Pathetic Jobs in the Playground

[Setra]

I'll start.

My name is John. And I am a Cart Attendant. That is to say, a Cart Pusher.. and the guy who does pretty much everything else that no one seems to think is their job.

I'm sure my job isn't the worst, but it is very dull. I start recognizing different carts and giving them personalities.

I work for Target.

[Frojoe21]

I'll start.

My name is John. And I am a Cart Attendant. That is to say, a Cart Pusher.. and the guy who does pretty much everything else that no one seems to think is their job.

I'm sure my job isn't the worst, but it is very dull. I start recognizing different carts and giving them personalities.

I work for Target.

I feel your pain buddy. I had that job for three months last year before they fired me for some BS reason. An incident at that workplace actually contributed to me having recurring back pains.

[Mordokai]

I worked as night watchmen for almost three years, few years back. It wasn't that crummy job but underpaid, underappreciated and boring.

[SoD]

It's something I love doing, and I don't find it pathetic, but my friends always laugh about it. I'm in the army.

You have to understand, I'm a bit below average height, a lot below average strength, I'd be awful in any warlike situation, wouldn't be able to hold a gun to save my life...and I'm in the army. I am a professional, army-trained saxophonist. Alto saxophonist, to be exact.

[Serpentine]

I get paid more than $30AUS an hour to borrow books and grab any movies I want before anyone else does.
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*flee*

[Mordokai]

Everybody in unison!

We love you Serpentine!

[Serpentine]

Well that wasn't the response I was expecting

[Frojoe21]

Was it more along the lines of "DAMN YOU SERPY!!!!!!!!!!! You get paid more for watching movies than I do doing X labour for y hours more than I should *shakes fists in rage*"?

And on that note; DAMN YOU SERPY!!!

[Ranis]

I work in a deli. At a Wal-Mart.

*dodges bricks*

I get paid more than my supervisor to do much, much less than he does.

*dodges buicks*

[Dallas-Dakota]

School

[Nebo_]

I used to work for an ISP at the help desk. Never underestimate how stupid people can be. It really didn't help that the ISP was horrible unethical and was screwing their customers over to make more money, either.

EDIT: Serpentine, I want your job. Tell me how it is you manage to do that.

[Serpentine]

Volunteered at my local library one day a week for a couple of years.
Dad (who works with the Gold Coast City Council) told me that they were looking for more casual library assistants - would hire as many applicants as were good enough. Applied, along with two or three other people. Was the only one hired (damn the others must've sucked...). Worked at various GC librarys for a few months. Technically am still employed by them... Need to ask dad whether I should officially quit.
Took resume into town library here. Was thanked for "making my resume available". Timed it well - my now-colleagues had been nagging my now-boss to hire another person for Saturdays for a few months. Called up several times. Was given the job, told he would do the paperwork then get back to me. Waited some weeks. Called again. Told I had to do a medical. Did medical. Waited for him to do the paperwork again. FINALLY was given the job, did training days, started first day of work on the day of the state elections. Trial by fire. Still doing okay.
Now that you're all asleep... Done. Well, you did ask *shrug*

[LightWraith]

I'm blissfully unemployed now, but I worked for a long time in a warehouse.

Specifically, the Cingular/AT&T warehouse here in Memphis. The pay was decent (for an unskilled laborer position), but when there's a clear divide between how hard you are working and how hard everyone else is... it makes for an unpleasant work experience.

Left to return to school. I consider myself "retired" now. I'll work again when I can do something in my field (Physics) so I've got a while.

[Miklus]

I once had a job folding sweaters...

It was during a major sale at a store. People would fling these godawful sweaters all over the place and I had to fold them up nicely again....

[de-trick]

I have the quintessential first job paperboy. Yes I am a 15 year old paperboy. I freeze my beep off for about $70 a month. I wish I could get a better job but I have to watch my little sister, and since everyone else in my family dont have a steady hours(9-5) I cant work In a normal job cause there has to someone home with my 7 year old sister.

[Raider]

It's something I love doing, and I don't find it pathetic, but my friends always laugh about it. I'm in the army.

You have to understand, I'm a bit below average height, a lot below average strength, I'd be awful in any warlike situation, wouldn't be able to hold a gun to save my life...and I'm in the army. I am a professional, army-trained saxophonist. Alto saxophonist, to be exact.

Cool I play alto in marching band


I had a job last summer caddying at a country club..........................I would wait for 4 hours for someone to come then they would gice me a 35 lb bag to carry and only use one of two clubs.

Never Again

[Lady Tialait]

I'm a house wife now, but before I worked as a Newspaper Add inserter. ...so basicly I put the adds in your newspaper...enjoy...it sucked.

I came home coveredin ink, and I was up all nihgt. I had to Skip D&D half the time because I worked all 7 days a week.

I'm so glad I married a rich husband (I didn't know he was rich till about 6 month after we got married and I was going nuts with my job. He told me to quit...THEN I found out he had a few million tucked away from his mother's busnesses....)

[bosssmiley]

Eggy has (in no particular order) been a Macburgermonkey, worked in cold-call telesales, been a customer services drone, worked an IT helpdesk, been a engineering design office junior, laid asphalt, stacked shelves, rode the dot.com wave, done bar work, been a cathedral tour guide, washed dishes, been a gift wrapper, worked as a kiddies party entertainer, done stints as a classroom assistant and been a legal clerk.

