Worst job you have ever had??

knowledgepower1

Oh my days!! I had some bad jobs like working as a cleaner in a hotel, removing the unmentionables from the WC.

or the kitchen porter part, where I have to scrape the burnt cooking pot as tall me.

or when I blagged my way into a famous sandwich shop and my supervisor asked me to get him bistro from the fridge, I opened the fridge and was thinking what does bistro look like for about 5 minutes, I even hated the fact that you have to measure everything you put on the sandwich.I managed to last for a month to get my pay.

I now work in finance.

ailuro2

Tarry wrote: »

Nope, it was just manual type thing. I can't describe it that well as you have probably guessed :rotfl:

Even the simplest of pipes can be made to draw water out of a fish tank...



submerge the whole pipe making sure there's no air trapped.

Then cover the end with your finger, bring the end of the tank out to over the bucket, and Bob's your uncle....

not batteries required, and no fish poo in your mouth either.:p

I can't believe no one in the shops knew that......that's really nasty letting someone do that.:mad:



I've only ever had two jobs, well three really, but two are with the same company.

I worked for a fruiterers as a Saturday job and I served my time in a tyre factory when I left school.. Still there 23 years later, changed jobs last year.:D If it was that bad I would have left during one of the many boom periods we've had in thos 23 years.

vij

"In a petshop I once worked in, I had to clean the fish tanks and to get the sunction pump working (ie, to pump the dirty water from the tank into a bucket) you had to suck it (clean minds please) and you got the taste of the tank into your mouth (bearing in mind the tank has fish poo and likewise in it and tasted gross)."

erm hate to say it but if its just a plastic tube if you submerge it and fill with the tank wanter, keep one end in the water and put your thumb over the other end then put the draining end into the bucket and remove your thumb it will work just as well as having sucked it. The water will drain as long as the tube is full to start with and the draining end is lower than the end in the tank.

medini

I worked parttime for a chain of photodevelopment shops. I was bullied by the assisatnt manager. She seemed jealous that I was at University whilst she had to work full time. Looking back I feel sorry for her because her boyfriend was really agressive and used to beat her up. Another part timer was sacked for snorting coke in the back room.

venus_in_furs

Oh god, some interesting jobs here...i don't think i would fancy many of them...well....maybe if i was any good at picking crab claws i would give that a go!!

No, it's good to get things off your chest people. Think of this as group therapy for traumatic work experiences! Haha. :rotfl:

Giulliana

Actually I had forgotten the whole 'fronting up' aspect of supermarket work, I remember putting my shopping away at home one day and proceeding to 'front up' my own cupboards before I suddenly realised what I was doing!

Oh and the cinema kiosk which was 75% sitting doing nothing, whilst watching the glue sniffers float around the foyer. I got sacked from that one, can't remember why.

venus_in_furs

Hahahaha Giulliana! I bet you have the most organised cupboards of anyone you know! You can come round and do mine if you like

Horace

My worst job was as a saturday girl inside Shoppers World which was based in my local Woolworths (I was 16 at the time), I didnt mind serving the customers but hated it when it was decided that I would cook the lunch for all the staff:eek: I was even told which shops to get the food from - lettuce had to come from MacFisheries (a shop that my mum would avoid because the lettuce was always crawling with greenfly). At that time I couldnt cook - yet managed to produce a meat pie - basically a dish containing tinned stewing steak with an inch thick sheet of pastry slapped on the top and salad. One of the supervisors (she was a cow) shouted at me that I hadn't washed the lettuce as it had greenfly on it - I pointed out that she was looking a bit peaky and that the additional protein would do her good. The more she shouted the cheekier I became and had forgotten that I had put the huge kettle on the range to boil (I was used to an electric kettle at home and had forgotten that Woolworths was still in the dark ages) - whilst this woman was giving me hell there was an almighty bang and the kettle shot off the range with a huge hole in the bottom of it:eek: Needless to say I was called into the office afterwards and was about to be given my marching orders so rather than be sacked I told them to stick their cruddy job up their back passage:rotfl:

Shoppers World was a forerunner of Argos - they had a catalogue and slips and folks picked what they wanted and twits like me would fetch the item and they would pay for it.

paulwf

Giulliana wrote: »

Actually I had forgotten the whole 'fronting up' aspect of supermarket work, I remember putting my shopping away at home one day and proceeding to 'front up' my own cupboards before I suddenly realised what I was doing!

Oh god yes working in a supermarket does make you develop obsessive compulsive tendencies towards groceries :rolleyes: I've caught myself date checking and rotating everything in my fridge before as though I was at work

pinkshoes

My worst job was making toilet rim sticks.

Sometimes the lid machine would fail, and they would fall onto the conveyor without a lid, covering everyone with pine fresh.

No matter how many times I washed my hands, I couldn't get rid of the smell, so eating sandwiches was vile. A good diet for anyone though!