I hope your afternoon is trucking along quite nicely. I’m PUMPED that it’s Friday. Yeehaw!
I was also quite pumped to dig into my lunch this afternoon because it contained two of my favorite foods… Carba nada noodles and clams!
Clamy Noodle Bowl
Ever since I saw a man chowing down on linguine with clam sauce when I picked up a pizza at Pizzeria Del Dio last week, I’ve been craving the pasta + shellfish combination.
Lunchtime!
I paired about two servings of Carba Nada pasta with fresh spinach, marinara sauce and a can of clams and dug in.
(Newer readers: I am not watching my carbs. I just have a very special place in my heart for Carba Nada noodles because they taste ah-maze-ing and have 12 grams of protein per serving. 10 points!)
I inhaled this noodle bowl while editing my life away.
My job typically includes some editing, but the last few days of this week have been consumed by editing, which I find more draining (and boring) than writing. (Hence the occasional typo you see here on PBF that I then find two days later that makes me want to cry and smack myself in the eyeball.)
You guys know I usually like to keep things positive up in here, but I’ll never forget the hilarity that ensued when I asked you about your pet peeves a while ago, so I figured I’d ask you another semi-negative question today to see what you’ve got…
What is the worst task you’ve ever had to do in a job?
I’d say driving around in a Shamu car was pretty humiliating, but cleaning locker rooms at the local pool when I was a lifeguard was n-a-s-t-y. Oh, and filing press/media clippings makes me want to pass out.
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I would say that cleaning the drains at my current jobs is the worst and most humiliating task. I work at a fast food place and the drains in the floor have to be cleaned once a day. I’ve never had to do it before. However, someone at my job loves giving me the most boring and worst tasks. Let’s have Sara clean the drains!
I worked at Panera for 5 months. Cleaning dishes that have been sitting out for hours is just wrong.
My worst task ever is a tie. Shifts where I have to close at my paying job (retail) really suck. Only the people who close are responsible for the messes that people with earlier shifts didn’t get too. You’re tired and just want to go home, not try to neatly fold size XXL t-shirts (its nearly impossible). The second one is the time I had to make a spreadsheet of all the media contacts in my state for my office’s press secretary. They were organized by type and county and then alphabetized within those categories. It was so boring and all that categorizing made my head spin. But it;s worth it because I do love that job 🙂
i once worked for a bluebird rescue crew that checked bluebird boxes every week for eggs. they’re not endangered because starlings inhabit their nests and replace the bb eggs with theirs. I had to open the boxes and if the wrong eggs were in there i had to smash them. it was sad…
Oops, i meant now endangered…
I love carba nada noodles, too!
Changing the garbage at our ice cream stand was the worst job ever! Thankfully I didn’t have to do it often.
I’m a nurse for patients that often need full assistance with their daily hygiene needs. I’ll let you use your imagination…
Totally relate to work turning a little blah. The same thing happened to me this week at my job. As for worst job ever, I’d have to say a large NYC PR firm. Just too cutthroat for a little OMaha girl like me!
I am so envious of your Carba-nada noodles and wish I could find them here! I haven’t had any super terrible jobs now that I think about it- apart from the very unglamorous editing of other people’s writing (including very boring whitepapers!) I also once had to load about 200 USB drives with 3 presentations. There was only 1 USB hub and they had to be done immediately so I had to do each individually. Bahhh!
P.S. You mean you don’t want to be dropping off the future Julie and Ryan Juniors at school in the Shamu car?? 😛
Toss-up …
Hired as an executive assistant I found my job was really to be telemarketing scum
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Doing a chef externship at a daycare where ALL I had for ingredients was foods that were canned, frozen,
Powdered, and unhealthy choices like frozen chicken nuggets, pizzas, etc that had more salt and fat than
Any one person should eat…much less kids whose weekly fees were $400 !
Overnight shift at McDonalds … Drunks, pimps, hookers, strippers, dealers, etc … And I had to
Clean up after them … Including the toilets! (My car would get peed on!)
Hrm, not sure what the worst thing I had to do was.
Currently I do data entry with confidential student files at a big university(I am amazing, I can find anyone’s folder with just their parent’s name). I also sometimes have to help stuff envelopes for student denials.
I also worked at Victoria’s Secret and had to fold and organize all the small, silky panties and clean them up.
What probably takes the cake, though, was my first job at a shoe outlet store. Why do people think a 16-year-old girl is an expert on bunions and foot fungus? No, I do not want to see them, and my advice is to see a podiatrist and not try on our shoes.
worst ever- I was a lifeguard for many years. The worst part was when some lil kid would GO in the pool. We would have to clean it out. NO FUN
otherwise being a lifeguard was the best!
“Smack myself in the eyeball” You crack me up!!!! 8]
I was about to say something about my worst task, but after reading all your comments, I must say I’m a licky girl.
There is one thing I didn’t like. Cold is my worst enemy so working beside a coke frigde and frozen foods shelter wasn t a good experience . Just two hour after sitting there to give people sausage samples, I called my boss and quit.
Nedless to say what a nasty cold I had afterwards. I guess I’m a sensitive person after all.
This isn’t really humiliating, it’s just gross 🙂 I was interning in a kindergarten classroom last spring and a little girl thew up in her hands and brought it to me…..I had to clean her up and clean up the area she threw up in. I also got the worst Strep Throat of my life two days later. Just some of the perks of being a teacher!
i was a lifeguard too! the bathrooms/occasional puke in the pool was really awesome…
Cleaning the fry machine at McDonald’s was disgusting! Getting screamed at as a Customer Service Rep at a call center was awful. But now I work in a church preschool and cleaning up explosive toddler butts is quite the task.
Ugh – I used to work at a grocery store and primarily worked out of the bakery (which was AWESOME) – but occasionally the fish dept would be short staffed and I’d have to work there so I STUNK to high heaven when I left at the end of the day.
The worst part was just before I left for college they put in a rainbow trout tank and wanted people to catch and kill the fish for customers (killing involved taking them to the freezer in the back and hitting them with a plastic mallet – so as not to traumatize anyone … umm, what about me?!?!). I refused to do it and thankfully left for school shortly after… phew.
I am very grateful for jobs that allow me to go home smelling normal now… 🙂
Working as a hostess at applebee’s, I can’t count the number of disgusting tasks that must be performed.lol The worst would definitely be having to clean up the toilets in the public restrooms and also having to go around EVERY MORNING to pick up parking lot trash with nothing but myself, (wearing all black), the hot sun, a trash bag, and a broken picker-upper stick. (I do not know the technical term) haha
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