Bad Jobs: My Last Shift at Albert Wong’s Pagoda and Other Ugly Tales of the Workplace

We all remember, with a shudder, the worst jobs we ever had: cashier, waiter, parking lot attendant. But what about having to wear winter clothes in the middle of a heatwave to work in an ice-cube factory? Or enduring the tedium of the phone-sex lines, bringing men to orgasm while reading Ms. Magazine? Or working in a beet factory, having to identify fancy beets from extra-fancy ones on the conveyor belt, the blood from your fingertips mixing with the beet juice, and nights spent dreaming of rivers of beets while your fingers curl into arthritic fists? Or a white guy delivering Chinese food to obnoxious rich folk, or a cabana-cart driver at a golf course – a cocktail waitress on wheels?

Bad Jobs consists of wry, tragicomic true-life tales from the trenches of the working world, as well as comics and other depictions of how bad bad jobs can be. You think you have it rough? Read Bad Jobs and your conversations at the water-cooler will never be the same again.