12 Bathroom Towel Dispenser/Attendant
There are few jobs in the world that feel more truly unnecessary than the bathroom attendant. More to show that a restaurant or venue is way more fancy than you can afford than to actually dispense towels, dry hands, or give out mints, the bathroom attendant has one of the least pleasant work environments known to man.
I rarely cross these employees of luxury, but I would imagine that when a recession or economic downturn hits, these guys are the first to get the pink slip. It is not a physically laborious or mentally rigorous job, but even standing can be a painful task when you are in a room whose sole purpose is to facilitate the passing of human waste.
Say you have a terrible sense of smell and you think you can endure standing in a bathroom all night, and you are considering this job? Think again, because it is not just the spine tingling smells that you have to endure, but the all-encompassing awkwardness that comes with your actual job description. There are few things in life more awkward than making eye contact unintentionally in a bathroom while another man is trying to take care of his business.
As a bathroom attendant, you not only have to do this, but you often have to dry the hands of the man you know for a fact just touched parts of himself that you want no part of. If that doesn’t leave you screaming in the night dreading your next arrival at work, I’m not sure that you are psychologically with it. This is one of the jobs with the lowest security, least opportunities for advancement, and highest potential for uncomfortable interaction. Those three facts alone make this a worthy candidate for Worst Job of the Year.
