For the best comments this week, go to the feature The Worst Jobs We’ve Ever Had. This one, by undead ayn rand, has totally amazed and mystified me:

Doing collections for leased telephones.

All the "customers" I dealt with were dead (with their kids paying the bills), dying (sometimes literally as we spoke and they thought I was the ambulance), or were addled with had nobody to take care of them, to tell them to stop paying $20 dollars a month and buy a phone for $5.

Those rackets were sleazy as fuck. When I was eventually let go (and oh so happy) they were still opening new "rental stores" in extremely poor areas that Best Buys wouldn't touch and that wouldn't be able to afford computers to order online.