Jobs you have done but would never want to do again?

k3lvc

JackCork wrote: »

What are they?

I would say working in a call centre simple

Writing meaningless questions on a web forum - maybe one day you'll get bored of it and see the light :rotfl:

melanzana

I worked as a teenager in Woolworths saturdays and school hols. No scanning then.
Prices were on a big card in front of the items, had to memorise the price of everything on my watch! Exhausting, but great training all the same.

Then got a job in the local maternity hospital for the Summer before A levels. The milk was delivered in massive churns and I had to single handedly funnel the milk from churn to individual milk jugs for the ladies breakfasts. Got a strong back from that!

oh and I had to boil 50 eggs in a mahoosive pot too, and 100 slices of toast. No complaints, but I hadn’t a clue.

Then I went boring after University.

London50

k3lvc wrote: »

Writing meaningless questions on a web forum - maybe one day you'll get bored of it and see the light :rotfl:

Wishful thinking..... I can never see the poster getting a proper full time job that pulls them away from posting drivel on here,but we all live in hope;)

Neil_Jones

I haven't minded any of the jobs I've done over the years. There may be a mentality when you're younger to think you're slogging your guts out seemingly for peanuts but as you grow up a job is a job at the end of the day and minimum wage acts as a floor. I started on £3.75 an hour as a 18 year old in 1999 and my next job ultimately paid me £4.25 an hour.

dekaspace

Neil_Jones wrote: »

I haven't minded any of the jobs I've done over the years. There may be a mentality when you're younger to think you're slogging your guts out seemingly for peanuts but as you grow up a job is a job at the end of the day and minimum wage acts as a floor. I started on £3.75 an hour as a 18 year old in 1999 and my next job ultimately paid me £4.25 an hour.

I was getting £2.60 I think in 2002! And emergency tax on top.

DigForVictory

Waitressing. On my feet all day, customers hungry/rude/indecisive, till bewildering (what training?!) and two buses away from home. Not well enough paid, so I took up agency child minding, & got paid to cat sit & do heavy cleaning. Which actually suited me far better, and paid loads better. (Oddly I now snarl & growl at cleaning as I recall getting money for it & yet my family think I Just Ought. So I suggest *They* Just Ought & either they do or they back away.)

Lion taming is for mothers who's children have left home & they're bored. (Mind you, I'd recruit them en masse for the armed forces - clothing provided along with meals etc you just have to make this lot see things your way... Who needs weapons when a determined matriarch is setting your feet on the paths of righteousness?)

ohreally

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Exodi

I have to join the majority and say call centre.

About 10 years ago I worked for almost a month in a cold calling people about franking supplies, literally just working our way through the yellow pages. The script we had to use was worded in such a way that we implied we were their current supplier even though we weren't. Then when you capture an unsuspecting purchasing assistant, we made it very difficult to cancel once the goods were delivered.

So not only did you have to regularly deal with 'I'm the owner, you think you're going to pool the wool over my eyes? you're scum", you also had to deal with hearing about the purchasing assistants being reprimanded because of our antics...

Then there was the KPI's. Despite everyone reading the same script, if you didn't make at least 2 sales a day, you'd be dropped, no questions asked. I lasted around 4 weeks but soon hated going in and eventually left.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

billy_26032019 wrote: »

The worst job I ever had was with Jayne Mansfield.

ha ha, was this it, here's the video. :rotfl:


Warning, vid a wee bit naughty.

Marvel1

Anything to do with facing customers, over the phone, you make faces when they dribble on,moan, have a go at you.

Face to face, you have to smile and take it.