when i first left scool i worked at a place on penistone road..i used to stamp made in sheffield on 3000 chisels a day i used to get 25 quid a week..god i hated that job

Bottle factory between school and college.I worked 6am till 2pm going up and down checking bottles for faults all for £1.88p/h.When the minimum wage came in it closed down.The people were nasty too.I hated it!

I used to make Christmas crackers in a factory in Bradford!
That was a really rubbish job but a constant supply of cheesy jokes!:P

working in an industrial/commercial launderette. we did all the linen for hotels, started at 6am finished at 3pm (i think). I was mostly stuck between 8 industrial sized dryers, waiting for the loads to finish their cycle. once the cycle finished then the doors opened automatically and deposited the load into large wheeled buckets/trolleys. Unless there were no buckets available and then they got deposited onto the floor. Cue much running around and musical 'buckets' under the dryers, trying to catch the loads as they fell out. all in 30 degree heat (and thats centigrade not fahrenheit).

Not content with this 'Bat the Rat' type contest, everyone who has done washing will know that washing gathers static electricity. You try putting red hot, super dry towels into metal cages without zapping yourself with about 20 megawatts of stored static electricity.

I lasted two weeks.

Mine has to be delivering betterware. 2 days hard work made over £500 worth of sales for something like a measley £20odd quid. I quit after a week lol.

Originally posted by kirky
when i first left scool i worked at a place on penistone road..i used to stamp made in sheffield on 3000 chisels a day i used to get 25 quid a week..god i hated that job

I worked all one summer in a mince pie factory. Did you know that the factories work all year to meet the demand at christmas time? I had to pick up the mince pies, one in each hand, as they flew out the machine at 5000 pies per minute and place them on a baking tray for 9 hours a day. I kept getting told off for denting them by picking up three in each hand.

Working in a riveting factory. Yoy may notkno wthis but the process for producing rivets produces the two parts of a rivet. I had to separate the males from the females using a sieve.

It wasn't exactly...ahem...riveting and i lasted only 6 days. In fact the manager apologised for giving me such a boring job and said they were investing in a machine that would do the job.

At school I worked at McDonalds - say no more.

I also spent a year working for Yorkshire Water where I had to go around picking up fire hydrant covers and big iron covers in the road to access meters that I had to read with my laptop.

I used to find all sorts of horrible things under the covers....syringes (didn't touch, just replaced the cover and drove off), hundreds of maggots/worms (ditto), slime and sludge, muddy water, the list goes on. I once got my car stuck in mud at the bottom of a field in resevoir grounds and had to call the RAC to tow me out and even they got stuck! I also had to access covers in the middle of busy roads risking my own life and limb. Nevertheless I survived and am here to tell the tale.

The most tedious job I've had was working for a government organisation for a boss who used to get me to write very long reports that required a lot of research, who would then go through them with a fine toothed comb looking for anything he could query or correct and then when it was completed, he wouldn't do anything with it and it would just sit on his computer. Waste of time.

Worked at Mace's pet shop in Castle Market aged 16 for £1 an hour. £8 for a full day's work. Really crap work and the manager (Mr Mace as he liked to be called) was a smelly old perv who drooled over any young female unfortunate enough to enter the store. I worked there about 6 weeks I think and then just stopped going.

They never called me about it so I got away with that one.

some interesting reading! iv'e got no idea how you peeps put up with such crap jobs!!!

i lasted one night at a food making factory (while i was at uni) doing something completely mundane on a conveyor line

the thing that surprised me was that some people there had been doing the same CRAP job for years and years and years and they seemed entirely satisfied with their lot in life :roll:

picking strawberrys in lincolnshire 4 about 20 quid aday in the hand talk about slave labour , 1 days work , bellyfull of strawberries and off.

actually i was a bricklayer apprentice on a YTS for £25 a week (for the first year) - that was pretty crap

apparently, years ago - you had to pay for the priviledge of being a tradesman apprentice

Residential Care for 15 years.

Two come to mind,
the first was with Coldseal windows when they were at the Barracks. I was going door to door with leaflets it paid £100 p.w for the first two weeks and then it was all commission based, I only stayed for the two weeks.

