513 Hilariously Horrible ‘Worst Summer Jobs’
The summer job is a rite of passage for many kids, who are encouraged by their parents to get out of their hair and go and learn valuable lessons about responsibility, the value of money and hard work.
Whether you were saving for a bike, your first car, a prom dress or whatever, we all went in with high expectations of independence and feeling like a proper adult. However those expectations are not always met!
Jimmy Fallon did us all a service by asking people to share their worst summer job experiences in one of his legendary hashtag challenges. Needless to say, there are some absolute classics in there! Scroll down to check out a list of Bored Panda's favorites below, and feel free to share your own in the comments!
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#6
Yeah, this one is just sad. I worked a lot in care and the woman probably had dementia. I could list about 100 more [and far worse] of these 'funny' stories but to me they are just sad and it isn't anything special either.
#15
I can't imagine it paid well, but I don't see how this would be a bad job. Heck, sign me up
#16
"Commitment to the community"? What kind of geniuses come up with notions like this? What a load of horse pucky. Starting a business isn't a commitment to a community. If anything it's a commitment to ones self. There's no commitment unless he was paid in advance. Highly unlikely in a service business like lawn mowing.
#19
I worked for a service drive of a dealership when I was 19. Every man that came to the window would ask to see a manager for an explanation of their bill instead of asking me...even after I told them that I was the one that processed and coded their bill (meaning I had to know how to diagnose and fix any mechanical issues with the cars.) The revenge came one day when I told the guy that I needed to explain some thing about his new engine. He said "I'll talk to the service drive manager, honey." The manager didn't know what had been done. So the customer never got the note that he shouldn't take the car over 55 for the first 500 miles to give the seals time to set. He called less than an hour later to say his engine had blown out from under the hood and all over the freeway. Guess that sexist stereotyping finally jumped up and bit you in the ass, didn't it honey!
#41
I actually worked at a French Bakery one summer in Pike Place Market in Seattle. Every week I'd have the same customer, Antonio, come in and tell me I was beautiful, he'd sweep me away to Italy some day and that doing this would make him the happiest man on Earth. The problem was..he said this to every young girl at the shop.
#45
Why the fuck weren't you allowed to use the owner's toilet. This is just cruel.
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#48
yes we are, but you need to hold up this 9 iron for 15 minutes before i let you in...
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#52
I babysat kids that would give me $20-$50 to take them to get ice cream, go to the pool, and so on. The boy once offered be $500 to NOT tell his parents he locked me on the roof. He was 10 at the time and actually had that cash to hand me. I haven't seen that much cash in one place since then...
#55
What the hell is wrong with people?! Crapping their pants , doing gross personal things in public??
#57
Are you surprised? Abercrombie and Tommy Hilfiger are the same. They say the will not make plus size clothing because they only want their clothes on beautiful people.
#59
I was okay, until the last phrase. Sorry to laugh! I would've totally bought some of your artwork.
#60
oh wow. I might threaten to call the police - just like you would if an adult was threatening you I guess. :S
#61
I once had a professor in college tell us to write down the grade we think we deserved in the class. I put "B" bc I felt the B I was already earning was fair. I was the only one who didn't know it was his last semester and had stopped grading after midterms. So everyone got A's - except me with my B. That day, I learned lying can get you farther in life.
#65
Thank God the police have their own photo processing labs..or I guarantee it would be way way worse.
#67
I had a boss that trained me how to do all the daily and weekly processing of tickets for a propane company in a matter of 1 hour..during peak season...the day before she was due to leave for a managers convention in San Diego for a week...leaving me to man the office on my own with 4 very belligerent and uncooperative drivers and a slew of pissed off customers. I'm surprised I didn't light a match on my last day. #TalkAboutFired.
#71
People don't want to buy knives from door to door salespeople.
#81
We had a French exchange student at my school who was in my English class and all he did in there was watch porn. Seriously. You're in an English class in an English speaking country. Couldn't you at least listen out of respect for the teacher if not your own learning?
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