oil to the point that I have to get steroids? Yup. That was fun. And then they were angry that I didn't come into work while I looked like a zombified meth addict with weeping, itchy sores all over me!
Other than the fact that those 3 plants don’t all grow together anywhere in the US and that there is no difference between the 3 rashes because it is caused by the same oil in all 3 plants, totally believable story, honey.
Load More Replies...Everybody knows old women -and old men- love to pay with coins. In fact, as my kids are growing older, I'm starting to carry some pocket change, without apparent reason yet.
I worked at an instant oatmeal factory. My gloves came off into the product in the process and we had to stop the line so I could get new gloves (cardboard cuts are worse than paper cuts!) my boss said not to worry because the system shoots out any issues with weight. Guess what? That box made it to a store somewhere, somehow. I thought I was going to get fired. Boss says “yeah, this doesn’t usually happen but some consumer is about to get a ton of free stuff when they complain about your gloves.” It ended up not being a bad job after all.
Getting paid to do nothing sounds inviting until you actually have to do it.
it is extremely boring and mentally exhausting after a while. Took all my might not to a) fall asleep or b) run away screaming
Load More Replies...I worked at an olive factory watching a conveyor belt that sorted olives by size. They got deposited into 1000 liter containers. Sometimes the forklift drivers couldn't hear me when I'd yell at them to replace the containers. I kept all the pits from the olives I ate on the job to throw at them when they weren't paying attention to me.
When I was training to become a train driver I was driving the ore train while it got emptied. Normally you put in the speed holder and overlooked the situation. Very boring, but this time the emptying took much longer than usual, something was broken, so we had to drive even slower and it took even longer. A tiny bird jumped on the rail in front of us and walked faster than we drove. Often stopping to look back with a smug face, then it'd shake its tail feathers and walk a bit further. A real a*****e.
I never could do line work. Can't handle empty mind jobs. I had a job one summer counting 3M tape returns/stock. I quit the same week. Ugh
I had to read this a couple times before I realized "front zipper" didn't mean a pocket in his back pack
Just “zipper” would have done. Specifying “front” is just confusing. Did he also have a back zipper?
Load More Replies...Firstly, ewwww, secondly, I quit if I have to touch that. Thirdly actually, why??!!?!
I worked retail in the Mojave desert. Springtime meant the beginning of triple digit temps well into autumn…we had to put up a sign, “no boob money, no sock money please”
I've been seeing that a lot lately. That fact that you have to use a sign for that!
Load More Replies...One day as a young teller, I saw a lady come in during a heat wave and ask to deposit cash into her account. She proceeded to pull bills out of her bra and hand them to my coworker who was nearly gagging because the bills were wet with sweat.
Not nearly as bad as your experience (thankfully), but I worked at a local grocery store as a cashier. One summer a lady came to my check out lane wearing a bikini top and shorts. She pulled her money out of her top and it was soaking wet. I was hoping it was from swimming and not sweat. Needless to say I went to wash my hands immediately afterwards. I know she saw the terrified look on my face.
Another skill young adults gain is familiarizing themselves with rejection and getting better at coping with it. "You may not get the first job you interview for," they wrote. "Rejection happens in life and it can be hard to handle. The more we face rejection, the easier it becomes to move forward and bounce back." Then, stepping out of your comfort zone and putting yourself out there leads to learning something new about yourself. So teens who set out to find a new job can learn new skills and discover new interests. "If you need to save money, you may learn that commitment is necessary to reach your goals. If nothing works out? You may decide to start your own business."
And, most importantly, new jobs can help grow stronger as a person, build self-confidence, and make people feel good about themselves. These new skills teens learn during their first job experiences can open new doors for future opportunities and, of course, look great on their résumés.
If it was a Girl Scout Camp they would have imploded your ego, crushed your self worth and left you with a crippling eating disorder, all while continuing to smile at you.
One summer when I worked at Girl Scout Camp we had a camper who fought with everyone and was horrible to the counselors. She claimed she was a twin and that her sister hadn't been allowed to come because she was acting badly. I'm still not sure if she made up an even worse twin sister because if twin was worth, I really wouldn't have wanted to meet her.
