Worst job you have had in your life.

Putting nut in a screw (these are more like bolts than screws I guess), summer job.

It is exactly how it sounds.

I didn't go back after a day, my hand was cut to shreds.
 
cant say I've ever had a really bad job, had times when a job was bad but never continuously horrid
 
I worked a summer job at GAME, we are talking like fourteen years ago at least.

While I enjoyed working on the tills and around the store, there were days where you would be assigned managing the new stock in the backroom. Boxes of new games and accessories would come in, you then had to remove them from their cases, then shrinkwrap each game disc and manual together using a shrinkwrapping machine so it could be put behind the tills, while the case would go on the shelves.

The room you had to do this was at the top of the shopping mall with a skylight window that didn't open letting the sun blaze in. The shrink wrapping machine gave off a ridiculous amount of heat, so you basically had to put up with dripping with sweat and occasionally burning your fingers on the machine. Wasn't very nice.


I also had a few bar jobs when I was younger, which generally could be quite fun at times. The one I quit after not very long though was actually one working in a posh wine bar, which was the most upmarket of places I worked. The Owner was a complete and utter arse. I didn't get paid anymore than I did at bars with a more younger, rowdier crowd, but there was the promise of better tips due to the cliental. The problem with this though was that tips had to go into a communal pot, which the Owner then took a massive cut from despite doing nothing. His argument was that he occasionally let us have lock-in nights, so we were being allowed to drink many fine drinks for free then. I got fed up of it pretty quickly.
 
Working for ICL, repairing 70's mainframe boards.
The job was great, really interesting, but the management were such a pile of *****, the Quality manager had this thing about everyone doing up their top button even in summer (Brian Kidney - I still remember that **** name) and the old lags used to hide all the easy work so they could get overtime on a Sunday.
I laughed my socks off when it went under.
 
pieplough said:
Amazon warehouse, terrible environment to work in. Bosses treated all staff with suspicion, and the threat of losing your job or getting a disciplinary "Point" on your record were the only motivational tools used.

Entering and exiting the premises you were searched by security staff by firstly going through an airport style scanner then if that rang getting scanned with a hand held metal detector. Could rant all day about that place...
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Yep, been there to install some equipment and was amazed at the security checkpoint. CCTV camera's absolutley everywhere and people getting frisked on their way out. I've seen slacker security at some data centers i've visited.
 
Door knocking for Anglian. Soul destroying enough, but to then have the guy I was working under steal all of my commission (around £2500) for converted appointments was the final straw.
 
As a temp worker helping out odd jobs at an office. The woman in charge was horrific, a real bully. Made me feel terrible!

I think everyone should work in fast food at some point, it helps give you perspective:

a) Respect for people in low skill jobs;
b) To always be polite when dealing as a customer.
 
CaNsA said:
Cleaner in a slaughterhouse.

Scraping up all the offcuts of fat and stuff from the floor.
Stuck it out for 2 days.
It was horrible.
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Slaughterhouse isn't that bad.
Did carting the big meat pallets about and a bit of time on the primal cut hanging the legs onto the spike trees. Due to the refrigeration it kept the smell right down. It smelt far worse when you stepped outside.

Non of my jobs have been fantastic. More boring than anything else. Data entry number 1-9 or a-f was pretty mind nu mingle boring. Just manually inputting questionnaire responses all day.
 
I was a waiter for ... 3 hours.

Dumbest more ignorant clientele, managers act as if they were executives at a Fortune 500 and the rest of the staff had tons of negativity about them.

Life's too short. I left just after 9pm
 
cyber69 said:
Yep, been there to install some equipment and was amazed at the security checkpoint. CCTV camera's absolutley everywhere and people getting frisked on their way out. I've seen slacker security at some data centers i've visited.
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I've only heard second hand what things are like there from 1-2 people we've hired but the difference seems to be:

As far as security goes at Amazon everyone seems to be considered guilty until proven innocent - we do random checks and only have CCTV coverage of specific areas that are a security concern.

We use a similiar system in the warehouse for stock movement but performance monitoring is only used to bring up people who at the end of a month are seriously under-performing at which point we have a chat with them to try and identify if theres a specific issue holding them back rather than just them being lazy - whereas from what I hear at Amazon its used on an almost realtime basis to bully people into working harder.
 
When I was a school had a part time job in a chippie. I had to peel the potatoes and chip them for the day / evening and defrost all the fish. At least there was a machine that did the peeling and chipping. But the peeler in particular involved lots of water. You always got soaking wet, freezing hands, covered in potato scum and stinking of chip fat. In winter it was particularly loathsome.

I hate fish and chips to this day.
 
Dishy at a small bistro in Whistler. I was the only dishy and often worked from 8 until 5/6 without a break. The waitresses were all lazy idiots trying their hardest to offload any of their jobs on me. One complained to my boss about me because I refused to set up the tables for the next day on her request. She had to go and meet her friends for drinks, but I wanted to go home because it was my birthday

All the chefs were cool but even they'd all be gone by 4pm meaning you we're left to clean the whole place/floors, do the bins etc. The food was great though and the chefs were happy to make you food any time. The yam fries were out of this world.

Whenever you guys are out at a restaurant and the service is terrible and you don't want to leave a tip, think of the poor sod out back cleaning everything.
 
I think my worst job was door to door sales for a charity, trying to get people to subscribe - ok so the charity gets some money that they might not otherwise have done but it's a pretty expensive way for them to do it and rather spirit crushing as well to keep going trying to get people to sign up when you don't believe in what you're doing.

A close second was working for an insolvency company - I could never shake the feeling that we weren't actually doing any good by signing people up to CVAs, it just meant they traded multiple debtors for one debtor but without any real help to turn round their situation so they'd be back in the same place again in a few years (or less). The existing debtors didn't necessarily have any greater likelihood of recouping their money either or rather recouping a reduced proportion of it.
 
EyepodI said:
When I was a school had a part time job in a chippie. I had to peel the potatoes and chip them for the day / evening and defrost all the fish. At least there was a machine that did the peeling and chipping. But the peeler in particular involved lots of water. You always got soaking wet, freezing hands, covered in potato scum and stinking of chip fat. In winter it was particularly loathsome.

I hate fish and chips to this day.
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I did this and it was the best job I ever had? :confused:
 
Ha none of those sound that bad!

When I were a lad (this is all true by the way) I worked in the City as a recruitment agent mostly for clerical staff. This was before computers so all the data was on paper forms that the applicants had to fill out.
Because the City was then (and for all I know still is) racist, for the applicants who were "non-white" I was required to draw a star at the top of the form. The parallels with Nazi Germany were not lost on me!
Once a returning applicant saw the star and asked what it meant and I told her the company line which was "it means you're a special candidate".
I got fired after sending a "non-white" candidate to Liberty Life Insurance (of South Africa) whose Indian HR manager wouldn't even interview the guy.
Never been so happy to leave a job.

(For those of you who might complain that I should have quit, this was 1982 and work was even more scarce than it is now for unqualified youth.)
 
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