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

fourthlinewing

Removing internal organs from sheep and cow carcasses in a slaughterhouse. The smell was beyond sickening. Didn't do that one for long (it was only a brief temp fill-in) but it meant I was able to go on holiday so was worth it...

flutterby_lil

Packing satellite dishes in boxes, then on some days putting the screws in the little packets for the satellite dishes!! Mind numbing and boring.

thorsoak

It was well-paid (£16 per hour), working in luxurious office at the top of the home of the professional man whose business it was.

Journey was horrendous - 18 stops on the district line after commuter train into London. Job itself was very interesting, doing lots of research into various subjects.

What was wrong? The boss! He was a manic depressive, and could go for days without saying a word - if I tried to say even good morning/good night I could get a whole rant about what was good about it/was I leaving already etc etc etc. He could have his good days ..but you'd never know when!

I stayed for 3 months ...told him I could either put up with the journey or him - not both!

TrickyWicky

jfh7gwa wrote: »

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

You know until I read your post I was starting to think the above described behaviour was just normal because I've been through that in every job I've had pretty much. I've always tried to stay out of the gossip and workplace politics but its made me so many enemies its beyond belief.

Next job I have I'm going to be a right stirrer

Hootie19

I've not done any really horrible jobs, but my worst job was my first one out of school. I was an office junior in the pensions department at the head office of a huge group of companies.

At the age of 17, I spent my day reading death certificates. I lasted 6 weeks and decided that it really just wasn't for me!

eminemfan001

i worked for a clothes shop and it was fine apart from the high turn over off staff (i was there a year and a half and was the longest serving member of staff!) but once we got our new manager in things went downhill. they cut our hours back (mine was 25 then put to 8 and weekends only, i got off lightly though as my friend there was doing 35-40 and got cut back to 10!)

After that the manager employed her friends and gave them our hours and paid them more. The supervisors sons girlfriend was 16 and got paid £6.00 an hour while i was on £4.80 and was 19! I feel karma kicked in a little though because after i left she was caught stealing clothes and fired on the spot, she lived with the supervisor and her son so she also lost her home and her boyfriend in one day.

The manager and supervisor got in huge trouble for emplying her as it was company policy not to employee anyone with a criminal record for shoplifting and she had been fired from two other jobs for doing the exact same thing. They knew about it and hired her anyways. See if anyone can beat that :P

TrickyWicky

eminemfan001 wrote: »

They knew about it and hired her anyways. See if anyone can beat that :P

Oh I can!

Where I worked as a TW, I had colleagues who routinely stirred about me, had made my life hell from the start, black sheeped me to the boss etc. One of them had a thing about claiming I had bad time management skills yet would routinely skiive for hours on end hiding away in car parks gossiping etc.

Couple of years worth of hell later, they got caught in a cafe skiiving - and on the council CCTV. They came out 3 hours later apparently then just days later got called in to see the head of the dept. They came out looking like ghosts and within the fortnight they were gone! Too late to change the bosses attitude towards me though, I still ended up walking a few months later but at least I got to see them get what they deserved. We never found out who snitched on them but they'd clearly annoyed the wrong person somewhere.

pieceachickie

Cleaning a call centre realy sucked, did that for a horrid 6 months!

Thankfully times are much better now!

paddyrg

Two grimmish jobs were cleaning rancidified ice cream machines (when muppets turn them off over the stinking hot weekend, instead of to chill and stir), and picking ants out of the slush puppy machine. But people routinely do far worse than that every day, so can't grumble.

On the other hand, I loved temping at the bullet-proof window factory, I learnt a lot and made some cool lumps of glass. I've also worked on some big events, very rock'n'roll ;-)

nonnatus

I was a midwife once, a job that makes a lot of people go all "Awwww, I'd LOVE to do that, I would" in a misty eyed way :cool:.

My worst day was looking after a large (and I don't just mean while she was pregnant) lady who came in the early hours to have her baby. Turns out she had been long overdue and taken the old wives tale (of a curry speedin things up) to heart and consumed tonnes of the stuff for her dinner.
She spent the night vomitting lamb saag and chicken Biryani all over me and the room. As things were coming to a head (literally) and I was reaching for her baby's head, she poo-d with such force that it hit the top of my protective apron and slid down my chest. I had no choice but to stand and finish the delivery.
And in a delivery room, all doors and windows are tightly shut to avoid baby getting cold, so you can imagine how it must've smelled in there...

Sorry if you're eating breakfast anyone!