Boy Scouts. Summer camp. The train from Raton home. Source: I worked those trains, and when I knew there was a 13-car (the designation for the position in the consist) full of Boy Scouts on their way home, I refused to enter that car. I'd peek through the window to make sure there wasn't any overt violence, but I wasn't being paid nearly enough to set foot in that car. Also, it was SOP that when we had groups of Boy Scouts, that car would be switched out of the consist, and left out in the back 40 with all doors open, for at least 48 hours, before any cleaning began.
That's kinda life for a parent of teenage kids, al though as a parent at least you get to ground them.
I did ARMY Cadets as a young teen, but it was mixed gender. Girls and boys were in separate ends of the main camp, though. Girls were nasty and boys were pervs. I had to snap at the girls and tell them to stop fat shaming one of the female cadets and I smashed a pair of the boy's binoculars with a rock because he was using them to watch the girls getting dressed. Luckily for me, the CUO knew me well enough to know that I don't do anything without a very valid reason, so he let me off for both the snapping and the breaking of the binoculars.
I was a Boy Scout. Very correct information. And some of the stuff we tried…
Ah, fondly remember the pretty colors at sunset off the sheen of suntan oil in the pools.
In the army we would have called it "Alpha Foxtrot Romeo" and made it sound like a cool job.
When my siblings and I were younger we used to cover ourselves in liquid hand soap and go down the waterslides at our local waterpark until the pool had bubbles everywhere...at the time we thought it was hilarious...now as an adult...not so much...it probably cost them a lot of money to fix :(
I've realized once you pass 50 reading the newspapers first thing in the morning is important. As Jeremy Clarkson said, you wake up earlier but you also get to see the beauty of the morning (something also those lines) gives me hope that it wouldn't be so bad.
Checking the Obituaries to see if you’re in them. If not you really enjoy your sunrise coffee ☕️ ☀️ on the porch.
Load More Replies...Some of these complaints fit the pattern of, "I got a job, but didn't want to do the things the job required and got fired." I am glad I am not an employer in this country.
Right? If you take a job, don't whine about doing things their way
Load More Replies...I loved my paper route. But the early mornings were tough. I had to get up at 4am, to roll and bag the papers in plastic. It was about two hours a day, but it payed well for a nine year old.
I am nowhere near "old" and still like my newspaper at 6 in the morning.
So you took a job, then asked the conditions? Btw 6am is nothing. I was homeless so took a job delivering papers. We had to be at the warehouse by 11p to sort our papers, put the inserts in them, and bag them if it was going to rain or snow. Papers had to be delivered no later then 4am. I had 3 routes totaling just under/just over (some people only got Sunday papers) 1000 papers. It was almost 600miles. No holidays, no days off, no health insurance.
"I'd wake up in the morning and read the paper, if I didn't see my name on the obituary section, I'd get up outta bed and get on with the day"
My gramps always said "I only read the obituaries everyday to make sure I woke up above the ground, instead of in it."
Well if you can't sleep you might as well read the news. Better than reading news at night and going to bed grumpy.
Young people seem to see the benefits summer jobs can provide because according to Pew Research Center, teen summer employment is on the rise. After facing a drop after Covid-19, many businesses tried to get back on their feet and hired almost a million more teens in 2021 than in the summer of 2020.
As Drew DeSilver, a senior writer at Pew Research Center explained, last summer was the strongest in years for U.S. teenagers seeking work, when more than 6 million teens had a paying job for some part of the summer. "Accommodation and food services, arts and recreation, and manufacturing were among the sectors leading the teen hiring surge," he added.
Shouldn't it be "No hablo ingles, I don't speak Spanish"?
Load More Replies...I don't know ANYONE today that answer unknown or blocked numbers.
I was a golf course beer girl. Spent the entire summer getting hit on by gross golf drunks. Even if they had just hit on you two holes prior. They did NOT tip.
Beer girl? Sounds sexist. Time for me to win one for feminism and take that job. And I hit back. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Load More Replies...Not going to lie, Effiel 65's song "I'm blue" starting playing through my head while picturing the blue man group. Definitely sleep deprived 😅
Luckily, economists are sharing predictions that this year, we should see a strong job market for young adults as well. "If that pans out, it would continue a turnaround from the low-water mark of 2010 and 2011 and suggest that the plunge in teen employment during the first pandemic summer of 2020 was an anomaly."
