What is the worst job that you've ever had to do?

nightingalesgarden

A recent thread got me thinking about all the horrible jobs that I've done in the past to pay the bills - so, what is the worst job that you've ever had to do? Better still, shout out proud about what you are doing today which is horrible to pay the bills!

Here is my top 4

1. Cleaning pub toilets in a Scottish city after a busy saturday night - needles, vomit - you name it, I found it and cleaned it!
2. Cleaning fire damaged buidings - including melted human remains
3. First job as an HR Manager - to shut down and make everyone redundant in a part of the company I'd previous worked in for 3 years - amazingly some of my friends still talk to me
4. Working in a nursing home where you were encouraged to hide in the staff/smoking room rather than care for the residents (didn't last long there!)

Would you do it again - my view - yes, but perhaps deal with issues differently e.g. deal with the issues in the nursing home rather than just leaving...

Note - this is not a thread about views on unemployment - just a light hearted share and gasp view of what we do/have done to earn some dough!

Nightingale

DCFC79

Well for me the fist job was a factory job/assembly line, just sat down for hours on end (with breaks to split it up), it was utter boredom, i did get to do different jobs which slowed the boredom down. Gave me my first taste of factory work but it was a job.

Second job was the last job, i was given the job the little pip squeak didn't want to do as he was bored so i was lumbered with it. It was refurbing crappy freeview/free sat boxes that were returns to 4 high street retailers.

ILW

Door to door canvassing for double glazing. Some people can be very rude and obnoxious, but most are OK.

debrag

nightingalesgarden wrote: »

A recent thread got me thinking about all the horrible jobs that I've done in the past to pay the bills - so, what is the worst job that you've ever had to do? Better still, shout out proud about what you are doing today which is horrible to pay the bills!

Here is my top 4

1. Cleaning pub toilets in a Scottish city after a busy saturday night - needles, vomit - you name it, I found it and cleaned it!
2. Cleaning fire damaged buidings - including melted human remains
3. First job as an HR Manager - to shut down and make everyone redundant in a part of the company I'd previous worked in for 3 years - amazingly some of my friends still talk to me
4. Working in a nursing home where you were encouraged to hide in the staff/smoking room rather than care for the residents (didn't last long there!)

I'd love to do number 2 unfortunatly I work with people as a carer in a hospital who really don't care about the patients same within a nursing home.

I hate pub work, really can't stand it

scooby088

Think mine was working in a sock factory using the sock irons, got burnt no end of times..finally left and a few weeks later the owner set fire to the place for the insurance.

[Deleted User]

I worked on a farm as a Turkey Plucker one Christmas! It was awful the farm necked the Turkey and passed it to you and you had to hang it up and pluck all it's feathers and it was still warm and flapping!! (He assured me it's just the nervous system.... It was defiantly dead) I lasted 1 day then asked to go back on eggs and milk! Lol! X

Mrs_Ryan

Oh cold calling telesales *ugh* for probably the worst company ever. I lasted about 2 weeks and I couldnt stand it any more - luckily I walked straight into another (retail so tons better) job. The company I believe went bust about three months later.
Other than that I was lucky - I worked as a domestic in a hospital cleaning the offices which wasnt too bad but my boss was a right old dragon and when I left she told a load of lies on my reference - fortunately it was for an agency, the agency tipped me off and kindly ignored that and took a reference from another employer instead that was fine, I wrote and complained about her and I got an apology and I do believe she was 'moved elsewhere' and my supervisor (who was lovely) got moved up which I was pleased about.

InsideInsurance

Compared to some it evidently isnt the worst but my worst was working for Hays recruitment, in a BT call centre, calling Sky customers and selling a L&G warranty on their sky kit on behalf of Sky. I got very confused where to say I worked when friends asked.

Target was 3 sales per hour, call centre average was less than 1 per hour. Commission didnt kick in until you sold 3 per hour and then was a massive 20p per sale of the £100 product for each sale above the target.

I did call centre work for 10 years in one form or another but this was the most mind numbingly boring ever. There was over a 50% absentee rate, how you run a business when less than half your staff turn up on any one day I dont know.

I lasted 2.5 months in the job but got to the state where I simply had no recollection of my shifts at all, and was working beyond my shift end because I was so lost. On one hand it was good not to have to remember being so bored on the other hand losing 6-8 hours of my life a day wasnt worth it.

falko89

None of mine where particularly good but the worst of the worst

1. Working in a meat factory packing mince meat into trays
2. Labouring on a building site
3. Working in a factory pressing metal parts for garden sheds
4. Working in a factory wrapping products

TrickyWicky

1) Working in parking - militant type bosses from the police or army
2) Working in parking - same as above
3) Working in ppc parking - another army pr!ck and more managers who are on a crusade against the world
4) Working for yet another ppc parking - stuck in a supermarket car park all day standing still marshalling - freezing cold but at least the supermarket staff were ok and friendly - unlike parking staff.
5) Working in a mail order company in their mail processing room, doing everything by the book, getting b*ll*cked for not being quick enough, handing in my notice and then finding out my colleagues were takling short cuts all along, not sending out letters when they should and the management just sighing..
6) So many other crappy jobs that you wouldn't believe it..

jfh7gwa

I've done some mind numbingly dull jobs whilst temping, some in not very nice environments, but the worst was actually one of the "better" temp jobs on paper - it was in a warehouse packing orders (nothing too heavy either - quite easy on paper, as I said).

But the team that worked there was terrible - I was assigned to the same packing team every week - basically it was ran like a school playground. I wasn't interested in gossip or anything - basically I only needed the job for a few months whilst I was finishing up a part time course (for the last six months of it). So I was polite and friendly enough, but didn't have much interest in taking "sides" in the gossip. So I ignored it, refused to get drawn into discussions, went for walks at lunchtime some days rather than be tied to a segment/gaggle of the team, and so on. I ended up feeling unwelcome on BOTH sides of the petty gossip circle - I think they thought I was stuck up due to some of the comments one of the ringleaders started making towards the end.

I was a bit sad at the time, because essentially i see it that i'm there to work, and work is hard enough without making someoen a victim every week - sneering at someone's new shoes whilst saying they're nice to their face was one example I saw. Just like school, as I said - I wanted no part in it.

So that was probably the worst job - seeing these women in my team, in their 40s and 50s, so unstimulated at work that they needed to amuse themselves by creating drama within the team (to liven up their day). Very sad.