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It’s the final episode. Nick and Chase pull out some of the most buried vault posts for one last goodbye. First, a full-time job handling a lot of spiders AND delivering exceptional customer service. Will the boys take the job, or will they fck this place? Then, an old creeper wants to throw pies in what appear to be several nondescript locations. …
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The fellas are counting it down to the end but not before three Craigslist dummies (possibly) get some murderin’ in. First up in the ever present debate of wits or wicked is a 60 something with a one-night proposition involving Asian heritage, zero friends, and 5 plus miles of walking. Next up is a handyman gig for a healthy fellow, followed by a j…
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It’s a podcast host’s delight as Nick and Chase dive deep into old job listings, internet queries, and Hey Arnold trivia. Thanks to Craigslist, somewhere in Portland there’s a kid ready to get stolen (or hit by a car). There’s also a possible home prank or guy-with-too-many-hammers situation in the suburbs of Denver. Reddit stumps the boys when it …
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Improviser Joe Carroll has had enough of the heavy stuff. Sure, he had a swell start developing old man hands while sanding down cars and imagining he was anointed royalty while feeding cows. Unfortunately, after his family moved off the farm, things got a little less idyllic. When he finally stumbled into the lucrative world of cleaning up Denver’…
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Video creator Sean Oulashin always has more up his sleeve. Whether that’s stumbling into a hat shop and landing the job, discovering a whole new community on Tiktok, or doing actual backflips in a street magic show, Sean’s curiosity means he’s always down to try something new. Whether that works out perfectly is…maybe not the point! He’s down for t…
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Singer/Songwriter Adina V kindly explains her job history with the positive perspective you might expect from our neighbors to the north, but behind it all are some dumb shifts, bad managers, and big revelations. At one point, Adina thought her only option was joining the ranks of public school teachers, but after shaking her head loose with a stin…
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Comedian and dive bar connoisseur Morgan Roos quickly admits she’s not exactly amazing at her job. However, after listening to some of her stories tangled up with hopped-up barbacks, puppy dealing bouncers, and illegal jacuzzis, you’ll probably come around to the idea that Morgan might be selling herself short. Sure, she’s had some lapses of judgme…
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The fellas are once again digging deep into the internet to uncover jobs, jobs, jobs! After much discussion of an actor named Walt and a poser named Sean (both wearing tan pants), Nick and Chase try to suss out who on Craigslist is dumb and who is a murderer. An amateur photographer wants a very clothed shoot, and a vaping enthusiast reveals himsel…
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Comedian, butt kicker, and sound savant Edwin Li remembers San Francisco as a different city, and he also remembers a lot of bread and poop from his gigs long past. He first got in the job game as an extension of his breakdancing passion, passing the time between sick dance sessions slinging sourdough with his bros. Years later, an older and wiser …
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The boys are back in town and..surprise! They still hate jobs! From the vault, Nick and Chase can’t tell if a gig for a horse-enthusiast bugle player is awful or awesome. One thing’s for sure: the music WILL be lame. They also found a man who is very much in danger of losing his fiancée to what he thinks is a cool trick but will definitely end up a…
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Comedian Holly Anabel Brown (Funny or Die, Salty AF at the Hollywood Improv) has waited some motherf*****g TABLES. She’s gotten zero tips from celebs, been harassed by comedians on and off stage, and she’s naming NAMES. Which restaurant was it where she poured water down the drain to drown out the poop smell? What craft beer spot has turned into a …
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Your local internet ding dongs Nick and Chase are back from scouring the wastelands for the worst jobs of all time. This week the fellas can’t decide who is dumb and who is a murderer. What about a semi-retired European looking for a live-in maid? Perhaps a magician with no people skills? Somewhere out there in the Reddit-verse there is an office w…
