bad jobs
Best Job in the World: Enter the ‘Red Zone’
"I started to resent the day off because it would break my routine. Stockholm Syndrome is natural there. You start believing everyone’s bullshit."
Best Job In The World: Blood, Shit and Q Fever
The interviewer looked at me and said “hmmm, you go to uni, so you can read and write”. We shook hands. I was officially an abattoir worker.
People Tell Us the Most Unprofessional Thing They’ve Ever Done at Work
The bad news is, most of us hate our jobs. The good news is, there’s no shortage of shitty things we can do while hating it.
My Advice to Graduates: Don’t Work at a Call Centre This Summer
You won’t save any energy or ambition for that other career you want to launch.
A Service Industry Manifesto: Tell One Customer a Day to Go Fuck Themselves
Profanity will be the boot we jam into the cogs of minimum wage labor and the only path to universal love.
This Australian Man Wants the Government to Give All Truckers $100 a Day in Hazard Pay
Steven Corcoran says that truck drivers like him have the most dangerous jobs in the country and should be compensated appropriately.
The Denver Nuggets Have Given Up
Sometimes, a basketball team isn't a shining beacon of competitive spirit. Sometimes it's just like you.
Stoned Zombie in a Haunted House
I've gotten stoned at work before, but smoking weed and working as a zombie at a haunted house didn't go well together.
I Spent a Year Being Exploited by a Shady Canadian Call Center
When you're 21 years old, naive, broke, and desperate for a work visa, you'll make all kinds of bad decisions, which explains how I ended up struggling to sell investment strategies to strangers over the phone for 12 hours a day.