Worst job you have ever had??

Takoda

I washed up in a hotel kitchen for 6 weeks, when I was 18, to pay for a holiday. It was awful. You had to run around the kitchen delivering frying pans etc to the chefs and the floor was really slippy. The pot wash machine was always breaking down and you had to put your head and top half of your body right inside to free the blockage and it was hot and steamy and dirty and I hated it.

venus_in_furs

Takoda wrote: »

I washed up in a hotel kitchen for 6 weeks, when I was 18, to pay for a holiday. It was awful. You had to run around the kitchen delivering frying pans etc to the chefs and the floor was really slippy. The pot wash machine was always breaking down and you had to put your head and top half of your body right inside to free the blockage and it was hot and steamy and dirty and I hated it.

I've had to do things similar to that in a job...it was horrible.. the washer was horrible, so hot and frizzed up your hair in an instant. The hot, cloying smell of the detergent always made me gag i remember. Yak!

pineapple

When I worked in sheltered housing, one tenant asked, if I ever found him dead, could I put his teeth back in.

Takoda

venus_in_furs wrote: »

I've had to do things similar to that in a job...it was horrible.. the washer was horrible, so hot and frizzed up your hair in an instant. The hot, cloying smell of the detergent always made me gag i remember. Yak!

That sounds disgusting.

There WAS one perk to my job though. When the sweet trolley came back in last thing at night we were allowed to help ourselves and go and sit and eat it in the canteen.

It was a Swallow Hotel - think they are called something else now. So the sweets were quite impressive!

One downside though was that it was possible to finish at about 12.30 at night on one shift and have to be back at 7 the next morning. That sucked big time!

janninew

pineapple wrote: »

When I worked in sheltered housing, one tenant asked, if I ever found him dead, could I put his teeth back in.

Oh My God!! You couldn't make these stories up!!! :rotfl:

venus_in_furs

Takoda wrote: »

That sounds disgusting.

There WAS one perk to my job though. When the sweet trolley came back in last thing at night we were allowed to help ourselves and go and sit and eat it in the canteen.

It was a Swallow Hotel - think they are called something else now. So the sweets were quite impressive!

One downside though was that it was possible to finish at about 12.30 at night on one shift and have to be back at 7 the next morning. That sucked big time!

Mmmmmm desserts trolley...my favourite type of trolley! Haha. That sounds good. I didn't work any where half as posh. The best we could scrounge was the odd chip and maybe a cheese toastie if we were lucky!! Were i worked EVERYTHING was deep fried....the sausages were even deep fried from frozen! Heart attack on a plate...yum! Boy, i don't miss that place!

ClareEmily

Oooo I went for an interview once at a hospital and the job was in a windowless basement, putting blood soaked operating equipment in huge washing machines. At the time I was actully quite disppointed that I didn't get it!!!

dipsy

Hard to say which was my worst job

worked for Bernard matthews when I was in between O levels and A levels, pulling the insides of turkeys out and cutting the gizzit out of them, and sometimes the bile exploded into your face.....

managed to stick it out for the whole of the holidays though, mind you the thought of doing a job like that for the rest of my natural gave me the push I needed to study harder :-)

another one was as a temp on my days off working in a cheese factory to earn some extra cash, the smell of the cheese made me want to be sick, lasted about 3 hours...

another one was not the job, but a woman I worked with she was a total mare, loud and up her own rear... was horrible and moody I dreaded going to work each day.

I now have a job where I work with really nice people, infact I would go as far as to say my boss I have is the best boss I have ever had

minerva_windsong

venus_in_furs wrote: »

Mmmmmm desserts trolley...my favourite type of trolley! Haha. That sounds good. I didn't work any where half as posh. The best we could scrounge was the odd chip and maybe a cheese toastie if we were lucky!! Were i worked EVERYTHING was deep fried....the sausages were even deep fried from frozen! Heart attack on a plate...yum! Boy, i don't miss that place!

I worked on the bar in a hotel last year and it was a fairly regular occurence that as the last ones out after a wedding or party we would get to eat the leftover buffet. I was vegetarian at the time so was restricted to mushroom based items (vol au vents and breaded), potatoes stuffed with cheese and garlic bread. And the occasional chip sandwich.

movingforward2010

I worked in the computer shop Game as an Xmas temp years ago, the assistant manager was an absolute !!!!!. She would was actually having an affair with one of the sales lads and would walk past an slap or pinch him on the bum and if we dared to glance over she'd shout at us.

On xmas eve i was late for work, my bus journey was nearly an hour!, the bus had to stop because there was a woman who was having a suspected heart attack, so this made me an 35 minutes late, i rang and i explained she just said 'report to me when you get here'. When i got in a apologised about 10 times, she took me in the office and gave a a right dressing down and made me feel like a 5 year old. at the end of the day as it was home time she made me do the 35 mins polishing, whilst she followed me around making sarcastic nasty comments about how useless i was , i missed the last bus home (with it being xmas eve) and had to ring my mum to drive 26 miles to pick me up, and i did actually cry a little .

Anyway i got a proper job not long after earning more than her, hope she lost hers!