Share the Worst Job You've Ever Had
I drove a truck around Chicago's seedier neighborhoods cleaning bathrooms for a company run by Teamster thugs.
What Made This Job Your Worst Job - Ever
Expelled from high school in 1956 at age 15, I had many terrible jobs.
Likely, the worst of humiliating, low-paying, ego-deflating jobs was the one I had in Chicago, which entailed driving around the city cleaning bathrooms for a company ironically called "Best Sanitation." The owner, I later learned, was Joey Glimco, a Hoffa associate and wealthy thug who headed the Teamster's union in Chicago.
Best Sanitation had a "can't fail" marketing scheme. Clients either accepted the toilet-cleaning service or their Teamster-driven trucks didn't run. Leveraging the profits, the earnings got juiced out to gamblers and other ne'er-do-wells at exorbitant rates to be collected by oversized goons.
One day, while cleaning all the bathrooms in a ten-story building, I looked out a window at the address of the building across the street and realized I'd spent hours cleaing the wrong bathrooms. On another day, a black gentleman led me down into the basement of a home that included a mortuary where I was to clean up the blood from floaters (assassinated persons) dredged from the Chicago River.
Tips and Tricks
- In my circumstances, which included no education, a forced marriage, a newly born child, and no other other job opportunities, I did what I had to do. A few years later, I was a field engineer for a new high-tech company pioneering ultrasonic products in metallurgy a job that included an an excellent salary, a company car, and my own lab.
