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

Jazee

Going door to door all over town in all weathers auditing if people had had their free newspaper delivered. This on top of a full time job but the children had to eat.

bap98189

When I was a student I spent 2 summers picking tomatoes. Spending all day in a giant greenhouse was not fun in the summer.

We used to get paid 20p for every 10kg we picked. This was back in about 1992 but still it wasn't exactly a fortune.

dawyldthing

i worked in a well known chocolate factory. One of the worse things were cable tie things with nobbs on the end and you had to pull them really tight so they wouldn't come off, but they used to burn the top of my fingers. That and stacking the chocolates that would come really quickly on lines, sometimes that quick that I couldn't keep up so they would end up all over the floor. Was good money and the people we worked with were mostly a good laugh, but often the money was well deserved as it was hard work and very tiring

mrcow

Cleaning all the grease up at McDonalds at the end of a Friday/Saturday shift was hard - especially when you've been on your feet all day.

So is cleaning up in a busy bar when you've just done a 9 hour shift serving. My feet used to be soaking wet with beer/sweat and my whole body used to feet so tired afterwards. This was pre smoking ban too so i used to have to put up with non stop passive smoke too.

Mind you, I'd do them both again in a heart beat if I needed the work. As would most people. any job where you have to roll your sleeves up usually has more unpleasant aspects to it.

Becles

Briefly worked in outbound telesales. A typical shift consisted of me getting shouted at several times by my manager for being too conscientious. When people said they were having their tea/bathing children/had company etc., I would just say "oh sorry for bothering you" and end the call, but the manager insisted I should ignore their objection and try to get them to stay on the phone and buy stuff.

Often got told off for chatting to lonely old people about the weather or what they were watching on tele instead of going through the script and trying to sell them stuff

Then throw in a mix of sweary abusive people who were annoyed at being phoned, drunk people who thought everything I said was hilarious, foreign people who didn't understand a word I was saying and pervy men asking me to describe my knickers

I only lasted a few weeks.

mrcow

Becles wrote: »

Briefly worked in outbound telesales. A typical shift consisted of me getting shouted at several times by my manager for being too conscientious. When people said they were having their tea/bathing children/had company etc., I would just say "oh sorry for bothering you" and end the call, but the manager insisted I should ignore their objection and try to get them to stay on the phone and buy stuff.

Really easy way to turn this on the head is to say to the manager, "I don't know how I'd do that without coming across as rude or annoying. I think I'd really benefit from hearing you on the phone for an hour or so to show me how it's done."

The last time I used a similar line, I'd never seen a manager make a quicker retreat.

eamon

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it does!

sickofusernames

mumcoll wrote: »

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.

Lol, thanks for feeling sorry for me . I've been doing this through an agency for a couple of weeks, they just said that I wouldn't see what i'd be transporting - until I got to the place of work it suddenly dawned on me! I need bills to pay though and kids to feed and my hat comes off to the full time workers who do it.

You know what's worse - when the said full bin has a dodgy lid and the contents all fall out _pale_ - it's good job i'm used to poohey (sp?) nappies as we take those bins too.

looby75

sickofusernames wrote: »

Lol, thanks for feeling sorry for me . I've been doing this through an agency for a couple of weeks, they just said that I wouldn't see what i'd be transporting - until I got to the place of work it suddenly dawned on me! I need bills to pay though and kids to feed and my hat comes off to the full time workers who do it.

You know what's worse - when the said full bin has a dodgy lid and the contents all fall out _pale_ - it's good job i'm used to poohey (sp?) nappies as we take those bins too.

when I was a cleaner it used to be my job to take those bins into the yard behind the pub for collection. The van used to pull up, put the full bins in the back of the van and leave the new empty ones in the yard for me (or if I wasn't there at the time which ever unlucky bar staff got the short straw) to put back in the ladies cubicles.

I promise you that you'll get used to it pretty quickly

Northern_Princess

My last job was easily the worst I've ever had as a PA to a CEO of an 'up and coming' Company. The first day I started I realised the lady from HR who had interviewed me was actually his wife (who used her maiden name) when she told me her and X had been married 22 years had 2 children and were extremely happy in a rather odd tone of voice. :eek: I was contacted to work 37 hours a week (obviously more some weeks depending on if I was traveling or had run on meetings etc). On the first trip away I worked 36 hours over 2 days and when I asked when I could take the time back I was told time in lieu was not granted on this occasion :mad: The contract stated time in lieu was at the CEO's discretion. After many weeks of working 8am until 11pm (on 2 occasions until 1.00am), making his dinner, buying his lunch and not being reimbursed for it nor getting any time back I caught shingles. When off sick he sent me an email telling me my services were no longer required! It didn't feel like it at the time but I realise now how lucky I was to have my services dispensed with and have moved on to work with a fantastic new CEO of another Company :T