The second was a YTS at sommerfield on Ecclesall road £50 and the NVQ trainer never turned up to see me getting every crapy job available even though I was supposed to be training on the bakery, the uniform was not up to scratch so I kept getting burned on the arms and hands and the worst management I have worked with ever. In the end I just walked out and left the uniform in the doorway enterance

Me and my mate once did canvassing for some kind of insurance company on Fargate when we were 17. We stuck it for one day as it was so crap!

We did managed to get loads of fit mens phone numbers though so I guess it had it's advantages!!

Originally posted by duffman
Two come to mind,
the first was with Coldseal windows when they were at the Barracks. I was going door to door with leaflets it paid £100 p.w for the first two weeks and then it was all commission based, I only stayed for the two weeks.

The second was a YTS at sommerfield on Ecclesall road £50 and the NVQ trainer never turned up to see me getting every crapy job available even though I was supposed to be training on the bakery, the uniform was not up to scratch so I kept getting burned on the arms and hands and the worst management I have worked with ever. In the end I just walked out and left the uniform in the doorway enterance

Which company were you doing your YTS training through? I had a similar experience of YTS back in 1995 through Roger Worth Training, crap placements, NVQ assessors that never turned up, the works...

In the end I just decided sod it, handed my "notice" in at the placement, and went on a proper NVQ retail course at Loxley College.

I always knew I was too old for "Youth" training anyway, I was 19 at the time for flip sake, I knew I was too old cos the stupid idiot woman called Clare who took the lessons made me feel old in front of the 16/17 year old school leavers who were there.

I used to weigh and measure parcels for 9 hours a day (this was a summer job I hasten to add). I had to commute to Leeds for this.:confused:

Originally posted by Rich
Which company were you doing your YTS training through? I had a similar experience of YTS back in 1995 through Roger Worth Training, crap placements, NVQ assessors that never turned up, the works...

In the end I just decided sod it, handed my "notice" in at the placement, and went on a proper NVQ retail course at Loxley College.

I always knew I was too old for "Youth" training anyway, I was 19 at the time for flip sake, I knew I was too old cos the stupid idiot woman called Clare who took the lessons made me feel old in front of the 16/17 year old school leavers who were there.

I went with Sheffield Trainers Limited, I was put on STL by my school as they thought it was silly of me to go walk out into the big wide world and look for a job without any experience. I will admit it gave me some experience, not to recommend anyone to them. I just ended up doing my NVQ on site at another job.

Had a summer job for a firm that screen printed the designs on buckets. The surfaces had to be heated and then cooled for the screen printoing to work. My job was to put the buckets on a turntable, watch them go around three times as they were heated, and then take them off again. The 4 weeks i did that for lasted about 32 years.

When i was 16 i had a saturday job at a butchers in crystal peaks,man that job sucked. Basically it involed mopping out 2 pretty big fridges.Its was really hard graff and the smell of the blood in the fridges was horrible. Got paid about £15 i think,lasted about 3 months.

Sitting at a conveyer belt for eight hours a day sorting peanuts is mind numbing ! I did this in the Kimberly whilst travelling around Australia in 1989. Fortunately a few English backpackers worked along side me so we broke the boredom by singing songs from the old days. This just beat working as a housemaid at Cable Beach Resort, Broome where at the end of the day my feet were so hot there was a heat haze around them . Quite an adventure though !

I once spent a summer cleaning out seed containers (we lived on a farm). If you can imagine spending 6 hours a day in a massive metal can, with no ventialtion at all in the heat of mid-august, you are probally quite close to what hell might be like. The intense heat (cos it was like an oven in there) and the dust ment my skin and eyes itched like crazy and i developed a chest infection from breathing it all in. What makes it worse is that i was only 13 at the time, got paid £30 a week and it was my own family who put me through this ordeal. I should have sued them for mental and physical distress!! :cry:

Originally posted by Pauly
Worked at Mace's pet shop in Castle Market aged 16 for £1 an hour. £8 for a full day's work. Really crap work and the manager (Mr Mace as he liked to be called) was a smelly old perv who drooled over any young female unfortunate enough to enter the store. I worked there about 6 weeks I think and then just stopped going.

They never called me about it so I got away with that one.

maces always brings back memories of henry the miner bird..:)

You all seem to have bad experiences from summer jobs... Where did you find these jobs? (Not that I want them ofcourse!!!) I just want to know where you found out about summer jobs... I can't find one anywhere :(

I rang every business within a couple of miles of home until I found something. Sorry - it's a dead boring answer but it worked for me.

