For me its in between, being given an item that a baby/toddler has gummed on through out the store. The guest just says, "Sorry...I was just trying to keep him/her quiet." And doesn't care they kid just made the item a defect.
Pushing the old grease to the grease trap behind the store.
To being a cart attendant and having to grab carts from outside with trash bags full of smelly trash, mushed up food, puke, or messy diaper bombs.
Spoiled Similac baby formula. The smell is gagging.
To working and cleaning the can/bottle recycler machines. You either have left over soda, beer, wine, liquor, spit/sinus junk, used tabacco spit, and other mystery fluids left in the bottles and cans. And then you have to handle and process all the cans/bottles from the breakroom. Nothing nastier than handling the trash of your
Those guests that bring back used items for those sensitive or biohazard situations. A guests trying to bring back a breast milk pumping machine that had been used; even though the packing says DO NOT RETURN TO STORE. Or a guest bringing back a used bikini trimmer.
To the worst being to walk into the restroom and finding one of the stalls with feces on the floors and walls. Sometimes the ceiling.