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I've consoled myself with the thought that if things ever went horribly wrong I could always get a job at Starbucks. If you are a patron of Starbucks you may have noticed that there are frequently notices posted regarding the hiring fairs that they are holding. Apparently they are ALWAYS hiring and it should be easy to get a job at Starbucks. Also, I've read that Starbucks is regularly listed as one of the best companies to work for.

Then I started to really pay attention to what a Starbucks employee has to do. They have to be incredibly friendly. I'm always greeted by the 'HELLO! How are you today? What can I get started for you? You'll have a double-mocha, frappa triple-pump, two shot, half-caf, no foam latte? Right away, sir. How about one of our delicious pastries today?'

All of this w/ a happy face smile and a great attitude. I don't think I could do this. I'm a former NYer and, frankly, I don't really care if a stranger drops dead as long as it's not a bother to me. I don't care if they're having a nice day and I don't think the Starbucks people really care if I'm havin a nice day either but they have to keep up the attitude.

And how does the Barista (Barista, lol, where did they come up w/ that?) remember all of these customized drinks? It probably takes 2 months to learn how to speak 'Starbucks' and I'd screw everything up.

Lastly, Starbucks calls their employess 'partners'. What is that? If I was a Starbucks partner I'd ask them to buy me out so I could retire to the Dominican Republic.

I think that a Starbucks job must be terrible and that is the reason they are always having to hire people. I don't think I could ever do it which means it's the taxicab for me if things go bad.

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any form of Sales and I don't care what the compensation is.

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Golf pro. Auditor.

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Assembly line, or any repetitive factory work.

I've tried and quit within days.

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rig monkey

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Plumber, Roofer, Painter, and prolly a landscaper.

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Sales. I'd want to kill myself. That includes things like mortgage brokering where you make your money by ripping off hard working people.

Waitering. The first time a customer was an ass to me I'd spill his food in his lap or just never bring it.

Anything where you have pretend to be cheerful all day, like workers at Disney World or flight attendants or anything like that.

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Any job that doesn't involve a chair, a desk, and air conditioning is probably going to get intolerable within a year or so.

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Plumber, Roofer, Painter, and prolly a landscaper.

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WTF those are awesome jobs. Very high pay for the first few, you get to work on your own mostly, and you get to show ass crack and no one bats an eye.

If "landscaper" is a euphemism for "gardener" then that job does indeed suck.

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I would find it difficult to do any kind of job.

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I think that a Starbucks job must be terrible and that is the reason they are always having to hire people. I don't think I could ever do it which means it's the taxicab for me if things go bad.


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It's actually a super awesome job. You can get it with no experience. They pay very well for a no-experience job ($10-$15/hour) and you get good health insurance after 3 months or something. Yeah, you have to be friendly, and the hours are awful, the morning shift starts at 4 AM or something.

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I worked at mcdonalds and was a telemarketer for a stint. I find it hard to be repulsed by a job because of a lack of respect. If I need to make money to feed myself I will swallow my pride for 8 hours a day.

In response to the question, I could not do a job that involved heights. I could not handle doing roofing or anything 10 feet off the ground even if I had a harness.

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Anything where you have pretend to be cheerful all day, like workers at Disney World or flight attendants or anything like that.

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You don't fly that often, do you? Flight attendants don't even pretend. Most have "bitch" tattooed across their forehead.

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Sales.

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I could not do a job that involved heights. I could not handle doing roofing or anything 10 feet off the ground even if I had a harness.

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my fear of heights seems to compound year-after-year.

it is now to the point that i cannot walk next to the handrail on even just the 2nd story of a building.

in tall building with windows that expend to the floor, i cannot get within 5 feet of them without holding something and sneaking up on the window.

fairly freaky chit.

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I worked at mcdonalds and was a telemarketer for a stint. I find it hard to be repulsed by a job because of a lack of respect. If I need to make money to feed myself I will swallow my pride for 8 hours a day.


