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- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -2/+60They've got to be kidding. Just watch Dirty Jobs for quite a few things worse than sitting in an air conditioned salon doing nails.
- mojaam, on 10/10/2007, -5/+55Get the F out? Where will they go? As bad as it is, most of them work these jobs temporarily, some are fine with it and might be their only way to make a living.
- superguysteve, on 10/10/2007, -4/+41This was settled in "Clerks" a long time ago. The worst job is jizz-mopper.
- shauncorleone, on 10/10/2007, -1/+36I swear, if I have trouble locating anyone to do my laundry or take my deli order this week, I'm holding skored wholly responsible.
- davidjunit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20I worked at a grocery store for three years during school and it was really one of the more fun jobs I had considering I wasn't on a POS assembly line having to repeat a crappy task every minute for two hours, the people there were also students so we related and on occasion hung out outside of work. Also, the physical activity of bagging, pushing carts, lifting packages, and stocking the shelves is pretty good if you don't like to vegetate.
- nshah, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20Exactly--I highly doubt any one of these workers woke up one day and were like "You know what? Picking up dirty needles and fingers--yeah, that is my calling!"
- DaffyDuck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12No, they make a ton of money in a short period. We are talking bad jobs with low paychecks here.
- theholycow, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15See that, guys? The unions are burying your comments so that non-union folk won't get to see them. Union censorship!
- superpositioned, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13Welfare line with the rest of the stuck up pricks who think they're too good to work.
- austindkelly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10this list is *****, yeah those are some ***** jobs, but seriously? there has got to be a lot lot worse jobs than being a manacurist. and i like how they mention that garbage men have a bad job and go on to say that laundry people have to deal with bio-hazadrous waste... i would assume that garbage man has a lot more bio-hazardous materials to deal with than a dry cleaners.
- drmangrum, on 10/10/2007, -4/+13Don't know why your being dug down. Unions have long since been about what benefits the Union and it's management staff, not about the workers they are meant to protect.
- TroubleInMind, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10You'll notice that *owning* nail salons is *not* on the list.
- futureisours, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Ahhh but crack whore isn't nearly as bad as assistant crack whore, now is it?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8This list is garbage. Buried as lame
- l33tsauce, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10ROFL Nail technician makes about 35k to 60k a year. I fail to see how that can be call a "low wage" job.
- CraigJ, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8This guy has the worst job: http://youtube.com/watch?v=TCX4owupPmo
- MoneyShot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Depends on the grocery store. Full-timers at Trader Joe's get 4½ weeks of vacation, a pension, and a matched 401K. If you make it all the way to store manager, you can pull down $120K/year too. I don't think I've ever seen someone working there that looked miserable either.
- stackered, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7wow, those jobs are actually ridiculously easy and nice jobs compared to what a lot of people do. a simple example is glazing (glass installation): when its about 100 degrees outside, the sun reflecting on you, and your 200 ft in the air lifting 1000 pounds of glass all day... a little worse than stocking shelves a supermarket
that article is such BS... i work at a supermarket and its easy as hell... i bag and clean all day and its not tiring, and the pay is what it should be - diggface5000, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9I haven't seen any grocery stores that weren't staffed by high school kids (because they are too young for most other jobs) and the elderly (because they can't live off of their SS checks.) I also haven't found any 80 lb items to buy at my local store unless I go to one of the bulk warehouses (which I don't think is what they are talking about.) In fact, in FL, Publix is regularly listed on the Best Place to Work list. Maybe it's an anomaly, but what ever happened to those guys on the Deadliest Catch winning the worst job title?
- theholycow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Holy ***** *****, Batman! Time for me to leave IT and get into a supermarket.
- cactus476, on 10/10/2007, -16/+22The United Food and Commercial Workers Union is the f*ucking devil.
I've learned that the workers who want to be unionized are the laziest ***** you will ever meet. If you have any work ethic what so ever, don't go union, you'll get screwed big time. - drmangrum, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6When you up the minimum wage, you also up the prices of the goods and services you buy. Minimum wage just reinforces inflation.
- xuanyan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I worked for a grocery store for over 4 years while I was in college. It wasn't the most interesting job, but by the time I was done I had worked my way up to over $15/hr. Definitely livable income.
- g30ff, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Not even close to fair. There is often no small amount of skill needed, you just have to develop it on the job and you have to develop it quickly or you generally get canned. No education needed? Sure, none needed. But there is nothing about that fact that implies these these people deserve a ***** working environment. You're not neccessarily supposed to sit around 'feeling sorry for them' but that doesn't mean you shouldn't expect better from your lawmakers or their employers.
You earned your degree on your own? Sorry, all that proves is that any insufferable dim-witted ***** can get a degree. I've had many opportunities to see what passes through degree programs and as a group they have no claim to superiority over the average supermarket worker. - N10E, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Not all business can afford such high salaries for the amount of employees they need. High minimum wages will actually harm the economy.
- KyjL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6"My wife was telling me all about the new iPhones and SUV purchased by the couple that own the nail salon she goes to" - Notice the COUPLE THAT OWN THE NAIL SALON, not the PEOPLE WHO WORK THERE.
- Nougat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Norm MacDonald's career is turning in its grave. That's dead for sure.
- ngmcs8203, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Plus, if you worked for a unionized grocery chain like I did when I was a teenager, the pay was pretty decent. I was avg'ing $500/week and the journeymen checkers were getting nearly $20/hr with benefits.
