Whats the worst job you've ever had?

[Angel05 10]

I took a factory job just after i left school during the summer before starting my new Hairdressing job in the September...

 

It was working for Estee Lauder... great perks... Hated it... Never knew which line you were going to be on... One day to the next... They would swap you with another person at a drop of hat (not literally lol) it was a horrible place to work in...

[igm1 10]

the part time job I have now, mcdonalds crew member....

[Fantomas 10]

Crap job no. 1

I once spent a summer counting oversize bras and colostomy bags. We were doing a stocktake in an enormous catalog warehouse that specialised in stuff for pensioners.

 

Mind numbingly boring but the pay was alright for a penniless student and the supervisor couldn't be bothered keeping tabs on us so we had a good laugh all the same. It was the summer of Bryan Adam's 'Everything I do'. Everytime I hear that now I swear I can still smell rheumatism cream!

 

Crap job no. 2

Working on the mixing deck in a huge bakery. Basically involved carting sacks of flour/raisins, monolithic bits of butter and buckets of food colouring, sticking them in the mixing machines and when done, emptying the appropriate mix into an enormous hole in the floor. Smelly, dirty, hot work, with crap hours to boot. I couldn't touch cake for months afterwards.

[steevie/d 10]

my worst job was working on variuos farms in boston area picking daffodils in march good money tho some days you could earn £100 a day hard work tho bent double all day

[Nathen 10]

Worst Job?

 

Working for Tescos.

[Funky Dave 10]

Spent five weeks weighing and measuring parcels for nine hours a day. I had to keep changing shifts - the night shift was bad, 'cos you'd get to work and watch the sun go down, and you knew you couldn't go home till it was daylight again.

[swan 10]

I worked in a factory making tolilet cleaning packs for aeroplanes and all those crappy lynx gift sets you see in Boots at Xmas. Horrible, horrible.

[Pete1024 10]

My worse job was knocking doors for nPower. Commission only and motivational crap from 10-12 every day.

 

I've walked down the moor a few times and heard staff shouting out things early in the morning from inside the building above the Bank of scotland, it seems the motivational speeches must be a growing trend!

 

guess what? Yep that was us.

 

The company is called GQ marketing and its a bunch of poor people who have no idea what there in for being overmanaged and brainwashed into doing 70-80hr weeks for very little money, all so a guy called alan can have an M3 BMW and lots of holidays.

 

They promise opertunity and base everything upon lies to make you think they simpathise.

 

High staff turnover so watch out for their adverts in the star every week. look for words like 'motivation' 'management training' 'marketing' 'national company'

[Tal 10]

Most mind-numbing would be packing prospectuses into boxes at Sheffield Uni. Lovely people, good money but sooooooooo boring.

 

Most minging - working as a cleaner at a home for the elderly. One of the residents had been a smoker for his whole life and had the most terrible cough (and probably cancer too). He used to sit in his chair watching Neighbours and cough up stringy phlegm which he then rolled into balls and smeared down the side of the bin. I used to gag every time I changed that damn bin.

[Yodameister 10]

Originally posted by foo_bear

Most mind-numbing would be packing prospectuses into boxes at Sheffield Uni. Lovely people, good money but sooooooooo boring.

 

The worst jobs can be bearable if you are working with people you like, and good money certainly is a bonus.

[neeeeeeeeeek 10]

Sausage factory in Handsworth. Needless to say I don't eat the things anymore.

[Phanerothyme 12]

Cleaning production line delivery modules for smiths crisps (when they existed). Left after half a shift when they asked us to clean them all again when they couldn't find any other work for us to do.

 

Smelled of burning potatoes and melted plastic for days afterwards.

 

Sunday papers delivery, sorry if you lived in petersfield circa 1984 - your sundays were too heavy and ended up in the council bins.

 

Oh yes, 6 months with Jobcentre Plus answering emails. That was quite recently, and I am still in therapy. (mind you so are some of the people I repsonded to!)