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I'd be fine in a job where people don't respect you for working it (like poker pro to some extent) - but how you can do jobs like those where the people you interact with all day long just treat you like [censored]? Doesn't that just sap the humanity out of you? Don't you want to jump over the counter and beat the crap out of them? Where's your outrage?

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I should probably hedge by adding...

If it came down to losing my house or not being able to feed my family, I could do most anything, except cold-calling or any sort of telemarketing.

Those people have no soul.

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Prison guard.

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Assembly line, or any repetitive factory work.

I've tried and quit within days.

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Strange side story. I worked for a fortune 300 company, and our Quality group wanted to institue a cross training program. There were people in our warehouse who's entire job was as follows:

1. Pick up piece a from converyor belt 1.
2. Pick up piece b from converour belt 2.
3. Connect piece a to piece b and put in a box.

8 hours a day. 5 days a week. The Quality group assumed that this must be the worst job ever, and we should start cross training these people so that they could move up into better jobs and develop careers in the company.

The cross training was pretty much universally rejected. No one wanted to be cross trained. I guess there really are people out there that want to walk in, shut off their brain, do menial work for 8 hrs, collect a paycheck, rince, repeat...

Ray

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I worked at mcdonalds and was a telemarketer for a stint. I find it hard to be repulsed by a job because of a lack of respect. If I need to make money to feed myself I will swallow my pride for 8 hours a day.


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I'd be fine in a job where people don't respect you for working it (like poker pro to some extent) - but how you can do jobs like those where the people you interact with all day long just treat you like [censored]? Doesn't that just sap the humanity out of you? Don't you want to jump over the counter and beat the crap out of them? Where's your outrage?

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All the jobs I ever had I worked directly with the customer. And yes, there are many times where I would much prefer to smack a person in the face as opposed to explaining to them our return policy or assisting them 15 minutes after the store is closed. It does suck the humanity out of you. But if I needed a pay check, if I needed to put a roof over my head I would do it. I would hate it, but you gotta do what you gotta do to make ends meet.

This is why I always stick up for the worker in threads where people try and think of ways to [censored] with employees at some random chain store. It seems as though sometimes these people who treat me like [censored] are just having horrible days of their own, which sucks and I do not need to add to that. Or they are just bad people in general, and I don't feel the need to deal with people like that, just handle them and get them out of my life before their [censored] attitude rubs off on me.

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I've done a ton of repetetive stuff as temp jobs. You can actually make it interesting for a while if you try to figure out the most efficient way to do everything and/or try to set records then break them.

Worst one was putting popcorn into a box. You were limited by the speed of the line so there was really no way to do it faster or slower. Oh yeah, also 12-hour shifts. Ugh.

Also the frequency makes a difference. If it's something that happens every few seconds you can kind of zone out and meditate. Or if it takes 15 minutes/a half an hour, then you only have to do so many before it's time to go home. It's something that takes a minute or so that really sucks.

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Anything where you have pretend to be cheerful all day, like workers at Disney World or flight attendants or anything like that.

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You don't fly that often, do you? Flight attendants don't even pretend. Most have "bitch" tattooed across their forehead.

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Every flight I've been on has been the complete opposite. The attendants are ALWAYS smiling and cheerful, even when they are picking up garbage or someone has a complaint. Of course, I've only been on Southwest, which is notorious for hiring "attitudes" rather than experience... another reason why they are so profitable compared to the rest of the industry. That said, there's no way I can be a Southwest worker...

or a surgeon/dentist/anything medical really.

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Flight Attendants have gotten a lot better since the 90s/9-11. I think in the 90s you had a lot of burned out old lifers that still remembered the glory days of the 60s/70s, when flying was still fun and exciting for many. The flight attendants now seem to be in sort of a conscious reaction against that ugly period. And with all the stuff lately, many of them are just happy to still have a job. Also 9-11 seems to have really sobered everyone up during airline travel. To where customers don't bitch so much about trivial things anymore, and maybe they view flight attendants more as potential life savers than annoying waitresses.

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or a surgeon/dentist/anything medical really.

