Let's see how this goes. Just post about your worst shift combo you've ever gotten. Thursday split shift 12pm to 5:15pm, 10pm to 3am, THEN Friday 11am to 3pm, 6pm to 12:45pm. All because 2 people went to Japan. But maybe that's not the worst...
I can't touch that. Then again I just started at a bank for 40K after being out of work for 2 years. Regular 9-5 hours.
During my supermarket days a few years back I had shifts like 6am-10am (for ice/yoghurt), then 2pm-4pm (frozen goods) and again 9pm-12pm (non-perishable goods) sometimes on the same Saturday, but only like twice during the three months that I worked there. Haven't worked in a shift-based job since then..
My absolute worst? When I worked at Starbucks I was basically filler as I was one of the two lowest on the food chain. I opened. A lot. Opening used to be 5am in most places in the US and IIRC they moved it to 5:30am when the economy started to shit itself. Yes, people actually do show up the second those doors are unlocked at 5am. At the time I had a class Monday night that went until about 10:30pm and I had to drive an hour home which meant I was in bed no earlier than 11:30pm. Then I had to wake up around 3:30am just to get to the store at 4:15am. The second worst was having to close which meant I could be there until 9:30-10pm at the latest and then wake up at 3:30am the next morning to open. That didn't happen often but damn did I hate it. Another job I had as a dishwasher often kept me there past midnight cleaning pots and pans long after the line cooks went home. They loved me there (except the stupid chef who once threatened to replace me with a "really good Mexican guy" as he put it. Not sure if I should've been offended about the racism inherent in that comment or offended that he would threaten to replace me with a stereotype) so I didn't mind too much until Starbucks hired me. Better pay and infinitely better employee discounts combined with not having to listen to whiny servers bitch about having to report their tips to the IRS (their tips often were what I was getting paid 3x over). Nothing worse than cleaning a 3ft deep pot that had meat boiling in it all day aside from maybe cleaning axel grease from your teeth.
^pretty brutal. I think you win. For my job, Opening is the easy part- toss some seeds in the popper, heat the butter and pretend to count the stock and check it off. Closing? You need to blow out the theatre with a leaf blower, pick up after all the bratty little kids who drop 90% of their popcorn and clean the greasy popper, count everything, and and and. Worst part is I smell like goddam buttered popcorn for the next 3 days. The place is... Old. The building is from 1902, with a really shoddy add on made in the '60s I think. From there, it's been repainted about a million times, and I think my boss has officially give up on maintenance. Besides those things, I love it. Let the people in, and sit around doing whatever you want for 2 hours, let people out, lightly clean, and repeat. It's a single screen theatre so I don't need to worry about cleaning multiple places. But, like you said, a dishwasher is brutal. I had that job for a bit cleaning at a Filipino restaurant. Horrid some of the things I needed to clean, and nearly got burns everyday due to the lack of proper equipment like gloves and the water that was too hot to compensate for the lack of soap.
I'm sure there are worse gigs than mine but sleep deprivation has to be #1 on my list of occupational hazards that don't directly kill you that make the job a living hell. Dirty Jobs has some pretty horrific jobs that I could do if I had to. Cleaning mountains of cow shit with a shovel would stink and I'd probably hate it but being sleep deprived makes any activity, no matter how pleasurable, very displeasing.
