A morning news anchor in Spartanburg, S.C., asked readers of his blog today, "What's the worst job you've ever had?" The anchor, Fred Cunningham, gave a plastics-related answer:
Conveyor belt attaching rubber tubes to plastic caps that are inserted in large bags of milk held inside those huge metal dispensers in cafeterias (That doesn't sound nearly as boring as it really was. I lasted a month.)"I have a new appreciation when I see someone get a glass of milk at a cafeteria," he wrote. Interesting topic, and a good ice-breaker for a conversation starter. How many managers out there would be surprised to hear that workers considered their job the worst -- or the best -- that they ever had? For the record, I'm on Cunningham's side. The worst jobs I ever had weren't the most physically strenuous -- they were the most boring.