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Comedian and Professional Editor Harry Moroz (Tig n’ Seek, Children’s Hospital) was a weird kid. Interestingly, he was the exact kind of kooky kid that this podcast has become infamous for: unicycle fandom. Harry’s first gig was building unicycles for a renowned builder in Michigan, and he kept it weird ever since. He got fired from washing dishes,…
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The fellas are unfortunately back talking unicycles, work snacks, and jobs, jobs, jobs! Nick and Chase pull from the Craigslist vault to uncover a distressed person who can draw a mean fence plus a pair of gentlemen who are clearly looking for trouble in Santa Monica after sundown but before midnight. From the dregs of the internet (Reddit), Chase …
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Singer-songwriter (and Actress and LATV host) Stefni Valenica is a softie with an edge. She’s frightened teenagers with her pushup drills, she’s hosted a million random gigs, and she’s snuck in a client or two when she was supposed to cancel workouts because it’s 7am and it’s friggin GO TIME. Along the way, Stefni has steadily carved out her own pa…
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Your intrepid hosts are hitting the Craigslist job boards HARD this week with two casting calls for some unusual talent. First, a very dumb and unfunny person seeks an old man to laugh at and a buff man to befriend. Then, the somehow dumber director Jonah Z Helms seeks an under-the-train-tracks-living hobo for a music video that as of now has no lo…
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Actress Jodi Lynn Thomas (Preacher, Get Shorty, Tales from the Loop) can sometimes accidentally end up employed without much direction. She’s wandered the sacred sweaty halls of an infamous casino’s Adventure Dome, she’s realized the graveyard shift at Waffle House *might* be a bad idea, and she’s held down an office gig for over a year without rea…
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Chef Jasmine Ortiz (Cake Wars, Food Network’s Bake or Break) is a hustler. She’s always getting work, and she’s always getting it done. She thought she had it rough when she cleaned houses with her Grandma and pulled shifts in the retail trenches, but nothing could prepare her for getting robbed out of the theme park role of a lifetime (or at least…
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Zara Mizrahi (Family Guy, Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K) wanted to be an adult. She wanted to be an adult so bad that she accidentally got a job working in the office for adult films. She wanted to be an adult so bad she stuck with it for a whole year. She wanted to be an adult so bad that she also got behind the scenes and on her first day, for one performer…
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Your intrepid hosts are once again driving the boat as a duo, and this time they get into pretty choppy waters! The job market is seemingly devolving in Los Angeles with a Craigslist opportunity (?) where you can get bullied as an adult in Physical Education. Also, there’s a man who knows too much about woodpeckers looking for a fair maiden to hock…
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The Boys are back in action and they’re coming in hot with some old weirdos and some new questions for the void. We got a handyman needed for an old man who still likes people as well as a prime opportunity for 5 (or more) white fellas to get made fun of AND make zero dollars. Plus! A food truck worker from across the pond needs a raise while a rec…
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Comedian Kyle Rehl (Extra Sauce, Vino Underground…Accidentally roasted Zach Snyder) is quick to figure out the deal when handed a pile of meaningless tasks at work. Do the flyers really need to make it onto *every* windshield? Do the newspapers need to make it onto *every* doorstep? Not exactly! Kyle’s all about working smart not hard and that’s wh…
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It’s another one with the boys! Prosthetic body parts, a PG movie about assault, and our pal formally known as Skip in your ear-holes! (Or eye-sockets!) Plus! The worst job at the 2022 Oscars (with zero mentions of W*ll Sm*th) What do you have?…it's Fuck This Place! The podcast about jobs. ___________________________________________________________…
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Comedian Michael Burnett (Amazon Prime) just wants to do better than friend of the pod Justin Clark. Along his way to domination, Michael weaves yarn after yarn of getting wicked taint rashes in a 105 degree parking lot, enduring the screams of self-important failed screenwriters, terminating hoards of surly homophobes, and more! Nick and Chase fin…
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Comedian Dejan Tyler (aka D) has been inside too many homes to count the atrocities he’s witnessed. From boobies on belts, to mustard beds, to disembodied bootys in closets, and even a little dumpster action, D has seen more than any one man should. Still, he tries to stay calm– unless he’s stuck on a roof, in which case he’ll cut your cable to sav…