Makes me think of the guy at the gate to the parking lot for the local zoo. He used to collect parking money, then when they went to prepaid he checked to make sure you had a parking pass printed out. Now it's all paid at the zoo entrance alongside your entry ticket but he's still there, sitting at the gatehouse saying "you're good. You're good. You're good." to each car as he waves them past.
Heard of a kid doing this at a kid theme park. In the gym while everyone is playing basketball little dude hits the floor and pulls out a turd 🤣
Oh no. Bet his parents use that for blackmail for a long long time.
Had to throw away a 3 foot x 3 foot ( meter ) rolling bin of expired chicken in July in East Coast. Then clean the bin. That smell is etched into my memory.
Lol during my pregnancy with my first child my husband's BO bad that I sprayed my body spray on him. He went to work most nights smelling of it.
You want to talk smell? I volunteered in a nursing home, in August in NY during a week long heatwave (100⁰-110⁰ F) that caused power outages. It was like someone microwaved a diaper. We actually broke windows out just to get some ventilation.
All these people telling us that they don't know about nose plugs lol
Talking about smells, I was a housekeeper at a place that was sort of a combination of nursing home/assisted living/rehabilitation side of the job I was at and I can still remember the smells from the trashcans were nurses had to throw stuff away.
DeSilver pointed out that in 2020, many places that usually employ teens during the summer either completely shuttered or minimized their operations as much as possible due to the pandemic. This meant that the teenagers who often lack experience and skill in a specific area became a less important source of workers for companies. Although last year, when the world started slightly opening up, many of them were facing labor shortages and practically begging for workers to help them out with the needed tasks.
See, i probably would've said something when they fired me and then gone to the labor board
Try being a pregnant cashier. They made me the only one on duty and could not get a drink of water or use the bathroom, had to throw up in the trashcan at my register in front of the customers, because no matter what I was not allowed to leave while there was even one customer within 20 feet. The morning sickness was so bad that I quit not long after.
Quit? Get a second trash can. Make them know fear. (In the same position by the way. Minus the pregnant part. Just waiting for them to fire me for outshining them and then struggle to replace me. Only the mentally ill ever get power.)
Load More Replies...WTF that is exploitation! At least it kept you from taking up smoking, but the wgaes are illegal.
You don't know how long ago it was. In the 60's it was perfectly legal.
Load More Replies...Picking anything on a farm is STILL hot, shitty, backbreaking work. Even in this day and age the piece rate for sweet potatoes in North Carolina averages 45 cents per 35 pound bucket. Average productivity for a worker is about 15 buckets per hour, which means that during an 8-hour workday, a worker will produce 120 buckets of sweet potatoes (or 4,375 pounds of sweet potatoes!). According to the 45 cents piece rate, a worker would receive only $6.75 an hour, which is less than North Carolina’s $7.25 minimum wage. And about one-third of the nation’s farm workers work on small farms, and these are not subject to federal law surrounding minimum wage.
And people wonder why only illegal aliens want these jobs? Your comment explains a lot!
Load More Replies...Likely piece work. I picked tomatoes and I couldn't have afforded to buy the tomatoes I picked with my wages. I still dream of endless tomatoes fields at times.
I've worked different tobacco farming jobs. Being a Primer, sucks. Working table? Sucks. Working hanging in kiln? Yup SUCKS. We made $100-$130 depending which job a day. That was in early 90s. If you aren't a fan or Working or being lathered in tobacco gum all season, stay away from that work!
I'm a very petty person, this would be the only reason I'd ever pick up smoking, I mean I'm not stupid enough to kill myself slowly over peer pressure, but in this situation the only exceptable responce is to send a picture of you smoking to your parents
What à good way of parenting! But seriously! A 1$ an hour? Am I the only one who feels this unfair? Especially with heating sun and manual leaf picking
Well, as long as you had a suit on & no one could identify you, not a big deal, right? LOL. 😂
I worked a couple places that tried to make me wear costumes. Nope. Absolutely not. Pay. Me. More.
The 2022 summer job outlook for American teens published by the Drexel University Center for Labor Markets and Policy last month explained that despite the rapid pace of job creation, there were 1.19 million fewer jobs in April 2022 than in February of 2020, a month before the outbreak of COVID-19.
Welcome to Intel. I mean, not welcome to Intel. I hope you enjoyed your stay.
