Re: Worst Job

Posted by Matt E. on November 24, 2015 at 08:50:50 from (173.216.243.47):

In Reply to: Worst Job posted by Married2Allis on November 24, 2015 at 06:29:03:

Grew up on a farm, shoveled many, many loads of manure out of the barn. Pigs were bad but a winter's worth of chicken crap really burned your eyes.

The worst job I ever had was working in a wholesale grocery warehouse loading cases of groceries onto pallets for shipment to individual stores. You would get an order on little sticky strips and then you'd go get two pallets on a pallet jack and run through the warehouse picking the order. It wasn't that it was super hard, any trained monkey could do it. There were a few monkeys too dumb to train though. lol

A few of the problems with the job:

1) I was starting graduate school at the time - full time student. I finished in two years with a 4.0 gpa somehow. I worked 20 hrs a week at the school to pay for my tuition - research assistantship. I was in the National Guard so one weekend a month was away from home. I worked evenings/nights at the grocery hellhole. It was a union shop so the management could keep you there 12 hours until all the orders were picked. We were casual workers so we didn't have any rights, just work your butt off. But we paid union dues for some reason. I worked 35 to 50 hours a week there. Oh, did I mention I got engaged and my wife became pregnant 3 weeks later? When Emily was born was the week I found this job. She stayed home to raise her, I went to work to support my new family.

2) The union workers hated the management and vice versa. The supervisors would walk the floors just looking for some reason to fire a casual worker. You had to watch everything you did. As a casual worker you weren't liked by either side.

3) You were on a time clock for each order. The management had people come in, watch us pick orders and time each movement. That was how they decided how long it would take to pick each order. Having the right pallet jack was paramount to success and resulted in more than a few arguments if a new guy took yours. They screwed down the order picking time whenever they could. We just had to run faster. It was hot on the dry side, hot as hell in the summer time. No air movement or fans.

4) Everyone got hurt at some point. I watched a guy get smashed between the jack and steel bumper posts, broke his lower leg. Another guy got caught between the jack and a rack, his foot pointed the wrong direction. I slipped on some mayo stepping off my jack, hyperextended my knee and popped a piece of cartilage out. Had knee surgery. One more injury and I would have been let go. You got one freebie.

Add this all up and this was the longest and most miserable two years of my life. One semester I could sleep for 3-5 hours before going to class at 8 am and then get another nap for 2-3 hours in the afternoon before going back to work. Worked there 2 years almost to the day and got a real job as soon as I graduated. I give that place the finger every time I drive by it to this day!

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