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Your two favorite fellas are flying solo once more as they charter a course for jobs unknown. From the vault Chase unearths a cartoon duck/hunting men for sport situation with FREE HOUSING! Nick is appropriately wary of another opportunity where old souls either get busy or get booking stand up comedy. Either way, their inexperience shows. From the…
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Comedian Ben Gonzalez has his eyes on the prize. He worked his worst job for 10 years to follow his dream of being a firefighter. Is he currently a firefighter? Nah, but he found his own path. Oh, also used to steal mad Snoop Dogg CDs. Nick and Chase stumble upon a promising job in Beverly Hills or New York or Miami, and Ben is forced to consider s…
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Nick and Chase are at it again! There’s a few dumbos out there on Craigslist, and the fellas are out to discover once and for all if they’re really stupid or if they’re really killers. One man needs to go to Kohl’s, the other is not-quite-paying for funeral attendees. Perhaps they’re gonna murder, mayhaps they be dumb! There’s write-ins galore! A n…
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Comedian Yusuf Ali has seen it all at work. He’s watched a man get chased down with hot grease, wiped a grown ass or two, and he’s even performed standup on the clock at his job. Through it all, Yusuf skates by as best as he can til he finds a sweet spot between having to care and cold hard cash. Nick and Chase find an amazing job for a roving hero…
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Comedian and actor Colin Coughlin is fried. Crispy. He’s just back from the barista grind and he’s ready to throw some elbows on his past jobs slinging smoothies, mixing concrete, and baking treats in a sad corporate grocery store while going home to at least one roommate covered in blood. Nick and Chase find a gentleman on Craigslist who needs rou…
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Comedian Nick Vatterot (Conan, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central) enlisted young in the ongoing conflict of custard rivalries that have torn St. Louis apart. It was a tough job, but someone had to do it. Once drafted, he armed himself with an ice cream slingshot, a whole case of whipped cream, a bow tie, and got to work! After that, he h…
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Comedian Noah Copfer is a black belt, but even he can’t fight off the terrible dread that comes with never ending coffee orders. If you’ve ever subjected yourself to catching the ire of hollywood customers and vagabonds, you’ll know it’s an impossible foe! Noah keeps the vibes posi though because in his heart of hearts he knows how to dislocate you…
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Writer, actor, and coach Cooper Shaw is pretty darn nice outside of work. When she’s at her day job she also happens to be pretty darn nice. She can’t help it, she’s from the midwest! She’s helped Boomers pick out weird gifts for their nephews at Brookstone and even had her manager pick her up from college a time or two, but she ain’t a fan of hara…
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The boys are back, and they still hate jobs! Diving headfirst into retirement, it’s time to take a look into how the practice of leaving the workforce came into fashion. Spoiler alert: people lived longer! The fellas also debate what it takes to be a bounty hunter (on Craigslist), and Chase is eventually tasked with the unfortunate role of explaini…
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Your favorite hosts are back with a (late) announcement on an ambiguous timeline! Nick and Chase revisit two Craigslist posts includings a trucker Star Wars fan and a window replacement scheme that is definitely legal. They've also got a few new friends writing into the podcast! Don't let anyone tell you it's not...it's the Fuck This Place podcast!…
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Chase drops a news bomb and a podcast schedule update for the next few weeks. Next week: a pre-hiatus episode with Nick, Chase, and some write-ins! _____________ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fuckthisplacepod/ Our Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fckthisplacepod Our Youtube-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNGWlaHVqQO9-q37UpPdh8A _______…
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Singer, Writer, and Comedian Kieran Mellish can do a darn good Michael Bublé impression, and somehow that landed him his first career singing in some the most “illustrious” South London pubs complete with leering drunks and handsy families. His stint in the US was also somewhat “illustrious”. As he ripped off tourists on Hollywood Boulevard and lea…