Always felt sorry for them. Around late May, posting started showing up for " need a summer rental". They dont get paid, so it needed to be cheap. Most of them were so eager.
Load More Replies...Why would clicking read shut down an entire email server? Sounds like a terrible design flaw.
That’s because it is a terrible design flaw. My last question before getting fired would be “what clown is in charge of your mailing system”
Load More Replies...I had one summer job bathing dogs at a Dog Groomer. I got paid per dog. Sometimes we were very busy and sometimes we sat all day long. One of the groomers only showed up when she felt like it. The owner was almost as bad. They were both tweaking on something. That groomer was pretty rough with the dogs. I ended up holding them while she groomed which kept her from smacking them around and kept me from making any money. I worked for them for 3 weeks and didn't get paid. Mom went to the owner's house and collected my check. The gal had the nerve to tell me, 'Well, you know this means you no longer have a job.' Duh! I worked for 3 weeks and got a $14 check. Nah, see ya.
Summer blondes, revealing tan lines, I'll make more moves than Allied Van Lines....
Let’s see who can hold their heads under the water the longest! Winner gets to meet Jesus!”
no fr that's what they do and it's soooo scary i constantly think I'm gonna have to do a save
Load More Replies..."However, given the unprecedented labor shortage experienced across the U.S., particularly in industries where teens typically work, teens have a higher probability of being hired by employers," the researchers wrote. They predicted that the summer job market for teens this year will be strong, with an employment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds to be 32.8 percent, the highest since 2007.
Everyday I’d be like, “To be, or not to be at work? That is the question…”
Whether to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous managers or to take arms against a sea of French fries and, by opposing, end them.
Load More Replies...All the world’s a stage & all her co-workers merely players. Sounds like she was overflowing with words, words, words.
I actually work there!! Ngl, I love my job. The people (at least at my location) are really fun!
Getting fired doesnt free a place from being sued and honestly she could have been bad at the job.
Load More Replies...I mean that kinda sucks for you, but I mean you could also be bad at the job, getting cut across the nose by a child with a spoon doesn't mean you were good at your job before that, just that you weren't so bad a random child with a spoon could injure you
Although I'm mostly joking, and they were probably fired to save a lawsuit, it doesn't mean they were good at their job before getting beaten by a child with a spoon
Load More Replies...It's not her fault if she was serving someone and the child randomly hit her. Also, I think it's favoritism bc the child is the grandchild of the owner, so they might not have believed it
Load More Replies...Like I said in the other post: stinky hot and degrading all in one.
And that was probably INSIDE the costume! Any mascot type costume can smell absolutely wretched inside!
They couldn't afford the amount of money I would require per hour to wear any full body costume. Absolutely not.
"Employers suddenly rediscovered teenagers," Alicia Sasser Modestino, a labor economist at Northeastern University, told The New York Times. She explained that while young people from low-income families might have a harder time finding summer work due to there being fewer opportunities where they live, summer youth employment programs can help.
She stressed that teenagers and students should be opportunistic and look for a job that fits their needs by asking for a higher wage, a better schedule, or negotiating their responsibilities. "This summer, you have an opportunity to be choosy," Ms. Modestino said.
What about vomit and menstrual issues? You haven’t lived until you’ve witnessed them all!
I quit my first job at KFC over this. Every employee would get average 2-3 shifts a month cleaning the restaurant - collecting trays, wiping tables aaaand keeping toilets clean. It was near town centre so everybody used it as public toilets and it was about as disgusting as you can imagine. It was my cleaning shift that day and manager called me at the start of the shift and told me to be careful because the girl in previous shift accidentaly impaled her finger on used syringe when emptying the bins. I just walked out.
Load More Replies...I was a bar manager for 12 yrs at the same establishment. The pool hall across a road use to have a "Lake of the Woodstock" festival for a few yrs. I discovered one Monday morning some nasty person vomited in in restroom sink so I had to clean out of the pipe since it was clogged. I too got sick but in the proper place. I wasn't happy 😕
Pfft, worked maintenance in college, fiend as batteries in a toilet once. Had to use a garbage bag like a glove and fish them out. No one else would.
Try being pregnant and having morning sickness and having a kid with a stomach virus at the same time.
I'm disturbed by "The dog survived." There were TWO dogs - one receiving medication it DIDN'T need and one NOT receiving the medication it DID need. Both situations are medically dangerous.