The worst job I'v ever had... hmmm... unfortunately I'm currently still doing it:(

Anybody ever worked at the Prescription Pricing Authority (PPA) in town?

I had the 2 worst months of my working life there. You got a strict 30 mins for lunch and had to clock in and out. When I returned the lift was broken so I had to use the stairs on the other side of the building and its 5 floors up. I clocked back in one minute late.

I got an "official warning"! Unbelievable! I just burst out laughing and walked out never to return.... :)

edited by spook

Originally posted by caprice
You all seem to have bad experiences from summer jobs... Where did you find these jobs? (Not that I want them ofcourse!!!) I just want to know where you found out about summer jobs... I can't find one anywhere :(

me and a few mates signed up at recruitment agency when we were stoooodents - Allaco (or is was called summat like that) they had loads of jobs

Upon leaving school I worked part time in a very small office. There was only 3 people. The other 2 were closed off in seperate offices and not approachable people. I had nobody to talk to and the time seemed to drag. An utterly boring job where I have never watched a clock so much.

A friend of mine had a job for half a day (that's all he could stand) at place that supplied birthday/xmas cards. The job description was to wrap a peice of cellotape around 2 fingers and then tap it against a gift card in order to remove excessive glitter from the card. He told me that there were a team of half a dozen people doing this.

Before Christmas I worked at Sheffield so called Airport as fire crew. We had a few private flights in a day and when the air traffic controller needed a day off we used to take over. It was scary bringing the queens flight in last year!
Used to cut the grass along the runway to stave off boredom. I'm meeting up with the lads next Saturday night at the Vodka Revolution bar to have a good moan about the place.

Renovating a very old large house in France. Using one of those floor polishers on a wooden floor and coming across lots of Rat poo. Apart from the Rat poo it was very dull work as I had a lot of space to cover.

I did this to raise some quick money for airfare.

SPAR horrible place and unbelievably mind numbing, the manager was totally clueless and it was the understaff that ran the shop not him :roll:
They paid the wages in a shifty manner as well, money out of till in a brown envelope, no wage slip or anything :huh:

Only other job (lasted for all of two days) was selling fast "food" to people in Don Valley Stadium. Struck me as amusing, do tons of exercise to get in shape and then celebrate by having a big greasy burger and fries Hmmmmm :D

I did a job called Kimbeling. (Not sure if thats how it's spelled) It was in a Warehouse that stored imported Shoes, Handbags etc. My job was to open the box, take out the Shoes or Handbag, take off the American label, put on a U.K label and put Shoes or Handbag back into its box. There were 20,000 pairs of Shoes and 15,000 Handbags. I noticed most of the U.K price tags were way much more than the U.S price tags. Strangely enough, that job made me really horney. I hated the job but needless to say my girlfriend at the time loved it.:thumbsup:

MCDonalds for six months. Yes I was veggie - I sold my soul to the devil so I could go to Cyprus!
And i once worked for a guy in a bar who was fine at the beginning of the night but by the end he turned into some horrible lech who thought he could palm me off onto his drunken friends... it was a summer job whilst i was at uni and I once walked the two miles home from Beighton to Aston over the railway bridge to avoid being given a lift.

I used to interview a lot of people for positions in my previous job. The worst current job i ever heard about was this guy called Duncan who worked for a doughnut factory place. His job was to turn the doughnuts over. It's the only time I was ever unprofessional in an interview situation and started laughing discussing RSI when he told me that wasn't the worst job - the worst job was to WATCH the doughnuts for a burnt one! :cool: I had to employ him - he made me laugh and I pitied him so much!

The worst job I ever had was retrieving lobsters from Jayne Mansfield's arsehole....

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working for telewest, or yorkshire cable as it was then. awful awful awful. very cliquey and full of thick as **** managers and 'senior' wannabes that just kissed ass all the time. talk about if your face fits. never do call centres, do medicine - its better!

Working 15 hour shifts for a cruddy little security firm in Sheffield in 2002, sitting on a building site and listening to the cretins babble on the radio.

working for telewest, or yorkshire cable as it was then. awful awful awful. very cliquey and full of thick as **** managers and 'senior' wannabes that just kissed ass all the time. talk about if your face fits. never do call centres, do medicine - its better!

