TO THE COFFEE SHOP!

Not long after uni, I got a job packing metal fittings into hessian sacks. I think a little bit of me died with each piece I packed. Still, it did pay.
Just.

Disposing of corpses for the mafia. That job sucked.

Wait a minute.

Actually, just pretend you didn't read that...

Read what?

Atta girl.

Testing light fittings on an assembly line. If I got an electric shock when I plugged them in, they were rejected.

It wasn't supposed to work that way, but nobody had done the safety test on my equipment, or that would been rejected instead.

Oh my god!!!!

And it wasn't that wimpy 110-volt US stuff, this was full-fat European 240-volt (with extra smoke).

Of course XD

Just looking at everyone else's experiences... I can't complain.

Sure you can!

Can't believe I never mentioned the job that still causes me to break out in... something or other.

Working the serving line at the residence hall cafteria at the university.

The pay was below minimum wage- the hours were awful- the students (who paid like a 1.85 to get in and could go through the line as often as they wanted) all asked "Is that all you get?", plus I liked having actual hair instead of a crew-cut- which was REQUIRED. The one job I preferred was considered punishment duty- washing up the pots and pans.

I lasted a week and half. It was then that I came to realize- "Yes- there actually IS a job I am too good for." I also vowed to never work in the "food service" industry again.

Yep. I worked maintance before. When people asked me what I did, I always sugar-coat it with "I am a custodial engeneer."

Haha. But it paid good enough though. I was the highest paid employee in that area.

Barbacking is kinda tough. You run alcohol from the back to the front through throngs of drunk people. Then when you get behind the bar, these same drunk people don't understand that you aren't a bartender and will try to place orders with you. You can a) avoid eye contact act like you're a bartender except you don't pour their drink because you can't or c) point to the real bartender. Whatever option you choose, people get mad because they don't understand that somebody has the job of keeping the bar stocked, and there is no possible way that you're not a bartender.

Plus cleaning puke sucks. And your weekends are shot.

That sounds awful, Dantrag.

I'm waiting for Kiln and Acadian to tell us the horror stories of moderating a forum.

Well aside from the ancient ritual and blood sacrifice (similar to the joining in Dragon Age) it isn't that bad.

Was there chanting? I bet there was chanting.

This forum is easy to moderate. There are other forums out there filled with trolls and x-phobes (you name it, someone hates and fears it and thusly cannot resist any opportunity to slander it). Not just in the regular forum-goers, but staff members as well. I was a moderator once on another forum, and eventually resigned due to the latter.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Mar 5 2013, 10:32 PM

It was that bad? Wow