......"My worst summer job was that time I could have killed two separate dogs because I couldn't be f***ed to pay close enough attention. Oh well 🤷🏼♂️ "
In America many people send there kids to school or daycare sick because if the kid doesn't go they probably miss a day of pay.
"they probably miss a day of pay." Which unfortunately alot of people definitely can not afford especially in today's economy
Load More Replies...Sometimes kids just spontaneously start vomiting, the parents might not have realized anything was wrong when they sent the kid in in the morning. Also, sometimes a parent is faced with the choice of sending their sick kid to daycare, or staying home with them and getting fired. It sucks, but it's understandable.
Load More Replies...I don't understand why they would have you clean on their Sabbath but also why this is necessarily a bad job. They said clean around him so you did 🤷🏻
I think it was just a little freaky. I mean, I would feel weird vacuuming around a praying person, a) because I might annoy them and interrupt their praying from the noise, and b) If they didn't acknowledge me or anything it would look kinda creepy.
Load More Replies...You probably didn't know better, but that's animal cruelty right there. Holding them upside down would stress the birds and served no useful purpose.
Unfortunately, at a chicken farm, those chickens are food, and the farmers couldn't care any less about stressing the chickens out...
Load More Replies...Yeah! or just with your hands covering the wings. I used to do that all the time at my friend's farm and it is a great method for moving chickens lol
Load More Replies...Why dranamine? That’s for motion sickness, did you get sick from watching the product on the belt?
Watching a conveyor belt gives the worst motion sickness. I've never been sea sick even on the roughest days, but unless you're careful watching a conveyor belt will make me nauseous
Load More Replies...Seems like one of these jobs where you get paid ber new subscription. Half now and half if he stays subscribed for at least 6 month. I had one of those to didn't make it the full month before I gave up. Not because if the walking, but ecause they wanted me to scam people (they wanted me to get them to subscribe to 15 a moth for the red cross. Then we where to tell them after a hear Tthyey can cancel the subscriptions. The company I worked for, got from the red Cross the equivalent of the first year subscription, ams gave the door people 50 percent Half now, half 6 month later. And if the subscriber cancelled at the year point, the red Cross would get nothing. It felt so shitty doing it.
Load More Replies...I always fall over in front of people who I am trying to make a good impression on...
Me, too! Have you ever looked into the possibility that you might have (adult) dyspraxia?
Load More Replies...Sorry but doesn't sound even remotely like fun. Jerking off the corn 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ted may be alot of things, but he knows how to have a good time!! Oh, Ed, not Ted? Oh that guy's a weirdo, always taking about sexy fruit or something. Asked him to go out drinking and he started asking about malt ovaries and if we could go to the post office instead.
Load More Replies...Years ago (like decades) I had cousins in Iowa whose summer jobs was cutting the male parts off so that the corn could be breed with other pollen for hybrids.
So, if you did it right, would you end up with Children of the Corn ? 🤔🤔🤔
Did grandpa like health food, or was he there for his grandson? Either way, very sweet
I don't know, do you think the owner would mind the arterial blood spurts pumping out of his knees when they climb back up the ladder or do you think maybe he should get this sewn up first in the ER?
Note: When an employer gives you the option to “quit or get fired”, they are probably trying to avoid paying your unemployment .(In the US, if a business fires you without good cause, they are on the hook for a portion of your unemployment check.)
Not after 2 days though. You have to have worked somewhere for a while to qualify for unemployment.
Load More Replies...I had this job when I was 16! I wasn’t there for the corn, but did pick sticks, rocks, bugs, and occasionally sliced snake segments out of the green beans that rolled by. It was 2nd shift from 4 pm until whenever the trucks stopped coming, sometimes 2 am. I was the only teen, the other workers were middle aged or older women.
Designate a "c**p-brella." I've got a cheap, cruddy one. It's come in handy a few times, both for keeping my face and clothes clean and for making sure that nobody ever catcalls me again.
Not gonna lie, I'd milk that for all it's worth! I'd spend my entire skit falling towards the mic, that fool would be paying me out a bonus in the triple digits!
Bruh wtf is wrong with you??!
Load More Replies...That is way too much work for 5 days - I hope you got paid really well!!