It's still very much the same now. I left there almost a year ago. I only stuck it out 6 months and I hated every second of it. The little/no support from "Team Leaders", The amount of abused I got from Customers, the arse-lickin that went off between fellow collegues and "Senior" execs. Clearly my worst job.

I did a job called Kimbeling. (Not sure if thats how it's spelled) It was in a Warehouse that stored imported Shoes, Handbags etc. My job was to open the box, take out the Shoes or Handbag, take off the American label, put on a U.K label and put Shoes or Handbag back into its box. There were 20,000 pairs of Shoes and 15,000 Handbags. I noticed most of the U.K price tags were way much more than the U.S price tags. Strangely enough, that job made me really horney. I hated the job but needless to say my girlfriend at the time loved it.:thumbsup:

I've done that but it was the socks for the pro star football kits, me and my mate were only 15, they paid us £2.21 ph and then split us up because we looked like we were actually having too much of a good time having a natter at the same time.

Great reading, glad I'm not alone in doing some bad stuff! I once lasted 2 weeks in a factory, working nights checking the gussets on tights. My friends couldn't believe I used to stretch tights onto a pair of fake, lit-up legs all night. Nor can I actually....

Worst job probaby having to teach boxing combat classes to 8-11 year olds, despite never been trained and never done it before!! Then it got worse when they decided to double the class size and chuck in the 5-7 year olds for the same class. Then it got worse when they decided to let a 4 year old join the class. At first I just did the class, then it dawned on me that there was something very wrong so I refused to teach the classes until they trained me how to do it! Their response was 'you're a sports person, you are trained', to which my reply was 'yes, but that does not cover me when little jonny punches little tim and he hits his head on the floor, I need to be trained for health, safety and legal reasons!!'.

Oh and there was that time when they gave me 27 5-7 year olds to look after on my own, in a studio. If one needed the toilet then they all had to go. One time I took them all to the toilet, came back up and one minute later a kid said 'I need the toilet'. I explained that we had just been and that I was not going to take 27 kids to the toilet again, and that there was only 10 mins left of the session. It turned out that this kid wet his pants, and I got the blame and the flack from the manager who told me I should have taken them all to the toilet again, to which my response was 'I had 27 kids on my own, give me another member of staff and we could have done several toilet stops!!!':loopy:

Sorry for the rant, that feels good now :D

This thread has been raked up from more than 2 years ago but still.

I had a heavy lifting job, I was a Hod carrier at stone Henge!.
Then got a job in Timpsons shoe shop, Taking "Hush puppies" for walks.

worked for SIV... two faced sods.. the customer is always right my arse!:rant:

I highly recommend contract cleaning on new build houses.

The lazy b*****d plumbers and sparkies would dump their bodily waste in the toilets prior to them being plumbed in and having no water there was no way to get rid of them.

Try that at £1.50 an hour! Needless to say, I lasted a day.

i used to work at lidl and it was pure hell with a bad hair cut and a serious attitude problem and it was called a DM = district manager

serioulsy i hated that job with a burning passion

the people were ok but the DM was a mega bitch

i took great pleaseure in handing in my notice and then working my last shift it was pure bliss in the last week i never did a thing i was told and just messed about for a whole week :thumbsup:

Worst job i did was working in castle market on one of the fish stalls :gag:

^ i can smell it from here!

worst one i did was selling poorly made replica england shirts out of a sports bag, back in manchester during france '98.

nice!

Cleaning a minging old theatre building when i was a teenager. It was dark and dank and i used to feel like the mould was permeating my clothes and hair and skin. It was really horrible!!

Then again, i also worked for a sheffield theatre company on a crappy government scheme.. (if that counts as a job, i might aswell not have got paid the wage was so appauling.) I worked like a dog but was pretty much abused by the people i worked for... Cretinous egomaniacs... Lol.

Oh and i was a waitress too, which wasnt too bad actually (great tips...;-) but we used to do functions in strange places and there was one place we went to most weekends where there was no hot water and we had to rinse off all the plates in freezing cold water. In winter my hands and lips literally went blue...

Oh god, i was a trolly dolly too!! That was a real crack though, i used to whizz that trolly down the corridors in this masive five story office building and smack into everything...OOps, slightly off thread now....

