What is the best/worst job you ever had?

[JB White]

Bad jobs I just left to look for another one. Didn't take me very long to figure out I didn't want to work for a schlock outfit or a total A-hole boss. Had some bad projects though. Chipping in confined spaces. Grinding while dangling from a line. Digging holes in the middle of BFE, four foot deep with a three foot water table.... Always knew that as soon as I finished I'd be on to something better.

I remember being thankfully pulled from a project once. Jerkoff boss said he would fight the office and for me to just stay there. "Don't bother. I asked to be transferred".
"But why? You're one of the best carpenters I've had around here"
"Because of YOU! You have a good crew here. We come to work and feed our families. We don't need a daily hazing to satisfy your sick mind. Besides..last week I was a retard and an imbecile in front of the client and today I'm suddenly the best?? F** You!"
"YOU'LL NEVER WORK FOR ME AGAIN!"
"You got that right, and adios! By the way, I wouldn't hire you either."

Six months later I was asked if I would take the old boss on my crew. (The client requested he be removed) "Don't want him, don't need him, and I haven't enough manhours in the budget to bury his sorry ass. I'll take the new apprentice though. He's pretty good".

[snakehunter]

Working in a produce warehouse/ running my own business.
Sam

Best: Quality Control Inspector at an ammunition plant. Worst: removing 5 layers of wallpaper in a 20 room 150 year old house

[leftyo]

Best: tool designer for Torit Corporation back in 73 through 75. the paid me and treated me well, until it got bought out!
Mediocre: Soldier in Armored Cavalry in Vietnam.... Lot of GOOD and a LOT of BAD!
Worst: engineer at the now defunct (gone) lucht corp. Everyone was on your azz and they treated you like a POS
Worst physically: Day labor job, standing on a scaffold in the water cooling shafts in the court house in downtown St. Paul, MN, sanding and scraping all of the limestone and rust off of the cooling vanes (kind of like Venetian blinds), there was someone above you on a scaffold doing the same thing and someone below you. it was done from midnight to about 6 AM. When I went to ride the city bus home the bus stopped at the corner, opened the door, looked at me and drove OFF. I had to walk 4 miles home. SUCKED

yup, your skanky if you cant get a ride on the T bus!

[Former Cav]

yup, your skanky if you cant get a ride on the T bus!

I looked like the RUST man from he11 !! Felt like it too! and this was way back in about 1963 or so.

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yup, your skanky if you cant get a ride on the T bus!

I looked like the RUST man from he11 !! Felt like it too! and this was way back in about 1963 or so.

Leftyou, are you from the twin cities area?

[leftyo]

I looked like the RUST man from he11 !! Felt like it too! and this was way back in about 1963 or so.

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I looked like the RUST man from he11 !! Felt like it too! and this was way back in about 1963 or so.

Leftyou, are you from the twin cities area?

yup, north side.

[gwp]

My worst job was in information technology at a large insurance company. I was not selected for a supervisor position, after my boss was promoted, even though I was senior. I told my former boss where to stick it when he offered a position as assistant supervisor. I wasn't able to find a replacement job for the same money so I continued working there. My former boss was eventually promoted from the regional office to the home office. He held my outburst against me for the next 20 years. His rise to the top was followed by a slide back to mid-level management. After a reorganization he was returned to the regional office as my boss. Every time I would change sections he would become my boss in a month or two. During another reorganization my section and my nemesis were scheduled for outsourcing. On the day the contract was to be signed my section was pulled out because no one would move to San Diego. My boss was given a letter of intent and a release date. His actions in his last week before he left changed my opinion of him. When he was ready to leave he was told they were not finished with him yet. He showed them their letter with his exit date and he said he was done. After a few weeks I realized both of us were realy good at holding a grudge. A few years later I was told my job was in Cincinnati. I told them I didn't think so. I took almost a years salary as severance and retired with 29 years at the company.

My best two jobs were Track Rescue at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and as an operations sergeant for a DoD liaison
team (U.S. Army Reserve).

[dryheat]

I worked for the Postal Service for 30 yrs. Supervision was like a sine wave. There'd be lows and there'd be highs. My best boss ever was an air traffic controller Reagan fired. Totally cool, could handle anything, but again, he was an air traffic controller. What really annoyed him, and he wrote a memo about it, was coming on shift and finding the desk in a mess.