- N10E, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7It's rare if see a non-corrupt union.
- FastZ, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5FTA: "Baggers have it bad. They?re on their feet all day, repeatedly lifting loads as heavy as 80 lbs.,"
Where the ***** are you working as a "bagger" where you are repeatedly lifting up to 80 lbs? If you can fill a paper sack and make it weigh 80 lbs, that's amazing. - cloudyprison, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Male Fluffer
- austindkelly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5my dad worked in a glass factory/installer and he saw a guy get his arm cut off by a huge pain of glass when it fell off the line... yep id still rather bag groceries...
- DaffyDuck, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Hmm, the Asians I know are professors, photographers, stock brokers, pharmacists...not exactly worst job candidates.
- MisterUnknown, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8UFCW= More Taxation, Less Representation
- Sell, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4This article is a load of crap. Baggers getting Muscularblahblahblah, fcuk off. There are mcuh worse and thankless jobs in the US let alone the world besides baggers and philippino nail salon "artists".
- Ventolin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Sorry, but being a cook at KFC was the worst thing I can think of doing. And that was over a decade ago...
- Jwoey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You mentioned the best place to work list, so I went to look.
Fortune's Top 100 places to work for:
3: Wegmans Food Markets
5. Whole Foods Market
13. Nugget Market
57. Publix Supermarkets - nihilite, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4they left pig-crap-shoveler off the list. or tax accountant. or spooge-mopper.
Seriously though - this is a free market. Noone is holding a gun to their head. if people won't work for that wage and the job is necessary, the rate will naturally increase. Welcome to capitalism. if you dont like it, move to china or north korea. or maybe just go to college or learn a valuable trade. - gdog05, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Lewis Black's personal ball washer.
- Jwoey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Yea, but the article specifically mentions baggers. Baggers and stockers aren't the same thing. Stockers make a lot more money. The only stocking baggers have to do is when a customer changes their minds at the register.
- imacashew, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Minimum wage is NOT intended to be a 'living' wage and it never could be. If everyone made at least 40k a year, 40k would quickly become under the poverty line. People charge for good and services accourding to how affordable it is. If 10 bucks more is affordable to the average american, you're gonna pay 10 bucks more, period. It's only intended to protect human rights, and serve as a base rate for entry into the job market. I don't give a ***** who you are, if you're trying to support a family and getting paid minimum wage, you need to get up and do something about it. I know illegal mexicans who get paid 2x minimum wage under the table. The jobs are out there, stop feeling bad for yourself and find a better job. minimum wage jobs are NOT careers....don't expect to live on them.
- Weezul, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I think I can top the ones listed. Along with swinging off the back of a trash truck for a couple of summers, I was also on the business end of a hose on a honey truck pumping portapotties. The fun days on the trash truck were when guys out fishing would load up the 55 gallon drums that we picked up off the beach with fish carcasses, two days in the sun is quick enough to breed maggots. The BEST day on the pumper truck was when the new guy started driving and flipped the pump on backwards. 90 psi straight down in the hole. Nothing like standing there with god knows how many people's s#$t and p@*s dripping off of you from head to toe. And as far as blood, needles, body parts, bits of fingers, I worked off the back of a laundry truck at a health care facility for many years also, and no, never saw any body parts, but definitely saw my share of blood, needles, and turds. If they insist you need to get a hepatitis shot before starting employment? You MIGHT want to consider another career, BAHAHAHA, hindsight's a b#$ch.
- twinklyJesus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5they arrive at the figure based on their tip earnings. Hourly, they don't make much. BUT, it is by no means a low wage job. this is just a pro union article. Unions = socialism = democrat voters. The article is interesting, but the poster's comments are totally ridiculous.
- Scrappy1850, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Cause fish to change gender?! that sounds like it would SUCK!
- solidfusion, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4They obviously haven't seen any of the Dirty Jobs episodes... there seems to be much worse jobs out there.
- jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's more than a job, it's an adventure!
- RyanDFA, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Buried as inaccurate, I work in a grocery store and it's probably one of the easiest jobs a student could ask for.
Working in produce there's hardly any stress, you can take long breaks if you get your work done, some nights it's even fun just listening to your iPod and stocking shelves.
These dummies really don't know what they are talking about, try working in fast food or cleaning bathrooms. - twinklyJesus, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6wow! So, if we don't share your view, we are part of the "proletariat ruling class?" Only rich people would disagree with the down-trodden working class, right?
You mindless, socialist prick. Every time I've come in contact with a union, ultimately I've been ***** out of a job so that the union could maintain a bargaining position.
Unions served a purpose at one time, when jobs really were dangerous, not like the horrible paper cuts you could get in "human services" which your union reps convinced you were so hazardous. This has nothing to do with being rich, it has to do with recognizing that the motive of this article is to promote unionism and organization of low wage industries, which will not change the dangers in the work place, but will drive up the cost of these services to consumers.
Unions have outlived their usefulness. - drmangrum, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3So they put them in their pockets?
- ronin691, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I can tell the pampered author of this article has never performed a minute of manual labor in his life if he cites working in a supermarket and manicurist as the "worst" jobs. I recommend the article author spend one day emptying out, then washing clean, a few hundred HoneyBuckets. Note that said HoneyBuckets have sat in the summer heat for a few days after their use at a local county fair or sporting event. http://www.niegel.org/house/phase5/images/0227%20-%20Goodbye%20Honey%20Bucket.jpg
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