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Writer's Block: The Worst Job
Jun. 10th, 2010 12:54 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
...The worst job I ever had was about 5 years ago. I actually ranted about it when I was fired from it.
Basically I was the 2nd shift bathroom-janitor in a machine shop section of a Kohler plant that made bathtubs, sinks, showers...and toilets. It was hell because I worked with horrible chemicals with no gloves provided, and infact when I asked for them I was told that I couldn't get them. In four hours I was supposed to clean 2 floors worth of 24 hours of bathroom gunk and dirt from the floors, and they had started selling frozen bean burritos in the work room.
This wasn't the job it was when I had the summer gig last year. Last year the job meant collecting the trash from the offices and using a light sanitizer on every surface before vacuuming. And it was regular every day 8 hour shifts, and two people did all the work.
The year I got fired it was a job of 4 hours split between five people who barely talked to each other, 2 of whom barely spoke english. I had my lunches stolen, along with one of my really good sketchbooks. I was paid less than I had been the first time around and a month after I had been fired, I got an apology call from the cleaning agency.
It turns out that I'd been fired, not because I was unable to keep up with the extremely disgusting and dangerous cleaning of the men's urinals (which they apologized for), but I had been fired because my boss had been stealing the cleaning chemicals and other supplies and blaming it all on me.
They said they'd clear my record. If I ever wanted to, I could likely reapply.
I don't. There's a lot of things that went wrong there, due to factory-management concerns and budget cuts, and I think it hasn't gotten any better in recent years.
If I could go back and say anything to the management of that job?
"It's just not worth it."
...The worst job I ever had was about 5 years ago. I actually ranted about it when I was fired from it.
Basically I was the 2nd shift bathroom-janitor in a machine shop section of a Kohler plant that made bathtubs, sinks, showers...and toilets. It was hell because I worked with horrible chemicals with no gloves provided, and infact when I asked for them I was told that I couldn't get them. In four hours I was supposed to clean 2 floors worth of 24 hours of bathroom gunk and dirt from the floors, and they had started selling frozen bean burritos in the work room.
This wasn't the job it was when I had the summer gig last year. Last year the job meant collecting the trash from the offices and using a light sanitizer on every surface before vacuuming. And it was regular every day 8 hour shifts, and two people did all the work.
The year I got fired it was a job of 4 hours split between five people who barely talked to each other, 2 of whom barely spoke english. I had my lunches stolen, along with one of my really good sketchbooks. I was paid less than I had been the first time around and a month after I had been fired, I got an apology call from the cleaning agency.
It turns out that I'd been fired, not because I was unable to keep up with the extremely disgusting and dangerous cleaning of the men's urinals (which they apologized for), but I had been fired because my boss had been stealing the cleaning chemicals and other supplies and blaming it all on me.
They said they'd clear my record. If I ever wanted to, I could likely reapply.
I don't. There's a lot of things that went wrong there, due to factory-management concerns and budget cuts, and I think it hasn't gotten any better in recent years.
If I could go back and say anything to the management of that job?
"It's just not worth it."
