Wes Mantooth

I've worked a lot of REALLY bad jobs between graduating high school and college I'm really not sure I can pick just one. I was a convience store clerk...and that was probably the best job I've (until I got started in music) so that says something.

I guess if I have to pick it was my first job fresh out of high school working at a feed/hardware store. Basically my entire shift was spent in a drafty warehouse carrying hundreds of pounds of feed per customer and loading it in the back of their truck. Other times I was knee deep in mud trying to dislodge a piece of fencing or chiseling away at frozen culverts in the middle or winter. Nothing worked right, the forklift was always broken, the rickety shelves in the warehouse constantly snapped spilling feed all over the floor, in the winter snow would drift under the wooden door of the warehouse and freeze overnight around the stacks of feed. I usually had to deal with this stuff.

My final straw came after being left alone in the store and having a customer come in and order around 200 bags of concrete. Keep in mind I was expected to wait on all the customers (which included loading up their cars with feed) as well as filling this guys fleet of trucks in a timely manner. Needless to say he was upset about how long it took to get his concrete and called the store the next day, the boss started yelling at me about it and I quit.

I still have nightmares about that place.

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