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Comedic Actor and retired Team USA Skeleton Athlete Gracie Madrid had a short job history of accidentally ending up in overly evangelical situations before she manifested her future and stumbled her way into an Olympic hopeful career not by being great, but by working hard. Unfortunately, obtaining “the dream” is only one part of the journey, and m…
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Podcast host Chris Braaten (I Like To Like Things Podcast) worked at the busiest Starbucks in the world, saved his employers from dying of oxygen deprivation, and before all that...he became the strongest 12 year-old alive. Nick and Chase stumble upon a Craigslist cornucopia of two wondrous opportunities where you can either help someone go camping…
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Comedian Stephen Agyei (Just for Laughs, Bojack Horseman) has seen some stuff in the course of his employment. His first job working for the government was a rude awakening to living the office life and one of his family friends were about to receive some very bad news. He also slogged it out in a call center selling quite possibly the hardest thin…
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Your two favorite spooks are back for another spine-chilling episode celebrating scary jobs on this all hallows eve! Nick and Chase summon two craigslist spectres from the crypt to ponder the infinite question...be this poster dumb, or mayhaps MURDEROUS? A wannabe fighter and a cursed magician need a friend...or is it fiend? Plus the dudes take a h…
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Comedian Ryan Conner (Late Late Show with James Corden, Last Comic Standing) is a terrible waiter, an apathetic blue man, and one of the fastest Boston Market drive thru cashiers on the east coast. He’s had some hits, he’s definitely had some misses, but mostly he’s just glad to still be around. Nick and Chase unearth a Craigslist intellectual look…
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Comedian Britt Birrer loves wrestling, laughing, and good health insurance (when she can get it). Typically, it’s hard to get all three at the same time, so she does her best at work helping people who have pains in their butt or who have twins with the same name or who can’t stop listening to true crime or...you get the point: she’s a survivor. Br…
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At work, Comedian Mark Smalls (SF Sketchfest) is not exactly what you might call a dedicated employee, and he knows that. In the course of his jobs, he may or may not have contributed to the demise of a Papa Murphy’s pizzeria, just like he may or may not have realized he needed direction in life after dropping a lawn mower on his foot. Somewhere af…
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Comedian Aston Wallace gets the job done, but that doesn’t mean he’s gonna like it. Just to get through the day he’ll befriend skinheads, dodge rich bosses on too many uppers, avoid Star Wars nerds correcting his collectibles knowledge, and even fight Phil on how many McDonald’s dipping sauces he can hand out. It’s a tough job, but no one is doing …
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Comedian and writer Atif Myers (Laughs on Fox) knows he’s not always the brightest ticket ripper at the movies, but he sure can sell a bounce house! He’s found a few movie scams, made a few classic missteps like thinking women will care at all about his dumb jobs, but in the end he’s found his way towards a decent gig or two. Nick and Chase find a …
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Comedian Cheryl Anderson had a very bad time at her job on the cleaning staff at a local motel, but you wouldn’t know it until you talk to her for at LEAST 20 minutes about it. Luckily, that’s exactly what we do. It’s a double header as first job becomes worst job while Cheryl dodges some pretty horny puppies, learns about her co-workers dual lives…
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Wow! 100 episodes (three weeks ago)! Nick and Chase celebrate by kicking back and screaming gently into the void about why jobs are still bad, the “great resignation”, and one summer camp gone wrong. Your favorite co-hosts also pull a couple ringers from the vault including a very confusing Italian man and one job that could be the GREATEST OF ALL …
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Comedian Trevor Hill (SF Sketchfest) has a pretty long fuse. He’ll give his job the benefit of the doubt for a loooong time before it’s time to bail. He’ll let his boss stalk him through the streets of Santa Cruz, he’ll let coworkers do meth in the bathroom, he’ll even let Jay Leno tell him how to make a sandwich! But eventually, it’s time to pull …
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