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I had a rather unpleasant job working as a proof machine operator.

That takes some explainig.

When you get your canceled checks back, you'll notice that at the bottom there is some computery looking type on them that has the amount of the check and your bank number.

When you pay for something, your hand written chicken scratch doesn't magically go into computer. It has to be fed into a sorting machine. But before it can do that, someone or somethign has to look at your chicken scratch adn then encode the acual amount along with the bank number into nice clean type on the check.

This is so that when it goes to the master computer to be inputted into someone's bank account the computer can read the amount.

So my job was to sit at a big computer console and look at people's checks and then type the amount onto the proof machine keyboard and then run the check through it.

On a good day, I could do around 7,500 of these. That represented me or some other loser like me sitting there for 8 hours doing that.

Now that job SUCKED.

I just want to expand on Draginol's pain. I knew him at the time he had that job and there is something that he also left out. If I remember correctly he came up with a programmactical suggestion on how to improve the process, which they implemented and his boss took the credit for it. He may have even programmed it himself but I don't remember.

I guess no one else here ever had a summer job.

When I was a kid I had a job over the christmas school holidays at a place that made/packaged hot-dogs. I worked in the section that put the hot-dogs in those shrink wrapped packages. The amount of fat and horrid oily gunk that the hot-dogs were covered in was disgusting....needless to say I quit the job after only 2.5 days.
The funny thing is that two weeks after quitting they called me up and offered a full-time job doing the same thing.....of course, I declined the offer and went back to school

....other than that I've never had another summer/holiday job!.....and these days when I'm on holidays that's exactly what they are

No matter how much your summer job sucks you know it's going to end with the summer. There are quite a few days in which I wish I had that to look forward to.... Working every season sucks!!!

Yeah, but you didn't pay them.

Once apon a time I worked at a buisness school for a summer job, they wanted to pay me in classes for reprograming their old Apple 2C's to work with the schools mailing list instead of cash. Then I grew up and I think I joined the Marines....... I think or I might just wake and and have a real job..... or that might just be me dreaming about 2 years from now when I retire

Grog Goes back to waiting patiently for the Coffee Mugs to be on sale with the Lizard on the side..... Hey Crae time to Spring/Summer clean the basement

my worse summer job that I can remember was working the register at Ricks In & Out Burger joint, it was nasty and so were some of the guys that came in for Burgers and thought when they gave me their money to pay for their burgers taking/grabbing my hand when I gave them back their change was part of their orders... yuk!

plainsong the thread says "Worst summer jobs" hehe