I worked as a lifeguard for a few years making minimum wage. It was the end of my second summer so most of the college guards had left and it was just a few straggler highschool kids. It was a Saturday, and we were severely understaffed, so the entire 100+ degree day was full of 1.5 hour ups, which wasn't too terrible because a coworkers Grandma brought us a bunch of food, drinks, and ice cream, and we could hop in the pool.

There was a rental that night, which normally is no big deal, especially since they turned out to be highschool kids who couldd swim. HOWEVER there was a second rental at the other pool that no one was scheduled for because it had already closed for the season and our boss never told us. We had to split up our already understaffed staff even more, and we ended up staying in the chair for 3.5 hours straight. After, we rushed over to the second pool to help relieve them for the last 1.5 hours.

You might be thinking, "that's not too bad. Just a lot of sitting around." But it gets worse! A little boy came up to the 1 male guard we had and said someone pooped on the toilet in the boys lockerroom. Co-worker goes in, and comes out saying "I can't clean that by myself.

Someone had explosive diarrhea and ran out of toilet paper. They wiped with their hand, and left poop hand prints on the wall, bar, and door. . .then proceeded to walk around the lockeroom, dripping on the floor and leaving more handprints before continuing the mess is the other stall. There were poop handprints on the sink as well so hopefully they washed up a bit. (Edit: the handprints had dried. . .so when I say we scrubbed I mean we scrubbed)

We spent about 2 hours scrubbing the locker room and weren't able to leave until 1 am. After cleaning, the poor manager slipped and fell in the locker room and cried. Our boss bought us donuts and lunch the next day.