I turned 16 last December which means I will be able to drive and work this summer. Share your horror stories about part time work. I am interested because I don't want to make the same mistakes lol
I sharted a few times over the summer while driving a shuttle around. cant trust your farts too much.
What do you want to do? I worked for a lawn care service for the past several years and have really enjoyed it, however you have to be careful with that kind of work as you can find yourself working for a complete dick who couldn't give two shits about your wellbeing. Other than that I would say just try to stay away from temp agencies and don't be a maid.
i cleaned pools for the city in high school. Good job. cleaned in the morning, spent the afternoon hanging out, watching babes in 'kinis. It was me, a midget and an indian kid. Indian kid showed up to work twice. The midget couldnt swim. Found that out the hard way.
Working a paintball field is super fun and super chill. You might not be into paintball but its still a fun job.
I was a fish monger at pike place market in Seattle for 2 weeks. I was 19 or 20 I think. pretty much a shit job. we had a gravity bong in the boiler room closet though, so that was nice.
On top of lifeguarding, I was a caterer. I did clambakes on the weekend and had to boil a lot of shit. when I had to carry a massive pot down stairs My washcloth pot glove slipped a bit and my knuckles slammed into the boiling pot lid 8 or 9 times till I could get it to a safe spot. basically had lined paper looking burns on my hand the rest of the summer
I was a sex slave for santa and mrs. claus during their off-season... worst part was every now an then I would see an elf or two standing on another's back to peek in the window, but santa liked them to watch so I couldn't do anything to preserve my dignity. additionally, santa insisted that I make puns during like, "oh yeah ride that sleigh!" or "rudolph's nose isn't going to be the only red thing after this!"
upside was I got a lot of cookies and milk, also mrs. claus has giant knockers.
I worked at cranmores adventure park for one year and let a kid get fucking destroyed on the tubing strip. I was just putting away some tubes and my friend calls me up to talk to him, so I go up to talk to him. As in leaving my station, this like 5 y/o girl runs out into the middle of the track where the tubers are coming. Her parents were cruising down and end up lighting this girl up... Like five feet into the air. She's smashes right onto her dome and ends up having this massive bruise on her head. Her parents freak out and I thought I was going to get fired. Didn't tho.
I worked 40 hour weeks for the local little patrol for 5 weeks last summer got paid minimum wage to pick up trash in rain sun and even a little bit of snow. Spent a week picking up wind blown trash at the landfill and recycled electronics. I had a very unprofessional boss and his daughter was a bitch. Worst 5 weeks of my life. Don't ever do litter patrol.
I don't know if I've had a worst job story? Probably the best summer job I've had was four summers of landscaping. Amazing boss. Worked with my best friend. Did a ton of brick patio, path and driveway work. It was a nice change from university. Just hard, physical work all summer.
I used to work as a dish washer. Got treated like crap, ton of work, stressfull, and made jack dick for money
Where do you live that you can't work until you're 16?
And work really isn't that bad. Even if it's a "shitty job" like washing dishes or whatever. Min wage isn't bad and some places pay under the table. Don't work yourself to death but it's nice to have money to save/buy things.
I repaired semi trailers for a fleet. It was one of the shittiest summer jobs I've had. Only paid $10 an hour for performing DOT inspections and doing some heavy structural welding Aluminum/Steel. Avoid underpaid legal indentured servitude as much as possible.
I got a job bussing tables. Kicked my bus tub on accident off a chair, funny as hell everything shattered in it
I worked in a breakfast house which was a ton of fun. mostly because of the people i worked with. got their at 6 and was out by 2 at the latest every day. doing prep work.
Data Collection and Office work is the way to go. Like call centers or anything like that. You can bs your entire shift and get paid for it. I would work from the afternoon till about 9 and then go out. It was great.
Worst part about it is when the supervisor was strict, we would have to work hard, and then you can't really goof off. Also the people who you called for data collection suck since you have to stay on the phone until they swear or become offensive.
End of high school-beginning of college, I worked in a delivery company warehouse (SpeeDee Delivery) in St. Cloud, MN.
When I signed up, I was scheduled to work 3 days a week. It's a big warehouse, you just have an electronic card that gets you through the security gates and you scan it to punch in/out. I was scheduled to work 3 days/week, let's say Mon-Wed because I don't remember specifics. Anyways since it's such a huge warehouse and nobody is keeping track, we figured as long as you worked your 3 days/week (no matter what day you actuall work) you're good to go.
