What's the Worst Job you've Ever Had or Can Think Of?

mumcoll

I was right - there are much more horrid jobs out there! I don't expect any of us who have done them ever considered them when at school!
However, hats off to us all, it brings the money in!

I always feel sorry for the man who comes in to take the 'full' hygiene bins out of the ladies toilets - and even sorrier for whoever deals with them when they get to their destination.

sammyroser

Working on the salad/pizza counter at Morrison, treated like s**t and seeing the going of produce being used and the bad hygiene of 30% of the staff puts you off buying from counters for years

falko89

Working in a meat factory putting mince meat in to trays, it was horrible but in say that back then before the migrant influx pay was quite decent doing crappy work like that, there had to be some incentive to get people to do it. All changed now though hasn't it.

MrSnuggles

I know someone who worked in clearing minefields... He worked for 15 years before losing his right leg, after stepping on a mine. Happened in Africa and he only worked there because the wages are higher than cleaning jobs.

looby75

cleaner in a busy pub with very old toilets _pale_

I had to clean it after the millennium new year when they had a £10 ticket all you can drink party. Talk about carnage the next day (and I had flu at the time as it it wasn't bad enough.)

Candy53

I used to pluck turkeys at a farm ready for Christmas, back in the 70's. The feathers came out better if the bird's were still warm, so we plucked them straight after they'd had their necks wrung. One of mine, although dead, was still jerking about.

More pleasant than that but hard work was chopping rubbish out between beet in the fields, and hand picking spuds.

Candy

DKLS

Accountant had to leave before I suffered suicide due to terminal boredom.

stuntwomble

Pot washer.

LisaB85

Mcdonalds - Started in Dec and was stuck in the drive through window to freeze for 8-9 hours every shift, then they input the incorrect bank details so I didn't get paid the week before Christmas :eek:

Pizza Hut - They took about 8 of us on, sent us on a train to a town 2 hours away for training then gave us each 3 hours a week! Cost me my wages just to get to town for work. I lasted 3 weeks and realised it wasn't going to get better.

BT via Manpower - Temp contract when I relocated, the agency were a nightmare to work for.

jazabelle

Mine wasn't bad as in disgusting as above, but my first job was at DFS filling out the finance forms.

It was at a time I was developing severe joint problems, but still early enough not to be called a disability as it became later on. Standing on my feet for a long period was incredibly painful. I told them this when I applied and the advert even said jokingly "Want to earn some extra money sitting on your bum all day?"

Until I worked there, I didn't realise how empty DFS would be. If we got five customers a day it was a good day, apart from New Year's Day when it was busy.

The manager decided we had to walk around the shop floor all day, not talk to one another, and we were not allowed to sit at all. Not even for a couple of seconds. So I spent the whole time hobbling round an empty shop, trying not to cry in pain, and if we paused he'd glare at us from his glass office in the centre of the shop.

It was torture walking round all this comfortable sofas and no customers to see, and not being allowed to sit down depite the searing pain.

I used to dream of customers as I got to sit down for a couple of minutes to fill out their form, but there were about six of us doing the same thing, so that was rare.

I tried to bring it up with him one day, and the next day I was phoned to say they no longer needed any staff so we were being let go, yet the other five all continued - so it was just me.