The Worst Job in History?

[NorthCyd]

I can corroborate. Worked as a custodian for ISU athletics while I was in school and the women's restrooms were ALWAYS the more disgusting and took more time to clean. There were some straight horror shows in there.

I had to clean restrooms at a truckstop. I'm not reliving the details on here, but I saw some stuff.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Yearlings? You mean like sows?

They're too small to be with the larger hogs.

 

[NorthCyd]

They're too small to be with the larger hogs.

Feeder pigs. I used to work summer on my uncles hog farm. It's something else.

 

[VeloClone]

If you thought that was bad @VeloClone imagine the same image except the walls are moving with maggots. The hogs chewing at your pant legs and shoes. Urinating on each other almost delightfully. I hate hogs so much.

Yeah, I am intimately familiar with the joys of hog lots and farrowing houses. Thank God I have nothing to do with them anymore.

 

[cytor]

I'm guessing being a fluff girl is not too desirable.

 

[ISUTex]

Detasseling corn sucked bigly.

That job sucked.

 

[ISUTex]

How about being a ***** in the old west?

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Feeder pigs. I used to work summer on my uncles hog farm. It's something else.

Tasty ribs though...

 

[cycloneG]

CF mod on a game day. Makes me glad I'm not a mod.

 

[Sigmapolis]

I approve of the frequent references to made to Monty Python and the Holy Grail on here today.

 

[intrepid27]

They kept the position until 1901?! Lol! Royals are weird.

I knew a guy that used to work for Burlington Northern Railroad. Their trains still had a "conductor" as of the late 1980s. These were not even passenger trains. Gotta love unions..............

 

[Sigmapolis]

I knew a guy that used to work for Burlington Northern Railroad. Their trains still had a "conductor" as of the late 1980s. These were not even passenger trains. Gotta love unions..............

Freight railroads still use two-man crews (an engineer and a conductor).

They've been prevented from dropping down to one-man crews (or even automation/centralized and remote management from suburban office park in Omaha or something) because, as you said, of the unions and their political pull with at least some element of safety for having such crew redudency.

 

[simply1]

 

[swiacy]

Working as a kid on a high 90s day mowing hay. Working in the sun baling it is grueling, but mowing the hay in a hay mow that is so dusty you can hardly see the far wall, with no air movement and is probably around 120 degrees is incredible. Luckily we had a short break to get out of the mow between hay racks.

Then the next day the farmer who was paying us crap wanted us to come back and restack it all because he didn't like the way we stacked it. He said he wasn't going to pay us unless we did. My older brother collected for us.

You remembered to cut strings while you were restacking didn’t you? When he went to move them that winter he would get the message. If confronted…….“you evidently have a bad mouse problem”.

 

[Kinch]

Worst job I had was survey crew for army corps, especially on the backwater swamps of the Mississippi. I also learned certain army corps higher ups didn’t want us to get rid of marijuana in the wild at Saylorville.

 

[wxman1]

Worst job I had was survey crew for army corps, especially on the backwater swamps of the Mississippi. I also learned certain army corps higher ups didn’t want us to get rid of marijuana in the wild at Saylorville.

You can just @BoxsterCy next time.

 

[mcblogerson]

Per Norm Macdonald, the worst job is assistant crack *****.

 

[VeloClone]

You remembered to cut strings while you were restacking didn’t you? When he went to move them that winter he would get the message. If confronted…….“you evidently have a bad mouse problem”.

No, we had stacked it fine. Maybe it wasn't exactly how he wanted it but he didn't give us any direction if he wanted it a particular way.

I think he thought he could take advantage of some young preteen kids. He would tell us we had to come back and restack a full day's worth of baling or just not pay us. He was banking on not having to pay us. Yeah, he probably could have taken advantage of us, but he didn't count on my older brother who was in his 20s coming and collecting for us. We didn't restack a single bale.

 

[JM4CY]

Buddy in college was a future vet. Spent a summer collecting hog semen. Stories he told me the next fall about it and the occasional "misfires" were truly horrifying.

 

[VeloClone]

Buddy in college was a future vet. Spent a summer collecting hog semen. Stories he told me the next fall about it and the occasional "misfires" were truly horrifying.

My uncle bred cattle for decades so he was on the other side of it...

Come to think of it he did a hell of a lot of jobs. He was in the Navy during WWII, and worked as a barber after the war. He tested milk, bred cows, was a high school custodian, a handy man, did lawn care.... I definitely missed over half of the jobs he did in his day.

And that doesn't even include what his alcoholic dad made him do to survive when he was growing up on the Mississippi River. He was delivering moonshine and a bunch of other illegal stuff.