Worst job i did was working in castle market on one of the fish stalls :gag:
Are you CODding?
I used to make benson& Hedges fags but left. I did'nt get enough tips. :hihi:



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I once worked briefly for a company based in the old Aizlewoods Mill who called themselves "Business Ratings Consultants". Basically you were given a phone, the Yellow Pages and you had to convince businesses to hire this company to take the Council to court to review the business rates they were paying.
I suspected at the time - but only found out later - that it was a complete con and that you didn't need a third party to challenge your business rates so effectively the company i was working for was a complete rip-off.

It was with great smugness that i read a few years later about the company going bust and the directors receiving custodial sentences for fraud.......

working for in a factory making ready meals for Tesco and Weight watchers, wasnt badly paid it was just disgusting, i never eat ready meals now after that experience, i like to know what goes into my food

working at waitrose in sheffield on the fish counter filleting fish, started at 6am and was feezing cold all day for £5.65ph

Blind- calling companies trying to find out what they do in order to update a database. Not just that the people at the other end were so rude, no the building's heating gave up the night before and I was freezing cold. Ended up with flu afterwards and could not go back there (I was devastated :hihi: )

work experience at mapin electronics no pay and had to work out of school hpur for no pay wouldnt even give time off for doctors tite b@st@rds

Sausage factory at handsworth..
Needless to say I don't eat the things any more!
:gag:

Probably the one I'm in now :(

Backwards organisation, with a boss who will not give me anything challenging to do because he would see it as too much of a threat....

i did 2 weeks nocking on doors trying to sell kirby vacumm cleaners at £1200 each, didnt sell one and never got paid.

Smiths Crisps (remember them?).

I did four hours of night shift before deciding I'd rather be penniless.

"What's the worst job you've ever had?" where's the work-life balance?!

Well, surely all paid work, when you're shackled to a wage that doesn't cover basic living expenses, is the worst job ever. How about working for a boss that is a bully? How many of you feel demeaned by the tasks and duties you are expected to carry out for a wage? I've even found myself having to watch a certain reality TV program, which isn't my normal viewing, in order not to be excluded from work-based lunch-time discussions. As a professional your work-load is legion, and long hours at your desk are inevitable if you want to climb the corporate ladder.

I'm not anti-work by any means, but I do believe that we have got it all wrong when it comes to paid employment. When you consider that we spend nearly half of our lives doing poorly paid work, surrounded by 'colleagues' whom we MUST get along with, ask yourselves, why do so many of us hate our jobs, and what can be done about it?

There's a great tradition of what we might call anti-work writing, which stretches back to the beginning of the industrial revolution. The thinkers and pioneers of the Enlightenment truly believed that commerce, machinery and wages would bring freedom to the British peasantry. But that was not how William Blake, Coleridge, Lord Byron, William Cobbett, GK Chesterton, DH Lawrence, Bertrand Russell and EP Thompson, among many others, saw it. They saw capitalism and its machines as slave drivers (1).

The Dark Satanic mills have all but gone, but, work has overtaken us, it has invaded our consciousness. The Industrialists of the 19th century convinced the new working class that it was their moral duty to work hard in the 'workshop of the world'. But the physical hardships of working in the old mills have been replaced by new psychological hardships. Wages are low, hours are long, stress levels are rising.

My main concern is the loss of identity and personal liberty. It is plainly evident to me that consumer desire, a replacement for the old hunger motive, has imposed upon us a need to earn more and 'keep up with the Jonses'.

The government has also done its bit to support large companies, pandering to the consumer demon, by promoting the work ethic in policy and propaganda. Its working tax credit, for example, in effect subsidises employers who pay low wages. The message, it appears, is that any job, however awful, is better than no job. Interfering governments have also fostered a so-called ‘meritocracy’, deceiving us into believing that if we pay-out for a better education that we will, one day, become the movers and shakers.

So, if it is true that paid employment is a huge con trick that we need to address, the question remains: if we dismantle the job system, then what do we replace it with? How do we live?