I wrote a comment on another one and it showed up here after a glitch on the website. Didn't want to just delete this one here and leave a blank comment for people to downvote so I wrote this instead 🤷🏻
Worked all day in the heat to find some kid who lied about their age, putting the employer at legal risk, stole my lunch! Lil s**t
Load More Replies...so you applied for you job you couldn't legally do, got caught, & while everyone else was doing manual labor in the sun for hours, you stole their lunches? wow. 13 is old enough to know better than that. shame on you.
I did corn detasseling in Missouri for seed company in the 70's. Record heat wave. Not enough water. Awful.
I miss Rax. They had better roast beef than Arby's did. Bummer about the septic backup though.
I would say it's probably agaisnt the law to not allow outside fior or drinks in. Like when you have a person who is diabetic or has other restrictions. Its an amusement Park, it's the whole day, not a 2 hour movie in a clima Co trolled room. So much can go wrong. Also, the company is at fault not the poor security peoeple, who probably wherent alloved to drink inthe heat either.
They sell food and drink. It's like at a movie theater, that want to make money on you buying things. But medical needs are always ok.
Load More Replies...Worked as a care attendant to a man who was paralyzed from the neck down. He moved into his girlfriends house nearly an hour away (was married). I was the only one willing to make the drive to help him out until he could find new help. Worked nearly two weeks before he died 10 hr days. He died two days before payday and I never got payed for that time because I would have been forced to get his wife and daughter to sign the paperwork at the funeral (only time I would see them).
If I remember right the pay rate at the time was just over $12 an hour so not including taxes that was about $1,500 I didn't get paid plus the extra in gas I payed for plus he had promised to throw me a little extra for the drive and gas which clearly never happened. I stayed an extra two hours with her kids while she went to the hospital with him in the ambulance. I was driving home near 1 in the morning after girlfriends mom finally showed up to watch the kids (8 & 13). That's when his son called to let me know he had died in the hospital.
Load More Replies...I couldn't work there...I've got a friggen migraine just thinking about it... Same with candle shops or soap shops...too many competing scents at once for muah!
The color of the pen…I am holding in my hand….is…
Load More Replies...Condoms are wonderful for protecting against unwanted pregnancies, AND also for protecting against sexually transmitted diseases.
Yeah I don’t see how this is bad at all. I’ve been a cashier, I’ve seen what people purchase and it could have been much worse. I’m also a customer and have had to purchase far more embarrassing things than condoms.
I remember a time when I was feeling bad for buying freaking toilet paper (as a teen) At the same time there was this advertisement in German TV where a cashier asks loud what the condom cost, ans the one old lady answers a prove, while another middle aged customer answers a corrected pice as they are in specula price that week. All over a 18/29 year old loocking guy that was so embarrassed at the beginning and learned to not be embarrassed for protecting himself Ans others.
Load More Replies...Old people have crazy sex. I live near the villages in Florida it's a town basically made for rich old people. If u see a loofah on a car antenna it means they r swingers and down to party. I once saw a car with six loofahs I was like I do not want to know.
If you take a job as a cashier at a place that sells conforms, then it shouldn’t be shocking to sell condoms. Coupons are just par for the course.
That's my daily job. Plus I help them poop, change catheters and treat wounds. Started out $10 an hour but thanks to our union I'll make $18 in June plus PTO. 12 years worked in the field now. Unions work I guess
Thank you for your work! Our elder generation should be treated with respect and dignity, so thank you for giving them that.
Load More Replies...I mean, they probably got changed in the changing room or bathroom. I'm with you, I don't get this one. They just be complaining about what sounds like a normal job description.
Load More Replies...Too many of these are summer jobs without an obvious “worst” part. Does this OP think people should swim in their street clothes?
I worked as a cleaner at a public pool when I was 14. People would stick poopy diapers to the changing room walls or poop on the floor. There were bathrooms 10 feet in either direction, but no, make the only girl have to clean your s**t. I would have to close the changing room and get a hose and spray cleaner and spray down the whole room.
I got a summer job at our local vets, only being able to do basic tasks I got all the unpleasant jobs no one else wanted to do.The worst day was when a large Newfoundland came in that was so riddled with fleas you could see the fur moving, my job was to Deflea it. They got in my clothes, hair, trainers just everywhere, even now when I think about it I itch
Not a summer job, but a terrible job none the less. I was an Easter Bunny at a mall. Full suit like a mascot would wear. Huge heavy bunny head that smelled like Lysol. I would sit I a chair and kids would either be placed I my lap or climb up in my lap for a photo. I have never been hit in my balls this many times in my entire life.
