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

As KCASOOD says, it's about the people you work with. I've always said in all my jobs that it's not what you do that determines how much you enjoy it, but the people you work with. You could have the worst job in the world, but with the right people, it doesn't seem so bad. With the wrong people, it can be the stuff of nightmares.

Perhaps that's why I never found my call centre job so bad. Everyone was pretty chill there. There was also the added benefit of it being close to a university, so you got all the people who were just in it for a while until they could sort something out, and most of the management knew this too, so everyone knew where they stood tbh. I remember one time I had a customer who tried to quote the law to me. I put him on hold, right before it he mutters "yeah, get your manager". Little did he realise I was just getting the law up and quoted it to him. He just hung up :rotfl: I also got away with being miles off some KPI's. No idea why but my manager would mention it to me in appraisals, then just find some obscure positive and move on.

Think my worst job was in care. The job was very much a stepping stone for me, so keeping that in mind, I tried to stay cheerful and get through the day whilst learning as much as I could for the role I was hoping to get then (and still am tbh). Just to emphasise the above point though, everyone I worked with was so horrible it was sickening. I had no induction etc, just literally expected to go in and start at full speed. The staff there were just as bad though, even they were expecting I would be fine at it and there were constant groans of frustration. Albeit I was there less than a week (I quit after a few days), I never once met my manager either.

Factory work, if your on a production line and you slow down for even 1 second you could end up with the line being stopped while you get back on track. Lasted about 5/6 months but couldn't do it for any longer.

Not a job for me but others are perfectly happy to be doing factory work.

DCFC79 wrote: »

Factory work, if your on a production line and you slow down for even 1 second you could end up with the line being stopped while you get back on track. Lasted about 5/6 months but couldn't do it for any longer.

Not a job for me but others are perfectly happy to be doing factory work.

Can definitely relate to that! I worked at an Amazon warehouse doing order picking! It was incredibly stressful, tiring and you very much felt like a number and not appreciated. The scanning gun you walked the warehouse with had a countdown timer for how long you had to get to the next item and if you didn't hit the hourly target of items you would get warnings from supervisors which eventually lead to dismissal.

It was permanent night shifts, the hourly rate was the only good thing and there was higher pay for overtime over the 40hrs a week but to be honest with work that tiring you didn't really want to take overtime!

The warehouse felt like you were going to a military camp, it was so regimented and everyone had to go through airport style scanners whenever leaving the warehouse and clocking card where you had to wait in line because everyone finished the same time and there were not many clocking machines!

I lasted a whole 3 weeks there before moving onto something less well paid but also not as detrimental to my mental and physical health! I really applaud anyone who can do that job as a career for years on end. :eek: