According to the statement “Everyone has a price,” all people, regardless of their values and principles, can be influenced to do something if they are offered anappropriate reward.Determined to find out to what extent these words hold true, one person made a post onReddit, asking its users to reveal the nastiest thing they did formoney.Some of the replies certainly reinforce the fact that79% of folksthink they would be happier if they were richer.This post may includeaffiliate links.
According to the statement “Everyone has a price,” all people, regardless of their values and principles, can be influenced to do something if they are offered anappropriate reward.
Determined to find out to what extent these words hold true, one person made a post onReddit, asking its users to reveal the nastiest thing they did formoney.
Some of the replies certainly reinforce the fact that79% of folksthink they would be happier if they were richer.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
Am a nurse so I’ve cleaned up st, ps, vomit, other bodily fluids. Gotten punched in the face, kicked, verbally assaulted… Also have provided post mortem care and medical treatment to genuinely bad people because it’s part of my job (as in sex offenders, violent people, etc). Gotten spit at, pooped and peed on, coughed on intentionally. Wouldn’t recommend it lol.
I once drunkenly reached into a p**s trough at a music festival when some rich sob threw two seperate 100$ bills in there to see who’d grab it.Little did he know I would have probably done it if it was 20s too lol.
I worked at a call center. It was the most degrading work I’ve ever done.
Let medical students practice genital and rectal exams on me. In fact I’m literally sitting here in my medical gown and waiting for the next student to come.
Janitor at a 24 hour truck stop. NEVER AGAIN!
It was 2020 right before the pandemic. I went to an older man’s house who I responded to on craigslist for a cleaning service. I didn’t know it was like a secret kink post tho. I get over there and he made me lick all the handles in his home. Made $3000 though ! Helped a lot.
When I was working at a grocery store, we used our basement for storage, fridges, freezers, etc. and brought everything up on conveyors. S**t would fall off the side of the conveyors all the time into a little locked room that needed to be cleaned out every few months. I’m talking ice cream containers that fell out of the box and would explode spores into your face if you poked them, bags of frozen vegetables that blew up like balloons and were full of liquid. You’d just shovel all this rotted waste into bags while trying not to breathe. There were rats. There were cockroaches. There were flies. I nearly quit.At least, thanks to me, they started cleaning that area once a week before I left. That was after the manager came down with me all angry and telling me that it’s not that bad, and then seeing and smelling the mess for himself. He stuck his face in his shirt and ran out of there.
Participated in a study for lotion you rub on your boobs to make them bigger. Not even joking.For two months I had to rub this lotion twice a day and then once a week go to the clinic so someone could measure every aspect of my boobs. Not just size…. Distance between nipples, distance fromChin to nipple, circumference of them. It was so embarrassing and in the end I had the placebo! but I made $500 to pay my rent back in 2002!!!
During a dark time in my life I used to sell Norton Internet Security.
Telemarketing. I know. I should be ashamed.
Worked at a choice hotel. The owner was a rich Indian that owned tons of hotels. He used pirated software and operating systems, he only employed desperate migrants from his own country to houseclean for cents on the dollar. He would double charge people then ignore them. Every single day I was there I had at least one person call frantic and desperate to get their money back. We had to tell the the manager isn’t here and tell them to call back. He was NEVER there so we just had to string these poor people along till they gave up. Eats away at my soul like 10 years later still.
In highschool, ate a piece of gum stuck under a bus seat for 2$. And I was proud of myself
Working on the active face of a landfill. To get to the work sites, you often times would have to navigate on foot through the “active face” aka where the trash is dumped. You can’t comprehend all the sights and smells at once - too many shapes, colors, and stinking wet slop. So you look down at your feet. You plod carefully around hoping you don’t slip and fall onto the garbage, which may stick you broken glass, needles, or rusty rebar if you were to be so careless. The municipal garbage is smelly but tolerable. Its really the construction debris that’s noxious. The construction debris trucks come and loudly dump a lot of somethings and the thick white dust that comes off it leaves you gasping. You lose a little bit of your hearing every day, and you get more used to the bad air. And you pray to God that you get out of the dumps for good.
I tested medications because I was in need. I will never do it again.
Worked on a pig farm…where my duties included euthanizing sick pigs. I assumed he would give me a pistol or something. He handed me a hammer.
Working as a temp through the winter, I got called out to assist an excavation crew find a damaged sewer lineThe sewers in that part of town were over a hundred years old, mostly wood based Orangeburg pipe.A section had collapsed and caused a minor sinkhole which then clogged and filled with half frozen sewage slush.Due to the age, the plans were AWOL and you can’t detect Orangeburg with a metal detector. So as the equipment operator dug, someone had to go down into the hole and probe with a shovel. Since the city guys were union, guess who got called to wade into that filth.They had a honey wagon on the scene trying to clear the raw sewage but it was barely keeping up with the influx.When you’re a temp, there is a strong but never explicitly said pressure to take whatever job comes in. If you turn down too many jobs, the owner just stops calling you.So, I took the job. I was warned in advance about the conditions, so I dressed in multiple layers and then used garbage bags and duct tape to make hip waders.I was only in that hole 20, maybe 25 mins. But it was enough to give me hypothermia. The duct tape didn’t hold too well. And at one point I slipped in deeper, up to my waist.Two guys had to help lift me out. 3 in the morning, standing on the side of the road, soaking wet and in -25C weather, I stripped down to my underwear, stuffed my s****y clothes in one of the garbage bags and drive home very slowly.It was three days before I felt warm again.
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Cooked maggots I worked for a company that made natural pest control and natural animal feed. My job was to cook maggots for the natural bird feed they made. This was actually one of my favorite jobs to do for that company.
Translated very erotic love letters one woman, who was cheating on her husband, wrote to and received from her lover in France.Edit: I didn’t expect this story to arouse so much interest, so I think some background is due.It happened around 1999-2001 when the Internet wasn’t widely available (in our country, at least). They were exchanging regular snail mail letters. From what I gathered, the lady used to stay in France for a while where she had met her beau and started an affair. She had some very basic knowledge of French, but needed help. You know how sometimes people can casually chat in a language but a large written text freaks them out. I was in my early 20s and my customer was past 40, so you can imagine the cringiness of the situation. She would sometimes bring a letter and ask me to read an on-the-fly translation to her. As for the salacious details, I really don’t remember much. It was generally like “Remember how we did this and that? I often dream of doing that again etc.” Basically, it was like that song Dylan wrote for Hailey in Modern Family, only in French 😁.
What I do now.I clean blood, bone, fat, poop, and anything else you can think of from a human body off of medical instruments, then sterilize them for use on the next patient.It’s nasty, but so fun and I love my job.
I worked at a place that did hospital, hospice, nursing home, etc, laundry. I also worked in cemeteries, and ran the crematorium. Part of the job was digging up bodies, and sending them elsewhere. As an example for the last sentence, sometimes a spouse, or parent moves out of state, and wants their loved one moved closer. That association I worked for also would buy other cemeteries, and for those who don’t know, 100 years and one day after the last person is interred, they can dig up all the graves, and resell the plots. I’ve done that once with the association.
Pulled the liner out of my boss' horse pond. It was misery. Slogging in rank water up to my chest, water full of algae and decaying horse s**t, in 100°F beating sun and 95% humidity and a persistent swarm of mosquitoes. Some got in my ears, eyes, and mouth as I worked. I stank of horse pond for a week.
Managed a payday loan place.
Sold my plasma at one of those places. First time went well. Second time my vein collapsed and my blood was spilling into my body, causing a huge hematoma and hurt like hell. They said I shouldn’t try again and I won’t.
Walked out of a downtown Vegas casino, drunk at 3 AM with my boys. We have a long running inside joke with “blue drinks”. My buddy sees a half drank plastic cup of some sort of blue drink (with a straw), sitting on the curb. He says I’ll give you $100 to drink that. I did it on the spot with no hesitation.My wife later would later tell me that of all the things I could do in Vegas don’t ever f*****g do that again.
While deployed, my buddies chipped in $200 for me to eat a fly strip. An old fly strip, with flies. In Iraq. The stipulation was that I could use water, but I had to keep it down for at least an hour for it to count.I made it an hour and two minutes. The hardest part eating it was that fly strips have ridiculously sticky resin that makes eating them a huge challenge. My technique was to make little balls that I could swallow with copious water. I saw them all later.Between that and other stupid stuff done for money, I didn’t need to draw casual pay for the entire deployment.
Remove deer carcasses from the road.
When i was just slightly intoxicated i picked up a coin (worth probably less then a penny) from a puddle. Than i realised that it hasn’t been raining and i smelled my hand. Yep it was p**s… didnt move the hand till i got home and washed it multiple times but it still feels dirty to this day…
Snorted a huge line of paprika when I was 20 working in a kitchen. Made $65 which was awesome!
Needed money for a weekend to join my friends at a large punk fest up north, my other friend gave me $20 to wash his dishes. He had his bathtub filled with dishes even, old porkchops and slime, worst thing I’ve had to sink my hands into.
Not me, but im invovled.A few years back, my work buddy and I were just goofing around at work.I found this weird hard lump thing on my forearm and squeezed it.A 5mm black stick came out, i guess like a splinter? But it was smooth. We had no idea what it was.I told my buddy i would give him $20 if he ate it, so he did.
Let a stranger at a party spit in my mouth for 10$.
Not me but an old friend once ate a living worm off the ground after a rain shower for a single dollar.
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