I gave up being a poll worker here in Ohio, because the training they give you is out of date, the opening and closing procedures are useless, they send us the same voting machines every election (including the broken ones), and the Democrat poll workers are the laziest bunch of people I have ever worked with. We were required to have a organizational meeting the night before the election, where we opened our box of materials and inventoried the items. To do this we needed at least one D and one R. My D’s never attended that meeting. Never. I had to get a D from another precinct in order to do the inventory, put up signs, and set up the checkin tables. It was a looooooong 14 hour day working with my D’s on election day. I won’t even get into the problems they gave me trying to close the poll. I finally said, enough.
From what you’ve told me about your time as a poll worker in Ohio, it’s almost as if they wanted problems with the ballots, especially in light of their failure to follow the procedures that were supposed to be adhered to. I worked one day at a polling place in Utica, NY many years ago. That one time was enough for me.