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Gynecologist?

Ray

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or a surgeon/dentist/anything medical really.

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Gynecologist?

Ray

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Brag: You get to see some nice pussies
Beat: You have to view 300 green/purple/bumpy pussies on fat chicks for every 1 nice pussy
Variance: You get to stick a finger up the pooper

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Oh yeah that reminds me. Urologist. Not in a billion years.

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Fluffer.

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Oh, and for my submission: Gay Prostitute.

Ray

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Assembly line, or any repetitive factory work.

I've tried and quit within days.

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I last worked for an ASIC manufacturer in 1999, so I don't know if this still exists, but we got a tour through the back-end sort/assembly/test area, and I was surprised that the people doing "visual inspect" hadn't snapped and started shooting yet.

You pretty much get chips in a clear plastic sleeve and have to determine if the pins are straight to within a certain tolerance (like .5 mm or something.)

"If you keep doing that, you'll go blind..."

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Assembly line, or any repetitive factory work.


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I worked on an assembly line the summer between highschool and college. I'd kill myself before I do that again.

I couldn't do anything that involves being around dead bodies all the time.

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Assembly line, or any repetitive factory work.

I've tried and quit within days.

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Strange side story. I worked for a fortune 300 company, and our Quality group wanted to institue a cross training program. There were people in our warehouse who's entire job was as follows:

1. Pick up piece a from converyor belt 1.
2. Pick up piece b from converour belt 2.
3. Connect piece a to piece b and put in a box.

8 hours a day. 5 days a week. The Quality group assumed that this must be the worst job ever, and we should start cross training these people so that they could move up into better jobs and develop careers in the company.

The cross training was pretty much universally rejected. No one wanted to be cross trained. I guess there really are people out there that want to walk in, shut off their brain, do menial work for 8 hrs, collect a paycheck, rince, repeat...

Ray

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I did this for a summer, although the process was slightly different:

Fold out cardboard box
Put plastic liner in box
Wait for product to fill plastic liner
Close box, stack on pallet
Repeat

However, I worked with some really cool people, and all we did was listen to the radio and talk [censored]. And the pay was pretty good for a summer job, with time and a half for overtime.

Pretty much, it was like any job- so long as the people you are working with are good, its tolerable. If they were dicks, it would have sucked, but then any job would suck if you hate the people you work with.

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http://www.hereinreality.com/jobs/jobsucks5.jpg

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I think that a Starbucks job must be terrible and that is the reason they are always having to hire people. I don't think I could ever do it which means it's the taxicab for me if things go bad.


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It's actually a super awesome job. You can get it with no experience. They pay very well for a no-experience job ($10-$15/hour) and you get good health insurance after 3 months or something. Yeah, you have to be friendly, and the hours are awful, the morning shift starts at 4 AM or something.

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This is what I was thinking. If things went 'bad' I could work in a great job that's easy to get until things turned around. But they have to be super friendly and hospitable and 'enthusiastic' ALL the time! It's not that I wouldn't want to do it it's that I don't think that I COULD do it, which is the point of my post.

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I love watching the specials on the Food Network like "Unwrapped".

Mark Summers: And each individual taffy is wrapped by hand. That works out to over 5000 pieces per worker per day! Now THAT is a lot of TAFFY!!! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]




If I ever had to work on an assembly line where my sole job was to wrap something or put a sticker on something I would probably wait til nobody was looking and jam my arm into the mechanism til it got ripped out, then live off the worker's comp and disability checks.

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Oh yeah, that reminded me of this.

http://www.bruner.net/blog/archives/012805.shtml

I guess they can't go to the bathroom ever in the top pic. I'd like to be the skyscraper workers actually.

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Run oats.

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http://www.comedy-zone.net/images/pe...ler-dennis.jpg

Bank security guard in Alaska -- 30 customers in the joint, and they're all wearing ski masks! Ka-zing!

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Accountant

Beat: I am one

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Medical coroner. No way I could examine and autopsy bodies.

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any of them