One answer is to live well on less. If we do not desire the panoply of products that are sold to us each day, then we will not have such a voracious appetite for money. Less money means less work. Less work means more freedom to do our own work or do what we want to do.(2)

For example, I know hundreds of individuals whom make a decent living from their ‘real passions’. Many people in the UK have hobbies – hobbies that could help contribute to their overall incomes. I also know of a lot of gardeners and allotment owners whom would gladly give up shopping in high-priced supermarkets, instead eating the fruits and vegetables they’d grown themselves.

Most of us believe that we could never give up work. Many are not even aware of just how important our work-life balance is. We have neglected the terrible effects of not being able to control one's own time can have on the human spirit. It’s time to re-address the situation. Empower yourself.

REFERENCES:

1) 'Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives' by Madeleine Bunting

2) ‘How to Be Idle’ by Tom Hodgkinson

some interesting reading! iv'e got no idea how you peeps put up with such crap jobs!!!

i lasted one night at a food making factory (while i was at uni) doing something completely mundane on a conveyor line

the thing that surprised me was that some people there had been doing the same CRAP job for years and years and years and they seemed entirely satisfied with their lot in life :roll:

I'm not anti-work by any means, but I do believe that we have got it all wrong when it comes to paid employment. When you consider that we spend nearly half of our lives doing poorly paid work, surrounded by 'colleagues' whom we MUST get along with, ask yourselves, why do so many of us hate our jobs, and what can be done about it?

Worst job I ever had was working for a windows manufacturer entering their orders onto a computer system that worked out what lengths of frame to cut. Most people there were really good people but the management were cretins, the pay was poor, the office I worked in was hot in the winter and Saudi Arabia in the summer, the workload was heavy, repetitive and dull and my back is still knackered from the problems I got having to sit at that computer constantly for 9 hours a day to get the work done.

Betterware delivery round Dore.. snotty 'stards

The worst job I ever had was fish related aswell. I was a student living in Hull and I decided to stay on for the summer so I needed work. I joined an agency and they sent me to work for one of the fish factories there.

My tools were several crates of bloody cold cod fillets, a white chopping board and a pair of tweezers. What the hell was I supposed to do with that I hear you ask....

Well basically I took a fillet out put it on the white board and looked for bruising. If it was bruised I would get my tweezers and go into the fillet to pull out a PARASITICAL WORM!!!! They dont tell you about them on the Birds Eye adverts.

Guess how long that job lasted.

After that I worked at Aunt Bessies Yorkshire pudding factory putting sausages in the toad in the hole which I actually quite liked as the people on the line were quite nice. I also did a shift in an egg factory, peeling eggs that the roller had missed. As others have said I cant understand how people can do this stuff for years on end without cracking up.

Now I work in I.T. and thank my lucky stars. I think that people should hve to do some more menial stuff to truly appreciate how lucky they are.

the worst job i have ever had was telewest at attercliffe. i had a manager there called claire stevenson who instantly took a dislike because i had red hair. after being ill with the flu once she decided insted of offering sympathy to tell me about a woman who worked there who was on kidney diaylsis and that if she could come into work then so could i.

i found out that she was on all matter of anti-depressants, which i thought would have made her a little bit more understanding, but she was infact an insecure, power tripping, not very good manager who made three months of my life a living hell.

RAC Warranty. Strange little family run company with the most up her own arse HR manager that had no idea on how to run a company and only worked there cuz her daddy owned it. No staff morale, no training, favouritism, absolute sh*t.
Oh and School Trends. Most bitchy company ever and the interviews and training and contsant brainwashing about core values etc etc for a job picking or packing school uniform orders! So pretentious. I had a miscarriage after finding out I was pregnant in the first week I started there, but I heard all sorts of gossip about myself, that I must have known I was preg, I had abortion etc and one poor ladys son was injured badly when he got knocked over near Ponds Forge a couple of Aprils back, and the one cow who went to see her son in hosp etc was the one cow who sat bitching about the fact that the lady had kept her summer hol in the June or July booked but had not come back to work (the ladys son was hospitallised for months, had a plate in his head, broen bones, brain damage, needs 24/7 care)... and don't even get me strarted on the manager of my dept.... two faced isn't in it moaning about staff not getting on with their work but then her family (only one of whom worked there) would come in often and she'd allow herself extra tea and fag breaks whilst talking to her alcoholic woman beating son etc... couldn't win at that place, couldn't wait to get out, worst EVER!