Ask me about my resume sometime.

[LightWraith]

Eggy has (in no particular order) been a Macburgermonkey, worked in cold-call telesales, been a customer services drone, worked an IT helpdesk, been a engineering design office junior, laid asphalt, stacked shelves, rode the dot.com wave, done bar work, been a cathedral tour guide, washed dishes, been a gift wrapper, worked as a kiddies party entertainer, done stints as a classroom assistant and been a legal clerk.

Ask me about my resume sometime.

That is... amazingly diverse. So which one did you like the most (hate the least)?

[Groundhog]

I was once a copy machine operator. It's pathetic in that you would not believe how many people can't use a copier and needed my help.

[bugsysservant]

Am I the only one who gets depressed thinking about how many jobs revolve around helping people who are too dumb to use the service in the first place? Seriously, previously if someone couldn't use a computer they wouldn't buy one and would eventually revert back to their chimp ancestors and spend the rest of their life in a zoo, watched in fascination by people with half a brain. Now they buy computers and call the help line who tells them that they have to plug it in before using it.

[phoenixineohp]

Hey, I don't want those folks in my zoo. Some zoo animals are smart. The orangs here dissembled the air conditioning unit in their enclosure, which left a giant hole, allowing them to walk out. That's darn impressive.

As is, so far I've been really lucky with my jobs. I've worked with kids and animals and both are great. It's that tv business I avoid.

[North]

I'm a house wife now, but before I worked as a Newspaper Add inserter. ...so basicly I put the adds in your newspaper...enjoy...it sucked.

I came home coveredin ink, and I was up all nihgt. I had to Skip D&D half the time because I worked all 7 days a week.

I'm so glad I married a rich husband (I didn't know he was rich till about 6 month after we got married and I was going nuts with my job. He told me to quit...THEN I found out he had a few million tucked away from his mother's busnesses....)

Yoinks and jinkies! You didnt know? Thats a nice honeymoon bonus to find out.

[SoD]

Cool I play alto in marching band

I don't play when we have marching gigs...I just march and move my fingers to look like I do!

[Orzel]

I sell stuff to plumbers.

If you've ever talked to a plumber for more than 10 minutes, you'll see why my eye twitches sometimes. Plus I live in NYC so 50% of them speak English second. And the other ones are cheap, poisoned, and/or high.

[Pwenet]

Well, time to pull out the old resume:

• Lifeguard in High School and College - If you ever wonder why I don't like swimming that much anymore, think about what I have seen while lifeguarding and what I have had to clean up.
  
  Yeah.
  
• Gym Attendant in College - Washing towels, checking people in, being bored out of my skull.
  
• Computer Technician for College Library - These people go to the same TECHNICAL school I go to?!?
  
• Technical Writer Intern - Wait, when do I actually get to do writing and not correcting all these little make-work things because you hired me too late and I was the only person desperate enough to accept the position?
  
• Unemployment - Boo!
  
• Second Shift Computer Replacer - Upgrading computers in various places for a power company (nice offices, coal factories, you name it I was there). Lovely for killing my sleep schedule.
  
• More Unemployment. Can I get a second "BOO!"
  
• Drive Tester for T-Mobile - Driving in my own car, not getting paid enough to keep up with repairs going "Can you hear me now can you hear me now?" (okay, my equipment did that for me, but it was a LOT of driving, some in nice areas, others in horrible crime infested areas of cities where I was cutting off COPS in order to get out of there before I got carjacked).
  
• Yet another round of unemployment!
  
• Second shift book scanner - So I am using my new college degree by scanning books second shift for a little above minimum wage.
  
• Helpdesk for AAA - Slightly better, except for the 55 mile drive EACH WAY EVERY DAY! Oh wait - You are ending my contract early, for no reason, on a Tuesday, via a voicemail?
  
• Yet Even More Unemployment

Luckily I landed my dream job, been there for over 4 months and I don't think I am going anywhere for a long long long time.

[Rare Pink Leech]

Last summer I worked at a public transportation company in their call centre where I provided information to people who called - schedules, routes, station information, etc. What a thankless job. Most people never thank you, quite a few yell at you if there's a delay or you give them a schedule you don't like, you're always repeating yourself because no one writes down the information the first time, and so on. Oh, and people are idiots. I have no idea how some people get through the day without someone holding their hand and guiding them through everything.

[Zombie pixe]

wow, some of these really suck, i feel so sorry for you people

im sure school is one of the worst occupations thought

[rubakhin]

I'm a hustler. I make less than all of you, my job is traumatizing, and I'm all but guaranteed to die young. I win the thread.

I mean, it's not like, my occupation (I'm hopelessly unemployed - on my passport it says "poet translator") but sometimes certain things need paid for. Ain't nobody else gonna pay 'em. *shrug*

It's actually pretty okay, except when it gets dangerous. God, some guy tried to kill me the other night. I mean, he didn't try very hard (I mean, obviously, considering that I'm sitting here at the PC and not in the hospital or cemetery) so I'm kind of wondering if he actually did aim to kill me or if he just wanted to feel like did, if you get what I mean. Freak.

[Mephisto]

My last job was as a "Utility Clerk" in a grocery store. Basically it means "bag the groceries, herd the carts, and do whatever other small tasks nobody else would get paid to do". Boring pointless work, stupid customers, and minimum wage. Sucked.