Everyone has a shitty summer job story. On Instagram, we asked you the Chivers what some of your worst summer jobs were and you didn’t disappoint. Here are some of your worst summer jobs…
I worked for a port-a-pot company one summer and had to suck shit outta pots – davie_1237
Worked as a carny in one of those “rip off” games on the midway. The one where you get a small ring on a string attached to a stick. Then people had to try and pick up a bottle, laying on its side, and stand it up. I got a percentage of the money I brought in nightly in cash. What I wasn’t told was I didn’t get paid the last night until ALL the carny booths were taken down. I was 16 and didn’t go home until 3am. Freakin’ carnies. – yobeav
Loaded up trucks for UPS. No AC, middle of the Kentucky summer, hopping up in the back of a semi-trailer to stack walls of boxes. Then as you filled the trucks up, there were these heavy ass steel rollers the boxes came down on that you had to push and pull around. We had one 15 minute break half way through the shift because it was required by law for minimum wage workers. – ns_metz
Pumping the waste out of people’s RVs at a family camping ground. Definitely a shitty job – tbellisari
Fiberglass factory. Spent 12 hours a day tieing knots in fiberglass strands while they were moving, all in a sweaty room with a sort of fog of glass floating around. And the stupid radio played “bad blood” what felt like twice an hour. – thecurricane
Hot dog cart guy at a golf course on Cape Cod. Manager was a dick so I ate a bunch of Hebrew Nationals and quit day 1. – bilge_bolz
Cutting the extra meat off scrap bones with an air knife at a meat packing plant. – chadwick570
Delivered moon bounces at like 4 am – 12pm, you tell every person “don’t put soap on the slide” and they do it every F****** time!!!!! – carterwhitaker
Working for a pervert at a skate shop, never let me ride my board inside, and no socializing with the many hot chicks that worked there too. – seblastoff
Painting metal oil tanks by hand in the middle of July in Texas – zachmarston
I picked Strawberries from a field for 6 hours a day, from the ass crack of dawn until noon … for 35 cents a quart – misstaliamazz
Being glued to a conveyer belt chopping both ends off of zucchinis all day – kayouttamendo
Third shift working in the sanding department at a chair factory. Covered in dust everyday. Thankfully I got out better than a coworker who ran her finger through a wood router. – ufoundjeff
I Sold organic free range meat door to door… Nothing like knocking on strangers doors saying “Hey, want to try my meat? Its natural” – ryan.moreau
Lobsterman deckhand … try-scoring smelling like rotting fish.. – mattonc
Athletic trainer for summer camp of kids 6-10 years olds…. Anyone who could apply a bandaid could have done my job… – robertsm99
Cleaning out cow pens of the local cattle sales barn – dewdylan
Working the Lou Malnati’s booth at Taste Of Chicago. Usual Chi-town heat and humidity + working 10 feet from a wall of pizza ovens + getting accused of doing coke on the job before I’d ever even seen coke + getting hit on HARD by a hot coworker maybe 2 weeks after getting a girlfriend… Whee. At least the pizza was great. – christhisguy
All through high school and first year of college I worked for the number one crime scene clean up crew in Chicago. Got to know the corners pretty well. – c_sikora17
Rickshaw runner. All cash, inconsistent hours, hard work. You’re the horse to someone else’s carriage. Awful. – jdharvie
Wal-Mart Shoe department and photo lab…THE WORST! – skusej28
I worked as a replica taxidermy shop (mostly big game fish replicas) with just one old guy who hated me then found out I was extremely allergic to fiberglass. – rosiethedirtbag