I wont be happy till I'm working for myself - my mam always said that 'You'll never get rich working for someone else' - to true!

iv had several crap jobs but the all time big no no has to be working in a chicken factory in 1986 during the pre christmas rush. It was cash in hand £1 an hour and out of that i had to pay my sister in law 50p an hour.(for child minding my daughter)
I will never forget the smell and my job was putting my hang in the chicken and pulling out the insides.
my hands were raw from the scratches i got on them.
It did wonders for my weight loss though i virtually stopped eating.
On top of that some git stole my purse the first payday didnot even leave me bus fare had to walk miles.
I stuck it for 3 weeks untill i had bought presents for my daughters first xmas.
I laugh now cos she wasnt interested in the toys just the box,s and paper they came in

My present job. Used to be great, but now it's the biggest load of old crap it has ever been my misfortune to carry out. :confused:
Roll on finding another place to work doing the same job.

Civil Service..........................

Being self employed I guess, hoping the phone would ring for jobs to come in, then having to wait the 30 days to get paid from the big companies that would rather hold onto your money till the last minute...not feeling well and still having to go into work, I wouldn't do it again, ever, working for someone else is like being on vacation after that :love:

I Used To Work In Acondom Factory And Every Third One We Used To Put A Pin Hole In Because The Other Half Of Thefactory Sold Dummies Thats Why Ther Are So Many Dummies Around Now

No Wonder People Sell Drugs Half The Population Need Them To Work Out Why They Are Here On Planet Earth

Please don't capitalise the first letter of every word. It's almost as bad as writing ALL IN CAPS.

My worst two jobs:

1) Working in a cafe as a Saturday job aged 16, doing nothing all day except collecting dirty dishes and loading/unloading the dishwasher. £1.51 an hour. One of the women who'd worked there for what must have been 30 years, Dot, insisted on calling me Lorraine, despite the fact I very clearly told her my name was Elaine. I asked her how she'd like it if I called her Mary, and she told me "Less of that cheek, Lorraine, get back to work."

2) Working in a sandwich factory over one summer, aged 19. Started at 6am, finished when the run was over (around 3-4pm), only got three 15 min breaks per day, I'm sure it was illegal. £2.20 an hour.

working for telewest, or yorkshire cable as it was then. awful awful awful. very cliquey and full of thick as **** managers and 'senior' wannabes that just kissed ass all the time. talk about if your face fits. never do call centres, do medicine - its better!

I worked there for a day quite a few years ago, the fact it was full of thick inbreds who thought they place was the centre of the universe put me off and at the end of the day the manager said "See you tomorrow then" to which i replied,

"I seriously doubt it"

Probably the most boring, mind numbing job i've ever had and if i'd have taken it on a permenant basis i would have given up the will to live.

I don't know how people work in call centres, they really are the pits.

I work in a call centre for a large company and the jobs okay but the managers have a combined IQ of an amoeba

My worst job had to be when I worked at a well known place that trims pet hair on Halifax road.

I swear, it was the worst thing EVER!! The shampoos that we used gave me friggin scabs on my arms, and then when we'd be drying the hair on the animals, it would float all over, in our eyes, in our ears, and even into the masks we wore around our mouths. The trap was trying to remove the hair that was stuck to your lips. If I felt my lips itching, reflexes told me to stick my finger into the mask to try and scratch, but I'd fail to see the big blob of wet DOG hair stuck to my fingers, so it made it ten times worse!

I'd wake up at night, feeling like I was covered in dog hair! I tells ya....my shower was a life saver!!

Add a hypocondriach, attention seeking work mate, hundereds of dogs and a boss that once didn't let me go for my dinner till 4:35pm (My shift was 9-5!), it was a LIVING HELL!!!

sausage factory at hansworth gawd:gag: almost put me off sausages for life:gag: :gag:

My worst job ever had to be working for a certain small firm of solicitors on Bank Street who's name I refuse to speak. Basically I started out on a YTS but the company providing my training went bust. I was the office junior & basically got landed with all the sh*tty jobs that no one else would touch with a barge pole. The manager was a complete psycho, always shouted or even screamed if you did the slightest thing wrong, & always telling senior management you'd done stuff when you haven't. With hindsight, I could & probably should have taken to a tribunal.

my worst job is definetly mcdonalds.they treat you like slave drivers.wouldnt ask my worst enemy to work at mcdonalds!