"Just Think of the Money..." Your crappest jobs.

heretolearn_2

I worked in the laundry of a mental hospital. Luckily I was at the clean end, folding clothes mainly, but folding up old underpants wasn't great. They used to buy in loads of nylon nighties as well for the women, and the static electricity used to crackle and all your hair would stand on end for hours afterwards.

Also one very bad day on a factory production line packing plastic lids, I couldn't keep up, and they were flying off the end of the conveyor all over the floor.

Rueben_2

Lip_Stick wrote: »

My worst job was working in an amusement arcade. All you did all day was make tea, a few sandwiches and give people change. It was an awful environment for me, the room was darkened so the flashing lights looked better, with all the bloody noise from the machines. After an hour there I'd have a huge headache. I lasted a week in that job. My sil works in one though and loves it, but her previous job was in a nursing home, so I can see how she was attracted to it.

Old job of mine. Lasted 8 months. 10 hour shifts on your feet where I felt the only purpose of job was to give change, make drinks, and "encourage" the customers to keep playing (AKA feeding their addiction).

I wouldn't say though that it rates as worse than a number of jobs already posted though.

seven-day-weekend

I haven't really had a 'terrible' job. I have had 'menial' jobs (so-called) like lollipop lady and dinner lady.But they were right for me at the time and I enjoyed doing them.

The job I hated most was a book-keeping one (in the 'olden' days when it was done in double entry by hand). Hated it, couldn't do it, jumped before I was pushed.

I suppose the most 'terrible' one I have had was delivering free newspapers, there were so many of them an they were so heavy and I couldn't carry them. I didn't drive at the time and the guy who gave me the job assured me I could do it whilst pushing my son in his pushchair. Yeah right. I did it once and then resigned.

Lip_Stick

Rueben wrote: »

Old job of mine. Lasted 8 months. 10 hour shifts on your feet where I felt the only purpose of job was to give change, make drinks, and "encourage" the customers to keep playing (AKA feeding their addiction).

I wouldn't say though that it rates as worse than a number of jobs already posted though.

Yeah, but it was the fact that it gave me a constant headache which is why it rates highly in my book of worst jobs. As I said, my sil likes doing that.

Stardust

Free newspapers at 14. Took me about 15 hours over two days to deliver them and was paid £10.53 for the pleasure.
I phoned up and left my details for more information about delivering the Yellow Pages and the next thing I knew they were being unloading from a van on to my door step to be sent out :eek: This was just before I passed my driving test so I had to get help (about 1.5k of the things for my whole town) and ended up giving more of the money for petrol and assistance than I got for my self.

ladybirdintheuk

I had a few craply paid jobs when I was a teenager, but they weren't bad, I just didn't know any better at the time

The worst one has to be a toss up between a saturday job at a motorway service station where I worked for two weeks - the first one was my induction, the second week I had to do a 10 hour shift with no break operating a massive washing up machine on my own. (one that was mean to be a 2 man job)... I didn't go back, then had to chase them to pay me because they had no record of me turning up :mad:. I did get my money in the end, but it took a lot of arguments.

The other one was an admin job where I had about an hour (at best) of work a day. It was a lovely place to work and I got on with everyone, but that didn't make up for the fact I was bored out of my brains. I volunteered to help out anyone who could think of anything I could do to help them - you know things are bad when you are happy to help someone stuff envelopes :rotfl:. I ended up doing job applications at work without being subtle about it at all, then told them not to bother replacing me when I left.

Russe11

Any plastic moulding machine operators out there will remember how intense and boring that number is.

Sat in the middle of east london on a pile of soil that seemed as high as canary wharf counting trucks 7 till 7.

Letter openers, for promotions and the sort. Only highlight being people who used to be more creative displaying thier coupons or doing nice letters other than the basic requirements of name and address, it was so boring I used to run a quiz or other games to get through the day.

Bottled drinks production, checking a certain make of childrens drink for leaky caps.

And to think of all the other jobs I have had in the past also, for employers to say I have no experience, hehe

cindy101

Chatline operator on a phone sex line,, worse shift was the morning 6 to 10 am,, I Wont tell you what we called the callers who would ring at these hours lol,, and a job like that Really make's you look at men in a whole new light!!

rjhammond91

Worst job i've ever had. Trying to get people to change their gas + electricity supplier. Door to door. Absolute nightmare of a job.

Magnolia

OMG!!!! I had forgot about the chicken factory on the evisceration line! This line is the first out of the 'stunning' machine - taking the warm insides out of just 'murdered' chickens just wasn't for me - lasted 4 days though