So on one of the days I wasn't working, my friend who had recently quit his job there needed to pick up his last paycheck at the payroll office but he couldn't get in because they disabled his card since he quit working there. So we went there, I used my keycard to get us in, we walked straight to payroll office he got his paycheck and we went back home.
Later on, cops show up at my apartment asking about a shipment of jewelry that I was suspected of stealing. Cop probably saw my broke ass apartment and knew it wasn't me cause I had no money, no furniture, pretty much nothing. Also I was clueless.
Anyways I go to work, the like regional manager or some high ups fired me personally! They were certain I stole this alleged $40,000 box of jewelry. The higher ups were sweating me, saying they know it was me, cops will be in further touch with me (which they never were...)Also since I carpooled with another friend to work, I ended up just running home.
Not a bad story/job, but pretty hilarious.
I worked at Taco Bell once, but I quit the day some chick threw up in the dining area and I had to clean it up. Working fast food sticks out in my head as the worst job ever where I absolutely hated my life when I knew I had to work that day (and this was in HS)
worked at a sporting goods store back in highschool, and one day i was trying to push out a bike display rack that was up against the 20 foot tall display window by the front, and in the process of pushing it out by back pushed against the window and it shattered over my back. Probably the most terrifying moment ever, but came away uninjured and kept my job somehow
SlushI used to work as a dish washer. Got treated like crap, ton of work, stressfull, and made jack dick for money
sounds like you've got a solid work ethic.
CoreyTrevorEnd of high school-beginning of college, I worked in a delivery company warehouse (SpeeDee Delivery) in St. Cloud, MN.When I signed up, I was scheduled to work 3 days a week. It's a big warehouse, you just have an electronic card that gets you through the security gates and you scan it to punch in/out. I was scheduled to work 3 days/week, let's say Mon-Wed because I don't remember specifics. Anyways since it's such a huge warehouse and nobody is keeping track, we figured as long as you worked your 3 days/week (no matter what day you actuall work) you're good to go.
So on one of the days I wasn't working, my friend who had recently quit his job there needed to pick up his last paycheck at the payroll office but he couldn't get in because they disabled his card since he quit working there. So we went there, I used my keycard to get us in, we walked straight to payroll office he got his paycheck and we went back home.
Later on, cops show up at my apartment asking about a shipment of jewelry that I was suspected of stealing. Cop probably saw my broke ass apartment and knew it wasn't me cause I had no money, no furniture, pretty much nothing. Also I was clueless.
Anyways I go to work, the like regional manager or some high ups fired me personally! They were certain I stole this alleged $40,000 box of jewelry. The higher ups were sweating me, saying they know it was me, cops will be in further touch with me (which they never were...)Also since I carpooled with another friend to work, I ended up just running home.
Not a bad story/job, but pretty hilarious.
I worked at Taco Bell once, but I quit the day some chick threw up in the dining area and I had to clean it up. Working fast food sticks out in my head as the worst job ever where I absolutely hated my life when I knew I had to work that day (and this was in HS)
I have heard nothing but bad things about that place. Having read that I am glad they didn't hire me.
Not too much horror, but my first job was a life guard. I worked two pools, one in deep Houston, the other out in the country.
First pool: I worked with a chill black dude, all he did was smoke weed. Kids in the apartments next door tossed tequila bottles in the pool at least once a week so I had to fish out glass. I only had to call the cops once when a drunk Ecuadorian kept trying to bust the gate open. Homie had a plastic vodka bottle in his waistband at 10am and had slept in the bushes. The neighborhood dealer always came by and offered us weed, he was pretty chill for being a huge, scary looking black guy (covered in Tats and jacked). No one came to the pool, it was small and shitty and the community was really poor.
Second pool: Opposite situation, it was a pool in a ritzy area. The area manager sucked ass and as a 16 year old I was the acting supervisor. I had to teach myself how to fuck with pumps and chlorine since he never came by. At least once I sprayed my face with chlorine powder and water vapor from a pump and had to dive in the pool to stop the burning. Rich stay at home moms would come by and scream at me for shit wrong with the pool, despite me being a kid and clearly not a certified tech. I was basically a one man army for barely over min wage and always got dicked on.
Eventually I left the company for a retail job and dear god it was so much better run. I still get emails sometimes from the guard company to come back and supervise, but nah, I've moved on to better things.
grocery store was solid job for its consistency and lax atmosphere
landscaping and painting arent worth the risk