Man a lot of these "worst" job experiences are just typical work. When I was 18 I got a summer job as a door to door canvaser. It was absolutely miserable. We had to go door to door asking people to sign things in favor of fracking, best part? We didnt know what we were canvasing until we showed up to work. We all got in a van that dropped us of 1 by 1 in random areas of town and we had to hit as many houses as possible in a 10 hour shift. I walked close to 14 miles in upper 90 degree weather. The worst part was people have really intense feelings about fracking and rather than understand you're a college kid who needs money they assume that you are there because you are a strong supporter of it. I was screamed at, swore at, belittled, called names and the big winner, spit on. Yes a woman spat on me before slamming a door in my face. At the end of the day I had actual blood in my shoes, a horrible sunburn, and the marvelous prize of 50$ for my efforts. I did not come back the next day.
They were trying to teach you the lesson that $50 dollars isn't worth your soul.
Load More Replies...My friend and I got a job working for this woman (we called her "Felicia Fartblower"). We were supposed to be working in her shop, where she did kids birthday parties and the kids would do different art projects, with my friend and I to help guide them. My friend did get to help with the art parties, but somehow I ended up taking care of Felicia Fartblower's 8 month old baby for like 10 hours a day. For three months. Like this woman did not seem to care about her baby at all. Most days I just took the kid back to my house and just hung out reading while the baby played with his toys. And all this time, Felicia Fartblower would not pay us, insisting that we were "in training." Welllll after fighting with her for a couple weeks, I reported her to the IRS. She got audited, her business was shut down, and she sent me a check for $60.
A lot of these deal with picking up animal poop which I have to believe is better than my housekeeping job at a super ritzy hotel where I regularly cleaned up actual human sh*t out of tubs, showers, and carpets. Also found a lot of narcotics left in rooms, like sooooooo much cocaine. I felt like I was calling security every single day to come deal with it. My least favorite was the sex toys, think edible underwear and condoms, always strewn about the room, never in the trash bin. Being paid minimum wage to clean up after rich people is not fun. At least my views of the city at sunrise were pretty dope! Lasted about a month in that job because I developed serious breathing problems due to an allergic reaction to cleaning chemicals. Oh and they expected us to buy our own toothbrushes for scrubbing mold.
First job was gas station convenience store where I delivered propane and cooked the broasted foods people should never eat. After 1 1/2 yrs at 4/hr I asked my boss for a raise. I was told minimum wage was going up in 3 months. Delivered pizza for Pizza Hut in Phoenix Arizona for a few days. Quit because the hours sucked and I got better job. Took months to get paid, and when I finally got the check in the mail it was dated 180 days prior to when it was postmarked so I couldn't cash it. Lost a job at a group home for troubled teens because a certified pathological liar said I was giving the kids cigarettes. 5 yrs later I ran into an old coworker and his roommate. The roommate let slip that I got fired cuz the coworker was giving them cigs. Lost a job for being 40 seconds late to work, because I was stuck waiting for a train. Boss told me I should know when the trains run so I wouldn't have been late.
I worked a night shift at a legal firm that decided to make print copies of every email ever sent, so my job was literally open email, print, file, and repeat. They had software that tracked progress, so every time I stopped to stretch someone would come ask why. I know the obvious question here is, if they had software to track progress, why not have software to print all the emails? Well your guess is as good as mine
What year was this? They could have fired me all that wanted, but I would have automated that. I for one welcome our robot overlords.
Load More Replies...During college I spent a summer working in the office at a weight-loss camp in the US (I’m from Europe). The staff had to go on a diet as well, whether you needed to lose weight or not, because otherwise the fat kids would feel unfairly treated. I lost 20 lbs from a healthy weight and got almost underweight. Plus-side, I have never been that slender in my life, which caused a couple of girls to shout ‘Look, there goes the Barbie doll!’ Yeah, like that was an insult.
