When I was the maintence girl at a craft store it was my job to clean the store, set up for classes, keep the parking lot nice and de-weeded, and... mow the lawn, do yard work, and landscaping AT THE OWNER'S HOUSE!!!

Still doesn't beat Mema's inflatable sharks though.

I really did think about this one, and I came up with nothing.  Well, once the hr person at a place I used to work with (CHRISTINE WOLF, Riggs....) tried to assign writing assignments and editing to me for the company newspaper because she felt this assignment was being dumped on her. Being an English major, I accepted, what the hey. The operations manager wrote an article, and I totally edited it. I made the incoherent seem coherent, deleted no information that she wanted to convey (SANDY KRIEFALL, Riggs), just made it "tighter" in meaning; basically took a 46 word sentence and cut it down to 16 words that "everyone" could understand. I heard nothing about this, but neither the hr person or the person who wrote the article ever bothered me again with their trite bull****; one of them "I can't look you in the eyes because you were right, but in being right, you were wrong. you scrub." OOH DID I JUST SWEAR?!??!?!

HEY RIGGS CAN YOU STILL GET WORKED UP ABOUT THAT PLACE??? (IMAGE PRINTING, NOW VESTCOM), EVEN NEARLY A DECADE LATER???? 

HEY!!! HEY!!!! NICE AUTOMATIC SWEARWORD EDITING!!!! I DIDNT KNOW THAT WAS A FEATURE!!!

UH ITS NOT FULL PROOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAD TO EDIT THIS ONE MYSELF!

-- Edited by JD The Jazz Doctor at 19:13, 2006-01-04

Oh yeah, the dumbest job I ever had to do, and I SWEAR TO GOD THIS IS THE TRUTH.

When I worked at Kohls we were in a brand new building that had only been open for about 6 months.

We had a new manager who was one of the dumbest guys I ever met in my life.

I was a ultitily clerk/stocker, and one day I walked in and he walks up to me and says

"Jeremy, we've got a bunch of flies and ants in the bakery department, take two or three cans of Raid bombs off the shelf and set em off in the bakery"

Well, I went to the bakery, and the people that work there had left out a bunch of trays unbaked dough for everything from cookies to loaves of bread, this had been done at like 4 AM so they would thaw and it was about 7 now.

I told my boss I couldn't spray or set off bombs because of the raw dough sitting out and he told me to do it anyway!!!!! I insisted it was a mistake and he got mad and just told me to DO IT!

I threw the three cans away and claimed I did it, but of course it didn't take care of the flies or ants.

The store wound up failing and closed it's doors a few years later

I never considered the teambuilder meetings part of work, but I guess they are... in that case, I've been paid to play carnival games, play volleyball, shoot pool, bowl, and drink, and play the bongo drums (still not kidding).

Jeremy... that bug story kills me. That guy was a maroon. Sure... why not poison the customers?