Saturday, October 18, 2008

Adina's worst job:


Shoveling the poop in horse stables in Tennessee

Tom's worst job:


One awful month at McDonald's

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Brandon's worst job:


Door to door salesman

Erica's worst job:


Floater pharmacist for Eckerd in Northeast Philly. Too many "back pain" patients (aka drug addicts) staring while you filled their Vicodin Rx

Alisa's worst job:


Probably working at a movie theater. The things I had to clean up in the dark.... it still gives me nightmares.

Wheels's worst job:



Utensil shiner at a fancy restaurant

Terry's worst job:


There have been so many, but the worst was polishing turbine airfoils
from 11PM to 7AM in a factory where the temperature hovered around 97 degrees.

Jamie's worst job:


Burger King. 9 months of high school.

Mark's worst job:

Take your pick: working in a sandpaper factory sticking sanding belts together or packing agro-chemicals in a paper suit that did very little to stop my skin burning.

Eugene's worst job:



Assistant to a not so good systems administrator

Christina's worst job:



McLanahan's Student Store at Penn State at 6 am on game day

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Mike's worst job:


International courier

Tim's worst job:


Canvassing door to door for an Environmental PIRG

Tom K's worst job:



Cashier in a skanky gas station mini-mart -- alone behind bullet-proof glass on the midnight shift for two months.

Chelsea's worst job:


Math/English teacher

Cordelia's worst job:

Working at Brindisi's restaurant and bar. Good nights: busing tables until 2am. Bad nights: trying to serve cocktails without getting pinched.

Kareem's worst job:


I once worked for a consulting company that required you to wear a suit and tie (even if you didn't meet clients), work 50+ hour weeks, and I had a 1.5 hour commute each way.

Beth's worst job:


Hostess at a chain restaurant

Dusty's worst job:



Cleaning/Unblocking the garbage chute at Whole Foods

Brian's worst job:

Replacing sewage lines; basically stand in a ditch, rip out the old pipe (caked with ‘stuff’ and worse ‘stuff’) and hope that no one flushes the toilet before you get the new pipe in place

Amy's worst job:

Barista at Citibabes Soho: making complicated coffee drinks for wealthy/celebrity moms and their nannies, taking 5-minute-long orders for baby food assembled just so, smiling with gritted teeth at condescending management

Ethan's worst job:


New York Times delivery boy

Nancy's worst job:



Cleaning the "flash" off costume jewelry castings in the same room with the kilns. In the summertime. With no air conditioning.

Matt's worst job:



Dishwasher at Perkins

Henry's worst job:



Bagboy

Wayne's worst job:



Painting steel girders around hot oil pumps in the middle of July while having to be covered head to toe to avoid burning myself on the hot pipes

Rob McK's casting:


Joshua Jackson

Ringo's casting:


Barack Obama

Monday, October 13, 2008

Rick's casting:



Klaus Maria Brandauer

Amy's casting:


Margaret Cho/Sarah Silverman