I got a summer job at our local vets, only being able to do basic tasks I got all the unpleasant jobs no one else wanted to do.The worst day was when a large Newfoundland came in that was so riddled with fleas you could see the fur moving, my job was to Deflea it. They got in my clothes, hair, trainers just everywhere, even now when I think about it I itch
Not a summer job, but a terrible job none the less. I was an Easter Bunny at a mall. Full suit like a mascot would wear. Huge heavy bunny head that smelled like Lysol. I would sit I a chair and kids would either be placed I my lap or climb up in my lap for a photo. I have never been hit in my balls this many times in my entire life.
Man a lot of these "worst" job experiences are just typical work. When I was 18 I got a summer job as a door to door canvaser. It was absolutely miserable. We had to go door to door asking people to sign things in favor of fracking, best part? We didnt know what we were canvasing until we showed up to work. We all got in a van that dropped us of 1 by 1 in random areas of town and we had to hit as many houses as possible in a 10 hour shift. I walked close to 14 miles in upper 90 degree weather. The worst part was people have really intense feelings about fracking and rather than understand you're a college kid who needs money they assume that you are there because you are a strong supporter of it. I was screamed at, swore at, belittled, called names and the big winner, spit on. Yes a woman spat on me before slamming a door in my face. At the end of the day I had actual blood in my shoes, a horrible sunburn, and the marvelous prize of 50$ for my efforts. I did not come back the next day.
They were trying to teach you the lesson that $50 dollars isn't worth your soul.
Load More Replies...My friend and I got a job working for this woman (we called her "Felicia Fartblower"). We were supposed to be working in her shop, where she did kids birthday parties and the kids would do different art projects, with my friend and I to help guide them. My friend did get to help with the art parties, but somehow I ended up taking care of Felicia Fartblower's 8 month old baby for like 10 hours a day. For three months. Like this woman did not seem to care about her baby at all. Most days I just took the kid back to my house and just hung out reading while the baby played with his toys. And all this time, Felicia Fartblower would not pay us, insisting that we were "in training." Welllll after fighting with her for a couple weeks, I reported her to the IRS. She got audited, her business was shut down, and she sent me a check for $60.
A lot of these deal with picking up animal poop which I have to believe is better than my housekeeping job at a super ritzy hotel where I regularly cleaned up actual human sh*t out of tubs, showers, and carpets. Also found a lot of narcotics left in rooms, like sooooooo much cocaine. I felt like I was calling security every single day to come deal with it. My least favorite was the sex toys, think edible underwear and condoms, always strewn about the room, never in the trash bin. Being paid minimum wage to clean up after rich people is not fun. At least my views of the city at sunrise were pretty dope! Lasted about a month in that job because I developed serious breathing problems due to an allergic reaction to cleaning chemicals. Oh and they expected us to buy our own toothbrushes for scrubbing mold.
First job was gas station convenience store where I delivered propane and cooked the broasted foods people should never eat. After 1 1/2 yrs at 4/hr I asked my boss for a raise. I was told minimum wage was going up in 3 months. Delivered pizza for Pizza Hut in Phoenix Arizona for a few days. Quit because the hours sucked and I got better job. Took months to get paid, and when I finally got the check in the mail it was dated 180 days prior to when it was postmarked so I couldn't cash it. Lost a job at a group home for troubled teens because a certified pathological liar said I was giving the kids cigarettes. 5 yrs later I ran into an old coworker and his roommate. The roommate let slip that I got fired cuz the coworker was giving them cigs. Lost a job for being 40 seconds late to work, because I was stuck waiting for a train. Boss told me I should know when the trains run so I wouldn't have been late.
I worked a night shift at a legal firm that decided to make print copies of every email ever sent, so my job was literally open email, print, file, and repeat. They had software that tracked progress, so every time I stopped to stretch someone would come ask why. I know the obvious question here is, if they had software to track progress, why not have software to print all the emails? Well your guess is as good as mine
What year was this? They could have fired me all that wanted, but I would have automated that. I for one welcome our robot overlords.
Load More Replies...During college I spent a summer working in the office at a weight-loss camp in the US (I’m from Europe). The staff had to go on a diet as well, whether you needed to lose weight or not, because otherwise the fat kids would feel unfairly treated. I lost 20 lbs from a healthy weight and got almost underweight. Plus-side, I have never been that slender in my life, which caused a couple of girls to shout ‘Look, there goes the Barbie doll!’ Yeah, like that was an insult.

